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A68435	Vienna Where in is storied, ye valorous atchieuements, famous triumphs, constant loue, greate miseries, & finall happines, of the well-deseruing, truly noble and most valiant kt, Sr Paris of Vienna, and ye most admired amiable princess, the faire Vienna.	M. M. (Matthew Mainwaring), 1561-1652.; Pierre, de la Cépède, 15th cent. Paris et Vienne.; Gifford, George, fl. 1640, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 17202; ESTC S111866	129,892	196

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

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

Bachonizing Cuppes he gave him some fewe peeces of Gold wishing him to make his wants knowne with the distresse of his Companion that he might privately relieve them and secretly give them comfort and directions for theyr more security This false fire the seeming shew of good regard burnt vp all Mal Fiances feare of distrust the strength of hot Wines consumed all due consideration and the ioy he tooke in finding so good a Christian amongst unbeleeving Infidels made him unadvisedly tell the Merchant who he was whom he served and where his Lord the Prince was This Machivelian Merchant being now fully enformed of what he desired the better to mature his ill designe spake to the Master of the House in the Slavonian Tongue a Language much used amongst the Turkes that he should stay that Stranger untill his returne from the Sanzake the Turkes Governour of Alexandria which hee did to no lesse admiration then dismay of confounded Mal Fiance For now too late hee found that Christall is like a pretious-stone till it come to hamering that his betraying tongue was guilty of his owne evill and that in the least danger is ever some eminent perill But this seducing Merchant the Sonne of Deceit borne of Hate fedde with mischiefe and maintayned with others losses being now armed with all the apparances of Truth that might fit and further his purpose went instantly to the dreadlesse Daulphin and in his corrupt Latine sutable to his ulcerated heart hee thus greeted him THE Saviour of the Faithfull the comfortable Sonne of the most Righteous all-Seeing and Everliving GOD make your Excellencie most happie in all your intendments and guard your Person from the knowledge and malice of cruell Miscreants To testifie my Faith by my Workes and to preserve the living Plants of Christs Vineyard from the bloody handes of the Destroyer I am come most noble Prince to save thy thrice worthy Christian life from the tyrannie of murdering Infidels In assurance whereof let this suffice that your Attendant Mal Fiance is apprehended and that for feare hee hath confest that you are a French Prince and Daulphin of Viennois and that as a wily Vlisses you are selected and come to pry into the Turkish State and to discover theyr Projects which being made knowne to the Sanzake your Highnesse shall bee sent a Prisoner to Constantinople where that cursed sinfull Sultan will make you dye a most cruell death To prevent which I have posted unto you and will for our Saviour sake convey you from his slavish and barbarous cruelty For know most gracious Prince that in heart I am a reall Christian though in shew a Mahometitian and have given addition of life to many by private intelligence secret reliefe speedy prevention and by close protection and unknowne transporting them to theyr native homes And this and all this I doe in some satisfaction for my Sinnes and to save my Soule for which the Lord of Life lost his dearest Life This loathed Habite of mine gives me safety and warrants my vowed endeavours for Christian supports Vnto which saving service I have dedicated both the length of my dayes and the fulnesse of my meanes Nor doe I leave Goshen to dwell in the Tents of Kedar Nor desire I with Lot to stay in Sodom nor would I for my Possessions heere establish my inheritance with the Children of Ruben in the Land of Giliad But I live in Alexandria for performance of my Sacred Vowes and to preserve the Flocke of Christ from these Band-dogges of Satan that otherwise would be devoured by them And therefore if you love this your life goe with me and passe over the Foord now the waters are low least by your dangerous delay you be destroyed in the Flood And to prevent the instant search I will bring you out of the Lyons denne and free you from the snare of the Hunter Fraud you know goes beyond Force and prevention helpes what repentance can not redresse I will not use many words Protestation is the Mother of Iealousie but when time shall promise better security I will at my owne charge convey you to France In the meane time you shall want nothing that my Money can procure or my Labours obtayne Thus did this subtile Sinon who had the voyce of Jacob but the hands of Esau guild over his poysoned Pilles and weave the Webbe of the Daulphins woe who finding cause of feare in that hee was so apparantly knowne did willingly feed on Poyson and rashly commend his welfare to his betraying trust praysing God that hee had sent him such a Shield of defence and had so preserved him from the terrour of shamefull death But this comfort in danger was but like the Honey that Sampson found in the Lyons Iawes or like Lightning in a foggie night Time would not permit neyther of better consideration nor of further complement The perfideous Merchants feare for still hee seemed fearefully to feare haled him away to his Chamber where he closely kept him with respect untill the next day against which time hee had provided two swift Dromidaries well furnished to carry them to Babylon there to make present of so Great and strange a Prince unto the Soldan his King promising himselfe eyther a great Share in his Ransome or no small Reward for his so worthy a Prize The long trauaile of the Daulphin made him give way to all suspitious thoughts His journies were greater then stood with ease or liking Yet what hee could not avoyd hee learned to beare necessity enforced him a constant patience But being come to Babylon he was presented unto the Soldan and like a Captive in tryumph he was ledde through the Citie to Prison The dejected Daulphin whose French Fortunes was but earst the Ministers of his will was now so controled and deprived of all Dignity that hopelesse of his life hee had no other comfort then to be voyd of all comfort Sometimes hee would envey against the detestable treachery of his deceitfull Servant and condemne his owne credulity in beleeving an Vnbeleever Then would hee curse his over-glorious desire of Popularity the ground of his griefe in seeking applause with danger and hazarding his Person to give liking to others But after when humble misery had appeased his discontented thoughts hee then cast off his Adders-skinne and soft Pitty did enter in at an Iron gate and finding then his owne cruell tyrannie in anothers long digested misery hee let fall some relenting teares and passionately he thus bewayled his Daughters endurance in his owne thraldome Ah poore Vienna too poore for Vienna Rich art thou in Feature but more then poore by thy Father Nature hath honoured thee in thy Birth Beauty hath eterniz'd thee in thy Person and Vertue hath renowned thee in thy Life Onely I yea I onely thy haplesse Sire haue made thee infortunate to bee the more infortunate my selfe The rigour of my Iniustice is in true Iustice now punished in my selfe with rigour and the

barbarous Moore honoured his milde inclination wondered at his regular admonitions and thanked him for his humane comforts tender regard My minde mindfull said Sirap of Fortunes ficklenesse affects I know not how nor wherefore your deliverance what then will the Daulphin give if I affect the same The Daulphin whose smallest sayles of hope the least windes did blowe offered the third part of his Principality when hee should come to Viennois Promises said Sirap of advancement are no assurances of enrichment and he hath a wit too short of discretion that will loose certaine favours for uncertaine fortunes Notwithstanding if you will but sweare unto me by that same God which you serve and adore to grant me one request that I shall make when I come to Viennois I will endanger my life to free your life from danger and leave and loose my honours in Babylon and Greece to seale and feate my selfe with you in France more you cannot desire lesse my Country Gods ayding me I will not accomplish The Daulphin whose flattering hope suddainly gave him a present assay of future happinesse though at the first he was very credulous in entertaining such favourable conjectures yet hardly could hee ground any firme beleife since knowing him to be but a Stranger hee thought that such deepe wounds could not be searched with such shallow Instruments But at the last referring all things to God and to the will and wisdome of the supposed Moore hee wholly embraced his kinde offer and anchored all his hope in his provident industry unto whom preferring life before livelihood hee devoutly sware by his Fathers God the onely one true God and God of all Gods in whom he chiefly and onely trusted that whatsoever hee would demaund should be freely absolutely and willingly given him In further consideration whereof he gave him a rich Diamond and his Interpretour a hundred French crownes which for his vse if neede required he had closly hid betwixt the lyning of the coller of his doublet Sirap holding himselfe satisfied said it sufficed Onely hee required his continuall prayers for his better successe and so left him to feast his hopefull heart with the expectation of desired successe The next day Sirap taking occasion to walk to Euphrates that famous River that runnes by Babylon there to view the variety of strange severall small ships he casually met and secretly compounded with an avarous Pilot whose corruption being gilded over with gold he was to bring him downe the River through the Persian gulfe to the next Port Towne upon the Affricke shoare The fifth following night hee appoynted to come a boord attended onely with two men and therefore gave him in charge not onely to bee most secret therein but also that he should make full provision of all requisites This done he presently gave forth that hee would shortly depart and returne to Constantinople and the better to accomplish his desire without misdeeme he determined under colour of preparation and fitly furnishing himselfe to lye some few dayes in the Citie before he would embarque himselfe All which hee presently imparted to the Soldan and humbly with prodigall thankes tooke his leave saying that his period of time pleaded now his promis'd returne which in no wise he would violate with the high commander of his thoughts the great and Emperiall Turke unto whom hee owed all obliged love and most reverent respect And therefore if so it pleased his Majesty to command his ready service in ought hee would willingly attend his pleasure and by his Graces imployments hold himselfe more then graced The Soldan seeing he would depart presented him with many rich gifts of Royall estimate holding himselfe no little bounden to his Gods in that they had interested him in so noble meritorious a friend so blinded was hee with Siraps civill demeanour and so dusked with Solimans powerfull commends that he could not with Palimed pry now into the profundity of Vlysses And therefore requesting him to take in worth those small remembrances of his fast sealed love he friendly bad him farewell and so left him Sirap whose thoughts travailed now in quest after the Daulphins deliverance got himselfe into the Citie where he chambered himselfe in a Merchants house of great and good regard where being once left and seated hee began to call his wits to account how best he might best deceive the Daulphins Keeper For providence preventeth misfortunes and gives life to our future actions And therefore he was neither carelesly nor over-timorously suspitious of that which might sinisterly and suddenly succeede but iealous headfull in the hazard lest any over-sight might crosse his endeavours and so leave his Lord helplesse and himselfe haplesse But after he had stretcht and tentred his wit and set all possibilities on the racke of his invention at length his desire carrying him beyond all doubt of danger hee armed his determination with steeled resolution and setting his chance on the Dice he thus attempted and assayed his fortune The day before his departure hee went unto the Castle where gently greeting the Keeper he told him that he was to returne to Constantinople and therefore finding himselfe engaged to him for his willing paines and already ready shewed kindnesses hee was come of purpose in person to invite him and all his followers vnto whom he had been troublesome to sup with him that night that hee thereby might acknowledge his thankfulnesse and they have cause to remember his love and his person And because hee said my Chamber is no receite and that I am unwilling to be troublesome or offensive to the Master of the house let me entreate the use of the Castle and so make you my Host and Guest at once The Keeper blinded with his former bounty secured by the Soldan and now drawne on by the pleasing shew of kinde courtesie knowing him whom yet hee never knew to be of a vertuous dispose of great estimate and highly favoured of the King did freely and gratefully offer himselfe his service and the Castle at his command The great unknowne distance betwixt the Daulphins and the Moores Countrey Clymes with their admiration of each other the difference of their tongues could not make the gulled keeper suspitious nor can cause him once to dreame of deceitfull guile This illusion gave Sirap hope of happy successe and therefore manifesting his thankfulnesse with a rich Iewell that he giving required that he would weare it for his sake he left him and prodigally povided what either his purse could procure or the time would afford Hee gave also further charge to his Attendants that the Table should be still and ever fully furnished with many repleat Cups of Greekish Wine For said he the cost is ill spared that is spared for cost and the beauty of the banquet is there eclips'd where Jupiter raines not downe full showers of Nectar As himselfe hee had carefully and secretly before provided sleeping Poppy heavy Darnell and the

disrespected and scornefully refused And as many times many times hath she therein my will disobeyed and contemned Not regarding her renowne shining in their glory Nor respecting my contentment nor progenie eclipsed both in her neglect of me and in her affoorded favour to her farre inferiours which caused me in iustice to punish her hateful disobedience with imprisonment yet in nature to bewaile her imprisonment though enforced by Iustice Where I left her there so you please may you finde her a prisoner to her will that will not yet submit her selfe to my will and therefore by my will worthily chastised without offence to Nature For where Nature offendeth law there law may iustly be executed on Nature Assay her most worthy of all worth and put in ballance your fortune with your fancy and if your hap may drowne her favour you shall redouble the small remainder of my aged dayes and well satisfie the iustice of my displeasure with the honour of your desired affinity All my right is yours your demand my consent and my consent a full Fathers graunt Sirap acknowledging this his so great bounty gave him more thankes then if he had presently intituled and invested him in the Principality of Viennois Yet sayd he it seemes not ouer-strange to me nor should it bee so offensive to your Highnesse that one so enriched by Nature so admired for Vertue and so endowed by Fortune should herein against all nature so resist the law of nature since Fancie is altogether guided by Destiny and Love is neither subiect to duty nor reason Then seeing that Love yeeldeth neither reason of choise nor change I will leave to reason further of it and aduenture once to cary up a dish to Venus table that never yet served in her Court The Daulphin glad that his demaund was of no greater consequence secretly smiled at his simplicity that neglecting Honours highest advancements onely contented himselfe with the naked hope of most impossible favours But Sir Sirap being more assured then the Daulphin did assure himselfe rested thankfully contented with the same And the next morning in the pride of his secret ioy hee went unto the Castle where having the Daulphins signet for his warrant hee called for Vienna who fearing some suddaine stratagem for all her hope of welfare was dead fearefully came to the dore to know the end of her punishment But when Sirap sawe the alteration that vertuous Constancie had wrought in her imprisonment griefe so attach'd him that hee was more mortified at the sight then he was Moorefied in sight yet after some secret digested sighes he cheared up his ingreeved spirit with the ioy hee had to see her and thus by his interpreter he saluted her Our Gods of all happinesse make faire Vienna happy in her desires and more fortunate in her life The same Vienna Vienna said yeelds you hearty thankes and prayes that the like content may countervaile your wel wishing Then shall said he my love be made immortall in your liberty and your liberty be purchased by my love Vienna abash'd at his reply replyed againe that griefe had no harbour for love nor loue any acquaintance with distressed Vienna A noble cause said Sirap may yet helpe to heale a grievous case Then leave these for lorne walls and let not your will make you a prisoner that may live in my love a Princesse For know Madam that your father being a prisoner in Babylon and allotted there to most base and cruell death I though by kinde an unpassionate Moore yet much more then any Moore pittying the wiseries of others had such compassion on your Fathers distresse that growing carelesse of my estate being there then entertained with greatest state I aduentured with great adventure to acquit him from shamefull bondage and more cruell death Conditionally that vpon my arrivall with him in this Countrey he should graunt me without all exception one gift that then I should require which he then ratified by oath in sight of his God and now hath confirmed it hy will in the presence of his people Now Madame hearing the well worthy renowne of your renowned beauty though being by Nature fierce yet subiect to affection I could not but in that frailty yeeld to humane condition And therefore prizing my content before a Crowne I required your Ladiship for my Wife which your Father by oath hath graunted which you in duty should yeeld unto and which I in love if love can merit such happinesse doe deserve and yet most humbly doe request Vienna thus moved remooved thus his flattering and aspiting hope If said shee my Father enioy a second life by your conditionall adventure you may Presse him to the performance so farre as it it is in his power to accomplish more you cannot aske lesse hee will not performe But know Sir Knight that love knowes no such paternall law that yet was never subiect to any law The Father hath but a consent not the choyse in the daughters affections his free thoughts have no feeling of her conceit and his mettle minde and corrupted humours are oft unpleasing to his childes fancie Neither stands it with any reason that he that cannot govern his owne passions should command others affections Then must you of necessity excuse his impossibility and admit onely of his willingnesse that can give nought but consent for his larges Yet Madame by your favour said Sirap stands the daughter bound for her Fathers good and the guerdon is but ungratefull that is required in contempt True said Vienna but every good must not bee rewarded with the best lest the best want fit requitall for due desert Let it then suffice that with thankes I acknowledge your great good and in any other thing will be ready to pleasure you Onely in this pardon me my Lord for in loves infirmities I have no affinity A troubled soule onely in teares her comfort seekes It is a heavy comfort said Sirap that in mourning stands yet said she doth the custome of sorrow lessen the griefe and it is some comfort to bee voyde of all comfort Dispaire said Sirap is mother to death and death no fit compannion for beauty My beauty said shee poore as it is hath already beene my bane and made me most unfortunate in my most fortunatnesse Why Madame quoth he hath your Grace beene deceiued So said she say they that tolde me so But truth hee replyed stands not on the tongues of men True shee said and that is the cause why we are deceived by men you mistake me much said Sirap Nay said shee not mistaken but overtaken you in the truth and so shee bad him farewell leaving him tormented in minde in that hee gest by her last words that some one to advantage himselfe or in malice to him had wronged him in words Yet could hee not but smile to thinke how his conceit was her deceit But leaving her whom hee meant not so to leave but to re-assay her againe he returned

he either would woe her with gifts or with his countenance or with variety of gestures But hee no sooner came to the Castle but frustrating their expectation he requested them by Bousoy to stay and stand a while aside When winged with the hope of Loves assurance he instantly boldly and all onely entered saluted and in French thus courteously assaulted his faire and friendly foe How fares said hee the imperious Mistresse of my inthralled heart As a prisoner not like a Princesse she said fares the Mistresse of a thralled and wofull heart But how came you Sir Knight so Frenchified that erst was so strangefied Love sweet love he said hath made my tongue your Country-man and my heart your servant Then hath love shee replyed wrought a wonder in you an admiration in me Such said Sirap is the divine power of Loves Deity such the vertuous force of your heavenly beauty and such the happy issue of our decreed destiny Therefore yeeld Vienna Vienna yeeld to that which the Gods have decreed Love commands thy beauty requires our Fortune allots thy Father wills and I thy friend request Vienna thus charged could not tell how to discharge her selfe of him but by having a recourse to her wonted and hidden policy And therefore uncloathing her Ivory brests she all sighing said Alas Sir Knight thy commendable demeanour and Princely worth well merits favour and thy inticing tongue is sufficient to entrap a well advised minde and a far more stayeder conceit But know most noble and most Magnificent Moore that I am farre worse then I seeme and much better then I would be For behold shee bared her breasts that he might behold the untimely corruption of my blasted beauty looke on the loathsome fruit of my long and grievous imprisonment and but feele O feele not the filthy sent of my ulcered and rotting body and then tell me whether I am not rather to be loathed then loved fled from then followed Sirap astonished at her words but beyond all amazement danted with the smell neere fainted thereat such was his insufferable sorrow for her that hee curst himselfe for her And yet such was the constancy of his never dying love that encouraging himselfe the better to cheere her up he with a joyfull countenance said Be it Madame so or worse then so or what so you will it shall not matter I rest wholly yours if for yours you will accept of mee that am none but yours For know most constant and my endeered Lady that Paris if Paris bee not forgotten pleadeth now in person for himselfe and here offereth his life and service for your love In confirmation whereof see here the happy seale of your love and the sole comfort of my absence the loyall and unvaluable Ring your Highnesse gave mee when first being pursued by your Fathers Knights I departed from you like a hungry Infant pulled from his Nources breast or a thirsty Hart chased from a sweet Fountaine Then then in the pride of your perfections you paradiz'd mee in the heaven of your love and now in the decay of your glory will I wed my ever-living constancy to your never dying loyalty Looke nay looke not on me so strangely my black hue is but an Artificiall vizour and my borrowed countenance but the assurance of my safety Vienna not able on the suddaine to entertaine so great a ioy shrunk downe deprived of her vitall spirits but chafed reuived and enabled by Jzabella shee with teares of ioy distilling downe her cheekes sadly said Ah Paris Paris thy love made me a contented prisoner but thy long absence hath made my prison a tormenting hell But now O happy now thy thrice happy returne makes my prison seeme a Paradise and my hell a most glorious heaven with that falling on his brest and enclosing him within her fainting armes she often redoubled her double doubled kisses Paris being likewise surprized with fulnesse of ioy lost himselfe in her armes but being acquitted of that extasie he payd her large interrest for her kindnesse pleaded sorrow for her martirdome and meere necessity for his absence Cease Paris shee said my Paris surcease these needlesse excuses of faultlesse iniurie since to over-fortifie innocencie is to breed suspition There is none but I that have if offended offended As first in being cause of thy exile then of thy dangerous travailes and now in reiecting thy love but impute the first two to my Fathers severity not to my love and the last of my ignorance not to my inconstancy For proofe whereof see heere here shewed shee the Capons legges the triall of my truth which but in pollicy I vsed in all extremities to withstand importunate Suters and all onely to love none but thee earst the sole hope of my life but now the onely life of my soule Thus pleaded shee to please him and thus it pleased him to praise her and both of them still ioying in that they enioyed each other Then turning to Jzabella he kist her many times and vowed that out of his best fortunes he would bee thankfull to her for her love to him but especially for her comforts to Vienna And taking them both by the hands he told them how and by what meanes the Daulphin her Father had freely and absolutely given her to him And therfore he requested them to conceale their knowledge of him and to go along with him for that he ment to have her Father to deliver her to him all which they both so willingly and cheerefully did that the Gent. attending his leasure no little marveiled to see him lead them so familiarly by the hands and so pleasantly talking with Vienna in a private manner But when they were come before the Daulphin Paris for now is Sirap turned againe to returned Paris holding her still by the hand humbly requested him in the presence of his daughter Barons to ratifie his vowed guist Which the Daulphin both misliking and admiring demaunded of her whether her liking and consent stood to that blacke irreligious Moore that had so often refused so many potent Lords and most accomplished Princes To which shee in all reverence praying pardon said That the blacke smeared Smith was most pleasing to the Queene of beauty That tha constant colour unfadible in it selfe well argued constancie in the person That his barbarous nature was both reclaimed and refined by his more civill education and that his religion would easily be conformable to their profession But howsoever it sufficeth that I love him and love yeelds no reason of choyse nor hath any respect of persons His blinde deity blindes our fancies and fancy lives not in desert but in desire We love altogether by liking not for honours and our wills cannot command our affections that are not in our powers Then vouchsafe my Soveraigne Lord and most gratious Father of my destinied desire and admit of his wel-merited demand let me with your free consent enioy him for my Husband that hath so well purchased me for his Wife so shall you honour your selfe in doing him right reward his services enworthy your posterity and repayre my decayed glory The Daulphin seeing that it was but in vaine to resist celestiall influence preordinate be providence divine and that he could neither in honor nor conscience infringe his obliging oath nor reject his pleading and glorious worth shewed a vertue in necessity and freely gave and delivered her unto him Now Paris being thus possest of his desire cast off his artificiall maske and lowly on his knees shewed and presented himselfe the humble and thankfull seruant of his Lord. The Daulphin finding himselfe thus deceived by him that happily deceived the Soldan and his Keepers for him could not but commend his loyall love and love him for his saving service His superlative valour and unvaluable vertue shewed that his great fortunes were but Ministers to his will And therefore he cheerefully said In France was I honoured by Paris In Babylon unthralled by Sirap And at home both I my Countrey and people were protected by the Knight of the Daulphin To Paris therefore I returne my love To Sirap I give my daughter And to the Knight of the Daulphin I yeeld my Principality Then my beloved and renowned sonne giue me thy hand and let me embrace thee with thy valour And here I sweare by the all-ever-living-God that if I were sole Monarch of the whole Vniverse thou onely shouldst rule for me and after me More I cannot give thee for thy Asian lost honors lesse thou shalt not have then my whole Europian dignities To confirme which he presently caused him to be proclaimed his sonne in law and the next lawfull and immediate heire to all his Royall Territories Great was now the wonder of all men great the preparation to solemnize their Nuptials and more then great the joy and tryumphes made and ordained for them But amongst them all there was none Vienna excepted that reioyced more then old Sir Jaques whose silver beard was all embossed with pearles of swelling teares for the ioy of his so famous found sonne As for his endeared friend La-nova his glad heart shewed the triumphes of ioy and all his thoughts were ravished with delights and contentments To him after many embraces did Paris give infinite thankes for his comfortable friendship and carefull regard of Vienna and his Father Thus lived they long happy in each other untill the Daulphin summoned by death payd Nature his due and olde Sir Iaques wasted by age yeelded to death Then was Sir Paris created Daulphin of Vienna who enjoyned La-nova to marrie Jzabella unto whom hee gave all his Fathers Lands and Boufoy he made his Steward And so they fortunatly raign'd and lived together many yeares with great comfort and full contentment in Princely state and height of terrestiall dignity The Jmage of God the wrath of Mars and pledge of Nuptiall rite Records his name that for his friend this triviall toy did write FINIS