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A07268	The historie of S. Elizabeth daughter of the King of Hungarie. Written in French by Peter Mathieu and translated into English by Sr T.H.; Elizabeth, fille du roy d'Hongrie. English	Matthieu, Pierre, 1563-1621.; T.H., Sir (Thomas Hawkins), d. 1640.	1633 (1633)	STC 17663; ESTC S101124	24,992	96

haue noe eyes in their soules turned her backe to the Princes of this house because they would not depart from the seruice they had vowed to virtue To iudge of the fall of this house by the height thereof wee must reascend to this great king of Hungary to whom in his life time trophyes were erected after his death altars And from thence descend to that young prince who in battell lost himselfe with his crowne left the fields of Varna perpetuallie dishonoured with the infamy of his defeate But betweene these two extreames there are reckoned vp great felicityes among the most remarkable of them this house is renowned for producing Elizabeth a Princesse at this day wayted vpon by Angells in heauen sued vnto by men on earth There are noe perfect beautyes to be found since hee who vndertooke to take the picture of one was inforced to drawe the modell of an hundred different pieces But Elizabeth was faire and in her all the exquisite admirable perfections of her sexe were ordinarie The beauty of the soule consisteth wholly in vertue that of the body absolutely in grace which dependeth not vpon equall proportions of lineaments colours of the face but in a presence which transporteth enforceth the eye to consider it as a visible effect of an inuisible power of the soule Elizabeth was excellent both in the one and other beyond all example but of her selfe to her selfe There was nothing soe diuine as her soule nothing soe goodly as her stature nothing soe royall as her garbe nothing soe beautifull as her face nothing soe amiable as her eyes nothing soe louely as her hart Louely indeed but not with loue which is the frensie of thoughts the plague of soules a follye inuented by vaine witts pursued by idle men but with that loue wherewith Angells are inflamed Saints liue being the fire of the intellectuall worlde as the Sunne is of the celestiall the elementarie of ours But this being knowne that Elizabeth was admirable in the gifts of minde and beauty of body it sufficeth to tell you shee was the daughter of Hungarie that Fraunce which adorned heads with the prime crownes of the earth long time mainteyned that of Hungarie in the house of the Earles of Aniou that from those Bela the Grandfather of Elizabeth is descended Bela the third King of Hungarie maried Agnes sister of Phillip the second called Augustus or Gods-gift who espoused Alice of Hungarie From this mariage issued Emerick Andrew Ambition which violateth lawes of piety to mainteyne those of tirānie armed Andrew against Emericke to bereaue him of the crowne which the right of eldership the lawe of the kingdome the last will of his father had sett on his head thinking that though nature had created him second shee had afforded him courage merit enough to goe formost God who defendeth kings who hath a perticular care of their crownes who takes their iust quarrells vpon himselfe breathed the blast of his furie vpon the enterprises of Andrew For on the daie of battaile agreed on by the waie of armes to determine a difference which reason could not resolue Emerick apeared in the head of his armie cloathed with royall ornaments bearing on his browe the crowne of the first christian king of Hungarie with it the diuine character which the finger of God had imprinted on the face of kings as a ray of his diuinity to make them beloued of the good feared of the wicked This Hercules which the Pigmies against whom hee sett forward made appeare much greater caused his armie to march not soe much to fight as to triumph His enemyes nay rather his mutiniers vnable to continue in the agonyes and affrightments of their consciences and hauing their eyes confounded exteriourly abashed at the presence of the lawfull king raysed their pikes vpright which they had bent against him layed downe armes asked pardon of him from whom they would haue taken the crowne They abandoned the fortune of Andrew and submitted to the clemencie of Emerick who hauing vanquished them without force would haue preserued them with sweetnes Hee was not willing to enter into his kingdome otherwise then victorious esteeming the virtue very miserable which is not wayted on by envie caytife the fortune that is without enimyes hee thought not his kingdome happie vnlesse clemencie beganne it imagining that hee who taketh that from the heart of a Prince teareth the altar from the Temple The happy raigne of so good a king worthie to haue bene immortall lasted not aboue eight yeares seaven monethes sixe dayes Ladislaus his sonne succeeded for sixe-monethes onely Andrew who could not gaine it by force of armes arriued thither by order of succession was crowned in the great Churche of Buda He married Gertrude daughter of the Duke of Morauia Carinthia Austria Edwig his Sister was maried to Henry surnamed Long-beard Prince of Silesia Polonia By this his mariage he had fowre children Bela Caloman Andrew Elizabeth The two first came to the Crowne one after another Andrew depriued by order the lawe of birthright from hope of the kingdome wandred vp downe the world to seeke a fortune for himselfe his He rested at Venice matcht in the house of the Moresini had a sonne who more couragious then his father that stood amused in a common wealth where poppies are not suffered to growe one aboue another came into Fraunce did notable seruices for the king those of the house of Croy constituted generall of thir forces Elizabeth the onely Princesse made it appeare in the first yeares of her childhood that she was chosen out by heauen to be one of the fairest flowers which should on earth receiue the plenitude of its graces At three yeares of age she was espoused to Lewis sonne of Herman Lantsgraue of Hesse Thuringia who was said to discend from Charlemayne Promises were made with great ceremonie to honour her who knewe not what it was and who knowing it made no more accompt of it then the winde to breake a rush At fower yeares of age she was led towards her espousalls by the Ambassadours of the king her father spent the yeares of her childhood in the exercise of piety whereby they might make a true estimate of the rest of her future life It is a singular furtherance notable meanes for a princesse well borne to receiue learne the precepts of carriage from the hands of her mother but Elizabeth taken awaie so young into the house of a straunger was depriued of this happinesse Notwithstanding she was there bred sutablie to the greatnesse of the place from whence she came to the excellencie of her wit she then learned that the ignorance whereof proues ill for a Princesse who hath thoughts beyond the distaffe needle of ordinarie women knewe those things wherein many great Princesses of that name became so excellent

incite their generous spirits stirred vp the most religious princes to carry the Croisaide esteeming it no lesse glory to raise the tropheys of the crosse on the frontiers of Egipt then did Alexander by erecting two altars in the vtmost confines of the Indyes Hercules two pillars on the bounds of his nauigation It was desired this enterprise might haue a Commander capable for the conduct of a roiall army and to returne victorious Andrew king of Hungary Transiluania by a common consent was chosen out for this charge which he accepted with that content wherewith the heartes of great Princes are euer possessed when they meete with occasions which free them from parity or corriuallship with others It could not fall into better hands although in the pursuites of ambition great honours willingly submitt to those who goe slowest as the Hart many tymes yields himselfe to the man that least chased him Hauing then taken away all affections from his owne will to become obedient to that which God discouered vnto him by this election he mustred all the forces of his kingdome and thereunto added those of his neighbours to ioyne with the Christian Army at Constantinople He left the Princes his sonnes vnder the charge of the Queene his wife indeed all of them together vnder the prudence fidelity of the Count of Bankban whom hee made Lieutenant Generall in high low Hungary His absence caused great griefe in his Court but the arriuall of the prince brother to the Queene sweetned them that so they might be seasoned with a strange bitternesse He was of an age wherein lust begins to warre against vertue where with Hercules was forcibly assailed by attraction of the one to forsake the other His heart was a fortresse which as yet had neuer receiued garrison hee hauing preserued it in the first liberty of its birth-Loue surprised it by gayning the eyes which were the sentinells He sawe among the Ladies of Court attending on the Queene his sister the Countesse of Banckban He iudged her the fairest found her one of the wisest Her beauty was not an vncomly hostesse in an handsome house For she obeyed vertue which held it in propriety neuertheles fell into discord with her honour Loue against her liking with out her consent made vse of her eyes for all manner of artillery They were fires to burne arrowes to wound burning mirrours to turne the vessells of those into cinders who vndertooke to sayle on this sea of the Courte loue Yet neuer durst he attempt this Minerua it being impossible to finde her idle The prince who ever had beene for him selfe was now for her so soone as euer he beheld her This passion forcing with its violence those things which cannot be inforced commaunded its liberty to manifest its seruitude He thought himselfe too couragious not to tell her of it her too courteous not to hearken to it Princes though all things stand faire for them are not free from trouble in these first circumstances for indeede they thinke ceremonies are not made but for such as are on equall termes if they vse them they vould haue them accounted an honour that their intreatyes may commaund that noe fauour be so great which they must not buy at a costly rate The torment of the prince which should be lesse cruell discouered then concealed redoubled the violence there of so soone as his tongue had vnfolded to the Countesse the euill which his eyes had done to his heart For this first view which was but a single desire became all loue by these approaches he tourned into fury an vniust conspiracy against her honour The Countesse in stead of accepting the power which the Prince offered her ouer his heart made it appeare vnto him she neither regarded his suite nor affection though it were the most ardent which true loue might tender to a heart well beloued and that hers could not receiue any impression then of the lawfull loue of her husband The Prince meeting with such soe couragious resistance despayring to ouercome this resolution discouered to his Sister all the woundes of his soule found noe comfort but in her affection who shewed her selfe not insensible of his torment We haue often seene seruants who haue betrayed their Mistresses but it is a prodigious thing when we behould seruants betrayed by their mistresses Shee conspired in fauour of the Prince her Brother against the honour of the Countesse and promised him to gaine her to his desire either by loue or force The next ensueing night the conspiracy was executed the body vanguished the heart inuincible There was but one night betweene this iniury the reuenge which transported the Count of Banckban in to such furie that earlie in the morning he stab'd his dagger into the bosome of the Queene who had beē a bad Mistresse to be a good Sister Heere it is where humane iudgment must strike sayle and cast it selfe into the vast Ocean of those of the liuing God in comparison of which the most cleare seeing eyes are Owles in the rayes of the sunne Of one same mother were borne two Sisters Gertrude who turned away from the feare loue of God Hedwige whose life was so replenished with piety adorned with so many vertues that she hath beene canonized for a Saint Sorrowes violent vnexpected are not for simple discourses Those are not great which can be expressed This accident by some esteemed parricide by others iustice offended scandalized the whole Court layed incurable woundes on the Sowle of the Princesse Elizabeth but she for all that murmured not against God whose wisedome she adored with all humility hauing her eye in this mishap noe more troubled then her heart Time and patience which cure all disturbances nourished gaue increase to hers Shee not so much reflected on the death of the body as she entred into strange apprehensions for the health of the Soule The Count of Banckban hauing sett the affaires of the kingdome in good order his wife Family into safegard went to Constantinople to cast himselfe at the feete of the king making him both iudge auenger of the fact which hee confessed to haue committed by a powerfull instigation for the which he at the least much repented him Teares hastned in ayde of the words which sorrowe stopped in his breast Yet for all this amazement could not seyze on the kings heart If he in middest of armes shedd teares to vapour out his griefe by them the sorrowe to haue lost a good wife his children a good mother would make them to powre them out in aboundance He patiently heard the Count of Banckban and prudently aunswered that at his returne he would vnderstand the trueth of this matter That those who are present neuer want excuses the absent euer suffer wrong That he would heare his brother in lawe the allyes of his wife He sent him