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A18066	The voyage of the wandering knight. Deuised by Iohn Carthenie, a Frenchman: and translated out of French into English, by VVilliam Goodyear of South-hampton merchant. A vvorke vvorthie of reading, and dedicated to the Right worshipfull Sir Frauncis Drake, Knight; Voyage du chevalier errant. English	Cartigny, Jean de, 1520?-1578.; Norman, Robert, fl. 1590.; Goodyear, William.	1581 (1581)	STC 4700; ESTC S104901	93,834	138

subiects who hearing y e Apostles preach quite abandoned and gaue me ouer I gouerned Nero the sixt Emperour of Rome who at y e beginning of his reigne was good and vertuous but after he had possessed the Empire fiue yeares he became most euill and wicked and was giuen to lecherie and filthinesse This mā was a murtherer he slew his wife his mother diuers other honest persons of which number Seneca was one hée was the first persecutour of the Christians and put many good men to death as for example Saint Peter S. Paule with other But this tyrant being vpon a time vngarded wanting about him his lieftenants Chaptaines of warre the Senators and states of Rome sought meanes to punish him for anger whereof he killed himselfe and the souldiers that were sent to seeke him founde him dead in the field I gouerned Antonine Bassian Caracalla the ninetéetenth Emperour of Rome who by my counsell killed his brother Geta besides that he married his stepmother desired Pompinion the great Lawier to excuse his murther Who aunswered him That he was not so willing to excuse a murtherer as he was to disclose him the Emperour vnworthy of so good an answere kilde the Lawier I gouerned Varius Heliogabilus the .xxi. Emperour of Rome who by my counsell liued so disorderedly that he left behind him no memorie of honest life but infamy shame This mans own souldiers slew him threw him into a ditch because his body would not sinke to the bottome they dragged him out againe with a hooke hurled him into the riuer of Tiber. I gouerned quoth Folly Iulian Apostata the .xxxix. Emperour of Rome who in his thought was so wise well giuen that he was made Reader in the Church of Nicomedia This man trauailed to Athens where he studied Philosophie but he staide not long in that good purpose for by the counsell of me Folly he renounced the Christian faith became a reuolt an Idolater I perswaded him to persecute the christians least they should encrease seauen for one I moued him also by my subtile deuice to root and wéed them out quite which thing hée meant to doe but he was kilde within two yeares after béeing slaine in Persia and yéelding vp his euill spirit he lifted vp his bloudie hand to heauen in contempt despite of Iesus Christ making this out-crie Now O Galilean thou hast the victorie I gouerned the false Prophet Mahomet and counselled him to make a booke to intitle it Alcaron and to expounde thinges in the holye Scriptures carnallye which he did and that lawe is yet continued in the greatest partes of the worlde I gouerned Messaline an Empresse the noblest whoore in the worlde who being but newly married to Claudius fift Emperour of Rome an old gentleman when she found by proofe that her husband was insufficient vnable to satifie her lecherous desires by my counsell oftentimes she disguised her selfe into mens apparell and went to the common Stewes wheras she abused her body with a great number returning backe no better then a bitch and vaunted that she had vanquished and gone beyond all the whoores in the house of bawderie When the wandering knight had heard these wonderful discourses vttered by Folly hauing in him some sparkle of reason inclination of nature he thought himselfe foolish if it were not in him to iudge of déeds so mischeuous ill And being no longer able to kéep silēce he brake his mind to Folly finding great fault w t this vnsatiable Empresse insomuch y t he cried out with a lowd voice said Fic fic fic filthy bitch vilde whoore worthy to be tied to a tree starke naked deliuered to greedy dogs rauening birds to be deuoured Thē I asked Folly what was y e end of this wicked woman who tolde me y t the Emperour put her to death because she was not content with hir lawful hausband but married an other man whose name was Silius Whervnto I assented saieng y t it was a good deed for ther néede no more but thrée such detestable filths in al Fraūce to spoile y e whole realme This tale of Follie touching her déeds exploits hir deuises practises her prouocatiōs counsels as it being lōg straūge I am not able to repeat as it was spokē but haue nakedly recorded so much as resteth in my remembraunce which thing I haue the rather done to the end that all deuout Christian readers might willingly learne throughly know what great wickednes they commit in following the euill counsell of dame Folly Euerie one ought to forsake her for y t the end of such as be ruled by her preceptes tread in her paths daūse after her pipe is proued by experience to be daungerous deadly and dampnable But now let vs returne to our voyage and former matter ¶ THE VVANDRING KNIGHT FINDING TVVO waies and doubtfull whether of them to take there chaunced to come vnto him Vertue and Voluptuousnesse either of them offering to conduct and guide the Knight on his way The sixt Chapter SO long lasted the talke of Folly that wée had worne out the way well the Sunne went lowe In the ende we came into a straight where we found two wayes one lay on the left hand which was faire broad and entring into a goodly gréene Meddow the other on the right hand which was narrow rockie and full of Mountaines Being then in a perplexitie and doubtfull which of those waies I might take Folly told me that the way on the left hand was best and fairest and Temeritie my horse kept a flinging to goe that way so that I had much adoe to rayne him in Then saide I to Folly that I feared least the gréene grassie way would lead vs into some ditch and quagmire where we should sticke fast Besides that I was more then half discouraged with hir tales which she had tolde me and though I in heart hated them yet notwithstanding custome caused me to vse them not being able to doe otherwise without Gods grace Héerevpon I was resolued to take the way that lay on the left hand Folly kéeping me companie But as we were thus talking together I espied two Ladies comming towards the place where we stoode which made me very glad One of these Ladies rode vpon a white horse and went in a gowne of costly colours brauely imbrodered with néedle worke in the which border the thrée Diuine and the foure Morall vertues were written This Lady was very beautifull and she séemed naturally to bée fraught with godly graces and gifts she had a neate body a swéete countenaunce a modest gesture hir face was not painted she was alwaies very courteous she pretended authoritie and reuerence without flatterie she was not sowre nor grim but louely and amiable The other Ladie rode vppon a rats coloured horse and went in a chaungeable coloured gowne garnished with gold and excessiue cost she wore

life in Voluptuousnesse Ambition Filthinesse Vncleannesse or Euil Conuersation if he be not sorie for his sinfulnesse and repent him of his time lewdly spent that mans death is damnable and his shamefull report shall neuer die no more then that of Sardanapalus Nero Heliogabalus Herod Pilate Annas Caiphas and such like Therefore my sonne leaue Voluptuousnesse if thou meanest to finde true felicitie and perfect blessednesse ¶ THE VVANDRING KNIGHT BY THE COVNsell of Folly left Lady Vertue and followed Voluptuousnesse which led him to the Pallaice of worldly Felicitie The seuenth Chapter WHen I had heard both these Ladies tell their tales I was more amazed then euer I was before insomuch y t I wist not which to take for my guide But alas poore perplexed pilgrime if I had had but the wit of a Wodcocke and not wauered in minde I hadde followed Vertue left Voluptuousnesse But being amidst mine amaze I requested my Gouernesse Folly to teach mee quickly which of these two Ladies I were best to follow for the finding of true felicitie No sooner had I spoken the word but sodainly she cast out this language saieng that Vertue was an Hypocrite and that hir waye was painfull to passe But saith she if thou follow Voluptuousnesse thou séest hir waye is faire swéete gréene and pleasaunt If thou follow Vertue thou submittest thy selfe to colde heate hunger thirst trauell paine and werinesse thou must rise early and go to bed late stand in feare weepe take care liue in sorrow and yet in doubt to haue Felicitie at last If thou offend hir neuer so little in word or déede she will leaue thée for she is too seuere euen in small trifling matters Whatsoeuer she saith to thée now she wil deny when she hath thée among the Rockes and Mountaines she will leaue thée alone among wilde beastes to lead thy life in the Wildernesse Wherefore I aduise thée beléeue hir not and follow hir not But let vs take this faire large way on the left hand through which the greatest part of people do passe and at night we will lodge in the Pallaice of Felicitie And this I tell thée that if thou chaunce to mislike of thine enterteinment there within a daye or two thou maist returne for the way is but short and then if thou thinke it good thou maist climbe ouer the Mountaines ride through the way on the right hand These delicate deuises of my friend Folly dashed quite the aduertisements of Vertue whom with thanksgiuing I bid farewell desiring hir not to be offended in that I did not follow hir ouer the Mountaines Then Lady Voluptuousnesse led the way my horse Temeritie trode his trace Folly followed fast at my heeles Vertue viewed vs very well came sadly behind me euen like one that mourned after a dead corse borne to be buried crieng with a lowde voice Ah thou arrant Asse leaue Voluptuousnesse for shee will lead thée to death and destruction The counsell of thy friend Folly is diuelish she dayly deceiues such as followes hir hir felicitie is false The language of Voluptuousnesse is a méere charme with which she vseth to bewitch hir children Notwithstanding this exclamation and rebuke I went on my waye and could not away with hir Christian counsell which when she saw she gaue me a furious farewell saieng O monstrous man O bedlam beast O foole infortunate O idiotly Idoll O shadow of a man Thou hast no more sense or reson then a Asse thou showest thy selfe to be shamelesse in thus framing thy fancie to follow Voluptuousnesse and to forsake Vertue Wilt thou imbrace worldly wealth rather then heauenly grace Didst thou desire the trée before the fruite I see thou art fowlly abused He that leaueth Vertue and followeth Voluptuousnesse is subiect to Satan Remember O thou wretch what Salomon saith For that I haue cryed and thou hast refused to come after me I staied till the morrow but thou vnderstoodest not but doubtedst my councell and wouldest not receiue my correction therefore I laugh at thy destruction but when thine euill happe and trouble commeth then thou seekest me in the morning when thou shalt not finde me because thou hast hated knowledge hast not receiued the feare of God nor obeyed my counsell but despisedst my correction Which wordes vttered vnto mée by the mouth of Wisedome might suffice to withdraw me from my foolish enterprise But she preached to a post and Folly whom I followed did mocke and deride hir all the while ¶ HOVV THE VVANDRING KNIGHT VVAS receiued and welcommed to the Pallaice of Worldly Felicitie The eight Chapter AFter we had passed certaine degrées on our waye with vnwonted ioye Voluptuousnesse layd hir hands on my head and gaue me hir best blessing I letting hir alone as one to whom I ought dutie Then vttered she vnto me certaine swéete wordes which inchaunted me For presently I lost my senses estéeming all well that she said or did After we had spent in sport two houres of the time the Sun began to set and so I espied the Pallaice of Worldly Felicite wherat I was not a little glad For it séemed to me very pleasant my thought I smelt daineties whereas indéede all was very witchcraft When we were within a Crossebow shot of the Pallaice Voluptuousnesse hoopt halowd whereat came out a legion of Ladies pompeously apparailed among whom were these next named Lust Prodigalitie Lecherie Wantonnesse Carelesnesse Brauerie Lasciuiousnesse Ambition Dronkennesse Licorishnesse and such lyke Being dismounted from of my horse Folly tooke off my Helmet and my face being bare all the Ladies kist me and bad me welcome which enterteinment agréed wel with my foolish fancie Then Prodigalitie and Ambition led me by the hands Lasciuiousnesse and other Ladies lead the waye before Brauerie and the rest followed after Thus we entred into the Pallaice of worldly pleasure the gate whereof was great high built vpon Marble stone alwaies stood wide open day night Winter Summer whereat I meruailed much Then Voluptuousnesse told me y e reason with these words I alwaies kéepe open house for as many as wil and at what houre soeuer any doe come to me by night or by day they are welcome and I will receiue them royally Then Voluptuousnesse lead me into a greate and sumptuous hall hanged with cloth of Arace and full of torches burning round about There Lust vnarmed me and Brauerie gaue me a night gowne of Crimosin Uellet lined with Martine skinnes Within a little while after the table was couered in came the fine cates and to supper we goe This done Ladie Voluptiousnesse put me in the gorgeoust place and there sate on either side of me Licorousnesse and Dronkennesse there the rest of the Ladies sate down in their degrées but Voluptuousnes sate right against mée who curteously carued me of the delicatest meate Our waiters were young Gentlemen verie brauely apparailed our seruice was sumptuous our meates wer well seasoned and handsomely

Repentaunce taketh hir beginning at loue or at feare This question cannot be decided in fewe wordes but to be short I saye it may beginne at both For true Repentaunce being a worke of God he may beginne it as he lyst But when it comes from loue it is not ordinarie or common but meruailous Looke vpon the conuersion of Saint Paule of S. Mathew and the Theefe But ordinarily ●o GOD beginnes Repentaunce in vs by feare as in the third Booke of the Kings when he commaunded Helias to come out of his caue to remaine in the Mount before the Lord and a mightie strong winde passed by that rent the high hills and ragged Rockes before the Lord but the Lord was not in the winde After that came an Earthquake but the Lord was not in the Earthquake After that came a fire but the Lord was not in the fire After that came a softe sounde wherein the Lord was In such sort God sendes to sinners a winde of terrour to breake the mightie Mountaine of pride the heart more harde then the rocke After that comes the troubling of the soule after that comes the conscience grudging the hart of the sinner and accusing him of his euill life but yet the Lord is not there with his quickening Grace Neuerthelesse these be forerunners to prepare the way of the Lord. For when the peruerse will of man is mortified by seruile feare and led almost to hell after comes the swéete sound of Gods grace which reuiueth the soule saieng Lazarus come forth This is the voice that giueth consolation at the hearing whereof we may be bold to depart in peace with assurance of remission of our sinnes But it séemes that Repentance began first in the Knight at loue and that miraculously for he being in the filth of his sinne sodainly by Gods prouidence confessed his folly and loathing his lewde lyfe he required helpe and succour of Gods grace who presently assisted him and brought him out of the sinke of sinne But this manner of conuersion is not ordinarily vsed There are indéede certeine forerunners to the iustifieng of sinners which prepare the way to Gods reuiuing or quickening grace and offereth vnto God a renewed spirit and a pure and vpright heart which manner of conuersion godly people onely doe vse And héereof meaneth the Knight to speake purposing also to shew how it digresseth from Gods grace When Repentaunce had thus apparailed me with haire sackcloth I was set vpon a stoole then Gods grace appeared vnto me with two women one man which was a preacher Now one of the women held in hir right hand a sharp pricking yron rod called the gnawing of y e conscience and in hir left hande she had a red booke whereat I was affraid For as she beheld me my thought she threatened me The other woman was curteous milde and gentle holding in hir right hand a booke of golde couered with pearles and she was called Remembrance Gods grace placed Conscience on my left hand and Remembraunce on my right hand the Preacher Repentaunce and her Damselles about me and then commanded Conscience to open the red booke which when I perceiued and sawe the wordes written with bloud declaring all my offences with tormentes vnto them belonging for my following of Folly I was amazed and became speachlesse Then Conscience with hir yron rod toucht me prickt mee yea pearced my heart and cried aloud vnto me saieng Behold thou wretch view this booke thou shalt sée how thou hast liued euen against God and contrarie to right and reason Thou hast bene a proud arrogant ambitious spitefull at others prosperitie a prolonger of time wrathfull a backbiter iniurious traiterous hatefull couetous of gold more then of God gluttonous wanton shamelesse a stewes haunter giuen to all vices hast transgressed al the commandements of God leading a loathsome life denieng God swearing and blaspheming his name an hainous offender a false witnesse bearer a lyar a desirer of other mens goods disobedient to parents cursing them and wishing their death Furthermore thou hast had neither faith nor hope in God but rather in the force riches honour and friendship of thy kinred with their authoritie I cannot recken vp the rest of thy sinnes for they are vncountable Uerie little care hast thou had of Christs merites or of thy own soules helth but alwaies yéelding to Voluptuousnesse filthines iniquitie When Conscience had thus accused me sorrow for sin fel bitterly a wéeping and oftentimes stroke her brest Then Conscience shewed me what torments I had deserued for following voluptuous affections and for louing them better then God Thou oughtest sayd she to burne in hell fire that neuer quencheth to be nipped with tormēts both of body and soule for euer more Thy laughinges shall be turned to wéeping thy ioye to sorrowe thy songs to cryes yea what paines can be named but thou art like perpetually to suffer thē without hope of redemptiō For this is the due reward of worldly Felicitie and following Folly Bethinke thée now and tell me if it be in thy power to rid thée from these gréeuaunces Hearing my conscience thus speak my thought I sawe hell open to swallowe me vp and with sorrowfull sadnesse I fell to the ground before Gods grace speachlesse but she had compassion vpon me and bad me rise the which I did though halfe in dispaire and to recomfort me shée opned the booke which Remembraunce held in her hand BY COMMAVNDEMENT OF GODS GRACE Remembraunce read to me the goodnesse of God with his promises made to repentaunt sinners The fift Chapter AFter Remembraunce had opened her booke I perceiued the letters were of golde and Azure conteining the great goodnesse and infinit mercie of God to repentaunt sinners with faire promises annexed thervnto Then at commaundement of Gods grace Remembraunce read out of that booke vnto me in this manner S. Paule writing to the Romaines saith Where sinne hath abounded grace hath more abounded He that mistrusteth the mercye of God mistrusteth God to be mercifull and in so dooing he doth God great iniurie For he denieth God to be Loue Truth and Power wherein consisteth all the hope of poore sinners For of his great loue he sent his onely son to take mans nature vpon him in the world that in the same he might suffer death vpon the Crosse for the remission of sinnes Consequently he promised for the loue of his sonne remission and pardon to all poore sinners so often as they require it in faith with a heauy and sorrowfull heart Now God is as true of his promises as he is of power able to performe thē And as he is of power so will he doe whatsoeuer pleaseth him God wil pardon sinners their sins Who then can let him from doing it To whom God pleaseth or hath promised to pardon their sinnes he forgiueth The truth héereof is written in plaine wordes shewed by examples in many places of the

the rude people made him a God many false liars haue attributed vnto him the noble deedes of the good Patriarch Noah and his Nephew Osiris surnamed Iupiter the iust Moreouer they did not onely offer sacrifice vnto him but also gaue him the title and name of Most excellent good whereas indéed he was most euill for he was an incestuous and Sodomitical person and a common enimie to chastitie and honestie insomuch that people openly in their stage-plaies counterfetted sung and descanted vpon the filthy lecheries and other villanies which he vsed affirming that such Anticques and Pageaunts were most fit and agreeable vnto him By meanes whereof all his subiects gaue themselues to the same saieng that it was as fit for them so to lyue as for their great God Iupiter I gouerned little Hercules of Greece otherwise called Alceus the bastard sonne vnto the same Iupiter whom he had by Alcmena the wife of Amphitrio Unto this same Hercules the lieng Greekes full of vaine eloquence giue the name title of great Hercules of Lybia which is most false For that Hercules of Greece was the first Pyrate that euer roued on the Seas and abounded with all vice following the steps of his Father Iupiter the adulterer in all respects and as hée liued euen so he died For being mad saith Seneca he slew his wife children afterwards burned himselfe But a litle before his death he made Philoctetes sweare y t he wold neuer disclose his death nor y e manner how he had bestowed himselfe which thing he did of a vaine arrogant proud ambitious minde euen to this end that the people might report and beléeue that the Gods had drawne him vp to heauen inuisibly but it chaunced not as he desired Yet notwithstanding quoth Folly I perswaded the lienge Greekes that it was so made them worship him as a God I gouerned faire Paris king Priams sonne whose surname was Alexander At the first he made no accompt of me but leading a contemplatiue lyfe he followed the lo●e of Pallas the Goddesse of wisdome mine aduersarie but when Iuno Pallas and Venus wer at strife for the golden Ball which was throwne amongest them with condition that the fairest of them should haue it they committed the matter to the iudgement of Paris surnamed Alexander who was vppon the point to giue sentence in the behalfe of Pallas mine enimie but by my perswasion afterwards he gaue it vnto Venus my good friend and of olde acquaintaunce then for recompense of his foolish iudgement I counsailed him to goe to Greece where he rauished faire Helen Heerevpon the Greekes in a great and mad rage prepared all their force against the Troyans and after ten yeares siege against their Citie they tooke Ilion put king Priam to death insomuch that the whole Realme was defaced In that warres were killed many Princes and noble knights as Hector Achilles Paris also was slaine by Philoctetes the companion of the lesse Hercules in a combat fought hande to hande The weapons which they vsed were Bowes and forked Arrowes wherewith Philoctetes wounded Paris in thrée places First in his left hād secondly in his right eie thirdly in both his legs which wer fastened with the stroke together Béeing thus wounded the Troyans carried him into their Citie where shortly after hée dyed I gouerned quoth Folly faire Helen the bastard daughter of the third Iupiter of Greece begotten of Laeda the wife of Tindarus which Helen by my counsell went from her husband Menelaus and suffered her selfe to be rauished of a yong lecherous Troyan named Paris surnamed Alexander the sonne of king Priam. She brought bloud death to Troye in stéede of dowrie For by her occasion Troye was destroyed and Priam with the most part of his children killed And to the ende that her adulterous mate Paris or Alexander should not leaue her and goe to his owne lawfull wife Pegasis Enone she bewitched him with certeine drinkes wherein she was her crafts Mistres which tricke when one doth vse he is in such case that he forgets all things past and all sorrowes present When she was thus arriued at Troye the good man her husbande Menalaus with Vlisses and other Greeke ambassadours came to fetch her awaye and king Primamus commaunded that she should be brought into his presence offering vnto her franklye with lowde voice that she should if she thought good fréely and with full libertie depart againe into Greece with all her retinue people and pelfe Wherevnto she aunswered in the hearing of her husband and king Priam with the rest of his counsel and commons that she was not disposed to retire to her countrie wishing also that her husband Menelaus that good man might go to God for she was none of his wife neither would she haue to doe with him and that she came not to Troy against her will neither did she estéeme of his marriage To conclude at length Troy by treason was taken and raunsackt .xviii. yeares after she had bene from her husband and all that space had liued in lecherie with two adulterers she grew to agreement and made peace with her husband Menelaus But when she waxed olde she looked in a Glasse and séeing her face farre from faire she fel in a lowd laughter and flouted at the fooles that fought ten years together for the loue of a thing that faded so soone away but when her husband Menelaus was dead two chiefe men of y e citie of Sparta named Nicostratus Megapentus men of great authoritie hunted Helen out of y e citie realme of Lacedemonia without appointing vnto her any place or prouision to kéep her Upon which banishmēt she came to Rhods to hir auncient cōpanion friend quéene Polypo which was also then widow by reason of y e death of hir husband Tlepolemus who was slaine before Troy And when shée was at Rhods quéene Polypo vsed her very well but the yong gentlewomen hir waiting maides hated hir deadly for y t shée was the cause y t their king Tlepolimus was kild insomuch y t vpon a day they conspired together against hir gat hir into a garden where then fastening a rope obout hir neck hung hir vpon a trée strangled hir to death This was y e miserable end of Helen who being dead quoth Folly I put into y e heads of y e blind people y t she was a Goddesse by reson of hir incomperable beauty For which cōsideratiō they being not onely Idolatrously heretically but also dampnably deceiued built hir a meruailous costly stately temple named her with great deuotion The Goddesse of beautie deuised many fals miracles lies y e which for breuity I let passe I gouerned quod Folly Pharao Amenophis Pharao Bocchoris both kings of Aegipt who by my counsel caused al y e male children of y e Iews to be drowned which people y e first Pharao held in meruelous subiectiō As