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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18337	Gerardo the vnfortunate Spaniard. Or A patterne for lasciuious louers Containing seuerall strange miseries of loose affection. Written by an ingenious Spanish gentleman, Don Gonçalo de Cespedes, and Meneçes, in the time of his fiue yeeres imprisonment. Originally in Spanish, and made English by L.D.; Español Gerardo. English	Céspedes y Meneses, Gonzalo de, 1585?-1638.; Digges, Leonard, 1588-1635.	1622 (1622)	STC 4919; ESTC S107646	292,536	482

in the ouer-growne Weedes set vpon Gerardo vvith the successe here set downe Now Lisis her father and his kindred fearing the generall danger that might befall them returning to the sad Mansion they indeuoured all they could for some time to conceale the wofull Tragedie but it was not possible for them to do so in respect of the noyse and shriekes of the mother and her maides together vvith the lowde exclamations of the pittifull Aminta that breaking thorow the ayre made known the vvhole proceeding so that now euery man began to shift for himselfe the best he could All the rest of the night and part of the next day vvas the vnfortunate Lisis dying and at last in the morning in the East of her age her life was set and shee expiring gaue vp her noble spirit to her pious Maker Farre from the least thought of his Mistrisses sudden end vvhilst these things passed was Gerardo secure in his Couent now in contemplation of his incredible accidents and rendring high Heauen condigne thankes that pleased to free him from the danger In fine his night passing on in such profitable watchfulnesse day approched by what time Liseno's bloody end was diuulged thorow the whole Cittie and consequently the vntimely death of the faire Lisis came to her Louers eares At first the vnlikelihood banished all credit from Gerardo's brest but beeing visited by his brother Leoncio he not onely told him the certaintie of that but vvithall that Gerardo vvas made a principall actor in the businesse vvhich at first so dismayed and next cast him into such an outrage that had not his brother more by plaine force then forcible reasons detained him hee had doubtlesse crying out like a mad man ran into the Citty and committed himselfe into the hands of the Iudges who now extremely incensed at the haplesse accident and as if the poore Gentleman had beene guilty of all they caused extraordinary search to be made for him as vvell in particular houses as Churches and Monasteries which knowne to the discreet Leoncio and vvisely apprehended by Gerardo the danger forced him to shift for himselfe and so to his griefe he disposed of his flight and vvithin two dayes in an Euening he left the famous Iliberis resolued to bid his natiue Countrey Spaine Adieu for euer vvith which purpose embracing his brother and vnwilling for the secrecie of his affaires to make vse of any seruant hee tooke his vvay toward the next fitting Sea-Port but yet before hee went hee left and performed the last funerall Obsequies due to the sacred Memorie of his lucklesse Lisis in these Elegiacall Verses Pure spirit that leau'st thy body to our mone From whence now dis-imprison'd thou art gone To thy more happie Region where each Field Eternall Aprill of faire flowres doth yeeld Looke if the Soule can downeward looke and see A Soule once thine all teares for want of thee When I was doubly pris'ner by thine eyes How little dream't I of Here Lisis lies Or when a smile would her Gerardo blesse Little that earth thus early should possesse So faire a Casket Little thought indeed Base wormes on sixteene yeeres sweet flesh should feed So fruites are in their blossomes nip't by frost So a tall ship that oft the Seas hath crost At last when gladsome Port she leaues behind How the smooth waters court her and false wind Till when a sudden gust and storme doth rise Rocke-dashed she becomes the Oceans prize Liue yet my Lisis on thy Marble Tombe Whilst Time beares date free from Obliuions doome That when the world's last passenger drawes neere In in-corrupted letters may appeere Here Lisis lies that leap't from vitall breath To meet a Louer in embrace of death Hauing trauelled all night day came on vvith vvhose approach and cleerenesse he vvas a little reuiued yet holding the light lesse secure for the safety of his trauell vvithout delay to auoid the danger of such as might follow him leauing the roade he got into the thickest and vvildest parts of the famous Alpuxarran Mountaines His nights waking and vvearinesse made him drowzie so that looking about him for a fit place to giue his body some rest in vpon the sudden a noise and hollow murmure of some persons neere hand diuerted him from his purpose Many times the very shaking of leaues causeth suspition in those that are like Gerardo flying and so a slighter cause might haue troubled him He vvas euen about to haue turned backe againe but ere aware he vvas too farre engaged and gotten so neere that stirring either forward or backward hee must needes be discouered vvherefore confirming his vvauering resolution he determined to goe on and so tying his horse to a Masticke tree he alighted and taking his Petronell that hung at the Saddle-bow in his hand the better if need should be to defend himselfe hee vvent very gingerly on toward the place from whence he heard the noise and vvilling to approch as neere as was possible by and by a lamentable voyce increasing by degrees vpon him made him at length take stand and giue eare to the ensuing dolefull expressions Is it possible Don Diego that so beastly and lustfull a passion should thus brutishly depriue thee of all humanitie and if for thine owne sake thou bee not at all mooued yet can the blood of thy noble Kinsman and the knowing mee to be his preuaile no more to stay thee from thy barbarous attempt To these complaints he might also by the changing of the voyce heare this reply 'T is vaine faire and cruell Owner mine with lowd words to hinder my pleasure there being nothing to keepe me from the satisfying that from vvhich had my Cousin as thou deniest enioyed thee 't were impossible to disswade me and therefore protract not Sweet my glory by enforcing mee to lose all pittie Ay me what shall I doe replied the other with a mournfull grone Cannot my teares Don Diego make thee relent nor the forc't pleasure of a rauish't creature well since my curst fortune hath brought me to this sad passe be assured that before thou execute thy lustfull purpose it shall bee first with my death Here the afflicted voyce gaue ouer leauing Gerardo in deepe suspence with her wofull complaints who perceiuing that they beganne to grow now to extremitie determined rather to lose his life then not releeue the distressed party and thinking it to bee the act of Heauen to guide him to so necessary a remedy rushing forward with his Petronel aduanc't hee came to the place where he might see two men struggling on the grasse one of them as it seemed the partie that vanquished sent out those grones which spectacle so mooued Gerardo that extremely inraged clapping his Pistoll to his girdle and drawing his sword he made to the Couple but no sooner got the guiltie party a sight of him when letting loose the other that lay quite breathlesse vnder him he auoyded the first blow but running to lay hold

forgotten your first heauy welcome to my fathers house the sad forerunner happely of these present ills You may also remember what diligence was vsed to find out the murderer of our Steward and seruant the Biscayner though to small purpose since it was neuer knowne nor would till the day of Iudgement if mine now swiftly approching did not menace me for this last eternall danger enforceth mee to declare my selfe his murdresse I shall carry to the Soueraigne Tribunall for my discharge though my repentance be the greatest his bold and trecherous attempt Know then my best Signior that no sooner came the arriuall of my Father together with the resolution of my intended Matrimony to that mans notice vvhen to our no small admiration he fell suddenly sicke in bed of a slow but tormenting Feuer my Parents that loued him as their owne perceiuing his danger sought to get him some helpe though no Phisician in Toledo could apply the least remedy they concluded that his sicknesse was onely of Melancholy vvhich making vs so in generall for him increased in the sicke man more and more till the night before your arriuall he broke his mind to me and to my cost made knowne his infirmity About midnight mine eyes willing to rest as being long kept waking with the thought of your arriual I might heare some paces in my Chamber and calling my drowsie sences together lifting vp my face it had like to haue encountred with the sicke mans at whose sudden approch I was nothing dismayed as nothing misdoubting his intents rather like a sister I fel a chiding him for this excesse ignorant of his purpose to which with an inward grone and furious lookes nail'd to my eyes he thus answered Howeuer Isdaura there be no helpe for mee but what must come from those tender hands my life lying in them thou that owest me so much wilt not prooue vngratefull to my good deedes and seruice though thy cruel parents thus hardly intreat me Who would haue thought of thy Father that hee should so vnthankefully haue recompenced the paines which in thy education and honest sustaining his family in his absence I haue vndergone onely because I hoped to reape the benefit in thy amiable desired companie which vniustly my Isdaura he depriues mee of This is my torment the mischiefe and sicknesse that afflicts me which as time runnes on so that increaseth and the more by thy growing neerer to bee in anothers power I come therefore prepared not to leaue this roome till I haue health by hauing thee for mine though it cost me my life if in thy presence I must lose it which is the antidote and wholesome Phisician to my mind Thy husband I must be since Heauen to mee alone hath reserued the happinesse thy faire hand must be the answer deferre not then my blessing for I feare no refusall since in mine owne will lies the satisfaction of my desire I shall make no doubt with this Ponyard to kill you if I perceiue but the least contradiction and drawing a sharpe Dagger claps it to my brest to my no small amazement for scarce could I giue credit to the successe of what I saw before me the very Chamber seemed to shake with my feare and long it was ere my tongue could vtter so much as the least Syllable on one side mine honours danger tormented me on the other a female cowardize I began to thinke on some sleight that might either deferre my death or preserue my chastity and to this purpose sought to disswade him from his not so much as vilifying his treachery rather making him a thousand promises with fained oathes to be his wife and ioyntly because I supposed that might content him gaue him my hand which he no sooner got but mee withall in his armes till at last wanting breath and courage to defend my selfe he had his will making mee subiect to his lust But iust Heauens to whose soueraigne goodnesse the dumbe complaints of my wofull heart had now ascended would not permit a due punishment for so base a fact to be deferred of which my hands and his dagger were the executioners for no sooner had soft rest taken truce with his lasciuious fury secure that hee slept in his wiues armes when strengthened by my dishonour and the dolorous resentment of my Parents my feminine feare putting on a masculine courage and wholly disposed to a bloody reuenge taking the sharpe dagger which before was a bridle to my resistance and thrusting him to the heart thwarting also his body with many other wounds I opened a wide passage to that infidell soule and dragging the wretched bodie weltring in goare-blood wrapping it as well as I could without being perceiued in a sheet left it vpon the threshold of our street doore My misfortunes so stopped not rather with your comming they increast in such maner that but for feare of hell fire I had sacrificed mine owne life seeing my selfe so neere a knowne infamy But the comfort of a maid of mine changed that desperate imagination one that was my companion from a child and as then Secretary to my most hidden thoughts though this as being of so great consequence I feared to make knowne vnto her but shee perceiuing my extreme vexation wondred much as thinking I had now most reason to be ioyfull and so with louing intreaties requested the cause of my griefe and I for now necessitie had no law with me making choice of Iulia for a dead lift satisfied of her true affection told her the occasion of my distraction but without any mention of the Biscayner laid my dishonour to anothers charge relying wholly vpon her person for my liues remedy and so with the pittifullest reasons that the necessity of time would permit me I reduced her to my will preparing her to make good my defect with the integritie of her honesty which I nothing doubted but was entire Iulia could not but refuse the danger aswell for her losse as other vncertainties of the successe But to free mee out of her loue from such a strait made her shut her eyes and so my plot tooke effect for hauing the night of our marriage placed Iulia behind our bed Curtaines and faining modestie commanded the lights to be put out darknesse fauouring and Iulia supplying my roome neither was the deceit knowne nor you perceiued the exchange Not long after she belike either wearied or taken with the sweet of so much pleasure contrary to the order I had giuen fell asleepe and now I knew not which in mee was most my iealousie or feare and my rage increased the more when hearing the Clocke strike three I saw so little memory in her of my danger This and the difficulty of waking her without being perceiued by you made me vndergo as desperate a course as that of the Biscayner for without better aduice or more delay beginning at the dining roomes Tapistry with a Torch I by chance found lighted I set it

die the streets were in a trice euen strewed with people and the women vnaccustomed to bee seene got to their doores and vpon their Turrets with confused showtes of gladnesse to be spectators Whilst these things past in euery corner of the vproard Cittie the Turkes and Moores that were with Palomeque in the Palace wearie of reuiling commaunded a vvild horse to be brought and tyed him with cords to his taile and in that manner he was dragged to the Market-place where those dogges perceiuing that if they passed farther on the Prisoner dying in that torment might escape others more cruell and bloody prepared for him mooued with their rauenous desires they made him to bee vnbound and a base Moore that was to be his Executioner suddenly stepped out who fixing on the ground a paire of Stockes neere Palomeque of some yard long he layd hold on his left legge and putting it thorow a hole of the logge proceeded in his Office saying Faithlesse Christian is it possible that the Viceroy hauing pardoned thee by offering thee life if thou wilt turne Moore persisting so obstinately in thine errour thou wilt rather suffer thy selfe to be torne in pieces Consider wretched man whilst yet thou hast breath and time to repent thy folly beseeching his Highnesse to vse his accustomed pitty and clemencie to thee To this not falling one iot from his high courage with an angry tone Palomeque suddenly replied Wretched Barbarian thou and all those of your damned Sect that behold me are those that blindly erre and are most miserable since following the senslesse abuses of a cursed Impostor you suffer your selues to run headlong into damnation and therefore I neither feare the torments of so loathsome nasty a generation nor make any other reckoning then thou hast seene of their menaces Cut diuide teare and dis-ioyne this wearied Trunke of mine vvhen you haue done all and that this feeble body perish by your miscreant hands yet my soule neuer forsaking her true Creator shall mount to heauen and his diuine goodnesse shall I doubt not giue mee courage and sufferance for the extremest tortures you can inflict and with this raising a more then manly voyce he concluded crying out A Christian I am and a Christian I will dye maugre your powers and Hels together No sooner had he so ended when the mercilesse Hang-man at foure or fiue blowes cut off his stirrop legge close by the knee and some Moores holding him from falling gaue order to the same Barbarian that as hee had cut off the legge in the supporting place he should do the same to his sword-arme seruing both members alike vvhich had beene the cruell terrours to their nation This was as the former fulfilled and our valiant Spaniard now turned into a double Spring of blood the griefe and torment of his dismembred corps could not but be euen insupportable but heauen gaue this blessed Soule strength and courage to suffer filling with amazement all the Turkes Moores and Renegates by whom in infinit numbers this horrible spectacle was incompassed After this the body vnder-propped by foure persons they expected till the Gibbet was set vp where he was to bee hoysted and fastened vpon Tenter-hookes which was soone done and his body caught vp in the midst by a Pully to the highest part of the Gibbet and being furiously let downe againe fixed vpon the Yron hookes which were set vpon the fearefull Engine and so the expiring body was strooke thorow by those sharpe points but the blessed Palomeque in midst of that dolorous Traunce lost not the least part of his manly courage rather in all those cruell and fearefull torments the marueilous splendour of his true faith and firme affection to his Redeemer shined more gloriously vpon vvhom calling vvith miraculous perseuerance he gaue vp the ghost after hee had remained almost foure and twenty houres in that terrible anguish to the generall astonishment of a vvorld of barbarous Turkes and Moores present at his glorious departure The next morning vpon the Boord to which his arme and hand was nailed appeared an Epitaph in Verse written in a faire sheete of white Parchment which beeing read by many Christians before the Moores could take that and the member downe to burne them and my selfe hauing beene one amongst the rest that had a sight of it I thinke it not amisse for the goodnesse to make repetition of it vnto you Fixe Christian Passenger thine eyes On this braue hand that Trunke that lyes Now a void Carkase prey to Fowle That late inclos'd a glorious Soule Weepe not for him that ioy'd to dye To liue a Martyr lastingly Dry vp thy teares for him who blest Pitties our woes that want his rest Let such as loue their Countries good Dye Skarfes in Palomeque's blood And weare the Red that when some he Halfe Barbary in Armes shall see Hereafter with the Skarlet sight Whole Squadrons he may put to flight You Captiues home to Spaine that wend Those golden Sands bid Tagus send His Ransome and Granada's Towne Thy sacred Mount this Martyr crowne Here ceased the compassionate Christian leauing Gerardo to equall pittie but with much more admiration at the strange successe and now before their Patron should bee at home to finde fault with their long being abroad they were willing by way of preuention to returne to the Lodging You heard before how Gerardo had a Chamber appointed by himselfe where separated from the other Captiues he might with some cheerefulnesse passe the irkesomnesse of his slauerie Hither taking leaue of his companions he entred and ready to sit him downe in a little corner where his bed stood vpon the Couerlet contrary to his expectation he found his supper wrapped vp in a poore course linnen Clowt which was a loafe of bread and some little fruite and giuing thankes presently to his diuine Maker who in so great miserie had granted this particular fauour vnto him about to cut the bread hee found a piece of paper which to conceale the bulke and bignesse of the same was oft folded stucke in it which held him in no small suspence till vnwrapping the folds hee might see a womans hand as he gessed in Spanish Characters which though an ill one to reade yet looking more warily vpon the Letters he might make a shift to collect out of them the insuing Contents Christian Heauen that hath permitted thee to come to so great misfortune comfort thy afflicted heart be of good courage and despaire not of thy remedy If the Patron this night set a price vpon thy ransome and it may seeme excessiue to thee be not troubled with his exorbitancie nor disquiet him with thy excuses rather because thou canst not help it yeeld to his demand asking first sufficient respite In which time if from Spaine thou shouldest not be relieued God Almighty may be pleased that here thy wants shall be supplide I enioyne thee no secresie since thine owne affaires will well represent vnto thee how much