as unheard of before and therefore was desirous to see the stature favour cariage and manner of those men and to learne if he could the nature law religion custome and State of the Countrey which stoode so well with the Soldans liking that both in one desire went to the Castle to see and to conferre with the Daulphin Now Sirap building on Boufoyes fidelity as having somewhat possest him with his purpose and wrought him to his will did vse him as an Interpretour betwixt him and the Daulphin For hee would not altogether yet discover himselfe to Boufoy and therfore speaking to him in Greek hee commanded that he should Salute the Daulphin in his name and tell him that as a Stranger hee was come to see him and of meere humanity to visite him which the Daulphin kindly accepting as kindly regreeted and entertained him with all the gracious remonstrances hee could Sirap bad him then aske what his Country was how great by what lawes they were governed under what title they were subiected what Religion they observed and what God they chiefly adored unto which the Daulphin thus briefly answered France he said is my native nest both most populous and spacious as having in it 27. thousand Parish Churches It is most fertill and abounds in all plentifulnesse of fruits wines salt corne fish and wild-fowle There are many Vniversities famous therein the nursing mothers of all vertue out of whose brests youth drawes out the knowledge of all Arts It hath many large Provinces and divers abordering Principalities owe homage thereunto The Cities are great and many rich in Treasure and fayre and uniforme in building the chiefe whereof is Paris famous for beauty and bignesse the usuall residence of the King and great trastique of all kinde of Marchandize Our lawes are termed the ciuill Lawes wherein Iustice is tempered and qualified by equity and conscience and equity and conscience are garded and maintained with Iustice Our Monarch is entituled a King the most Christian King of France under whose protection his people live secure inioying their owne and under whose Greatnesse his Subiects rest fearelesse of forraigne foes Our Religion is built upon Gods sacred Word Truth is the roote thereof Charity the branch and good Workes the fruit Our Pastors are our Teachers who like Lampes consume themselves to enlighten others theyr Doctrine is examined by the twelue Apostles Our prayers by Christ taught six Petitions Our Faith by the generall Creed and our Lives by Gods tenne Commandements And where the tongue of Aaron cannot perswade there the Rod of Moses doth correct and compell Wee serve and worship one onely GOD in persons Three not confused nor divided but distinct of one and the same divine Essence eternity power and quality God the Father God the Sonne and God the Holy Ghost The Father being the first chiefe and originall cause of all things The Sonne his Word and eternall wisedome and the Holy Ghost his power vertue and efficacie This is that God that by his Word made the glorious Globe his seate and the massie Earth his footstoole that fed his servants the unprovided Israelites with food from Heaven forty yeares in the Wildernesse that divided the Waters and brought them dry-foote through the Red Sea and drencht proud Pharaoh therin that pursued them with murthering hearts To him we offer no burnt offerings nor sacrifice of blood but the sweet intercession of devout prayers For those ceremonies ceased at the comming of Christ by whom we are called Christians and wee are received into his Church by Baptisme and continued and fed therein by the other Sacrament of his last Supper And such is our Countrey these our Lawes such our King this our Religion and this the God we onely serve love feare and adore Sirap thanked him for his good description and seemed to take pleasure in the knowledge thereof Then he demanded how he brookt his Captivity and hee answered like a Prince and therefore like himselfe as one subject to chance and resolved in the change Then he bad him aske whether he had any children and hee all sighing said but one onely daughter Then Sirap caused him to aske why he then so sighed and he replying said that his sole soules griefe consisted in her memorry and so made manifest his hard cruell and unnaturall dealing towards her and how he had left her a prisoner to his tyranny and therefore by divine Iustice made himselfe a prisoner to Tyranny Sirap being thus certified was well pleased that Vienna yet living lived his permanent friend and though hee grieved much for her endurance yet did he smother up his conceived sorrow in the recordation of her love The thought of his exile and Viennaes thraldome awaked Hatred and Anger the ready Offices of Revenge to hasten his death but in the eye of his milder consideration knowing him to be his Lord and Viennaes Father his relenting heart checkd his repining humour and blew the coales of his hotter desire to seeke and to effect his speedy deliverance To compasse which he seeming seemed of purpose to take pleasure in him and understanding of his Countries customes commodities and government And therefore he requested the Soldan for the continuance of his contentment and for his further knowledge of forraigne affaires to admit and tollerate his thither repayre that he might hereafter if cause so required reduce his learing to practice which the Soldan graunting gave in charge for his free accesse and so they departed the one glad in that hee had or could gratisie so worthy a friend the other proud in that hee had sayde a foundation whereon to build The two next dayes Sirap spent in covertly revealings wherein his expertnesle and carriage did both win respect and gave delight The third following day hee with his Interpretour went to parley with the Daulphin who dispairing of life they found expecting death But after they had greeted and regreeted each other with kinde salutes Sirap told him by his Interpreter that as a man hee bewayled his fortune and as he was a Prince he lamented his fall Yet dismay not noble Lord said he since all corporall dammages that happen to mortail men are either by means remedied by reason suffered by time cured or by death ended Malicious and violent stormes may for the time cleave the barke from the tree and rent the branches of his body yet for all the furious blasts of wrathfull windes it cannot bee pluckt up by the Roote If there be a power above the capacity of men then may there come comfort contrary to the conceit of men Expectation in a weake minde makes an evill greater and a good lesse but the resolved minde disgests an evill being come and makes a future good present before it come Then expect the best since you know the worst at the worst will have an end The Daulphin conceiting the civill demeanour the Philosophicall discourse and the pious minde of the supposed impious and
IVst in the Cloud doth lovely CVPID stand With Quiver at his side and Bow in hand Which shewes when his swift Arrowes pierce the heart The wound must cured be by Love not Art And MARS the God of Warre to giue renowne Vnto desert doth here true Valour crowne VIENNA Natures pride doth paralell VENVS her selfe who did her sexe excell The joyned hands to the Spectators showe That Valour doth to Beauty homage owe. And with the stately Steed that stands in view Sir PARIS did great troopes of Foes subdue The Castle strong and cruell Iaylors key Are Emblems of a Princes misery If that the barres were red and Scutch'on white The Coate would show who did this Story write VIENNA Noe Art Can Cure This hart Where in is storied the valorous atchieuements famous triumphs Constant loue great miseries finall happines of the well-deseruing truly noble and most valiant kt Sr Paris of Vienna and the most admired amiable Princess the faire Vienna London Printed for RICHARD HAWKINS and are to be sould at his shop neere Sarjeants Inne in Chancery Lane TO HIS VVORTHY Brother in law Mr. RICHARD MINSHVLL all health and happinesse MOre Rich-art thou in mind then Mynes but Myn-shall be the joy of heart Since still thy love with mine combines and smels of Nature more then Art For bloud with bloud and sacred writ Such knots of love in Love hath knit To thee therefore J onely send this Spiders Web so vainely spunne Which my best thoughts to thee commend since what is done for thee is done If any taxe my idle braine Say once a yeare fond fooles doe raigne M. M. To the Reader NOt with intent to passe the speaking Presse Or challenge Praise of any more or lesse This Booke was writ the Author for his paines Did neither ayme at merit praise or gaines To gratifie a well deserving friend This Story fain'd at vacant houres was penn'd Which though now to the world expos'd it be The Authors heart is from vaine glory free THO. CROKET in praise of the Authors Worke. IF graver heads should hold it to be vaine that thou well strucke in yeares do'st write of Love Say thou the finest dye soon'st takes a staine and soundest Wits light subiects often prove But thou hast temp'red so thy Love with Armes with Knightly prowesse and with Martiall feates That thy smooth stile like sweet bewitching charmes compells all sorts to reade without intreates Then blush not since thy Pen such Art hath showne as proves the difference 'twixt Love and Lust And stirres vp Valour almost overthrowne whose Armes lye canker'd with consuming rust But rather glory in thy taken paines for which the world indebted aye remaines THOMAS CROKET To the deserving Author VVHil'st Paris thy great Rape shall be renown'd Or Troy it selfe on earth hath any sound That in thy brest didst foster such a flame To waste the Towne and yet preserve the Name So long Sir Paris thy chast fires shall last Which though not with such fury burnt as fast And whil'st the Citie of Vienna stands A virgin Towne maugre the opposite bands Of insolent Turkes vnravish'd by their steele And never their invasiue Armes to feele So long a date Vienna thou dost giue To him whose Pen hath made thee euer liue Tho. Haywood VIENNA here presents to you Both Love and Valour great and true And in this Story you shall finde Pregnant conceites to please the minde Which reade and view and reape the gaines Then thanke the Author for his paines R. R. THy pleasing Story giues most true content to all that have survay'd thy witty Lines For thou to Mars and Venus grace hast lent and in thy Booke both Love and Valour shines For which let Martiall Knights and Ladies faire say and say truth that this is past compare T. M. THy Mars-like Paris and Vienna faire most pleasing doe appeare eclips'd no way Who viewes the same thou needst not doubt or feare for it is decked in Wits rich array There 's such new pleasing wayes to please the minde That all that reade the same content will finde Samoth Egnirawniam SInce graver wits so much thy Booke commend Whose censures doe my judgement farre transcend Why should not I rest silent and admire Knowing my skill answers not my desire The reason is I rather will improve My ignorance then to conceale that love Which duty prompts to speake which still dothlive To honour thee since praise I cannot give To equallize thy paines in study spent Which now most fluently in complement Showes the exactnesse of a sollid braine That makes so small a volume to containe Love Valour Fortitude what not that 's rare But in thy pregnant Lines composed are Wisdome Conceit Art Learning Knowledge Wit Doe grace thy worke to make it exquisite Time shall proclaime thy worth to future dayes And Fame perpetuate thy living praise Io. Egnirawniam AS most esteeme of Iewels for their worth And prize them high though not in gold set forth So vertuous mindes when they this Story view Admire and say for it great thankes is due If others cannot adde to it like praise Time vowes to store such worth for future dayes My Pen here stops yet Natures streame runnes so Rivers will ebbe to th' Sea from whence they flow Mat. Egnirawniam IF duty did not binde desert would moue my Art-lesse Pen thy Story to commend Since better plots of Valour Art Wit Loue to Momus view the Presse did neuer send Ralph Egnirawniam ANd I the last but not the least whose Love to thee and thine is ty'd in treble bands For marr'age bloud and friendship which may prove our constant buildings are not on the sands Therefore with thankes for this thy well wrote Story Though mine it is yet thine shall be the glory Your Kinsman Brother in law and Friend Richard Mynshull VIENNA WIthin the Principality of Viennois whilome there lived and ruled as Daulphin a most renowned Prince no lesse esteemed for his admired wisedome then highly honoured for his respected greatnesse But so absolute was hee in opinion so perverse in disposition and so severe in government that he made his will his God and rigour his law This Daulphin had but one onely Daughter whose exquisite beauty was so beautified with rarest vertues that men honoured Nature as a God in her perfections and held her more then a woman in her vertues Amongst many Knights that then followed her Fathers Court there was a most well deserving aged Knight who was knowne to be as sufficient as he was sufficiently knowne named Sir Ioques who had but one onely sonne called Paris whose but budding yeares deckt with Natures pride and honoured with timely Knighthood well chalenged renowne for his right Venus for his friend and Fortune for his servant But it fortuned so Fortune would that this young Knight casting casually his carelesse eye aside in Court espyed the young Princesse the faire Vienna for so after the City was shee called talking
Christall Shield and Chaplet at her Fathers Court and well shee prayed that had so well her prayer for it was Sir Paris indeed who knowing that Emulation hath many eyes and that Observation might easily discover him fearing to be knowne by his white Armour had thus sadly arm'd himselfe sutable to his sable fortune and therefore he bare nothing in his Shield but Blacknesse for his Devise was still to be without Devise only his sad Armour was covered all over with mourning Clouds Many Knights there were overthrowne by La-nova but more then many did Sir Paris foyle For then if ever and if ever then did he shew the vertue of his valour in the strength of his courage Now grew the hurly-burly great and many and great were the encounters made on each side In so much that there rested but unoverthrowne one Valentia on the Lady Margarets part on either side three and all onely on Viennas but one which was the blacke clouded Knight who now was deem'd hardly bestead both in regard of his former travailes and the present advantage of the sixe fresh assailants who bent all theyr forces first against him Valentias hope was now a little revived and the Lady Margarets proud expectation fully answered Valentias hope Onely doubtfull Vienna neere dyed for feare least that her beauty should now be eclipsed in the losse of her gotten fame and that her fame should be buried in the dying renowne of her best esteemed beauty For as she wondred hee had so long resisted so shee held it unpossible hee should longer resist But Sir Paris onely weary in that there were no more to be wearied by him casting his eye the messenger of his heart on Vienna and seeing the shining lights of her transparent beauty over-shadowed with sorrow and dismay Desire so blew the fire of his new conceived rage that like an unmercifull and hunger-starved Lyon that runnes raging for his prey so he violently runne amongst them that with one staffe he overthrew the first three he met and turning his House before Vienna could turne her dispaire he charg'd the fourth so forceably that hee sent both Horse and Man to the ground At the sight whereof the people gave such applauding shoutes that Vienna lifting up her sad eye as waking from a carefull slumber she saw her Knight returning in the glory of theyr overthrowes So that hoping now for better hap a better hap did befall her then she did or could expect For no sooner made hee his last returne but hee returned againe from overturning of the other two Who triumphed then but Vienna Who now more sad then Valentia or who more grieved then the Lady Margaret the Iust thus ended the French Queene came with a troupe of attending Ladyes carying before her the Crowne of Artificiall Lillies richly stoned and setting it on Viennas head shee Crowned her for sole and Soveraigne Queene of absolute and matchlesse beauty Then came the King and tooke Sir Paris by the hand and lead him all the other Knights and Barrons following them with tryumphing honour and sound of Trumpets to the three Mounts where with his owne hand hee gave him the three Banners with the three prizes on them which Sir Paris reverently taking re-delivered over to his friend La-nova secretly to convay them away while hee stayed the ending of all other the ceremonies All which being accomplished The King the Daulphin and Vienna rendring Sir Paris thankes for his worthy and affectionate endeavours and most renowned and fortunate atchievements requested him in the name of Vienna to discover himselfe and tell unto whom they were all so much bounden But Sir Paris humbling himselefe in all duty made reverent shew of his unwillingnesse therein which the King noting would not further importune him nor could the Daulphin in any wise over-treat him nor durst Vienna over-much presse him So that he kissing her hand held it long and after drawing his sword layd it at her feete and taking it vp againe kist it likewise and then holding it up seemed to threaten the world in her behalfe which added this Article to Viennas beleife that he undoubtedly was her white Knight and the same and non but the same that first so melodiously sang under her Chamber window and theeefore her desires having now no end shee ever after though each houre an age till she knew him But Sir Paris withdrawing himselfe to the rest of the Knights retired with them still giving backe till he was the last of the troupe and then taking a crosse-way separated and convayed himselfe from them and suddenly disarming himselfe hee speedied to finde out the Bishop of St. Lawrence with whom of purpose to prevent all surmises hee had a little before familiarized himselfe and no sooner had hee espyed him but that he hasted to greete him and still kept in his company as if St. Marke had robb'd god Mars of a Martialist Such was his holy shew of devout Religion as that he made all men admire him and his father to be inwardly grieved at him But Vienna who now had greater cause to love him then meanes to know him wondring at his valour not to be valued and valuing his vertues by clowding the glory and value of his prowis held now his love an honour to her affection and vowed her affection a guerdon for his love But when she heard of his secret departure and that no one knew what he was from whence he came nor to what place he had retired himselfe Then impatient desire made her the child of passion feare to loose that she never had made her feele what before she neither knew nor feared And so much the more she held her selfe miserable in that she knew not for whom she was so miserable nor how to seeke an end to end her misery As Viennas sad conceite thus overshaded the glory of her beautifull Conquest so was Sir Jaques flattering hope made blacke with foule dispaire For missing his sonne Sir Paris out of two so Royall honorable Assemblies where renowne eternized each deserving Knight with never dying fame and seeing him still associating the Bishop hee feared least his businesse of over superstitious Zeale had abandoned all desire and regard of Knightly Chivalry And therefore hot in his repining conceit hee hastened to find La-nova unto whom in griefe he manifested the cause of his griefe Requesting and conjuring him by the sacred lawes and name of friendship and by the honour he owed to Armes to perswade his sonne to a more befitting respect of his unregarded honour La-nova hearing Sir Jaques worthy complaint and seeing his frosted beard all bedewed with the teares of his sorrow pittyed his lament but durst not disclose the mistery of the truth but commending his honourable care hee comforted him with promise of assured and present remedy and so left him better satisfied then truely certified And no sooner were they parted but La-nova departed to impart to Sir Paris what
his noble Father had so sorrowfully said to him which so mooved his feeling consideration in a Sonnes regard that partly to satisfie his Father from living so supposedly idle and partly to forget if so he could forget the tormenting thoughts that still troubled his enthralled minde He determined to goe onely with La-nova to the warrs of Florence And craving he obtained willing leave of his glad Father but before his departure he called his Mother aside and delivering her the key of his Chamber and Oratory wherein were placed all his purchast Prizes well covered over with Hangings of sky-coloured silke en broydered with starres of gold and shaded all over with blacke Cipris that the dimmest eye might perceive the glory of the heavens through the blacknesse of the cloud Her he devoutly requested and humbly conjured as she tendered his contentment and following welfare not to suffer any to enter therein nor so much as looke therein her selfe This was his request and this did she protest religiously to performe This done hee craved and received their blessing and so set forwards towards Florence where in briefe he atchieved so great honour in the Dukes Warres as the bruit of his spreading fame both famed and inworthied him in the Daulphins Court which much joyed the Daulphin and more rejoyced Sir Jaques Vienna all this while grew more pensive and passionate then before and still as Pharaoh longed to know his dreame so desired she to know and see him whom she loved more then her selfe Her vestall vertue was now no Dianas proofe to withstand Venus force nor could her chast conceit dispence with affectious thoughts But the more she sought to quench desire the more shee burnt herselfe within her owne fire Many Princes became Petitioners and Prisoners to her beauty and greatest Barons did homage to her vertues But neyther Prince nor Baron could finde favour in Beauty nor love in vertue So strangely was her strange affection estranged to all but to him that was so meere a stranger to her so strange a passion To him and for him had she consecrated and reserved her devoted heart and to him and none but him would shee yeeld the conquest of her Maydens minde And although disturbed reason affoorded her no hope nor possibility of finding or enjoying him Yet did the gracious aspect of her favourable starres yeeld her this meanes to know him For Sir Iaques being greatly visited with sicknesse was so generally bewayled of all and so particularly bemoaned of the Daulphin in regard of his thrice noble service in the wars and his wise directions in Counsell that he sent the Daulphinis his Lady to visite him who taking Vienna and Jzabella with her went attended with foure other Ladies to see and comfort his enfeebled estate But finding him pretily amended after some fashionable and cheerefull chat The Daulphinis led thereto I know not by what desteny was desirous to see how well the house was contrived how beautified and how furnished which the good old Lady in all humblenesse yeelded unto conducting them into every place untill they returning came againe by Sir Paris his Chamber doore which his Mother both going and comming backe purposely past by But being demanded of the Daulphinis what Chamber or Place that was she durst not but tell and telling would have past away which the Daulphinis noting merrily sayd Nay Madame I will not leave the Chamber of so worthy a Knight unseene The good old Lady not knowing how to avoyd this counterbuffe fearefully with a trembling hand opened the doore wherein they were no sooner entred but that they saw all manner of Armours and befitting furnitures for approoved good Knights which made them commend the owner no little and to hold him farre worthier of a better Armoury As thus they viewed his severall Armours Vienna happily fixt her eye on a white Armour not farre unlike unto that which Sir Paris had on him when first he won her Chaplet and Christall Shield Tha sight whereof made Hope the Harbinger of happinesse to breath in her this pleasing comfort that as that Armour was none but the same So Sir Paris that renowned owner must of necessity bee that secret Knight that not daring to be knowne to loue her was by her sacred vowes to bee beloved of her Thus Hope presumed the best and inuited joy to gratulate her good successe But doubt curbing rashnesse with deliberation perswaded her to further tryall For as her hope was ready to embrace the first shew of comfort so was her desire most greedy of more perfect assurance And the better to effect what she affected she fayned and fayne she was to fayne her selfe suddenly sicke and after some shew of some extremity she desired her Mother the better to make better search to leaue her alone all only with Izabella to rest her for a time on the bed which they holding conuenient consented to it And no sooner were they gone but that Vienna bolting the doore began to make a wary search At last at the end of the Chamber she found a privie pertition so well shadowed with the Hangings of the Chamber that hardly could any perceive the same within and behind this was the place wherein Sir Paris daily sacrificed his prayers vnto his God wherein they were no sooner entred but that withdrawing a glorious clouding Curtaine they discovered the three famous rich Prizes of Sir Paris victorious prowis stately erected vpon the wall and below them hanged the Christall Shield and golden Chaplet he first wonne at her Fathers Court. Opposite to which on the other side stood his white and blacke clouded Armours so fully and liuely set vp as they seemed as ready to defend the place as their Master was willing to maintaine her beauty Long looked Vienna on euery severall Prize but longer looked shee on both the Armours now blushing and sighing then smiling and wondring at the stately and pleasing proportion of them In this contentment and admiration of her thoughts shee would have dwelled still but that casting her nimble eye aside to see what Izabella did she perceived these following verses to lye written on the Table Time Fortune Love and hote Desire enioynes Such Woe Losse Care and Death as Death procures Time doubts Love feares Fortune hard hap assignes Desire unrest unrest Desire endures So that Time Fortune Love and hote Desire My Woe Losse Care and Death doth now conspire Time threatens Love Love Life Life Love attends Love doubts Disdaine Disdaine Desire nere slayes Fortune my foe my fancie still offends Desire Love covets Love desire gaine-sayes Thus Time Love Fortune olde Desires and new My Woe Losse Care and Death doth oft renew My Woe Losse Care and Death so oft renewes As Love no Love a Lover so doth leave Fortune most fell my love thy God-head rues Desire dye no hope of health conceive Since Time Love Fortune and distrest Desire My Woe Losse Care and Death doth all conspire But if that Time
age till his returne misfortune so blindeth those we will overthrow as that she gives their desires wings to draw on and hasten their owne decayes At last he came and humbly delivered the scrowle importing this much Viennois heire to thraldome still belongs vntill her Fathers bonds shall set her free Who captiv'd is in place confus'd with tongues by Ismaels brood detayn'd shall be Both shall live in doubt in care and wee vntill the banisht Sonne of forlorne Troy Shall succour give vnto his greatest foe and bring him home with hope with love with joy Then shall Vienna wed a sable Moore And happy live in peace and not before The Daulphinis whose over sad surcharged heart was unable to disgest such heavie and bitter Cates found this sawce too sharpe for her dyet For it was no sooner read but that finding as shee thought all the gates of comfort shut up with intricate threates and impossibilities being too weake a vessell to beare so sharpe a liquor she shrunke under the waight of her sad burthen and fell suddenly dead and so left the Daulphin a cruell Father and a carelesse Widdower This mournfull accident rather exasperated his irefull displeasure towards his daughter in making her disobedience the originall cause of her death then in any wise extenuated his execrable resolution against her determined endurance But hee had not lived many dayes in dolour but that burying the remembrance of his dearest spouse in the hope of future happinesse his obdurate heart became as unsenceable of her losse as of his Daughters misery Love found love and the madnesse of age made him such a slave unto his slave that before one yeares period he married one of his Wives meanest Attendants One who knowing her owne unworthinesse having neither Vertue to strengthen her fortune nor good nature to incite her to pittie or goodnesse nor any merit to winne applause was notwithstanding so potent over him that she guided the stearne of his flinty and unpennitrable heart And though she feared the scorne of abiect basenesse yet to maintaine the stolne pride of her enhansed heart shee cunningly gave fewell to her Husbands enraged will and covertly blew still the coales of his displeasure For feare shee did least that her Daughters liberty should in the aspect of true honour cloud both her swelling conceited glory and detract from her proud insulting greatnesse To frustrate which she cautely one day leaning on his brest and stroking his frosted beard thus sadly sayd When my deerest Lord I looke upon the breach of the Princesse your Daughters obligation I finde the penaltie you take to be most iust though severe Since the iust Iudger of all did for the sole disobedience of onely one cast both him and all his Posteritie out of Paradice How like unto him you shew your selfe herein your unpartiall Iustice well demonstrates who rightfully punisheth the sinne of disobedience in your owne members as God did in his owne creatures Iustice is the badge of vertue the state of peace and maintenance of honour and the will of a Father should be a religious law unto the Child And they that preferre theyr owne Iustes before theyr Parents pleasures looseth the benefit both of natures right and a Fathers regard For reason would not we should respect those that forsake us The Husbandman cuttes and loppes off all unkindly Branches from the good Vine Jove held his Children part of his substance of whom he did and might dispose and the noble Romans deprived their Sonnes of life that infringed but theyr commaunds I alleadge not this most worthy Lord to aggravate your Daughters foule offence whose other deserts I honour whose wellfare I affect and whose merited punishment I condole Nor yet to detract from the worth of your thrise worthy chasticement which all men commend and iustice allowes But feare of I know what and the love of your safety enforceth me in love and duty to manifest what I feare and to prevent what I doubt Vienna you know my endeered Lady is the immediate apparent Heyre to this Principalitie and the uniust desires that waite upon a Crowne begets oft most inhumane unnaturall and unlawfull Acts Nature in that expectation looseth her sight Vertue her strength Dutie her obedience and Love her respect Nothing can outballance ambitious desire either in the reach of dignity or revenge Nor is there any limitation in the adventurers Her restraint is I feare like fire raked up in embers that covertly will kindle and openly burst foorth into a flame For the harder she deemes her selfe handled the more will she seeke after her release if not after revenge Nor can she want instigators thereunto Since all men like and preferre the rysing of the Moone before the setting of the Sunne And to win advancement in that hope they will contrive practise and execute whatsoever and howsoever Such occasions gives fire to corrupt Humorists and such grounds sets repugnant Malecontents a worke I would my death might free you from such dangerous intendments or that my life could acquit you from such heavie accidents And therewithall her heart having taught her eyes to weepe she threw her selfe into his bosome the more to endeere her selfe unto him and without any sorrow she sighing said Ah what shall become of me when I shall loose my loving Lord Craft gave her teares Deceite shew'd griefe Fraud a forst á feare to win beleife Thus to nourish debate after she had fedde on slander and instil'd in his eares a fearefull iealousie which over-credulous mindes easily apprehends and covetously entertaines The better to acquit her selfe from all suppose of malice or detraction She weeping told him That the night before her Mothers Ghost appeared unto her all in white her unsmoothed haire displayed about her shoulders her ruefull falne face pale her eyes hollow and in eyther hand a Taper burning dimme which so affrighted her that had she not comfortably spoken to me when I had no power to call to you I had awaked you and cryed for helpe But sodainely with a feeble voyce she mildly said Feare not my Daughter to looke upon thy Mothers harmelesse Ghost who in tender care of thee and thy espoused Lord have left my bed of rest to come to premonish thee of your ensuing ill Treason doth threaten the Daulphin Subjects mislikes workes upon Viennas discontentments Her liberty will be his death and in his destruction shalt thou finde thy grave Now thou knowest it looke to it and so farewell With that she gave a wimpe darkenesse possest the place and I lay wounded and affrighted with remembrance both of her sight and of her words This Apparision the happy Angell of our God for visions are cleere revelations where dreames are but delusions hath moved me out of an affectionate feare of you to deliver what I saw heard and have said which otherwise in my love to your Princely Daughter I would willingly have concealed And therewithall she wept againe and kissing him
intended good commanded that Sir Jaques should be set at liberty and restored to his Pristen estate which greatly contented Vienna for her Paris sake and no little joyed good La-nova that secretly had succoured him But these shewes of favour and promises of preferment nothing advantaged the Daulphin For Vienna strengthned in the expectation of sorrow not obstinately but constantly tolde her father that the Barbons love was like a Spiders webbe fit to bee swept away and that her Virgins vowe should eternize her chastity after death This resolve raised againe the storme of his allayed fury in the rage whereof he left her discovering by his threats and malitious words the ill of his heart as Viennas sorrowfull sighes shewed the hurt of her heart La-nova wigehing the Tyranny of the time finding no hope of better hap presently writ to Sir Paris the truth of all such accidents as had befalne his Father Vienna and himselfe since the receipt of his Letter which gave so fresh and so sharpe an assault to his already over-surcharged heart that vertue was no Armour of proofe against such affliction but raging in the tempest of discontentment rather like an unkennelled Cerberus then any distracted Ajax hee blasphemously belched and breathed out cruell oathes vengeance daring threates and most fearefull words against Time Love Gods and Men. O Time said hee Traytor unto Love O Love abused by Time O Gods unjust to men O Men too subject to the Gods O that your Deities were essentiall visible and mortall that I might hew vengeance out of your wrongs and write Tragedies on your lives O heavens I challenge your Throanes and deny your powers Your swift motions I will stay with my hand and your revolutions I will drowne in the Sea I will unloose the bonds of Orion and stop the course of each constellation The straying Starres I will plucke from theyr Spheares and with their influences will I kill all the Tyrants on the earth Time I will consume with my breath and burne up Love with the Sunne The world I will cut a sunder with my Sword and make a new Land in the ayre The Waters I will swallow up and bury the windes in the Moone Jxion I will remove from his moving and tormenting seate and set the Daulphin on his turning wheele where hunger-starved Vipours shall gnaw on his hatefull heart and pyning Tantalus give him all his food Vienna shall be sole Queene of heaven and onely rule the glorious Globe And I will raigne in Iupiters stead and throw downe fire and lightning on the cursed Castle that enthralls my love I will beate that cruell Daulphin to powder with thunder that I may be revenged on Time Love Gods Men the World the Daulphin and all for the Daulphin Thus distract in his madding moode hee all enraged raged he knew not how and said he knew not what pulling the Letter in pieces with his teeth renting his Hangings tearing his Cloathes and breaking his Bed Board and Stooles with such violence that his amazed servants durst not come neere him At this vnwonted passion theyr hearts were possest with wonder and their eyes floodded with teares his bounty causing the one and his wisedome the other But ignorance is the mother of admiration They knew not where his shooe did pinch him nor could they tell how to helpe him At last as one breathlesse in his wasted fury hee fell upon his bed which they seeing hastily stept to him and uniting their strengthes kept him downe making silence theyr preparative to quit his tempestious thoughts Then darkning the Chamber one of them tooke a deepe base silver stringed Bandora whereupon he played so sweetely and so dolefully that Sir Paris hearing of it lent a listning to it which brought him into such a sad melancholly Muse that he began to slumber after fell into a heavy sleepe which so well appeased the storme of his disturbed sences that after three houres enjoying reposed rest he waked and walked perfected in his minde and ashamed that he had so defac'd the Image of vertue and abused his owne knowledge Consideration made him now hold himselfe the sole spight of Fortune and the very scorne of time and men Detraction threatned his disgrace Derision proclaimed his folly and the guilt of his owne ill made him privately and secretly to leave Genua and to wander whether his shame should not follow him nor any heare of his being But before he departed he both rewarded and discharged all his servants and paying all duties whatsoever hee lastly writ to La-nova and to his Father as followeth IF silly Sheep my ever fast found friend all onely for their bare foode as hating ingratitude yeeld theyr faire Fleeces as due guerdons to their Keepers How then shall J now countervaile thy so many merits that inioy nought my selfe but meere misfortunes and insufferable miseries Alas my La-nova the Times are changed and we are changed in the times Thou writest now of naught but woes and my griefe is already such as to live is a griefe O vnhappy happy J whose extreamest ill flowes from my greatest good and whose blisfull heaven is become my tormenting hell Ah Vienna J would either my death might extinguish thy affection or thy affection had beene setled on a more happier and worthier person Then should J dye more contented and thou live better esteemed But since my love hath wrought thy fall Thy fall shall be recovered in my losse For presently J will depart to vnknowne parts and try the force of my further destenie in seeking the worst of my fortune And therefore have I written to my Father to adopt thee in my place for his heire which J pray thee deliver and demeane thee as his Sonne For never will J returne and therefore write not For never shalt thou heare of me Onely recommend my love to my Ladies good grace and tell her that J flye not from her favour but with my ill fortune from my more threatning pervert fortune And though I dye in her sorrow yet will I ever live in her remembrance And so farewill Genua the last of my aboad and the first of my Pilgrimage Onely vnhappy in his happinesse Paris La-nova having read his owne sorrow in his Friends griefe could not refraine from shedding most bitter teares and having long bewailed the untimely losse of his so worthy a Friend he speedied himselfe to acquaint Sir Iaques unto whom hee delivered his Sonnes Letter importing thus much IF Plato right deere deere Father seeing an unthankefull Man prosper said that the Gods were unjust in that they had loaden a Thistle with fruit O let not then I humbly beseech you the many good turnes that many times La-nova my second selfe hath with venter often adventured and done for vs be now forgotten in your best consideration Least his deserts dye in your shame and your shame maske without any vizard of excuse And since my perverse fortune hath exiled me from my
faithfully during his pleasure tye himselfe and all his endevours to his command Whereupon Sirap begg'd him on the Captaine that durst not deny him any thing and ever after most kindly vsed him and loved him because hee would be not onely served but beloved of him That foorth of that love he might the better trust him and be the better interest in him For where love hath supremacy there all affections attend on it and all other passions are overswayed by it But now the sensuall Sultanesse hearing of Siraps hastie provision for his sodaine departure to Babylon grew more then impatient in her discontented feares and beyond all consideration of her state deplored the hardnesse of her hap Her lustfull hopes were now wounded in the expectation of her lascivious desires and unbounded love so opprest her unchaste thoughts that finding her infected affection frustrated of conceived ioyes she fainted under the burthen of her unexpected woes In this sad alteration she threw her selfe on the humble floare where her dumbe sorrowes vttered nought but bemoaning teares and complayning sighes Which Mentiga ruefully beholding and well waying that this unwelcome event would deprive her of enriching favours and of promised preferments shee summoned her wits together and set them all on the racke of Invention to finde out meanes of some redresse At last after a sad and serious pause shee sayd Take comfort most mighty Empresse and my most gracious Soveraigne let this sodaine lightning dye in his abortive birth and listen to your most submissive Handmayd who desires no longer life then shee may doe your Highnesse acceptable service Your Knight is no doubt enforc'd by the Sultans employment to this unliked journey and your remembrance will not onely be a plea for his dispatch but his controling affection will also give speed to his returne In the meane time I will undertake to bring him this night to your bed where you may make your desired delights doe homage to your wils pay tribute to your sufferance and binde him over to accomplish your further pleasure Then raise your better thoughts this base floare but your footestoole is no bed for Majesty Nor stands it with the resplendant Queene of Asia to prostrate her selfe so lowe as to lye in the dust of the earth Eugenia thus rowzed rose with an erected heart from her seate of sorrow and carefully looking on her said Ah Mentiga Mentiga can it be that Physicke hath any Cordiall receipt for so desperate a disease Is there any mollifying salve can cure my tormenting sore or canst thou give a healing plaister to my wounded mind Speake thou haplesse or most happy woman When where or how canst thou effect so great and sweete a worke and please thy Lady without perceivance The glorious Sunne thou know'st is ever remarkable when meane Starres are seldome gazed on Pale Jealousie is a subtile spie and invincible Envie hath murthering eyes Danger waytes on dignities and Beauty is ever guarded with observance The light I feare is a blab and darknesse but a Traytor These wals have eares then be silent Mentiga least the ayre whisper and betray thy intention and enterprise Thus had Eugenia when it came to it many eyes to see into many evils but they were all blinde to prevent any Misfortune so blindeth those shee will overthrow that nothing can cleere theyr understandings nor limit theyr adventures which made Mentiga answere that shee had a Charme to close up Argoes eyes and that Deceit should lull Danger asleepe when Beauty should feast with Love And this shee sayd it is and must be The Sultan you know eyther to refresh himselfe with ease or to make his pleasures more compleat by change doth the two last nights of every Weeke abstaine both from your bed and Chamber And this ensuing night being the first of the two when your Eunuches bee at supper wee will in my Chamber secretly change our attyres and to give life to our device you must as Mentiga bring mee as Emperesse to your bed where leaving mee you shall depart into my Chamber next adjoyning where fastening the doore you must attend the houre of midnight and then putting on my Night-gowne you must as silently as may be goe downe the stayres into the Garden and there opening the posterne gate The key whereof shall be pre-provided for you you shall receive your disguised Knight and bringing him up the stayres to my Chamber you both may safely entertayne your stolne delights and give both your desires all fulnesse of content But how said Eugenia shall hee returne vndiscovered Earely in the morning replyed Mentiga before the day shall discry your dalliances will I rise and come unattired unto you to my Chamber when you shall leave my blest and beautyfied bed and returne to your owne Chamber in such manner as I came And then will I cloathe your Knight in the Religious habite of the Hozes the same I used when I went to him And so hee may depart when the Sunne the eyeof the world shall not discover him For clouded Rocks deceive Marriners A iustifiable cloake ever hides a treacherous fraude and they ever may doe the most wrong of whom least is looked for And because we will not procrastinate our designes lest our proiects be communicated I will presently put on my Protean shape and like a holy Father goeto Sirap unto whom I will unfolde all that wee have determined and both enjoyne and entreat him in your name and for your love that hee will not fayle his houre at that place but come to take Loves farewell and leave a setled possession of his purchased favours This enticing plot promised more to Eugenia then a possibility Her lawlesse love saw no exception nor could her wantonizing thoughts dreame of any interception Her transported desires were so drowned in her over-amorous passion that shee entertayned the least conceit that might but helpe her foolish fancie Her flattering hopes held good correspondencie with all likelihoods and in the confidence of her supposed assurance shee bad her goe and after called her backe againe Her presaging heart did fayle her and shee began to feare shee knew not what A suddaine trembling possessed her in every part and what before shee but carelesly dread now shee did more then fearing doubt In this distraction and feare of misadventure she sayd It is better to be in love most miserable then through love to be guilty of our owne mainfest confusion Why should wee then Mentiga for loving follies weave the web of our owne woes Violent streames being once runne out the mudde will appeare in the bottome The indignation of a Prince is death and the love of a Stranger as inconstant as a Travailers minde is wandring Hee is but meane and puddles are not for Princes to drinke at Let him be as he is that I may be as I am O Eugenia hadst thou beene as provident to shunne the cause of thy fall as thou was foolishly wise to
a Prince Why the Daulphin your liege Lord for ought that any knowes liueth and the Princesse his apparant heire is not dead Doth any vsurpe your rights or oppresse you with wrongs Why justice shall giue to euery one his owne and I am heere ready to shed my bloud in your behalfes Or doth the bare suppose of your Soueraignes death thus vntimely moue you to create and inuest a new because Mal-Fiance is returned without his Lord A proiect trust mee that will being forth some notable deceitfull designe If needs he must be dead because none can heare tell that he is aliue Why then should hee not be as well liuing because here no one knowes that hee is dead But admit that our sinnes haue which God forbid depriued vs of him doth it follow that the ambitious Daulphinis or that degenerate Bastard Maligne should succeed him What though Vienna bee a prisoner to her Fathers will and my faith must keepe her still a thrall to his severity yet the Father dying the daughters bonds are broken I discharged and you tyed to enthronize her for your lawfull Princesse Why then should there be any such disparity of minds or diversity of affections amongst you since you are all sudiects born to one end and Viennonians sworne to one right What shall become of this Principality when those that should unite themselves to maintaine the Weale-publique doe thus divide themselves to overthrow the publique weale Know you not that by thus banding your selves you doe altogether abandon your selves Will not your insulting and enchroaching neighbours the proud Savonians our inveterate and irreconciliable enemies take advantage of your weakning of your owne strengths enter forceably upon your rights dispossesse you of your habitations and make you aliens to your inheritances Yes yes be you assured that hatred amongst friends gives ever succour to Strangers and that civill warres within you will bring forraigne warres upon you Looke on the Daulphinis of whom I am loath to speak ill yet in this I know not how to speake well Doth not her unwasted corruption and pride shew that shee loves a Pallace better then her Paradice that thinkes by shamefull rebellion to make her selfe a sinfull Queene Know you not that they that are so greedy so vnlawfully to get will be ever as ready to doe wrong What colour of claime can she have that is neither royalized by propagation nor extract from Princely or Noble blood Shee had no authority given her in his highnesse rule nor hath she any left her at his departure It is I see onely her pride that can suffer no equall and Malignes ambition that can brooke no Superiour two fire-brands that burnt up Romes most glorious Monarchy O let them both then fall in their pride that seeke so uniustly to flye before they have wings and wash not your eyes and hands like Envy in one anothers fall In persisting to maintaine evill Maligne doth condemne himselfe otherwise hee would not seeke to obtaine that with blood and shame which he can neither get nor keepe without sinne and death In all the Scriptures there was but one sole Bastard only Iephiha that did come to any good and yet hee had the marke of the curse for his all onely daughter was most sorrowfully sacrificed for her great Fathers offence And this was but to shew that there is no perpetuity nor long prosperity in hatefull and condemned bastardy And will you then make the corrupt and cursed seed and excrement of sinne your unlawfull Prince that by all divine nature and nationall lawes hath no inheritance on earth and whom the Iewes counted as no part of their congregation If the Father be an Adulterer and the Mother a Fornicator the Sonne must in reason bee a bad liver and a wicked governour For he that is borne in double sinne must of likely hood in nature bee both subiect to many faults and guilty of many offences And how can polluted hands make foule vessels cleane or how can he that is but the sonne of the people be the sonne of the Daulphin The Mothers acknowledgement and protestation is no proofe that ever fathers them on those that can best maintaine them Shee cannot be true to one that is untrue to her selfe Corruption will still breake out there where it is once festered How then can you affect the sonne of shame or without shame yeeld your selves subiect to the Sonne of a strumpet If his desire be beyond his merit and reach let him fall besides his hopes and receive just guerdon for his deserts As for the vertuous Princesse whose right I reverence and whose worth I admire Let her yet remaine though with better respect where shee is For it is not good over-suddainely to open a wound that hath long beene closed up The greatest right may doe the most wrong and the omission of a good action is no sinne when it cannot be done without committing of sinne I have sworne to her Father and would bee found faithfull to my Lord I affect not government For in this I am but like the Sunne that carries his Lanthorne for others and not for himselfe It is better to be doubtfull then over-credulous and the uncertainty of his death is no warrant for my discharge nor your disobedience There is time for all things and the Moone that is not yet risen may rise shine in full glory though now she be eclipsed What more would you have or what further O you fond Viennonians doe you endeavour to affect Will you turne Traytors to your Lord rip up your owne bowels make your wives widdowes and your children fatherlesse and helplesse Will you put fire to your owne houses possesse your foes with your wives and wealthes see your daughters deflowred and make an utter devastation of your Countrey Alas I see your wilfulnesse betrayes your wits drawes on your overthrowes into your enemies tryumphes and griefe makes me to shed teares of blood for your owne purchased destructions Let me at last O let me in love and tender care of your welfares dehort you from wounding of your selves and leave these ill presaging jarres amongst you and like birdes of one flocke flye together Maintaine your sacred oathes for the preservation of your Soveraignes right till better assurance acquite you from your obliged faithes To hasten the knowledge whereof I will wing many Messengers with speede to enquire and learne what is become of our Soveraigne Lord with that the teares did trickle downe his face which struck such a compassionate regard in all their hearts that being before made sensitive of their errours and now fully satisfied and reclaimed by his tongue of perswasion they ioyfully threw up their Hattes and some lifting him up cried God save the Daulphin and the Lord Vray Esperance under whose government we will onely live Thus did his pleasing words powerfull authority milde behaviour refined and probable seasons and subtilized distinction allay the force of the approaching
principality extinguish all sorrow and memory of the dead Daulphinis So that wiping his eyes he turned himselfe towards Sirap and embracing him said Most worthy Knight and my dearest friend welcome to my Court to my selfe and all that is mine This Pallace my Countrey and I are all at your dispose For so in my particular obligation and by your merritorious and pleading deserts am I bound unto you And longer may not I enioy what I now possesse then you shall finde my promises full laden with rich performance And be further assured that as I onely live through your love and raigne altogether by your valour so will I ever owe you fealty for my life and still doe you homage for my Crowne Sirap understanding thus much by Boufoy returned him humble thankes for his so gratefull and high esteeme both of himselfe and his poore endeavours with protestation that he neither wish'd nor expected so great and undeseruing guerdons but still held himselfe most indebted vnto his owne desires to doe him all further possible service This interchange of kindnesses gave contentment to them both and was most pleasing to the Daulphin who yet fed so on his fresh feeling happinesse that he gave in charge that all his Subiects should honour Sirap as himselfe and hold his will as the will of their Lord For so he said is your Lords will that next to the Lord of hoasts holds his life and living of him Then told he them how and with what hazard of his life hee had redeemed him from most base bondage and cruell death How he had left many heathen honours to honour him then greatly dishonoured and how he had protected him at Sea from danger of Pirats and lastly established him in his regalty in despight of his foes And therefore many and sundry were the Triumphs that now were ordained for him but more then many were the severall thoughts that afflicted his doubtfull minde Vienna he thought had cause to condemne him since affection ever thinkes all times of stay too long that hangs on desert La-nova he knew would rebuke him for violating the sacred lawes of friendship in his concealement And his reverend Father might well question his breach of love and duty that so refused to shew himselfe a sonne One while was he ready to embrace La-nova another time to runne to Vienna and by and by hee was ready prest to fall on his knees to Sir Jaques Now did hee pitty distressed Vienna who in all these alterations was neither moved nor removed Then did he feare her liberty since her Father had no feeling of her calamity Thus dubiously perplexed in minde hee sadly sate unregarding regarding the continuing and maintained Iustes untill the Daulphin iudging of his stormy thoughts by his clowded countenance thus awaked him by his Interpreter What think'st said hee my best worthy friend of our French Knights and how stands our Court sports with your liking Sirap whose Martiall minde was now mollified with milder and calmer thoughts by his man thus answered As Knights of good regard I regard your Knights and as noble befitting sports I commend your heroicall pastimes All doth well and well doth it stand with your Highnesse that hath Knights that can doe so well But the Iustes being ended the Daulphin that had read his discontentment in the deepe characters of his face for the countenance oft shewes the affects and passions of the heart tooke him by the hand and privatly led him into a faire tapistred gallery hanged with most artificiall pictures of greatest Monarches where he thus againe assaved to finde the cause of his disturbance Let not said hee any doubt dismay mylives preserver nor let any remembrance of your last and lost honours worke in you any repenting humor since Viennaes Daulphin is both willing and ready both to accomplish your demand and to honour you with all dignities What pleaseth Sirap pleaseth the Daulphin and nothing shall content the Daulphin but what shall well like Sirap Then aske my Lord and bee Lord of your asking Sirap thus kindly entreated and encouraged lowly humbled himselfe and by Boufoy thus replyed Know most renowned and thrice worthy Prince that doubtfull suspition harbours not in noble hearts Nor think I once of honours change Your covenanted promise exiles that doubt and the effect of my request is the honour that best will please my minde Then let me shew and shewing crave both what troubleth your servant and what he now in all humility demands for his conditioned gift Not affecting honours the worlds fading glory nor coveting riches mans pleasing evill but seeking contentment in loves felicity I aske claime and require your daughter my Lord for my wife and a wife for my reward The renowne of her attractive vertues and the vertue of her moving perfections hath by report so captivated my freest thoughts since my comming to Viennois that wondring at her Fame I am wounded with Fancy and my desire is to see and applaude her excellencies Then let it not seeme strange unto you that unseene perfections have thus wrought unknowne passions since the eare is as well subiect to conceit as the eye is pliant to affection The Daulphin whose unnaturall impenitrable heart felt no longer remorce of her endured misery then whilst hee was himselfe in misery and who was no sooner free but that hee freed his remorced thoughts from all thought of remorce In so much that looking neither after her imprisonment nor his owne posterity hee in his euer over awfulnesse shewed himselse now rather an unrelenting Tyrant then a chastising Father But now thus utged by Sirap whose warranted demand and high deserts might well challenge an absolute grant hee herein still discontented thus contented Sirap Nothing I see right noble valiant and most merritorious Moore seemeth worse to love then to preferâ—e any thing before it selfe For cloath Desire in plates of burnish'd gold and Desire will shiver all for colde and fill affections purse with treasure and fancy wanting contentment will starve for hunger so that nothing can satisfie Love but love Your deserts might well have challenged my Principality for your due my dignities for your right and all my treasure for your owne But all these I see suffice not because they satisfie not And to aske you why is to aske one halfe pyned why he is hungry You loue my Lord you loue but whom my daughter yea that is my griefe Not that you loue her vnworthy your loue but that I cannot giue you her more then worthy her For such I sweare by the eternall and my all-preseruing God hath beene and yet is the vndutifull and most obstinate will of my too disobedient and degenerate daughter that neuer yet nor yet euer could I or shall I I feare perswade intreate or enforce her to consent to any in royall ranke worth or majestie suitable to her selfe For many times many powerfull Princes that sued for her fauour shee hath both carelesly