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A08840	The second tome of the Palace of pleasure conteyning store of goodly histories, tragicall matters, and other morall argument, very requisite for delighte and profit. Chosen and selected out of diuers good and commendable authors: by William Painter, clerke of the ordinance and armarie. Anno. 1567.; Palace of pleasure. Vol. 2	Painter, William, 1540?-1594.	1567 (1567)	STC 19124; ESTC S110236	560,603	890

excéeding faire crown of Gold apt and mete for the 〈◊〉 head Afterwards when he saw time conuenient he 〈◊〉 that in the market place of the Citie a pearche should be erected and 〈◊〉 with tapestrie Arras 〈◊〉 other costly furnitures suche as Princes palaces are 〈◊〉 decked withall Thither with sound of 〈◊〉 he caused the Falcon to be conueyed where the King 〈◊〉 ded one of his noble men to place the Crowne vpon his head for prise of the excellent pray atchieued vppon the Egle. Then he caused the hangman or common executioner of the Citie to take the Crowne from the Faucon and with the trenchant sworde to cut of his head Upon these contrary 〈◊〉 the beholders of this sight were amazed and began diuersly to talke thereof The King which at a window stoode to beholde this fact caused silence to be kepte and so loude opened his Princely voice as he was well hearde speaking these wordes There ought good people none of you all to 〈◊〉 and grudge at the present fact executed vpō the Faucon bicause the same is done vpon good reason and iust cause as by processe of my discourse you shall well perceyue I am persuaded that it is the office and duetie of euery magnanimous prince to know the valor and difference betwene vertue and vice that all vertuous actes 〈◊〉 thie attempts may be honoured and the contrary 〈◊〉 punished otherwise he is not worthy of the name of a King and Prince but of a cruell and traiterous tyrant For as the Prince beareth the title by principalitie and chief so ought his life chiefly to excell other whome he gouerneth and ruleth The bare title and dignitie is not sufficient if his condicions and moderation bée not to that supreme state 〈◊〉 Full well I knew and did consider to be in this dead Faucon a certaine generositie and stoutnesse of minde ioyned with a certaine fierce 〈◊〉 and nimblenesse for which I crowned and rewarded hir with this golden garland bicause of the stoute slaughter which she made vpon that mightie Egle worthie for that 〈◊〉 and prowesse to be honoured after that solemne guise But when I considered how boldly and rashely she assailed and killed the Egle which is 〈◊〉 Quéene and maistresse I thought it a part of iustice that for hir bolde and vncomely act she shoulde suffer the paine due to hir 〈◊〉 For vnlaufull it is for the seruaunte and vnduetifull for the subiecte to imbrue his handes in the bloud of his soueraigne Lord. The Faulcon then hauing slaine hir Quéene and of all other birdes the soueraigne who can with reason blame me for cutting of the Falcons head Doubtlesse none that hath respecte to the quiete state betweene the Prince and subiect This example the 〈◊〉 alleaged against Ariobarzanes when they pronoūced sentence And applying the same to him ordeined that first Ariobarzanes for his Magnanimitie and liberall Curtesie should be crowned with a Laurel Garland for the generositie of his minde and excéeding curtesie but for his great emulation earnest endeuour and continuall 〈◊〉 to contende with his prince and in Liberalitie to shew him selfe superior 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spéech vttered against him his hed ought to be striken of Ariobarzanes being aduertised of this seuere 〈◊〉 he purposed to sustain the 〈◊〉 darte of Fortune as he had endured other bruntes of that enuious inconstant Lady and in suche maner behaued and directed his 〈◊〉 and countenance as no signe of choler or dispaire appeared in him onely pronouncing this sentence with ioyful 〈◊〉 in the presence of many Glad I am that at length there resteth in me so much to be liberal as I employ my life and bloud to declare the same to my soueraigne Lorde which right willingly I meane to do that the world may know that I had rather lose my life than to saint and giue ouer in mine 〈◊〉 liberalitie Then calling a Notarie vnto him he made his will for so it was lawful by the Persian lawes and to his wife and daughters he increased the dowries and to his kinsfolk and frends 〈◊〉 bequethed diuers riche bountifull legacies To the King he 〈◊〉 a great numbre of most precious Jewels To Cyrus the Kings sonne and his by mariage bisides a great masse of money he bequeathed all his armure and 〈◊〉 with all his instrumentes for the warres and his whole stable of horsse Last of all he ordeined that if perhaps his wife shoulde be founde with childe and broughte to bed of a Sonne he should be his vniuersall heire But if a woman childe to haue the like dowrie that his other daughters had The rest of his goods and cattell he gaue indifferently to all iii. equally to bée deuided He prouided also that all his 〈◊〉 according to their degrée should be rewarded The day before he shoulde be put to death according to the custome of Persia his praises and valiant factes as well by Epitaphes fixed vpon 〈◊〉 as by 〈◊〉 were generally sounded 〈◊〉 the Realme in suche wise as eche wight 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 him to be the moste liberall and noble personage that was in all the Countrey and in the borders 〈◊〉 vpon the same And if there had not bene some enuious persones néere the King which studied and practised his ouerthrow all other would haue déemed him vnworthy of death Such is the enuie of the maliciously disposed that rather than they would sée their equals to be in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the Prince than them selues studie and deuise all policie either by flatterie or false 〈◊〉 to bring them in discredite or to practise by false accusation their vtter subuersion by death or vanishement But whiles 〈◊〉 was disposing his things in order his wife and daughters with his friends and 〈◊〉 were affected with great sorow day and night complaining for the heauie 〈◊〉 of that noble Gentleman The eight day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the lawe allowed that space to the condemned for disposition of their things a skaffolde was made by commaundement of the King in the middes of the Market place all couered with blacke 〈◊〉 and an other righte ouer against the same with purple and 〈◊〉 where the King if he 〈◊〉 in the mids of the Judges should sitte and the inditement redde iudgement by the Kings owne mouth declared shoulde be executed or if it pleased him discharge and assoile the condemned And the King vnwilling to be present gaue to one of the 〈◊〉 Judges his full power and authoritie But yet sorrowfull that a Gentleman so noble and valiant his father and 〈◊〉 in lawe should finishe his life with a death so horrible would néedes that morning be presente him selfe at that execution as well to sée the continent and stoute ende of Ariobarzanes as also to take order for his deliuerie 〈◊〉 the time was come Ariobarzanes by the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 was brought vnto the Skaffolde and there apparelled in riche 〈◊〉 the Laurell Crowne was set vpon his head and so continuing for a certaine space the

come again and seing that his eyes were open beholding hir intentiuely with that countenaunce of a man half in despaire she said vnto him For so much brother as I sée fortune to be so froward that by no meanes thou canst auoid the cruell lot which laūcheth me into the bottome of mortall misery and that I must aduenture to folow the indeuors of thy minde and obey thy will which is more gentle noble than fraught with reason I am content to satisfy the same and the loue which hitherto thou hast born me Be of good chéere and doe with me my body what thou list giue and presēt the same to whome thou pleasest Wel be thou sure that so soone as I shall be out of thy hands and power I wil be called or estéemed thine no more and thou shalt haue lesse authoritie to stay me from doing the deuises of my fantasie swearing protesting by the almighty God that neuer mā shall touch Angelica except it be in mariage and that if he assay to passe any further I haue a heart that shall incorage my hāds to sacrifice my life to the chastitie of noble dames which had rather die than liue in 〈◊〉 of dishonesty I will die a body without 〈◊〉 and the minde voide of consent shall receiue no shame or filth that can soile or spot the same In saying so she began againe to wéepe in suche aboundance as the humor of hir braine ranne downe by the issue of bothe hir eyes Montanine albeit sorowfull beyōd measure to sée his gentle chast sister in such vexation heauinesse reioysed yet in his mind that she had agréed to his 〈◊〉 which presaged the good lucke that afterwardes chaunced vnto him for his liberall offer Wherfore sayd he to Angelica I was neuer in my life so desirous to liue but that I rather choose to die than procure a thing that shold turne thée to displeasure and grief or to hazarde thine honor and reputation in daunger or perill of damage which thou hast euer known and shouldest haue stil perceiued by effect or more properly to speake touched with thy finger if that incomparable and rare curtesie and liberalitie of Salimbene had not prouoked me to require that which honestly thou canst not giue nor I demaunde without wrong to thée and preiudice to mine owne estimation and honoure But what the seare I haue to be déemed ingrate hath 〈◊〉 me forget thée and the great honesty of Anselmo maketh me hope yea and stedfastly beleue that thou shalt receiue none other displeasure but to be presented vnto him whom at other times we haue thought to be our mortall enimy And I thinke it impossible that he will vse any villany to hir whom he so feruently loueth for whose sake he feareth not the hatred of his 〈◊〉 disdained not to saue him whom he hated and on whome he might haue bene reuenged And for so much sister as the face commonly she weth the signe and token of the hearts affections I pray 〈◊〉 by any meanes declare no sad countenaunce in the presence of Salimbene but rather chéere 〈◊〉 thy face dry vp the aboundance of thy teares that he by séeing thée ioyfull and mery may be moued to 〈◊〉 his curtesie and vse thée honestly being satisfied with thy liberalitie and the offer which I will make of our seruice Here may be séene the 〈◊〉 of two diuers things duety combating with shame reason being in contention with himself Angelica knew and confessed that hir brother did but his duetie and that she was boūd by that same very bond On the other side hir estate and virginal chastitie brake the endeuors of hir duety and denyed to doe that which she estéemed right Neuerthelesse she prepared hir self to folow bothe the one and the other and by acquiling the duetie to hir brother she ordained the meane to discharge him of that which he was bound to his benefactor determining neuerthelesse rather to die than shamefully to suffer hir selfe to be abused or to make hir lose the floure which made hir glister amongs the maidens of the citie to deface hir good faute by an acte so villanous But that speciall rare vertue was more singular in hir than was the continencie of Cyrus the Persian King who fearing to be forced by the allurements of the excellent beauty of chast Panthea would not suffer hir to be brought into his presence for feare that he being surmounted with folish lustes should force hir that by other meanes could not be persuaded to breake the holy lawes of mariage and promised Faith to hir husband For Salimbene hauing in his presence and at his commaundement hir whome aboue all things he loued would by no meanes abuse his power but declared his Gentle nature to be of other force and effect than that of the afore said king by reading the successe of this historie you shall perceiue After that Montanine and his sister had vttered many other words vpon their determination and that the faire maiden was appeased of hir sorow attending the issue of that which they went about to begin Anselmo was come home out of the Countrey whereof Charles hauing intelligence about the second houre of the night be caused his sister to make hir ready and in companie of one of their seruaunts that caried light before them they came to the lodging of Salimbene whose seruaunt séeing Montanine so accompanied to knock at the gate if he did maruel I leaue for you to think by reason of that displeasure hatred which he knew to be betwene the two families not knowing that which had already passed for the beginning of a finall peace of so many controuersies for which cause so astonned as he was he went to tel his master that Montanine was at the gate desirous secretely to talke vnto him 〈◊〉 knowing what cōpany Charles had with him was not vnwilling to go downe 〈◊〉 two torches to be lighted came to his gate to entertaine them to welcome the brother and the sister with so great curtesie friendship as he was surprised with loue séeing before his eyes the sight of hir that burned his heart incessātly not discouering as yet the secretes of his thought by making hir to vnderstād the good will he bare hir and how much he was hir seruaunt He could not tel wel whether he was incharmed or his eyes daselled or not well wakened frō 〈◊〉 when he sawe Angelica so amazed was he with the straungenesse of the fact and arriuall of the maiden to his house Charles séeing him so confused and knowing that the great affectiō he bare vnto his sister made him so perplexed besides himselfe said vnto him Sir we would gladly speake with you in one of your chambers that there might be none other witnesse of our discourse but we 〈◊〉 together Salimbene which was 〈◊〉 with ioy was able to make none other answere but Go we whether you please So taking his

which secretely they thought was about to escape away giuing them straight charge that by no meanes they shoulde returne without hir When the 〈◊〉 drew neare the shippe Poris bent him self to encourage the mariners to hoyse by saile againe and to make way with their oares into the sea if it were possible to auoide the imminent and present danger to saue the life of him selfe his wife children then he erected his handes vp vnto the heauens to implore the healpe and succor of the Gods which the stoute Gentlewoman Theoxena perceiuing and manifestly séeing the daunger wherein they were callyng to hir mynde hir former determinate vengeance which she ment to do and beholding 〈◊〉 in his prayers she prosecuted hir intente preparing a poysoned drinke in a cuppe and made redie naked swordes All which bringyng forth before the childrens face she spake these words Death alone must bée the reuēge of your siely liues whervnto there be two wayes poison or the sworde Euery of you choose which ye list to haue or of whether of them your heart shall make the frankest choyse The Kings crueltie and pride you must auoyde Wherfore dere children be of good 〈◊〉 raise vp your no ble courage ye the elder aged boyes shew now your selues like men and take the sword into your handes to pierce your tender hearts but if the bloudie smart of that most dreadfull death shal feare and fright your gréene and vnripe age then take the venomed cuppe and gulpe by sundrie draughts this poisoned drinke Be franke and lusty in this your destenied death sith the violence of Fortune by sea doeth let the lengthning of your life I craue this request of choise and let not the same rebound with fearful refuse of this my craued hest Your mother afterwardes shal passe that straight wherof she prayeth hir babes to bée the poastes yée the vaunt currours and shée with your louing 〈◊〉 shall ende and finishe Philips rage bent agaynst vs. When shée had spoken these wordes and 〈◊〉 the enimies at hand this couragious dame the 〈◊〉 of the death egged prouoked these yong 〈◊〉 childrē not yet wel resolued what to do with hir encharmed words in such wise as in the ende some dranke the poison and other strake them selues into the bodie and by hir commaundement were throwen ouer boorde not altogether dead and so she set them at libertie by death whom tenderly she had brought vp Then she imbracing hir husbande the companion of hir death both did voluntarily throw them selues also into the sea And when the Kings espials were come aboorde the ship they found the same abandoned of their praye The crueltie of which fact did so moue the cōmon people to detectation and 〈◊〉 of the king as a generall cursse was pronounced against him his children which heard of the Gods aboue was afterwardes terribly reuenged vpon his stock 〈◊〉 This was the end of good Poris and his stout wise Theoxena who rather than she would fall into the lapse of the Kings furie as hir father Herodicus and hir other husbande did chose violently to die with hir owne handes and to cause hir husbands children and hir owne to berieue them selues of life which although agaynst the louing order of naturall course and therefore that kinde of violence to be abhorred as horrible in it selfe yet a declaration of a stoute minde if otherwise she had ben able to reuenge the same And what coward heart is that that dare not vpon such extremitie whé it séeth the mercilesse ennimie at hand with shining blade redie bent to strike the blowe that without remedie muste ridde the same of breath specially when it séeth the trembling babe naturally begotten by his owne kinde and nature before the face imploryng fathers rescue what 〈◊〉 heart dare not to offer himself by singular fight though one to twētie either by desperate hardinesse to auoide the same or other anoyance aduenture what he can which in Christians is admitted as a comely fight rather than with that Pagane dame to doe the death it selfe But now returne we to describe a facte that passeth all other forced déedes For Theoxena was compelled in a maner thus to do of méere constraint to eschue the greater torments of a tyrants rage and thought it better by chosen death to chaunge hir life than by violent hands of bloudie butchers to bée haled to the slaughter But this Hidrusian dame was wearie of hir life not for that shée feared losse of life but desperate to think of Fortunes 〈◊〉 staye which 〈◊〉 Fortunes darlings would regarde in time they would foresée their slippery hold A Gentlewoman of Hidrusa ¶ A Straunge and maruellous vse which in olde time was obserued in HIDRVSA where it was lawfull with the licence of a Magistrate ordeined for that purpose for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and woman that list to kill them selues The nynth Nouell BAndello amongs the company of his 〈◊〉 telleth this Historie and in his owne person speaketh these woords If I should begin to tell those things which I sawe in the time that I sailed alōgs the leuāt seas very tedious it would be for you to heare and I in reporting could not tell which way to ende bicause I saw and heard things right worthy to be remembred Notwithstanding for satisfaction of diuers that be my frendes I will not sticke to reherse some of them But first of all one straunge custom which in the Romans time was vsed in one of the Ilandes of the sea Aegeum called Hidrusa in these dayes by the trauailers called Cea or Zea and is one of the Ilandes named Ciclades whilome full of populous and goodly Cities as the rumes thereof at this day do declare Ther was in old time in that Iland a very strange lawe and ordinaunce which many hundred yeares was very well and perfectly kepte and obserued The Lawe was that euery person inhabitant within the sayde 〈◊〉 of what sexe and condition so euer béeing thorough age infirmitie or other accidents wearie of their life might choose that kinde of death which liked them best howbeit it was prouided that the partie before the dooing of the same shoulde manifest the cause that moued hym therevnto before the Magistrate elected by the people for that speciall purpose which they ordeyned bycause they sawe that diuers persons had volūtarily killed themselues vpon triflyng occasions and matters of little importance accordyng to whiche lawe very many men and women hardily with so mery chere went to their death as if they had gone to some bankette or mariage It chaunced that Pompeius Magnus that dreadfull Romane vetwene whō and Iulius Caesar were foughte the greatest battailes for superioritie that euer were Pompeius I say sailing by the sea Aegeum arriued at Hidrusa and there goyng a land vnderstode of the inhabitants the maner of that law and how the same day a woman of great worship had obteined licence of the Magistrate to poison hir selfe Pompeius hearing tell hereof