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A08542	The first part of the Mirrour of princely deedes and knighthood vvherin is shevved the worthinesse of the Knight of the Sunne, and his brother Rosicleer, sonnes to the great Emperour Trebatio, with the straunge loue of the beautifull Princesse Briana, [and] the valiant actes of other noble princes and knights. Now newly translated out of Spanish into our vulgar English tongue, by M.T.; Espejo de principes y cavalleros. Part 1. Book 1. English.	Ortúñez de Calahorra, Diego. aut; Tyler, Margaret, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 18860; ESTC S113508	256,667	370

beholders Now for that which followeth you must intend that the wise man vttered his speaches to the king in the audience of the whole multitude many knightes and other compassing him about to heare his arraunt so that few or none but were partakers of it Amongest them was Brandagedeon bearing himselfe within the lists as proudly as the Cocke of the game doth in the Cocke pit when the crauen is chased Then hearing that the tent was put for a rewarde to him which could vnhorse the young knight when he sawe time he cried aloud to Rosicleer saieng In good sooth new knight thou bewraiest thy folly and lacke of experience when thou sawest me stand in this place with my speare in my hand to make that challenge which shall not be in thy power to maintaine so surely but that I will be the master of thy pauillion yet Gods blessing on thy heart for bringing so faire a Iewell béeing indéede fitter for me then for thée Rosicleer whose courage neuer tainted aunswered as shortly It shal bée thine Gyant if thou winnest it and there shall no man forbidde thée the possession of it if thou ouerthrowe mée And without more words he tooke a great Speare from the ratter and tourning his horse head he rode softly to the place where the iustes were kept In his way thether Rosicleer lyfting vp his eyes to the Scaffold of the Gentlewomen he saws the beautifull Oliuia standing directlye against his face excéeding no lesse the other Gentlewomen in brightnesse then the Moone excelleth the starres in a frostie night O poore Rosicleer what a looke was that which locked thée from thy rest for with her beautie thou wast wounded at the heart that albeit in time the skinne ouergrew it and the flesh healed yet the skarre remained and neuer knight in the worlde loued more loyally then thou diddest For though the sight was short and the blowe quicke yet the wounde was déepe and the smart curelesse O full many a bolde enterprise diddest thou achieue ere thou gainedst a reasonable guerdon for thy greate good will And thou faire Princesse being within the hearing of the wise mans speach diddest not spare to lend thine eares to another mans tale and shine eyes to another mannes brauerie that thy succours béeing farre from thée thy heart had not the power to repulse thy aduersarie loue béeing the onely occasion of thy vnrest But Lord what alteration both of you felt by the enterchaunge of your lookes which serued likewise for messengers to tell your tales betwixt you And yet I cannot déeme but that this loue so enraged his courage against Brandagedeon as otherwise I maye thinke hée had not done so well But comming into the place hée addressed himselfe towardes Brandagedeon both of them now béeing in a readinesse The King at this time verie sorrowfull to see the newe Knight in his first bat●aile to endaunger himselfe vpon a Gyaunt and woulde haue talked with Artemidoro about this matter but the wise man gaue no answere and to the end not to discouer more then was behouefull he conueyed himselfe out of the kings sight So the king held still his opinion of the young knights weaknesse till the issue disproued his thought For in the carryer when the two knightes met in the middest of the Tilt-yarde the Gyants Speare burst vpon Rosicleers head peace no more moouing him with the blowe then if hée had stroke agaynst a wall But Rosicleer hurling at the breast of Brandagedeon ouerthrewe him and his horse to the grounde the horse in the fall brusing the Gyauntes shoulder that his Knightes were faine to carrie him out of the preale whereat all the standers by with great admiration behelde Rosicleer euerye man being a Prophet as his heart gaue him that Rosicleer would proue the best knight in the world séeing that at his first encounter in tilt hauing neuer had to doe with anie knight before be had ouerthrowen so mightie a Gyant The King nowe thought that Rosicleer had well amended the greate corsie which hée had taken at his Knightes disgrace and the other Knightes were gladde to haue that huge monster ridde away bolder and willinger valyauntly to aduenture themselues agaynst Rosicleer then against a Gyaunt and their courage was the more for the richnesse of the tent which had inuegled theyr conetous mindes to venture the purchase But as the knightes entered to iust with him he ouerthrew them all béeing more then an 100. knightes without that anie man was able to sit the second iourney Then the kings knightes entered by name Brandaristes Brandidarte Allamedes the Princes Argiles and Orgiles Don Brunio Prince of Numidia other all which he threw downe so lightly as that they might not turne one course more that daie Some held more tacke with him as you shall heare héereafter but by the way the king turning to his Lords spake on this wise Truely my Lordes if I had not my selfe séene the valourous déedes of this Knight I should hardly haue credited another so incredible the truth is that one shoulde worke such masteries I would the iusts were ended that I might sée this knight vnarmed to knowe him and honour him as is reason True it is aunswered his nobles and for his valour there is not so puissaunt a Prince in the world but that he shall haue cause to be gladde of his seruice This was a breathing time for Rosicleer but yet I am perswaded that it was no plaieng time although no enimie appeared for he had a greater conflict within his bones then he professed outwardly and therefore his heart neither fully assured nor yet in daunger gased vpon the beautie of Oliuia Whereby the fire entering closely by the vaynes wasted and consumed his flesh sooner then hée felt the flame or coulde thinke of remedie but better considering that hée was within the compasse of loues segniorie and that his matter was to bee tryed at the great assise in loues dominion he tooke better aduisement to alter it to an action vpon the case of couenaunt against his mistresse the matter arising vppon exchaunge of lookes as you haue heard And for this cause he enterteyned Sergaunt hope to bée his Lawyer and féeyd diuers others to assist him but master Despaire an old stager had wonne the day of him had not the whole Bench and especially the chiefe Iustice Desert staied vppon a demurre which reléeued much Rosicleers courage and made him looke more freshly vpon hope to finde out better euidence for recouery of his sute But as Rosicleer thus plyed his cause at the Barre so gentle Cupide attended vpon his Mistresse faithfully seruing him and beating into hir head the remembraunce of his actes and the beautie of his personage that the windowes of hir desire being set wide open she viewed hir fill wishing yet to sée his face thereby to comfort hir selfe if his visage were aunswerable to his vertue Now Don Siluerio with an enuious eye minding to interrupte

that women those which are not able to weare armour are priuiledged for theyr speach and may talke without controlement and so Raiartes left him But the couragious Gentleman not béeing able to heare that contumely in his anger rose from where he sate and comming to the Souldan knéeled before him beséeching his grace to graunt this one sute the first which in his lyfe time hée had made The Souldan lyttle thinking what he would aske and louing him so well that what thing he demaunded it should haue bene graunted willingly said yea and bad him say on what it was that he desired The Gentleman of the Sun sayd my Lord that which I require is that you make me knight because it is high time that I receiue it I doe not thinke my selfe so young as to put vp wrong at anie mannes hande Those which were present were much troubled at the request of the Gentleman of the Sunne foreseeing the ende which was to answere the bolde Raiartes and the Souldan was greatly sory to haue bene so rash in making promise before he had knowen his suite wherefore he sate still without speaking yea or no diuising onely howe to satisfie the young Gentleman and to quite himselfe of his promise The gentleman of the Sunne doubting least the Souldan woulde linger and delay the time very angerly said vnto him If I cannot obteine this at your hands my Lorde I sweare by the high Gods that during my lyfe I shall not bée merrie and I will goe serue some other Lorde which more liberally will consider of my requestes The great Souldan loth to disquiet the young Gentleman of the Sunne whom he sawe attent vppon this matter albeit his promise greeued him much aunswered him thus sayeng Assuredly Donzel del Febo if you had demaunded any other thing of me more profitable for your selfe doubt you not but you had bene in possession of your desire by this time yea had it bene the greatest part of my kingdome But because I sée you are of tender yeres that the time is not yet for you to supporte the burthen of armour I would wish you to refraine and let fall your sute for this time or if you will not otherwise be perswaded hold you I yeeld vnto you watch this night in your armour and to morrow at day-breake I will giue you the order The Gentleman of the Sunne tooke him at that word and verie ioyfully kissed the Souldans hande for his gracious fauour Then from thence by soft paces comming to Raiartes he said vnto him Now that I haue license to parle with thée as a Knight I will answere thée Raiartes to the words which thou hast said vnto me and so I tell thée that if the Princesse Radamira will put hir quarrell into my handes I will defend hir right and take the battayle vpon me and be it that the Princesse Radamira dare not commit hir right vnto me yet I say that to be aduenged on thy reprochfull speaches which thou hast blowed foorth I will fight with thee and make thée to knowe that thou art more vniust and foolish then valiaunt and courteous as knights ought to be The Gentleman of the Sunne héere ended and the grimme sier Raiartes began a laughter with these wordes In déede if all follie were force ma●●e knights were couragious and strong for most of them are too too ventrous and if thy selfe wert of so great abilitie as thou art of forwardnesse the princesse Radamira should en●e hir quarrell by to morrowe night but thou deceiuest thy selfe and albeit I am halfe ashamed to take the battaile against a knight neuer before acquainted with ar●●●r yet because thou shalt not want due correction for thy follye I accept the battaile which thou offerest as well for the one cause as for the other As this talke was at the hottest betwéene them the Princesse Radamira behelde the Gentleman of the Sunne verye earnestly noting as well his yeares as his person and albeit hée was then beardlesse Yet shée thus conceiued of him that hée was of noble courage and verye strong and besides this there appeared in his face somewhat which she iudged more then manlike And as she was wise so her heart gaue her that this young Gentleman had some diuine bloud in him which she thought to haue descended from some of her false Gods So neither lyghtly nor wantonly mouing but with great discreation and wisedome standing in the same place and musing what she ought to doe in the ende no other knight answering the challenge for her not altogether out of hope shée agreed to put her quarrell into his handes by deliverate counsaile concluding if hée were murthered her selfe to followe after and so shee spake to the Gyaunt on this wise Raiartes sith this Gentleman with so good will proffereth himselfe to maintaine my ryght agaynst thée I am verie well content to put my quarrell into his handes and from this time forth I will not séeke other knight The beautifull Princesse Radamira dooing thus the fierce Raiartes was sore mooued to sée that shée made so little account of him and so much trusted the boldnesse of the young Gentleman and foaming at the mouth like a wilde Boare he was not able to speake one word for the furie and choler which boiled in him The Gentleman of the Sunne thanked her goodly for the acceptation of his paines in her name In this manner the matter was put off till the next day but the Gentleman of the Sunne was not so glad to haue occasion offered to bée made knight as the Souldan and his friendes were sorrowfull to haue him fall into this daunger which they imagined to be to too sure because of the strength of Raiartes and the youth of the Gentleman of the Sunne They thought it a desperate case for him to wage this battaile with the sauegard of his honour Then the young Gentleman Clauerindo béeing of more yeares then Donzel del Febo was repented that hée had not aunswered for the Princesse both because hée thought it a blemish to his honour to haue excused himselfe from such a matter and his age was more then Donzel del Febos was and so might better acquite himselfe agaynst the force of Raiartes and especially fearing the perill of his friend he would néedes haue taken the battaile out of his handes but perceiuing the vnwillingnesse of the Gentleman of the Sunne hée would speake no more of it At Sunne set Florion came from hunting and hearing of the battaile which was appointed he was verie sad for Donzel del Febos sake because of Raiartes force and Donzels weaknesse and so he tooke vpon him to perswade Donzel del Febo to giue ouer the battaile and put it vpon some other in his right if it so pleased him But Florion and Clauerindo were both beguiled in Donzel del Febo albeit eyther of them were such knights as of the one hath ben rehearsed and of the other shal be shewed héereafter Raiartes

big almost as a Pine trée hée prepared himselfe for the carrier And the worthie Gréeke knowing the Gyants errand did the lyke and spurring his horse he came vnto the close The great speare of the Gyant was thought to haue pearced the harnesse of the knight by reason of the few shiuers that it made but it did not so and contrariwise the knights speare couched with greate dexteritie entered through the body of the great Dardario a great part of the staffe appearing at the shoulders By this meanes the monstrous Gyant fell dead from his horse with such a grone as the tall Cedars of Libanus make béeing rent vp by the roote The Babylonians reioyced excéedingly at this but Africano was all enflamed with choler to fée his Gyaunt slaine with one onely blow and knowing that to himselfe alone this base was bid in great rage rose from the feate where he sate without speaking a word entering into his tent armed himselfe with sure armour and chose him a very strong Speare not tarrieng for squire or page to helpe him In this anger hée was so terrible that none of his people durst come néere him and so with a most fierce cruell countenance he armed himselfe So soone as the Pagan had buckled on his armour immediatly ther was brought him a horse such a one as could haue carried tenne armed knights as I thinke of the same bredth whereof the horse of Troy was The trappings of the horse as well golde as the stirops and all his armour set with precious stones that hée might well séeme a great Lord which was mayster of such armorie but this was the straungest sight that Africano sat vpon so mightie a horse made him notwithstanding to bow double vnder him But to go forwarde Africano taking the greatest Speare which might be had rode with a soft pace towardes the knight of the Sunne The Knight of the Sunne sawe him come from amongst his people and thought presently that he was the king Africano as well for his rich armour and his horse so curiously barbed as the talenesse of his personage which hée verie well noted not to bée farre dissonant from the common report so he beséeched his Gods from his heart to be fauourable vnto him against so strong a Gyant Africano well viewed the knight of the Sunne his stature and making and vpon these premises inferred thus much that well might he be a man of much force which so well shewed it in his exteriour countenance and much more in his déeds and valour But comming néerer vnto the knight as his custome was little to regarde the whole worlde so with a proud disdainfull voice he spake vnto the knight Thou miserable and wretched knight thou saist thou art a messenger and bringest a message vnto me thou hast slaine the Gyant Dardario almost the strong Herbion which two had bene sufficient to haue beat downe the walls of Babylon I sweare vnto thée by my Gods that if all the world were giuen me for thy ransome thou shouldest not escape the death The knight of the Sunne embasing his voice mildly answered If I haue had to doe with thy Gyaunts Africano they were occasioners of it themselues for I came not hether to other purpose but to make thée answere in the behalfe of the Souldan and if I came onely to séeke thée thou oughtest to haue bene first which should haue presented himselfe to me and to haue heard what I wold haue sayde and to haue heard me as a messenger and not to attempt my death as a knowen enimie Now that thou art come Africano I tell thée why I am come heare it if thou wilt The Gods which haue preserued mée from thy Gyauntes haue reserued me to fight with thée But listen on c. Héere the rage of the Pagan stopped the course of his talke and the mightie Africano smiting his hande on his thigh for anger lift vp his other hand also to haue buffeted the knight but a better minde ouertooke him that bée thought it reason to heare the Souldans aunswrre before he should condempne the messenger and so stayeng he bad him tell on quickly for I will well punish thy offence what so euer aunswere the Souldan sendeth me The knight of the Sunne wishing the battayle with all his heart sayd Then know thou Africano that thy letter béeing receiued and read in the presence of my Lorde the Souldan after consultation had my Lord sendeth thée this answere by me Albeit before this time thou art notoriously defamed for a tyrant in that thou hast falsely and fraudulently enchroched vp many kingdomes yet hée neuer thought thou wouldst haue enterprised the vsurpation of the most sacred Assyrian Empire an Empire consecrated to the Gods and claimed by them as their right and in their right gouerned by my Lordes auncestours as Liefetenaunts to the Gods and their Fée-farmers and therefore though peraduenture the open wrongs done vnto men the Gods doe often pardon and winke at yet seldome leaue they vnreuenged the iniuryes offered to themselues and as it is to be thought so manifest a contempt of their diuine power shall not escape them Besides for the Citie of Babylon he letteth thée to vnderstand that thy selfe art not ignorant that it is his and that he hath right to it as heire to the king Orixerges his father on that parte of his liueloode and that thou hast no title nor coulourable shew to demaund it Wherefore if it be so that thou wilt take it against all reason from him he telleth thée that hée can no lesse doe then defend it from thée and the whole world for hauing right and iustice on his side hée lyttle feareth the inuasion of man deliuering his message in this forme of wordes the knight of the Sunne sayde This is the Souldans answere and pausing a while he began againe thus And I Africano craued of my Lord to be the messenger for I would thou shouldest know how dangerously thou offendest the diuine Gods in entering vpon the kingdome of Persia and disinheriting the Prince Florion the legittimate and onely Lord of that kingdome Now therfore thou shouldest well doe to furrender thy claime into his hands and content thée with the reuenues already receiued and the vniust deteining of his right so long time If thou wilt doe this not for my sake but for the high Gods against whom thou hast hainously trespassed thereby thou shalt parifie the Gods and léese the name of a tyrant so odious and so detested amongest men If thou wilt still perseuer in this thy tyrannicall obstinacie I vtterly defie thée to the death and certifie thée that either I will slay a tyrant or vpon a tyrant I will be slaine Whilest the knight of the Sunne amplified at large vpon this point Africano albeit verie angrie yet marked him from top to toe waieng with what confidencie he had discharged his charge sometimes quietly admonishing to amend and otherwise threatning

remedie of satisfieng When Rosicleer had thus sayd the Princesse féeling alreadie in him the heroycall stomack of his father Prince Edward as she thought and callyng to minde the continuall casualties of knights arrant burst into feares in great abundaunce which occasioned great ruth in the young Rosicleer but that he durst not demand the reason After a while the Princesse to with-drawe hir sonne from his thought or by some meanes to remi● his griefe and to comfort him stretching hir armes ouer his necke sayd vnto him O my sonne Rosicleer already thy valiant heart doth manifest that which so long time for mine honestie sake I haue concealed this it is that thou art the sonne of my Lord and lawfull husband the Prince Edward begotten in wedlock but my Parents vnwitting there-vnto Thy fathers lykenesse in other qualities thou dost well resemble albeit his fauour is cleane out of my remembraunce Thou canst not be content with the lyfe which thou now leadest voyde of all daunger but couetest to be made Knight and to ieoparde thy person in the search of aduentures as thy father did This if thou doest so that I may not beholde thée euery daye from that time make account of me as dead for my great misfortunes together with the double losse both of thy Father and thy Brother in that order as thou hast knowen hath by thy onely presence bene borne out and supported and nowe depriued of this supporte must I not yéelde my backe to the burthen of continuall woe and misliking Beholde then my childe the extreame griefe where-in thou findest me and for that as yet thou arte young of yeares doo away this affection for a time and héere-after when thou shalte bee of more strength and better able to vndertake the enterprise of armes I will so trauaile with the King my Lord that he shall dubbe thée Knight and thou shalt haue Horse and Harnesse at my charges conformable to thy estate In the meane while reste thée héere for it may so be that I shall in that time beare some newes of the prince Edward or of Donzel del Febo which if it so fall out then shall thy absence be lesse grieuous vnto me When Rosicleer heard the secret which the Princesse his mother bewrayed vnto him he was well apayed as touching his thought of being made knight before the basenesse of his foster-father hanging in his light and now he reckned the rather to vnder-take the highest exployts whereto his heart draue him and knéeling downe before hir he kissed hir hand for the secrecie which she concionated with him touching his true originall His mother by the outward ioy he made supposing his former thought to be put out of conceit was very glad but the Princes was deceiued in him For Rosicleer hearing himselfe to be named the sonne of so mightie Princes if before he wished to be made knight either of a wanton delight or for some greater occasion now he thristed gréedely after knighthood as thinking himselfe bound in conscience to aduaunce his lignage in the right of his parents and his care encreased how to steale from thence This care he couered the best wayes that he might and stayed with his mother comforting hir in all that he could vntill that the Princesse went to hir lodging and he retourned with Leonardo who onely heard that which the Princesse had declared But from that time foorth as I say he canuased in his thought too fro the secrete meanes of his escape which hée thought though perhaps at first it might wring some teares from so tender a Princesse yet in processe of time would as wel drie them vp his valour making amendes for his sodaine departure ¶ Rosicleer departed from the Monestarie of the Riuer without the knowledge of the Princesse his mother Cap. 28. LIght daies after Rosicleer knew himselfe to bée the sonne of the Princesse his Lady he abode with Leonardo casting how he might conuay himselfe from thence without the knowledge of any man In the end one night all the householde being on sleepe his lodging standing in one corner seuered from the Gentlewomens chamber hee toke a sword which his nurse had giuen him and out of a window looking into the gardeine he daulted downe and comming to the porters lodge he requested an horse of him whereon sometimes before he had ridden saieng vnto him that his Ladie the princesse had sent him on a secret message The Porter beléeued him sadled an horse commending Rosicleer to God who from thence rode so fast that by the morrow he was beyond hiew crie Before noone the princesse sent for him but he could not be found then the Princesse gessing what it might be was so sorrowfull that it little failed of her death which assuredly she had not auoided but that there came to her remembrance then that which the Nymph had fortolde her in the fountaine of her loues as concerning her losses and so with some little lingering hope for the returne of Fortune banishing all delyghtes she shut her selfe vp close in the Monasterie more like an obseruant vowesse then a stately Princesse whence also shée neuer departed vntill that God had permitted her to recouer her husband as shall be tolde you But to returne vnto Rosicleer being neither sicke nor well at ease betwéene the concert of his mothers griefe and the hope of being made knight by some aduenture He gaue himselfe vnto the quest of séeking Prince Edwarde and Donzel del Febo his brother and therefore his intent was to passe into great Britaine to sée the king Oliuerio his grandfather as hée had heard and by some good happe to be made Knight In this iourney he made to greate hast that in short space he e●●●●ed into Almaine there trauailing by the ignoraunce or the way one da●e he lost himselfe amongst the mountaines which were thicke of tall woode and other lower huske séeming to hée no waye vnto him and he strayed so long not finding his way that the Sunne was set ere he knew how to get out wherefore hauing no other remedie he climbed vp to the toppe thereof to take a view of the place on each side and hée sawe beneath him a déepe and large valley as it were a mile from thence enuironed with stéepe and high hills in which there were some castles and other buildings verie fayre and goodly Nowe that it was night and that this was his onely refuge hée made his horse easily descende the hill at the foote whereof hée es●yed a sauage Beare running from the Towne with a childe in his mouth of two yeares olde The childe cryed so pittifully that Rosicleer tooke greate compassion of it and seeing it euen at the point to be deuoured he ranne his horse with greate furie towardes the Beare The Beare nothing afrighted at the noyse of the horse stood still with his praye in his mouth and hée so glared with his eyes setting his formost pawes for his defence