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judgement_n	appoint_v	day_n	lord_n	1,737	5	4.1399	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02151	The pleasant historie of Dorastus and Fawnia VVherein is discovered, that although by the meanes of sinister fortune, truth may be concealed; yet by time, in spight of fortune, it is manifestly revealed. ... By Robert Greene, Master of Arts in Cambridge.; Pandosto	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1636 (1636)	STC 12292; ESTC S103413	39,826	56

commanded them that they should not presume to reade it before they came to the presence of Pandosto unlesse they would incurre the displeasure of Apollo The Bohemian Lords carefully obeying his command taking their leaue of the Priest with great reuerence departed out of the Temple and went to their Ships and as soone as Wind would permit them sayled towards Bohemia where in short time they safely arriued and with great Triumph issuing out of their ships went to the Kings Palace whom they found in his Chamber accompanied with other Noble-men Pandosto no sooner saw them but with a merry countenance he welcomed them home asking what newes They told his Maiesty that they had receiued answer of the god written in a Scrowle but with this charge that they should not read the contents before they came in the presence of the King and with that they deliuered him the Parchment But his Noblemen intreated him that sith therein were conteined either the safety of his Wifes life and honesty vr her death and perpetuall infamy that hee would haue his Nobles and Commons assembled in the Iudgement Hall where the Queene brought in as a prisoner should heare the contents If she were sound guilty by the Oracle of the god then all should haue cause to thinke his rigour procéeded of due desert if her Grace were found faultlesse then she should be cléered before all sith she had beene accused openly This pleased the King so that hée appointed the day and assembled all the Lords and Commons and caused the Quéene to be brought in before the Iudgement Seat commanding that the Iudgement should be read wherein she was accused of Adultery with Egistus and of conspiracy with Franion Bellaria hearing the contents was no whit astonished but made this chéerefull answer IF the Diuine powers be priuy to humane Actions as no doubt they are I hope my patience shall make Fortune blush and my vnspotted life shall staine spitefull discredit For although lying report hath sought to appeach mine honour and suspition hath intended to soyle credit with infamy yet where Vertue kéepeth the Fort report and suspition may assayle but neuer sacke How I haue led my life before Egistus comming I appeale Pandosto to the gods and to thy conscience What hath passed betwéene him and mee the gods onely know and I hope will presently reueale That I loued Egistus I cannot deny that I honoured him I shame not to confesse To the one I was forced by his vertue to the other for his dignities But as touching lasciuious lust I say Egistus is honest and hope my selfe to be found without spot For Franion I can neither accuse him nor excuse him I was not priuy to his departure And that this is true which I haue here rehearsed I referre my selfe vnto the Diuine Oracle BEllaria had no sooner said but the King commanded that one of the Dukes should reade the contents of the Scrowle which after the Commons had heard they gaue a great shoute reioycing and clapping their hands that the Quéene was cleare of that false accusation But the King whose conscience was a witnesse against him of his witlesse sury and false suspected iealousie was ●o ashamed of his rash folly that hee intreated his Nobles to perswade Bellaria to forgiue and forget these iniuries promising not onely to shew himselfe a loyall and louing Husband but also to reconcile himselfe to Egistu and Franion reuealing then before them all the cause of their secret flight and how trecherously hee thought to haue practised his death if the good minde of his Cup-bearer had not preuented his purpose As thus hee was relating the whole matter there was word brought him that his young Sonne Garinter was suddenly dead which newes so soone as Bellaria heard surcharged before with extreme ioy and now suppressed with heauy sorrow her vitall spirits were stopped that shée fell downe presently dead and neuer could be reuiued This sudden sight so appalled the Kings senses that hée sunke from his Seate in a swound so as hée was faine to be carried by his Nobles to his Palace where hée lay by the space of thrée daies without spéech His Commons were as men in despaire so diuersly distressed there was nothing but mourning and lamentation to be heard throughout all Bohemia their young Prince dead their vertuous Quéene bereaued of her life and their King and Soueraigne in great hazzard this tragicall discourse of Fortune so daunted them as they went like shadowes not men yet somewhat to comfort their heauy hearts they heard that Pandosto was come to himselfe and had recouered his spéech who as in sury brayed these bitter spéeches O Miserable Pandosto what surer witnes then conscience What thoughts more sowre then suspition what plague more bad then Iealousie Vnnaturall actions offend the gods more then men and causelesse cruelty neuer scapes without reuenge I haue committed such a bloudy fact as repent I may but recall I cannot Ah Iealousie a hell to the mind and a horrour to the conscience suppressing reason and melting rage a worse passion then frenzy a greater plague then madnesse Are the gods iust then let them reuenge such brutish cruelty my innocent Babe I haue drowned in the Seas my louing wife I haue slaine with slanderous suspition my trusty friend I haue sought to betray and yet the gods are siacke to plague such offences Ah vniust Apollo Pandosto is the man that hath committed the fault why should Garinter silly Child abide the paine Well sith the gods meaneto prolonge my daies to increase my dolour I will offer my guilty bloud a sacrifice to those guiltlesse soules whose liues are lost by rigorous folly And with that hée reached at a Rapier to haue murthered himselfe but his Péeres being present stayed him from such a bloudy act perswading him to thinke that the Common-wealth consisted on his safety and that those sheepe could not but perish that wanted a Shepheard wishing that if he would not liue for himselfe yet he should haue a care of his Subiects and to put such fancies out of his mind sith in sores past helpe salues doe not heale but hurt and in things past cure care is a corrosiue Withthese and such like perswasions the King was ouercome and began some what to quiet his mind so that so soone as he could goe abroad he caused his wife to be imbalmed and wrapt in Lead with her young Sonne Garinter erecting a rich and famous Sepulchre wherein he intombed them both making such solemne obsequies at her Funerall as all Bohemia might perceiue he did greatly repent him of his fore-passed folly causing this Epitaph to be ingrauen on her Tombe in Letters of Gold The Epitaph Here lyes intombde Bellaria faire Falsly accus'd to be vnchaste Cleer'd by Apollo's sacred doome Yet slaine by Jealousie at last What ere thou be that passest by Curse him that caus'd this Queene to die THis Epitaph being ingrauen Pandosto would once