had bin content with my past troubles and had not made mee fall any more in the try all thereof The invention then was on this wise The Captaine of the Gallie where I was slave being exceedingly in love with a Lady of good ranke and she in no wise loving him hee tried all meanes though impossible to bring her to his bow and as is usuall with Lovers to be the more inflamed when they finde their beloved hard to be won the Ladies extreme coldnesse was burning coales to the Captaine in such sort that he never enjoyed rest but when he was talking of his love I having got knowledge by the report of a slave that went daily to my Masters house there to carrie water wood and other necessaries determined to try my fortune and not lose the occasion So I spake him kindly promising him that if he would faithfully ayde me that he might hope assuredly for his liberty whereof I would as well make him certaine as of mine own The good Antony for so the slave was called put so much trust in my words hearing me speake of libertie which I had promist him that waited but for the houre to be employed in that which I did intreate him and he thought there was not time enough hoping with great impatieÌ„ce that I should declare to him that which he was to doe for me who seeing him so well minded on my behalfe and otherwise sillie faithfull and true I shewed him my resolution recommending to him secrecie and wisedome above all things I said thus unto him My friend Antony know that it is long since I have desired to impart a secret to thee which I will tell thee of but as all things require wisedome patience and the occasion I have not done till now because I thought it not fitting till now to do it as also because not being so satisfied as I am this present of thy goodnesse seeing as the Proverb saith one should eate a bushell of salt with his friend ere he trust him Thou knowest well our Masters love with this Lady that dwelleth by the great Church and how much he is out of kelter for her yet never having received one favour of her after so long time spent in her service and so many Duckets spent in vaine for love of her Now if I should finde a meane and assured invention to make him without the spending of one shilling or troubling her doores enjoy his pleasure what reckoning would the Captain make of this service and what reward would he give him who should bestow on him that which he so earnestly desireth Verily answered Antonie I hold for certaine that he would turne foole at his contentment and not only would he give thee thy libertie but also to all those for whom thou shalt aske Go to friend said I if thou hast any particular acquaintance with some one of them who are most familiar and best liked in the Captaines house thou must acquaint him with this businesse that he may tell him and assure him that I will doubtlesse doe that I promise and I counsell thee that it be not delayed The content which Antony received was so great that without bidding me farewell nor answering me one word he went from me like a lightning intreating a souldier oâ— the Gallie that he would bring him into the Captaines house to talke with him of a matter of great importance He was there and could give order for my businesse that halfe an houre after the Governour of the house came to the Master of the Gallie charging him to send me with a souldier to the Captaine because he would see me The quicke effect which Antonies diligence wrought gave me extreme great contentment and made me hope that so good a beginning would bring my designes to a happie end Finally I was at my Captaines house tattard torne and naked and with a great chaine tyed to my foote He comming to meete me as if I had bin a man of great ranke and layâ—ng his hand upon my shaven head began to talke kindly to me asking me what country-man I was what was my name and why I was condemned to the Gallies And I having answered him in a dissembling manner and lying the best I could he drew me aside to a corner of the Chamber asking if that which Antony had promist him was certaine Sir answered I him I know not what he hath said nor what promise he hath made yet I will tell you that if he hath spoken according to that which I told him all is true without failing one tittle Sir I told him that if you would promise to release me out of this distresse which I indure and to give me my libertie freely and wholly I should make you injoy the love which you desire with so great passion and which so torments you I promise you moreover and assure you that making this condition with you if I performe not my promise you shall my head cut off or throw me into the sea Thou bindest thy selfe greatly said he with a smiling countenance alreadie desirous to see the effect of my promise but if thou art a man of so great knowledge and skill that thou canst doe this for me this Gallie wherin thou art shall be thy fortune for I shall not onely be content to give thee thy libertie but I will make thee one of my houshold servants and the best respected of them all But tell me after what manner canst thou doe it Sir you shall know said I that I was bred with a great Astrologer who under pretence to cast Horoscops and Nativities dissembled his Magicke with so great craft that there was not any one in the world that suspected him He made use of me in some of magicall experiences supposing because I was young and of a dull wit I would understand nothing of the secrets of his Art But he was deceived there because though I seemed foolish and ignorant yet I had an eye on all his tryalls and I studied them so well that many love secrets stucke in my memorie â—mongst which I have one most certaine and approved with which if a woman were harder then the Adamant I will make her softer then the waxe In such sort that the secret which I propound to you is Magicall not naturall and it is requisite to have some haires of the party beloved to put it in execution with which and with some Ceremonies that must be performed the Gentlewomans heart will be so set on fire that she shall take no rest but when she is with or thinketh of her beloved Notwithstanding this must be done in the night at the waxing of the Moone and in the fields there being but only three in the companie and these stout and resolute that cannot be dismaied nor frighted fall out what may or whatsoever they see If saith the Captaine that to further the businesse there needeth no other thing but a good heart we shall
after this care they were in anextacie considering what they would do in the possession of their loves as if they had alreadie verily past the night and overcome the difficulty This doubting and hammering of theirs served me well to my purpose that they might not perceive the gulleries that I put upon them and the smoake that I sold them Whereby I finde that those who paint Love blinde have great good reason for them because that if they not bin so they would have perceived all my promises to be nothing but winde and that the meanes which I propounded to them were for no other end but to gull them CHAP. X. In which he proceedeth to relate his invention begun with some discourses of Love between the Governour of the house and this Gallie-slave THe night being come which be a day for me inlightning the heaven with infinite numbers of starres so bright and resplendent that they dazeled the light of the day and filled my soule with joy when my honest Governour enters the Gallie brave Gallant and clothed with the best apparell that he had because that amongst other directions that I had given as well to him as to his Master the chiefe was that they should be fine brave as being a thing most requisite and necessarie for Magick skill and having saluted me with close embracements he said to me friend that thou maist know that I can doe what I will at the Captaines hands and that I want not goodwill to help thee thou shalt know that through my intreatie he gives thee leave to leave off thy chaine for this night and it may be for ever that thou maist walke with greater libertie and performe thy businesse and what is 〈…〉 though the Captaine 〈◊〉 â—ome difficultie I deaâ—t so earnestly that I obtained this favour in earnest of that which I desire to do 〈…〉 I who then was more knavish and more dissembled then foolish fell into some suspition imagining that this liberalitie offered ere it was desired was fained and but only to try me wherfore I answered him Sir I thanke you for the care you have had of me obtaining of my Master that he will take off my chaine a favour which I would kindly accept if it were possible but it is not because I must not change the estate that I 〈◊〉 in nor one point of that which is of my estate it being necessarie that he who shall make this tryall must make in the same estate apparell that he is accustomed to weare and so I may not goe but in mine owne clothes 〈◊〉 with the chaine because otherwise we shall do nothing The Governour was not a little contented with my answer being assured that there was in me no kinde of deceite nor malice but the pure and simple truth pittying me beleeved assuredly that there was more passion in my words then Iustice he embraced me the second time saying friend God who is wont to give the salve according to the wound hath brought thee to this Gallie that by it thou mightst come to the knowledge of my Master and enjoy the speciall favours which thou shouldst promise to thy selfe from his liberalitie if the businesse fall out well How well answered I him hath the Captaine any suspition that I would deceive him No by the world answer'd the Governour seeing that though thou wouldst doe it thou couldst not but it is the great desire that we both have to soften the hardnesse of these she-Tygers and to turne them to our love that makes us thinke that impossible which is easie for thee to doe and this is usuall amongst Lovers I never was one answer'd I and though I should be more in love then was â—arcissus I should never purswade my selfe that day were night that 〈…〉 and other fantasticall imaginations that haunt Lovers which rather may be called follies and idle thoughts then love passions It well appeareth that his darts have not strucke thee saith the Governour for if thou hadst tried them thou wouldst not have spoken with so great freedome and so little trouble Know friend that Physitians ranke this disease amongst Melancholiâ—e passions into which the diseased falleth beleeving that which is not and framing a thousand phantasies and visions which have no other ground but their perverse and corrupt imagination which workes the same effect in Lovers giving them an impression of jealouse to an other of disdaine to an other of favour making a mountaine of nothing all which is bred of a burning desire which they have to possesse that which they love But to be willing to perswade this unto him who hath not tried it is to desire to draw water with a sive and to weight the earth I am no Doctor Master Governour I answer'd him nor yet Batcehler because being left yong friendlesse and poore I lived also without knowledge having only foure words of Latin Neverthelesse by the use of reason well knowen of all sciences I understood the smal reason that Lovers have to be so oft troubled upon so small occasion as they are troubled because of necessitie their affections tend to two points to wit that the woman must be good or evil faithfull or disloyall If she be good faithfull answerable to your affection in mutuall love it is a great follie to be jealous over her if she be unfaithfull and known for such a one there needs no other counsel but not to trust her nor love her Whence may be coÌ„cluded that all the accidents to which you say lovers are subject are the overflowings of follie and wants of wit it being a notable extravagancie to love one that hateth this being supposed that hatred cannot be the subject of love nor love of hatred seeing we ordinarily love them that bind us thereto by their love If it went by experience saith the Governor thou wilt lose thy cause because usually they â—ate these that love them best taking the fight of a dying man for the occasion of their hate and it is a voice in them now a dayes turned inâ—o a nature to shun those that follow them and to abhorre those who adore them as the Captaine and I have hitherto made a long and unhappy tryall Thinke not so Master Governour I answer'd that you have made a good conclusion for if you will have the patience to â—eare me I will make you see clearely in what your arguments faile and know that love ceaseth not to love nor hatred to hate there being no 〈◊〉 of nature and he that foster'd you in this philosophy hath fed you with 〈◊〉 milke because that Loâ—â— alone not being accompanieâ— with other circumstances which are to be proportioâ—nable and reasonable is noâ— all the motive of an other love That Princesse of noble bloud should be tyed to love a Porter that dieth for her onely because he adoreth her I deny your proposition she is no wise bound to doe it nor her well to affect him the
object that might move her not being in him As a Prince hateth to the death a poore damsell because she depiseth him being unwilling to give consent to his wanton love whence it may be gathered that neither the Porters love 〈◊〉 in any case tye the Prinâ—â—sse wil nor Damsels scorne â—all breed hatred in the â—rinces minde Seeing that 〈◊〉 love is found the good 〈◊〉 profit and pleasure which 〈◊〉 the hookes with which 〈◊〉 will is taken then it is 〈◊〉 motive of love and the â—ady shal not be able to hate â—im who loveth her upon â—hese conditions but therein â—eing unequalitie and dishoâ—our she may do it You shall more clearely perceive this 〈◊〉 hatred because when a man dieth for a Gentle-woman she hates him exceedingly this hate is not that which inflames his love but the account she makes of her honour the feare of shame if she should consent to the pleasure of him that loveth her which consideration makes her coole and backward and him extreamely passionate Whence it is concluded that the woman offendeth not in hating him that worships her nor any man ought to hate such a woman that disdaineth him This thy Philosophie my friend answered the Governour is framed of moe words than learning and I could refute it by plaine reasons if time did afford 't is leasure but the houre is already come the Captaine will looke for us only I would intreate thee to be mindfull of me as a friend making thy inchantment of equall power with the crueltie of the Gentlewoman of whom I have spoken to thee Away with this care Sir answerd I for I will doe it in such sort that though your Mistresse were harder-hearâ—ed more frozen then the Alpes she should be turned into a Mountaine of fire hotter then Mount Aetna of Sicile I beleeve so said the Governour but I cannot chuse but wonder why thou being so cunning a fellow didst not enchant the Iudge to be in love with thee and not have condemned thee to the Gallies If this secret were good for a man said I a hundred yeares a goe I had bin a Duke or a Governour of some Province if I had not bin a Monarch It is not good but for women because he that first found it out gave it this vertue only That alone sufficeth me saith the Governour if with it I can soften that adâ—â—mant but with the hope that thou hast given me I hold the victorie as certaine and I hinder my selfe that I doe not see to morrow already With these words we came to the other side of the harbour where my kinde Captain waited for us with great impatience and unquietnesse by whom I was very well received he asking me why the Governour had not taken off my chaine as he had charged him I answered him the same things which I had before answered the Governour wherewith he was exceeding wel contented They leapt both on horse backe I followed them at leasure because of the waight of my chaine and being about a â—â—ague from Marselles we â—â—rived at the place appointed They lighted down and â—ying their horses at a tree we with drew our selves to â—â—ther to the place where our â—â—yall was to be made taking them with some necessary ceremonies and telling them what they should say I â—â—ade a Circle on the ground whispering I cannot tell what strange and uncouth words and turning my selfe often sometimes towards the East sometimes to the West with some ceremonies so unusuall that they made the Captaine and his Governor of the house both of them 〈◊〉 and fearefull At haffe an houres end after that I had gone turning about like a foole I made the Captaine goe within it charging him to say after me who was so obedient and so forward to all that I would have him that if I had then cut off his mustaches he would have beleeved that it was needfull for the inchantment I made him strip himselfe teaching him to say certaine words to every parcell of his clothes which he put off which he pronounced so exactly that he lost not one syllable beleeving that if he had missed in one jote he should have marred all this businesse With this ceremonie I stript him to his shirt he never making any shew of feare noâ— suspition being assured that he was safe enough by the presence of the Governour who was much astonisht to 〈◊〉 them finish'd it seeming to him that there should neither bâ— time enough nor inchantâ—ent sufficient for himselfe Pitty so moved my heart that I could not take off his shirt â—aving compassion of his inâ—â—cencie because it was then the coldest time of all the winter and either through â—eare or cold such a veheâ—â—â— quivering and shaking â—f all his joynts tooke him â—ith such a chattering of his 〈◊〉 that the noise thereof 〈◊〉 Have bin heard halfe a 〈◊〉 from the place I 〈◊〉 and encouraged him with the shortnesse and quick 〈◊〉 of the inchantment 〈…〉 assured possession of 〈◊〉 love injoyning him in 〈◊〉 meane time to be silent 〈◊〉 telling him that if he spake but one word we should be presently in lesse then the twinkling of an eye all of us in Barbary He then being in this plight that is to to say naked in his shirt I gave him a knife in his hand commanding him to make some stabs towards the foure quarters of the world at every one uttering some words 〈◊〉 the conclusion I made him goe into the sacke That which I then saw with mine eyes was a wonder a miracle of God because I alwaiâ—â— imagined that as he was going into the sacke he should suspect something that 〈◊〉 mine invention should 〈…〉 nothing but a little 〈…〉 not more obedient 〈…〉 â—â—ilde than he was 〈◊〉 that without any resistanâ—â— or shew of mistrust he went in being still assured by the presence of his Governour and the ignorance he had of his loves Which was good for me for if he had known that the Governour was to be inchaÌ„ted also he had never gone into the sacke Finally having packed up the poore Captain I laid him along upon the ground with his belly upwards tying the sacks mouth with a cord that was by me speaking stiâ—â— to the Governor to encourage him and wishing him to have patience a quarter of an houre the enchantment was to last So having left him in this taâ—ing the Governour and I went aside about a stones casâ— who said to me in an exceeding great pelting chafe I wil lay a wager that thou hast forgotten something of my businesse for here I see neither sacke nor knife for me as for the Captaine Here is no need of a sacke said I because your Magicall experiences are made stronger or weaker according to the greater or lesser cruelty that Gentle women have and the Captaines being exceeding disdainfull I have made the enchantment of a sacke for her which is the