Costermonger who had only one Daughter but she the Paragon of Nature of an admirable Beauty and thereto was added such Excellencies of inward Qualifications as made her to be desired in Marriage by many young Gallants and other wealthy Citizens But Love that knows no Laws nor Limitations had setled her Affections upon a young Page whose smooth Tongue and complacent Carriage had fetter'd her Heart in Cupid's Chains he also seeming so amorously bent to her as if he saw with no other Eyes but what she bestowed upon him nor thought no other Thoughts but what she inspired But under this green Grass of Dissimulation lay lurking the Serpent of Ingratitude and Deceit for this innocent Maid mistrusting no Evil as intending none was by the sly Insinuations of that Deceiver whose Love was Lucre and Faith Falshood under Pretence of seeing some Friends carried on Board of a Barbadoes Ship where this wicked Wretch O Grief to hear for twenty Pounds most villanously sold her to be a Slave Thus the Cat having plaid a while with the Mouse at last devours her thus the innocent Lamb is by the Wiles of the Fox betrayed to her own Destruction This wicked Wretch having received his Money departeth home with the Reward of Iniquity the whilst the Ship set Sail from Graves-end manned with fourscore tall Men and the Wind standing fair they smoothly glide along the Thames and enter into that vast Gulph the boundless Ocean but the Heavens being angry for the forcible carrying away of this innocent Virgin sent forth such a violent Tempest on the Sea as made the stoutest Spirit of them all to tremble for they had not sailed far when there arose a foggy Mist from out the Seas so that the clearness of the Skies might not be seen for the darkness of the Air dreadful Flashes of Lightning seemed to have set the Seas on Fire and terrible Vollies of Thunder threatned the shaking of the Heavens and sundring of the Earth Showers of Rain poured down amain which with the Impetuosity of the Winds caused Showers of Tears to trickle down the Cheeks of the stoutest Spirits there who all of them now expected no other but to be devoured in that merciless Element of Water the beautiful Virgin who before had wished all ill both to the Master of the Ship as also to the Mariners for carrying her thus away against her Will now as heartily prayed for their Welfare knowing if they miscarried she were lost if they failed she were cast away Twelve hours did the Wind and Seas contend thus together for the Destruction of this Vessel tossing her about like Fortunes Tennis-ball tearing her Masts in Pieces and making her Tackling unserviceable when at last the Skyes began to clear and the Winds to cease the violence of their raging which cheared up their drooping Spirits hoping now all danger was past but Fortune that is constant in nothing but Inconstancy soon made them to see their Error and that they were now entring into the hands of more violent Enemies than Storms and Tempests for being by the Fury of the Seas brought upon the Coast of Barbary they were espyed by a Turkish man of War belonging to Tunis a Receptacle of Pirates under the Protection of the Grand Seignior who presently seized upon this stately Vessel altogether now disabled for Resistance and having boarded her secured her Goods carrying all the Persons thereof into the Town who according to the Custom of that place were immediately committed to Prison Now were the Saylors in their Dumps knowing their Lot was perpetual Slavery but the lovely Maid in whom Beauty sat triumphant though lately shaded with the Clouds of Fear began to pluck up her Spirits knowing that she had not worsened her Condition but changed her Masters and this gave her great Content to see those unto whom she was lately so subject now to partake of the same Lot with her so that those Roses which before seemed to die in her Cheeks now revived each several Beauty resumed their former Estates so that she soon appeared to those dark African Inhabitants a Sun upon Earth and rather an immortal Goddess than an earthly Creature The Fame of her Beauty had soon filled the Ears of the Inhabitants of Tunis who in multitudes came flocking to the Prison to behold her amongst others was the Governour of the Town who was so stricken with Admiration at the Perfection of her Excellencies that he could not chuse but break forth into these Words O Mahomet what do I behold A Beauty able to tempt a Hermit from his Cell and make gray Hairs to become young again Who can look on her and not admire Who can admire and not love nay rather adore such great Vertues for can we think Nature would not put her best Jewels into so rich a Casket Certainly so smooth a Fore-head diamond Eyes rosie Cheeks coral Lips alabaster Neck so well featured a Body was not ordained for Captivity but rather to be embraced by a mighty Monarch I will therefore send her as a Present unto my Master the mighty Ottoman unto whom I know she cannot but be welcome as one that exceeds in Nature's Endowments the choicest Beauties in all his Seraglio Accordingly in pursuance of his intended Purpose he taketh the lovely Damsel out of Prison treats her nobly and cloaths her gorgeously who not willing to hide those Lustres wherewith she had captivated the Eyes of those Mahumetans employs her utmost Skill with the bravery of Apparel to add to those Perfections of Nature In the mean time a Messenger is dispatched to the Grand Seignior's Court to certifie him of the beautiful Prize which was coming to him the Governour with his Charge following more leisurely after When they put forth to Sea it is said that the Fishes danced and leaped about their Ship and though it was a Serene time and very calm Weather yet the Billows rose up gently as it were to behold her Face and having seen it sunk down again as it were in Obeysance to her They having arrived at Constantinople and word thereof brought to the Grand Seignior he straight gave order for her Reception which was indeed very magnificent more like the Off-spring of some mighty Potentate than a poor Costermonger's Daughter being attended by several Bashaws Cadies Mudressies Chiansies and Sansiacks with a great number of Saffies Calsies Hogies and Nupies after whom followed a strong Guard of Janisaries who altogether attended her to the Seraglio where she was received by the Aga of the Women and not long after visited by the Grand Seignior himself who beholding her exquisite Beauty having never seen such peerless Perfections before as if Nature herein had imitated Apelles to draw the several Excellencies of all Women into one Piece he stood as it were wrap'd into Admiration for a time at last recovering the use of his Speech he thus accosted her Most peerless Lady whose heavenly Beauty hath captivated my Heart and
of a Conquerour made me thy Slave thou shining like a Star of the first Magnitude in Beauties Horizon well dost thou deserve to be the Queen of my Affections whom Nature hath already crowned with such transcendent Prerogatives Know then that I bid thee heartily welcome rare English Damsel and for those Excellencies which I do see in thee I will prefer thee before all the Women in my Seraglio making thee Empress of all my Domions as thou art already of my Heart Now though Women naturally do love to hear themselves praised especially by great men yet the sight to Majesty in so mighty a Prince did raise a modest Bashfulness inher and bespread her Cheeks with a Vermillion Tincture Silence for a while possessed her Lips at last recollecting her self with an humble Obeysance she returned this Answer Great Sir how much I am bound to your Goodness my Heart is as little able to conceive as my Tongue to express for which though I cannot in the least make you Satisfaction my Means being so infinitely below my Will yet shall not my Endeavours be at any time wanting wherewith to serve you in what may stand with my Honour Gracious Lady replyed the Grand Seignior the only thing I desire of you is your real Affection more worth to me than Crowns or Scepters 't is not your Portion but Person that I sue for and tho' I might have compelled you by Constraint yet I rather seek to win you by Love for forced Affection is but feigned and that Musick of Marriage is but a jarring Melody where Hearts are not joyned together as well as hands Worthy Prince answered the lovely Maid should I deny so great Honour I might justly be taxed of Folly in the highest degree If therefore dread Sir there be any thing in me worthy to be loved yours I am the highest of my Ambition being only to be entituled your Servant in it's largest Latitude Being thus agreed with reciprocal Joy on both sides next day was the Marriage solemnized in one of the principal Mosches of the City the Rites and Ceremonies were performed by the Mufti in his Pontificalibus She was most gorgeously attired at that time the Jewels that she wore being estimated at five thousand Pounds and that the Joy might be the more universal the Grand Seignior distributed amongst the Janisaries an hundred thousand Sultanies The next day the Grand Seignior sitting in the Divano with the Beglerbegs of Greece and Natolia together with several Bassas Sansiacks and other high Ministers of State the beautiful Lady was by a general Decree ordained chief Sultaness of all the Turkish Dominions and so to be honoured of all the People notwithstanding the former Custom that she who bore the first Son to the Emperour had only that Title conferred on her She was also made free at that time a great Honour amongst the Turks and immediately was by the Title of Sultaness proclaimed all over the City of Constantinople The Proverb says Give a Maid Luck and throw Her in the Sea she 'll thrive where e're she go Stones being thrown hard 'gainst the ground do by The force of that their Fall mount up on high Historical Observations out of several Authors AT such time as the Tartars began to reign and were first known in the World there were four Brethren the eldest of which Mongu reigned in Sedia These purposing to subdue the World went one to the East another to the North to the South a third which was Vlan and the other to the West This Vlan having an Army of an hundred thousand Horse besides Foot fought against the Caliph of Baldach a great City in the Confines of Tartaria whom he overcame and took both him and his City wherein he found infinite store of Treasure at which he greatly wondring sent for the Caliph whom he sharply reproved that having so much Treasure he would not therewith provide himself of Souldiers for his Defence and therefore commanded that he should be inclosed in that Tower where his Treasure was without any other Sustenance so long as he lived This say the Historians of that time seemed a just Judgment from our Lord Jesus Christ on him for he in the year 1225. seeking to convert the Christians to Mahomet and taking advantage on that place of the Gospel that he which hath Faith as much as a grain of Mustard-seed should be able to remove Mountains He convented all the Christians Nestorians and Jacobites and propounded to them in ten days to remove certain Mountains or turn Mahometans or be slain as not having one man amongst them which had the least Faith They therefore continued eight days in Prayer after which a certain Shoo-maker by Revelation to a Biship was designed to perform it This Shoo-maker once tempted to Lust by sight of a young Woman in putting on her Shoo zealously had fulfilled that of the Gospel and literally had put out his right Eye he now on the day appointed with other Christians following the Cross and lifting his hands to Heaven prayed to God to have Mercy on his People and then with a loud Voice commanded the Mountain in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost to remove which presently with great Terror to the Caliph and all his People was effected And that day was for a long time after kept holy with fasting also on the Evening In Draugiana a Province of Persia near unto a City called Mulebet lived a seditious Persian named Aladine commonly called the old man of the mountain he had in a pleasant Valley betwixt two Mountains very high made a goodly Garden furnished with the best Trees and Fruits he could find adorned with divers Palaces and Houses of Pleasure beautified with Gold Works Pictures and Furnitures of Silk There divers Pipes ansvvering divers parts of these Palaces vvere seen to run Wine Milk Honey and clear Water In them he had placed goodly Damsels skilful in Songs and Instruments of Musick and Dancing and to make Sports and Delights unto men vvhatsoever they could imagine They vvere also fairly attired in Gold and Silk and vvere seen to go continually sporting in the Garden and Palaces This Place thus furnished vvith Delights he had made in imitation of Mahomet vvho had promised such a sensual Paradise to his devout Follovvers the entrance into vvhich he fortified vvith a strong Castle called Tigado Hither he brought all the lusty Youths he could light on casting them into Prison vvhere they endured much Sorrovv and Woe And vvhen he thought good he caused a certain Drink to be given them which cast them into a dead sleep then he caused them to be carried into divers Chambers of the said Palaces where they saw the things aforesaid as soon as they awaked each of them having those Damsels to minister Meats and excellent Drinks and all varieties of Pleasures to them insomuch that the Fools thought themselves to be in Paradise indeed Having enjoyed this Happiness a whole
manner a young man dwelling in Gareoth within a Village there not passing fourteen miles from Aberdeen right fair and comely of Shape who declared by way of Complaint unto the Bishop of that Diocese how there was a Spirit which haunted him in the shape of a Woman so fair and beautiful a thing that he never saw the like the which would come into his Chamber a Nights and with pleasant Enticements allure him to have to do with her and that by no manner of means he could be rid of her The Bishop like a wise Man advised him to remove into some other Country and to give himself to Fasting and Prayer so to avoid his hands of that wicked Spirit The Young man following the Bishop's Counsel within few days was delivered from further Temptation About the same time also there vvas in the Country of Mar a young Gentlewoman of excellent Beauty and Daughter unto a Noble-man there refusing sundry wealthy Marriages offered to her by her Father and other Friends At length she proved with Child and being rigorously compelled by her Patents to tell who was the Father she confessed that a certain young man used nightly to come unto her and keep her Company and sometimes in the day also but how or from whence he came or by what means he went away she was not able to declare Her Parents not greatly crediting her Words laid diligent Watch to understand what he was that had defiled their House and within three days after upon signification given by one of the Maidens that the Fornicator was at that very Instant with their Daughter incontinently thereupon making fast the doors they enter the Chamber with a great many of Torches and Lights vvhere they find in their Daughter's Arms a foul monstrous thing right horrible to behold Here a number coming hastily in to behold this evil favour'd sight amongst other there was a Priest of right honest Life who seeing some of them running their ways for fear began to recite the beginning of St. John's Gospel and coming to these Words Verbum caro factum est suddenly the wicked Spirit making a terrible roaring Noise flevv his vvays taking the Roof of the Chamber with him the Hangings and Coverings of the Bed being also burn'd therewith The Gentlewoman was yet preserved and within three or four days after was delivered of such a mishapen thing as the like before had not been seen which the Midwives and Women present at her Labour to avoid the dishonour of her House immediately burn'd in a great Fire made in the Chamber for the same intent John Major in the Life of John the Monk that lived in the days of Theodosius commends this Monk to have been a Man of singular Continency and of a most austere Life but one Night by chance the Devil came to his Cell in the habit of a young Market-Wench that had lost her way and desired for God's sake some Lodging with him The old man let her in and after some common Conference of her mishap she began to inveigle him with lascivious Talk and Jests to play with his Beard to kiss him and do worse till at last she overcame him As he went to address himself to that business she vanished on a sudden and the Devils in the Air laughed him to Scorn We shall conclude this Discourse with a Story of a later date how that in a small Village in one of the Northern Islands there dwelt an ancient Boor and his Wife who had but one Child and that a Daughter whom they looked upon as the staff of their declining Age she was just entered into her nineteenth Year and gave great hopes of proving an excellent Woman being very saving industrious and handsom which good Qualities had invited most of the young-men of her Rank throughout the Country to take particular notice of her and list themselves her Servants But she like a discreet Maid still check'd her roving Fancy and was deaf to all their flattering Courtship resolving to entertain no Addresses which should not be authorized by her Parents Approbation and well had it been she had never suffer'd her self to be divorced from that Resolution for so it chanced that within a while after the Devil came in the Likeness of a man and took up his Lodging within two or three doors of her Father's House pretending his Business was to look after some Debts he had owing him not far from thence he was a Person of a proper Stature meagre Visage large sparling Eyes long Hair but curling and exceeding black he generally went in Boots perhaps to conceal his cloven feet and though his Habit was but ordinary he appeared very full of Money which made his Landlord very sweet upon him and the more to oblige him there happening a Wedding in that Town within few days after his Arrival his Host would needs carry this his strange Guest with him to it though it was observed he could by no means be got into the Church where the Nuptial Rites were solemnized but as soon as they came home to Dinner he was as busie and as merry as the joviallest of them And here it was that the fatal Acquaintance between him and Margaretta for so was the Maiden called unhappily first begun That time allowing a greater Liberty of Discourse to the younger sort amongst whom commonly one Wedding is the begetter of another furnish'd our black Stranger with the larger opportunity to court this innocent Maid to her destruction To repeat the particular Complements he used we purposely omit lest we should injure the Devils Eloquence by our Courser Rhetorick suffice it to know his devillish Courtship was so charming as to raise an unknown Passion in her Virgin Breast who so far doated on his Company as to be sorry when all the Companies breaking up obliged them to part so that being come home and after some time got into her Chamber she makes her unready but not without a thousand kind Thoughts on this Stranger she had left whom at last just as she was going into her Bed she saw come into the Chamber you may easily imagine her not a little surprized at so strange an Adventure knowing all the Doors fast lock'd and no body up but her self but he soon superseded both her Fears and Wonder by telling her in submissive Language that he came out of pure love â—o have a little free discourse with her and that he had an Art to open any Lock without Noise or Discovery Then beginning to talk amorously and having wantonized a while he told her at last in plain Terms he was resolved to lye with her that Night Merry Company before and his Dalliances now had raised such a spring-Tide in her Veins that after a few faint formal Denials to gratifie her Modesty she consents but no sooner were they in Bed but her Ears were courted with the most excellent Musick in the World which so captivated the Spirits of this
made an Out-cry in the House wringing her hands pulling her Hair and weeping extreamly with pretence that missing him for some time out of Bed she went to see what the matter was and found him accidentally on the Close-stool in that Posture which subtile and feigned Shews of Sorrow she acted so to the Life as prevented all suspicion of his violent Death And not long after went to London setting so high a value upon her Beauty that Robinson her former Darling perhaps for not keeping touch with her as before is related became estranged But within two Years following it so hapned that this woeful deed of Darkness was brought to light and that by the means of the Groom one of the Actors thereof above specified who being entertained a Servant with Mr. Richard Smith Son and Heir to the murthered Knight and attending him to Coventry with divers other Servants his guilty Conscience which had oftentimes before flew in his Face made him become so sensible of his Villany and being in his Cups a bad cause of a good effect that out of good Nature he took his Master aside and upon his Knees humbly desiring Forgiveness of him for the Murther of his Father made him acquainted with all the Circumstances belonging thereunto which tho' it struck in Mr. Smith a great Amazement and Abhorrency of the Fact yet discreetly he gave him good Words but privately commanded some other of his Servants to have an especial Eye on him that he might not escape when he had slept and better considered what might be the Issue thereof but notwithstanding this strict Charge those careless Servants either not knowing the horridness of his Fact or out of love to his Person suffer'd him to escape and that on one of his Master's best Horses who being thus mounted hasted presently into Wales attempting to go beyond Sea but being hindred by contrary Winds after three Essays to launch out was so happily pursued by Mr. Smith who spared for no cost in sending to several Ports that he was apprehended and brought Prisoner to Warwick as was also about the same time the Lady and her Gentlewoman who notwithstanding the Circumstances before recited did all of them with great Boldness deny the Fact the Groom to his other Wickedness most impudently charging Mr. Smith endeavour of corrupting him to accuse the Lady his Mother-in-law falsely to the end he might possess her Joynture but afterwards upon his Arraignment he was so smitten at apprehension of that load of guilt which lay upon him that he publickly acknowledged it and stoutly justified what he had so said to be true to the Face of the Lady and her Maid who at first with a great deal of Confidence pleaded their Innocency but at last seeing each particular Circumstance so clearly discovered and avowed they both confessed the Fact for which having Judgment to dye the Lady was burnt at a Stake near the Hermitage on Wolvey Heath towards the side of Shirford Lordship where the Country People to this day shew the place and the Groom with the Maid suffer'd Death at Warwick This was on May 15. in the third Year of Queen Mary's Reign A remarkable Story of the occasion which made the Danes first to invade England and of their murthering St. Edmund AT such time as the West-Saxons had gotten the Sway of the whole Heptarchy there reigned under them in the Kingdom of Northumberland as Vice-roy one Osbright who as he followed his disport in Hunting came to the House of a Nobleman named Beorn Bocador whose Lady of passing Feature in his Absence gave him honourable Entertainment and intreated both himself and Train to repose themselves there a while after their wearisom Delights The Vice-roy already ensnared with her Beauty accepted her courteous offer not so much to tast her Meats as to surfeit his Eyes with her rare Beauty and lasciviously to dote in his own Affections The Dinner ended and all ready to depart as though some weighty matters were to be handled he commanded an Avoidance from the Presence and taking the Lady into a withdrawing Chamber under pretence of secret Conference greatly tending to the Advancement of her Lord and self most unnobly being not able to prevail by smooth Persuasions did by force violate her constant Chastity which Dishonour thus received and her Mind distracted like to Thamar's at her Husbands Return all ashamed to behold his Face whose Bed had so been wronged with floods of Tears she thus set open the Sluces of her Passions Had thy Fortunes accorded to thy own Desert or thy Choice proceeded as by Vow was obliged then had no stain of Blemish touched thine Honour nor cause of Suspicion once approached thy Thought nor had my self been my self these blushing Cheeks had not invited thy sharp peircing Eye to look into my guilty and defiled Breast which ow thou may'st see disfurnished of Honour and the Closet of pure Chastity broken up only the Heart and Soul is clean yet fears the Tincture of this polluted Cask and would have passage by thy revenging hand from this loathsome Prison and filthy Trunk I must confess our Sex is weak and accompanied with many Faults yet none excusable how small soever much less the greatest which Shame doth follow and inward Guilt continually attend Yours is created more inviolable and firm by whose Constancy as our flexible Weakness is guarded so our true Honours by your just Arms should be protected O Beorn Beorn for Husband I dare not call thee revenge therefore my Wrongs that am now made thy Shame and Scandal of my Sex upon that hideous Monster nay incarnate Devil Osbright O that very name like Poyson corrupts my Breath and I want Words to deplore my Grief who hath no Law but his Lust nor measure of his Actions but his Power nor priviledge for his loathsome Life but his Greatness whilst we with a self Fear and servile Flattery mask our Baseness with crowching Obedience and bear the Wrongs of his most vile Adulteries Thou yet art free from such dejected and degenerate Thoughts nor hast thou smoothed him in his wicked and ever-working Devices be still thy self then and truly noble as thou art It may be for his place thou owest him respect but what therewith the loss of Honour Thine Affection but not thy Bed thy Love but not thy beloved yet hast thou lost at once all these and he thy only Bereaver thou wast my Stay whilst I stayed by thee and now being down revenge my Fall The Instinct of Nature doth pity our Weakness the Law of Nations doth maintain our Honour and the Sword of Knight-hood is sworn by to be unsheathed for our just Defence much more the link of Wedlock claims it which hath lock'd two Hearts in one But alas that Ward is broken and I am thy Shame who might have been thy Honour Revenge thy self therefore on him and me else shall this hand let out the Ghost that shall still attend thee
of honourable Love and therefore give due thanks to God if there remain among you any token of the ancient Wisdom of your most Noble Progenitors But I shall not stay you long in my preamble but come to the matter It is not unknown to you all wherefore I came to this City and how that happening into the house of Chremes I found there his Son Gisippus of my own age and in every thing so like each other that neither his Father nor any other man could discern of us the one from the other but by our own means or shewing insomuch as there were put about our Necks Laces of sundry Colours to declare our Personages What mutual agreement and Love hath been always between us during this eight years that we have been together ye all be witnesses that have been beholders and wonderers at our most sweet Conversation and consent of Appetites wherein was never any discord or variance And as for my part after the Decease of my Father notwithstanding that there was descended unto me very large Possessions fair Houses with abundance of Riches also I being called home by the importunate Letters of my Allyes and Friends which be of the most noble of all the Senators offering me the advancement to the highest dignities in the Publick-Weal as also the loving Letters from my tender Mother wherein she accuseth me of unkindness for my long tarrying especially now in her most discomfort Yet could not all this once remove me from my dear Friend Gisippus and but by force could not I nor yet may be drawn from his sweet company I choosing rather to live with him as his companion and fellow yea as his Servant rather than to be Consul of Rome Yet this my kindness hath he well requited or as I may say redoubled delivering me from the death yea the most painful death of all other I perceive you wonder hereat noble Athemans and no marvel for what Person should be so hardy to attempt any such thing against me being a Roman and of the Noble blood of the Romans or who should be thought so Malicious to slay me who as all ye be my judges never trespassed against any Person within this City No no my Friends I do not suspect any of you I perceive you desire to know what he was that would presume on such an enterprise It was Love noble Athenians the same Love which as your Poets feign did wound the most part of the Gods who constrained Jupiter to transform himself into a Swan a Bull and divers other likenesses The same Love that caused Hercules the vanquisher and destroyer of Monsters and Gyants to spin on a Wheel sitting amongst Maidens in Womens Apparel The same Love that caused to assemble the Princes of Asia and Greece in the Fields of Troy The same Love I say against whose Assaults may be found no resistance hath suddenly and unawares stricken me to the heart and that with such force that I had immediately dyed had not the incomparable Friendship of Gisippus holpen me I perceive you would fain know who she is that I loved I will no longer delay you noble Athenians it is Sophronia the Lady whom Gisippus had chosen for his Wife and whom he most intirely loved But when his most gentle heart perceived that my love was in a much higher degree than his towards that Lady and that it proceeded neither of wantonness nor any corrupt desire or fantasie but in an instant by the only look and that with such fervency as made me so captivated in Cupids thrall that I desired Death rather than life he by his wisdom perceived as I doubt not but that ye now do that it was the very provision of God that she should be my Wife and not his whereto he giving place and more esteeming true Friendship than the love of a Woman whereunto he was induced by his Friends and not by violence of Cupid constrained as I am hath willingly granted to me the interest that he had in the Lady and it is I Titus that have really wedded her I have put the Ring on her Finger I have undone the Girdle of shamefac'dness what will ye more I have lain with her confirmed the Matrimony and made her a Wife This Oration instead of applause was received of the Auditors with a general murmuring and disdainful looks on Gisippus whereupon Titus proceeded thus I wonder noble Athenians what should make you thus to grudge at Gisippus who knew he might find in Greece another Lady as fair and as rich as this he had chosen and one perchance that he might love better But such a Friend as I was having respect to our likeness the long approved concord also my Estate and condition he was sure to find not one also the Lady suffers no disparagement in her blood nor hindrance in her marriage but is much rather advanced no dispraise to my dear friend Gisippus Also consider noble Athenians that I took her not my Father living when ye might have suspected that as well her Riches as her Beauty should have thereto allured me but soon after my Fathers decease when I far exceeded her in Possessions and Substance when the most notable men of Rome and of Italy desired my alliance ye have therefore all cause to rejoyce and thank Gisippus and not to be angry and also to extoll his wonderful kindness towards me whereby he hath won me and all my blood such friends to you and your City that ye may be assured to be by us defended against all the World which being considered Gisippus hath well deserved a Statue of Gold to be set on a Pillar in the midst of your City for an honourable Monument in the remembrance of our incomparable Friendship and of the good that thereby may come to your City But if this perswasion cannot satisfie you but that ye will imagine any thing to the damage of my Friend Gisippus after my departure I vow to God Creator of all things that as soon as I shall have knowledge thereof I shall forthwith resort hither with the invincible Power of the Romans and revenge him in such wise against his Enemies that all Greece shall speak of it to their perpetual dishonour shame and reproach And therewith Titus and Gisippus arose the Athenians for the present dissembling their Malice for the fear they had of Titus Soon after Titus being sent for by the Authority of the Senate and People of Rome prepared to depart out of Athens and would fain have had Gisippus to have gone with him offering to divide with him all his Substance and Fortune But Gisippus considering how necessary his counsel should be to the City of Athens would not depart out of his Countrey though he most earnestly desired the Company of Titus Thus Titus with his Lady is departed towards the City of Rome where at their coming they were of his Mother his Kinsmen and of all the Senate and People most