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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16157	Eromena, or, Love and revenge. Written originally in the Thoscan tongue, by Cavalier Gio. Francesco Biondi, Gentleman extraordinary of his Majesties Privie Chamber. Divided into six books. And now faithfully Englished, by Ia. Hayvvard, of Graies-Inne Gent; Eromena. English	Biondi, Giovanni Francesco, Sir, 1572-1644.; Hayward, James, of Gray's Inn.	1632 (1632)	STC 3075; ESTC S107086	212,008	210

world The noblenesse of a minde so divine as exceeded all Royall state requiring a qualitie more sublime to content it selfe so as he for being not able to reach with the lownesse of his services to the hight of her perfections would have utterly dispaired thereof if he desire to serve her more than the service it selfe eternally inferior to his duty had not made the way of her favour easie to his merits Little else could Polimiro ponder in his minde the greenenesse of his yeares not affording him as yet other effectuall affections than the lesse secret and his want of experience depriving him of the light of nature which is wont to beare a great sway even in childhood it selfe unlesse a true love interposing it selfe engender a vertuous eclipse his speculations were altogether of abstractions for in not knowing he knew and though he knew not how yet well knew he what he would faine have and what he would faine not have Full little was he as yet aware of that the negative might have place in a courteous Lady he being not ever so little acquainted with those things which though sued for might be without discourtesie denied Much was he troubled and vexed for his hurts thinking that the time spent in healing his wounds wounded him in losing so much time in her service his heart perswading him that with the ardent desire he had to deserve her he found himselfe sufficiently encouraged to chase away not onely from his trenches but even from Sardegna both Epicamedo and Mars himselfe Whilst Polimero stood thus feeding his amorous melancholy in came the Princesse who accustomed to come every day to visite him and the better to shadow her affection held her councell of warre about his bed under pretext for the honour due to his valour to receive also his opinions Where after thanking her for the trouble and paines she vouchsafed to take in comming to visite him he besought her to give him leave to goe out to the field for that hee well saw that that aire agreed not with her constitution and that therefore she being unaccustomed to hardnesse and disasters should doe well to take some course to avoide them Whereunto the Princesse that well knew the cause of her alterations made answer My Lord you would faine governe your selfe according to the greatnesse of your stout spirit which at this present ought to resigne its government to your person that may not be otherwise ruled than according to your present indisposition you well know and feele what prejudice you have got thereby already I pray you thinke on it that it may serve you for a warning to dehort you from incurring againe into the like inconvenience My indisposition is not such as you take it for neither doth any toile prevaile over any tendernesse or ease that I have beene formerly used unto Have but a little patience and when the Chirurgians condescend that you may without danger get up then will I also bee therewith contented Whilst thus with reiterated supplications Polimero endevored to obtaine his request there entred into the tent Carasio with a Currier come from Porto di Torra who kneeling downe before the Princesse delivered her a letter which opened she found to be the Vice-Admirals and contained the newes of the victory obtained against the enemies with the conquest of fifteene Galleyes which chanced him by the aid of one Galley commanded by a most noble Knight And that now he was resolved having arm'd foure Galleyes of those fifteene he had taken and reinforced the rest to assaile with the assistance of that other Galley Epicamedo's Armado at Terranuova whereof hee would render an account to her Highnesse whom hee besought to charge the enemie by land in the selfesame time if it seemed good to her Highnesse so to doe The Princesse having read this letter gave it Polimero and sending for the Councell of warre caused it to be reade unto them who approved of the opinion of the Vice-Admirall And because the sea was about two and twenty miles thence distant there were placed many Centrees along the mountaine towards Castrodesen who as soone as they saw the Fleete appeare and assaile the Corsan Armado were to give a signall with smoke in severall places which was performed with such secrecie that no man knew it except the Councell and him that standing Centree at the sea might serve to give all the rest directions nor was there any danger of his falling into the hands of the enemie because the Sardan horse was Commander of the field Polimero when the Councell was gone turned towards the Princesse saying Alas and will your Highnesse doe me this shame to let me lie lulled here amongst the feathers in such an occasion of service when others toile themselves abroad in the field Not I by any meanes answered the Princesse so that the Chirurgians permit you but to goe abroad and as she would have spoken on in came the Chirurgians to dresse him who were so favourable towards him in their opinions that the Princesse was contented hee should get him up Much was Polimero troubled in minde ever fithence he had reade the Vice-Admirals letter wondering with himselfe what or who might be that most noble Knight therein mentioned On this jealousie already crept into his imagination began full cruelly to sting him making him beleeve that it was some Prince who moved with the fame of Eromena was come thither of purpose to serve her And because his heart was tortured with the passion he felt therefore he resolved rather to die than endure to have any rivall so easily is humane wit altered when it is once ravished with its affections seeing that he who before breath'd forth nought else but vertue now stung with the Serpent of amorous envy for such was his though unreasonable being that he neither saw his favours participated nor any person partakeable of them he suffered himselfe to be guided with the false imagination of having a rivall till the day wherein he was cleared of that doubt with no small amazement and griefe of Eromena who on the other side raved therefore beleeving that his minde surprised by some new thought had fully alienated from her his affection And so indeede seemed it to be he wanting art to dissemble his passions which concealed though not disguised deceived the judgement that tooke the one for the other so as if Eromena were therein mistaken yet was she not to be therefore blamed because Polimero an experienced youth reasoned with himselfe on this businesse as if she had beene faultie and as if her beauties and good parts ought not to have had the force of attracting other than him alone in so much as he became fretfull and pettish never beholding her but with troubled browes manifest expressers of more troubled thoughts whilst shee that passionately loved him knowing what little reckoning he made of his wounds could by no meanes imagine what might be the cause of so

the courage to practise and use the handling of armes an exercise not ordinary to her sex and though she had naturally such a spirit and will yet how came she to acquire an apt gesture and dexteritie ot supply the weaknesse of her sex when occasion required Whereto the Pilot smiling answered Thinke not Sir that the resolution of our Princesse is void of reason or insufficient to accomplish whatsoever she takes in hand I confesse it is a thing extraordinary to her sex but not to her for know that whilst she was yet a girle and had no other brother than the unfortunate Prince shee even then loved him and he her so heartily deerely as their fraternitie became converted to a friendly society most part of their time spent they together neither had the one any conversation in his exercise more deare than his Sisters nor the other any company more conformable to her inclination than her Brothers whose childish games and delights being such as those of all Princes should be representations of battels of armes and horses she came by the shadow to such knowledge of the things reall and substantiall that there is not a Knight can either in managing a courser observe better his times and motions or breake a Launce with a seemelier grace or bandish a Sword with greater cunning or dexteritie than this our Princesse Continued had they on this discourse so much was Polimero therewith delighted had it not beene broken off by the drawing neere of the Barke by them a little before descried whereunto seeing no body therein they drew neere and one of the Mariners boording her found therein a man stretcht all along by the pumpe covered with many cloathes and gasping for life they pittying to see him in such a plight and curious to know the occasion thereof began to question him but he opening his eyes a little and then closing them againe made them no answer they hereupon seeing him not any way wounded thought that perhaps he wanted sustenance so much the rather when having searched the Barke they found there neither meat nor drinke therefore gave they him a little wine and a while after a little more till they saw him beginne to recollect his spirits and recover some vigor and withall unclosing his eyes mutter out some faint words so as having made him a soppe with the pith of bread sokened in Spanish wine he willingly are it whereby he recovered such force as turning up his face he discovered himselfe to bee the Admirals slave of the Pilot very well knowne who was therfore the gladdest man in the world yet without making any shew thereof he commanded them to use all attendant diligence to restore him to himselfe which they so performed as in a short time he began to speake The Pilot seeing him restored to his disposition caused him to be transported over into his ship and the Barke to be tow'd then after he had given him leave a good while to repose himselfe he inquired of him what he was and by what accident he came to be so left alone He with his eyes inclined downewards began to tell them a tale without either beginning or end and so by studying for matter the more disclosed himselfe to be what he was neither had they gotten ought else out of him had not the Pilot all disguise laid aside said unto him Art thou Andropodo and knowest not him prostrating himselfe kneeled downe before him saying Pardon me my Lord for truly I knew you not in that habite you now weare and sithence I am falne into your hands I beseech you rather to kill me than bring me backe to Sardegna For albeit I am no wayes guiltie of the Prince his death neverthelesse I assure my selfe that because I am the Admirals slave my innocencie cannot save me No more of this answered the counterfeit Pilot but tell us how comes it that thou hast continued so long at sea hast thou landed any where Whereunto Andropodo all quaking made answer that about some fortie dayes sithence he imbarked himself during which time he had suffered all the miseries to a body humane insufferable that the wind ever kept him for the most part in the maine sea that sometimes he saw land and had a good wind to come almost a shore but that it changed in a moment and that he not having any experience in governing the sailes and withall being all alone had escaped in many tempests the danger of drowning a thousand times but that his ill fortune had saved him to make him die a death more miserable that when he came aboord he found in the Barke a little bread which lasted him not two dayes That on the Sardegnan coast hee met with some Fisher-men and a little farther that way a ship of Greece that furnished him with bisquet and a barrell of water which he had wanted three dayes before That the principall cause of his roving up and downe the sea was sleepe because the Barke abandoned of her Rother ranne whither the wind carried her so losing whilst he slept the way he had gained waking and beside being in the midst of the sea and not knowing on which part the land lay he beleeved that he ranne alwayes in a round going perhaps nothing at all or very little wide from the same place And finally that his spirit failing him he was stretch't along expecting death in manner as they found him And being asked why he imbarked not himselfe in the ship that sold him the victuals he answered that they would not take him aboord for feare of the plague whereof those of the East were very scrupulous it being not lawfull for them to commerce or trafficke without their patent of health from the place whence they parted with the precise number of the persons a-boord them So be it a-Gods name answered the Pilot they have well done in not taking thee with them to leave thee to me who will bring thee where thou shalt receive the reward thy treasons merit Which said he caused him to bee bound and set fast in the lowest part of the ship to deprive him thereby of the meanes of doing himselfe any harme Polimero then turning towards the Pilot and smiling said Sir you have hitherto represented the personage of one whom you are not I pray you vouchsafe to favour me so much as fully to unmaske your selfe seeing this Villaine hath almost wholly discovered you The Knight who till then had caused himselfe to be called Pilot answered I will obey you Sir knowing you for such as may command me for be pleased I pray you to know that if you beleeve your selfe masked as well as I you entertaine then an opinion that deceives you you having not so soone set your foot a shipboord but that I knew you for what you are My name is Eterossilo and am Marquesse of Chia a place on the sea coast on this part of Sardegna bordering towards Afsrique I was the

Oliui a palace of the Queene his Mother gave order publikly to Carasio to come thither to him with the furniture of his chamber Got out of the City and fetching a great compasse he return'd againe at night and finding Carasio in the place appointed went aboord the shippe who having waied up her anchors hoyst up her sailes before a pleasant and gentle gale of winde As soone as the King had dined he sent secretly a Gentleman of his chamber to spie for Polimer● and understanding what order he had given Carasio was thereof well pleased imagining that by that meanes he might avoide occasion of new broiles And lest the Prince should resolve to pursue him wroth perhaps that his brother went away triumphant with the horse escaped from his anger he entertained him all that day in counsell The day following came to court the housekeeper of Poggio who seene of the King and questioned of the cause of his comming to the City whilest he ought to have beene an assistant in the service of the Infante Polimero answered He was come for some service of the house And that as touching the Infante Polimero he understood not his Maiesties meaning How understandest thou me not replied the King what I would tell thee is that when any of my sonnes come to Poggio thou depart not thence but serve them as cause shall require Even so doe I my Leige answered the housekeeper and acknowledge my selfe blame-worthy if I did otherwise But my Lord the Infante Polimero is not at Poggio How is he not there said the King very angrily and having espied the Gentleman that had told him he was gone thither he said Did you not tell me that Polimero was gone to Poggio I did so my Liege answered the Gentleman citing with that his authors who were some of the Infante's servants there present who joyntly protested that they saw him mount on horseback and that he would not suffer any man come with him but gave order to Carasio to bring that night to Paggio the furniture of his chamber The keeper amazed at so many affirmations turning towards the King My dread Soveraigne said he my Lord the Infante Polimero parted yesterday in the evening to goe to Poggio I know not where he may be he came not the last evening nor this last night much lesse this morning for I dined there neither is it above an houre since I parted thence The King fixing his eyes on the table knew not what to imagine he thought first hee might be gone to his uncle in Numidia but that seemed impossible considering the discommodity of the journey because of the sands it being not likely he would undergoe that journey secretly with so much danger and besides he would have feared to be pursued and overtane Afterwards reasoning on the old desires he had to travell even in that also appeared difficulty being he could not doe it without a great provision of monies But the remembrance of his sister the Queene of Ireland come into his fancy he imagined that for certaine he was imbarqued to goe to her and therefore commanded to see what manner of shipping had set out of the Port that night and whither they went and from whence they were but finding that there parted no other than a ship of Sardegna he remained more confused than before not judging it a thing likely that he was gone for Sardegna but that the ship had rather 〈◊〉 course of the straight of 〈◊〉 supposing that they could not 〈◊〉 land in Sardegna because of the warres which he knew to be there very hot Inveloped with so many coniectures he went to the Queene to whom hee related what till then no creature living durst have spoken of whereat shee orecome with an extreame hearts griefe beganne the pitifullest complaint that could be The King not able to endure the sight of her in that plight went out from her and having sent for the Count of B●na charged him diligently to search Palimero's lodgings and study and to bring him word of all whatsoever he found there The Count obeyed and making a diligent search of all made an inventory thereof Being come to the study he caused it to be opened wherein the first thing he discovered was a letter sealed and placed on the midst of the table with inscription To the King my 〈◊〉 which the Count tooke and brought unto the King offering him also the inventory which hee refused But opening the letter hee found it said Sir Among all the misfortunes which I have hitherto in these my few yeeres partaked of the greatest is that I part without your Maiesties royall licence which if I had done in way of disobedience or other such like thing my life would be loathsome unto me neither could that joy be found that might any way case me But Royall Sir I hitherto ever have and henceforth ever will study to obey you whereof although the obligation takes away the merit yet bereaves it not me of that comfort which a noble minde receives in doing his duty I am gone away not for any curiosities sake to see my selfe free nor for any desire I had to exercise my selfe in the profession of armes Since that in the one I aspire to no greater liberty than to serve your Maiestie neither had your clemency denied me in its time fit in the other such reasonable satisfaction and in such an equipage as had beene answerable to the honor I have in being your sonne The sole cause of my going away is Because the small fortune I have in the favour of my LORD the Prince hath therto advised me Had I thought I could be able to have bettered the respect I owe him and so becom more gracious in his favor heavens be my witnesse I had never entertained such a resolution knowing that next your Maiestie he is that only one whom I ought to serve and honour But seeing my conscience doth not accuse me of misdoing I must needs confesse my behaviour to be such as cannot please him And if my duty be to please him but cannot then am I obliged to what I can which is to absent farre from him my presence which so much dislikes him Touching the last occasion of my departure I am not willing to say any thing not meaning to excuse my selfe by pretending that I could not find any reason in my LORD the Prince who indeed cannot doe amisse in any thing he doth against me But rather I humbly beseech your Maiestie to hold mee for faulty condemning 〈◊〉 for my absence though neither voluntary nor malicious for which I hope by the intercession of your gratious benignity to obtaine your royall pardon I write not to the Queen my Lady and Mother lest I thereby grieve her the more Assuring neverthelesse the one and the other that I part hence with an Indeliblememory of being of both your Maiesties a most humble and most obedient Sonne and servant Polimero The King