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A08546	The third part of the first booke, of the Mirrour of knighthood vvherein is set forth the worthie deedes of the knight of the Sunne, and his brother Rosicleer, both sonnes vnto the Emperour of Grecia: with the valiant deedes of armes of sundry worthie knights. Verie delightfull to the reader. Newly translated out of Spanish into English by R.P.; Espejo de principes y cavalleros. Part 1. Book 3. English.	Ortúñez de Calahorra, Diego. aut; R. P., fl. 1583-1586.; Parry, Robert, fl. 1540-1612.; Parke, Robert, fl. 1588.	1586 (1586)	STC 18864; ESTC S113645	377,692	528

thing ●he which he cannot obtain to put from him that which is impossible to leaue All creatures borne as wel as those that are to be borne although there be a great 〈◊〉 of liuing of their deaths yet to die is naturall vnto them all What do you thinke to flie from that which your fathers grandfathers their predecessors y●● Emperours kings could neuer escape let vs turne our backes all that euer we can frō death auoide the perils thereof yet in the end it shall happen vnto vs as vnto hint th●● s●utteth his ●ies at the blow of his enimie suffering the griefe thereof because hée would not sée it And whereas you saie that it is good for mée to liue longer and not to procure my death before my time I 〈◊〉 vnto you that there is none that dieth before his time for that all men dieth not at one time and as wise men saie euerie one hath his time appointed the which béeing accomplished hée concludeth his fine and for that wée haue not so much lisence to call time backe againe neither to staie of necessitie wée must procéede forwards No man ran die but at his time appointed sauing 〈◊〉 hee take the time for him that himselfe hath assigned and not by him that dooth assigne nature and fortune It is a small matter touching the immortalitie of the soule some to liue foure score ●éeres and other to li●e eight yéeres the time being past it séemeth the one to bée no 〈◊〉 than the other Men do deceiue themselues in many thinges but in especiall concerning their death not for that all men doe thinke to die but because they hope the time will bée long séeming to be farre of that which one waie by the briefnesse of life and swiftnesse of time and another waie by the force of fortune and by the diuersities of humane chaunces béeing alwaies at hand Death vnto a young man should neuer seeme grieuous although he made reckoning of no other goodnesse for abiding the time of auncient yéeres there procéedeth thereof nothing but sadnesse and miseries The young man doth well-knowe what he hath passed in his time but yet he knoweth not what he shall passe if that he endure long In this cruell and inconstant kingdome of Fortune hée that first dyeth doeth deceiue and mocke his fellowe You will now saie vnto me that séeing that death is necessarie and of force it were better to abide the time of naturall death than to goe and receiue it of that diuellish Fauno Then you might well saie if that I were certaine thereof that the death that I shoulde die shoulde bée more happie than fortunate but whosoeuer doth knowe it for that many a one haue hoped to die in their beddes when that afterward they were hanged and some throwne from the toppe of a mountaine some torne with Lions and some eaten with wilde Bores yea that Euripides the light of al great pollicy next vnto Homer was cruellie ●●rne in péeces with dogges Likewise Lu●recio Prince of Poets by drinkes that were giuen him by his concubine did raue in such sort that he thought it the best remedie to kill himselfe with a knife with what great good will would the Emperour Adriano suffered himselfe to haue bene torne in péeces of a furious Lion if his people would haue suffered him rather then haue abidden that terrible sicknesse whereof he dyed Many other mo as is well knowen did hope to die of their naturall deathes and yet in the ende they died of verie desperate and cruell deathes and possible before they eschewed farre worse And you who doth giue coūsell for to flie from death I would you would tell mée how farre you are from it your selfe of trueth if you doe consider verie well you shall finde that there is but a thin borde betwixt you and death and not yet two daies past when that you thought the houre was come Oh false and folish world of men that flyeth with great diligence from one little perill on the land in resisting wherof there is no honour to be gotten yet putteth not doubt to put themselues vnto these déepe seas wheras their liues is at the courtesie of the windes to ouerthrow them and of the terrible waues to drowne them they flie from one follie on the land and putteth their liues in foure farre worse vppon the seas in a shippe that is alwaies mouing the mariners neuer in one accord the water that neuer stādeth still and the winde that neuer resteth What Dragon or furie is vpon the land that doth feare vs more then vpon the ●ea whereas it is well knowen an innumerable sort of men hath bene drowned There is no furie nor wilde beast vpon the lande but that it is possible by the force and strength of man to make defence and resistance but vpon y ● sea if you ioyne together all y ● strengthes of the most valiantest men in all the worlde yet are they not able to make any resistāce against one storme or tēpest but if they please they may make thrusts with their speares into the water and strike with their swordes against the windes And now séeing that ther is all these perills on the sea wherefore my good friend doe you not take the counsel for your selfe the which you doe giue vnto mée What doe you thinke that it is not more possible for mée for to ouercome the diuelish Eauno then you to haue y ● victorie of two so terrible Elements as is the water and winde Finallie to conclude when that man thinketh himselfe most farthest from death it is then nighest at hande therefore barons that be stout and couragious in nothing they should feare the death wheras they doe venter themselues to get honor and not to apart themselues from perills and dangers for that they be alwaies readie at hand and in the ende when that it shal please God that they shal die it is no other thing but a cléering of the soule out of this miserable captiuitie● prison and to leaue this troublesome wearie world where in I doe sée that there is no pleasure without sodaine misthi●ousnesse no peace without discord no loue without suspition no ease without feare no aboundance without lacke nor no estate without complaints all doth wéepe all doeth sigh all doth complaine all doth shrike and sobbe and all things doth ende I sée none that liueth content I sée nothing that is firme and stable I sée all in confusion tossed vpside downe as wel in things liuing as insensible as wel the brute beastes as reasonable creatures the high mightie towers be torne and rent with thunderboults walles be ouerthrowen with Canon shot great flouds doth carrie away Cities and townes Trées be eaten with wormes the gréene corne with the Grassehoppers Timber doth rot and moulder away the brute and wilde beastes doth fight 〈◊〉 with an other betwéene the Ownce and the Lion there is great

accept it with a good will and if it bée sadde and sorrowfull they suffer it with suffer it with patience and when that with the occasions they cannot bée merrie then doe they comfort themselues with patience for that there is nothing so comfortable and pleasant as is patience therewith heauie and sorrowfull heartes are made glad and ioyfull wronges are brought to perfection it mollifieth hard hearts do mitigate difficultnesse aspar things it maketh plaine and ceaseth all quarrels and sodaine motions and finallie there is nothing of more quietnes and comfort than is the life of the patient These wéepinges these complaintes these clowdes and stormes that causeth the weake barke of our humane lyfe to bée dashed and broken in péeces against the rockes procéedeth of no other thing but of the follie and impatience of men So that gentle Knight if you dyd suffer with patience the troubles and afflictions of this life considering that in the end there cannot bée found a thing more common amongst men then shoulde no peruerse fortune although it dyd neuer so stronglie assault you bée able to cause you to be wearie abhorre your owne life neyther to goe and put your selfe into the handes of that diuellish Fauno whereas you doe aduenture no other thing but martirdome to your bodie and perpetual condemnation to your soule Let the Lord dispose of thy bodie according vnto his will séeing he made it there is no reason to the contrarie doe not procure to destroie the Castle whereas thou laied●● neither stone nor timber and no other thing is thine but onelie the compassion Doe not abridge God of that work whereas he did not onelie create the flesh but also bones bloud and spirit And it séemeth vnto me as it is most true that there is no other Lord ouer celestiall and terrestriall things but he that made all things Well then séeing that of our selues we are nothing but all is of God and commeth from him wherfore doe we humane creatures thinke that we may liberallie we all things vnto our 〈◊〉 Curteous Knight if you haue anie sorrowe and griefe possible God doth it to proue you the which although it bée now troublesome vnto you may yet so fall out that another time it will bée profitable and if it bee intollerable it cannot endure long tarrie the voice of the Lord for that hée will call you and make no aunswere before hée call you for that it is determined not onelie the daie but the houre of thy end the which thou oughtest not to abreuiate and cut off for that thou art not able to dilate it for it is impossible There hath béene some that hath taken it before their time thinking thereby to eschue a little briefe and momentarie trouble and drowned themselues in that which neuer shall haue end A mightie King or Lorde leaueth in a Castle or fortresse a lieuetenant to garde and kéepe the same who thinketh that hée doth commit great treason to depart from thence without lisence of his Lorde Why then shall wée not thinke that the treason is farre greater that the soule doth against the king of heauen for to depart from the bodie whereas he put it to be his liefetenant and gard We reade that there was neuer wise man y ● did so euil a fact as dyd Cato in killing of himselfe for that hée woulde not looke Caesa● in the face Let not so much bée spoken of you gentle knight it will séeme much worse because you are a Christian and it 〈◊〉 thing prohibited and forbidden by God wheras he saith Thou shalt not kill Why should wée then kill our selues Likewise hée doth bidde vs loue our neighbours as our ow●e selues Therefore haue a good confidence and trust in all ●●●ng for that it is not the part of a 〈…〉 but to beare a good 〈◊〉 vnto the double face of 〈◊〉 and to the contrarie a womans heart that doth yéelde for feare Therefore touching this matter gentle knight I wil saie no more for that vnto them that hath a better vnderstanding than I haue I haue sayd nothing but to put in remembrance Likewise it is néedfull for that if you haue your witt●s occupied in passions the same doth blinde the vnderstanding in such sorte that you cannot discerne thinges at hand With this the olde Pilot concluded his talke and although the knight of the Sunne at that time was in better plight to ●ight against fiftie knightes than to take counsaile of one man yet for all that he dyd conceiue well of the wordes of the Patrone as of him that was indued with no lesse wisedome and vnderstanding than with force and strength and for that his determination was so firme to accomplish his desire and againe the knightes that were there present as also the Pilot shoulde not iudge him to be an imp●tient man and one of ●●●all discretion hée said these words following If so bée that the life of man might bée perpetuall and indure for euer as immortall and the soule to die then with great reason ought we to cherish and make much of our bodies and ●●ie from all such perills as might giue an occasion vnto death for that hée that should so die might certain●●● account himselfe vnhappie for wheras before hée was some thing he should be conuerted into nothing But as it is a thing naturall to be borne and to die as wise men saith that the entering into the worlde with life is the beginning of death and the same life is the path waie therevnto and wée ought to feare death more than to be borne and we ought to flie from the death yet both of them maketh nature perfect and nothing of necessitie doeth accompanie Nature which ought to be feared and he that doth abhorre and fea●● things naturall it followeth that he should likewise fear● abhorre nature which was the occasion of life to be borne sauing if you thinke that in part you ought to praise and in part to despise and abhorre but all men of small discretion doe feare death and I doe not meruaile thereat for that all their felicities is in their bodies the which without al doubt doth end with death and with great reason they doe fear● that which they esteeme as their chiefe delight for that humane nature is such that it wil not refuse nor lacke their felicitie but that Baron which is wise couragious ●●●●●meth of his bodie no more th●n of 〈…〉 and hath all his desire set vppon the 〈◊〉 of the ●oule who when it departeth from the bodie maketh no more account but as one that in the morning departeth from an heauie combersome lodging where he remained all night If man dreade death feare is not to be 〈◊〉 for that th● soule is immortall cannot die but the bodie onelie is it not 〈◊〉 mans dutie to haue care of his 〈◊〉 and if he feare it procéedeth of follie but yet it is more foolishnesse for to desire the

Alicandro could not doe and according therevnto they answered and said Of truth Sir Knight your great bountie and courtesie is such that we should accompt our selues for happie for to know you and therby to serue you and to haue you in that estimation as your great worthinesse doth deserue and wée doe giue you great thankes for the trauaile and perill from the which you haue deliuered vs. Your bountie and worthinesse is such so farre forth as I haue seeme saide the knight of the Sunne that of your selues you are a sufficient securitie to deliuer you from all perill neuerthelesse if I haue done any thing it was nothing but by vertue of your great courtesie considering the great villanie vsed by that knight And in that you doe require for to know my name I doe most heartely desire you that for this present you would not request the same for that it is not in my power for to declare it vnto you till such time as I haue accomplished and perfourmed a promise the which I haue made vnto yonder knight who came with mée Then they séeing that he hadde no will for to declare who he was but to kéepe himselfe in secrete would not import●ne him anie more for the 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 themselues that it could be 〈…〉 the knight of the Sunne and that constrained through some great occasion he would not suffer himselfe to be 〈◊〉 and the more to prouoke him therevnto they ●fted vp the beauers of their helmes in such sort that the knight of the S●nne did kn●w them and was verie glad thereof for that hée had them in great estimation although at that time he woulde not giue them ●o vnderstand in anie wise that he dyd knowe them In all this time the Princesse Claridiana receiued great contentment in that which the knight of the Sunne hadde done and all foure together did put themselues to beholde the cruell contention and rigorous battaile that was betwixt the valiant knight Rosicleer and the gran Campion who at the great noise of the last blowe that the knight of the Sunne gaue vnto Bramarant did aparte themselues from their battaile to sée what it shoulde bée and they sawe the mightie Pagan cleane voide of anie remembrance and his horse carrying him into the thickest of all that wildernesse Then Rosicleer meruailing greatlie at that knight for that he had so great power for to bring him into that perplexitie made no more a doe but retourned vnto his battaile whose blowes were so many and of great force and strength that it was a wonder to beholde and for that it was more than foure houres since the battaile was begun the gra● Campion wa●ed wearie and it séemed that Rosicleer had somewhat the vantage of him but yet with y ● exceding great griefe which he receiued to sée his sonne Bramarant carried by his ho●se in that sorte he wa●ed therewithall so wrathfull and furious that he neither felt trauaile nor wearinesse and charged Rosicleer with such a multitude of blowes that many times he did astonish and amaze him but yet in the ende the cruell destinie of this Gran Campion was such and againe for that his cruell death was ordained from aboue the ire of that worthie and valiant Rosicleer so encreased in him that with a mortall furie he stroke so mightie a blow at Bradaman ouerthwart his wast that he made him decline on the other side almost from himselfe and being in this sorte almost out of his saddle his euill fortune was such that in his stouping he discouered a naked place vnder his arme whereas was no other defence but his shirt of mayle the which being séene by Rosicleer being very desirous to make an ende of that long contencion he thrust at him with the point of his good sword with so great force and strength that he made his sword to enter vp to the harde hiltes and pulling it out all blodied the Gran Campion fel from his Elephant downe to the ground and within a little while after he yelded his soule vnto the Diuell who had deceiued him in the blinde law of his false gods Oh false and weake foundation of man for that they which are most endewed with corporall force doth thinke their liues in most securitie without respecting that contrarie vnto the confidence which they haue in their great strengthes fortune doth double hers and that many tymes with great anger for that he doth finde no equall contemner And for to shew what a weake animall man is with an vnsemely weake and hidden euell be the mightie great Gyants ouerthrowen As he that slew Hercules was very little who was he that had the victorie in all things Likewise Milo the stoutest amongst men an Oke dyd staye him so that he was torne in péeces with wilde beastes so that wée may saye that that force the which was without comparison was lesse then a clouen Oke what doeth he think then to doe that is but of a meane strength what doth he think to haue his lyfe in more securitie and to be more aparted from the lyght and mouable whéele of Fortune then was this stout and fierce Bradaman Campion the most valiant and mightiest of all Gyants one that hadde force and strength for to bringe in subiection those fierce and indomable people of the whole compasse of the Orientall Ilandes and yet at this present he lacked strength for to defend himselfe from one alone knight of a great deale lesse stature than he was of who with one alonelie blow he slew him and dyd abate his p●ide the which many thousands of Gyants could 〈…〉 Likewise mortall men doe thinke and doe boast themselues more of vertue than of valiantnesse or strength for that alone the force of the soule in that which receiueth no strength cannot be ouercome neither hath fortune anie power against it and as it is placed in the soule it hath no néede of anie corporall strength and according vnto the saying of the wise Ly●gandeo and Artemidoro they were not so much moued by the high knighthood and mortall conflicts of these two so worthie Princes for to write this mightie Hystorie as they were by their great vertues and excellencie of courage and gallant demeanours the which in all their life times did shine in them for which cause saie they they were more esteemed and had greater fame than for the great force and strength which they had and alwaies they did estéeme themselues and delighted more in vertue than in their strength and therefore these wise men saie that if this mightie Hystorie be pleasant and delightfull vnto the readers so shall it be no lesse profitable vnto them that with great care and diligence will note and consider well how these knightes were giuen vnto vertue all their lyfe times Thus as it is verie profitable and necessarie for the taking out of anie worke to haue a patterne before him euen so likewise it is no lesse necessarie and

in their armes for that he was very sore wounded And it fell out in this sort that as those that were in the castell did heare the great noyse that was made in the battaile with clittering of their armour Roboan and his sonnes were in their beddes very sore hurt and could not aryse but the knight of the Sunne being very desirous to know what it should bée for that it séemed vnto him to be some contension or cumbat fought by valiant and worthie knights he went foorth of the castell and all alone on horsebacke he rode that way whereas Rosicleer and the giants should come And when that he saw them comming a farre of he straight waies vnderstoode that they should be the sonnes of Roboan that came from the Sea brought with them some prise but when that he came nigher vnto them he was greatly amazed to sée those Gyants so sore wounded could not immagine who should doe the same till such time as he asked of one that came formost with whome they had had battaile but they were all so sad and sorowfull that they would not aunswere him any word but passed forwardes on without making anie reckoning of him for the which the knight of the Sunne being somwhat ang●ie tooke one of them by the horse bridle and sayde that hée should not depart thence till such time as he had tolde him Then this knight who was more proude than curteous without speaking anie worde drew out his sword and stroke the knight of the Sunne a mightie bl●we vppon his helme thinking therewith to haue parted his head in two péeces but it had ben much better for him not to haue begun that contention with him whome he did not know and to haue answered him to his demand it would haue hindered him nothing at all But the knight of the Sunne being verie angrie at his great villanie stroke him such a blowe with his armed fi●t vpon his armed head that he buckeled his healme to his scull that his braines flew out and he fell from his horse dead vnto the ground so that it cost him his life because hée woulde not speake but vse villanie And the rest which were of his companie when they sawe their companion thus ouerthrowen straight waies beganne to make contention with the knight of the Sunne in drawing out their swordes and charging him with their blowes on euerie side but before that they could fall in the reckoning of the great errour the which they had committed the most part of them were slaine and ouerthrowen to the ground and not one of them had remained aliue if that at this instant had not come Rosicleer who was behinde all the rest who when hée sawe the great slaughter that the Knight of the Sunne had done in so short a time hée was greatlie amazed and for that hée could not knowe who hée was and was verie desirous to proue himselfe with him for to bée reuenged for the death of those knightes he caused the other for to aparte themselues and with his sworde in his hande he assaulted him charging him with those strong and heauie blowes which he was wont to vse and the knight of the Sunne not knowing him but beleeuing within himselfe that he had bene one of the companie of the other knightes of the Gyantes dyd receiue him after such manner that in a short space the wrath and anger both of the one the other was greatly increased as mortall enimies they layde the one vpon the other making so great a noyse that it séemed al y ● who le Iland would haue sunke where at the Emperour Alicandro and the princesse Lindabrides did put themselues at the windowes of the castell and were greatle amazed when that they sawe the battaile betweene the two knights not knowing who he shold be of so great ●orce and strength that could endure so long the blowes of the knight of the Sunne a good halfe houre in this sorte they endured charging one the other with their thicke blowes and had no time to breath themselues and séemed to be all in burning ●ier with the great quantitie of sparkes that flewe out of their armour Either of them were greatly amazed at the great force and strength of his aduersarie as they who neuer had seene themselues in so terrible and furious battaile for that although they dyd combat together in the great court of Constantinople at that time they had not their force and strength so perfect neither were they so bigge growen in parsonage And now if it were not for that neither of them would seme to be the first they wold both haue withdrawen themselues for to haue knowen eche others contrarie before they would haue proceeded in executing their furious battaile but this point of honour was the occasion that they would not withdraw themselues but procured to ouerpresse each his aduersarie all that euer he could with their mightie and furious blowes Amongst a great number that was strooke Rosicleer se●led one blow at the knight of the Sun with his sword in both his hands ouerthwart his healme that it depriued him of all his sences that he was as one dead till such time as he redoubled an other blow on him whose force was of such strength and might that it made him to come againe vnto himselfe so amazed that he knew not where he was Then he foorthwith setled himself firmely in his Saddel very furious full of courage he gaue him his paiment in such sort that Rosicleer in all his life before receiued not so mightie and terrible a blow except it were that the which concluded their contencio●s battaile in Grecia His nose gushed out with bloud and he fell forwards vpon the pomel of his saddle and his armes hanging downe as though hée had bene dead and his horse tourned round about twise in the field with him in which time the knight of the Sunne would not strike him till such time as he was come againe vnto himselfe Rosicleer called vpon God for his aide succour as he who found himselfe in so great extremitie that he thought it vnpossible to escape from death if he should receiue such an other blow equal vnto that he had receiued He then setled himselfe againe in his saddle and prepared himselfe to be reuenged on his aduersarie and dyd abyde his comming with his sword in his hande with terrible furious semblaunt In the meane time whilest they were recouering of more furie and courage for to charge the one the other it so fell out that the Quéene Iulia being very desirous to know who those knights should be that semed vnto her to be the most biggest of proporcion and most valiantest that euer she had séene in all her lyfe tooke out a litle quadrangel the which continually she carried in her bosome wherewith she did vse to make her cuniurations and thereby she found that these knights should be both sonnes vnto the Emperour