indebted unto his own desires to do him all further possible service This interchange of kindnesses gave contentment to them both and was most pleasing to the Dolphin who yet fed so on his fresh feeling happinesse that he gave in charge that all his Subjects should honour Sirap as himself and hold his will as the will of their Lord For so he said is your Lords will that next to the Lord of Hoasts holds his life and living of him Then told he them how and with what hazard of his life he had redeemed him from most base bondage and cruell death How he had left many Heathen honours to honour him then greatly dishonoured and how he had protected him at Sea from danger of Pyrats and lastly established him in his Regalty in despight of his foes And therefore many and sundry were the Tryumphs that now were ordained for him but more then many were the severall thoughts that afflicted his doubtfull mind Vienna he thought had cause to condemne him since affection ever thinkes all times of stay too long that hangs on desert Lainova he knew would rebuke him for violating the sacred lawes of friendship in his concealement and his reverend Father might well question his breach of love and duty that so refused to shew himself a son One while he was ready to embrace Lainova another time to run to Vienna and by and by he was ready prest to fal on his knees to Sir Jaques Now did he pitty distressed Vienna who in all these alterations was neither moved nor removed Then did he fear her liberty since her Father had no feeling of her calamity Thus dubiously perplexed in mind he sadly sate unregarding regarding the continuing and maintaining justs untill the Dolphin judging of his stormy thoughts by his clouded countenance thus awaked him by his interpreter What think'st said he my best worthy friend of our French Knights and how stands our Court sports with your liking Sirap whose Martiall mind was now mollify'd with milder and calmer thoughts by his man thus answered As Knights of of good regard I regard your Knights and as noble befitting sports I commend your Heroicall pastimes All doth well and well doth it stand with your Highnesse that hath Knights that can do so well But the justs being ended the Dolphin that had read his discontentment in the deep characters of his face for the countenance oft shewes the affects and passions of the heart took him by the hand and privately led him into a fair tapistred gallery hanged with most artificiall pictures of greatest Monarchs where he thus againe assayed to find the cause of his disturbance Let not said he any doubt dismay my lifes preserver nor let any remembrance of your last and lost honours work in you any repenting humour since Viennues Dolphin is both willing and ready both to accomplish your demand and to honour you with all Dginities What pleaseth Sirap pleaseth the Dolphin and nothing shall content the Dolphin but what shall well like Sirap Then ask my Lord and be Lord of your asking Sirap thus kindly intreated and encouraged lowly humbled himself and by Bonfoy thus replyed Know most renowned and thrice worthy Prince that doubtfull suspition harbours not in noble hearts nor think I once of honours change Your covenanted promise exiles that doubt and the effect of my request is the honour that best will please my mind Then let me shew and shewing crave both what troubleth your servant and what he now in all humility demands for his conditioned gift not affecting honours the worlds fading glory nor coveting riches mans pleasing evill but seeking contentment in loves felicity I aske claime and require your daughter my Lord for my wife and a wife for my reward The renown of her attractive vertues and the vertue of her moving perfections hath by report so captivated my freest thoughts since my comming to Viennois that wondring at her Fame I am wounded with Fancy and my desire is to see and applaud her excellencies Then let it not seem strange unto you that unseen perfections have thus wrought unknown passions since the ear is as well subject to conceit as the eye is pliant to affection The Dolphin whose unnaturall and impenitrable heart felt no longer remorce of her endured misery then whilest hee was himself in misery and who was no sooner free but that he freed his remorced thoughts from all thought of remorce In so much that looking neither after her imprisonment nor his own posterity he in his ever over awfulnesse shewed himself now rather an unrelenting Tyrant then a chastising Father But now thus urged by Sirap whose warranted demand and highest deserts might well challenge an absolute grant he herein still discontented thus contented Sirap Nothing I see right noble valiant and most meritorious Moore seemeth worse to love then to preferre any thing before it selfe For cloathe Desire in plates of burnish'd Gold and Desire will shiver all for colde and fill affections purse with treasure and fancy wanting contentment will starve for hunger so that nothing can satisfie Love but love Your deserts might well have challenged my Principallity for your due my Dignities for your right and all my treasure for your own But all these I see suffice not because they satisfie not And to ask you why is to ask one half pyned why he is hungry You love my Lord you love but whom my daughter yea that is my grief Not that you love her unworthy your love but that I cannot give you her more then worthy her For such I swear by the eternall and my all-preserving God hath been and yet is the undutifulll and most obstinate will of my too disobedient and degenerate daughter that never yet nor yet ever could I or shall I I fear perswade intreat or enforce her to consent to any in royall rank worth or Majesty suitable to herself For many times many powerfull Princes that sued for her favour she hath both carelesly disrespected and scornfully refused And as many times many times hath she therein my will disobeyed and contemned Not regarding her renown shining in their glory Nor respecting my contentment nor progeny eclipsed both in her neglect of me and in her afforded favour to her far inferiours which caused me in justice to punish her hatefull disobedience with imprisonment and yet in nature to bewail her imprisonment though enforced by Justice Where I left her there so you please may you find her a prisoner to her will that will not yet submit her self to my will and therefore by my will worthily chastised without offence to nature For where nature offendeth law there law may justly be executed on Nature Assay her most worthy of all worth and put in ballance your fortune with your fancy and if your hap may drown her favor you shall redouble the smal remainder of my aged dayes and well satisfie the justice of my displeasure with the honour of your desired
allots thy Father wills and I thy friend request Vienna thus charged could not tell how to discharge her self of him but by having a recourse to her wonted and hidden policy And therfore uncloathing her Ivory breasts she all sighing said Alas Sir Knight thy commendable demeanor and Princely worth well merits favour and thy inticing tongue is sufficient to intrap a well-advised mind and a far more stayeder conceit But know most noble and most magnificent Moor that I am far worse then I seem and much better then I would be For behold she bared her breasts that he might behold the untimely corruption of my blasted beauty look on the loathsome fruit of my long and grievous imprisonment and but feel O feel not the filthy scent of my ulcered and rotting body and then tell me whether I am not rather to be loathed then loved sled from then followed Sirap astonished at her words but beyond all amazement danted with the smell neer fainted thereat such was his insufferable sorrow for her that he curst himself for her And yet such was the constancy of his never dying love that encouraging himself the better to cheer her up he with a joyfull countenance said Be it Madam so or worse then so or what so you will it shall not matter I rest wholly yours if for yours you will accept of me that am none but yours For know most constant and my endeared Lady that Paris if Paris be not forgotten pleadeth now in person for himself and here offereth his life and service for your love In confirmation whereof see here the happy seal of your love and the sole comfort of my absence the loyall and unvaluable Ring your Highness gave me when first being perused by your Fathers Knights I departed from you like a hungry Infant pulled from his Nurses breast or a thirsty Hart chased from a sweet Fountain Then then in the pride of your perfections you paradiz'd me in the heaven of your love and now in the decay of your glory will I wed my everliving constancy to your never dying loyalty Look nay look not on me so strangely my black hue is but an artificiall vizour and my borrowed countenance but the assurance of my safety Vienna not able on the suddain to entertain so great a joy shrunk down deprived of her vitall spirits but chafed revived and enabled by Izabella she with tears of joy distilling down here heeks sadly said Ah Paris Paris thy love made me a contented prisoner but thy long absence hath made my prison a tormenting hell But now O happy now thy thrice happy return makes my prison seem a Paradise and my hell a most glorious heaven with that falling on his brest and enclosing him within her fainting arms she often redoubled her double doubled kisses Paris being likewise surprized with fulness of joy lost himself in her armes but being acquitted of that extasie he payd her large interest for her kindnesse pleaded sorrow for her martirdome and meer necessity for his absence Cease Paris she sayd my Paris surcease these needlesse excuses of faultlesse injurie since to over fortifie innocency is to breed suspition There is none but I that have if offended offended As first in being cause of thy exile then of thy dangerous travells and now in rejecting thy love but impute the first two to my Fathers severity not to my love and the last of my ignorance not to my inconstancy For proof whereof see here here shewed she the Capons legs the triall of my truth which but in pollicy I used in all extremities to wirhstand importunate Suters and all only to love none but thee earst the sole hope of my life but now the only life of my soul Thus pleaded she to please him and thus it pleased him to praise her and both of them still joying in that they enjoyed each other Then turning to Izabella he kist her many times and vowed that out of his best fortunes he would be thankfull to her for her love to him but especially for her comfort to Vienna And taking them both by the hands he told them how and by what means the Dolphin her Father had freely and absolutely given her to him And therefore he requested them to conceal their knowledge of him and to go along with him for that he meant to have her father to deliver her to him all which they both so willingly and cheerfully did that the Gent. attendiag his leisure no little marvelled to see him lead them so familiarly by the hands and so pleasantly talking with Vienna in a privat manner But when they were come before the Dolphin Paris for now is Sirap turned again to returned Paris holding her by the hand humbly requested in the presence of his daughter and Barons to ratifie his vowed gift Which the Dolphâ—n both misliking and admiring demanded of her whether her liking and consent stood to that black irreligious Moor that had so often refused so many Potent Lords and most accomplished Princes To which she in all reverence praying pardon said That the black smeared Smith was most pleasing to the Queen of beauty That that constant colour unfadable in it self well argued constancy in the person That his barbarous nature was hoth reclaimed and refined by his more civill education and that his Religion would easily be conformable to their profession But howsoever it sufficeth that I love him and love yeelds no reason of choise nor hath any respect of persons His blind deity blinds our fancies and fancy lives not in deserr but in desire We love altogether by liking not for honours and our will connot command our affections that are not in our powers Then vouchsafe my Soveraign Lord and most gracious Father of my destinied desire and admit of his well-merited demand and let me with your free consent enjoy him for my Husband that hath so well purchased me for his Wife so shall you honour your selfe in doing him right reward his services enworthy your posterity and repair my decayed glory The Dolphin seeing that it wrs but in vaine to resist Celestiall influence preordinate by Providence divine and that he could neither in honour nor conscience infringe his obliging Oath nor reject his pleading and glorious worth shewed a vertue in necessity and freely gave and delivered her unto him Now Paris being thus possest of his desire cast off his artificiall mask and lowly on his knees shewed and presented himself the humble and thankfull servant of his Lord. The Dolphin finding himself thus deceived by him that happily deceived the Soldan and his Keepers for him could not but commend his loyall love and love him for his saving service His superlative valour and unvaluable vertue shewed that his great fortunes were but Ministers to his will And therefore he cheerfully said In France was I honoured by Paris In Babylon unthralled by Sirap And at home both I my Country and People were protected by the Knight
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
Queene and me your slave My foruines sayd Vieuna admits of no such Soveraignty and your Greatnesse is too potent for a Vassaile J am too poore to give and it stands not with a Lord to begge then be you still a King in your owne thoughts and I will rest content with my Fate Why Kings answered the Prince have no priviledge in Love and the Gods themselves were subject to beauty Vieuna constant in her chaste pretence seeing his earnest prosecution and being wearied with resistance because loathing such conference held it good pollity to prevent his further importunity And therefore she briefely and plainely told him that she way not for his honour nor his honour of her humour For know shee weeping said that the long cold and grievous imprisonment which indurable I have yet endured hath so corrupted and putrified my impared body that the very stench thereof offendeth and endangereth the small yet tedious remainder of my loathed life For proofe whereof shee bearing her breasts bad him feele what infectious sent her ulcerated and dying flesh yeelded which he no sooner did but that hee was neere stifled with the smell The enslamed Prince thus cooled in his hot pursuites found his thoughts now freer from affection then hee deemed his body sound from infection Such was the choaking savour that so offended his queasie stomacke that comforting her for fashion sake â—ee made a briefe conclusion and there left both her and his love that earst would have dyed for love Vienna well appayed in acquitting her selfe of so troublesome and hurtfull a suitor returned to Jzabella and sighing out a smile tolde her how shee had deceived the Prince whereat she joyed no little and concluded thereby that womens pregnant wits in all cases of sodaine extremities pre-excelled mens most saplerâ— heads The Prince thus latisfied acquainted the Doulphin with the circumstance of the matter which nothing mooved his Tygars heart which the Prince condemning held it no security to stay with a Tyrant and therefore striking sayle in so threatning a tempest he tooke his thankefull farewell of him and all his Knights and so returned to Burbon Now Sir Paris had by this time recovered the bounds of Turky where fearing the innate and inveterated malice of those barbarous Infidels against Christians To dispietce that threatning cloud that might shower downe mischiefe on his harmelesse head Hee made pollicy his gayde and craft his Councellour And being a great Artist and well learned in the secrets of Nature He cast an Artificiall blacknesse all over him and transnominated his name by turning his name backeward he Christned himselfe Sirap an Arthiopian borne For who in forraigne place will safely live and eredit win Must work with wiles and noâ— oppose nor hold their doing sin Thus with indefatigable paines he travailed unregarded of all and not suspected of any unto Constantinople where having knowledge of the Greeke tongue he conversed with the meanest of estate the hetter to preserve his owne estate And it happened and happly happened that Fortune Fortune-like of his foe became his friend For walking one day into the fields accompanied with none but with his owne troubled thoughts hee encountred by adventure with the Sultans chiefs Faulkner who returning from Hawking bare on his hand a goodly fayre Fausedn so dangerously hurt that there rested no hope of helâ—â— Scrap for so now must we call him seeing the Hawke hang her bruised wings and all blooded oâ— her flattered Breast bring Artificially cunning and natuâ—â—â—â—ffecting the game pittied thâ—â—hance and boldly 〈…〉 to him ask 〈…〉 how it happened The Faulkener neere dead to see his Hawke almost dead sadly told him that flying aâ— the River his Hawke lying at height of highest pitch made so forceable a stouping on the rising Fowle that in her stone-like fall shee nere gorg'd her selfe on a broken bough that grew amongst other branches upon the Grovie banke Such sayd Sirap is the fortune of the Field but what will you give if J recover your Hawke any thing said the Faulkner for that Solimon the great Sultan doth prize her for her high slying before any City in Greece Then Sinap undertaking it gathered certaine powerfull hearbes of inward and unknowne vertue and bought other Apothecary materials and so carefully applyed his expert skill that in short time hee healed and perfected the so endangered Hawke The Faulkener admiring at his skill for ignorance is the mother of admiration in the joy of his thoughts went and brought his recovered Hawke unto Solimon and recounted unto him how that a stranger an Athiopian borne that called himselfe Sirap had effected that cunning Cure and that he was a man so exquisite in all proportion and of so goodly and Majesticall a presence that hee seemed not onely to bee of an Heroicall heart but also promised more then was usually in a man The Sultan joyour of his Hawke and well pleased with his description held his requisite cunning in great regard and his service more necessary then others And therefore hee instantly sent for him who no sooner came but that liking his person hee graced him with his good countenance and demanded what he was and what occasion brought him into that Region Sirap whole Courtly demeanour might well warrant his behaviour and in whose face was stampt the true Character of honour with humble boldnesse told him that hee was of no great lineage nor lively-hood yet gentle borne but so subject to the Destinies displeasure that not brooking his fatall infelicity hee secretly had left the utmost South of Aethiopia adjoyning to the Deserts of Libia his Native soyle to 〈◊〉 content else-where in forraigne Nations And after said Sirap I had long with tedious travaile past the hote and whole Clymate of Affricke having no other companion then my minde nor no other lervant then my tongue I was at length by the guide of Fortune conducted into this part of Greece where my thoughts wingâ—d with desire to see the most great and mightiest Monarch on the earth brought me to this your Imperiall seate The Sultan pleased with his pleasing and well couched words grew desirous of his service and therefore according to the nature of his pride appropriating to himselfe authority over all he Imperiously commanded him to attend his Person To which though Sirap knew that denials to such absolute Potentates were held for capitall offences yet he thus reverently and boldly answered If said he any poore endeavours of mine most high and mighty Emperour may be but pleasing to your Greatnesse I shall then thinke my selfe most happy when I shall find my selfe able to doo you any agreeable service But if in any wise your unmatchable Maiesty seeke so to tye me to your will that of necessity I must follow your fancy Then diust I not offending your magnificence deeme both your highest Highnesse unjust and hold your Law no Law because grounded on necessity The Saltan wondring at his bold and discreet answere
withstand all sinister accidents No sooner was he come into the Sultans sight but that he cheerfully called him and briefly told him that he meant to invade Christendome And that for his approved Prowes and for the love he bare him he meant to grace him with the conducting of his Army and make him Generall over all his forces This said he is our will and this your charge Then see that your performance answer our expectation and that our love be guerdoned with your victories Sirap wounded with these words knew not how to lay a plaister on this sore yet resolved in his Countries good he humbly prostrating himself yeelded all reverend thanks for such his great esteem and gracefull respect But such said he pardon me most victorious and most mightiest of most mightiest Princes is my unpractized knowledge in Marshalling of Troops and ranging of Battels that I should rather eclipse the feared honour of your name by my overthrow then eternize your gotten same by my Conquests Besides know most great Commander that though I be a mortall enemy to the Crosse of Christ and an inherent foe to all Christians yet for some private causes best knowne to my selfe I vowed long since never to tread on Christian ground nor come where any worship that Messias for their God Then let I humbly intreat your Imperiall Majesty some other in worth more worthier supply my defects in their better deserts and bury not your living renown in my so probable ignorance and unexperienced discipline The Su'tan weying the danger of an unpractised Generall allowed the rather his devout objections and considering the religiousnesse of his vowes though he held it superstitious in it self yet would he not violate his consecrated promise but yeelding to his request he made Mustapha Basha his Generall and the preparation for him was so great that the bruit thereof piercing the Western clyme came to the knowledge of the French King who as the greatest Christian Prince assembled his wisest counsellours and noble Peers praying also in ayd of all his allyes and Princely confederates about him to confer and conclude somewhat for the honour and preservation of Christendome Amongst whom the Dolphin of Viennois was there as the sole Solon and onely wisest though too severe a Cato of his Country But such was his over weening conceit such the elevation of his high stirring spirit and such his proud estimation of his allowed wisedome that halled on I know not by what destiny he voluntary offered secretly and Pilgrim like to go to Constantinople there to espy and learn the strength intention course and preparation then intended meant and made for Christendome This being applauded by the whole assembly so tickled the flattering humor of his vain glory the ecclipse of his mature wisedom that poysoned with their praises he sayled to look into the consideration of so doubtfull and threatning an enterprise Pride made him forget both his place and his yeares and Glory would not permit him neither to take counself of Time nor make a provident delay which well shewes that they that are transported with their own desires have no true scope of judgement lest them to looke with perfecâ— eyes into their designes otherwise actions so uncertaine had been better not undertaken then unfortunately hazarded But he ever hasteth to repent that rashly enterpriseth He was most resolute in his determination nothing could dismay him nor no man could disswade him doubt he held to be the bane of all hopefull endeavours and if his fate were certain he said it would profit him little to take heed and if uncertain it would be more then mear foolishnes to fear what he was ignorant of would happen In this resolute resolve he called for the Lord Vran Esperance a man whose care and providence was the life of that State unto his wisedome and trust did he leave the whole government of his Principallity till his returne commanding him upon his allegiance to martiall and manage the whole State as best should stand with Justice Law and equity and that he would neither in pitty duty nor favour such was his perseverant rigour release comfort nor give countenance to the Princesse Vienna otherwise then was by him already censured allowed and accustomed That her obstinate and degenerate disobedience she being a Traytor to true Generation might eternize his un partiall Iustice make her miserable in being an example to others and that his Title and right might in his absence be the better secured by her imprisonment And so taking his leave he privately departed accompanied with none but with Mal Fiance his affected and learned servant After their Land-travell they Shipt themselves and lanched into the Ocean where after some dayes sayling they were by force of wrathfull and sinister winds by the command of Nepâ—une driven into the Egyptian Sea and so cast on the Bay of Alexan Iria where he had not rested full three dayes but that a subtile Mercurian a Merchant of Babilon that then lay in Traffique there observing more heedfully the eminent Mâ— jusâ—â—iy and uncontrolled countenance of the Dolphin supposed therâ—by that he was of no mean Estate His Complexion and attire made him a Christian and his commanding eyes the true image of the mind shewed him to be of an high Spirit This Lynx this Blood-hound to mischief hunted after opportunity to resolve this doubt and by fortune encountred with Mal Fiance in the Market-place whither the Dolphin his Lord had sent him to buy some necessaries Vnto whom in Latine as the most generall Tongue best known to all the politique Merchant gave many kind salutes offering him secretly for the love he bare to Christ and Christians all the best Offices he might perform wishing withall to gaine the more credit not to make himselfe known in so dangerous and impious a place Mal Fiance being better Learned then travelled finding himself so kindly intreated by a stranger returned thanks and joyfully embrac'd his courtesie The Merchant glad that hee understood him requested his acceptance of a cuppe of their Country-Wine which Mal Fiance as one proud of such unexpected friendship in so strange a place and that he had met with one of knowledge to conferre withall willingly assented unto The Marchant having waded thus farre into the depth of his awaked intention thought good to sound the Foord at full by undermining their projects And therefore in the curtesie of their Bacchonizing cups he gave him some few pieces of Gold wishing him to make his wants known with the distresse of his Companion that he might privately relieve them and secretly give them comfort and directions for their more security This false fire the seeming shew of good regard burnt up all Mal Fiances fear of distrust the strength of hot wines consumed all due consideration and the joy he took in finding so good a Christian amongst unbeleeving Infidels made him unadvisedly tell the Merchant who he was whom he seroed and
malicious and unbounded pride looked into the danger of her Lords return If the Dolphin fell then must Vienna though now a Prisoner be Soveraign This made her heart-burning hate to prosecute her overthrow And though she had no cause to fear her for occasion never yet made her her enemy yet could she not indure to think that she should be subject to another that now was most eminent in her self To have the Regent was all her ambitious desire and nothing did let but Vienna's right To frustrate which she with fulnesse of Gold and promites of preferment had as aforesaid seduced this mettle-minded Servant to deceive and to destroy her by such subtile and obscure meanes as both gave least shew of mistrust and most likelihood of execution And this it was Don Poltron for so was he rightly named bringing Vienna's mornings repast to her with a bemoaning tongue and a sighing heart complained much against Nature and envyed more against Fortune that had made beauty so miserable and vertue so unhappy as to entomb the glory of the one and the efficacy of the other in so unprofitable and so uncomfortable place My eyes said he cannot endure to sec Dignity so disgraced nor can my Eares entertain the killing sound of your laments I must and will leave my service that at length I may be a Stranger to sorrow least my grief foâ— your griefe make â—ny revived woes as great as your grief Vienna liking his generous nature judged by his discreet and relenting discourse that he was well bred and pleasing witty and therefore required him to tell what was his name and where he was born who answered Don Poltron am I called and in Spain was my birth my education was better then my fortune and this my servile Place bears now record of my sinister fate Why said Vienna if thou be infortunate keep still thy station here is a place of woe and thou hast a Princess to associate thee in thy sorrows Hast thou cause to bewail thy mishaps Let us know thy crosses and we will ease thee with our grief For it is a comfort to find a companion in misery Then say Poltron for thy Nature agrees better with us then thy Name and story to us the life of thy Fortune that we may also recreate our mind by listening to thy griefs Poltron having pleased her with this sugered Bayt cast out his hidden Hook and told her that he was a rich Merchants Son in Spain left so well Treasured that he swayed the world aâ— will untill imperious Love made him of a free Lord a Bond slave to Molloflora Unto her said he I sued long for obtained grace which had I held my self more fortunately happy then Paris did in the fruition of his Love Paris said Vienna what Paris Paris said he of Troy that enjoyed the Beauty of Greece and made his Pleasure a Plague to his Country But in the height of my joyes and hope of highest happiness Death deprived me of my Paradised Bliss and not only made my broken heart the sad habitation of woe but also turned my mind which before was a Kingdom to me into a Hell of tormenting thoughts The place of my birth grew by her loss so hatefull to me that I was necessitated to forgo the ground that yielded me no other Harvest but grief In brief for better portage I turned all my Substance into Jewels of estimate and travelled to Naples where I spent more of my wealth then I did of my woes Thâ—n Repentance made me leave that wastfull Nation and so I came unfortunately into France Thus he drew on her attention with a faigned tale that he might without all suspition and with better gain of belief give more fewell to her desire for his further betraying discourse And to blind all jealous thoughts he purposely seemed by his abrupt end to be unwilling to proceed further But Vienna whose crossed affection delighted to hear of semblable fortunes would needs know what other mishaps waited on his lost love Alas Madame said Poltron the small remainder of my broken state I brought with me into France to maintein the length of my days but in my passage I was set on by four Theeves that stript me of all I had and wounded me sore and would no doubt have taken my life but that by chance there came by a poor Hermite who seeing their violence without all dread of their number or fear of his own feebleness cast off his peacefull Gown and drawing out a hidden sword out of his staffe he so fiercely assaulted them that in the end he slew three of them whilest the fourth run away with the prey the danger of my wounds made him then as far to surmount himself in pitty as he had excelled the other in valour And in the tenderness of his relenting mind he brought me to his Cell where on a bed of moss he laid me and binding up my wounds with a piece of his shirt for other linnens he had none he afterwards applyed the juyce of hearbs so oft unto them that they healed and I began to grow strong With him had I continued still but that during the stay of my recovery I could not endure to see this good Chyrurgion and noble minded Hermite that had so well preserved and cherished me sit so oft sighing and many times exclaiming against unjust rigour unnaturall injustice that half distraught he would often confusedly say Doth the Sea nourish a more cruell fish then the Dolphin Is not Vienna the fairest City of the world And lived there ever a more unfortunate man then Paris Then would he bewayl destroyed Troy and blame Love that fired Illion and by and by curse that wretched Knight that overthrew so fair a Creature and so glorious a City Then would he sit in a dolefull dump and after suddainly start up as one affrighted and accuse his offending tongue of treachery for wronging the divine name of love since he was so highly beloved as his mean fortune merited not the glory thereof But leaving him with my Prayers both to his Cave and to his Cell after many thanks I left that wofull and worthy Hermit and came to Viennois where necessity compelled me to seek this service And this most vertuous Princesse is the Map of my misery and so he seemed to end before he had begun that the Fish might bite the more eagerly when the bayt was pulled away But oh said Vienna for now she had swallowed the hidden and hurtfull hook didst thou not perceive the cause of his so secret and so great a grief Yes Noble Lady said Poltron Time and Occasion gave me meanes to know the same then good Poltron let me intreat thee she said to relate the full discourse thereof For such subjects of woe best fitteth wofull minds and causes of dolor and calamity are ever most pleasing to perplexed persons Poltron thus halled on to set the trap that should ensnare her
Bastard Maligne should succeed him What though Vienua be a prisoner to her Fathers will and my faith must keep her still a thrall to his severity yet the Father dying the Daughters bonds are broken I discharged and you tyed to inthronize her for your lawfull Princess Why then should there be any such disparity of minds or diversity of affections amongst you since you are all subjects born to one end and Viennonians sworn to one right What shall become of this Principality when those that should unite themselves to maintain the Weal-publique do thus divide themselves to overthrow the Publique-Weal Know you not that by thus banding your selves you do altogether abandon your selves Will not your insulting and incroaching Neighbours the proud Savonians our inveterate and irreconciliable enemies take advantage of your weakning of your own strengths enter forcibly upon your rights dispossesse you of your Habitations and make you Aliens to your Inheritances Yes yes be you assured that hatred amongst friends gives ever succour to strangers and that Civill Wars within you will bring Forraign Wars upon you Look on the Dolphinis of whom I am loath to speak ill yet in this I know not how to speak well Doth not her unwasted corruption and pride show that she loves a Pâ—llace better then her Paradise that thinks by shamefull rebellion to make her self a sinfull Queen Know you not that they that are so greedy so unlawfully to get will be ever as ready to do wrong What colour of claim can she have that is neither royalized by propagation nor extract from Princely or Noble bloud She had no authority given her in his Highness rule nor hath she any left her at his departure It is I see only her pride that can suffer no equall and Malignes ambition that can brook no Superiour two Fire-brands that burnt up Romes most glorious Monarchy O let them both then fall in their pride that seek so unjustly to fly before they have wings and wash not your eyes and hands like Envy in one anothers fall In persisting to maintain evill Maligno doth condemn himself otherwise he would not seek to obtain that with bloud and shame which he can neither get nor keep without sinne and death In all the Scriptures there was but one sole Bastard only Jephtha that did come to any good and yet he had the mark of the Curse for his all-onely Daughter was most sorrowfully sacrificed for her great Fathers offence And this was but to shew that there is no perpetuity nor long prosperity in hatefull and condemned bastardy And will you then make the corrupt and cursed seed and excrement of sinne your unlawfull Prince that by all divine nature and nationall Laws hath no inheritance on Earth and whom the Jews counted as no part of their Congregation If the Father be an Adulterer and the Mother a Fornicator the Son must in reason be a bad liver and a wicked Governour For he that is born in double sinne must of likelyhood in nature be both subject to many faults and guilty of many offences And how can polluted hands make foul Vessels clean or how can he that is but the Son of the People be the Son of the Dolphin The Mothers acknowledgment and protestation is no proof that ever fathers them on those that can best maintain them She cannot be true to one that is untrue to her self Corruption will still break out there where it is once festered How then can you affect the Son of shame or without shame yield your selves subject to the Son of a strumpet If his desire be beyond his merit and reach let him fall besides his hopes and receive just guerdon for his deserts As for the vertuous Princess whose right I reverence and whose worth I admire Let her yet remain though with better respect where she is For it is not good over-suddainly to open a wound that hath bin long closed up The greatest right may do the most wrong and the omission of a good action is no sinne when it cannot be done without committing of sinne I have sworn to her Father and would be found faithfull to my Lord I affect not government For in this I am but like the Sun that carryes his Lan horn for others and not for himself It is better to be doubtfull then over-credulous and the uncertainty of his death is no warrant for my discharge nor your disobedience There is time for all things and the Moon that is not yet risen may rise and shine in full glory though now she be eclipsed What more would you have or what further O you fond Viennonians do you endeavour to affect Will you turn Traytors to your Lord rip up your own bowels make your wives widows and your children fatherless and helpless Will you put fire to your own houses possess your foes with your wives and wealths see your daughters deflowred and make an utter devastation of your Country Alass I see your wilfulness betrayes your wits and draws on your overthrows into your Enemies tryumphs and grief makes me to shed tears of bloud for your own purchased destructions Let me at last O let me in love and tender care of your welfares dehort you from wounding of your selves and leave these ill presaging jars amongst you and like birds of one flock fly together Maintain your sacred Oaths for preservation of your Soveraigns right till better assurance acquit you from your obliged faiths To hasten the knowledge whereof I will wing many Messengers with speed to enquire and learn what is become of our Soveraign Lord with that the tears did trickle down his face which struck such a compassionate regard in all their hearts that being before made sensitive of their errours and now fully satisfied and reclaimed by his tongue of perswasion they joyfully threw up their Hats and some lifting him up cryed God save the Dolphin and the Lord Vray Esperance under whose Government we will only live Thus did his pleasing words powerfull authority mild behaviour refined and probable reasons and subtilized distinction allay the force of he approaching storm and gave such contentment to all that every one departing in love brought home peace to their Neighbours Thus did this noble Governour like a good and skilfull Musicianer put all this jarring discord in a good and true tune which so crost the hatefull hopes of malicious Maligne that failing of native strength and rebellious forces to dignifie his indignities he suddenly fled unto the Savoy Duke to require forraign aid to royallize his proud basenesse Such was his aspiring wrath that it had no mean and such his Treason that it â—ad no end Fear now made him doubt the rigour of law that before would have been subject to no law and therefore did he in such unstable waters and threatning winds seeke for more powerfull eares which the subtile Duke well perceiving thought to feed on him as Pharohs leane Kine did on the fat
supposed Sonne Grief now made him weep at his Countries calamity and fear made him doubt his own deprivation The Harvest of his sins yielded him now more increase of woes then the lusts of his youth afforded him pleasures But how should said the sorrowfull Dolphin he that is begotten in my full sin and born in his own shame live without doing villany or dy without making mischief If his being be from me why then should he seek to take from me my being And if he be none of mine what then hath he to do with it which is mine but he is not mine but the Son of iniquity and scorn of nature and therefore knows neither his shameless self nor his â—â—â—full father I nourished him as a Snake in the bosome of my love and now he would sting me to death in the poyson of his hate O how just are the judgments of God that pays our amiss in the amiss of our offences and makes our wicked pleasures our just punishments In this bemoaning fury did he call for vengeance to be powred down on Maligne which Sirap seeing could not but grieve at his sad lamentations though otherwise he rejoyced that occasion presented unto him both a means to shew there his prowess and a way to make his Country indebted to his valour For as a stranger he knew he should win honour and after gain being made known more respect The wruth of War he did not fear nor made he any doubt of his Countries safety And therefore he chearfully commanded Boufoy to comfort the distressed Dolphin and to assure him that the God of the Viennoians had brought him thither in justice both to punish the treachery of his degenerate Son and also to correct the insulting pride of the intruding Duke in both whose ambitious blouds he vowed to bath his revengefull Sword and by force of the Viennontan forces to overthrow all the Savonians Only entreat him to take up the heat of his indignation in the embers and to keep himself unknown that thereby he might receive a true try all of his subjects forces and fidelities and the easier escape and support himself after with forraign supplyes if the Viennonians should unhappily bee vanquisht As for himself he would when they were hottest in battell suddenly thrust himself amongst them where he would write such Tragedles in his enemies blood that weeping repentance should teach them what it is to invade anothers right and to displant the true Vine His Highnesse and Bonfoy I would have them like two peaceable Pilgrims to stand safely aloof and to view the hazard of the game till the last chance be cast and then secretly to convey themselves to some cave in the near adjoyning Wood whither in the darke of night I will undescryed repaire and further consult what after will bee done To this the animated Dolphin subscribed For in his vertuous valour and practive knowledge did he build his new raised hope and on his unresistable force and most fortunate aâ—chievements did his comfort depend Now Sirap having about him his never failing Semitar wherewith he vanquisht Turbuleut the fierce and being furnished with the Shield and armour that he forceably took from the Captaine of the Pyrats in the Affrick Seas he made all things in readinesse and instantly sent Bonsoy to the next Town with his Shield to cause a Painter to draw on it a disturbed waved Sea and in the middest thereof a crowned Dolphin driving other Fishes before him and striking many under the waves with his tayl with this Impresse under Crowned to Conquer Thus did the Dolphins unknowne Knight in honour of the Dolphin make himself the Knight of the Dolphin But by this time the two Armies marching both on â—ffronted each other in sight which made the Savoy Duke to make a stand and to set his men in good array of battell which he divided into two parts The first were his troops of Horse which he assigned to be conducted by the Bastard Maligne The other consisting of Foot he led himself In this equipage he soberly marcht till he came to a spacious Plain neer to Andre where he preparedly stay'd the comming on of the Viennonians who being well marshelled in one mean Battell Cressat-wise with two wings of Horse on either side came on apace by the Command of their good Generall the Lord Vray Esperance unto whom honour gave spurs his place faithfulness and the love of his Country courage Maligne hearthed on the Duke with the false assurance of the Viennonians revolt and the hope to incorporate that Principality to his own haled him on the more to that bloudy bargain For the charge being given Desire and Revenge encountred each other with such fury that the Battell was long in suspence Victory inclining to neither side till at last the Troop of the Savonian Horses disranked both the Wings of the Viennonians and brake in upon the Squadron of the Foot with such violence that they began to staggerand give back When the all-valorous and invincible Sirap the Knight of the Dolphin came fortunatly in who finding where danger dwelled most there he opposed himself and like to a suddain Tempest bare down all before him His desire to approve himself in his countries defence and his implacable wrath against those that sought to defeat Vienna of her right and to defraud him of the comfort of his hope made his blows fall like thunder and his sword to cut like the Executioners Ax. None could stand before him nor durst there any come neer him which so encouraged the disheartned remainder of the Viennonian Cavality that they ranked themselves again and came up to second him This fresh and new assault disordered and dismayed the Savonian troops who now fought fearfully and confusedly which Maligne perceiving purposely and fatally brought up all his forces and begirt him round thinking so to end the battell by making ann end of him that both had ended so many of their lives and onely maintained the battell In this danger did the undanted Knight of the Dolphin fight so long that his horse was slain under him which he with great agillity wel and quickly avoyded and being on foot perceived his other self his entire deer friend La-nova whom he knew by his coat-armor to lye in the dust This sight was such an alarum to waken revenge that he grew now more suriously wrathfull and more irefully impatient then before and being desirous to recover his body he desperately strid over him and like valiant Hector amidst the begirâ—ing Myrmidons he stood to withstand all assaylers La-nova being thus freed from the smothering feet of his enemies having had time of breathing came to himself for he was not mortally wounded and began to stirre which being found and perceived by the Knight of the Dolphin maugre all the force of his swarming and pressing foes hee tooke him up and bare him to the Lord Vray Esperance unto whom kissing him of in
their owne burthenous pride But her remove moved not so much the good Governor as the misse of their glorious preserver that invincible all admirable Knight of the Dolphin that to their amazement had so oft relieved their weakned forces rescued their fainting endangered friends repuls'd their oppressing enemies slain most of their best Corumanders danted the whole army and at two blows overthrown and killed the Malignant Maligne and the proud ambitious Duke that potent Generall Then he caused inquisition to be made throughout all his Territories after him and rich rewards promised to him that could or should give knowledge of him but no one could shew what he was or where he was only some declared that his Beaver being broken in battell they saw his sace as black as darknesse and his eyes as bright as fire which made the Governour doubtfull whether he were a man that did more then many men or no man that could not be subdued by an hoast of men or that the all-mercifull God in fayour of their distressed right had fent some of his correcting Ministers to chaston and powre vengeance on the hatefull heads of their unjust soes But the War being thus ended peace called a councell for the further establishing of tranquillity And the consideration of these bloody jars cordemned poor Mal-Firance to dy not only for leaving his Lord and being unable to give an account of his Soveraigns life but also for being the first cause of perturbanon in the State and after of forraign invasion The loss of so many of their lives made them all thirst after his To hasten which they brought him the next day to the place of execution where happily the Dolphin and Sirap with his man Bonfoy came by all in Pilgrims gownes as they were by agreement going to the City who seeing and understanding the cause of that Assembly withdrew themselves and upon short consideration they sent Bonsoy to the Governour who needs would be there to hear his latest Confession that he might learn somewhat concerning his beloved Lord. Of him did Bonfoy knowing now the cause in the name of his Master the Knight of the Dolphin require that Mal Fiance should be delivered unto him which granted he would undertake to bring them to the Dolphin In assurance whereof he unfolding his Gown tendered the honor of his Masters shield as a pledge for his performance which when the Lord Vray Esperance saw he knew it by the devise thereon to be the same that the Knight of the Doiphin carried in btatell and therefore he joyfully took it and kisting it reverently said That that remarkable badge of his all-vertuous and most glorious worth besides the glad tidings he delivered of their gracious Lord was more then sufficient to redeem a world of lives And therefore presenting Mal Piance unto him he prayed that they might both see the Dolphin and the Dolphin Knight whom next to the Dolphin both he and all the Viennonians did and would ever honour as their sole and only preserving Patron And then taking his Chain from about his neck he gave it him saying Let this be a witnes of my gratesulnos and truly tel thee with what true joy I entertain thy welcome tydings Bonfoy humbly thanked his honour and requested him that he would be pleased to see how he bestowed Mal Fiance whom he brought unto the other two Pilgrims that were walking a little a side from them But when the Dolphin had discovered himself unto him Mal Fiance fell down at his feet for mercy rising threw up his Hat into the ayr and cryed aloud the Dolphin the Dolphin God save my Lord the Dolphin This unexpected and most fortunate accident made all the company at the hearing thereof to showt for joy And the good Vray Esperance hastily lighting from his Horse fell upon his knee and kissing his hand sayd Long may my Liege Lord the Dolphin live Whereat the Dolphin raysing him embraced him and told him that as his loyalty was crowned with renown so would he adde honour and reward to his vertues But forget not sayd he my Lord to welcome this noble and heroicall Moor the thrice worthy Knight of the Dolphin that both hath preserved me from death and thraldom and delivered you and my Country from our oppresling foes O with what joy and astonishment did then this loyall rejoycing Lord hasten to kneel unto him For though he held him lesse then a God yet he thought he could not be but more then a man Sirap staying him greeted him with all the demonstrations of love and reverent respect This done they mounted both the Dolphin and this magnificent Moor who needs would ride bare-fac'd in their Pilgrim-Gowns through the city Mal-Fiance waited on the Dolphins stirop and Bonfoy manly carried his Masters Shield before him and after went the L. Vray Esperance with all the rest of their retinue Now their approach was no sooner known in Vienna but that they knew their welcomes by their rejoycing bels stately bone-fires and triumphing hearts Hardly could they passe for presse of people still they came running to see them especially the Knight of the Dolphin whom they admired for his fame honored for his great atchievements and lov'd for their protection Sirap seemed much to admire the French whom the French themselves did more then admire But in viewing the whole Troop his observing eye light by chance on his fast friend La-nova at which sight he sighed yet thought himself happy in the sight Thus rode they one triumphant in themselves and honoured of all At length they came to the Pallace gate where dismounting themselves the Dolphin now happy in being the Dolphin could not but shed swelling teares in tender remembrance of his too well beloved wife But as the Generall of an Army buries all the remembrance of his friend in the pride and tryumph of his Conquest so did the Dolphin's freedom from many perills and the attainment to his near lost principallity extinguish all sorrow and memory of the dead Dolphinis So that wiping his eyes he turned himself towards Sirap and embracing him said Most worthy Knight and my dearest friend welcome to my Court to my self and all that is mine This Pallace my Country and I are all at your dispose For so in my particular obligation and by your meritorious and pleading deserts am I bound unto you And longer may I not enjoy what I now possesse then you shall find my promises full laden with rich performance And be further assured that as I onely live by your love and reigne altogether by your valour so will I ever owe you fealty for my life and still doe you homage for my Crown Sirap understanding thus much by Bonfoy returned him humble thanks for his so gratefull and high esteem both of himselfe and his poore endevours with protestation that hee never wished nor expected so great and undeserved guerdons but still held himself most
affinity All my right is yours your demand my consent and my consent a full fathers grant Sirap acknowledging this his so great bounty gave him more thankes then if he had presently intituled and invested him in the Principallity of Viennois Yet said he it seems not over-strange to me nor should it be so offensive to your Highnesse that one so enriched by Nature so admired for vertue and so endowed by fortune should herein against all nature so resist the law of nature since fancy is altogether guided by Destiny and Love is neither subject to duty nor reason Then seeing that love yeeldeth neither reason of choise nor change I wil leave to reason further of it and adventure once to carry up a dish to Venus table that never yet served in her Court The Dolphin glad that his demand was of no greater consequence secretly smiled at his simplicity that neglecting honours highest advancements onely contented himself with the naked hope of impossible savors But Sir Sirap being more assured then the Dolphin did assure himself rested thankfully contented with the same And the next morning in the pride of his secret joy he went unto the Castle where having the Dolphin's signet for his warrant he called for Vienna who fearing some sudden stratagem for all her hope of welfare was dead fearefully came to the door to know the end of her punishment But when Sirap saw the alteration that vertuous constancy had wrougnt in her imprisonment grief so attach'd him that he was more mottified at the sight then he was Moorefied in sight yet after some secret digested sighes he cheared up his ingrieved spirit with the joy he had to see her and thus by his interpreter he saluted her Our Gods of all happiness make fair Vienna happy in her desires and more fortunate in her life The same Viâ—nna Vienua sayd yeelds you hearty thanks and prayes that the like content may countervail your well wishing Then shall said he my love be made immortal in your liberty and your liberty be purchased by my love Vienna abash'd at his reyly replied 〈◊〉 that grief had no harbor for love nor love any acqâ—â—â—tance with distressed Vienna Anoble cause said Sirap may yet help to heale a grievous case Then leave these forlorn walls and let not your will make you a prisoner that may live in my love a Princesse For know Madam that your Father being a prisoner in Babylon and allotted there to a most base and cruell death I though by kind an unpassionate Moor yet much more then any Moor pittying the miseryes of others had such compassion on your Fathers distresse that growing carelesse of my estate being there then entertained with greatest state I adventured with great adventure to acquit him of shamefull bondage and more cruell death Conditionally that upon my arrivall with him in this Country hee should grant me without all exception one gift that then I should require which he then ratified by oath in sight of his God and now hath confirmed it by will in the presehce of his people Now Madam hearing the well worthy renowne of your renowned beauty though being by Nature fierce yet subject to affection I could not but in that frailty yeeld to human condition And therefore prizing my content before a Crown I required your Ladyship for my Wife which your Father by an Oath hath granted which you in duty should yeeld unto and which I in love if love can merit such happinesse do deserve and yet most humbly do request Vienna thus moved removed thus his flattering and aspiring hope If said she my Father enjoy a second life by your conditionall adventure you may Presse him to the performance so farre as it is in his power to accomplish more you cannot ask lesse hee will not perform But know Sir Knight that love knowes no such paternall law that never yet was subject to any law The Father hath but a consent not the choise in the daughters affections his free thoughts have no feeling of her conceit and his mettle mind and corrupted humors are oft unpleasing to his childs fancy Neither stands it with any reason that he cannot govern his own passions should command othere affections Then must you of necessity excuse his impossibility and admit onely of his willingnesse that can give nought but consent for his larges Yet Madam by your favour said Sirap stands the daughter bound for her Fathers good and the guerdon is but ungratefull that is required in contempt True said Vienna but every good must not be rewarded with the best lest the best want fit requitall for due desert Let it then suffice that with thanks I acknowledge your great good and in any other things will be ready to pleasure you Only in this pardon me my Lord for in loves infirmities I have no affinity A troubled soul onely in tears her comfort seeks It is a heavy comfort said Sirap that in mourning stands yet said she doth the custome of sorrow lessen the grief and it is some comfort to be void of all comfort Dispair said Sirap is mother to death and death not fit companion for beauty My beauty said she poor as it is hath already bin my bane and made me most unfortunate in my most fortunatenesse Why Madam quoth he hath your Grace bin deceived So said she say they that told me so But truth he replyed stands not on the tongues of men True she said and that is the cause why we are deceived by men you mistake me much said Sirap Nay said she not mistaken but overtaken you in the truth and so she bad him farewell leaving him tormented in mind in that he gest by her last words that some one to advantage himself or in malice to him had wronged him in words yet could he not but smile to think how his conceit was her deceit But leaving her whom he meant not so to leave but to re-assay her again he returned to the Dolphin and told him of his haplesse successe Who smothering his inward joy made such shew of discontentment that the angry Oceanswel'd not as he seem'd to storm But Sirap neither waying his anger nor her answer all smiling said that once more he would with Ixion assay to embrace Juno and see whether in shuffling again of the Cards ' Fortune would deal him a better game For he would owe her himself and try whether in his own language he could wean and win her to his will which moved great laughter and ministred further occasion of pleasant talk Thus they passed for the rest of the day untill Supper which ended Sirap giving them the good night went to his Chamber where calling to mind Vienna's words which in his suppose argued to report of his disloyalty which grieved him much that her grief would be redoubled by his never intended falsity and that he should bee so wronged by unwronged and unknowne men But after he had a little fed his
manifestation of his love he delivered him with many speaking signes that he should be sent safely away The Generall who had seen with the eyes of admiration the incomprehensible force and unvaluable valour of this unknown Knight respectively received him and accordingly sent him to the next Town and then having already brought up his strength of foot of purpose to succour the Dolphin-Knight he followed him in his bloudy passage with intent to horse him again lest he should miscarry in that perill In this desire he came on so furiously fast that the Savoy Duke seeing the rage of this tempestuous floud to over-bear Malignes forces advanced his main battell and like a terrible storm fell upon the Viennonians But this lightning lasted not long for the Knight of the Dolphin perceiving that now the dice was cast and that they both were to avoid their last chance summoned all his strength together and in the vigour of his displeased courage meeting with Maligne he smote him so on his Burganet that he fell'd him sore wounded to the earth where being no respite for reseue he was smothered and troden to death Thus dy'd the spaws of sin in sinfull shame Ill was he got lewd his life bad his name Now notwithstanding the withstanding Savonians the Knight of the Dolphin took Malignes Horse and in despite of all interruption he lightly mounted on him and with his confounding sword he made such a slaughter that he found little resistance This remarkable act gave not only fresh hope but new life to Esperance who wondred not so much at who he was as at what he did and yet he thought he must be more then a man that did more then a man could doe But the doubtfull Dolphin standing all this while aloof joyfully beholding the heroicall deeds of his second Saviour said to Bonfoy that Siraps valour was beyond all apprehension his courage above all conceit his puissance more then humane and his deeds surmounting all opinion By him said he I have my second being and by him I see I shall be still a Prince O would and as he would have proceeded further he made a stay to behold the distempered Duke who seeing his men discomfited and slain most by this alone Knight came in with a troop of reserve whom he had commanded to unite all their forces together and bend themselves wholly for the taking or killing of this unknown Hercules the most redoubted Knight of the Dolphin but costly experience made them loath to come so near him as to hurt him least breaking the rule of pitty they should be guilty of their owne deaths Yet in some presumption both of their number and Armour they faintly assaulted him to their repenting detriments In this fresh conflict the Knight of the Dolphins Beaver was broken and fell downe which much more advantaged then endammaged or endangered him For the Enemies seeing his black hew and his wrathfull eyes being then kindled a new with anger shining like fire were suddainly appaled with such dread and fearfull amazement that holding him rather an infernall spirit then a mortall man they began to recoil and to fly from him like a great Covy of frighted Partridges from the first pursuit of a fierce Faulcon whereupon he flourished his Conquering sword and cried out in Greek Victory Victory and then followed them with such raging fury that he hewed out his way in blood till he encountred that proud invading Duke whom he knew by his rich Armour and thinking now to make an end of both him and the battel at once he lifted up his controuling and quelling arm and so enragedly smote him on the side of his helmet that neither the steel nor the temper could secure him from that fatal and inevitable blow but as all men fall that seek to build their fortunes upon others ruines so fell he now in the height of his hope breathlesse to to the ground Then began the Savonians to fly on all hands and light unharnessed legs were better then wel approved arms Most of them were slain few escaped the rest were taken prisoners Night drawing on the Generall the Lord Vray Esperance commanded to sound the Retrait But the Knight of the Dolphin purposely pursued the Chase that in the darknesse of night he might the better convay himself away and undiscovered go as he did to the Wood where the Dolphin joyfully attended him And no sooner did he see him but that with teares of joy that in tryumph trickled down his cheeks he hasted to embrace him and impalling him within the circuit of his armes he held him fast his tongue failing to be messenger of his thankfull heart For in this passion Love clipt him fast true Comfort held him long Ioy could not speak for Wonder had no tongue But after his full heart had a little enjoyed it self and somwhat digested his surfeit of joy Then then his tongue was enabled to applaud his victory and he both crowned his prowesse with loud resounding praises and gave him more then many thanks for his most glorious and happy labours And now with more regard did he not onely industriate himself to do him all the kind Offices of love but also humbly offered to unarm him which in no wise Sirap would permit but wearied with that dayes travell he betook himself to his rest where his restlesse thoughts began a new Warre betwixt his desire and determination fain would he haue seen her whom he loved more then his life and yet to deliberate well on things profitable he held to be a most provident delay At last he resolved to keep himself and them unknown for some few dayes that the Country might be setled in peace and he see what course would be hold both for Vienna and for the government In the interim he might the better conclude with himself about his own affairs O noble noble Paris more noble then those that are enabled with flattering and fading titles How loving art thou true How truly wise and vertuous that not onely canst without pride conquer thy foes but also without folly beyond nature command to own and deerest affections If that wanton Trojan had had the like sympathy of mind and the same stable fincerity of heart as he had the likeness and unity of thy name Troy had been unconquered and he had lived longer in greater glory But let us return to the Lord Vray Esperance who after the overthrow and ejectment of the Savonians had posting news brought him that the malicious and imperious Dolphinis upon notice of the victory fell suddenly dead She could live no longer that had no hope to rule any longer Her pride and Soveraignty could neither brook subjection nor endure controlement Besides the guilt of her own evil proclaimed her death and the fear of loosing her life was the losse of her life Such is the nature of greatnesse that but crost in their ambitious courses they shrink under the weight of