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A00574	The famous history of George Lord Faukonbridge, bastard son to Richard Cordelion King of England Begotten in his royal tower, vpon the princely Clarabel, daughter to Don Iohn Duke of Austria, surnamed the worldes faire concubine. Shewing his knightly adventures, dignified victories, with his life and death, spent in the honor of God and his countrey: never wearing any other garmet, but that lyons skinne, by which his kingly father challenged his lyon-like title.		1616 (1616)	STC 10709; ESTC S118329	29,067	48

thereby came to bee called Richard Cordelion and of other accidents ACcording to the heauy and bitter command of the angry Duke in reuenge of his sonnes death the Nobility and Knights of England departed Don Iohns Kingdome leauing the wofull King in prison as ashamed of so haplesse a voiage where being no sooner come and the reports thereof bruted in the eares of the Earles of Arundell and Oxford but like two English spirited gallants not able to brooke this forraine disgrace they resolutely departed England protesting either to bring their Soueraigne Lord safely to his Kingdome or to leaue their bodies buried in Austria that blood quoth they spent in the honour of our King and Countrey is the sweet sacrifice of Knight-hood and the true vermillion colour that beautifies the rich robes of honour Thus nobly minded they with all speed crossed the Seas which they were ioyfull off so with so glorious a burthen and the whisling wind proud of these Princely resolued Gentlemen louing kind and loyall set open their gentle portals and beyond the expectation of man set them safely vpon the costs of Austria where being no sooner come but they attired themselues in the disguised habits of Fryers the most secret and fittest pollicy to attaine the wished presence of their imprisoned King and by that meanes thought they to relieue him if his extremity so much required so comming to the prison gate in a professed zeale as they said they had of King Richards soules health they desired accesse and that the Lord Marshall would admit them to the Kings presence who being a man of a curteous nature could doe no lesse then grant their request being so honest and vertuous a demand Frowning Fortune beganne now a little to smile and a little to ease his languishing sorrowes for no sooner had his gentle eies cast their dimme sights almost blinded with teares vpon his two deare friends but a sudden reioycing hope assailed his heart and like a royotous heire newly possessing his patrimony surfetted in pleasure all dispairing passions by the delightfull presence of these two English Earles were immediatly conuerted into iollity their imbraces were as the closes of new married Damsels where the extremity of ioy so swelled in their bosomes that euen their eyes distilled teares and their hearts as it were danced These two supposed Friers had no other Orisons but comfortable reports from his loyall Subiects in England their Bookes were their loues and their Beades their fealties Thus in this secret manner vnsuspected of any repaired they daily to this distressed King expecting hourely his liues metamorphoses either of liberty or death Freedome or confusion royalty or captiuity in which wauering doubt while these three subiects of sorrow remained the displeased Duke still harbouring in his heart blacke malice called a counsell of flattering sicophants such as be still the attendants of Monarkes where against both the law of Armes and Nations it was decreed that King Richard should combate with a Lyon which if he ouercame his liberty thereby might be purchased but being ouercome he should endure the sharpe punishment of this mercilesse beast whose greatest fauour were but death vpon which pittilesse doome this bloody counse●l concluded and thereupon appointed the time and houre to the extreame griefe of many thousadns whose whose gentle harts euen trembled at this remorslesse iudgement But now marke the difference in nature of a cruel Father and a kind Child the Father mercilesse the Child mild the Father proud the Child humble the Father vnreasonable the Child reasonable the Father cruell the Child louing betwixt whom tyranny and remorse strous for superiority for Don Iohn bore not more extreame hate against the English King then his daughter faire Clarabella extended loue In her heart partiall Cupid builded his Bower and pitty with his smooth countenance sent dumbe messengers to the distressed King which were modest sighes bashfully sent from her maiden-like breast fearing to offend in affecting her Fathers enemy yet loue which hath commanded euen the Gods themselues and still blindly leades earthly Monarkes with vnequall affections making no difference betwixt Kings and Beggars so ruled the desires of diuine Clarabell that shée wished no other consolation in this world but the sacred loue of English Richard whose presence if shée might possesse were to her soule as the pleasures of Paradice duty and obedience by nature her Fathers right were now exchanged into desire and loue the Princely behauiour of King Richard guided her thoughts and though as yet vnknowne to him intangled her loue-sicke heart in the toiles of Venus wherein was no hope of recouery but the vniting of them both in the equality of desire These were faire Clarabels discontents which as an vncurable wound dismembred all the liuely wishes of virginity offending onely in thought and with the chilling feare of her second solues destruction by the terrible censure of her angry Father shée grew like madde Medea lunaticke and distraught expecting the sauage murther of royall Richard shée railed both at Heauen and Earth conspiring thus against all her good Fortunes For in loosing him quoth shée the bloome of my maiden-head withereth and I am like to pine in the languishing estate of misery made onely miserable by the Eagle like pitch of my lofty desires In this manner spent shée away the day till the sable Canopy of Heauen couered all the earth a time of silence a time of peace and rest a time that the eyes of all things closeth vp yet sléepe the comforter of distressed minds could not locke vp her eyes for care had made them watchfull griefe and distrust like two dreadful companions waited in her chamber euery idle imagination buzzed in her cares the misaduenture of her loue fighting with all the misdoubts of desire shée consumed away the slow night where euery minute séemed a day till morning came and then like a carefull bride shée cloathed her selfe in her richest attire and by the Sunnes rising came vnto the prison where shée found royall Richard vpon his Princely knée pleading for his soules saluation preparing himselfe ready for his Lion-like combat the night before brought to the Lord Marshall in a warrant from the Dukes counsel Farewell vaine world quoth he thy flattering pompe hath béene to me as water bubbles in a rainie day or as Aprill showers or the flourishes of Gardens sudden and variable Comfort me God only in thy power is my deliuery and without thy assistance this day is like to be my doomes day and the last day of all my liues fortunes At these words faire Clarabel sunke into a swound and so abounded in griefe that her sences were hardly recouered but being againe come to her selfe shée fell at King Richards knée and in a most milde nature spake as followeth Most imperious Potentate in whose happines consisteth my liues ioy and in whose welfare my glory shineth In thée thou pride of manhood haue I built my hopes and in louing thée

owne eyes had not the gentle aduice of the two Earles perswaded her to patience which shée willingly imbraced and so for that time parted company Shée to her sorrowfull closet they to the new refined Court where after K. Iohn had intelligence of the successes of Clarabella sent to her a commission of banishment with a commandement that no English subiect vpon paine of death should giue her any sustenance of food whereby her wantonnesse might be scourged with pining famishment a grieuous and seuere penance deseruing the name of heathen tyranny But such was the indignation of King Iohn and so violent in wrath that euen death quittanced her fauourites Poore mappe of misery shée was forced to forsake Courtly fashions and to exchange her costly attires into beggers wéeds shée that had wont to féed vpon the variety of dainties was now sufficed with course seruices no otherwise then with those things that satisfied hunger-starued hounds many a little dogge in the laps of young wantons had more abundance of food then this gallant Lady had Day by day walked shée comfortlesse vp and downe the stréetes moning her owne misfortunes yet vnpittied and left to her complaint Night by night wearied shée out the long houres with remembrances of her former life where euery minutes thought begot new griefe and euery thought of new griefe almost split her heart sighes were as common obiects to satisfie her discontents being displeased with all things shée cast her eye vpon Not any comfortable motion could shée entertain wearied shée grew of the wanton world not knowing which way to turne her selfe Misery followed her vp and downe when shée remembred Austria her Fathers Kingdome disobedience cut her heart when shée called to mind her Virginities wracke a thousand woes ioined with repentance ouerwhelmed all insuing hopes and almost cast her into desperation shée supposed pitty to be deafe and the tender remorse of humane gentlenes to bée shut vp against her Shée that lately abounded in plentuousnesse now liued in want of a beggars pittance shée onely fed vpon sorrow Sighes were her food and teares her drinke wo misery and penury in most extreame manner tormented her pining carkasse till pouerties thinne countenance conuerted her rose-like chéekes into a pale complexion her hollow eyes séemed like the empty cels of death sorrowes badge which is a wrinckled brow declared to the world pitifull prospects to the wringing handed griefe of the beholders which were not a few in number See into this globe of misery you blazing starres of Christendome you flourishing Damsels that sels your bodies pleasures to make your soules blacke You that liue by the spoiles of youth making a pastime of wantonnesse gathering to your selues the hated names of common Curtizans corrupted with most vile diseases loathsome and full of leprosie To ouerpasse many woes poore Clarabell indured in this pining penance we will leaue her lying vpon the bare earth by a spittle gate onely for an example to all such carelesse liuers being too simple a lodging for a Princes daughter and returne to the succéeding euent of young Faukonbridge and those thrée vnhappy Nurses séeking for this Babe of honor CHAP. V. How young Faukonbridge was found by King Iohn in his hunting How hee preserued his Mothers life vnknowne to him And likewise how he succoured the three Nurses and of the three gifts giuen him by the Queene of Fayries NOw must we suppose Time in his swiftest course to runne along and some certaine yeares to passe ouer the head of Faukonbridge where taking leaue of the Fayry Queene he had thrée of the richest gifts giuen him by her as neuer worldly man was owner off The first was a garment made him of the Lyons skinne that his Father Richard Cordelyon slew in Austria of vertue so precious that the wearer thereof should neuer faint in courage but euer continus Victor in all atchieuements The second a purse of gold of such a plentifull treasure that can neuer grow empty but as it is taken forth the vertue thereof replenisheth it againe by which meanes it continues full The third a ring of such inestimable price that by the touch therof healeth all diseases neuer so dangerous and vncurable These were the blessings of the Fayry Queene bestowed vppon this yong gallant which he receiued as his patrimony and kept them as the onely gifts of good Fortune Thus being of the age of fiftéene yéeres he continued in the woods like vnto a sauage satyre vnacquainted with worldly people rouing vp and downe vntill such time as King Iohn of England his vnckle by the Fathers side found him in his wild quality but séeing him replenished with such lineaments of nature strong and sturdy as promised ensuing honors He tooke him to his kéeping and gaue him in charge to an ancient Noble man of his Court to be trained vp and taught perfectly his naturall English tong which hee most spéedily accomplished to his high renowne whereupon the King soone aduanced his estate and made him groome of his priuy chamber but he hauing the lofty spirit of Knight-hood springing in his brest aimed at nobler aduentures and to winne credit by the strength of his body desired the Kings leaue to depart his Court and to trie forraigne atchieuements in the honour of God and his Countrey which princely request did not a little content the King whereupon he gaue him a horse well furnished with all the abilliments fitting so resolued a Gentleman and with all graced him with the picture by nature set vpon his brest Thus after leaue taken like one of Fames darlings this knightly Faukonbridge in the spring-time of his youth committed himselfe to fortunes fickle fauours where after he had trauelled some few daies iournies from the English Court he arriued at the gate of an Hospitall whereat lay Clarabell his vnknowne mother begging for reliefe with these lines grauen ouer her head vpon the wall in capitall letters according to King Iohns commandement A Princes daughter by the Kings decree Here pines in care stand still and passe not by Till this poore map of perfect misery With wringing hands heau'd vp to heauen high Tels how her wanton life in sinne was spent And why shee thus makes wofull languishment Pitty her not her life is staind with shame By her a Kingdomes ruine was begot Lust and desire hath blotted her good name And true repentance must make cleere that spot To succour her is death authority commands Against which power lift no presumptuous hands Lord Faukonbridge hauing read this superscription in pitty rued her estate not knowing her to be his mother for as yet his parents were vnknown to him yet harbouring in his breast noble thoughts he could not choose but extend charity vnto her and being the first of his aduentures and the maiden-head of his mercy the first good déed that euer he did therefore he willingly alighted from his palphrey and in tender pitty tooke the halfe starued Lady by the hand

pitching vpon any trée or branch till shée had let the Ring fall into the Sea which struck such terrour to the heart of Faukonbridge then standing vpon the shore séeing the euent that he almost cast himselfe after it into the waues but that better graces guided him and hope of better Fortunes restrained his desperatenesse Standing thus amased and calling to mind the losse of Clarabella whom he had left comfortlesse behind sléeping in a gréene shade of trées not knowing how nor which way to returne backe belieuing neuer more to behold her Angelicall countenance Therefore like a mournefull Traueller loosing himselfe in some desart wildernesse he breathed out this vnpittied lamentation Many and vnlucky are my first aduentures quoth he attended on by crosse chances and vntoward procéedings no motion of reliefe can I premeditate vpon For I am come by ill Fortune into a place of desolation not frequented by the habitation of man Here liues nothing but gréene bellied Serpents roaring Wolues and beasts of fearefull shapes such as may well terrifie the proudest courage Here sounds no other Ecchoes but the croakes of Rauens night-Owles cries and the bellowing of vntamed Tygers such as thunders forth nothing but sounds of death and destruction here is no other food to sustaine nature but wild hemlocks henbane and such impoisoned wéedes the onely store-house of blacke inchanters witches and charmers the aire séemes to be corrupted and the earth casts vp putrifying sauours worse then the smoaking lake where Sodome and Gomorra stood In this manner complained he for the space of thrice twelue houres looking euery houre to be deuoured by wild beasts but that his Lyon-like garment which hee wore made them thinke him to bee one of their number which sauage creatures in tame manner lodged by his side As he thus betwéen feare and hope expected present death hee beheld a Turkish galley houering by the shore side the Captaine whereof being a noble minded Gentleman at the first sight of young Faukonbridge cast a Land where beholding his distresses tooke him aboord which ●nlookt for fauour not a little reioiced him but being so happily preserued from death most willingly submitted to their mercies they being Moores he a Christian they misbeléeuing he true in faith they blacke he faire two extreame contrarieties yet when these Heathen people beheld his face stored with such maiesty resembling the beauty of his Creator they admired his Angelike countenance neuer before that time séeing a man of his colour but all blacke like themselues therefore supposing to haue found some heauenly Angell they presented him to their King as then kéeping his Court some foure miles distance from that place on the other side of the Sea being but a créeke of the maine Ocean in a most sumptuous Pallace for brightnesse like to the Tower of the Sunne The Morrocco King with his blacke countenance aduancing himselfe in his royall throne with great admiration receiued Lord Faukonbridge not as a Captiue or a chained Galley-slaue but like the Darling of Maiesty or as the Paragon of Fame sent from Heauen to glorifie his Court. Legions of reports might wee make of his entertainement with the Morocco King and his Nobles who estéemed him rather to be some God then a worldly man more dignified honours heaped they vpon his backe then euer that country gaue vnto a stranger The wealth of that Kingdome made they his treasury and masses of Indian pearles lay still at his commandement the time of his abode there passed on apace and iollity of his life made seuen yéers but as a month Which being ouerpassed it was his chance vpon a solemne festiuall day which was the birth day of their King onely once in seauen yéeres solemnized to behold the chiefest of the Kings Nobility in their richest ornaments going as it were on procession in the honour of their Prophet Mahomet Placing him as it séemed in heauen to the high dishonour of the Christians God whose wrath and indignation is the whole Worlds confusion and whose fauour the preseruation of man-kind This God and liuing Power was the Patrone of Lord Faukonbridge by whose fauour he hoped to conquer Fat 's and subdue Kingdomes This God when he saw him thus highly dishonoured fury possest him and to the great disparagement of all that heathen Nation he desperately tore downe the picture of Mahomet and with his kéene edged Semitary cut it in small pieces to the great amasement of the Kings Nobility who in gréedy reuenge furiously set vppon him altogether like a number of whelps vpon a princely Lyon who so Lyon-like behaued himselfe that in lesse then halfe an houre hee left breathlesse vpon the blood-died earth more then sixe and twenty of the Kings Nobles approuing here his vnconquerable valour procéeding from the vertue of his Lion like garment which the Fairy Quéene had giuen him At this bold enterprise performed with his owne hand he caused the Moores to ring forth their Alarum Bels and to fire their Beakons to raise vp their country forces thinking that heauen had thither sent a confounder of mankind and that by his onely meanes their kingdome should be subdued This matchlesse enterprise performed by noble minded Faukonbridge did not a little perplex the King nor no idle feare assailed his mind but such a fright as made his very soule to tremble wherefore to rid his kingdom from present danger in most kind manner he proclaimed truce and dissemblingly applauded Lord Faukonbridg for this desperate attempt and though to his griefe of mind with faire and princely promises he perswaded this English Gallant to depart his Country and the more to aduance his deserued honours the King bestowed vpon him twelue barrels of good red gold and withall a shippe well furnished to conduct him home into his owne Country Which kind fauour was most gratefully accepted off by noble Faukonbridge who leauing the Morocco Kingdome put himselfe to Sea committing his fortunes againe to the merciles waues but making the Pilot and Marriners beléeue that the twelue barrels of gold were but twelue barrels of red lead a commodity most precious in his natiue Countrey The Pylot supposing no otherwise sailed amaine with prosperous wind towards the Northerne nations In which succesfull iourney we will leaue now Lord Faukonbridge and returne to his vnknown Mother Lady Clarabell whom we left as you heard before sleeping vnder a shade of trées where Lord Faukonbridge beganne to follow the chace after the vnlucky Rauen. Clarabell as we spake of before in her swéete sleepe little dreaming of the absenee of Faukonbridge at her awaking both mist him and the ring two losses so precious as euen caused sorrow to reuel in her bosome that Ioy was a stranger and content exiled diuers were the doubts shee had of his misaduentures one while shee supposed death like a tyrant had possest him another while shee feared the breach of his promise and that he had secretly fled from her bearing away with him