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A17883	Admirable events: selected out of foure bookes, vvritten in French by the Right Reverend, Iohn Peter Camus, Bishop of Belley. Together with morall Relations, written by the same author. And translated into English by S. Du Verger; Occurrences remarquables. English. Selections	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652. Relations morales. English. Selections. aut; Du Verger, S.; Brugis, Thomas, fl. 1640?, attributed name.; T. B., fl. 1639.	1639 (1639)	STC 4549; ESTC S107416	192,146	386

them both by receiving neither the one nor the other not the elder because she would not have him nor the yonger because he rejected her in that manner Madam replyed Babilas Iustice requires that the first entred into service should be the first rewarded all the world would blame me if I should play so treacherous a part by my brother as to incroach upon his designe there is no treachery in that said Parmene being you have no intent to supplant him if there be any fault I shall draw it all on me since it is I that make choyce of you being free to chuse whom I please and if it were so I should preferre my suitors by the order of their comming your brother should take place among the last for many were before him but I see you would colour your coldnesse with a false veise and colour your contempt with a kinde of Iustice if it be a contempt that which drawes me from your service replyed Babilas I desire that heaven may never forgive me that offence I have eyes to see your beauty and to see it and to love it would be but one the same thing were it not the obstacle which I haue proposed unto you I have judgement enough to know your wealth and the merits of your person but to drive my brother into despaire is a thing which I cannot doe without horrour use means that he may give over his suit and I am yours These last words cast forth of Babilas mouth without wel weighing caused much mischiefe for Parmene to purchase him betook her self to use Prelidian so cruelly and disdainefully that if his love had not been stronger then all these outragious abuses he would have cured himselfe by a just despight but as windes increase flames his increased by this rough usage and the more shee strove to drive him from her the more hee laboured to approach and to please her in the end the cruelty of this woman wearied the patience of Prelidian who loosing all hope of conquering he resolvcs to turne Capuchin and he kept the designe so secret that even his brother had not so much as a mistrust thereof so that they sooner knew of his vesture then of any intent he had to enter into that order Parmene hearing of the resolution of Prelidian beleeves her selfe to be arrived unto the end of her pretensions for Babilas and the first time shee saw him sayd to him Wel do you now remember your promise What promise Madam sayes he To be myne replies Parmene as soone as your brother should give over his suit Madam sayth Babilas he is indeed entred into the Capuchins yet is hee not there after such a manner but that hee may come forth againe beeing as yet but in the beginning of his Noviceship His inheritance lookes not on me untill such time as a solemne profession hath made him renounce all that he possesses on earth til then I can say nothing for if I should be a suitor to you before that time would it not give him occasion to conjecture that I have beene the cause of all your ill using of him and consequently of the dispair which hath driven him to this flight whereof would ensue a reason to deprive me of the inheritance which now I may expect if he sees my fidelity Parmene seeing him drive time out to such a length accused him of little affection towards her and thinkes him to be ingaged in the love and pursuit of some other Neverthelesse she keepcs her hold with the impatience of a woman more accustomed to be intreated than to intreat to commād than to request Mean time Babilas continues his visits at her house and although shee beleeves it to bee but in the way of complement yet so it is that insensibly he ingages himselfe to love this Lady whose passion he sees to be so great for him and building his fortunes on his brothers spoyles and on his great match he already swimmes in hope of being one day well at ease Meane while he makes warre with the eye and not discovering his game hee hath too much prudence for a Lover he will have the one and not lose the other but his fate will give him neither the one nor the other of his pretensions Whilest he goes slowly on Parmene is so disquieted in mind that she ca●not be at any rest the more shee presses him to resolve the more hee deferres his resolution At last sayd she Let me heare some favourable answer I can make no other sayd Babilas than that which I have already made I cannot speake before my brother be profest But shal I have no other assurance replied Parmene I sell not the skinne of a Hare that 's running sayd he Whereat mistrustfull Parmene imagined that without doubt hee was ingaged elsewhere seeing there was no meanes to heate his ice and that after the profession of Prelidian it would be an easie matter for him to forge some other excuse and so she should remaine mockt and frustrate of both Whereupon despight seizing on her heart to see her selfe despised shee cast off her affection from Babilas when as the young Gentleman found himselfe farre ingaged in love and was resolved to declare unto her that he cou●d have no affection for any other but she Not without reason did that antient Philosopher say Concord and Discord to be the beginning of the universal world being we see it is all composed of interchanges when the one goes another comes he that is borne thrusts another into the grave the birth of one affection is the overthrow of another The world is of a round forme whose end joynes to its beginning when as Babilas resolves to be a suiter to Parmene making account that shame would bee as strong to retaine his brother in the Capuchins as despair had beene powerfull to drive him thither and behaving himselfe already as a master in Prelidians inherit●nce Parmene being sorry to have payd with disdaine the fruitfull and violent love of the elder and to have so much esteemed the ingratitude of the younger beginnes to change battery to what shee had desired and to desire what she had fled from It is an easie matter to plucke up a tree that is new set and to beat downe a wall that is new made A little Letter overthrew all the intents of Prelidian and this sparke ayded by the winde of temptation made him repent the enterprise that he had begun in lieu of stopping his eares against this faire inchantresse this Syren that would call him backe to cast him away by a lamentable wracke the Idea of this beloved face gave him so many alarums in his Cel that his resolution yeelded unto the flattering violence of its assaults and notwithstanding all the remonstrances or admonitions made unto him by the Master of the Novices he resolved to returne Now is Prelidian out of the Monastery and Babilas frustrate of his double expectation of the

yet by fostering love me then and preserve me as a brother and I will honour you as my Lord my Prince and the only light of mine eyes Whosoever hath seene a strong North wind sweeping away in short time all the clouds which obscured the face of heaven hath seene the effects that these generous words uttered forth with such a grace and sincere feeling wrought in Sapor If it happen sometimes that a multitude having begun a mutinie excite a furious sedition that fire and sword march in the field and Cities that stones flie and rage makes a weapon of any thing that comes next And in the middest of all this hurliburly a grave man of authority presents himselfe unto this so many headed beast for to appease it's violence and bring it gently back unto it's duty you shall on a sudden see what effect this will worke in their eares and what attention they will yeeld unto his words wherewith he can so well winne their hearts that weapons fall from their hands fury vengeance disperse themselves in place of so furious a tempest succeeds a joyfull calme In the soule of Sapor was risen a tumult of passions revolting against reason and this torrent bore him away into a precipice of dishonesty but being become wise by the generous remonstrance of the Amazon peace returned to his soule with a glorions resolution to vanquish himselfe wherein certainly he deserved more praise then if he had overcome a whole Army For this is the highest degree whereunto vertue can raise a courage seeing that many overcome others who else would never have subdued themselves After that time the Prince purifying his affections and for ever banifhing uncleane intentions from his thoughts never after importuned Rosana with any thing which might in any wayes offend her chastity And so farre was he from being cured of this ardent feaver by despight or contempt that contrariwise his love founded on the estimation of this virgins invincible vertue did much increase if what was arrived at it's extremity could receive an increase true love only aimeth at the good of the object beloved even as Rosana delighted only in the honour and glory of her Prince and to see him daily increase in vertue and reputation which are the true earthly riches that cannot perish so Sap●● had nothing that he so much desired as to raise her whom he truly loved as if she had beene his naturall sister the flame of his love having then no more but a moderate heate without blacknesse or smoake The Duke his Father being dead and he the eldest and next lineall successor in that house being entred into the honours and the ranke whereunto his birth had called him amongst many Gentlemen his followers he had an inclination to favour Numerian a younger brother well descended and of a good house a younger brother which is as much to say as one seeking his fortune in his courage Friendship is not idle where it settles it presently falls to worke that it may make it selfe more knowne by effects then by words Sapor desirous to advance this young Gentleman thought he could not more befriend him then in giving him for his wife her whom he affected as his sister And her whom hee could well have wished for himselfe if the glory of his birth had not obliged him by reason of state to seeke a match conformable to his quality Numerian held for a great favour the motion which the new Duke made him of this marriage considering with himselfe that it was the onely meanes to establish his fortune in this great house The Prince himselfe also moved it to Rosana who answered him with her accustomed generosity as followeth Master said she will it not be a treason to give this body to a man who shall not possesse the heart being so filled with the honest love it beares you that there is no place voyde for any other subject permit me my deare Prince to die a virgin and with the glory of a vestall who hath not let her fire goe out The permission which I have had to love you I hold for so great an honour and the happineffe of your reciprocall friendship is so precious in my memory that I should think my selfe a bastard Eagle that having fastned mine eyes on so great a light should now remove them on some lesser starre permit me to be an Heliotropean the hearb Turnesole and that I may close up the leaves of my affections to all other lights but only to that which gives me day It is not that I pretend any other thing in my love but the contentment I finde in honouring you and you know that I have often protested that the happinesse to waite upon you sufficiently payes the reward of all my services For all the recompence which I looke for from you is to be and so to dye yours Neither doe I disdaine Numerian being a brave and vertuous Gentleman and of whose merit although I had no other proofes save your estimation it would be sufficient to make me respect him For your judgement is my law and your will my rule No unto what degree soever your goodnesse shall raise me yet I shall never forget the meanenesse of my condition But I am of that opinion that I should love that faire image which love for you hath graven in my heart if I should lodge another therein which hath made me desire to live and dye as I am Sister said the Prince ravished in admiration at the courage of this female if I thought the marriage which I propound unto you should never so little diminish the affection you beare me I would never consent thereunto nothing being so pretious to me as to see my self beloved and so fervently by a subject so amiable but because the love that you shall beare to him as your husband shall not bee contrary to that which you beare to me as being your brother I did verily believe that this marriage would bring neither to me to him or to you any manner of prejudice Love is like honour which varies it selfe according to the qualities of the persons or like unto the Pourcontrell or Peake fish who becomes of the same colour the things are whereon it fastens so that a man may love divers persons with all his heart according to divers respects a father as a father a mother as a mother a husband as a husband and a brother as a brother This flame of love extends it self like unto the flame of a torch which lights many others without wasting it selfe and it is thus that I intend to give you unto Numerian you know I love him but with a far inferiour affection to that I bare you my desire is to advance him and likewise you so that when you are joyned together I shall have a double cause to do you good and to gratifie you in what I may By these reasons which were as plausible as true Rosana who saw

in that miserable prison whereupon a great suite is framed against Castalio who for such a barbarisme begun by his father and continued by him was condemned to pay all the debts of Ceraste who by this meanes re-entred into all the lands which his sonnes had sold and became master of that Castle wherein hee had so long been a captive and where by the benefit of hunger and A good remedy against the gowt misery hee became cured of the paines of the gowte Hee lived some few yeers after his deliverance free from creditors and without Physitians An admirable spectacle whereby to behold the omnipotency of the divine providence which doth not only help in calamity but also drawes profit out of tribulation An Italian Bishop in his pleasant and curious discourses whereunto he hath added the title of Caniculary dayes relates this Event which he assures to be true as having learned it from the owne mouth of Ceraste who was then delivered from his so long imprisonment and from debts no lesse troublesome then the gowt was painefull THE VNLVCKY WORD The Eleventh Event LIfe and death are in the power of the tongue the mouth which tells a lye killeth the soule much more when it blaspemeth or speaketh rash words out of a desperate hastinesse from which the Prophet prayed God that hee would preserve him This makes St. Iames compare the tongue unto fire whose least sparke being scattered by carelesnesse causeth great burning and consuming he calls it likewise an universall iniquity as being a thing that defiles the whole body and soule like a tunne full of must or new unrefined wine which foules it selfe with it's owne foame he addes moreover that it is harder to be tamed then the fiercest beasts yea worse then Serpents Tygers or Lyons an unquiet evill full of deadly poyson and the place from whence proceed cursings and blessings indeed as there is nothing so light and slippery so there is no faculty in us whereunto we ought to take more heed seeing the greatest part of sinnes come from thence for very often doth it happen that men utter so many and inconsiderate speeches that they are taken at their word and they remaine punished for the same before they can have so much time as to crave repentance therefore The history I am about to relate will shew you that the predictions of the wicked do often turne to their owne ruine In a City of Swisse which the relation nameth not a Surgeon as expert in healing of bodyes as he was ignorant in curing his owne soule of the wounds of vice although he had a faire and very honest wife not content to quench his concupiscence with her alone had still some giddy passion or other in his soule which stole away his heart from her who only had the lawfull right to possesse both it and his body he led a most dissolute and deboist life which abandoned his health bringing it unto shamefull maladies and his reputation for a prey unto tongues his wife perceiving his evill courses laboured at first by all the gentlest and most convenient meanes she could devise to withdraw him from those bottomlesse pits wherein he was sinking both soule body and estate yet his untractable mind amended not by all these remedies but on the contrary as sweet things according to the Aphorisme be most easily converted into choller and as oyle feeds the fire which is quenched by other liquors so her sweet admonitions made him more chollerick and the gentler he was handled the worse did he sting Patience leauing this woman whose head was troubled with a just jealousie she fell to reproaches and threates which more vexed her froward husband who replyed with sharpe words seconded with such heavy blowes that the poore woman was halfe brained thereby This harsh usage made her complaine to her parents who made their moane unto the Magistrate he finding himselfe obliged to redresse this disorder caused the Chirurgion to be cited before him and ratled him with so good a lesson and withall caused him to pay such a fine that he amended him if not in effect yet at least in shew and commanded him on paine of imprisonment to leave of his accustomed haunting of such suspitious houses where if ever hee were knowne to goe againe hee would cause him to bee punished as an adulterer Here now becomes the sinner humbled and he who rejoyced in his evill and gloryed in his fault endeavoured to hide his dissolutenesse to avoyde scandall murmur and the punishment wherewith the Iudge threatned him yet could he not long abstaine for since the wicked hath cast downe his eyes from beholding heaven and is fallen to the very bottome of the Abyssus he despiseth all humane advertisements having played bankrout with his salvation but now he finds other tricks he makes his journeyes by night and by stealth And to his jealous wife who had over him as many eyes as Argus he finds out thousands of lyes And like another Mercury pipes her asleep with a flattering tongue and counterfeit kindnesses neverthelesse she still mistrusts him knowing that as the Ethiopian cannot leave his blacknesse nor a Leopard the spots of his skin howsoever they are washed so it is likewise hard for him that hath taken a habit of evill to leave of his vitious customes Hereupon she sets divers spies but the malicious man multiplies his deceits and findes more inventions to cast himselfe away then his good carefull wife hath to saue him yea he so jndustriously doth hide his naughtines that although he minded nothing else yet his neighbours thinke him to be reformed and if his wife complaine they mocke her suspitions and accuse her of causl●sse jealousie At length having gathered together his affections rather having setled his infections on a lost creature whose only frequentation had beene sufficient to defame those that resorted unto her being one that made an infamous trafficke of her selfe he made his hearte and his body one with this woman This stinking fire could not be kept so secret but that it shewed it self by it's smoke and blacknes his wife had already gotten some small knowledge of this matter and already did the neighbours about the place where he haunted begin to perceiue it and what veiles soever he invented to couer himselfe withall were meerly as spiders webs which discovered him in covering him One of his most probable excuses was to frame some journeyes out of towne whereupon getting upon a Mule which he kept he would ride forth of the City come late in the night unto the adulteresse whom he frequented this craft being discovered by continuance his wife reproved him for it and threatned to certifie the Iudge that he still continued his lewd courses to the end that feare of punishment might cause him to refraine but he being altogether obstinate in his vice and as it were fallen into a reprobate sense jested at her admonitions and with blasphemous oathes and horrible

ought to be put among incurable maladies let me intreat you to cast away that needlesse care which you take to cure me and let me passe away under your protection my small remainder of life as well I feele that sorrow and grie●e for my fault doe undermine it by degrees and will not let me long survive him without whom the fairest dayes are to me as darkest and like a lingring death in saying this Geronce let fall from his eyes teares resembling those drops of raine which the ardent heat of the Sunne doth squeeze out in the fairest dayes of summer but so farre was Fursees curious desire from being quenched that this water resembled that which Smiths put on their cinders whereby the fire is increased and not put out therefore extraordinarily pressing Geronce to disclose unto her his adventures he was constrained to content her but not without extreme striving and having dryed up his eyes and obtained a truce from his sighs began in this manner I am of Austrasi● daughter to a Gentleman one of those who are called of the ancient knighthood his name is Gaudence he hath divers children and I am the second of his daughters and the cause of this dishonour and trouble of his house Baptisme named me Saturnine which was the name of my mother who died when I was but sixe yeares of age it must be granted that daughters lose all when they lose their mothers in such tender years they are ships without North-starre Rudder or anc●or and what diligence soever widowed fathers use to finde out good governants they never finde a●● whose eyes be so vigilant over their daughters as their mothers and besides their power is so weak that the contempt of their commands is the gate of liberty through which at last maids go astray My sisters and I shooke off the yoake of ours to follow the desires of our own hearts and walke after our owne giddy humours Love assailed us and took us yet there was none but I surprised after the manner that you shall understand My eldest sister loved a yong gentleman whom she wedded not but to obey the will of our father she wedded an old gentleman whom she never affected she made me such strange complaints of being tyed to a man whom she loved not that it seemed she endured the torment which that tyrant inflicted who fastned dead bodies to the living till they died in this cruell languishing manner I mistake for she described unto me her torment to bee equall unto that which is suffered in hell And indeed such may one call a marriage wherein the parties doe neither agree in the wills of the heart nor the delights of the body this misery which I considered in her made me resolve to avoid the like how deare soever it cost me But alas to shunne one gulfe I cast my selfe into another and I may say if my sisters marriage were a hell the ●uries caried the torches at myne and conducted mee to a dis●ster worse than hell Volusian a young Gentleman but a younger brother of our neighbourhood had my first and shall have my last affection we lived some yeares in so perfect a correspondency that if my father would have matched us together the Elysian fields could never have equalled our felicity But that unlucky temporal respect that cut-throat of so many pure affections was the hangman unto ours For because this young man was not rich enough my father would never yeeld his consent unto our union but I fearing a lot like unto my sisters would needs spin my destinies with my own hands and so have I fashioned the cord which hath drag'd me to the misfortune wherein I am Volusian ever behaved himselfe towards me with an incomparable modesty so that it was not so much by his solicitation as by my owne proper inclination that wee made reciprocall promises of marriage accompanied with so many solemne oathes and such horrible execrations against the party that should violate the same that if I had had but the least thought of breaking I should not have beleeved heaven sufficiently furnished with thunders to strike me according to desert We must confesse that oathes writings promises frequentation liberty and facilitie are strange baits to lead blinded youth to its ruine to lay coles to the fire with a will not to have them kindle is to desire impossibility the body beeing but the accessarie of the heart and in marriage the sensible union beeing but a sollower of the will you may im●gine if I easily yeelded unto the desires of him who possest all myne and if I could thinke my selfe to be lost by casting my selfe into my beloveds armes We then consummated our Clandestine marriage and resolved whensoever I should finde my selfe loaden with the fruits of Lucina to take flight with my husband rather than to undergo the thunder of Gaudences anger This happened not but a more terrible tempest overtooke us which brought me to the wrack wherein you see me Minard a Gentleman of Austria who had beene in marriage but three years and was not above thirty five years of age found I know not what in my face that liked him He was a match so advantagious that to see me to desire me to ask me of Gaudence and obtaine me were all such sudden blowes that I had neither time to foresee them nor to shield my selfe from them My father without consulting my will told me he had given me to Minard and that I must dispose my selfe to receive him for my husband within few dayes If a thunder-bolt had fallen at my heeles I should not have been more astonished I made no answer to my father for what could I have said that would have pleased him and oppose cold excuses to his resolutions had been as to make bullets of snow against the Sunne beames I resolved suddenly to make effects speake and that was all that I could in so pressing a necessity Gaudence tooke my silence for a consent Next day my amorous Widower came to see me and after the complements of a first interview he would have offered me his service under the allowance sayd he of my father My father said I hath not willed me to receive your service but your commands obliging me to behold you as a Master this proceeding is to be admired thus to give away free persons without their owne consent I am borne his daughter and not his slave howsoever I declare unto you that I belong to a greater master having made a vow to him that hath made heaven earth never to be any bodies but his If it had pleased you to have seene me before you had spoken to my father I had saved you the labour of asking a thing which you cannot lawfully get nor possesse without sacriledge Never was any man more amazed than Minard when by this free declaration hee saw his hopes undermined to the very foundation He feared God and therefore I could not oppose

speeches constrained Tharsis to reply in this manner She is neitherthy leavings nor mine but deserves a better then thou art and if thou wert wise thou wouldst keepe thy word never any honest man broke it nor never any man of honour wronged a gentlewoman so cruelly The protection which I owe her as a Knight and the just pretention I have to Aldegond makes me wish to see thee and I together with our swords in hand that I might wash the honour off the one in thy bloud and make thee with the losse of thy life lose the hope of the other and it shall be when and where thou wilt that we shall meet Furious Epolon could not heare out the end of this discourse without laying hand on his weapon Tharsis failed not to reply in the same accent and before Philapian and Victor could separate them Tharsis had runne the old man into the body presently they were parted but it was too late for Epolon had received a wound which left him but one dayes life Victor being an intimate friend to Tharsis helpt him away who knowing he could never get his pardon fled into Germany where he died in the Emperours Army Epolon lived untill the next day Heaven having lent him so much time as to call him to account and to make satisfaction for the wrong he had don Barsimee to repaire her honour he gave her his land in signe of marriage but such a marriage whereof death soone unloosed the bond The same day it was assuredly known that Aldegond rather followed Metel than that he had stollen her and that if it were a Rape it was done by her consent Philapian overcome with so many disorders whether of griefe or of an apoplexy which as was thought seized on him dyed suddenly Not long after Metel having married Aldegond in Germany brought all to a good passe again and wrought his peace with the mother who tenderly loved her daughter and disswaded her sonne Victor from attempting to right these affronts by the force of Armes Here the folly of Barsimee and the disloyaltie of Epolon serve to elevate or to make the loyalty and constancy of Metel and Aldegond shew the fairer In briefe the variety of accidents which happened in this rape doe shew unto a good judgement the sundry lusters of good and evill even as the necke of a Dove being exposed before the beams of the Sun doth shew in its feathers sundry transparences THE IVST RECOMPENCE The eleventh Relation ALthough the Maxime of this wicked world be contrary yet such is the beleefe and opinion of the wisest men that it is the nature and property of a base abject courage not to be able to suffer a wrong without some evident revenge The same wise men also teach us that the greatest courages are the most prone unto acknowledgement and that it is as difficult for them to endure a good turne without requitall as for a base minde to put up a wrong without revenging it to the uttermost Which made the Tuscane Poet say That love doth never dispense with not loving the person that loveth From thence comes the common saying love that thou mayst be beloved but with a stronger tone when a man hath given all his goods and all his substance for love hee still thinks he hath not done so much as hee ought so precious a thing is love you shall see the effects of this verity in the relation that I am about to describe In Ascoly a city of Poville a Province of the Kingdome of Naples an honest Marchants sonne whom wee will call Metran fell in love with a Citizens daughter named Valeria who bore away the palme of beauty frō al the Maids of that city now as there was much equality in wealth betweene the parents of both parties so there hapned yet to be a greater concordance of humours dispositions so that the match seemed to bee framed in Heaven even from their births but as many accidents happen betwixt the cup and the lip so these two lovers were like unto those ships which lying at Ankor in the roade and staying but only for the tide to bring them into the desired haven see themselves unawares by a wind from the land driven farre into the sea and in short space at a great distance each from other The Father of Valeria was much obliged to an Earle that dwelt in the City whom wee will conceale under the name of Armentaire this Citizen was under the particular Protection of this Nobleman who on divers occasions had shewed him much assistance which was the cause that amongst those that the Father of Valeria invited at the betroathing of his Daughter he entreated the Earle as his good Lord and Patron to be there whereunto Armentaire condescended as willing to honor this Citizen whom he entirely loved the assembly was come together with much pompe and magnificence and there Metran promised unto Valeria and Valeria unto Metrau to take each other in the face of the Church on the day that it should bee agreed upon betwixt their parents now wanted nothing but only to proceed upon the solemnities and consummation of this Marriage the tearme of few dayes was prescribed to prepare and end it the content of these parties had exceeded had not the adjourning of the day wherein they should have beene united put water into their wine and moderated their joy by ensuing troubles for here comes an unexpected tempest to crosse their quiet navigation whether it were that Valeria had added unto her natural beauty the art of ornaments which made her exceed all the company or whether the Earles eyes were more open that day then they were formerly so it fell out that the flash of this faire face dazled him so that hee lost both judgement and knowledge of himselfe he was very ancient and beside extreamely troubled with the Gout whether it were that he had it as inheritance or that it proceeded from his former intemperancies all this ought to have dispensed him from inrouling himselfe under the Standards of Cupid where the old and gouty are scarce welcome old fooles are reckoned amongst things unfit for use of which Armentaire shewes himselfe to bee one by the foolish part hee playes After hee had made a weake resistance unto the assault made by this innocent beauty he yeelds resolving to cure himselfe of this importunate desire by Marriage hereupon hee goes forthwith to Bonit the Father of this faire conqueresse and weeping like a chlid represents his griefe unto him in such a manner that this good Citizen his ancient freind tooke pitty thereof counted it a great honour and grace that hee should request to have his daughter in marriage but my Lord said he you know shee is betrothed to another and this promise cannot bee broke but by the consent of both parties I shall replyed the Earle deale so bountifully with Metran that in obliging mee hee shall be the better all the