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A06166	The famous, true and historicall life of Robert second Duke of Normandy, surnamed for his monstrous birth and behauiour, Robin the Diuell VVherein is contained his dissolute life in his youth, his deuout reconcilement and vertues in his age: interlaced with many straunge and miraculous aduentures. VVherein are both causes of profite, and manie conceits of pleasure. By T.L. G.	Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.	1591 (1591)	STC 16657; ESTC S109566	59,414	92

THE Famous true and historicall life of Robert second Duke of Normandy surnamed for his monstrous birth and behauiour Robin the Diuell VVherein is contained his dissolute life in his youth his deuout reconcilement and vertues in his age Interlaced with many straunge and miraculous aduentures Wherein are both causes of profite and manie conceits of pleasure By T. L. G. Imprinted at London for N. L. and Iohn Bushie and are to be sold at the West dore of Paules 1591. To the worshipfull and true Moecenas of learning M. Thomas Smith T. L. G. wisheth all aboundance of worldly fortunes in this life and the benefites of heauenly felicitie in the life to come SEeing in these our days men rather seeke the increase of transitorie wealth than the knowledge of deuine wisedome preferring stuffed baggs before studious bookes their pounds before precepts loosing the true ritches of the minde to leuell at the transitorie allurements of this world feeding fooles with siggs and philosophers with floutes I haue among the multitudes of these men made choice of your Worship for my Patron and Moecenas who of a farre more happy nature with Theodosius honour Appian and seeing learning almost suppressed with contempt or discountenanced with neglect haue in this famous Citie like a vertuous member of the same begun to exile ignorance to reuiue artes knowing Ladislaus reasons to be of force that Citizens who are vnlettered are lesse than men or rather as Frederick the Emperour was wont to say manlike beastes Which vertuous indeuor of yours worthie both your name and fortune shall in time to come more aduance you than they who tooth and nayle labour to purchase lands which ordinarily perish through their heires lauishnes It is true fame which is gotten by vertue perfect vertue to maintaine learning which is so kinde to those that seeke after it that in all changes of fortune in all miseries of this life and casualties whatsoeuer it prepareth the mind preuenteth mishaps And least I among the poore Tirones of learning who desire the increase therof with the most though deserue therein with the least should seeme to forget this especially and ingrafted vertue so admirably bestowed vpō your worship I haue thought good to present you with a rude and homely written history which if with like regard you shall accept as Alphonsus did the silly Satires of Philelphus I doubt not but in short time to publish that vnder your name which shall not only merit and deserue your acceptance but also mightely profit all such as are studious in all sorts of learning Till when I most humbly commend me desiring your Worship most earnestly to prosecute your vertuous enterprises beseeching God to prosper you in them and all other to the aduancement of Letters From my Chamber 2. Maij. 1591. Your Worships to commaund T. L. G. To the curteous Reader whatsoeuer GEntlemen I haue vppon the earnest request of some my good friends drawne out of the old and ancient antiquaries the true li●e of R●bert second Duke of Normandie surnamed for his youthfull imperfections Robin the Diuell wherein I stand not so much on the termes as the trueth publishing as much as I haue read and not so much as they haue written The Loadstarres that directed me in my course if they haue colours and no counterfeit doo me right to say they set down coulors without counterfeit yet many things haue happened in times past incredible in our age and in our age such things haue falne out as had our fathers knowne they had meruailed It onely behoueth vs to applie all things that tend to good to their end which is vertue and esteeme them to intend all things that are bad to their end which is vice and eschue them So shall we in reading reape that fruit that impossible things shall be referred to God and possible ordered to our amends Farewell T. L. G. The famous true and historicall life of Robert second Duke of Normandie IN the populous and plentifull Dukedome of Normandie in times past called Neustria at such time as Pepin the Father of the great King Charlemaigne gouerned the flourishing Kingdome of Fraunce Aubert the first Duke of that Countrey by some supposed to be Ron of Denmarke began to signorize in the same about the yeare of our Lord 750. a Prince by nature affable in nurture fortunate as glorious for his Conquests as gratious in his curtesies enterprising his attempts with Metellus constancie and finishing the same with Alexanders fortune who being in yeares youthfull in person comlie in discourse pleasant in ritches mightie was sought vnto by diuers Princ●s who intended by inserting him into their linage the better to assure themselues in their liuelyhoodes Among the rest the worthie Duke of Burgundie wrought so earnestly and perswaded so effectually that Aubert at last accepted his faire sister Y●da or Editha for his wife a Princesse in whome nature planted as much excellence as amiablenesse tempering the gifts of fortune and y ● mind with such equabilitie that her goods seemed great in respect of her goodnes and her goodnes more great in that she had goods for as the mightie inundatiōns of Nilus make the riuer more famous so abilitie vnited with bountie and a liberall hand with a mercifull hart do greatly assist in causes of honor These two princely cooples ordained by desteny to high desasters though their affluence of riches promised them felicitie yet the influence of the heauens intimated their aduersitie for hauing great signories to bequeath they had no heires to enioy accompting this for their only crosse that they were without children many were their vowes but to no auayle many their prayers but to little purpose if phisick might haue made fruitfull Editha had been a Mother if great summs could haue purchast yong sonnes Aubert had been a Father Seuen yeares and more liued they in this sort the one carelesse of loues delight the other comfortlesse in that she was barraine till on a prefixed Saterday when Nature had powred all her treasures on the earth Flora powdered all the medowes with flowres when the louesick Zephirus softly breathed and the tender leaues sweetly bowed when the sunne played with the waue the waue dallyed with the sunne both enioying an equal simpathy of solace Duke Aubert who from his youth vpwarde was meruailously delighted in y e chase accompanyed with his faire Duchesse departed out of his Capitall Citie of Roan to take his pastance in the Forrest Editha by deuine ordinance was that day attired as if she intended to wooe Lucina to graunt a Sonne and winne the Norman Duke to get a Sonne Her hayre in stead of gould to grace it was goulden exceeding gould more finer than the thrid wherewith Arachne wrought her loombe more softer than the bed of Roses wherein y e Morning playd with Cephalus bound it was after a carelesse manner as if disdayning that so rare beauties should be imprisoned but pleyted in

were rauished by the iniuries of the mightie whilst Robert sitting aloft as the head of Confusion su●fetting in his excesse accompted riot for righteousnesse his dronkards for his diuines his murtherers for his mates his blasphemers for his boord companions Oh the horror and confusion of those times where iniquitie was held for equitie and diuelishnes accompted desert In religious houses this Deuill of a man and diuelish man in stead of reuerencing the learned rid them of their liues for at Ambois he entered a Monastery of Minorites and cutting off the fattest Friers heads he pitched them vpon powles causing the veriest knaue to carrie the crosse and the rest apparrelled in Coapes to tune a diuelish Dirge of impietie From others he tooke away by violence their ritches saying as Iulian the Apostata did after him that ritches did hinder them from the enterance into the Kingdome of Heauen Those of his trayne who were most tirannous he most highly rewarded and such as did sweare most might spend most Great were the clamours of the poore the cryes of the oppressed the complaints of the fatherlesse the wéepings of the widdowes the father for his child the child for his father the mother for her sonne the sonne for his mother Nec quicquam nisi vulnus ●rat cruor vndique manat In an Abbey néere to Lisseux he entered and slew all the Monks in that they would not shew their treasures and finding foure Pilgrimes knéeling at a Crosse he cut off their heads saying they could neuer dye in better mindes Meeting with the Bishop of Caen ritchly mounted vpon a Moyle attired in his ri●chest furniture he dismounted him saying he reserued that beast to a better vse than that a beast should bestride it Such and so many were his vnworthy attempts without all expectation of amendment Of the horrible murther which Robert the Deuill committed vppon the Lord of Beaumount There dwelled at that time wherein Robin surnamed the Deuill accustomed to exercise these his detestable iniuries a noble Norman Gentleman surnamed for his fayre Castell sake the Lorde of Beaumount neere to Turingue This Gentleman had taken to Wife the daughter of the Countie Gourdon a Gentle woman of inestimable beawtie who after her espousals being conducted with great solemnitie to her husbands Castell was by Robins espialls surprised in the way and being bound both her selfe and her husband was brought to the haplesse mansion of this wretched murtherer where the disordinate tyrant beholding the beawtie of the Ladie her yong yeares her faire face he first imprisoned her husband in the dungeon of the Castell and burning in disordinate desire sought all meanes possible to perswade her vnto lewdnes but she neyther respecting life or expecting libertie and carelesse of her harmes in regard of her honor in stead of dalliance accused him of diuelishnes and tempering her sweete lookes with a blushing seueritie she reproued him in this sort Whereat aimest thou so much thou vngracious tirant if to bereaue me of mine honour thou art impious if to rid me of my life I am pleased for one of these extreames must I expect of one so insolent The Crane and Rite agree not and yet Birds the Swordfish and Whale are at enmitie and yet Fishes Saturne and Venus accord not and yet Planets neyther may the vicious agree with the vertuous although both be reasonable creatures Oh Prince I detest thy course I lament thy inconstancie to see the hope of Normandy the ruine of Normandy if libertie haue so great prerogatiue with thee to murther at thy pleasure to rauish as thou likest go rid thy Father of his right who may better suffer in that he brought vp such a plague and leaue vs poore innocents who deserue no punishment My Lord and I are coupled by loue counited by vertue allyed by holie Matrimonie and wilt thou seuer those whome God hath coupled no cruell man though thou presume to separate bodies thou hast no portion of our Soules though thou tyrannize ouer our liues thou art no maister of our loues come practise thy crueltie I see thine eyes swolne with sensualitie I see thy hands trembling to attempt I marke each lineament of nature combating in it selfe till thou hast exercised thy tirannie but flay not if I must be exe●utiate marti● me if thou wilt surfet on blood glut thy selfe for my body vngratious man whilst these hands serue to wraffle and limmes vouchsafe to resist thee thou shalt not defile it and if inhumanitie exceedes so farre in thee as thou intendest lust to the vtteraunce assure thy selfe my incessant complaints shall so sollicite the heauens that sooner shall they dissolue to nothing before I differre to cursse thee But partiall and peruerse young Prince this maketh thine iniustice more manifest in that thou punishest my husband who haue deserued no daunger and differrest to reuenge thee on her whose too fayre lookes haue bereft thee of thy senses oh suffer him to depart in peace and detaine me in pe●urie let not the innocent he helde for nocent nor such as haue not wronged thee suffer wrong by thee Lo I assist this last prayer with pittifull teares thys humble suite with bitter sighes oh be thou pliant in this though peremptorie in all other things These her lamentations accompanyed she with such mauing passions as if her soule intended whatsoeuer her bodie had ena●●ed and lyke a weake Champion entering the Listes with a cruell warriour seemeth forward to resist though feeble to reuenge so this noble daughter of the Countie Gourdon though she sawe no meanes to ouerpresse her enemye yet in what she might she indeuoured to resist him but Robert lyke an vnmeasurable rock grounded in the Ocean with inremouable power resisted all the showers of her teares and stormes of her sighes seeming rather more seueare after her complaints than before he was resolute and calling her husband in the presence of his new espoused Bride who beeing bound could no wayes assist hym but with her couragious comforts hee caused his limmes peecemeale to bee chopped off and twixt euery torment continually laboured eyther to perswade the Ladie to loue or her husband to commaund her to lust But the young Gentleman feeling the torments insufferable and fearing his toongs default bit off the same depriuing the cruell rauisher the meanes of further hope and his Wife occasion of hazarding her honour Which when the tyrannous Prince perceyued he increased his cruelties in midst of which extremitie fayre Emine for so was the Ladie called cryed out in this sort to her husband Ah Beomond the Conquest is welny finished and ●●●sing thy lyfe thou hast purchased thy immortalitie Be bolde noble young man the deuine spirit shall florish when this earthy drosse shall vanish and though wee are separated on earth we shall be vnited in the heauen Oh condigne merit of thine oh kinde token of thy loue thou hast supplyed my weakenesse by thy constancie and hauing attayned the goale of griefe thou

that containeth such an honor which if I attaine not it is but your discontents my death if my death what though oh happy death if for her grow my durance This abrupt conclusion was followed with such a bitter sigh as all men expected no other but his finall ouerthrow or her consent wherevpon his Nobles priuatly consulted and by his consent Behenzar was made Embassalor and with ritch presents sent to Rome to craue Emine in Mariage and if the repulse should be graunted the conclusion was that priuie intelligence should be giuen and Ships rigged to the ende that on the sodaine the Souldan might inuade Christendome and rid himselfe of all the obstacles of his happines These conclusions well liking the Souldan were briefely debated the Embassadors dispatched the Ships rigged the souldyours leuyed and the despaire that the Souldan conceaued at the first was turned into a fresh hope yet the sweet grounds of his pleasant discontents so alluref him that in seeming to hope he pretended despaire and in the absence of his Lords who intended the furtherance of his affayres he traffiqued nought else but fancie drawing on three Iuorie colombes enuironing the statue of Emine these three succeeding Sonnets vppon the first he placed a Camelion in a sea of bloud with this Mot vnderneath it Mututus ab ill● and vnderneath the same this Sonnet The first Sonnet IN how contrarious formes haue I conuersed Since first mine eyes and hart by loue were chained Now like the Hart my bosome hath been pearsed Yet no Dictamnum seru'd when I was pained Now like the babe of Climene inclosed In piteous barck Electrum haue I stilled Now like the Nimph of craggie rock composed The rocks and woods with sorrowes haue I filled Now to a dying Swan haue I been turned With dolefull tunes my funeralls waimenting Now to the Salamander neuer burned Yet in the fire for euermore frequenting Oh loathed life on nought but sorrow grounded Where who so triumphs most is deepest wounded Uppon the second he placed a Barck perished in a stormy Sea a Furie guiding the helme the Sky ouercast the Gemini appearing vnder which was written Sic perij and vnder that this Sonnet The second Sonnet SAyling the sea of my forepointed greenaunce My will the helme of my misfortune guiding Expecting gaine suspecting no mischeeuaunce With stailesse keele I cut the waters gliding The faire liurnall lampe whilst that I sayled With neuer partiall eye my course assisted But when the lights delightfull bewtie fayled And wauering cinthia in her course persisted In siluer ●ould two brother Starres appeered That in the cloudy iorney I attempted Incenst the Seas and more my Shop they necred Though faire in forme my Barck from hope exempted Amidst the storme my will the helme forsaketh And thus my Ship a lucklesse shipwrack maketh On the third he painted Mens Fortuna and Natura all striuing to rayse a dead man who had foure Cupids two hanging at his hands two et his féete which kept him downe with this Motto Hic labor and vnderneath the same this Sonnet The third Sonnet IF all things are ordained to an end In semblaunce good or perfect good in deed What finall bent haue these my teares I spend Or all the drops my wounded hart doth bleed Or to what fat all period are you aimd My bitter sighes that haue my bosome maimd Oh my effects of passion euery thing That to a certaine purpose is applied His finall hope at last to end doth bring But such successe alas is you inuied For though mine eye his teares my hart his bloud My brest his sighes bestowes they doo no good For why the end for which you trauell sore Is not attained by the threefold gifts Of mind of body or of fortunes store Which man to tipe of matchlesse honnor lifts For what you seeke no limits doth admit Nor yeelds to time nor is subdewd by wit Cease then my teares and bleed no more my hart Restraine your stormes my sighes you toyle in vaine For your felicitie exceedeth arte Whereto nor toyle nor labour may attaine For loue it is subtill influence Whose finall force still hangeth in suspence In these passions and fantasies consumed the Sould●● the most part of his time now imagining hope of successe now fearing cause of repulse adoring Emine as his Saint and placing his follace in his amorous conceits vntill such time as he heard the fatal message of his ouerthrow till whē we leaue him returning to Behenzar who hauing a prosperous winde and a better will sayled so fortunatly and trauailed so forwardly that he arriued at Rome where what successe he had you shall vnderstand in the Chapter following How Behenzar arriued at Rome and of his repulse and dispatch The valiant courage of Robert hearing the name of Christ blasphemed The loue of Emine towards him and the assembly of the christian Princes in the ayd of the Emperour THe rumor was no sooner spread throughout the dominions of the Empyre but all contributarie Princes assembled together in the Citie of Rome to doo the Emperour seruice and make his estate more pompous and after letters of safeconduit presented to the Embassador Behenzar mounted on a braue Barbarion Horsse trapped in Tissue and Pearle himselfe attyred after the Barbarian fashion with his Algozin of cloth of gold embrodered with rubies being led betweene two Kings was in all solemnitie conducted vnto the Emperours Pallace who in his great Hall set among an innumerable troupe of Courtiers as Phoebus amidst the lesser Scarres whome Behenzar after small or no salutation attempted thus Emperour of Rome amongst all the blessings thy God hath bestowed on thee among all thy fortunes that haue befalne thee from thy youth hitherto the onely good is this that out Souldan of Babylon the terrour of the world for armes the Lord of Conquerours for actions dayneth to salute thee who hearing of the beawtie of thy Daughter the young Princesse Emine and vouchsafing to grace thée with his alliance craueth her as his Wife in Marriage which bountie of his if thou neglect know that thou fosterest the shadow of thine owne ruyne thy Kingdomes shalbe spoyled thy Princes flayne thy Crowne troden at his féete and thy ruines shalbe so grieuous that thy royalties were neuer so great If thou entertaine his demaunds hold take these presents whereupon he caused twentie Moores to discharge their carriages of gold siluer and lay it at his feete if not be lendeth thee it as a pledge of his reuenge till he redéeme it with the sword Great was the murmure throughout the hall at the insolence of the Pagan and among the rest Emine was exceedingly moued who sitting at her Mothers féete by her teares began to testifie hir cause of terrour The Emperour being a Prince of a haught hart disdayning to be outfaced by the brauest warriour in the world hauing long since determined neuer to marrie his Daughter out of Christendome returned Behenzar this magnificall answer It