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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16156	Donzella desterrada. Or, The banish'd virgin. VVritten originally in Italian: by Cavalier Gio. Francesco Biondi, Gentleman Extraordinary of his Majesties Privy Chamber. Divided into three bookes: and Englished by I.H. of Graies Inne, Gent; Donzella desterrada. English	Biondi, Giovanni Francesco, Sir, 1572-1644.; Hayward, James, of Gray's Inn.	1635 (1635)	STC 3074; ESTC S107083	279,563	246

it being unpossible that the reverence of hoary age worke not much in a young Prince already by reason both perswaded and convicted As for time and opportunity to accomplish it wee shall not misse of that it being his ordinary use to walke through this grove for the preservation of his bodily health though it conduce nothing to that of the spirit which the Count not contradicting leaving his Squire to accompany the other sate him downe by him to heare his story The young Knight in the meane time over-wearied with past watchings continued his sleepe arrived-upon unexpectedly by a Lady both for complexion beautifull comelinesse and comely beauty worthy to bee numbred among the fairest shee was cloth'd in a sky-colour'd silke gowne embroydered with gold and pearle which shee wore after the fashion most used by Nymphes tuck'd up with a rich girdle about her slender waste so as there lay discovered to the eye her silvered buskins fastned with tyes of riband which in the form e of leaves encircled in the mid'st of them a litle rose of diamonds her brest sparingly discovered dispersed not else-where the beholders sight but engrossed it wholly to it self without giving it any occasion to repent it's employment the parts subject to excellencie and defect indifferently appearing her haire neatly smooth'd but dishevelled made disorder become so seemely and delightsome that never any order could boast of such passing seemlinesse There encompassed them for honour for for ornament themselves were their sole adorners a gay and odoriferous garland Her dainty hands the amorous hookes of hearts discovered transparently how slender-boned they were flesh'd tender soft and almost unpalpable exquisitely proportioned and long delicately hilly and lasciviously dimpled adorned with golden bracelets interlaced with claspes that hooked together hearts inlaid with diamonds Shee was thither come all alone carrying with her a basket of Roses and in a little silver vessell quick embers The sight of the Knight staid her not from adorning with her flowres the Goddesse and her little one nor yet from burning some of her sweete incense the odoriferous fume wherofawoke him so as rising from off the ground and gazing on her with astonishment he could hardly as hee had reason for it beleeve himselfe opening therefore his eyes better and then yet more fixed in his errour hee opened their fluces and with a flood of teares burst her out these speeches Oh with what words should I thanke you the Lady of my life Liarta who having already but too much obliged mee whilst you liv'd a mortall are now that you are celestiall come to undoe me with your unmeritable favours Is it possible that my plaint could mount so high and move you enthroned among the glory of the happy to come and comm●●tate my griefes Which said he rapt with a conjugall love ran to embrace her which shee avoyding hee spake on And will you not then deare life of my soule permit mee to claspe you in my unfortunate armes No I am sure you cannot for I know you to be unpalpable yet let me enfold and hold within the circle of my armes this faite Image which though dead to the world lives yet in the center of my heart with that offering againe to embrace her and shee shunning him as before I perceive it is not then true proceeded he that to the blessed spirits together with the affects of vertue doth for their greater blisse and glory remaine the memory of things past for then I am sure you would not have forgotten your Almadero Or was there perhaps together with your mortall body buried my immortall love as unworthy to be blest with you in heaven to make me onely among all upon earth most miserable and unfortunate What! are soules dumbe or can they not distinguish words as well as represent personages But be it as it be will I am sure I see you in whose faire countenance I yet discerne the lillies I so esteemed but ah what is become of the roses alas death hath gathered them off Which the Lady with a beck of her head denying and gently smiling shewed him those of the Goddesse When hee being now come to himselfe somewhat better perceived shee was not indeede the same he beleeved her to be and would therefore have craved her humble pardon but so suddenly lost both his speech and conceit that hee could not accomplish his intent Shee that attentively had observed him in all his deportments and no lesse liking his person than pittying his passion returned him this answer I am not gentle Sir the Lady you take me for since I have a reall body am yet a woman and live nor enjoy I ought that is celestiall save the sole hope of this Goddesse I am very sorry that I awoke you and crave you pardon for it but being come hither expressely to adore the Goddesse I could doe no lesse than offer her my accustomed oblations The Knight with a greedy eye examining in her all those beauties that in a faire woman could be desired dispensing withall now if not forgetting his loyall affection to his Liarta makes her this reply The favour faire Lady that I receive from you is of it selfe too great to be merited without the unexpressible addition of these your-to-me-too-too-courteous satisfactions yet wonder I not thereat knowing that as the Gods extend not their liberality unto us according to our dignity but conformable to their abundant benignity so cannot those divine beauties of yours choose but participate of the selfe same nature which if when unimployed it excell the loftiest imaginations will no doubt when it is well imployed surpasse all humane merit both curtesie and beauty in you with equall pace march on to exeedingnesse so as I being too feebleeyed to behold the shining splendor of the one am dazled with the glit-Tering rayes of the other nor can I possibly correspond with any parity an imparity so discorrespondent for having beene already dazled with the like beames I finde my selfe so weake-sighted that my very intellect being together with my senses and optick organs enfeebled cannot expresse nor fully discern the good which in its ill it receiveth yet will I not for all that forbeare to acknowledge meerely out of my being sensible of the greatnesse of your merits how deeply I am engaged unto you to the end you may both know mee to be yours and withall so you bee pleased so much to honour mee declare me being such for your Knight and servant The Lady who by nature was endued with a vivacity disposed to a pawze-not-intermitting-motion impatient at so long a discourse would gladly have many times interrupted him being inclin'd rather to speake than heare but restrain'd or rather curb'd by a certaine unknowne force shee stood patiently-silent no otherwise than doth a generous Courser who though hee bite and champe the Bit refuseth not for all that to obey his rider The sight of this gentle Knight disliked her not though shee yet

this the King calling him hee left her preparing himselfe to begin the morrow following his journey towards the Kingdome of Logria But shee to whom brotherly admonitions were reproaches courteous language abuses and promises of a rich dowry an unappealeable sentence of death putting on a manly courage and laying aside all appearance of griefe could so farre temper nay command her passion as with unbeteared eyes to see him at parting yea to salute him and bid him her last farewell and that in so free a way too as made him thinke her an altogether altered woman whereby he became so consolated as hee could not refraine at his departing to drop some teares for meere unlook'd for joy though gaz'd on by all the Ladies that stood by her and accompanied a good while on his way by the flowre of the Nobility But no sooner lost shee once the sight of him than that shee remained as a statue cold senselesse and immoveable Recovered out of her stupifying fit shee retir'd to her bed-chamber too too delicious God wote for a sceane of so lugubrous an act The returne of such as had sent Feredo on his way was the passing-bell that rang out her knill of death the recommendations sent her from him shee received with disdaine and contempt and then presently not having the patience or power to stay till night shee put off her cloathes and laid her downe where being as shee thought all alone shee burst forth into these termes It is now time Gelinda for thee to free thy selfe from the tyrannie of thy insulting enemy Love 't is high time that thou now revenge thy selfe on this thy neither brother nor lover Come thou must die and that 's no newes to thee death shall not seize on thee at unawares Thou shalt have the oddes of the rest of mortals in being thy selfe thine owne Iudge so freeing thy selfe both from the judgement of others and from the qualities and diversities of deaths being conditions that make unexpected death looke on the dying wretch with an aspect so fearefull and horrid A great spirit as thine is will flight it to be by it cruelly revenged on him that no lesse cruelly than ungratefully hath injured thee This said shee would have kill'd her selfe but thinking it too short a preamble for so dolefull an end her despairing soule roaring from within her with an horrible and gastly noyse shee proceeded Implacable Dieties yee infernall Powers to you have I forlorne wretch recourse to you doe I bequeath and consecrate this re●●●ed life of mine in recompence where of I desire no more than that I may persue and haunt the ingratefull Feredo whithersoever he goes put me no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 implore the heavens or their influences for if mortals subject to the h●●vie clog of a body and by consequence ignorant and feeble can domineere over them what may then the immortall soules doe which being separated from these imperfections must needs be more powerfull in respect of their habits corresponding to that privation I grant too that humane judgement and discretion may perhaps shunne them yet mighty yee whose power hath no paragon are able I am confident either to corrupt or alter them But alas if it prove not so to be how ill then am I advised yet how can I that despairing hope be possibly well advised whilst I beleeve revenge to have place among the infernall miseries which to the damned might prove happinesse and glory if glory and happinesse had any accesse to those dismall horrors Die I will were it but to spite and grieve Feredo But what place I wonder among the disordered confusions there shall the order of my uncouth affections hold Shall it be possible that among those eternall disorders there the soule be not confounded with all its parts especially the intellect and that also the order which I prefix to my revenge be not in danger to be broken But oh that the web I warpe here might be there spunne for then would I thinke hell were blessed and all would then goe thither But who will assure me thereof yet doubtlesse thy death Gelinda will grieve Feredo will it so dye then meerely to vex him But soft too too foolish were such a revenge as but makes an addition to the avengers proper prejudice But said I not that hell observes no order then no reason neither by reason of that disorder If so to what end tend then so many considerations they are needlesse and superfluous 't is true yet let them be dispenced withall in priviledge of being my last farewell Here respiting a while to vent out the anguish of approaching death shee with a heavy groane spake on Happy thee Gelinda had'st thou never beene borne since that being borne thou wast borne for hell whose first torments thou proved'st when first thou fell'st in love Yet if I deserved so much misery had it not beene a greater paine for me not to have beene borne at all if true it be that such had beene greater than to be borne to be damned as I was But ah me if this were true sure then I had never beene borne for if among all the things that I am none of there had beene but one that in privation of being had exceeded the not being of others then surely that same one thing had beene Gelinda Therefore Gelinda to her greater anguish beleeves that such a thing cannot be Besides the Gods were unjust if they punished such as were not any way blemished with as much as originall sinne Enough then let these be my last meditations Dye I must and will Feredo will none of mee no more will I him now and for not having him I must goe else-where The passage is I confesse hard the issue doubtfull but whatmatters all that I 'le even venture and runne with the rest the Furies of hell shall direct mee nay I 'le make one among them they shall adopt mee and I 'le be the fourth of those Eumenidan Sisters which if it cannot otherwise steede me it shall then suffice me that the dise●●●●teous Feredo be troubled in his sleepe and in his repose desire death the sole remedy to his heart-wasting miseries and besides that in his loves never woman beloved by him may ever love him that some untimely end betide her not More shee would have said when one of her women that all this while had attentively observed her ranne towards the bed at the first trampling noise of whose feere Gelinda stab'd her selfe under the left pap with a long silver bodkin where with shee used to righten her haire but by her destined for this fatall effect which succeeded her desire so well if a man may say well in so ill a case that slipping betweene her ribs it pierced her heart which prov'd now as tender to the force of hand as it had before done to the dart of love The Gentlewoman that faw no signes of any violence done and by consequence not suspecting any such

Gods infuse not this fire nor other save such of them as have the virtuall power of influence and by the quality of our working is knowne by which of them we were inflamed This fire so infused worketh in us the same effect as the reall fire doth in coales anticipating in kindling according to the portion given it if litle slowly if much quickly Hence comes it that the knowledge of old men surmounts that of younger because the coale in these scarce kindled is in those quite burnt out This is the ordinary operation according to the course which the Gods proposed in Nature and such as of this order dye just in this life have their repose among the faire pleasing shades of the Elizean Field But the extraordinary one imployed only on such whom the Gods are out of their benignity pleased to favour extraordinarily is not only to communicate the fire in a multiplied portion but also to take it from Ioves owne rayes which hee himselfe with the consent of the other Gods infuseth to forme thereof a heroe a demy-god And this multiplied portion is in some so swift in its working that some though babes are in knowledge and discretion old men and yet but children at their dying houre because the fire having done its operation both kindles and consumes away even in an instant Of this number Madame was the Prince Corideo your sonne for I observed in him whilest he was sicke the spirit of Iove the infusion imparted from the other Gods obliquely regarded with grimme and maligne aspects onely by Mars and Saturne Yet such like spirits are not infused by men and Earth but by the Gods and Heaven and have when they are separated three distinct places of blisse prepared for them conformable to the distinct degrees of the rayes they received upon their being united to bodies The first which is the inferiour containes the spatious latitude of the ayre enjoyed by such who despising vulgar opinions lift up their mindes to heaven there to consider Nature and joying for enjoying now not the uncertaine and enigmaticall but the reall and cleere sight of this fabrick compassionate such as with a sterne philosophicall brow teach lyes beleeved for truth even to this day Here it is that they contemplate the true Spheares the certaine motions of the heaven I would say of the earth too if it were credible the reasons of ebbing and flowing of the Sea the perennity of fountaines the generations of windes with a number of other things whose reasons are thought to be knowne but indeed are not And such spirits because they ever loved mankinde enter into tearmes of naturall charity with them not ceasing at all occasions to helpe them either by freeing them from evills if it lye in their power or at least in foretelling them of such ere they arrive appearing in sundry shapes and formes of Rainebowes Sunnes armed Squadrons fiery Meteors and pleasant domesticall spirits inamoured of such as have a spirit in a degree like them The second place is the extent of heaven which is the superficies of the firmament Thither come such who not content to have with the speculators of nature knowne God for the first cause beleeve further his providence and teach vertue and piety which for being a strong weapon of the spirit defeates puts to flight and slayes vices which are the true monsters of the earth and being made starres sparkle outwardly the light of their creation in signe of their divine internall love water'd by the water of their regeneration The Asterismes under the shapes of beasts and life-lesse things are formed of Heroes made blessed for the vertues peculiar to such a living creature as subtilty to serpents active strength to Lions The Beare represents a solitary life the Eagle the elevation of the minde to God the Triangle the ineffable mysterie the Altar Religion the Ballance Iustice the Po the river of celestiall grace and so forth the rest True it is that our having in our time within the space of these two and thirty yeares seene two spirits the one in Cassiopeia the other in Sagittarius taken away two yeares after their appearing hath made us beleeve that the divine providence hath beene pleased to shew us by their being exalted that the starry Circle is not the supream place of blisse but that there is yet a further passage to a third which neither eye can see nor understanding conceive where the light is inaccessible and where every rash and over-curious eye is not onely weakened but also blinded Here abide such as issued out of naturall predicaments transcended nature and by the contemplation of the divinity become partakers of the glory which the Gods only enjoy where among the eternall melodies of the super-celestiall Spheares they become worthily fellow-guests to the table of the Gods are feasted with divine Nectar and Ambrosia Here Madame in all fulnesse of blisse resides the Prince Corideo whence hee conjures you not to corrupt his joyes and glory with your heavinesse and lamentations contenting your selfe that hee being borne for heaven remaine there without wishing him to your own griefe a sojourne here contrary to his felicity Her replies the good old man knew how to satisfie with reasons so lively that as well the Queene as the King remain'd well satsfied therewithall Eromena mov'd to commiseration and somewhat grieving thereat besought her husband to be gone whereupon kindly thanking the Priest they return'd to imbarke themselves so favoured with the windes that in a few dayes they arrived at Siracusa where they had scarce set foote a-ground when they saw two Squires who having suddenly slipt out their weapons furiously endeavoured to speede each other The Count of Bona knowing one of them for Carildo stept in betweene them and by him also known Good my Lord said Carildo I beseech you hinder us not for I must needs either slay this Traytor or dye The other who was Olmiro telling him in spitefull manner that he lyed in his throate begg'd of the Count the very same favour with telling him that his enemy being the most infamous villaine of the earth should not be taken out of his hands for not freeing him from the punishment that hee deserved But having the lye retorted him by the other they being hindered from closing with their swords buckled together with their reviling tongues accusing each other with the selfe-same or a very-like fault which so puzled the five in striving to finde out the truth each of them shewing probable apparances of reason of his side as they saw no likely way of according them Meane while Almadero being got away from Corianna was no sooner come to his house than the repercussion of the Sunne on the weaponblades gave him occasion to descry from above the scuffling between these two at the next Port. Whereupon thinking they were Gentlemen come of purpose to fight in that Iland he bidding some of his servants to bring a horse after him