after the City was shee called talking with her selected and â—â—deered friend the Lady Izabella whose gracious demeanour he so devoutly noted and whose unparalel'd beauty hee so feelingly admired that openly commending the one he secretly affected the other Many were the unwonted thoughts that now troubled his troubled minde and more then many were the unquiet and universuall cares that now attended his new entertained desires Still hee gazed and gazing sigh't and sighing grieved that so he gazed yet could hee not cease to feed his hungry eye nor durst hee once be seene to looke on her on whom he could not bur looke For as commanding love did flatter his a spiring hope so the remembrance of Phaetons fall did dismay him with a deadly feare And feare hee did least that just disdaine would beget in her bitter revenge and blacke revenge should bring forth untimely deaths Thus in seeking to passe the meane poore Paris dyed for being so meane and in this disconsolation glad hee was to smother his sorrow to his greater griefe nor daring to acquaint any but La-nova his second selfe his companion in Armes and the sole secreter of all his secrets To him and none but him did hee in sorrow bewray his love and in love bewayle his sorrow La-nova pittying his case disswaded him from the danger of Ixions love least with more repentance hee vainely with Apollo pursued Daphne Heavens forbid said hee my Paris eye should with the Eagle sore against so bright a Sunne or that your desire should with the Bee delight in such flowers which being suckt will yeeld more poyson then honey Ah Paris Paris seeke not to obtaine that with care which you cannot keepe without danger To desire to bee a King is no just tytle of a Kingdome and to say you love her no sufficient desert to winne her Desire not then beyond thy reach least thou fall in thy hope Nay admit that her chast conceits would entertaine Venus deceits yet followes it not that Ioves royall bird would prey on silly Flies Alexander would deale with none but Kings nor Vienna with any but Princes low shrubs wither ever at the Cedars roote Beware Paris least coveting with Iearus to soare above the Sunne thou bee punished in his pride under the Sunne Thy deserts are J confesse many and meritorious but the state of her estate stands not with thy indignities men are wey'd by the aboundance of their fortunes not by the worthinesse of their vertues Then wade no further in this foord but let Armours nor Amours bee the subject of thy thoughts since the Campe affords honours and the Court such dangers Paris thus dehorted resembled the Palme-tree that the more it is prest downe the more it striveth upwards so the more his friend misliked of that hee desired the more hee desired what so his friend misliked Such was the unresistable force of his inlimitable affection that in spite of reason hee was enforc'd to doe homage unto passion For where Love is predominant there all other affections attend on it And therefore hee concluded still and ever to love her but still and never to let it bee knowne to her To approve which hee requested La-nova's company that night secretly to give Vienna musicke who seeing his unremoveable resolution vowed himselfe to his fortunes The same night when quiet sleepe possest each weary eye hee and La-nova taking eyther of them a well tuned Lute went directly under Vienna's window where sweetly striking their pleasant strings Sir Paris thus chearefully warbled out his Ladies praise Though present times allow of former age And yeeld the pride of grace to Joves faire Queene Though Junoes grace did please each gazing eye And all men thought like grace was never seene Yet were I judge to judge of sweetest grace Your grace for grace should have the chiefest place Though Pallas patronesse of Wisedome bee And wisest heads doe homage to her shrine Though Doctors draw their learning from her braine And all men hold her sacred and divine Yet should I judge of Wit Pallas should find Your Grace should weare the Lawrell of the mind Though Paris Vonus doom'd for fairest faire Of Goddessâ— three that strove for Beauties pride Though Gods and men confirm'd her beauties Queene And every eye did honour Vulcans bride Yet might I judge my judgement should be this Venus was faire fairer Vienna is Then leave your strife strive not you Worthy wights Yeeld beauties prize vnto my Princesse praise Blush Trojan blush thy Helens huâ— is stayn'd Cease cease you Knights your Ladyes praise to raise Since so my Love excels those Goddesse three That all excell'd for grace Wit and Beauty Vienna pleased with the tune but more with her praise was moved with desire to know who they were that so sweetly sung and so affectionately honoured her but doe what shee could she could not know them by any meanes which much grieved but more troubled her disquieted thoughts Still shee conferred and talked with Izabella of that heavenly harmony and ever she commended whom she knew not to commend For Paris having ended where yet hee had not begun conveyed himselfe away as privately as might be But the next following night they went againe with dolefull Recorders on which they carefully sounded Paris unknowne thus plainly made his passion not his person knowne How should J joy why should I sing That naught but woes and sorrowes bring What is that God of torments great What is his name Where is his seat Below O no there is not hell On high sie sie there blisse doth dwell Looke on my eyes let Iudgement show Where that place is of endlesse woe Behold my heart fresh bleeding still Where griefe doth live and Love doth kill Then see ah me where sorrowes dwell 'T is Loue I prove that men call hell Love is that God that men torments With raging woes and sad laments My heart his seat where he doth raigne With great contempt and proud disdaine This this it is makes love a Hell Then Care prepare to ring my knell Farewell most faire Beauty adiew J dare not love but honour you Starres-sixt so high dimmes my weake sight I may not gaze on Lampes so bright Which proves and moves my tongue to tell That Love proud Love is worse then Hell This sorrowfull Song ended the Musicke ceased and Paris returned to his Chamber But Vienna who attentively had listned to this carefull Ditty knew not well by his over-passionate conceite and alluding and insinuating Song that Love had made her a Mistris and Fortune had sent her a servant Yet could shee nor imagine who hee should be but much she was discontented that so it should be her Princely towring thoughts were not subject to Subjects fancies nor would she admit of servill fervants And therefore because she would punish their pride in their presumption she went the next morning secretly to lier Father and told him how that the two passed nights there had beene
have concealed And therewithall she wept againe and kissing him said O hardest of happes but most unhappy onely I that she to whom I owe all love and from whom I cannot withdraw my devoted affections should by my meanes be the more afflicted But in my Lords love and welfare doe I onely live and will bury all other affects and considerations The guiled Daulphin whose undisgested displeasure and over-jealous prejudicating heart gave way to every suspitious thought so procreated by false conceite and so confirmed by her mellefluous and deceitfull tongue began now to conceive much more then he did see or perceive Feare and dislike so shipwrackt his judgement upon his Wives clouded reckes that what before seemed to him by conjecture but probable that he holds now as an Oracle And therefore imbracing her he kist her oft and oft did wipe her forced bedewed eyes and then did kisse againe and thanked her for her provident care and preserving love assuring her that thus warned hee would be ever armed and that in his daughters wedded miseries they would build vp both their securities And thereupon commanded that a strickt Watch should ever guard the prison doore that no one but Monsicur Maux should come or send unto her Thus Beasts corrupt doe lightly poyson take Thus euvie weepes that teares may michiefe make But La-nova understanding of the Daulphins Decree and finding the venomous drift and impoysoned minde of this Serpentine mother having Land adjoyning to the Castle did erect after a great and strickt shew of holines a Chappell in honour of our Lady wherein he made a close partition In the one part to heare publique Masse and in the other which adjoyned to his Castle to prostrate himselfe before his God and to powre forth his more private prayers for his secret sinnes In this part hee digged in the night so long and many nights so long that at length hee made a secret way that ascended up to the place of their abode and pausing there a while to rest his over-wearied self he heard Vienna and Izabella carefully and interchangeably sing this contentious Ditty Vienna Who lives to love doth live to care Who careth much much griefe shall finde Who findeth griefe tormented are In endlesse woe of wofull minde Why then should love possesse our hearts That yeelds nought else but secret smarts Izabella Who loves to live should live to love Who loveth much much joy shall find Who findeth joy such joyes shall prove As proves no joy to Lovers mind Why should we then sweet Love dispraise By whom our minds such joyes assayes Vienna The heart opprest in fancy dyes Affection sayles in Times arrest Joves royall bird preyes not on Flyes Loves greatest joy is hopes behest Why love we then Why joy we so Since hope is vaine and Love breeds woe Izabella The Paulme supprest doth higher grow The lowest sayle Time sets aloft The highest Sunne doth shine below And poorest hope finds hap full oft Then live and Love then hope and have Heavens made love Love heavens gave Vienna But Townes besieg'd distressed yeelds Izabella But forts maintain'd great glory gaines Vienna On forlorne Hope Love never builds Izabella In Fortunes change Hope hap obtaines Vienna Then will I love Izabel Then constant prove Vienna Sweet Paris live Izabel Vienna's love No sooner had they made an end of their Song but La-nova found an end of his worke and going forth of his darke passage hee softly yet cherefully entred and saluted Vienna who though amazed yet animated at his sight runne and fell upon his breast and in the fall of her many teares ask'd him What newes of her Paris and whether hee lived and living lived to his first Enone or stragling had found and made a second choyse Say La-nova say hath any Hellen wonne my Trojane from his betrothed Nimph or hath Adonis forgotten his Venus and become amorous of another Lady If so say so and tell me how thou cam'st hither For J wonder at thy presence and feare thy hazard Your Knight most constantly vertuous and renowned Lady said La-nova lives I hope and no doubt wholly yours But never since the receite of this Letter heard I any tydings of him Onely my care of your good the summe of Sir Paris charge hath plotted and effected this poore shift to relieve and comfort your grace And so he told her how and shewed her the way the top whereof he advised her to cover well least it should be discryed he undone and she unsuccoured Vienna re-embracing him for his kinde and tender regard to her and for his true and fast love to them both gave him many thankes and earnestly entreated him to make privie enquiry of the Genua Merchants whether they knew or had heard of Sir Paris and how he spent his dayes and so fearing the detested Keepers comming La-nava left her to make provision for her Now the Daulphin whose diseased minde could not bee cured but by the match of the Burbon Prince thought himselfe still endangered so long as she lived unmarried and imprisoned His wicked wily wife had cast such an erronious myst over his bewitched eyes and so drowned his heart in fearefull doubts that he durst not trust his owne safety unlesse his harmelesse daughter were either made away at home or married away farre from home To give peace vnto these his disturbed thoughts he went unto the Castle to see whether that weakening dyet and tedious thraldome had well reduced her seduced minde and made her of a disobedient childe the daughter of his will In tryall whereof he demanded whether in the high and sacred preheminence of a Father he should finde yet the obliged duty of a Child the which if she would in repentance acknowledge and in performance willingly accomplish his will She should be restored to her former estate his wonted favour and her preeminent dignities Vienna on humble â—â—ees falling at his 〈◊〉 required his blessing and saide that 〈…〉 wes had so morâ—fied all thoughts of affection that onely griefe was growne to bee pleasing to miserable creatures and that custome had made her content to lye in her bed of woe and to water her couch with teaâ—es onely she prayed that the just God might appease his 〈◊〉 against unjust men But how 〈◊〉 shee shall my selfe perswade my selfe that you meane me any good that not onely have so hardly inticated mee and so vnnaturally imprisoned your sole childe but most vnjustly and cruelly have put in prison poore Sir Jaques that hath spent all his happiest dayes in your unrewarded â—ervice It is the true properity of a Prince to reserâ—ble God in vertue bounty and mercy and not the Lyon in force rigour and cruelty Mercy pardoneth those that deserve it not and the interpretation of the strictest law should rather tend to mercy then cruelty since rigorous lawes were first made more to terrifie all then to torment any The doubtfull Daulphin finding his amisse but not his remedie
life thus cunningly gave fire to her tinder Though said he I am unwilling to ingrieve my thoughts with the sad remembrance of my friends over-grievous sorrows yet since it is your pleasure your will commands my obedience Then know most fairest of fair Ladyes that after I had many times observed the frenzy of his passions and wondring had noted his broken and disconsonant complaints he being at other times most advisedly wise and most humbly though sadly patient As we were sitting at the mouth of his Cave chatting on the miseries of this life and the crosses of this uncertain world I requested him in favour of my desire to recount unto me the cause of his so often passionate laments In answer wherof he said Though my grief be already such as there can be no addition to so great an extream and though my wounds cannot be healed because they may not be searched yet to give thee some content know that not far from Tolledo in Spain I served not long since a great and mighty Lord called Don Daulphinatus who had one only Daughter named Paris-enna whose beauty was far fairer then the Evening Star and whose vertue was more powerfull then the greatest constellation By her sweet influence did I only live and breath and though my mean fortune durst not gaze on so bright a Planet yet did her gracious aspect both so ennoble and inable my towring thoughts that unknown I atchieved in honour of her name many admired exploits After some season both my acts and my love were accidentally made known to her who in time made me though most unworthy the Master of her desires that was and still am a servant to her will Our mutuall minds thus combined was like the Garden of Eden wherein grew more delights then either Nature now affords or Art can express Our hearts fed on pleasures our eyes beheld the bliss of each other and in the full comfort of all content did we sleep in love and wake and walk in all fulness of joy From this Paradise were we driven by felonious Fortune who envying our happiness would not suffer that we should make this Earth our Heaven that was before curst for our sins My Lord her Father had hnowledge thereof who finding my indignity not worthy of such soveraignty was so carryed away with disdainfull scorn and irefull displeasure that he doomed me to death if ever I were found within the precinct of his command This separation for now I was put to my flight was such a corasive to both our confounded soules that she staid to endure a greater misery the deprivation of life and I wandered in unknown paths to seek after a wished death Long was my travail and manifold my fortunes But neither distance of place continuance of travail happinesse of fortune nor tract of time could free my fancy nor weary ine from my constant affection At last being both wearied and nighted I came to this harmlesse Ceill where in love of Solitariness and in contempt of the world I vowed to spend the unspent sorrowes of my Life and keepe my selfe from the knowledge of Men and thereupon he devoutly swore me that I should not make his private aboad known unto any Man Whereat the wounded Princesse in her apprehension sighed and watered the floore with her baulmy Tearâ—s as knowing by the amplyfied and conjoyned Names and by the concurrence and circumstance of the matter that he was most assuredly her beloved Paris and thereupon she demanded what was his Name Sans Lieure replyed Poltron did be call himself Sans Lieure said she Oh how rightly did the Destinies Christen him and how truely doth his Name expresse his fate for grief hath but a dead heart and hapless love none at all But where is that place of plaint that so confines sorrow in it self and makes woe a habitation for so miserable a Man Tell me oh tell me that I may send some sanctified person to comfort him and wean him from so wretched a life My Oath answered Poltron will not admit that any man by my means should know thereof Then would I were she said with him my self for by his Name I now remember he is that Divining Man that hath revealed Wonders and can tell what shall befall every one Oft have I heard of him and strange things by him foretold have come to passe Thus did they both disguise their minds and with untempered Morter daub uptheir severall concealed meanings and hidden intentions that they might both the better work out their Advantages But Poltron seeing his venomous Plot had without all suspect thus poyfoned her belief boldly told her That as she was no Man she was not within the Condition of his Bond and therefore if so she pleased he would not onely give her full Liberty but also bring her unknown to that haplesse Hermite whom she desired so much to see provided that she should give him Gold to bring him after to his Native Home and also be directed by him both for the means and the manner of their escape and travail To this she answered that prisons were no Treasure-houses and that she had no Mint to answer her mind onely some reserved Iewels she had which she would give him It shall said he suffice Pitty pleads in your behalf your merit claims redresse and my feeling grief to see a Princesse so distrest commands the hazard of my life Be you but silent and secret and you shall see that I will deceive the waking eyes of encharged wisedome and overthrow the heedfull care of reposed trust And thus it must be By the print of the keys which I will make in Wax will I make other like keys by which all the doors shall congee to your will and give passage to your pleasure Then will I have you for your better security homely attired with a box under your arm and Bone-lace hanging out of it a pair of shears tied to your Girdle and a yard in your hand that you may seem to be not what you are but what in appearance I would have you shew to be And I will with a Pedlars pack on my back well suited thereunto travell along with you as your husband So shall we both better escape and avoid suspition But how said Vienna shall Izabella bestow her self She said Poltron must stay behind in prison to take away the knowledge of our flight For after our departure she must lock the door again keep your bed with the Curtaines drawn and lay your clothes by most in sight and when any comes into her she must carefully say that you are not well and that you are laid down to sleep So shall we gain time to prevent our hasty pursuits and she may after at her will repair to some private friend in such disguise as I will provide for her That said Vienna may not be for I will never leave her that hath never forsaken me nor will I without her venture upon
sad humor with this deceiving conceit he determined darkly that dark night to shew his conceit thereon and to remove that vail of misdeem that so shadowed the assurance of his faithfulnesse And therefore furnishing himself with a well tuned lute in the dead of night he went alone to the Castle where close shrowding himself under her window he sweetly sounding thus chanted out this irefull song SLeep not Revenge Revenge awake awake you irefull spirits all All are too few too few you are to plague those tongues that swim in gall Then wake Revenge Revenge awake And blast those tongues that discord make Sleep not Revenge Revenge awake envy my love from love exhorts Report hath wrong'd true Troylus name and false surmize in slander sports Then wake Revenge Revenge awake And cut those tongues for Plutoes sake Sleep not Revenge Revenge awake Vertue hath lost her constant mind Love lyeth sick in her deceit Fancy is subject to the wind And all through hate of spitefull tongues Then wake Revenge revenge these wrongs Awake Revenge for shame awake Suspect hath rob'd content of joy Malice hath slain deserved trust and light belief hath bred annoy Then wake I say Revenge awake And now O now revengement take Revengement take take this revenge Let banefull blisters rot their tongue Poyson their breath and make them dumb and let them live in dying long So shall Revenge a God be known When thus Revenge revenge hath shown Vienna hearing this jarring Ditty wondered what he should be or what he should mean by this his wrathfull song At last she supposed it was Lainova that in Paris behalf thus excused his long silence absence so condemned by her but neither discrying him nor receiving any answer from him she then imagined that he was some other that carryed away with grief wrong had amongst other dolefull places there eased himself of his wofull burthen by breathing and oppressing out his secret sorrowes For it is some comfort to find either a companion in grief or a sad befitting wretched place to lament and manifest his grief But greatly disallowing his uncharitable mind she all sighing said Cease grieved soul my soul grieves at like wrongs Yet leave revenge to him revenge belongs Sirap perceiving that his song rather renewed then relinquished her of her causelesse grief and perswading himself that her step-mother both in envy of her glory and in disdain of him had at the first so hardned the heart of her father that he now altogether forgot in conrinuing his rigor that he was a father He thought to warble out a more pleasing note and to lull her a sleep with more comfortable musick And therefore turning his voyce he chearfully recorded this liking Ditty SLeep sleep O sleep sweet Lady sleep cloud not your beauty with black care Cares do consume grief hath no grace your graces grief wears beauty bare Then sleep O sleep sweet Lady sleep Let me ah me your sorrows keep Sigh not at all all is in vain in vain are sighs sighs do confound Times have their turns turn then your tears your woe with woe my heart doth wound Then sleep O sleep sweet Lady sleep Your slave alone for you will weep O cruell Dame Loves second choise O choise the change of natures love O Love forlorn slave unto time O time corrupt vertues remove Why trouble you her quiet sleep Since I for her do daily weep Sleep sleep O sleep fair Lady sleep your sorrowes have all sorrowes spent Hope doubt hath slain dead is dispair and Love will crown you with content Then sleep O sleep sweet Lady sleep No cause there is why you should weep Why you should weep Why you should weep No cause there is why you should weep Vienna pleased with the tune amazed at the voyce but more then ravished with the words hastily put her head out of the window and said Whatsoever thou art take thanks of a distressed Lady and heaven comfort thee as thou hast I know not how recomforted me And so turning her self to Izabella she ask'd whether she had heard that voyce before who replying said That if her memory failed her not it was the same or much like if not the same that they heard first in Court under her Chamber window Ah Izabella said Vienna thou harpest too well to be so well yet if my mind divine aright God grant it may divine I shall heare some tidings of my Paris so perswades my heart so grant our God But say Izabella say what shall poor Vienna say to this moralized Moor whose civill condition Majesticall presence and sugred tongue differs so much from his rude and barbarous nation Is not his black hue full of sweet favour and his favour sufficient to command Beauties proudest favour Now trust me Izabella the gentle Moor more and more would gain interest in my affection but the more I think he is a Moor the more for my Paris sake I scorn to love the Moor. And therefore resolved to live to none but Paris though Paris hath forgotten Vienna how shall I non-suit his importunity whose proud hope promiseth love and whose love is warranted by my Fathers Oath Izabella most carefully to acquit her of that care though it was the least care of her care told her that her old putrified policy would easily prevent that mischief and therefore having a ready Capon in the Castle they presently dismembring the body took the two legs and bidding them under her arm-holes where the heat of her body might soonest corrupt them she preparedly expected his comming the next day When Sirap clad in his richest array strangely fashioned came accompanied with many that of purpose being made acquainted with his intention came to recreate themselves with his so supposed unusuall courting For he being as they thought not to be understood by his tongue nor to be satisfied by his ear They vainly imagined that he either would woe her with gifts or with his countenance or with variety of gestures But he no sooner came to the Castle but frustrating their expectation he requested them by Bonfoy to â—lay and stand a while aside When winged with the hope of Loves assurance he instantly boldly and all onely entered saluted and in French thus courteously assaulted his fair and friendly foe How fares said he the imperious Mistress of my inthralled heart As a Prisoner not like a Princess she said fares the Miâ—â—ress of a thralled and wofull heart But how came you Sir Knight so frenchify'd that erst was so strangefy'd Love sweet Love he said hath made my tongue your Country-man and my heart your servant Then hath Love she replyed wrought a wonder in you and an admiration in me Such said Sirap is the divine power of Loves Diety such the vettuous force of your heavenly beauty and such the happy issue of our decreed destiny Therefore yield Vienna Vienna yield to that which the Gods have decreed Love commands thy beauty requires our Fortune
Noe Art can cure this hart Where in is storied the valorous atchieuements famous triumphs constant loue greate miseries finall happines of the well-deseruing truly noble and most valiant 〈◊〉 Sr Paris of Vienna and the most admired amiable Princess the faire Vienna London Printed for WILLIAM LEAKE and are to be sould at his shop at the crowne in fleete strett betwen the two Temple gaits 1650. JUst in the Cloud doth lovely CVPID stand With Quiver at his side and Bow in hand Which shewes when his swift Arrowes pierce the heart The wound must cured be by Love not Art And MARS the God of Warre to give renowne Unto desert doth here true Valour crowne VIENNA Natures pride doth paralell VENVS her selfe who did her Sex excell The joyned hands to the Spectarors show That Valour doth to Beauty homage owe. And with the stately Steed that stands in view Sir PARIS did great troopes of Foes subdue The Castle strong and cruell laylors key Are Emblems of a Princes misery If that the barres were red and Scutch on white The Coat would show who did this Story write TO HIS WORTHY BROTHER in law Mr. RICHARD MINSHVLL all health and Happinesse MOre Rich-art thou in mind then Mynes but Myn-shall be the joy of heart Since still thy love with mine combines and smels of Nature more then Art For bloud with bloud and sacred writ Such knots of love in Love hath knit To thee therefore J onely send this Spiders Web so vainely spunne Which my best thoughts to thee commend since what is done for thee is done If any taxe my idle braine Say once a yeare fond fooles doe raigne M. M. To the Reader NOt with intent to passe the speaking Presse Or challenge Praise of any more or lesse This Booke was writ the Author for his paines Did neither ayme at merit praise or gaines To gratifie a well deserving friend This Story fain'd at vacant houres was penn'd Which though now to the world expos'd it be The Authors heart is from vaine glory free THOMAS CROKET in praise of the Authors Worke. IF graver heads should hold it to be vaine that thou well strucke in yeares doâ—st write of Love Say thou the finest dye soon'st takes a staine and soundest Wits light subiects often prove But thou hast temp'red so thy Love with Armes with Knightly prowesse and with Martiall feats That thy smooth stile like sweet bewitching charmes compells all sorts to reade without intreats Then blush not since thy Pen such Art hath showne as proves the difference 'twixt Love and Lust And stirres vp Valour almost overthrowne whose Armes lye canker'd with consuming rust But rather glory in thy taken paines for which the world indebted aye remaines THOMAS CROKET To the deserving Author VVHil'st Paris thy great Rape shall be renown'd Or Troy it selfe on earth hath any sound That in thy brest didst foster such a flame To waste the Towne and yet preserve the Name So long Sir Paris thy chast fires shall last Which though not with such fury burnt as fast And whil'st the Citie of Vienna stands A virgin Towne maugre the opposite bands Of insolent Turkes vnravish'd by their steele And never their invasive Armes to feele So long a date Vienna thou dost give To him whose Pen hath made thee ever live Tho. Haywood VIENNA here presents to you Both Love and Valour great and true And in this Story you shall finde Pregnant conceits to please the minde Which reade and view and reape the gaines Then thanke the Author for his paines R. R. THy pleasing Story gives most true content to all that have survay'd thy witty Lines For thou to Mars and Venus grace hast leâ— and in thy Booke both Love and Valour shines For which let Martiall Knights and Ladies faire say and fay truth that this is past compare T. M. THy Mars like Paris and Vienna faire most pleasing doe appeare eclips'd no way Who viewes the same thou needst not doubt or feare for it is decked in Wits rich array There 's such new pleasing wayes to please the minde That all that reade the same content will finde Samoth Egnirawniam SInce graver wits so much thy Booke commend Whose censures doe my judgement farre transcend Why should not I rest silent and admire Knowing my skill answers not my desire The reason is I rather will improve My ignorance then to conceale that love Which duty prompts to speake which still doth live To honour thee since praise I cannot give To equallize thy paines in study spent Which now most fluently in complement Showes the exactnesse of a sollid braine That makes so small a volume to containe Love Valour Fortitude what not that 's rare But in thy pregnant Lines composed are Wisdome Conceit Art Learning Knowledge Wit Doe grace thy worke to make it exquisite Time shall proclaime thy worth to future dayes And Fame perpetuate thy living praise Io. Egnirawniam AS most esteeme of Iewels for their worth And prize them high though not in gold set forth So vertuous minds when they this Story view Admire and say for it great thankes is due If others cannot adde to it like praise Time vowes to store such worth for future dayes My Pen here stops yet Natures streame runnes so Rivers will ebbe to th' Sea from whence they flow Mat. Egnirawniam IF duty did not binde desert would move my Art-lesse Pen thy Story to commend Since better plots of Valour Art Wit Love to Momus view the Presse did never send Ralph Egnirawniam ANd I the last but not the least whose Love to thee and thine is ty'd in treble bands For marr'age bloud and friendship which may prove our constant buildings are not on the sands Therefore with thankes for this thy well wrote Story Though mine it is yet thine shall be the glory Your Kinsman Brother in law and Friend Richard Mynshull VIENNA WIthin the Principality of Viennois whilome there lived and ruled as Daulphin a most renowned Prince no lesse esteemed for his admired Wisdome then highly honoured for his respected greatnesse But so absolute was hee in Opinion so perverse in disposition and so severe in Government that hee made his Will his GOD and rigour his law This Daulphin had but one onely Daughter whose exquisite beauty was so beautified with rarest vertues that men honoured Nature as a God in her perfections and held her more then a Woman in her vertues Amongst many Knights that then followed her Fathers Court there was a most well deserving aged Knight who was knowne to bee as sufficient as he was sufficiently knowne named Sir Jaques who had but one onely Son called Paris whose but budding yeares deckt with Natures pride and honoured with timely Knighthood well chalenged Renowne for his right Venus for his friend and Fortune for his servant But it fortuned so Fortune would that this young Knight casting casually his carelesse eye aside in Court espyed the young Princesse the faire Vienna for so
stormy Sea into a more quiet Port. Fortune should have no power over fortitude and courage What thou never hadst that thou dost not loose Thy inability and imparity could never promise thee any hope 〈◊〉 and thy long nourished dispairo shall now finde a period that in the end would have brought thee to thy end Let necessity then make thee now suffer constantly and custome will make thy sufferance easie Sir Paris who did heare but not hearken to what his friend had so discreetly delivered regarded him no more then a greedy Lawyer doth his impoverished Clyent but still deepely excogitating how hee might intercept or pervert the intended match at length he all sighing said This Gordian knot must be cut a sunder though I want an Alexanders sword Iudustry and Policie oft effects unlikely things and we should not judge that which is possible nor that which seemes unpossible as it is credible or incredible to our capacities The eternall wisedome hath I know a reserved power and a secret intention to bring things to passe which the wisedome of man cannot conceive nor see till it happen and be done What though Vandoume be mighty A small Rocke may ruinate a great Ship I will not so loose Vienna but where I want force to play the Lyon there will I assay to gaine by fraud La-nova he said welcome thou comest in a usefull time thou must secretly fit me with a gray beard a payre of Beades a Fryers Gowne and Hood I must turne Fryer and Prophet all at once It must be so the plot is layd and we must be Actors both in the play La-nova knowing that his undaunted courage could never brooke a Corrivall though he were never so great did much feare that he intended some straragem and therefore he told him that unlesse he might know his purpose he would make no such provision Why said Sir Paris my thoughts dwell in thy breast and in thy heart doth my love next to Vienna live How then canst thou be a stranger to my purposes that art the Treasuer of my secrets Thou knowest La-nova how jealous the Daulphin is of his safety His rigorous I might say cruell Nature hath taught him to feare many whom many doth still feare Thou knowest also that Kings are ever suspitious of their Successours Experience makes them to feare least they should loose that which they and many others seeke with greatest dangers to obtaine My project is to make the King and the Daulphin my instruments to breake the marriage give me Pen Inke and Paper and thou shalt see what a fearefull fire I will kindle to burne up all their matrimoniall hopes and agreements But to give more life hereunto thou must play thy part Thy Vnkle is Steward to the Duke of Vandoume and thou thy selfe art gracious in his presence To him must thou post in shew of love to see him and in all duty to tender thy service And when opportunity shall fit thy purpose thou must take occasion to wonder that so great a Prince hath his Armoury so ill stored and by way of perswasion thou must tell him that no mans title is so right and just but that it may finde worke upon their best advantages and therefore it is a provident policie for his Highnesse to be presently furnished for all contingents This La-nova will so feed and sway his ambition that hee will make over-hasty and unadvised provision The knowledge whereof will so prepare and fortifie the Kings jealousie that it will crowne my device with beliefe and successe La-nova glad to see him so well resolved promised his best endeavours and in the performance thereof had his wished successe But before he went he brought Pen Inke and Paper whereupon Paris more Prophetically then he thought writ as followeth When Vandoumes first borne shall Vienna wed The Daulphins Land shall doome the Daulphin dead Pride scornes that time should check Vandoumes French Fate Thy death must helpe to Crowne his Royall pate La-noua divining that this procreated conceit would bring forth some good issue could not but laugh thereat and in that joy he went immediatly to make provision both for himselfe and his friend Now each Wednesday in every weeke the Daulphin more for applause then to doe good received himselfe as he went to heare Masse all the Sutors Petitions and in the afternoone viewed and considered of them Vpon this day Paris having lapt vp his fraudulent Libell like a plaine Petition went to the Court well furnished for the purpose where he did so well personate a holy Fryer that Linxes eyes could not discover him There did he vnsuspected deliver it and returned without perseverance Asterwards the Daulphin upon the perusing of them found and read amongst the rest Paris his threatning and suffocating Prophesie which did so poyson and swell him with suspitious thoughts and most fearefull surmises that in his irefull indignation he cryed our with the King of Moab How shall we avoid the deepe dissembling of Ehud Plaine dealing I see is dead without issue and all Honour and due respects are buried in the insatiable desire of Rule Surely this is no enigmaticall nor promiscuous Oracle but a plaine prediction sent by God or some good man in zeale and favour of Princes and in tendernesse of our safeties O most treacherous and perfideous Duke that in the bonds of Alliance wouldst cut off the small remainder of our dayes to worke thy further bloody ends My daughter shall not so be Queene by our death Nor shall our Subjects be so slaine in his unnaturall and rebellious Warre I will not suffer the true Vine to be so displanted nor shall my connivence traduce me for his impunity For though wisedome permits not that I detect him openly for feare of making him my implacable enemy yet will we send a private and an unknowne Messenger secretly to his King who shall upon his Royall word for the concealement of our intelligence discover and lay open Vandoumes most impious and pernitious intended Treason and after shall he cast by our instructions such store of oyle upon that jealous flame that it shall at least burne up all Vandoumes hopes of further proceeding with us Thus did such hate proceed from feare that after a small respiration hee sent accordingly to the King who was no sooner possest thereof but that his divided thoughts made such intestine warre within his breast that he knew not what to say or doe His fraternall love made him weepe to see Nature so monstrous and unkinde and fearefull jealousies a disease incident to Kings called upon justice and sayd that corrected Treason was the life of a Prince Distrust now still dreamed upon Murther and unquier feare could not be secured but with execution Then Affection tolde him that then wee come nearest unto God when we judge with pitty and pardon in mercy In this doubtfull Combate of the minde he sent for the Duke who no sooner came but that taking him alone
into his private Chamber he with a mild severiy thus breathed out his griefe and his just and loving rebuke It is our pleasure Vandoume for so thy Soveraigne calls thee that thou neither interrupt us while we speake nor it our conclusion make any answere or excuse Then know that if we were as ready to punish as thou art ready to rebell Thou shouldst now finde a sharpe censure in stead of a kinde brother and wee should be freed from an incompatible Traytor in lieu of a loyall Subject God that potecteth Kings hath now made thy implicite Treason transparent Thy proclivity to rule thy thirsting after popularity thy subtill taxing of ouâ— Government thy needlesse provision for Armes in a well setled Peace and thy disguised desire to match with the Daulphin is not unknowne to us And thou that in pride couldst not brooke a Superiour art now by divine Justice brought beneath the fortune of thy equals It is now in our power to humble thee but not to make thee humble Such is thy a spiring Ambition that nothing but a Crowne can limit thy unbounded desires For neither the terrour of Law the instinct of Nature my binding dutie nor the awe of thy due duty could keepe or confine thee within the circumference and compasse of thy Alleageance Knowest thou not that the jealousie of a King is death and that a Prince is neither a kinne nor allyed to a Traytor Admit that thou hadst prevailed in thy most nefarious rebellion What had beene thy Conquest but terrour of conscience daily doubt of Treason nightly feare of murther the shame of thy selfe the hate of men and the vengeance of God O what bitter fruites shouldest thou so untimely have purchast The usurpation of my Crowne which a few dayes would peaceably give thee could not Patronize thy fratricide nor dispence with the murther of thy Soveraigne How fondly inhumane maligne and degenerate hast thou then shewed thy selfe Many are the probabilities that thou soughts my life and more then many are the inducements why I should secure my selfe by thy death And what mercie canst thou expect there when thou didst intend no pittie I grieve and blush to see such an Antipathy betwixt us But it shall suffice that to my glory and thy shame I give the now pledge of the vertue of my love that thou mayest hereafter the better love me for my certue For here I doe not onely freely pardon thee but doe entertaine thee anew to dwell ever in my dearest affection A brothers frowne should set with the Sunne and here shall be the period of my wrathfull indignâ—tion Then let this new birth beget in thee a new life and let this make such a stable connexion of our loves that wee both may hereafter contend whether we with a better heart have given thee thy life or that thou canst more affectionately retaliate our kindnesse Onely thou shalt abjure the match with the Daulphin and instantly write to him that wee oppose and prohibite the same And therefore shalt thou pray his patience and the continuance of his love and alledge that neither Subjects in matters of State nor Princes of the blood in Marriages can dispose of theyr wills nor of themselves without the permission of their King This was no sooner said but that Vandoume kissing his Soveraignes hands with full falling teares expressing both his griefe and shame most willingly performed the same O most prudent Paris with what prescience caution and facility didst thou infatuate and delude these wise and great Princes and how subtilly had thou made them thy deceived Agents to worke upon each other all onely to preserve thy weake hopes of faire Vienna But though Paris now had thus dispierc'd these terrifying clouds that threatned shipwrack to his high desires yet durst he not dreame after better fortunes though he held the successe of his late fraudulent fiction very auspitious But pleasing himselfe with what he had done and affecting still his owne affections he walked into the chamber of presence where Vienna Izabella and other Ladyes were playing at Cardes Thither hee went under colour of attendance to feast his eves and to Paradise his heart with the beloved sight of his all-admired and affected Lady O with what wonder did he now observe her matchlesse beauty her gracefull Majestie her pleasing words and her sweet delivery And what a conflict was now growne betwixt his desire and dispaire All his thoughts were extravayant and at warre with each other For as desire did finde content with joy to be in her presence so Dispaire denyed him all hope with distrust or any comfort His heart now began to rebuke his eyes for soaring so neere the Sunne and for gazing after impossibilities But his eyes told his heart that no disdaine could dwell in so rare a perfection In this perturbation of mind did hee stand untill Vienna being dry called to him for a cup of wine which he in the pride of that imployment hastily brought but delivered it with great astonishment and stupidity as being over-surprized both with joy and feare he all-shaking flasht some of the wine over the cup and so wet both theyr hands which one of the Ladies perceiving scornefully said Sir Knight you are over-bountifull I am sure my Ladies hand called for no wine There is no offence answered Vienna at all He knew my hand was dry So Madame said Izabella is your foot My foot snee replyed is further off from the burning Sunne and receives moysture enough from the humide eaith But neither said Izabella did neede any wine We called said Vienna for it being dry And how could our body receive it unlesse our hand had first taken it A dry cup and a cleane hand said another Lady had beene more serviceable Why said Vienna cleane hands are often waslit and dry cups quencheth no thirst Then must drynesse have inoysture and hee hath freely given it us but no more we have lost our game in his defence Paris whose extasie had given way to these passages recollecting himselfe humbly said What most gracious Princes you have lost in the game that have you wonne by patience in your meeknesse but how shall I worthily magnifie your great worth that notwithstanding these tart Ladies bitter provocations hath shewed the fulnesse of all vertue in your goodnesse Let your Highnesse but pardon my vnstayed hand and you shall ever find me more ready to shed my dearest blood in your service then I have beene either to wet your faire hand or to spill your wine Thankes good Knight sayd Vienna we desire no such satisfaction your taken paines shall bee all your punishment Paris being proud of this conceited favour though Vienna in her mild nature pleaded in his defence onely to crosse the other Ladies derision and to approve her owne acutenesse withdrew himselfe to the next window where with his Diamond hee thus writ In spite of scorne true vertue did me grave In scorne of spite I 'le
not Paris liue then he rests humbly thankefull to Vienna and if not offenssiue a faithfull seruant to my Lady Thankes said Vienna good Sir Paris your suit shall not bee non suit if you shoot at Honours ayme But tell me and truly tell me whether your suit and your discontentment which I see â—â—â—bours in your eyes be not for your Prizes which I tooke away when attending my Mother I was at your Fathers house 〈◊〉 If so it be be it so or not so you shall have them againe if againe you will returne with me Paris proud of her presence held himselfe more deified then dignified by her favours and humbling himselfe he vowed that they himselfe and all in all were at her Honours command Then must I Vienna said command and conjure you to tell me whether it were your selfe that so sweetly sung vnder my Chamber window and so friendly gaue me Musicke that did wound and beate my Fathers Guard that wonne and bare away my Christall Shield and Chaplet in the Tournament at my Fathers Court and that carried away the Honour and the three Banners with their Prizes from all the Barons and Knights at Paris Paris astonished at her demand durst neither confesse for foare of disdaine nor yet dissemble for offending her whom in no wise he would offend which perceived by Vienna shee familiarly prest him to acknowledge the trueth which manifested shee with a pleasing and pleasant countenance merrily said why then doth Sir Paris affectionately love us Sir Paris whose enticing fault had earst control'd but now condemned his over-clyming thoughts was so amated in himselfe and so transported from himselfe that silence in bashfull signes blusht out a dumbe reply But Vienna ballancing his cold conceit by the alteration of his countenanes allowed the weight and animated in her owne affection shee commanded him boldly to avene what shee her selfe inferr'd by such his troubled silence Paris seeing the cloud of his care dispierced gloried the more in the brightnesse of his Sunne the beames whereof hee found for comfortable that hee proudly confest his love and that hee had long done secret and humble homage to Venus vnder her so rare a beauty Vienna surfeitting in the pride of her full content kindly entertained his so affectionate a conceit with as friendâ—â— a receive and briefly assuredly assured him that none but Paris should enjoy Vienna it none but Vienna should joy in Paris This cordiall conclusion being Sealed 〈◊〉 protestation of perseverance and by confirmation of oathes they knit two hearts in one and parted one will in two and so departed During these Haltion dayes commanding Love wrought ensuing cares For Vienna sitting-but in the shaddow of to ye thought the fruites of affection over-long in ripening and therefore presuming in her câ—â—ing ayme that her Father in her favour would tie his consent to her choyse and her love to his liking She importuned Sir Paris to request his Father to acquaint the Daulphin with her affection and humbly pray his consent in favour of his Daughter Which Sir Jaques advisedly at the first deâ—yed as unwilling to wakes a sleeping Lyon or to seeke for Fish in a dry Poole But Paternall love the assination of reason and shattering hope the huâ—le of deceit so transported himselfe from himselfe that most vnlike himselfe be vainely dreaming after pombâ—â—â—ie yeelded to sayle in a Ship without a Steâ—ne and to gather honey out of Stones But the 〈◊〉 whose repugnane humour scorn'd so servile a motion and whose abured kindnesse now begat in him most spitefull rage so â—refully boyled in his dâ—daine full furquedry 〈◊〉 bitierly thecking Sir Jaques he fearefully thundred out his threatning indignation in exiling poore Sir Paris Paris though cheekt yet not mated shewed now the vertue of his coâ—â—age in the celipse of his fortune For being preswaded by Laâ—nova to make presently away He notwithstanding the danger of tyranâ—â—all authoritie resolved to see his Lady before he lost his Countrey And therefore as one desperate in dispaire he hastily yet secretly went to participate his engrieved state with haplesse Vienna who hearing thereof was so consounded of her lesse as she was sull of sorrow for being vnable to reâ—eue him as she was voyd of all meanes to helpe herselfe Their samentations payed now large tribute to their griefes and their desires that before had no end did now by dispaire end endlesse things in their first niotion But after that the flood of their seares was growne to an ebbe adâ—â—itting the necessitie of time they concluded euer to live to none but to each other though they neuer saw agaide one another And so Sir Parie fainting in his farewell was depriued of his welfare Which all â—ouing and impatient â—â—ennd not brooking so to be deposed from him in whom she wholly reposed her selfe reeall'd him againe and enfolding him within her fainting armes she vowed to pertake with him in all his fortunes ever remembring him that the chast roote of her true affection was Vertue clad in constant loves desire Shee therefore advised him secretly to conceale himselfe and to provide for shipping and at the houre of Twelve the third night following she would disguised with stored Gold and Jewels meet him in the Pouch of Saint Anthonies Church and so depart with him whither soever Sir Parâ—â— kissing her oft for in waine kissing is some pleasure found now his purgatory to bee hit Paradice Joy myuâ—â—pht in his eyes and comfort lodg'd in his heart and in this haven of happinesse hee would have â—wimmed still but that danger of delay told him that growing Trees have their fall aswell as their springs and that apprenension would dissolve all their harmony Hee therefore being borne away with the hasty tyâ—â—e of smallost leasure rode presently into Prevence where happily meeting with Monsiour de la Mâ—tt a Ship-Master of his acquaintance hoe privately told him that hâ—â— had flaine a Man of account and that he must for a â—â—me leave his Countrey and therefore prayed him for his gold speedny and sâ—â—â—ctly to Ship him and his two Friends away into some other Coast which Monsieur la Mott promising sent one away incontinent to Saint Victor where his Ship lay to make all things in readinesse and returned himselfe with Sir Paris to assâ—t and direct him in all his needfull dispatches Now Vicuna and Jeabella at the time and place appointed met with Sir Paris according to their agreement in mens apparell dispencing with needlesse salutations addâ—est themselves to speedy journeyes And do long they poasting ridde out of all High-wayes that being beâ—â—ghted they were glad to crave harbour of a Presite who lodging them placed Vienna and Jzabella in one Chamber and Sir Paris and Monsteur de la Mott in another In the morning their earely desires so hastened their speedy departures that being timely up and quickly horsed Sir Paris and La Mois rude apace before to view the River whose over-flowed bankes were so
good to be too good for her thought yet each houre an age till his returne Misfortune so blindeth those wee will overthrow as that she gives their desires wings to draw on and hasten their owne decayes At last hee came and humbly delivered the scrowle importing this much Viennois hoyre to thraldome still belongs untill her Fathers bonds shall set her free Who captiv'd is in place confus'd with tongues by Ismaels brood detayn'd shall be Both shall live in doubt in care and wee untill the banisht Sonne of forlorne Troy Shall succour give unto his greatest foe and bring him home with hope with love with joy Then shall Vienna wed a fable Moore And happie live in Peace and not before The Daulphinis whose ever sad surcharged heart was unable to disgest such heavie and bitter Cates found this sawce too sharpe for her dyet For it was no sooner read but that finding as she thought all the gates of comfort shut up with vntricate threats and impossibilities being too weake a 〈◊〉 stell to beare so sharpe a liquor she shrunke under the weight of her sad burthen and fell suddenly dead and so left the Daulphin a eruell Father and a carelesse Widower This mournfull accident rather exasperated his irefull displeasure towards his Daughter in making her disobedience the originall cause of her death then in any wise extenuated his execrable resolution against her determined endurance But hee had not lived many dayes in dolour but that burying the remembrance of his dearest Spouse in the hope of future happinesse his obdurate heart became as unsenceable of her losse as of his Daughters misery Love found love and the madnesse of age made him such a slave unto his slave that before one yeares period he married one of his Wives meanest Attendants One who knowing her owne unworthinesse having neither Vertue to strengthen her fortune nor good nature to incite her to pittie or goodnesse nor any merit to winne applause was notwithstanding so potent over him that she guided the sterne of his flinty and unpennitrable heart And though she feared the scorne of abject basenesse yet to maintaine the stolne pride of her enhansed heart shee cunningly gave fewell to her Husbands enraged will and covertly blew still the coales of his displeasure For feare shee did least that her Daughters liberty should in the aspect of true honour could both her swelling conceited glory and detract from her proud insulting greatnesse To frustrate which she cautely one day leaning on his brest and stroking his frosted beard thus sadly sayd When my deerest Lord I looke upon the breach of the Princesse your Daughters obligation I finde the penaltie you take to be most just though severe Since the just Judger of all did for the sole disobedience of onely one cast both him and all his Posteritie out of Paradice How like unto him you shew your selfe herein your unpartiall Justice well demonstrates who rightfully punisheth the sinne of disobedience in your owne members as God did in his owne creatures Justice is the badge of vertue the state of peace and maintenance of honour and the will of a Father should be a religious law unto the Child And they that preferre theyr owne lustes before theyr Parents pleasures looseth the benefit both of natures right and a Fathers regard For reason would not we should respect those that forsake us The Husband man cuttes and loppes off all unkindly Branches from the good Vine Iove held his Children part of his substance of whom hee did and might dispose and the noble Romans deprived their Sonnes of life that infringed but theyr commaunds I alleadge not this most worthy Lord to aggravate your Daughters foule offence whose other deserts I honour whose wellfare I affect and whose merited punishment I condole Nor yet to detract from the worth of your thrice worthy chasticement which all men commend and justice allowes But feare of I know what and the love of your safety enforceth me in love and duty to manifest what I feare and to prevent what I doubt Vienna you know my endeered Lady is the immediate apparent Heyre to this Principalitie and the unjust desires that waite upon a Crowne begets oft most inhumane unnaturall and unlawfull Acts Nature in that expectation looseth her sight Vertue her strength Dutie her obedience and Love her respect Nothing can out-ballance ambitious desire either in the reach of dignity or revenge Nor is there any limitation in the adventurers Her restraint is I feare like fire raked up in embers that covertly will kindle and openly burst foorth into a flame For the harder she deemes her selfe handled the more will she seeke after her release if not after revenge Nor can she want instigators thereunto Since all men like and preferre the rysing of the Moone before the setting of the Sunne And to win advancement in that hope they will contrive practise and execute whatsoever and howsoever Such occasions gives fire to corrupt Humorists and such grounds sets repugnant Malecontents a worke I would my death might free you from such dangerous intendments or that my life could acquit you from such heavie accidents And therewithall her heart having taught her eye to weepe she threw her selfe into his bosome the more to endeere her selfe unto him and without any sorrow she sighing said Ah what shall become of me when I shall loose my loving Lord Graft gave her teares Deceit shew'd griefe Fraud forcit a feare to win beleife Thus to nourish debate after she had fedde on slander and instil'd in his eates a fearefull jealousie which over-credulous mindes easily apprehends and covetously entertaines The better to acquit her selfe from all suppose of malice or detraction She weeping told him That the night before her Mothers Ghost appeared unto her all in white her unsmoothed haire displayed about her shoulders her ruefull falne face pale her eyes hollow and in eyther hand a Taper burning dimme which so affrighted her that had she not comfortably spoken to me when I had no power to call to you I had awaked you and cryed for helpe But sodainely with a feeble voyce she mildly said Feare not my Daughter to looke upon thy Mothers harmelesse Ghost who in tender care of thee and espoused Lord have left my bed of rest to come to premonish thee of your ensuing â—ll Treason doth threaten the Daulphin Subjects mislikes workes upon Viennas discontentments Her liberty will be his death and in his destruction shalt thou finde thy grave Now thou knowest it looke to it and so farewell With that she gave a wimpe darkenesse possest the place and I lay wounded and affrighted with remembrance both of her sight and of her words This Apparision the happy Angell of our God for visions are cleere revelations where dreames are but delusions hath moved me out of an affectionate feare of you to deliver what I saw heard and have said which otherwise in my love to your Princely Daughter I would willingly
somewhat to perswade his daughter of his repenting rigour and intended good commanded that Sir Jaques should be see at liberty and restored to his Pristine estate which greatly contented Vienna for her Paris sake and no little joyed good La-nova that secretly had â—uccâ—â—red him But these showes of favour and promises of preferment nothing advantaged the Daulphin For Vienna strengthned in the expectation of forrow nor obstinately but constantly tolde her father that the Burbons love was like a Spiders webbe fit to bee swept away and that her Virgins vowe should eternize her chastity after death This resolve raised againe the storme of his allayed sury in the rage whereof he left her discovering by his threats and malitious words the ill of his heart as Vienna sorrowfull sigher shewed the hurt of her heart La-â—â—va weighing 〈◊〉 â—yranny of the time and finding no hope of better â—â—ap presently writ to Sir Paris the truth of all such accidents as had befalne this Father Vienna and himselfe since the receipt of his Letter which gave so fresh and so sharpe an affault to his already over-surcharged heart that vertue was no Armour of proofe against such affliction but raging in the tempest of discontentment rather like an unkennelled Cerberus then any distracted Ajax hee blasphemously belched and breathed out cruell oathes vengeance daring threates and most foarefull words against Time Love Gods and Men. O Time said hee Traytor unto Love O Love abused by Time O Gods unjust to men O Men too subject to the Gods O that your Deities were essentiall visible and mortall that I might hew vengeance out of your wrongs and write Tragedies on your lives O heavens I challenge your Throanes and deny your powers Your swift motions I will stay with my hand and your revolutions I will drowne in the Sea I will unloose the bonds of Orion and stop the course of each constellation The straying Starres I will plucke from theyr Spheares and with their influences will I kill all the Tyrants on the earth Time I will consume with my breath and burne up Love with the Sunne The world I will cut a sunder with my Sword and make a new Land in the ayre The Waters I will swallow up and bury the windes in the Moone Ixion I will remove front his moving and tormenting seate and set the Daulphin on his turning wheele where hunger-staryed Vipours shall gnaw on his hatefull heart and pyning Tautalas give him all his food Vienna shall be sole Queene of hâ—aveâ— and onely rule the glorious Globe And I will raigne in Iupiters stead and throw downe fire and lightning on the cursed Castle that enthralls my love I will beate that cruell Daulphin to powder with thunder that I may be revenged on Time Love Gods Men the World the Daulphin and all for the Daulphin Thus distract in his madding moode hee all enraged raged he knew not now and said he knew not what pulling the Letter in pieces with his teeth â—â—â—enting his Hangings earing his Cloathes and breaking his bed Board and Stooles with such violence that his amazed servants durst not come neere him At this vnwonted passion theyr hearts were possest with wonder and their eyes floodded with teares his bounty causing the one and his wisedome the other But ignorance is the mother of admiration They knew not where his shooe did pinch him nor could they toll thâ—â— to helpe him At last as one breathlesse in his wâ—sted fury hee fell upon his bed which they seeing hastily stept to him and uniting their strengthes kept him downe making silence theyr preparative to quit his 〈…〉 thoughts Then darkning the Chamber one of thâ—â— tooke a deepe base silver stranged Bandâ—â—a whereupon hee played so sweetly and so dolefull that Sir Paris hearing or it lent a listning to it which brought him into such a sall melancholly Muse that be began to slumber and after fell into a heavy sleepe which so well appeaâ—ed the storme of his disturbed sences that after three houres enjoying reposedrest he waked and walked perfected in his minde and ashamed that he had so defac'd the Image of vartâ—e and abused his owne knowledge Consideration made him now hold himselfe the sole spight of Fortune and the very scorne of time and men Detraction threatned his disgrace Derision proclaimed his folly and the guilt of his owne ill made him privately and secretly to leave Genoa and to wander whether his shame should not follow him nor any heare of his being But before he departed he both rewarded and discharged all his servants and paying all duties whatsoever hee lastly writ to La-nova and to his Father as followeth IF silly Sheeps my ever fast found friend all onely for their bare foode as hating ingratitude yeeld theyr faire 〈◊〉 as due guerdons to their â—eepers How them shall 〈…〉 countervaile thy so many meriâ—s that injoy nought my selfe but meere miâ—â—fortunes and insufferable 〈◊〉 Alas my La-nova the Times are changed and we are 〈◊〉 in the times Thou writest now of naught but 〈◊〉 and my griefe is already such as to live is a griefes Overhappie 〈…〉 ill flowes from my greatest good and whose blisfull 〈◊〉 is become my extâ—ngâ—ish thy affection or thy 〈◊〉 had 〈◊〉 fetled on a more happier and 〈◊〉 perfoâ—â— The 〈…〉 more contented and then 〈◊〉 better afterward 〈◊〉 since my love hath wrought thy full Thy fall shull be 〈◊〉 in my losse For presently J will 〈◊〉 to 〈…〉 and try the force of my further 〈◊〉 in seeking the 〈◊〉 of my fortune And therefore have J written to my 〈◊〉 or adopt they in my place for his 〈…〉 thee as 〈…〉 herefore write not 〈…〉 onely 〈◊〉 my love to 〈◊〉 Ladies 〈…〉 and â—â—ll her that J flye not from her favour but with my ill 〈◊〉 from my more threatning prevert fortune And though J dye in her sorrow yet will I ever 〈…〉 Gâ—noa the last of my 〈◊〉 and the first of my Filgrimage Onely unhappie in his happinesse Paris La-nova having read his owne sorrow in his Friends griefe could not refraine from shedding most bitter â—â—â—es and having long bewailed the untâ—â—ly losse of his so worthy a Friend he speediâ—d himselfe to 〈◊〉 Sir Jaquae unto whom hee delivered his Sennes Letter importing thus much IF Plato right deare deere Father sâ—eing â—â—â—thanke full Man proâ—â—â— said 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 more 〈…〉 they had loaden ad 〈…〉 J humbly beseech you the 〈…〉 La-nova my second selfe hath with 〈…〉 and done for vs be you 〈…〉 Least his deferes dye in your shame and your 〈…〉 without any 〈…〉 excuse And 〈…〉 fortune hath 〈…〉 my sinister Starres hath quite lately slaine all hape of future returne My last request 〈◊〉 that J â—â—ing the last of my Tribe and the first of our declaying Family you would comfort your age with the better hope of my Friends more worthier worthinesse 〈…〉 you will 〈◊〉 and take him for your 〈◊〉 And when Nature shall pay the duty you 〈…〉
to Babylon grew more then impatient in her discontented feares and beyond all consideration of her state deplored the hardnesse of her hap Her lustfull hopes were now wounded in the expectasion of he rlascivious desires and unbounded love so opprest her unchast thoughts that finding her infected affection frustrated of conceived joyes she fainted under the burthen of her unexpected vows In this sad alteration she threw her selfe on the humble floore where her dumbe sorrowes uttered nought but bemoaning teares and complayning sighes Which Mentiga ruefully beholding and well weying that this unwelcome event would deprive her of enriching favours and of promised preferments she summoned her wits together and set them all on the rack of invention to find out means of some redress At last after a sad and serious pause she said Take comfort most mighty Empress and my most gracious Soveraign let this suddain lightning dye in his abortiye birth and listen to your most submissive Handmaid who desires no longer life then she may do your Highness acceptable service Your Knight is no doubt enfore'd by the Sultans employment to this unliked journey and your remembrance will not only be a plea for his disparch but his controling affection will also give speed to his return In the mean time I will undertake to bring him this night to your bed where you may make your desired delights do homage to your wills pay tribute to your sufferance and bind him over to accomplish your further pleasure Then raise your better thoughts this base floor but your foot-stool is no bed for Majesty Nor stands it with the resplendant Queen of ASIA to prostrate her self so low as to lie in the dust of the earth Eugenia thus rowzed rose with an erected heart from her seat of sorrow and carefully looking on her said Ah Montiga Mentiga can it be that Physick hath any Cordiall Receipt for so desperate a Disease Is there any mollifying salve can cure my tormenting sore or canst thou give a healing plaister to my wounded mind Speak thou haplesse or most happy woman When where or how canst thou effect so great and sweet a work and please thy Lady without perceivance The glorious Sun thou know'st is ever remarkable when mean Stars are seldom gazed on Pale Joalousie is a subtile spie and invincible Envie hath murthering eyes Danger waits on dignities and Beauty is ever guarded with observance The light I fear is a blab and darknesse but a Traytor These walls have eares then be silent Mentiga least the Ayr whilper and betray thy intention and enterprise Thus had Eugenia when it came to it many Eyes to see into many Evils but they were all blind to prevent any Misfortune so blindeth those she will overthrow that nothing can cleer their understandings nor limit their adventures which made Mentiga answer that she had a Charm to close up Argoes eyes and that deceit should lull danger a sleep when Beauty should feast with love And this she sayd it is and must be The Sultan you know either to refresh himself with ease or to make his pleasures more compleat by change doth the two last nights of every week abstain both from your bed and Chamber And this ensuing night being the first of the two when your Eunuches be at supper wee will in my chamber secretly change our attyres and so give life to our device you must as Mentiga bring me as Emperesse to your bed where leaving me you shall depart into my Chamber next adjoyning where fastening the door you must attend the hour of midnight and then putting on my Night-gown you must as silently as may be go down the staires into the Garden and thereopening the postern gate the key whereof shall be preprovided for you you shall receive your disguised Knight and bringing him up the staires to my Chamber you both may safely entertain your stoln delights and give both your desires all fulness of content But how said Eugenia shall he return undiscovered Early in the morning replied Mentiga before the day shall descry your dalliances will I rise and come unattyred unto you to my chamber when you shal leave my blest and beautified bed and returne to your owne chamber in such manner as I came And then will I cloathe your Knight in the religious habite of the Hozes the same I used when I went to him And so hee may depart when the Sunne the eye of the world shall not discover him For clouded Rocks deceive Marriners A justifiable cloake ever hides a treacherous fraude and they ever may do the most wrong of whom least is looked for And because we will not procrastinate our designes lest our projects bee communicated I will presently put on my Protean shape and like a holy Father go to Sirap unto whom I will unfold all that we have determined and both enjoyn and entreat him iâ— your name and for your love that he will not fayl his hour at that place but come to take Loves farewell and leave a setled possession of his purchased favours This enticing plot promised more to Eugonia then a possibility Her lawlesse love saw no exception nor could her wantonizing thoughts dream of any interception Her transported desires were so drowned in her over-amorous passion that she entertained the least conceit that might but help her foolish fancy Her flattering hopes held good correspondency with all likelihoods and in the confidence of her supposed assurance she bad her go and after called her back again Her presaging heart did fayl her and she began to fear she knew not what A sudden trembling possessed her in every part and what before she but carelesly dreaded now she did more then fearing doubt In this distraction and fear of misadventure she sayd It is better to be in love most miserable then through love to be guilty of our owne manifest confusion Why should we then Mentiga for our lovingfolies weave the web of our own woes Violent streams being once run out the mud will appear in the bottom The indignation of a Prince is death and the love of a stranger as inconstant as a Travellers mind is wandring He is but mean and puddles are not for Princes to drink at Let him be as he is that I may be as I am O Eugenia hadst thou been as provident to shun the cause of thy fall as thou was foolishly wise to apprehend thy fall Thou might have longer liv'd in thy renown But now thy sins are ripe Fate throws thee down For she being drawn by a wilfull folly unto that whereunto she was destinate no sooner had uttered what she misliked but straight she misliked what she had uttered Shall idle doubt said she the hearse of our desires deprive me of my wished delights Is base fear the badge and terror of Peasants a befitting Counsellour for a commauding Emperesse or is love tyed to equality honour or majesty that knowes no difference of persons Must greatest Queens want
their wills and the drosie of Damosels enjoy their pleasures Where then is our dignityes our prerogatives and our priviledges To command others and be slaves to our selves is worse then subjection I will be my self my affections shall bow to my will and my fancy shall command my pleasures Necessity hath no law and where there is no law there is no breach Here Mentiga take this purse and happily get thee gone fortunately return This concluding command gave her speed and being come before him she thus in his privat chamber all alone salutes him Eugenia the great Emperiall Sultanesse Soveraign Queene of Queens and only Mirror of Beauty and Bounty by me her trusty Hand-maid greetes thee well and wisheth thee O thou happiest of men and blest Sonne of Fortune all the joyes that thy heart can wish or her affection can afford She grieves that thou art bound for Babylon and she entreats thee that disguised this night at the hour of twelve when darknesse hath put on her blackest robe thou wilt come to the Postern-gate of the Garden Wall where she will in person receive thee and safely bring thee where thou mayest Bathe thy self in Beauties most delightfull Fountaine and feast thy best Fortunes with all the pleasures that true Love or proud State can yeeld Nor mayest thou doubt of hazard herein since thy security is thus carefully and certainly assured And therewithall she related to him the whole plot of their device which she said was onely intended that by your incorporated sarewels you both might seal such an infringeable deed of your covenanted Loves that nought but death should breake the same Sirap being thus surprized when least he looked for such an assault wished himself in Babilon His vertuous dispose did contemne such shamefull treachery Nor would he violate his plighted faith to Vienna for all the proud fortunes and Favours of Asia and Affrick Yet fearing least his refusall should crosse his departure he smoothly set a scarletdy on his rough and course conceit and like Iove himself when he entred Danaes Tower he seemed both pleasant and pleasing to Mentiga which made her more apt to beleeve what he never meant Return sayd he unto the brightest Star and greatest Glory of Turkie and present in all humble humblenesse my true service unto her and say That in the entercourse of Affection my Love surmounts hers and that neither danger nor death shall alter or hinder the wished fruition of my fancy so fortified by a Princes favour To take my farewell is my thirsting desire and to seal the deed of my purchased favour is the Gordian knot that I most wish to unloose Be true to thy Queen wise to thy self give thy thoughts no tongue nor my name no record Thus did he in another meaning satisfie blinded Mentiga who proud of her surmized successe that ravished with joy that taking a compendious farewell she posted in the conceit of her happy endeavours to feast Eugenia with her glad tydings And no sooner was she gone but that Sirap falling on his knees besought God to guard his innocency from all Barbarian perils and to free his chaste thoughts from those tempting Syrens those ruinating Follies and those lascivious and nefarious Assaults and that he would so direct him in his wisedome and so defend him by his power that he might safely without interruption go to Babylon and for the good of his Sanctuary remove that Piller of his Church out of the house of Dagon and bring him home to be a Glory to his temple This saerifice was his safeguard His vertuous deter mination and constant resolution merited well but his firme affiance in his God and dependancy on Divine perfection shielded him no doubt from partaking of that adherent mischiefe that fell fatally upon the Sultanesse and Mentiga Yet in seeking to avoyd Scylla he feared to fall into Charibdis His non-appearance would make his fraud apparant and his delusion might draw on his secret destruction But Mentiga comming to her Soveraign Lady who long had expected her before she came though she came long before reason could expect her chearfully recounted unto her what Sirap in truth but not truly had protestingly delivered unto her how pleasing her message was to him how joyfully he entertained the Name of Love how feelingly he entred into comparison for his affection and how comfortably he embraced the remembrance of his desired Fare-well These and other demonstrances of Passion sheso full and pleasantly related that Eugenia drowning all thoughts of danger in the conceit of her approaching happinesse she dreamed of nought but Loves Embracements Venus Delights and wantonizing Sports building a Pallace of Pleasure in her mind wherein she meant to feast all her Amorous desires and crown her thoughts with sweet content To this end she gave Mentiga in charge that nothing should be wanting that should be requifite to further their designes Whilst interrupted Sirap being thus chequ'd by a Queen lay studying how he might drive it to a Stall and not receive the Mate but give speed to his departure Resolved he was not to touch the forbidden Fruit nor to drink on Circes Cup he would not with the Spider suck poyson out of a fair Flower nor spot his true-love with the dregs of Majesty Proud bewitching pleasure could not intice him to Folly nor rich alluring Treasures corrupt his constant integrity He scorned to sell his Loyalty for Lucre or Love for Silver True wisdom made his vertuous mind to bend rather to that which was good in it self then to that which by evill minds might be judged good In brief his conclusion was to excuse his not comming by expresse command from the Sultan that as that night he should consult with his Visiers concerning his Negotiation in Babylon But this false colour need no allowance Displeased Justice took away all exception and sealed him pardon before any accusation For the dismall night being come Vengeance attended her fatall hour which approaching she accordingly changed her attire with Mentiga and brought her as her Handmaid to her Royall Bed and after went to Mentiga's Chamber where she waking wayted for the appointed hour which come she casting on Mentigaes Night-gown with a bold heart beyond the resolve of her weak Sex she paced down the stairs that led into the Garden Into which she no sooner entred but that she saw the angry Heavens then clad all in black throwing down with violence a fiery threatning Star over-crosse the Garden forbidding her farther passage notwithstanding the sable Skies lent not then an other Light This prodigious Sign and fearfull premonition might well have appaled and back'd a more-redoubted heart but that the voluptuousnesse of her thoughts extinguished the light of her mind Love gave her boldnesse and unlimited Lust directed her according to her sinister and destinated Fate unto the Postern gate which she with nimble facility opened and there made her fearless stand O imperious and impious Love thou
Sultan was slain instantly did rise and confusedly did run to the Pallace bearing all down before them in such a distract sort that the Turks Guard was glad to shut the Gares against them and to entreat the Sultan to shew himself out of the Casement unto them which so well appeased them that they quietly returned to their houses Then was inquisition made after the knowledge of the Sarazene apparell which was so base that all men wondered not only that he was there but how he came there His mangled body kept him unknown and his mean habit made him no appertenant to the Court. When no notice could be had neither of the one nor of the other the appeased Sultan sent for the Eunuches that attended his Emperess and caused two Mutes to strangle them in his sight After he caused all the dead bodies with the two beds and all their Apparell to be carryed forth of the City and to be burned all together and further gave in charge that the two Chambers should be converted into houses of base use and that no one under pain of death should after speak thereof Now Sirap who during these tempestuous storms lay at anchor in his own private Harbour as one that knew well that great men ever envying the glory and fortune of strangers would in these tumults be ready to stab at the bosome of merit and that Mischief the cursed Captain always of the unruly Commons might in a disturbed uproar indanger his safety hearing now that the sight of the Sultan had allayed the windy Allarum of his rumoured death and that the present murther of the Sultanesse with her Maid and unknown Paramor was the occasion of such disorder rising He grew jealous of the Cause suspicious of the Firour and timorous of his wend fare For though gliarded with innocency yet was he fearfull lest Mentiga had cast some scandalizing aspersion upon his unspoiled honesty In this fearfull doubt he kept himself within himself untill report had further manifested not only the manner of all their Deaths but the ignorance of the Cause This dispierced all Clouds of care and made him a perfect Judge both of the error and the event Then lifting up his erected heart he said O Vienna thy love I see now hath given me a second life and my constant loyalty hath kept me from the grave Instice hath preserved the guiltless and righteousness hath found mercy in judgement Now praised be my God my strong defence For he hath covered me under the wings of his protection and kept me from the death of the wicked He hath cast down lightning and burnt up the Daughters of Babell that I might be safe in their suddain destruction The storm is past and these cloudy occurrants threaten another tempest The Sea cannot be so calm in Summer but that it may swell again with the rage of wrathfull winter There is more wisedom in prerenting then in redressing a mischief Security lives not in tyranny For though the Tyger hide his clawes yet in the end will he shew his Rapine Revenge hath now smoothed the Sultans angry brow and Time hath given some peace to his displeasure The tide serves me and my prophane aboad with the heathen is displeasing to the heavens My captived Lord calls me away and Vienna says I am too slow my mark is set and I levell streight I will comend my aim and therewithall casting off all further deliberation he went to the Court to take his leave of Solimon who seeing him stand upon his departure after some private conference and protestations that he would crown his return with highest honours advancement he vouchsafed graciously to embrace him and so bad him farewell The next morning Sirap having before caused all things to be in readinesse the winds summoning him to Sea he took shipping and sayling by the Islands scituate in part of the Mediteranean Sea he landed at Sidon a Port Town in Syria and there taking Horse he posted through the Country and part of the Desarts of Arabia and so came to Babylon Where we will leave him to look into France and see how Vienna brookes her continued thraldome which was not so grievous unto her as the tormenting suppose of Sir Paris losse Great was her sorrow in fear of him and many her bernoanings for not hearing from him Insomuch that La-nova seeing the increase of her growing cares thus sadly spake unto her Madam these ruthlesse Walls neither melt with your tears nor yet shake nor shrink with your sighes Comfort dwels not in restraint nor lives remedy in Lamentations Though your Father be absent yet hath he left a jealous Keeper You may ever weep and bewayl your estate and ly still in the bed of sorrow If you never seek after redresse you shall over find your self a Prisoner You know the scorer way I made to relieve you If so you please I will convey you through the same to some private place where Metamorphosed we will either hunt in quest after Sir Paris or you shall rest unknown in some Forraign Nation till either my travell shall gain knowledge of his aboad or that the death of the Dolphin shall leave you for your right to the tryell of your friends Then cast off these mortifâ—ing dumps and leave now your sorrow to the Governors as a pawn for your return and let us stand upon our fortunes hope lives in industry and my adventures shall ever wayt on your pleasure This kind offer did move her much but could not remove her at all Liberty she said was sweet to that life that might take the pleasures of this life But to a dejected heart whose banisht content could promise no wished delight there a close prison was better then a glorious Pallace To travail she said to my Paris would be more pleasing then painfull to Vienna but not knowing where he is I might perhaps extravagantly go further from him then I am that aâ—n already further off then I would bâ—â— here for his love was I made a Prisoner and here wil I still rest a Prisoner for his love If he be living and loving here shall I soonest hear from him and if he be neither in Love nor in life here will I end both my Love and life Onely take thanks for thy loving care and kind respect and be still a true friend to Paris that Vienna may ever have comfort in La-nova Upon this conclusion he parted and Isabella strewed the ruslâ—â—es over the private way that gave him entrance But no sooner was it done but that one of the Keepers Gentlemen that seemeel ever most serviceable unto her came in whom the devillish Dolphinis had before fashioned to her purpose for she wrought upon his wants as knowing well that poverty betrayeth vertue and that wealth bewitcheth wit Corruption having made him her creature she had instructed him how to traine Vienna to her destruction for nought but death could satisfie her disdainfull fear Her
over-runne by the pride of a late swelling flood that the Foard was not passable which made Sir Paris so impatient so to bee frastrated of his attending Ship the amrance of his Usery that Monsiour de la Mort over venturous to venter over the passage was in searching the Foard most unfortunately drowned in the mercilesse Flood Sir Paris daunted at that so fatall a sight sighed and sighing grew to a prodigious Prognosticator of his owne ensuing harmes But fearing least the knowledge thereof might appale his faire Friend hee suddainly returned to their religious Host where hee had left the two Ladyes when he went to find the Foard and to try the passage and shadowing now his tormenting griefe with a forced smile hee demaunded of Vienna how shee fared who answered as my Love fares so fares thy Love happie in my selfe because happie in thee And long may sayd Paris my Love live to love that loves to live onely for my love Scarce had Sir Paris pronounced his last word when one came running to tell the Priest that there were many Knights in he next Towne that came in quest and searched for Vienna and Sir Paris Which Vienna understanding was so surprized with griefe and feare that being altogether disheartned in her hope shee held her selfe more than undone in her disturbed expectation But after she had bathed the beauty of her eyes in the sorrow of of her teares fearing most in this present perill least death should arrest her beloved Friend She with a much more resolved mind and â—n assured Countenance then befitted eyther the time or was incident to her Sex thus exhillerated her astonished Friend My Paris shee sayd Time admits not there many words where danger still knocks at the doore In extremities the winning of time is the purchase both of life and love Let not violent passions that never removes any ill but betrayes our secret imperfections now sway the vertue of thy thoughts nor the fortiâ—ude of thy heart but carry thou in thy Lyons looke a Lyons minde and like the Sunne shew thy fayrest face in thy lowest fall Load not my sorrowes with thy griefe nor kill thou thy selfe for feare of death But in the wonted courage of thy never-daunted Spirit get thee to some other more safer shore where let Vertue hee thy Governour my remembrance thy Love thy loue my comfort and my comfort thy sole contentment Thou hast conquered men in loue and Loue in me and both in worth and wisedome and never shall I deeme my selfe happy but when I shall see thee happy for whom I now am so vnhappy As thou leavest me so shalt thou finde me be but thou as constant a Friend to my Minde as thou shalt be a Possessor of my Heart and I shall have as much cause of joy as thou no cause of doubt If thou continue loyall successe thou shalt see will blesse thee well and all good fortune will waite on thy just merits This Diamond which here I giue thee shall be a true remaining record of my sincere loue to thee Onely let me heare of thy aboad and so I leaue thee to the guide of Vertue and seruice of Fortune Sir Paris thus discomforted comforted weighing the danger of delay by his imminent perill and forced to set vp his sayles in this so insupportable and threatning a tempest and there sealing vp the vow of his faith in the silent griefe of a departing kisse he posted to the Riuer side againe where Dispaire made Feare so valiant that ere he found cause of feare hee was past all feare For hauing past he knew not how the River he was got before he wist into the Ship wherein being Cabined hee told of La Mot his fatall accident and forced them to put to sea sayling himselfe with as many contrary thoughts as Eolus sent out windes vpon the Trojan Fleet At length he arrived at Genoa where he rested his restlesse selfe and where he liued wanting but little because not desiring much But such was his disconsolate solitary life that the Citizens though strangers affecting the man in his manners pittied much his distresse in the shew of his discontentment In the meane while the Daulphin wasting himselfe in his owne implacable and vnlimited wrath violently and suddainly seazed and confiscated all Sir Iaques Lands and Goods into his hands Imprisoning both him and his Lady as Fauters Abetters Confederates and Adjuters thereunto Thus gets Outrage ever the sharpest edge upon the first advantage And in this distemper of his ill disposed minde he commanded that naught but bread and water should be giuen them For said he where the offence is greater then the service there Iustice changeth the bond of recompence into due punishment During this their faultlesse imprisonment the questing Knights returned with Vienna and the Hospitalious Parson her Host who being brought before the angry Daulphin her enraged Father shee saw the cloud a farre off before the storme fell and therefore prostrating her selfe at his Feete shee required pardon for her offence and prayed that he would not make her sinne deadly which was but veniall pleading ignorance for the Prelate and vnresistable loue for her selfe swearing and assuring him by sacrament of solemne oath and the testimonie of her Host that shee was as honest in her flight as she was in her birth and that her vnspotted thoughts were neuer stayned with any vnchast deed or desire The noble followers of the obdurate Daulphin seeing the Princesse washing her repentance in her owne teares humbly besought him to forget and to forgiue her amisse since the frailty of her offence was rather a sore then a sinne and wounds were to be healed and not hurt This submission strengthened by such generall entreaties somewhat quencht the burning heate of his enflamed â—re And though his severe Iustice told him that not to punish an evill was to allow of an evill yet mercy hee knew pardons them oft that deserues it not and judgement in nature should be next a kin to fauour Vpon this calme construction after many sharpe rebukes and protested threats hee vowed that determinate and inevitable condemnation should punish her next offence and so he pardoned her vpon promise of more regardfull duty Now Sir Paris had not long sojourned in Genoa but that mindfull of his charge he writ to Vienna and enclosed it in another writ to La-nova wherein hee excused his vnkind departure without his priuity and conjured him by the sacred lawes of true amity to attend and follow his Lady in all seruice and fast friendship La-nova glad of such glad tydings went in the height of his joy to Vienna and after some complementall salutes asked her what she would give to heare of her Paris Vienna great with child with the expectation of her friends welfare longed to be delivered with the notice of his health and said that the whole world afforded not sufficient worth to answer her liberall heart therein La-nova joying in
the constancy of her love shewed her the letter which shee hastily snatching as hastily read re-read and many times more then many times over-read the pleasing contents as followeth SWeet sweet Vienna I see is the hope that springeth in the bud but most sorrowfull I finde is the hap that decayeth in the blossome The hoped harvest that over-credulous love assured me Time injurious time keepes now you know from the sithe what Fortune before sought to destroy in the grasse What resteth then but to curse Time as enemie to our desires and to bewaile our desires as intercepted by Time Yet should I live many yeares or had I as many lives as Nestor had yeares Those lives those yeares and all in all should I protest be onely spent in recording your worthinesse and in arming my whole endeavours to doe you some agreeable service Onely in absence my griefe growes in finding my present estate so weake in Fortune and my deserts so slender in Nature that not knowing with Anthony how to requite his Cleopatra I onely rest with Anthony to dye for my Cleopatra I cannot use many words where every word wounds me with a new carefull conceite and euery conceite kills mee with a fearefull doubt Let it then onely suffice that as I live to love none but Vienna so I wish and wishing desire to be ever and onely remembred of Vienna I am now in Genoa where my stay shall be little For my desire flattering mee with hope of honour calls me being debarred from attending you to foraigne services I am therefore earnestly to intreate your favourable consent therein and that you would but grace my disgraced fortune with your colours that under protection thereof I may for my better security march as shadowed under Achilles shield In lieu whereof I vow that all my happiest endeavours and atchievements shall be done under the honour and favour of your name This is all and of this would you but daign me the comfort of your answere I should thinke me unhappy happy and live to hope to be more happy Thus wishing my deserts still suteable to my desires and my desires ever pleasing to your deserts I rest ever for ever your true and loyall servant Paris Vienna well certified but not fully satisfied commanded La-nova to return a speedy answer with charge that Paris should not depart Genoa but that he should there sojourn till better times afforded better turnes And that he should beare himselfe as himselfe and her favorite To maintaine which she delivered to La-nova tenne thousand Crownes which he sent immediately Sir Paris receiving now so pleasing a pledge of her persevered constancie triumphed no little in her so agreeable affection And as she required so set hee up the maine sayle of his obscured glory in the wind of her will by taking a great house and by maintaining so great a Port that his Majesticall magnanimity well manifested that his former sinister fortune was nothing suteable to his birth and education Whiles Sir Paris thus Courted it out in some content Vienna was solicited by many great Lords But the seed which they sowed in the sands was washt away with the first flood of the Tyde so that all their hoped Harvests was nought but crops of growing cares The Daulphin whose climing thoughts looked ever upon greatest starres kept the beame of her ballance straight without gaine-saying this Sutor or disgracing that But to prevent all distaste that might come by deniall he speedily sent speciall Messengers to his fast friend the Earle of Flanders requesting his best labours and endeavours to move and make if so he might a marriage betwixt his daughter Vienna and the Duke of Burbon his sonne Such was his couetous desire in lieu of the Burbons possessions not to be valued and such his conceit of his sonnes valour not then as hee thought to be equalled so as his pride could nor would admit of any other sonne in law but this great and matchlesse Prince The Earle of Flanders glad that occasion offered it selfe that he might both gratifie the Daulphin his friend and interest himselfe in the loue and greatnesse of the Burbon Duke which he had long desired was now as willing as the Physitian that is euer ready to pleasure another to profit him selfe And knowing that he that sleepeth catcheth no Fish he went instantly to the Duke who no sooner heard of the motion but glorying in the hope of such vnexpected advancement he entertained the Earle with all the state that either greatnesse could performe or desire require In conclusion the Burbon Duke sent his sonne in the greatest pride of proudest state to the Daulphins Court where he did proportion his carriage answerable to the eminencie of his place his merits being such and so many that setting onely aside his pride of heart Envie her selfe could not detract from his worth But before he came to the Citie the Daulphin hearing of his neere approach went to his daughter and told her what tender care he had of her good how hee had laboured to make the Burbon Prince her glorious Groome and how happy she might thinke her selfe to bee bestowed on so great and famous a Lord. One whom the world admires for his heroicall fortitude feares of his greatnesse and loues for his deserts A Prince incomparable by title and birth A person beautified by Nature And a man inricht with wisedome wealth and worthinesse Then let my Choyse be thy content and in thy full consent see that thou entertaine him with all vertuous favours This said he commanded to horse not staying her answer and so rid forth royally attended and appointed to receiue the young Prince And farre he had not rid but that he met and encountred with his long desired and now expected ghest The young Prince first alighting from his Horse gaue the Daulphin occasion to dismount himselfe who being on foote stayed till the Prince came unto him where they greeted re-greeted and embraced each other and then remounting themselves they rid Marshalled in right good equipage to the Pallace where all the Ladies saving Vienna gave a second salute to the greater content of the Burbon Prince But the Daulphin missing Vienna misliked much her absence yet seemed to take no notice of it but smoothing the angry furrowes of his discontentment he with an inforced cheerefulnes brought the Prince to his lodging and there leaving him to his private repose hee hastily went to Viennas Chamber where all sad and solitary he found her sitting in the seate of sorrow or rather in the shade of death for feare of her fathers provoked ire whose violent and peremptory disposition would she knew transport him beyond all the bounds of Natures tendernesse Of her he demanded why contrary to his command shee had absented her selfe in the requisite entertainement of so great a Lord and so worthy a friend Vienna rising from her sorrowfull seate but not from her sorrow with fearefull erected hands and