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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40691	Triana, or, A threefold romanza of Mariana. Paduana. Sabina	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1655 (1655)	Wing F2470A; ESTC R221237	41,758	158

again Don Durio to make a vertue of necessity turned his despair into a frollick and being admitted by friends into the Kings presence in a Winter morning cast into the fire his Obligations which were parcelled up in a pretty bundle desiring the King to heat his hands thereat His Majesty was highly pleased with the conceit and the rather because it was more then a conceit saying it was the best Faggot he ever saw and wished the State of Senua would make him the like Bonefire swearing by Saint James his usuall Oath that if ever Don Durio had need of a Court-favour at a dead lift he should not faile in his expectation The dead lift or at least the dying lift was now come Don Durio posts to the Madrid where the Spanish Court was kept and findeth the King hunting of a Stag The old man attends the sport for a time The Stag wearied with long hunting took soyl and ran into a great Pond or dwarff-Lake hee recruited his strength as old Aeson did in the Bath of Medea and come forth as fair and as fresh as when roused in the morning then setting his Haunces against the Parke pale Reader if a Forrester pardon my language if improper hee dared the Doggs to set upon him whilst the hounds stood disputing with themselves for the Kings doggs we know can make syllogisms whether the honor or the danger were the greater to adventure on their Foe whilst they stood declining the hazard one to the other out steps a cowardly keeper with a brace of bullets killeth the Stag dead in the place who could he have borrowed a tongue from the standers by first he would have cursed that Frier of Mentz for first finding out the hellish invention of Gunpowder and then hee would have bequeathed himselfe to have been coffined in paste whilst the King and his Courtiers should be merry the solemnizing of his Funerall The sport being ended the King returned and retired to his Chamber Don Durio makes his addresse to his Majesty who at the first had forgotten him till his memory was quickned with the effectuall token of the Bonds he burnt welcome Woodmonger said the King thy suite is granted in the asking of it and presently a large pardon was signed and sealed which with all possible speed he carried along with him to Lisborn But so short the day so long the way so bad the weather that he could not make such speed as he desired and his friends expected The day of execution being come Fidelio is brought to act his part on deaths The aier Mariana though disjoyned from him in Prison to her great grief 〈◊〉 now to her greater grief conjoyned with him at the Scaffold Fidelio begins with a long speech which seems no whit tedious to the Auditors because done out of a design to gain time in expectation of a pardon which all understood was procured all Lovers there present could have wished each vowell long in his speech the effect whereof was to advise young persons to confine their affections within some probable compass of their deserts not to wander with their extravagant love above the proportion of their merits he bemoaneth himself much Mariana more taking on himself the guilt of the whole Action and protested that she died Loves true Martyr Mariana seconded him in this sad discourse the purport whereof was to teach obedience to Children that they should take heed how they concealed their love from their Parents in whose meer disposall they were and not to conceive that Age superannuated them or gave them an acquittance from that debt to which nature engaged them A Post winds his horn all hear it and welcome conceiving what indeed it was the preface to a pardon Don Durio followes the Post all in a sweat it being almost a wonder that his dried corpes could contribute so much moisture The pardon is presented to the Supream Officer with much joy and acclamation of the beholders Who would think that Heraclitus could be so soon turned into Democritus who could suppose that so great an Army of people could in an instant Faces about it was hard before to find one merry now impossible to find one sad as if by sympathy they had been condemned with Fidelio and accordingly pardoned with him The pardon is read it was large parchment in character but apprehended too narrow in expression as only for the life of Mariana whose Father Don Durio neither desired nor endeavoured the life of the other whom he perfectly hated as conceiving his love a disparagement Writers were in a sad condition if sometimes they might not take upon trust from their readers more then they are able to pay themselves how short would he fall who would undertake in language to expresse the generall sadnesse of the Company but especially of Mariana for this unexpected accident The Executioner proceeds to his work a handkercher being tyed about Fidelio's Face as one better prepared to feel then see death he is readily provided for the fatall stroke In vain did Mariana with much Rhetorick grief making her eloquent plead that the pardons of Princes are not to be taken in restrictive sences that in all things which are doubtfull men are rather to enlarge it with favour then contract it with cruelty that though her pardon alone was exprest doubtlesse both were intended that man and wife were but one the guilt but one committed by both and appeales to the judges present if any spark of mercy were alive in their breasts Judges alway for the greater solemnity being present at Executions to improve the same on so just so conscientious so honorable an occasion but as soon might a Child have perswaded the Tide at full Sea to retreat when inraged also with the wind as her request find any entertainment Ardalio was present thereat standing close to Father Francisco the great Actor herein who spurr'd on the Judges whom charity otherwise believed inclined to mercy to the greatest speediest extremity and he desired a private work with Francisco what was whispered between them was unknown and mens Fancies variously commented on their discourse but the truth was he spake to this effect Sir you have been the grand Ingeneir of this mans death whose blood you have sought being your self guilty of greater offences A word from your mouth may respit the execution and reprieve the Prisoner I protest reveng of my friends blood if you do not quickly improve your utmost three minutes is all the time I allow you to thinke or do after I have ended my speech know you Sir a Vault and a Door between your Covent and the Nuns contrary to Canons and Laws Ecclesiasticall and Civill these things shal be heightned against you with as much earnestnesse as my wit and wealth can improve it intending to bury my estate in the prosecution of the death of my friend These things he uttered with that seriousnes which protosted no passion but a calme soul

TRIANA Or a Threefold ROMANZA Of Mariana Of Paduana Of Sabina Omne tulit Punctum qui miscuit vtile dulci LONDON Printed for John Stafford and are to be sold at his House at the George at Fleet-bridge 1655. To the Reader IT is hard to say whether it is worst to be Idle or ill imploy'd whilst I have eschewed the former I have fallen on the latter and shall by the severer sort be censured for mispending my time Let such I pray heare my Plea and I dare make my accusers my Judges herein that is not lost time which aimes at a good end Sauce is as lawfull as meat recreation as Labour it hath pleased me in composing it I hope it may delight others in perusing it I present not a Translation out of the Spanish or from the Italian Originall this is the common Pander to mens fancy hoping to vent them under that title with the more applause These my play-labours never appeared before and is an essay of what hereafter may be a greater volume Things herein are composed in a generall proportion to truth and we may justly affirme Vera si non scribimus scribimus veri similia I will not be deposed for the exact variety of the gravest passages in the greatest historian a Liberty hath ever been allowed to fancies of this nature alwaies provided that they confine themselves within the bounds of probability Thus wishing every faithfull Lover Feliciano's happinesse every good wife Facundo's Love every true servant servant Gervia's fortune every Maiden-Lady Fidelio's constant affection every faithfull friend Vejetto's successe every clownish foole Insuls his mishap and every cruell wanton Nicholayo's deserved punishment I leave thee to the perusall hereof censure not so rigidly lest you blast a budding Writer in the blossoming of his endeavours TRIANA MARIANA IN the City of Valentia Metropolis of the Kingdome so named which with many other Dominions are the tributary ●●ooks discharging themselves into ●e Ocean of the Spanish Monarchy ●welt one Don Durio a Merchant of ●●eat repute For as yet the envious ●●nds had not as at this day ob●●ructed the Haven in the Valentia but ●●at it was the principall port in ●●ose parts This Don Durio had advanced an ●tate much by Parcimony more by ●apine being halfe a Jew by his extraction and more then three quarters thereof by his Conditions being a notorious oppressor But growne very aged and carrying his Eyes in his pockett Teeth in his Sheath and Feete in his Hands he began with remorse to reflect on the former part of his Life with some thoughts of restitution to such whom he had most injured This his intention he communicated to one Francisco a Frier and his Confessor Francisco was glad to see such a qualme of Religion come over his heart and resolved to improve it to the uttermost Hee perswades him that restitution was a thing difficult and almost impossible for one in his condition so many were the particular persons by him wronged the shortest and sures● way was for him to consigne his only Daughter Mariana to be a Nun in the Priory of St. Brigett and to endow that Covent with all hi● Lands which exemplary piece o● his liberality would not only wit● the lustre thereof out-shine all his former faults but also be a direction to posterity how to regulate their estates on the like occasion Don Durio though flinty of himself yet lately softned with Age and sicknesse entertaines the motion not onely with contentment but with delight and will not be a day older before the same be effected But there was a materiall person whose consent herein must be cōsulted with even Mariana his Daughter who had not one ounce of Nuns flesh about her as whom nature had intended not as a dead stake in a hedge to stand singly in the place but as a plant to fructifie for posterity Besides she had assured her self to one Fidelio a Gentlemā of such merit that though his vertues started with great disadvantage clogg'd with the waite of a necessitous fortune yet such the strength and swiftnes thereof that he very speedily came not being above the years of two and twenty to the marke of a publique reputation but these things were carried so closely between them and all leakes of superstition were so cunningly made up that neither friend nor foe had gained the least glimps of their intentions Don Durio Francisco being in his presencc importunes his Daughter a hard taske to bury her beauty under a vaile and become a Frigittine What he propounded with a fatherly bluntnesse Francisco sharpens with the edge of his wit heightning the happinesse of a recluded Life to the Skie and above it A discourse very unwelcome to Marianaes Eares racketted between two dangers on either side If she surrender her selfe herein to her Fathers will she is undone and wha● she values above herselfe Fidelio i● ruined If she deny she exposeth he● selfe to the just censure of disobedience yea it puts a light into the hand of her suspitious Fathers therby to discover her intentions that her affections being preingaged obstructed the acceptance of this Motion No time is allowed her to advise in a moment almost she must consult and conclude and resolved at last to comply with her Fathers desires for the present not despairing but that courteous time in the processe thereof would tender unto her some advantage whereby hereafter she might make a faire evasion But her Father hurries her in her present attire as good enough for a mortified mind without allowing her respit of of exchanging unto the Covent Francisco leades the way Don Durio followes and Mariana comes last her countenance was neither so sad as to betray any discontent nor so blith and cheerefull as to proclaime any likenesse therein but so reduced and moderately composed as of one that well understood both what she was leaving off and what she was entring into And if the falling of a few teares moistened her cheekes it was excusable in one now taking her farewell of her former friends and her Father beheld the same as the Argument of good nature in her Ringing the Bell at the Covent Gate the watchfull Porter takes the Alarum and presently opens for though it was something difficult for strangers to have excesse into the Covent yet the presence of Frier Francisco was as strong as any Petar to make the sturdiest gate in the Covent pliable to his admission Out comes the Lady Abbesse who had now passed Sixty winters and carried the repute of a grave and Sanctimonious Matron A strict discipliner she was of the least wantonnesse of any committed to her charge reputed by most to her virtuous dispositiō but ascribed by others to her envy driving away those delights from others which formerly had flowne away from her selfe Francisco with a short speech acquaints her with the cause of their comming surrenders Mariana to be a Probationer in their house whom the Abbesse