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A42225 Guzman, Hinde, and Hannam outstript being a discovery of the whole art, mistery and antiquity of theeves and theeving, with their statutes, laws, customs and practises, together with many new and unheard of cheats and trepannings.; Desordenada codicia de los bienes agenos. English GarcĂ­a, Carlos, doctor.; W. M. (William Melvin) 1657 (1657) Wing G211; ESTC R23341 63,892 284

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Neverthelesse I obeyed with great resolution hoping that fortune would offer some good occasion to set me at libertie so all my studie and care was onely to finde out the means to attaine to this end And having tried many which came to no effect he practized one which might have hapned well if fortune had bin content with my past troubles and had not made mee fall any more in the try all thereof The invention then was on this wise The Captaine of the Gallie where I was slave being exceedingly in love with a Lady of good ranke and she in no wise loving him hee tried all meanes though impossible to bring her to his bow and as is usuall with Lovers to be the more inflamed when they finde their beloved hard to be won the Ladies extreme coldnesse was burning coales to the Captaine in such sort that he never enjoyed rest but when he was talking of his love I having got knowledge by the report of a slave that went daily to my Masters house there to carrie water wood and other necessaries determined to try my fortune and not lose the occasion So I spake him kindly promising him that if he would faithfully ayde me that he might hope assuredly for his liberty whereof I would as well make him certaine as of mine own The good Antony for so the slave was called put so much trust in my words hearing me speake of libertie which I had promist him that waited but for the houre to be employed in that which I did intreate him and he thought there was not time enough hoping with great impatiēce that I should declare to him that which he was to doe for me who seeing him so well minded on my behalfe and otherwise sillie faithfull and true I shewed him my resolution recommending to him secrecie and wisedome above all things I said thus unto him My friend Antony know that it is long since I have desired to impart a secret to thee which I will tell thee of but as all things require wisedome patience and the occasion I have not done till now because I thought it not fitting till now to do it as also because not being so satisfied as I am this present of thy goodnesse feeing as the Proverb saith one should eate a bushell of salt with his friend ere he trust him Thou knowest well our Masters love with this Lady that dwelleth by the great Church and how much he is out of kelter for her yet never having received one favour of her after so long time spent in her service and so many Duckets spent in vaine for love of her Now if I should finde a meane and assured invention to make him without the spending of one shilling or troubling her doores enjoy his pleasure what reckoning would the Captain make of this service and what reward would he give him who should bestow on him that which he so earnestly desireth Verily answered Antonie I hold for certaine that he would turne foole at his contentment and not only would he give thee thy libertie but also to all those for whom thou shalt aske Go to friend said I if thou hast any particular acquaintance with some one of them who are most familiar and best liked in the Captaines house thou must acquaint him with this businesse that he may tell him and assure him that I will doubtlesse doe that I promise and I counsell thee that it be not delayed The content which Antony received was so great that without bidding me farewell nor answering me one word he went from me like a lightning intreating a souldier of the Gallie that he would bring him into the Captaines house to talke with him of a matter of great importance He was there and could give order for my businesse that halfe an houre after the Governour of the house came to the Master of the Gallie charging him to send me with a souldier to the Captaine because he would see me The quicke effect which Antonies diligence wrought gave me extreme great contentment and made me hope that so good a beginning would bring my designes to a happie end Finally I was at my Captaines house tattard torne and naked and with a great chaine tyed to my foote He comming to meete me as if I had bin a man of great ranke and laying his hand upon my shaven head began to talke kindly to me asking me what country-man I was what was my name and why I was condemned to the Gallies And I having answered him in a dissembling manner and lying the best I could he drew me aside to a corner of the Chamber asking if that which Antony had promist him was certaine Sir answered I him I know not what he hath said nor what promise he hath made yet I will tell you that if he hath spoken according to that which I told him all is true without failing one tittle Sir I told him that if you would promise to release me out of this distresse which I indure and to give me my libertie freely and wholly I should make you injoy the love which you desire with so great passion and which so torments you I promise you moreover and assure you that making this condition with you if I performe not my promise you shall my head cut off or throw me into the sea Thou bindest thy selfe greatly said he with a smiling countenance alreadie desirous to see the effect of my promise but if thou art a man of so great knowledge and skill that thou canst doe this for me this Gallie wherin thou art shall be thy fortune for I shall not onely be content to give thee thy libertie but I will make thee one of my houshold servants and the best respected of them all But tell me after what manner canst thou doe it Sir you shall know said I that I was bred with a great Astrologer who under pretence to cast Horoscops and Nativities dissembled his Magicke with so great craft that there was not any one in the world that suspected him He made use of me in some of magicall experiences supposing because I was young and of a dull wit I would understand nothing of the secrets of his Art But he was deceived there because though I seemed foolish and ignorant yet I had an eye on all his tryalls and I studied them so well that many love secrets stucke in my memorie amongst which I have one most certaine and approved with which if a woman were harder then the Adamant I will make her softer then the waxe In such sort that the secret which I propound to you is Magicall not naturall and it is requisite to have some haires of the party beloved to put it in execution with which and with some Ceremonies that must be performed the Gentlewomans heart will be so set on fire that she shall take no rest but when she is with or thinketh of her beloved Notwithstanding this must be done in the night
to injoy their Mistresses and mine to get out of the harbour by the cheating trickes that I put upon them it seem'd to us the longest day of all the yeare Every time the clocke struck they despaired fearing to misse the telling of the houres as these do who hope for a thing that they earnestly desire and after this care they were in anextacie considering what they would do in the possession of their loves as if they had alreadie verily past the night and overcome the difficulty This doubting and hammering of theirs served me well to my purpose that they might not perceive the gulleries that I put upon them and the smoake that I sold them Whereby I finde that those who paint Love blinde have great good reason for them because that if they not bin so they would have perceived all my promises to be nothing but winde and that the meanes which I propounded to them were for no other end but to gull them * ⁎ * CHAP. X. In which he proceedeth to relate his invention begun with some discourses of Love between the Governour of the house and this Gallie-slave THenight being come which be a day for me inlightning the heaven with infinite numbers of starres so bright and resplendent that they dazeled the light of the day and filled my soule with joy when my honest Governour enters the Gallie brave Gallant and clothed with the best apparell that he had because that amongst other directions that I had given as well to him as to his Master the chiefe was that they should be fine brave as being a thing most requisite and necessarie for Magick skill and having saluted me with close embracements he said to me friend that thou maist know that I can doe what I will at the Captaines hands and that I want not goodwill to help thee thou shalt know that through my intreatie he gives thee leave to leave off thy chaine for this night and it may be for ever that thou maist walke with greater libertie and performe thy businesse and what is necessarie for it and though the Captaine made some difficultie I dealt so earnestly that I obtained this favour in earnest of that which I desire to do for thee I who then was more knavish and more dissembled then soolish fellinto some suspition imagining that this liberalitie offered ere it was desired was fained and but only to try me wherfore I answered him Sir I thanke you for the care you have had of me obtaining of my Master that he will take off my chaine a favour which I would kindly accept if it were possible but it is not because I must not change the estate that I am in nor one point of that which is of my estate it being necessarie that he who shall make this tryall must make in the same estate apparell that he is accustomed to weare and so I may not goe but in mine owne clothes with the chaine because otherwise we shall do nothing The Governour was not a little contented with my answer being assured that there was in me no kinde of deceite nor malice but the pure and simple truth pittying me beleeved assuredly that there was more passion in my words then Iustice he embraced me the second time saying friend God who is wont to give the salve according to the wound hath brought thee to this Gallie that by it thou mightst come to the knowledge of my Master and enjoy the speciall favours which thou shouldst promise to thy selfe from his liberalitie if the businesse fall out well How well answered I him hath the Captaine any suspition that I would deceive him No by the world answer'd the Governour seeing that though thou wouldst doe it thou couldst not but it is the great desire that we both have to soften the hardnesse of these she-Tygers and to turne them to our love that makes us thinke that impossible which is easie for thee to doe and this is usuall amongst Lovers I never was one answer'd I and though I should be more in love then was Narcissus I should never perswade my selfe that day were night that oxen flie and other fantasticall imaginations that haunt Lovers which rather may be called follies and idle thoughts then love-passions It well appeareth that his darts have not strucke thee saith the Governour for if thou hadst tried them thou wouldst not have spoken with so great freedome and so little trouble Know friend that Physitians ranke this disease amongst Melancholike passions into which the diseased falleth beleeving that which is not and framing a thousand phantasies and visions which have no other ground but their perverse and corrupt imagination which workes the same effect in Lovers giving them an impression of jealouse to an other of disdaine to an other of favour making a mountaine of nothing all which is bred of a burning desire which they have to possesse that which they love But to be willing to perswade this unto him who hath not tried it is to desire to draw water with a sive and to weigh the earth I am no Doctor Master Governour I answer'd him nor yet Batcehler because being left yong friendlesse and poore I lived also without knowledge having only foure words of Latin Neverthelesse by the use of reason well knowen of all sciences I understood the smal reason that Lovers have to be so oft troubled upon so small occasion as they are troubled because of necessitie their affections tend to two points to wit that the woman must be good or evil faithfull or disloyall If she be good faithfull answerable to your affection in mutuall love it is a great follie to be jealous over her if she be unfaithfull and known for such a one there needs no other counsel but not to trust her nor love her Whence may be cōcluded that all the accidents to which you say lovers are subject are the overflowings of follie and wants of wit it being a notable extravagancie to love one that hateth this being supposed that hatred cannot be the subject of love nor love of hatred seeing we ordinarily love them that bind us thereto by their love If it went by experience saith the Governor thou wilt lose thy cause because usually they hate these that love them best taking the sight of a dying man for the occasion of their hate and it is a voice in them now a dayes turned into a nature to shun those that follow them and to abhorre those who adore them as the Captaine and I have hitherto made a long and unhappy tryall Thinke not so Master Governour I answer'd that you have made a good conclusion for if you will have the patience to heare me I will make you see clearely in what your arguments faile and know that love ceaseth not to love nor hatred to hate there being no law of nature and he that foster'd you in this philosophy hath fed you with bad milke because that Love