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A19901	Alektor = The cock Containing the first part, of the most excellent, and mytheologicall historie, of the valorous Squire Alector; sonne to the renowned Prince Macrobius Franc-Gal; and to the peerelesse Princesse Priscaraxe, Queene of high Tartary.; Alector. English	Aneau, Barthélemy, d. 1561.; Hammon, J.	1590 (1590)	STC 633; ESTC S104401	136,307	201

her rains broad her belly round white and faire But her lower parts in stéed of thighes legs and féet finished in a long serpentlike taile of diuers colours like shining mayle wherewith she linked her selfe betwéene my legs and with her faire naked armes embraced me so about the neck body that I could scarce be rid from her without violence to so faire a creature as she séemed by her superiour parts so louingly kissing me which withdrewe me from giuing her anie outragious repulse But on the contrarie part this Serpentlike tayle wherewithall I felt my selfe interlaced gaue me hideous feare abhomination of a creature so monstrous wherefore tenderly I rid me of her embracements and linkings and taking her by the hand asked her what she was and what she would with me I am quoth the Maide right graciously daughter of Phoebus and Rhea created lately in this present place by vertue of the Sunne heating the earth as yet sumie with the late inundation and animated with a good ayrie spirite who by the first information rendred my Essence perfect except that forsomuch as the Sunne and man doo engender man in their proper and humane forme and that I being not engendred of the séede of man but onely of the Sunne and of the terrestrial humor heated by the Sunne could haue but onely the superiour part after the humaine forme and the inferiour part such as the earth could fashion in the forme of a Serpent neuertheles not venymous although they say that venym lyeth in the tayle but of good nature and not hurtfull as thou shalt wel know furthermore my name is written on my right arme which I neither knowe nor shall knowe but onely by thée for for thee and of thée to conceiue fruite I am newly sent into the world I vnderstanding this talke looked vppon her right arme wherein I perceiued her skin in certaine places gylded like the thigh of Pithagoras in form of Persian letters declaring this name Priscaraxe Of which name well vnderstanding the good signification and considering this so faire and gracious creature albeit monstrous but for good cause I spake vnto her in this sort My swéete hart Priscaraxe for so is your name written which I pray remember well I knowe now that in a luckie hower I haue met with you and for that good fortune I will not refuse you and forsomuch as I haue found such singular beautie good grace in your vpper parts without disdaine of your lowe terrestriall serpentlike vnvenimous parts I accept you for mine and will be wholly yours In saying thus I embraced and kissed her and for the pleasure kindnesse which I found in her I remained in her companie 32. daies at what time she felt her selfe to haue conceiued and to be with childe which was her chiefe and souereigne desire Of the leaue taken by Franc-Gal of Priscaraxe elected and constituted Queene in high Tartarie of the homages and fealties taken of the people assembled and of the creation of the order of her Knights CAP. 15. THe time being come that Priscaraxe felt herselfe to be with childe I determined to leaue her albeit that departure from pleasure be grieuous and notwithstanding her couersation companie was most agreeable and delectable to me yet neuerthelesse the earnest desire of accomplishing a vniuersal peregrination which of long time I had enterprised moued me the more specially beeing so well accommodated with my good horse Durat Hippopotame verie proper to passe the seas and hugie streames being sure to finde enough of others to passe on firme land and trauerse the regions For estéeming the whole earth giuen to the sons of men for habitation by the souereigne Lord who for himselfe hath reserued the Heauen of Heauens to be but a house and domicile of humane creatures I accompted my selfe vnworthie of the name of a man and of the houshold of mankinde if I shuld not haue seene and knowne all the parts of this vniuersall house and for that cause had I enterprised the circuite and passing about the whole terrestriall world For the performance whereof it was vnnecessarie for me to arrest my self at pleasures but rather the most swéetly I could to depart from my welbeloued Priscaraxe wherfore one day being alone with her after accustomed solace I began this talke with her My most deare Priscaraxe there is no companie howe faire and good soeuer it be but it must in the ende finallie depart either by death or otherwise but mortal departure is more grieuous than any other because it is without any hope of returne but voluntarie departure is alwaies consolatorie amongest vs that liue in hope they shall once againe see and be vnited together Wherefore the separation of vs twaine being once necessarie will we or nill wee it seemeth to mee that it bee better voluntarily made betweene vs being now liuing in good health and in perfect amitie than to abide till wee bee constrained to depart by death in grief sadnes And for that cause I haue thought good to signifie thus much vnto you that within these few daies I must depart from your most louing companie At this word Priscaraxe touched to the heart like a sauage beast wounded to the quicke cried out O God! who would haue thought it wherwith shee enclined her selfe vpon my breast her voice and spirit through anguish halfe cleauing a sunder and after a long preclusion gathering together of her spirites which of sodaine dolour were vanished away she thus pursued her talke who would haue beléeued alas that from so noble nature could haue issued such inhumanitie that after these pleasures by thée receiued thou woldst haue left her who begins but now to féele them O Franc-Gal is this the franchise whereof thou bearest the name For pleasure to render me grief for honour dispraise for graciousnesse ingratitude and for loue death Alas my deare Lord and friend if thou wilt permit me to vse this name consider and beléeue for certaine that by thee I am with childe yea that of a merueilous Son as the destinies of my originall haue pronounced Consider then that a better part of thée remaineth enclosed and cōioyned with my bodie which being not able to liue without thée must of force die so shalt thou be a murtherer both of me and partly of thy selfe But I beléeue not most dear Lord and friend that thou hast so hard a heart wherefore telme I beseech thée in truth whether these be thy words or but dreamed by my fearfull imagination which would the Gods it were And in saying this shee cast her armes about my necke in embracing familiar kissing bedeawing my face with the teares which she shed Then albeit I was greatly compassioned yet permanent and constant in mine intention I said thus vnto her Priscaraxe my most deare friend although my departure from thée bee as sorrowful as my conuersation with thée pleasant yet is it so that there is nothing

or well right deepe where in the middest of the darknesse by a little glittering of a sulphurian light I perceiued the depth of this round Tower abased euen from the superficialitie of the earth vnto the point centrique or centure of the same and below a Barathre or eternall prison where by the infernall obscuritie I could see nothing but darknesse dispearsed vpon the face of the depths but well might I heare horrible cries fearefull hurlings mingled with plaints groanes like to men tormented and furious enraged beasts fighting amongst themselues throwing and biting one another in extreame rage Whereuppon through great feare I leaped out afright so rudely that I mounted out into the cleare light where the forenamed white bird which in truth was my Calodaimon came and tooke me demaunding me saying Franc-Gal hast thou seene that which thou desirest Yea yea quoth I and heard fearfull cries which caused me to retire but I knewe not what it should be vnlesse it be the eternal prison of the wicked Giants Triphon and Briaro with their complices and followers who were not afraide to set themselues against the Soueraigne vpon whome being cast downe and desolated the mountaines great rockes which are the foundations of the auncient Tower which thou didst behold haue been throwen the which oftentimes they shake cause to tremble by the impatience of intollerable paines in shaking sometimes the foundations by the aboundaunce of water cast and throwen out by their conduct and other whiles by the impetuositie of the windes comming from their despitefull sighings sometime by the violence of the fire cōming out of their throat and by the inflamed vapor of forceable ire and outragious wrath Neuerthelesse for all their forces they shall neuer bring it to ruine nor cast it downe neither shall they be discharged or come out of this tenebrous prison vnlesse the infinite bountie of the vanquisher surmount the obstinate mallice of the vanquished who neither hope nor desire it but obstinately please themselues with their paines as the cursed serpents feede themselues with their owne venime and therefore let vs leaue them in their eternall miseries In saying thus he carried me vp so high that hauing the elements and planets vnder my feete I found my selfe aboue the Towre wherein I beheld in great sublimitie vpon the pomell of the top thereof this olde Ladie which my Calodaimon tolde mee was Anange mother of the three Sisters and hauing intentiuely considered her estate and puissance in a moment I descended into my bodie béeing come to my selfe I remembred well the meruailous things that I had séene and such as I haue accompted to thée in truth That which thou hast accompted quoth the Archier is wonderfull yet neuerthelesse séeming true and credible in mine opinion for me verie same or the like not long since hath béen heard of in this Region by a meruailous and supernaturall aduenture What is that I pray thée quoth Franc-Gall that I I passe no 〈◊〉 in my narration before I haue vnderstood of thée the example seruing for the cōfirmation of my speach which will cause thée more easilie to giue credit to the rest Therefore I beseech thée to tell it me and I will giue thée good audience I am ●…ght well content quoth the Archier so that the whiles thou remember the point where thou leauest of the olde Ladie Anange sitting vpon the pomell of the Tower and therefore now take thy rest a while and I by maner of interlecutorie respiration will reckon to thee a thing conuenient to the narration of thy ectasticall vision and rauishment of thy spirite to the depth and top of the Tower Of the loue of Mammon towards the saire Ladie Thanais of her ensircement poysoning and death CAP. 8. IN the prime of my youth about 470. yeres passed I being of the age of knowledge as it were 49. yeres there came into these parts an vnknowen man ill shaped and blacke like to an Aethiopian neuerthelesse verie rich in siluer golde precious stones and other mettalls for the rest of a great and subtill spirite and excéeding well learned in euerie science farre aboue all other that he met This man hauing taken his dwelling in the Citie of Orbe whereto we are now going and there by reason of the store of money that he possessed and for that the Towne by meanes of the Sea néere adiacent and of the riuers ports and passages thereto adioyning is very commodious for a place of merchandize he helde and hore the state of a merchant Banquer Of what merchandize quoth Franc-Gall made he his traffique He was said the Archier a temporall merchant for he sold for time by compt and measure So this temporall Merchant called Mammon holding a famous Banque in Orbe became amorous of a right faire and most renowned Maiden of one of the richest and noblest houses in the Citie which Maiden was called Thanais This faire Mammon beeing thus taken with the loue of Thanais began to court her euill fauouredlie enough and more imperiously than graciously by vanting of himselfe ostentation of his great riches and cunning and with dispraysing and blaming of all others chiefly of the vertuous besides that he sought to allure her by rich gifts presents of golde of gemmes rings and iewels although by nature he was verie couetous but aboue all with most faire and ample promises But the Maiden to whome these proud brauados were intollerable and who had perhaps lodged her heart in some higher place reiected all his presents refused his offers shunned his encountrie would giue no eare to his proud words as one whom she hated as much as he desired her both for his improbous and vngracious behauiour for his displeasant gesture Wherevpon beeing aduertised by one of her Morian slaues that she was accustomed euerie morning so soone as she rose to goe halfe vncloathed with her haire hanging down to take the aire in the garden to refresh and wash her selfe and visage in the siluered streames of the fountaine which ranue through the same he for a certaine péere of money promise of redemption out of bondage and setting at libertie of this her Morian slaue was by her let in to the garden where he hid himselfe in a thicke Arbour till the morning that his desired Thanais should come who according to her accustomed manner failed not Then he from his embushment seeing this faire yong creature comming couered with a single peticote of light sattin and abating the deawe with her bare féete whiter than Alabaster her fayre armes naked and beautefied with liuely whitenes being discouered her breasts borne out with two apples of yuorie or pappes of the same coulour lying open her head lightly trussed vp with a faire white kerchiefe of fine linnen behind the which one might behold her golden haires whereof one part vntrussed hong downe ouer her necke shoulders and another part frisseled and curled descended wauing