of two yeares the newes which she had received of his death and that so certaine to her seeming that it put her into that course which they had so lately seene of professing her selfe a Nunne She did endeare the Queene of the North Islands bounty towards her and the Christianity of Ricaredo and his Parents And ended her speech with desiring Ricaredo that he would relate what had befallen him from the time that hee left Mundolin untill this very present wherein they saw him clad in the habit of a Captive and with a badge in his brest betokening that he was redeemed by way of Almes It is true as you say replied Ricaredo and in a few short words I will summe up unto you my many and great troubles After that I went out of Mundolin for to excuse the marriage which I could not make with Clisterna with whom Isabella told you my Parents would have mee to marry taking Guâ—…arte along with me that Page who as my Mothers letters made mention brought the newes to 〈◊〉 of my death Crossing France I came to Rome where off those two thousand Crownes which I had in gold I delivered a thousand and sixe hundred to a Banker who gave me a bill to receive so much in this Citie upon one Râ—…qui a Florentine And with those 400 which remained with me with intention to come for Spaine I made for Genoa whence I had notice given me that there were two Gallies of that Signorie to goe for Spaine I came with Guillarte my servant to a certaine Towne called Aquapendienâ—…e And in an Inne where I alighted I found the Earle Arnesto my mortall enemie who with foure servants went disguised and went as I conceive to Rome I did verily beleeve that he had not knowne me I shut my selfe up in my lodging with my servant and there kept my selfe close and with a great deale of care and vigilancie and with a determination and purpose at the shutting in of night to get mee gone and to change that my lodging for a safer But I did not doe it because the great carelesenesse which I observed in the Earle and his followers did assure me that he did not know me I supt in my lodging I made fast the doore stood upon my guard with my sword in my hand I recommended my selfe to God and would not that night goe to bed My selfe and my servant lay downe on a bench to take a little rest and sleepe and my selfe was halfe fallen a sleepe But a little after midnight they awakened me with purpose to make me sleepe an eternall sleepe Foure pistolls as I afterwards understood the Earle and his servants discharged against me leaving me for dead and having their horses already in a readines they presently put â—…oot in stirrop and went away bidding the Host of the Inne that hee would see me fayrely buried for that I was a man of principall note and qualitie My servant as mine Host afterwards told mee awakened with the noyse out of very feare leapt downe from a window that looked out into a base Court crying out oh miserable and unfortunate that I am they have slaine my Lord and Master and having sayd this he hyed him out of the Inne and that with such feare and haste that he did not so much as looke backe or make any stay till he came to Mundolin so that it was he who brought the newes of my death They of the Inne got up found mee shot athwart my bodie with foure bullets and wounded with many other lesser shot but all of them lighting on such parts that there was not one mortall wound amongst them all They cured me but it was two moneths and better before I was able to travell At the end whereof I came to Genoa where I found no other passage save in two small boats which my selfe and two other principall Spanyards hyred the one to goe before as a Vessell of advise for discoverie and the other we went in our selves With this securitie we embarqued our selves sayling along the shoare with intention not to ingulfe our selves but comming over against that place which they call Las Mtres arias or the three Maryes which is on the Coast of France Our first boat going forward to see if she could discover any thing in an unluckie houre two Turkish Gallies that lay lurking there in a little creeke of the Sea under the Rockes and the one of them putting her selfe forth to the Sea and the other keeping close by the land when they saw our drift that we meant to run a shoare we were prevented in our course taken by the Turkes and stript of all that we had even to our naked skins They rifeled the boats of all that they had and suffered them to run a shoare without offering to sincke them saying that they would serve another time to bring them another Galima for by this name they call those spoyles and booties which they take from the Christians Yee may very well beleeve me if I tell you that I felt in my soule the sorenesse of my captivity and above all the losse of those certificates and provisions I received at Rome which I brought along with mee lapt up in a little boxe of plate as likewise my bill of exchange for a thousand and sixe hundered Crownes But as good lucke would have it they lighted into the hands of a Christian Captive a Spanyard who kept them safe for if they had once come to the Turkes fingering I should at least have given for my ransome as my bill made mention of They brought mee to Argiers where I found the Fathers of the order of the blessed Trinitie treating of the redeeming of Christian Captives I spake with them I told them who I was and moved out of charitie though I was a stranger unto them they redeemed mee in this forme and manner following They gave for mee three hundered Ducats one hundered to be layd downe presently and the other two at the next returne of the Shippe that should come to redeeme the Father of that society who remained in Argiers engaged in foure thousand Ducats more then those that hee brought with him for to such great pittie and compassion extended the charitie of these men that they give their owne for other folks liberty and remaine themselves Captives for to free others from Captivitie And for an addition of this happinesse of my libertie I found my lost boxe with my certificates and my bill also of Exchange I shewed it to that holy Father who had ransomed me and I offered him five hundered Ducats more then my ransome came to towards the payment of his engagement It was almost a yeare ere the Shippe of almes returned and that which in the interim happened unto mee if I should goe about to recount it now unto you it would be another new Historie Onely I will tell you that I was knowne of one of the 20. Turkes whom I had set
once open his lips to offer any thing towards her ransome And so after many demaunds and answers my Steward concluded the businesse with giving for Leonisa 5000 and for mee 3000 Crownes Ysuph accepted this offer forced thereunto by the perswasions of his companion and all the rest of their Souldiers But because my Steward had not so much money in Cash hee entreated onely three daies time to make up the full summe with intention to sell my goods under hand and at a cheape rate till he had got so much together as would pay the ransome Ysuph was glad of this thinking with himselfe in the mean while to finde some occasion that the bargaine might not goe forward and so returning backe againe to the Island of Fabiana he sayd that by that time the three dayes were expired he would not faile to be there with them to receive the money according to the agreement But spitefull and ungratefull Fortune not yet wearied out with ill entreating mee had so ordained it that a Gallies boy who sate on the top of the mast as the Turkes Centinell discovered afarre off at Sea sixe Italian Gallies and did guesse which was true that they were either of Malta or Sicily Hee came running downe with all the haste hee could to give them newes thereof and in a trice the Turkes embarked themselves who were a shoare some dressing their dinner some washing their linnen and weighing anchor in an instant hoysing saile and working hard with their Oares turning their Prows towards Barbary in lesse then two houres they lost the sight of those Gallies and so being shadowed with the Island and covered from kenne by the approaching night they were secured from that feare which afrighted them Now I leave it to thy good consideration my friend Mahamut how much my minde was troubled in this voyage finding it to fall out so crosse and contrary to that which I expected and much more when the next day the two Gallies reaching the Island of Paâ—…tanalea on the South part the Turks went a shoare to get them wood and fresh victuals but most of all when I saw both the Captaines land and fell to sharing between them in equall proportion all those prizes they had taken each action of these was to mee a delayed death Comming then at last to the dividing of my selfe and Leonisa Ysuph gave to Fetala for so was that Captaine of the other Galley called sixe Christians foure for the Oare and two very beautifull boyes both naturalls of Corso and my selfe likewise with them that hee might have Leonisa for himselfe Wherewith Fetala rested very well contented And albeit I were present at all this I could not understand what they sayd though I knew what they did neither had I known then the manner of their sharings if Fetala had not come unto mee and told mee in Italian Christian thou art now mine and put into my hands as my Captive thou being rated at two thousand Crownes if thou wilt have thy libertie thou must give mee 4000 or resolve here to end thy daies I then demanded of him whether the Christian Damosell were his too he told mee no but that Ysuph kept her fob himselfe with intention to make her turne Moore and then marrie her And therein he sayd true for one of the Galley slaves told mee that sate chained on his bancke at his Oare and understood very well the Turkish language that hee over-heard Ysuph and Fetala treating therof Whereupon I came to my master and told him Sir if you will bringâ—… the businesse so about that the Christian Damosell may become your Captive I will give you ten thousand Crownes in good gold for her ransome He replied it was not possible but I will acquaint Ysuph with this great summe which thou offerest for her freedome and perhaps weighâ—…ing the profit he shall reape thereby hee will alter hiopurpose and accept of the ransome Hee did so and then presently commanded all those of his own Galley to embarke themselves as soone as possibly they could because he would goe for Tripoli in Barborie whence he was And Ysuph likewise determined to goe for Viserta and so embarked with the selfe same haste as they use to doe when they kenne either Galleys which they feare or Vessels which they minde to robbe And that which moved them to make the more haste was that they saw the weather began to change with manifest signes of a storme Leonisa was on land but not there where I might see her save onely at the time of her embarking where â—…ee both met at the sea-side This her new lover led her by â—…e hand and setting her foot upon the planke which reached from the land to the Galley she turned backe her eyes â—…o looke upon mee and mine which never were off from â—…er looked wishly on her but with such tendernesse that without knowing how such a cloud was cast before them that it took away my eye-sight and being robbâ—…d of it and of my senses I fell in a swound to the ground The like they afterwards told mee befell Leonisa for they saw her fall from the planke into the Sea and that Ysuph leapt in after her and brought her out thence in his armes This was told mee by those of my masters Galley whereinto they had put me I not knowing how I came there But when I came againe to my selfe and saw my selfe alone in that Galley and the other steering a contrary course and gone cleane out of sight from us carryings away with them the one halfe of my soule or to say 〈◊〉 all of it my heart was clouded anew and I begun anâ—… to curse my misfortune and called out aloud for death And such and so great was the moane and lamentation I made that my masters eares being offended there 〈◊〉 threatned with a great cudgell that if I did not hold my peace he would severely punish me Whereupon I â—…sed my teares and smothered my figâ—…es thinking 〈◊〉 violent restraining of them would breake out the more forceably in some one part or other and open a doore to let my soule out which I so earnestly desired might relinquish this my miserable body But froward Fortune not contenting her selfe to have put mee into this so narrow a streight tooke a course to overthrow all by taking from me all hope of remedie for in an instant the storme wee so much feared overtooke us and the Wind which blew strongly from the South blew full in the teeth of us and began with such furie to re-inforce it selfe that wee were forced to tacke about putting the Prow in the Poopes pâ—…ce suffering our Galley to goe which way the winde â—…ould carry her Our â—…aptaines designe was by fetching of boords to have puâ—… into some part of the Island for shelter and more particularly on the North part thereof but it fell not out answerably to his expectation but rather quite contrary to what hee had designed for
the winde charged us with such impetuousnesse that all that which we had sayled in two dayes within little more then foureteene houres we saw our selves within two Leagues or thereabout of the same Island from whence hee had put forth And now there was no remedy for hindring our being driven upon it and not to runne our selves upon some sandy-shoare but amongst very high Rocks which presented themselves to our view threatning inevitable death to our lives Wee saw on the t'one side of us that other our fellow Galley wherein was Leonisa and all their Turkes and Captive-rowers labouring hard with their oares to keep themselves off as well as they could from running upon the Rockes The like did wee in ours but with better successe it should seeme and greater force and strength then the other who being tyred out with their travaile and overcome by the stiffenesse of the winde and blustering storme forsaking their Oares and with them abandoning themselves they suffered themselves wee looking upon them to fall amongst the Rockes against which the Galley dashing it selfe was split in a thousand peeces Night was then drawing on and so great was the cry of those that gave themselves for lost and the fright of those who in our Vessell feared to bee lost that not any one of those many things which our Captaine commanded was either understood or done by them onely they did attend the not forgoing of their Oares plying them still holding it for their best remedie to turne the Prow to the Winde and to cast two Anchors into the Sea to keep off death for a while which they held to bee certaine And although the feare of dying was generall in all of them yet in mee was it quite contrary for fed with the deceitfull hope of seeing her in that other World who was so lately departed out of this every minute that the Galley deferred its drowning or splitting against the Rockes was to mee an age of a more painefull death The high swollen waves which past over the toppe of our weather beaten Vessell and my head made mee very watchfull to see whether or no I could espie floating upon those crump shouldered billowes the bodie of unfortunate Leonisa But I will not detaine my selfe now O Mabamut in recounting unto thee peece by peece the passions the feares the anguishes the thoughts which in that tedious and terrible night I had and passed that I may not goe against that which before I propounded and promised in relating briefly unto thee my misfortune Suffice it that they were such and so great that if death had come to me at that time hee needed not to have taken any great paines in taking away my life Day appeared but with appearance of a farre greater storme then the former and wee found that our Vessell lay riding out at Sea and a good waies off from the Rocks And having descried a point of the Island and perceiving that wee might easily double it both Turkes and Christians began to bee of good cheare taking new hopes and new hearts unto them fell anew to their worke in sixe houres we doubled the point and found the Sea more calme and quiet insomuch that with a great deale more ease they could handle and use their Oares and comming under Lee of the Island the Turkes leapt out to land and went to see if there were any reliques remaining of the Galley which the night before fell on the Rockes But even then too would not Fortune bee so favourable unto mee as to give me that poore comfort which I hoped to have had of seeing Leonisa's bodie in these my armes which though dead and broken I would have beene glad to have seene it for to breake that impossibilitie which my starre had put upon mee of linking my selfe therewith as my desires well deserved And therefore entreated one of the Renegadoes to dis-embarke himselfe to goe in search thereof and to see if the rolling of the Sea had cast her on the shoare But as I told thee all this did Heaven deny me and just in that very instant the Winde began to rise and the Sea grow rough so that the shelter of that Island was not of any benefit at all unto us Fetala seeing this would not strive against Fortune who had so violently persecuted him and therefore commanded them to right and fit the Galley to beare a little sayle to turn the Prow to the Sea-ward and the Poope to the Wind-ward and he himselfe taking charge of the Rudder sate at the helme suffering her to runne through the wide Sea being well assured that no impediment would crosse its course The Oares bare themselves very eeven being seated very orderly on their bankes and all the rest of the company got them into the Hold underneath the Hatches so that there was not a man to bee seene on the Deck save the Master who for his more safety caused himselfe to be bound fast to his seate giving thence direction to the Rowers for the better governing and guiding of the Vessell which made its way with that swiftnesse that in three dayes and three nights passing in sight of Trapana of Melazo and Palermo she imboked by the Pharos of Mecina to the wonderfull feare of those that were in her and of those likewise which behold them on the land In fine not to bee tedious in recounting unto thee the terriblenesse of this tempest which is beyond all expression I say that being weary hungry and tyred out with such a large compasse about as was the rounding of almost all the whole Island of Sicily wee arrived at Tripoli in Barbarie where my master before that he had reckoned with his Levant-men shared out the spoiles and given that unto them which was their due and a fifth to the King as the custome is fell sicke of a Pluresie accompanied with a burning Fever in that violent manner that within three dayes it sent him packing to hell The King of Tripoli seazed presently upon all his goods and the Alacade de los muertos which is an Office of Inquirie concerning the dead substituted by the great Turke who as you know is heire to those that are his naturall Subjects after their deaths These two possessed themselves of all my Master Fetala's wealth and I fell into the hands of him who was the Viceroy of Tripoli and within fifteen daies after he received his Patent for Cyprus with whom you see I am come hither but without any intention at all to ransome my selfe though he hath often told me that I should if I would and wondred why I did not do it all this while being as Fetala's Souldiers told him a principall person and a man of good meanes in his owne Countrey But I was so far from entertaining that motion that I told him that they had mis informed him of my fortunes And if thou wilt Mabamut that I acquaint thee truely with what I thinke Know thou then that
I beseech you that you will briefly tell me how you escaped from the hands of the Pirats and how you came to those of the Iew who so lately sold you The storie of my misfortunes answered Leonisa require more leisure then time will now permit to relate yet notwithstanding I will not leave you wholy unsatisfied Know then that the same very evening we parted Yzuph's Galley was with a stiffe and strong winde driven to the same Isles of Paâ—…tanalea where wee likewise saw your Vessell but ours wee being not able to hinder it ranne remedilesly upon the Rockes My Master then having his destruction before his eyes and that there was little or no hope of safety left with all possible haste emptied two Hogsheads which were full of water then stopped up the bung-holes very close and having bound the one to the other with good strong cords he seated me betweene them that done hee presently stript himselfe and taking another Hogshead spreading his armes over it and binding a rope about his middle causing the same to bee fastned to the Caskes whereon I sate bound with great courage hee rushed into the Sea towing mee after him I had not the heart to rush in after him which one of the Turkes seeing pushed mee forward with all his force and sent mee packing after Yzuph where I lay without any sense nor came againe to my selfe till I found my selfe on Land in the armes of two Turkes who bowing my head and bodie towards the ground held me so a pretty space all that while great store of salt-water which I had swallowed downe comming forth at my mouth At last I opened mine eyes but as one amazed and looking about who should I see but Yzuph lying by me with his braines beaten out against the Rockes when hee had almost recovered the shoare where hee ended his life This I afterwards understood by the Turkes and they likewise told mee that taking hold of the Cord they drew mee on Land without receiving any further harme then what I mentioned before unto you of all the whole companie onely eight persons escaped drowning Eight daies wee abode in the Island the Turkes using mee with as much respect as if I had beene their Sister if not more Wee kept our selves close in a Cave the Turkes fearing that if they should bee espied the Christians which had the command of the Fort which is in the Island would salley forth upon them and take them Captive They sustained themselves with wet bisket which the Sea had cast upon the shoare from out the broken bins of the Galley which they went forth to gather up by night that they might not be discovered Fortune had so ordered it for my great ill that the Fort was without a Captaine who died but a few daies before and in all the Fort there were not above twenty souldiers This we came to know by a youth which was captivated by the Turkes who came downe from thence to gather Cockles by the Sea-side At the eight daies end there arrived on that Coast a Vessell of the Moores which they call Caramucales the Turkes saw it's comming in and that they lay at Anchor a little off the Land and so made towards them making such signes to the Vessell which was not far off that they who were in her knew they were Turkes that called unto them Thereupon they sent out their Cock-boat and they recounted unto them their distresse and they received them into their Barque wherein came an exceeding rich Iew a Merchant and all the lading of the Vessell or the most part of it was his being fraughted with Carpets and Hides and other commodities which they bring from Barbary to the Levant In the said Vessell the Turkes went for Tripoli and in that Voyage they sold me to the Iew for two thousand Duckats an excessive prise if his love towards me had not made him so liberall which the Iew afterwards discovered unto me Leaving the Turkes after all this in Tripoli the Vessell tackt about to performe her Voyage and the Iew in most impudent manner fell to soliciting of mee but I shewed him such a countenance as his filthy desires deserved Seing himselfe then in despaire of obtaining his lustfull ends he resolved to rid himselfe of me upon the first occasion that should offer it selfe unto him And it comming to his knowledge that the two Bashaw's Ali and 〈◊〉 were in this Island where he might sell and vent his Merchandize as well as in Xâ—…o whither he was bound he came hither with intention to sell me to one of the two Bashaw's and for this cause put mee into this dresse and weare wherein you now see me for to affectionate them the more unto me who should buy me I am given to understand that this Cadi hath bought me with purpose to carry me for a Present to the Great-Turke whereof I am not a little afraid Here I came to know thy feigned death and I must now tell thee if thou wilt believe me and believe me thou maist that it grieved me to the very soule and that I did more envie then pittie thee yet not out of any ill will that I bare unto thee though I did not answer thy love according to thy expectation for I shall never be ingratefull and dis-respective where I have found so much love and respect but because thou hadst then made an end of thy lives Tragedie Deare Leonisa answered Ricardo you say not amisse herein if death had not hindered the happines of my comming againe to see you esteeming more this instant of glorie which I enjoy in seeing you then any other happinesse saving that which is eternall which either in life or in death might assure unto me my desire The Cadi now my Master into whose power I am come by no lesse various accidents then yours beares the like â—…ervent affection unto you as Halima doth to me hee hath made choice of mee to bee the interpreter of his thoughts I entertained the motion not for to doe him any pleasure thereby but that I might gaine the commoditie and convenienciâ—… of speaking with you to the end that you may see Leonisa to what hard termes our misfortunes have brought us you to be the meanes of working an impossibilitie for you know my minde touching the motion you made unto mee and me to be likewise set a worke about such a businesse as I least dream't of and for which I would give rather then obtaine it my life which now I esteeme according to it's high worth and valew since that it hath had the happinesse to see you I know not what to say unto thee Ricardo replied Leonisa nor how we shall be able to get out of this intricate laborinth whereinto as thou say est our hard fortune hath brought us onely I know to say thus much that we must be driven in this businesse to use that which is contrary to our condition and hatefull to
of them When they arrived at the Port it was about eight of the clocke in the morning which showed it selfe so fair and so cleare that it seemed to appeare so of purpose for to behold that joyfull entrance Before their entering the Port. Ricardo made them to discharge their Peeces of Ordnance belonging to the Galley to wit one Canon and two Falcons the Citie answered them with the like The people stood as thicke as they could stand together expecting the comming in of this goodly Vessell so bravely waving her flying flagges and streamers moving too and fro with a gentle gale of winde But when they were come so neere them as to discerne that they were Turkish by reason of those white Turbants that they wore on their heads they beganne to waxe fearefull and jealous of some fraud and deceit Whereupon they betooke them to their Armes and as many as were train'd Souldiers in the Citie hastned to the Port whilest the Horsemen went some one way some another scouring the coast Of all which stirre they tooke great pleasure who by little and little drew neerer and neerer till they entred the Haven and casting anchor neere the shoare throwing out a plank and pulling in their Oares one by one as it were in procession came on Land which with teares of joy they kissed againe and againe an evident signe that they were Christians who had made prize of that Vessell The last that landed were the Father and Mother of Halima and her kinsmen all as wee told you clad after the Turkish fashion That which made up the totall summe or finall end of all was faire Leonisa having a vayle cast over her face of Crimson Taffata led by Ricardo and Mahamut which spectacle drew after them the eyes of all that infinite multitude who at their landing prostrating themselves as the rest did saluting the earth with their kisses By that time this was done the Captaine and Governour of the Citie was come up unto them who knew very well that they of all the rest were the chiefe and principall persons But he had scarce come fully neere them but presently he knew Ricardo and ranne with open arms and signes of exceeding great joy to embrace him There came along with the governour Cornelio and his Parents and those of Leonisa with all her kinsfolke together with those of Ricardo all which were the greatest Persons of rancke and qualitie in the whole Citie Ricardo embraced the Governour and repayed them all with thanks that gave him the Parabien of his returne He tooke Cornelio by the hand who as soone as he knew him and found that he held him fast his colour began to change and beganne to shake and tremble for feare and taking Leonisa likewise by the hand he sayd Gentlemen of curtesie sirs I beseech you that before wee enter the Citie and into the Temple to give due thankes unto our Lord God for the great favours which he hath done for us in our misfortunes you will bee pleased to heare mee speake a few words which I am desirous to deliver unto you Whereunto the Governour answered that hee might utter what he would for they should all with much content and silence give him both a willing and attentive eare Presently hereupon all the chiefest amongst them placed themselves round about him and hee raising his voyce to such a height as he might not overstraining it be well heard spake unto them after this manner Gentlemen yee may well remember the misfortune which some moneths since befell me in the Garden neere the Salt-pits together with the losse of Leonisa it cannot likewise have fallen out of your memorie the diligence which I used in procuring her libertie since that being forgetfull of mine owne I offered for her ransome all my whole estate And though this perhaps to your seeming was then accounted great Liberalitie yet can it not neither ought it to redound to my praise since that I was to give it for the ransome of my soule That which from that time since hath happened to both of us will require long time a more seasonable conjuncture and another tongue lesse troubled then mine Let it suffice for the present that I tell you that after many various and strange accidents and after a thousand lost hopes of remedying our misfortunes Heaven taking pitie of us without any merit of ours hath returned us home to our native Countrey as full of content as abounding in wealth yet neither from this nor my procured libertie is the end answerable to my desire nor doe I take any great contentment in the enjoying of these but in that which I conceive this both in peace and war my sweet enemie taketh as well for to see her selfe free as to see here before her as she doth the image of her owne soule Yet notwithstanding I greatly rejoyce in this generall rejoycing which they receive who have beene my companions in miserie and though hard misfortunes and sad mischances are wont to alter our dispositions and to depresse valiant mindes Yet was it not so with the overthrower of my good hopes for I may bee bold to say it that she amidst these her miseries hath with the more undaunted courage and constant resolution endured the shipwracke of her disadventures and the encounters of my earnest but honest importunings Wherein that old Adage is verified they may change their Countries but not their Customes who have once gotten a habite of them Of all this which I have sayd I thence inferre that I offered my whole estate for her ransome gave her my soule in my good desires plotted the meanes of her libertie and adventured more for her then my self my life And though from all these in the construction of noble and ingenious dispositions may be raised ingagements of some moment yet will I not presse any one upon her save onely this one which I presume she will make good and in saying this he puts up his hand and in a very civill and mannerly way tooke away the scarfe from before Leonisa's face which resembled as it were the removing of a cloud which darkens the beautifull brightnesse of the Sunne Then did he prosecute his speech saying Loe here Cornelio I deliver unto thee such a jewell which thou oughtest to esteeme above all those things that are esteemed worthie And so here thou faire Leonisa I give thee that which thou hast ever had in thy memorie This if you please you may tearme Liberalitie In comparison whereof to give away my estate my life my honour is all as nothing Take her oh thou fortunate yong man take her I say and if thy knowledge can but come to reach so high as to come to know her worth I shall hold thee to be the happiest man this day on earth Together with her I will give thee likewise as much as comes to my share of all that which Heaven hath allotted to us all which I make account will