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A04555	The most famous history of the seauen champions of Christendome Saint George of England, Saint Dennis of Fraunce, Saint Iames of Spaine, Saint Anthonie of Italie, Saint Andrew of Scotland, Saint Pattricke of Ireland, and Saint Dauid of Wales. Shewing their honorable battailes by sea and land: their tilts, iousts, and turnaments for ladies: their combats vvith giants, monsters, and dragons: their aduentures in forraine nations; their inchauntments in the holie land: their knighthoods, prowesse, and chiualrie, in Europe, Affrica, and Asia, with their victories against the enemies of Christ.; Most famous history of the seven champions of Christendome. Part 1	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1596 (1596)	STC 14677; ESTC S109165	135,141	216

an Inorie Charriot guarded by twelue coleblacke Negars wherein hys beloued Lady and Mistrsse Sabra sate inuested vppon a siluer Globe to beholde the Heroicall Encounters of her most Noble and Magnanimious ●hampion saint George of England his Tent was as white as the Swannes feathers glistring against the Sun supported by foure ●eyntles Elephants framed of the purest brasse about his Helmet he tied a wreath of Uirgins haire where hung his Ladies gloue which he wor●●● maintaine her excellent gifts of nature to excéede al 〈◊〉 on the earth These costlie habilliments rauished the beholders with such vnspeakeable pleasure that they stood gazing at hys furniture not able to withdrawe their eyes from so heauenlie a sigh● But when they beheld his victorious Encounters against the Graecian Knightes they supposed him to be the 〈◊〉 tamer of that seauen hea●ed monster that clambred 〈◊〉 the elements offring to pull Iupiter from hys throne His ●●éede neuer gaue Encounter with any Knight but hee tumbled horse and man to the ground where they lay for a time bereaft of sence The Turnament endured for that day from the Suns rising till the cole blacke Euenings Star appeared in which time he conquered fiue hundred of the hardiest Knights then liuing in Asia and shiuered a thousand Launces to the woonderfull admiration of the beholders Thus were the seauen dayes brought to ende by the seauen worthy Champions of Christendome in rewarde of whose Noble atchieuements the Graecian Emperour being a man that highly fauoured knightly procéedinges gaue them a golden trée with seauen branches to be deuided equally amongst them Which Honourable Prize they conuayed to saint Georges Pauilion where in deuiding the braunches the seauen Champions discouered themselues each to other and by what good fortune they ariued in the Graecian Court whose long wished sights so reioyced theyr harts whereby they accounted that happy day of méeting the ioyfullest day that euer they beh●ld But now after the Turnaments were fully ended the Knights res●ed themselues some few dayes recouering their wonted agillitie of body they fell to a new exercise of pleasure not appearing in glistring Armour before the Tilt nor following the loud sounding Drums siluer Trumpets but spending away the time in Courtly daunces amongst their beloued Ladies and Mistress●s in more Royaltie than the Phrigian knights wh●n they presented the Paragon of Asia with an Inchanted ●aske There wanted no inspiring Musicke to delight their eares no heauenly Sonets to rauish their sences nor no curious daunces to please their eyes Sabra she was the Mistresse of the Reuels who gra●●e the whole Court with her excellent beautie which séemed to excéede the rest of the Ladies as farre as the M●●ne surpasseth her attending Stars in a frostie night when shee daunst shee séemde like Thetis tripping on the siluer sandes with whom the Sun did fall in loue and if shee chaunst to smile the cloudy elements would cleare drop downe heauenly dew as though they mournde for loue There likewise remayned in the Court the six Scythian Uirgins that in former times liued in the shape of Swans which were as beautifull Ladies as euer eye beheld also many other Laidies attended the Empresse in whose companies the seauen Champions daylie delighted sometimes discoursing of amorous conceits other times delighting themselues with swéete tuned Musicke then spending the day in banqueting reuelling dancing such like pastimes not once iniuring their true betrothed Ladies But their Courtly pleasures continued not long for they were sodainely dashed with a present newes of open Warres proclaymed against Christendome which fell out contrarie to the expectations of the Christian Knights There ariued in the Graecian Emperours Pallace a hundred Harrolds of a hundred seuerall Prouinces which proclaimed vtter defiance to all Christiā kingdomes by these words Wee the high and mighty Emperours of Asia and Affrica great commaunders both of land seas proclaime by generall consent of all the Easterne Potentates vtter ruine and destruction to the Kingdomes of Christendome to all those Nations where any Christian Knights are harboured First the Soldan of Persia in reuenge of a bloody slaughter done in hys Pallace by an English Champion Ptolomie the Egiptian King in reuenge of his daughter violently taken away by the sayd knight Almidor the blacke King of Moroco in reuenge of his Quéene likewise taken away by the sayde English Champion The great Gouernour of Thessaly in reuenge of his daughter taken away by a French Knight The King of Ierusalem in reuenge of his daughter taken away by a Spanish Knight The Tartarian Emperour in reuenge of his Sonne the Countie Palatine slaine by the vnhappy hand of the Champion of Wales The Sicillian Monarke in reuenge of hys vaine trauaile after his seauen daughters now in the kéeping of certaine Christian Knights in reuenge of which iniuries all the Kingdomes from the furthest part of Prester Iohns Dominions to the borders of the red Seas hath set downe their handes and seales to bee ayders in this bloodie Warre This Prolamation béeing no sooner ended but the Graecian Emperour likewise consented to their bloody determination and thereupon gaue spéedy commandement to muster vp the greatest strength that Graecia could afforde to ioyne with the Pagans to the vtter ruine and confusion of Christendome which bloody edict or rather inhumane Iudgement pronounced by the accursed Infidels compelled the Christian Champions to a spéedy departure and euerie one to haste into his owne countrie there to prouide for the Pagans entertainment So after due considerations the seauen Champions departed from Graecia in companie of their betrothed Ladies who chose rather to liue in the bosoms of their husbands than in the armes of their misbeléeuing Parents where after some few dayes they ariued in the spacious bay of Portingale in which Hauen they vowed by the Honour of true Knighthood to méete againe within sixe monthes insuing there to conioyne all their Christian Armies into one Legion vpon which plighted resolution the worthie Champions departed one from another Saint George into England Saint Dennis into Fraunce Saint Iames into Spaine Saint Anthonie into Italie Saint Andrew into Scotland Saint Pattrick into Ireland Saint Dauid into Wales whose pleasant bankes they had not beheld in many a yeare before where their entertainments were as Honorable as their harts desired But to speake of the mustring vp of Souldiers in euerie Christian Kingdome and what strength ariued at the appointed time in the bay of Portingale shall be discoursed in the sequell of this Historie and how troublesome warres ouerspread the whole earth where the Heroicall déedes of these Noble Champions shall at large be discribed Also of the ●uerthrow of many Kings and Kingdomes ruines of Townes and Citties and the decay of many flourishing Common weales Likewise of the bloody Tragedies of many vnchristian Princes whereat the heauens will mourne to sée the effusion of blood trickle from the breasts of murthered Infants the heapes of slaughtered Damsels

accursed Infidels béeing their appointed place of méeting For though Hungarie of all other Countries both in Affrica and Asia then was the richest and plentifullest of victuals to mainetaine a Campe of men yet was it mightely ●uerprest greatly burthened with multitudes not onely with want of necessaries to releeue souldiers but with extreame crueltie of those bloody minded miscreants that through a ciuell discorde which hapned among●● them abou● the ●lection of a Generall they conuerted their vnitie to a most inhumane slaughter and their triumphant victorie to a dismall bloody Tragedy For no sooner ar●●ed thier Legions vpon the plaines of Algernos b●eing in length and breadt● one and twentie L●agues but the King of Hungarie caused their muster Rolles to bee publikely read iustly numbred in the hearing of the Pagan knights which in this maner was proclaimed through the Campe. First be it knowne vnto all Nations that fights in the quarrell of Affrica and Asia vnder the conduct of our three great Gods Mahomet Termigaunt and Apollo what inuincible forces be now ariued in this renowned Kingdome of Hungarie a Land Honoured through the worlde not only for Armes but curious buildings and plentif●ed with all manner of riches First we haue from the Emperour of Constantinople two hundred thousand Turkes From the Emperour of Graecia two hundred and fiftie thousand From the Emperour of Tartarie a hundred thréescore and thrée thousand From the Soldan of Persia two hundred thousand From the king of Ierusalem foure hundred thousand Of Moores one hundred twenty thousand Of coleblacke Negars one hundred and fortie thousand Of Arabians one hundred and sixtie thousand Of B●bilon●ans one hundred thirtie thousande and ●dd● Of Armenians one Hundred and fiftie Thousande Of Macedonians two hundred and ten thousand Of Saracusians fifteene thousand sixe hundred Of Hungarians three hundred and sixe thousand Of Sissillians seauenteene thousand thrée hundred Of Scythians one hundred and fiue thousand Of Parthians ten thousand and three hundred Of Phrigians seauen thousand and two hundred Of Ethiopians sixtie thousand Of Thracians a eleauen thousand Likewise from the Prouinces of Prester Iohn thrée hundred thousand of vnconquered Knights with manye other pettie Dominions and Dukedomes whose numbers I omit for this time lest that I shoulde séeme ouer tedious to the reader But to conclude such a Campe of Armed souldiers ariued in Hungarie that might in one month haue destroyed Christendome had not God defended them from those barbarous nation and by his inuincible power confounded the Pagans in their owne practises For no sooner had the Harrolds proclaimed through the Campe what number of Nations ioyned their bandes together but the souldiers fell at discention one with another about the election of a Generall some vowe● to follow none but the king of Ierusalem some Ptolomie the Egiptian King and some the Soldan of Persia euerie one protesting either to perse●er in their own willes or to loose their liues in the same quarrell Thus in this manner parties were taken on all sides not only by the meaner sort but by leaders and commaunders of bandes whereby the King●●● and Potentates were forced to commit their willes to the souldiers pleasure This ciuell broyle so d●scouraged the whole Armie that manye with drew their forces and presently marched homewards As the King of Moroco with hys tawnie Moores and cole-blacke Negers Likewise the Soldan of Persia Ptolomie the Egiptian King The Kinges of Arabia and Ierusalem euery one departed into their owne countries cur●●ng the time they attempted first so vaine an enterprize The rest not minding to pocket vp abuse ●ell from brauing boastes to downe right blows wherby grew such a sharp and bloody war that it cost more souldiers liues than the ciuell mutenie at the destruction of Ierusalem which battaile by the irefull Pagans continued without ceasing for the space of three monthes In which Encounters the murthered Infidels like scattered corne ouerspred the fields of Hungarie the fruitfull valleyes lay drowned in purple gore the fieldes of Corne consumed with flames of fire their Townes and Citties ruinated with wasting warre wherein the Fathers were sad witnesses of their Childrens slaughters and the Sonnes beheld their Parents reuerent haires more whiter than trye● siluer besmeered with clodded blood there might the Mothers sée their harmelesse Babes b●rne vp and ●owne the streets vpon souldiers Lances there might they sée their silken ornamentes and riche attire in pooles of blood lye swimming vp and downe there might the● see the braines of honest Dames and pure Uirgi●s da●●t against hard ●●intie stones there might they 〈◊〉 the●● C●urts Pallace● by souldi●rs burned to the ground there might they sée howe Councellers in their Scarlet gownes lay burning in the fire there might they see how Kings Queenes were arme in arme consumed to ashes there might they behode and sée howe melted gold in cho●ked sinkes lay euerie where there might they see the bloodiest tragedies that euer eye beheld and the woful●● newes that euer Christians eare heard tolde In this long and bloody warre one sucking child was not left aliue to report the story to insuing ages No not a souldier to carry Armes throughout the Kingdome of Hungaria so ●ustly was the vengeance of God throwne vpon the heads of these misbeléeuing miscreants that durst attempt to lift their handes against hys true anoynted Nations for no doubt but the inuincible Armie of the Pagans had ru●●●ted the borders of Europe had not the mightie hand of God with hys vnspeakeable mercie béene Christendomes defence and confounded the Infidels in their owne ciuell warres which bloody and strange ouerthrow of those vnchristian people let vs for euer burie in the lake of obliuion and perseuer in the fortunate procéedinges of the seauen Champions ●● Christendome who had entred the borders of Barberie before Almidor the blacke king of Moroco with hys scattered Troupes of Moores and Negars returned from Hungarie and by fire and sword had wasted ●any of his chiefest T●wnes and Fortes whereby the Countrie was much weakned and the Common● compelled to sue for mercie to the Champions hands who bearing 〈◊〉 Christian minds within their hearts continuall 〈◊〉 h●●boured vouchsafed to graunt me●cie to those that yeelded their li●es to the pleasure of the Christian Knights But when S. George had intelligence of Almidors approach with his weakned Troupes presently prepared hys Souldiers in readines to giue the Moores a bloody banquet which was the next morning by breake of ●ay perfourmed to the high honour of Christend●me but the night before the Moores knowing the countrie better than the Christians got the aduantage both of winde and Sunne whereat Saint George being something displeased but yet nothing discouraged imboldned hys souldies with many Heroicall spéeches proffering them franklie the enemies spoyles and so with the Sunnes vprising entred battell where the Moores fell before the Christians swords as eares of corne before the reapers f●●kle During this conflict the seauen Champions still

in the fore●runt of the battell so aduenturously behaued them selues that they slew more Negars than a hundred of the brauest Knights in the Christian Armies At last Fortune intending to make saint Georges prowesse to shin● brighter than the rest singled out the Moroco King betwixt whom and the English Champion was a long dangerous fight But saint George so couragiouslye behaued him with his trustie sword that Almidor was constrained to yeeld 〈◊〉 his mercie The Armie of the Moores séeing their King taken prisoner presently would haue fled but that the Christians béeing the lighter of foote ouertooke them and made the greatest slaughter that euer hapned in Barberie Thus after the battell ended and the ioyfull sound of victorie rung through the Christian Armie the souldiers furnished themselues with the enemies spoyles and martched by saint Georges direction to the Cittie of Tripolie being then almost vnpeopled through the late slaughter In which Cittie after they had r●sted some few dayes and refreshed themselues with holsome food the English Champion in reuenge of his former proffered iniuries by the Moroco King gaue hys seuere sentence of death First hee commaunded a brazen cauldron to bee filled with boyling Lead and Brimstone then Almidor to be brought to the place of death by twelue of the Noblest Pieres in Barberie therein to be consumed flesh blood and bone which was duelie performed within seauen dayes following the brazen cauldron was erected by the appointment of saint George directlie in the middle of the chiefest Market place vnder which a mightie hot fire continually burned for the space of of eight and fortie houres whereby the boyling Lead and B●imstone seemed to sparckle like the fierie furnaces in hell and the heate to e●ceede the burning Ouen at Babilon Thus all thinges béeing no sooner prepared in a readines the Christian Champions present to behold the wofull spectakle but the condemned Black●more King came to the place of Execution in a shirt of the finest Indian silk his hands pinniond together with a chaine of gold his face couered with a Damske Scarfe his attendants chiefe conducters twelue Moroco Pieres clad in Sabl● gownes of Taffetie carring before him the whéele of fortune with the picture of a Usurper climbing vp with this Motto on his breast I will be king in spite of Fortune vpon the top of the whéele the picture of a Monarke vaunting with this Motto on his breast I am a King in spite of Fortune Lastly on the other side of the Wheele the picture or perfect image of a deposed Potentate falling with hys head downewards with this Motto on hys breast I haue beene a King so pleaseth Fortune which plainelie signified the chaunce of warre and the constancie of destenie hys guard was a thousand Christian souldiers holding fortune in disdaine after them attended a hundred of Moroco virgins in blacke ornaments their haire bounds vp with siluer wiers and couered with vales of black silke signifiing the sorrow of their countrie for the losse of their Soueraigne In this mournefull manner came the vnfortunate Almidor to the boyling C●ulderne which whē he beheld hys heart waxed cold and his tongue d●ueide of vtterance for a time yet at last he brake foorth into thes● earnest protestations proffering more for his life than the whole Kingdome of Barberie can performe Most mightie inuincible Champion of Christendome quoth he let my life be ransomed and thou sh●l● yearely receaue ten tunnes of ●ried gold a hundred inchs of wouen silke the which our Indian maides shall sit and spinne ●ith siluer whéeles a hundred Arguses of spices and ●efined suger shal be yearely paid thee by our Barberie 〈◊〉 a hundred waggons likewise richly laden wit● 〈◊〉 a●d Iasper stones which by our cunning Lapidisies ●hall 〈◊〉 yearelie chosen foorth and brought ●hee home to England ●o make that blessed countrie the richest land within the Dominions of Europe Likewise I will ●eliuer vp my Diadem with all my Princely dignities and in companie of these Moroco Lordes like bridled Horses drawe thée daylie in a siluer Charriot vp and downe the ser●led earth til death giues end to our liues Pilgrimage Therefore most admired Knight at Armes let these salt teares that trickle from the Conduits of my eyes obtaine one graunt of comfort at thy handes for on my bended knées I beg for life that neuer before this time did kneele to any mortallman Thou speakst in vaine replyed saint George it is not the treasures hidden in the déepest seas nor all the golden mines of rich America that can redéeme thy life thou knowest accursed Homicide thy wicked practises in the Egyptian Court where thou profferedst wrongfully to bereaue me of my life Likewise through thy treachery I end●red a long imprisonment in Persia where for seauen yeares I dranke the Channell water and suffizde my hunger with the breads of branne meale My foode the loathsome flesh of Rats and Mice and my resting place a dismall dungeon where neither sunne nor the chearefull light of heauen lent me comfort during my long continued misery For which inhumane dealing and proffered iniuries the h●auens inforceth mee to a spéedy reuenge which in this manner shall be accomplished Thou seest the Engine prepared for thy death this brazen Caldron fild with boyling lead and brimstone wherein thy cursed body shall be spéedily cast and boyled till thy detested limbs bee consumed to a watry s●bstance by this sparckling lickour therefore prepare thy selfe to entertaine the violent stroake of death and willingly byd all thy kingly dignities farewell But yet I let thée vnderstand that mercy harboreth in a Christians hart and where mercy dwels there faults are forgiuen vppon some humble penetence though thy trespasse deserues 〈◊〉 pitty but seuere punishment yet vpon these considerations I will graunt thée liberty of life First that thou wilt forsake thy false Gods Termagaunt Mahomet and Apollo which he but the vayne imaginations of man and beléeue in our true and euer liuing God vnder whose banner we Christians haue taken in hande this long warre Secondly thou shalt giue commandement that all thy barbarous Nations be christened in the faith of Christ Thirdly and lastly that thy thrée Kingdomes of Barbary Moroco India sweare true alleagance to all Christian Kings and neuer to beare Armes but in the true quarrell of Christ and his annoynted Nations These things duly obserued thy life shall be preserued and thy liberty obtayned otherwise looke for no mercy but a spéedy and most ●yr●ible death These wordes more displeased the vnchristian King of Morco than the sentence of his condemnation and in these briefe spéeches set downe his resolution Great Potentate of Europe replied Almidor by whose mightines fortune sits fettered in the chaines of power my golden Diadem and regall Scepter by constraint I must deliuer vp but before I forsake my countrie Gods I will indure a hundred deathes and before my conscience be reformed to a new faith the earth

offence to God and a continuall corrasiue to my husbands heart if we liue together Therefore accursed monsters prosecute your tyrranie It is not all your threates and bloodie dealinges shall conuert my chaste minde nor once inforce my thoughtes to giue any consent thereunto These wordes béeing no sooner ended but the lu●●full Moore tooke an other of her children and stabed before h●r husbands face thincking therby to fore the Marchant to intreate his wife to consent to the wicked N●gars determinations but he beeing as resolute as his vertuous wife spake in this manner O you cursed blacke Dogges of Barberie more worse in quallitie than the bloody Tygers and more merciles than the wicked Cannibals thinke you that the murther of our children shall inforce our hearts to yéelde to your lustful desiers N● no perseuer in your tyrranies if I had a hundred children twice the number of King Priams yet would I loose them all before I will indure to see my wiues dishonor children may be gotten agayne but hir honor neuer recouered These words pricked the Negars to the gall and caused them to commit the wickedst déede that euer was practised vnder the celestiall Globe of heauen First they sheathed there Poniards in the breastes of all the Marchantes children whose guiltles blood stay●d all the chamber with a crimson colour then with there Fauchions did they cu● there bodies all in sunder and caused seauen P●es to be made of there flesh and after serued in a banquet to there wofull Parents whome the merciles Moores set at a square table the Marchant placed directly opposite against his wife wher they were constrained either to féede vpon there owne children or starue for want of other sustenance This wofull spectakle stroke such a griefe into the English Marchants heart that hee could scarce indure to speake for wéeping hys wife when shee behold the heades of her louelie sonnes lying vpon the table as it were looking to heauen for reuenge breathed fort● this woful dying lamentation O sillie Babes I would you had béene strangled in my wombe at your first conception then should not these accursed Infidels haue triumpht thus in your ●nhappie Tragedies Nor your vnfortunate Parentes beh●ld this luckles day whereon I pray that neuer S●nne may shine againe but bee accounted an ominous day throughout the whole earth for heauen I hope poore Babes will raigne a showre of vengeance on their heades that hath caused this your vntimelie death and with this praier I bit the world● fa●●well At which wordes her griefe so excéeded the boundes of reason that it stayed the passage of her spéech whereby she was forced to yéeld her soule to the Paradice of peace Shée béeing no sooner dead but the sorrowfull Marchant likewise biterly exclaimed against the iniustice of Fortune and the tyrranie of the barbarous Moores accounting his destenie more ha●les than the Thracian Kinges that buried his children in hys owne Bowels and the cruelties of the Infidels to excéed the tyrranie of Nero that caused hys Mothers wombe to be opened that hee might beholde the place of hys creation but when the Marchant had sufficiently bewailed the murther of hys children the death of his wife and hys owne miserie he yéelded hys soule likewise to the furious stroke of death The end of whose long languishments when the wicked Moores had intelligence they caused their dead bodies to be carried to the top of a hi●h mountaine and there left for the pray of hungrie Rauens But God most miraculously preserued them both from the furie of Foules and the violence of rauenous beasts for the su● consumed their bodies like the morninges dew and by the w●nderfull workemanship of heauen in the s●me place sprung a bower of Roses to signifie the vnspotted honour of the Marchant and his vertuous wife which miracle wee leau● to the woonder of the Moores and speake of the Christian Champions procéedinges that by this time were ariued in the Kingdome of Egipt CHAP. XV. How the Christians ariued in Egipt and what hapned to them there the Tragedie of the lustfull Earle of Couentrie how Sabra was bound to a stake to be burned how Saint George redeemed her lastly how the Egiptian king cast himselfe from the toppe of a Tower and broake hys necke DUring the time of the bloodie murther wrought by the barbarous Moores vpon the English Marchant and hys Wife with his seauen Children as you hearde in the former Chapter the Champions of Christendome ariued vppon the Territories of Egipt where they supposed to haue met with Legions of Armed Souldiers and to haue aduentured their liues vpon the chaunce of Warre but all things fell out contrarie to their expectations for they founde the Gates of euerie Cittie set open and euerie Uillage and Towne vnpeopled for the Commos at the report of the Christians ariuall secretly hid their treasure in the Caues of the earth in déepe Welles and such like obscure places and a generall feare and extreame terrour assailed the Egiptians as well the Pieres of the Land as the simple countrie people Many fled into woods and wildernesses closelie hid themselues in hollow trées Many digged caues in the ground where they thought best to remaine in safetie and many fled to high mountaines where they long tim● liued in great extreamity féeding vppon the grasse of the ground So greatly the Egiptians feared the Armie of Christians that they expected nothing but the ruine of their owne countrie with the losse of their owne liues and the murther of their wiues and Children But to speake of the Christian Champions who finding the countrie desolate of people suspected some déepe pollicie of the Egiptians thinking them to haue mustered their generall forces to bid them battaile therefore Saint George gaue commaundement through the whole Campe that not a man vpon paine of death shuld breake his ranke but martch aduisedlie with thrée weapons ready prest to enter battaile as though the enemie had directly plast themselues opposite against them which speciall charge the Christian Souldiers dulie obserued looking neyther after the wealth of Citties nor the spoyle of Uillages but circumspectly martched according to their leaders directions along the Countrie of Egipt till they approached the sight of King Ptolomies Court which when the noble Champion of England beheld in this manner incouraged hee hys followers Behold saide hée you inuincible Captaines of Christendome yonder cursed Towers where wicked Ptolomie kéepes hys Court those Battlements I say were they as richlie built as great Piramides of Greece yet shoulde they be subuerted and laid as leuell with the ground as the Cittie of Carthage there hath that accursed Ptolomie hy● residence that for preseruing his Daughter from the burning Dragon trecherouslie sent me into Persia where for seauen yeares I liued in great extreamie in a dismall dungeon where the Sunne did neuer lend me light nor the companie of people comfort In reuenge wherof my hart shall neuer rest in