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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

him vntill the head corps entrailes flesh bones and sinewes were cleane consumed into stinking ashes together with the murthering arrow Such was the diuine vengeance that fell vpon the traitor and enuious paricide Coracton wherewithall the people were astonished in feare and terror of the great vertue and more than humaine puissance supernaturally giuen to this young Esquire who forthwith was taken by the Potentate Diocles accompanied with all the Assessours Magistrats and Lords of the towne and led into the chiefest place of the Theatre wher with Croniel the pontifical Archier was Franc-Gal so rauished with ioy for the health victorie of his sonne Alector that he was beyond himself not knowing whether hee were man or spirit quick or dead sensible or vnsensible And neuertheles his son Alector came before al the multitude saluted him with humble reuerence childly cherefulnes saying vnto him My most honorable Lord father thanks be vnto the soueraigne that beyond al my hope in spight of the rauishing trāsport of the wicked spirits we are againe assembled vnited together and so shal continue if God please who hath vouchsafed to grant me a sight of you after so long a depart you to finde me after so long vncertain a search which I verily beleeue you haue made Franc-Gal vnderstāding his sonn answered him thus Alector my most dere child the soueraigae God Ioua increase thee with vertue hardines honor Then beholding his shield and eleuating his eyes to heauen began againe his speach saying Thanks be vnto the Soueraigne and to thée most high sonne for that before my departure out of this mortall life which shal be very soone wherein I haue liued nine ages more I sée before me my most déere Sonne Alector borne of my Lady Priscaraxe Quéene of Tartary and haue seen his first prowesse promises of farre greater in tune to come with his first honors done vnto him in a strange countrey yea that amongst his enemies such as had vowed his mortall destruction my child I pray the soueraign Ioue that the order of knighthood may bee giuen thee by some valiant and magnificall man for of me thou hast fayled the receining therof when as thou shalthaue receiued it perseuer to honour Soueraigne Ioue and to giue him praises euerie houre both day and night Lift vp thy spirit and eyes towards heauen from whence thou hast taken original and thy courage to high enterprises hardines prowesse honour alwaies accompanie thee vertue freedom and liberalitie neuer abandon thee be freend to the good an enemie reuenger to the wicked My Sonne the hand of the most puissant most great and most good God blesse thee and my fatherly blessing take thou in a good houre Saying this he put his hand vpon the head of his sonne and then adressing his speach to the Croniell Archier hee said thus I likewise thanke thee most vertuous Archier for thy faithfull conduct honest company and of thy good and veritable foretellings which haue consolated me and giuen me to vnderstand that the end of my perigrination is at hand and that shortly the vaticination of Proteus shall bee accomplished I haue liued and perfected the course which nature hath giuen me To be briefe my great Image shall goe vnder the earth and the flame of my Cierge remount vp to Heauen from whence it came cause my departure to be signified to my faith full companions who are at the next port with my Hippopotame but aboue al send word into Tartary to the Queene Priscaraxe to let her vnderstand of my departure to the end she stay no longer for mee Croniell promised him to accomplish his request if the mortal thing should chance to happen which seemed to him neither to bee ready nor nere at hand considering at that present hee was both in perfect health and bigor In the meane while the Magistrates lords multitude with great silence beheld these two persons strangers the father and the sonne in great admiratiō of their heroycal comelines and equall and like beautie according to the difference of their ages together with their excellent magnanimities valiant facts and aduenturous déedes and of their fortunate encountrie and mutuall knowledge the one of the other in that place of the Theatre in such sort that either without speach or mouing vniuersally they held their immutable eyes vpon Franc-Gal and Alector Then Croniel the Archier sayd Yee men of Orbe who vpon these 2. strange men doo cast your view in great admiration know yee that our Soueraigne God Ioua hath sent them into these regions frō far Septentrional countries for the publique health of our citie and destruction of our domestical and internall enemie whom you your selues and in your presence haue séene slaine and discomfited by the sonne of this wise man who likewise before hath deliuered the woods and fields round about vs from the danger of the terrible Centaure whom he slew and deliuered the fayre Noëmia from his hands which afterwards was the occasion of the scandale that now hath turned to our great common good for therewith we are bound to him and owe the greatest and chiefest honor and praise next vnto God To whome first of all let vs goe and render thanks in his temple where we wil deuise further with what prise of honor wee shall acknowledge the merit of this young man Al the people general answered hereto So be it Of the thanks giuing in the Temple the publique praise the prize of honour assigned with the ciuill crowne giuen to Alector Of the death of Franc-Gal the lamentation for him his elenation and translation of the losse of Hippopotame and of the bird sent away as a messenger CAP. Vlt. AT these words the Archier betwéene the Father and the Sonne went right to the temple whereto hée was followed of the Potentate Magistrats Lords and the greater part of the people And being come thether there were set on the highest degree before the altar thrée chayres In the middlemost the Archier tooke his place in the two others Franc-Gal and Alector were placed and the Potentate with the other Lords counsellors and other Magistrates betooke them to their accustomed seats This done all of them following the example of their Bishop bowed their knées and enclined their heads in silent prayer and thanks giuing and afterwards rising vp at the suite and imitation of their Priest Croniell and his ministers with the founds of all forts of instruments according with the voyce in harmenious Musick they sung this song following Thanks be to Ioue our great and Soueraigne Lord Who hath vs brought out of these mortall dangers Honor and praise we people him afford That hath vs saued by the hands of strangers O blessed spirits and sacred Angels bright Vouchsafe now to present before his throne Our gratefull psalme and song of sweet delight Acknowledging that through his grace alone The worthie child and Sonne of vertuous syre

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

Shall be condemned to the Diuell Vpon the bird Phoenix One onely of himselfe hath beene Whom neuer man as yet hath seene Vpon the Dolphin carrying Arion on the Seas The friend of man is God whose grace Doth him defend in euerie place Vpon the figure of the Nightingale Each spirit in earth and heauen aboue Singeth to Ioue praises of loue Vpon the Palme tree The lower fortune dooth thee abace The higher to heauen lift vp thy face Vpon the flower de Lis. Whom vertue hath endued With honour is renued Vpon the Rose A pure soule as I suppose To God is like a fragrant Rose Vpon the Marygold Towards the Sonne diuine Turne thou both spirit and eyne Thus with such images statues and simulachres of men birds beasts serpents fishes trées plants and other things naturally and liuely portrayed grauen erected cut diuersely figured with painting colouring guilding siluering and gemining the interior part of the temple was so illustrately decorated and enriched and séemed so light some fayre delectable and honorable to behold and so instructiue in the inscriptions with the contemplation of these fayre things outwardly showing and declaring the glory of God and by the windowes of the eyes entring into the vnderstanding to illuminate the same that they rauished the interior spirites with an ineffable admiration of the bountie greatnes and puissance of God yelding the temple so deuout religious reuerent adorable and Emperiall that those who entred therein found themselues transumed and diuinely rauished as it had beene in a trance Such was the interior ornament of the Temple in the middest whereof was the place of Sacristee eleuated vpon thirtéene stayres of Marble and porphirie of all coulors and aboue that was the Altar erected builded and wrought after the rusticall fashion with all kinde of rude stones in the propertie and naturall fashion without cut worke or pollishing of mans hand And vpon that was laid euen and leuell a fayre great and large table of artificiall emerauld in forme foure square hauing thirtéene foot in euerie square and set iust right vnder the clere window or lauterne of the temple whereon neuertheles miraculously neuer raine fell neuer wind perceiued nor neuer any tempest touched About the altar were set nine chaires guilded conered and garnished with silke veluet which were the seats of the Ministers seruing at the altar and on the East side right opposit to the great doore which was Westward there was thrée pillers of Iasper nine foote high set triangle wise in such sort that one was before towards the altar and two behind vpon which pillers was set a tabernacle of sweete wood wrought carued and guilded with fine beaten Golde and open behinde and within the same a very fayre chaire of Iuorie This tabernacle was the pulpet whereas the propheticall word was showne vnto the people by the Archier such was the Dome and Temple of Ioue in the Citie of Orbe which hereafter we wil describe After then that the Archier being chiefe Priest his nine Ministers together with Franc-Gal and the people were entred into the Temple they prostrated themselues on their faces and from time to time held vp their eyes and hands to heauen so continued their adorations and mental prayers about one houre in great silence the Archier and chiefe Priest arose and after hee had turned to the people and vniuersally saluted and blessed them he was by thrée of his ministers mounted into the pulpit vpon the foresaide thrée Iasper pillers where after hee had a while lifted vp his eyes to Heauen in high conception of thought he addressed himselfe to the people with a cleere and intelligible voyce after this manner You people of Orbe who are here gathered together to heare of mee who am but a voyce crying in the temple the great magnificences of God that you may vnderstand them and comprehend them in your soules that you may praise them heare them and thanke him for them his infused grace for the accomplishing hereof forthwith be giuen you with his benediction The Soueraigne God Ioua which Was Is and Shal be a name which is aboue all names and which appertaineth to none other but him first hath made you of nothing which is an especiall gift of his marueilous puissance that you aboue all other things know that of him you hold your being and first essence And after that he hath created you not ignoble bodies as stones and mettals not insensible plants as hearbes or trees not brutal deformed cruel or monsterous beasts as if it had pleased him he might haue formed you but Asses ill shapen pottage pots villanous Todes cruell rauishing wolues or monsterous imaginations but he hath created you men fayre right loking vp to heauen whereby you hold the roote of reason which he hath giuen you by whō you are made like to himself by him formed to his own image Besides this he hath made al other creatures the elements yea the celestiall bodies themselues and heauens for you and for your vse and seruice the earth to sustaine nourish you quick and receiue you when you be dead the ayre to keepe your soule in life the waters for your vsage cleansing and nauigation the fire to reuiue your heate and for your light the Starres for tokens and influences and the heauens to receiue your soules which hee hath giuen you immortall through spirituall priueledge aboue all other creatures who being once dead nothing remaine more of them All beasts he hath condemned with their heads enclining towards the earth in signe that they be subiect and seruiceable to you who are directly eleuated some for your help as horses oxen asses and cammels yea the great and strong Elephant dooth serue and obay you the others for meate and nourishment who by their deathes conserue your liues See you not the good fishes both of riuer and Sea swimming in your porrages brothes sauces and iuce Doo you not see the flesh fat and entrailes of beasts aswell sauage as tame to enter into your kitchins and the foules of the ayre to fall into your dishes and all trées hearbs plants cornes séeds fruites and rootes to bee giuen you for nourishment and medicine And all this of the grace of God and to his glory as the workemanship figures and statues of this temple doo show you for visible examples whose architecture building is made to the paterne and imitation of the vniuersall world which is the true temple of soueraigne Ioue whose bounty and glory all these things doo witnes and set forth Consider then ye Orbitans and acknowledge how many and how large benefits the most great and most good blessing of God hath enlarged you with to whome you can restore nothing for what thing can you offer him that is none of his whose throane is heauen and earth his footestoole what then would this most great and good Lord aske you which is your owne and in your power to giue him for such