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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68435	Vienna Where in is storied, ye valorous atchieuements, famous triumphs, constant loue, greate miseries, & finall happines, of the well-deseruing, truly noble and most valiant kt, Sr Paris of Vienna, and ye most admired amiable princess, the faire Vienna.	M. M. (Matthew Mainwaring), 1561-1652.; Pierre, de la Cépède, 15th cent. Paris et Vienne.; Gifford, George, fl. 1640, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 17202; ESTC S111866	129,892	196

he blast them with the bellowes againe which so amazed and frighted the poore Burgamaster that he could not speake but fearefully crept over the head into the bed and layd such fast though shaking hands on his wife that he awaked her who being held over-hard demanded what so appaled him who answered in a low voyce that there was some tormenting spirit in the Chamber Alas sweet sayd shee thinking it to be but the disease of his iealousie you doe but dreame there is no such thing give mee leave to sleepe since you cannot keepe me waking The Daughter whose lustfull attendance waked after veneriall copulation hearing this and knowing the fallacie could not but laugh at her Fathers deceiving and betraying feare and in the pride of her naked strength shee prepared her selfe being then most ready when shee was most unready both to assay and allay that troublesome spirit Mal-Fiance hauing thus secured their stirring by deluding their hearing went boldly to the daughters bed the wished port where he desired to arrive where finding no opposition she still deeming him to be Haunce hee cast anchor that his barque might ride at full Sea At which time Mars and Venus being in coniunction produced such strange effects that the bed wherein they say did both shake and rocke which her mother-in-law hearing began to be halfe afraid having heard nothing before yet out of wonted boldnesse which was great in bodily adventures she called to her daughter and asked her how shee did I doe quoth shee well and as well as any woman can doe It is the better for you replyed the mother but doe you not heare nor feele any thing I heare nothing said shee that is ill and most assured I am I feele no hurt Well daughter said the Mother blesse you and crosse you well from all evill spirits Nay mother quoth shee my faith herein hath ever beene so great and so good that I neither feare the devill nor thinke any man is present that endangers me All this while the poore Burgamaster lay over the head in the sweat of his false fea●e which did so tyrannize over his weaknesse that he durst lye no longer but hastily calling up his man he bad him light a candle For he would rise and goe fetch his ghostly Father Frier Fredericke to come to blesse his Chamber and to sprinkle it all over with holy water His wife could not divert him from it and his daughter and her unknowne Paramour were ready to betray themselves with laughter yet was Mal-Fiance glad to hide himselfe in the bed whilst to prevent suspition the daughter rose and took upon her to unlock the unlocked doores by which time the man came with a light and getting his Master up he holpe to array him and after went with a Lanthorne with him to seeke the Frier And no sooner were they gone but in comes lascivious Haunce in the heat of his desire like the Prince of darknes cloathed in a Bulls hide with the hornes on his head for it much behooved him to have hornes that must leave hornes behinde him who finding the doores open made no stay till he came to the daughters bed where hearing two breath he softly shrunke backe supposing it was the Fathers bed and stumbling after by hap on the other bed where the wife lay all alone hee holding downe his head softly said feare not my Love it is I and so dismantling himselfe layd him downe by her who conceiting that it was Mal-Fiance that had taken the benefit of her husbands going forth resisted not but entertained him with all the full favours that wanton love could affoord Thus doe womens light thoughts many times make their husbands to have heavie heads But in this amorous combat the very bed did proclaime their forceable encounters and the fall of bedstaves well witnessed their fresh assaults which the daughter hearing deemed that her restlesse mother was tormented with some terrour of feare and therefore calling to her shee wished her to have a good heart and not to yeeld to idle conceits which but troubled the minde with deceiving imaginations The mother perceiving that some thing was perceived that they were heard tooke upon her to be affrighted and said Alas daughter some thing I know hath beene upon me and if spirits have any substances it is surely one Cover your selfe well said the daughter By this enterchange of chatte Haunce knew that hee had travailed in a by-path which so distasted him that his teeth gnashed together for anger and Mal-Fiance lay laughing at the knowledge thereof who remembring now that Haunce would come in some fearefull shape to make way for his pleasure he thought to worke further on him and to beat him with his owne weapon And to give life to his device he stole up and creeping along the beds side wherein enchaffed Houace did lye hee sought by feeling and by feeling found the hayry hide which by handling thereof hee knew well was a garment of his Fathers and as hee threw it over him with intent to frighten Haunce he heard his Host and the Frier comming into the house who came sooner then they were expected Then was hee forc'd to runne behinde the dore thinking by his hell like habite to terrifie them all and so get unknowne to his Chamber Now Haunce perceiving light through the dore for as yet the Frier durst not come in till he had said divers Pater nosters besprinkled the doore with his holywater sprinkle leapd hastily out of his disliked bed and failing to find his devils coate he pulled the higher sheet out of the bed and shrewding himselfe therein went like a Ghost to the other side or the dore thinking likewise thereby so suddainly to fright them that undiscovered he might escape But the tardy-taken-women that now were more afraid of shame then they were before of sinne were driven to such an exigent that they knew not how to avoyd neither rebuke nor reproach Their scarlet blushes accused them and the holy Church was at the doore ready to condemne them In this hell they lay fearing to bee seene untill the light which most they feared freed them from those they most feared For the new transformed devill and the late metamorphosed ghost suddainly seeing each other by the light of the Candle upon the opening of the dore were so agast at the fearefull sight of either others terrifying and unknowne shapes that they verily thought that the divell or some other ill spirit were purposel come from hell to carie them away for their sinfull assuming theyr damned formes to such wicked and forbidden ends In this feare and fearefull thought they made such hast to runne away the one from the other that they both rusht at once so forceably through the doore that they beare the old Burgamaster downe and turned the poore Frier over over in which fall hee pittifully brake his face on the housecill and halfe drowned the Burgamaster with the Holy-water

Foard was not pastable which made Sir Paris so impatient so to be frustrated of his attending Ship the assurance of his safety that Monsieur de la Mott over venturous to venter over the passage was in searching the Foard most unfortunately drowned in the mercilesse Flood Sir Paris daunted at that so fatall a sight sighed and sighing grew to a prodigious prognosticator of his owne ensuing harmes But fearing least the knowlege thereof might appale his faire Friend he suddainely returned to theyr religious Host where he had left the two Ladies when he went to find the Foard and to try the passage and shadowing now his tormenting griefe with a forced smile he demaunded of Vienna how she fared who answered as my Love fares so fares thy Love happy in my selfe because happy in thee And long may said Paris my Love live to love that loves to live onely for my love Scarce had Sir Paris pronounced his last word when one came running to tell the Priest that there were many Knights in the next Towne that came in quest and searched for Vienna and Sir Paris Which Vienna vnderstanding was so surprized with griefe and feare that being altogether disheartned in her hope she held her selfe more then undone in her disturbed expectation But after she had bathed the beauty of her eyes in the sorrow of her teares fearing most in this present perill least death should arrest her beloved Friend She with a much more resolued minde and an assured countenance then befitted eyther the time or was incident to her sex thus exhillerated her astonished Friend My Paris she said Time admittes not there many wordes where danger still knockes at the doore In extremities the winning of time is the purchase both of life and love Let not violent passions that neuer remooves any ill but betrayes our secret imperfections now sway the vertue of thy thoughts nor the fortitude of thy heart but carry thou in thy Lyons looke a Lyons minde and like the Sunne shew thy fayrest face in thy lowest fall Loade not my sorrowes with thy griefe nor kill thou thy selfe for feare of death But in the wonted courage of thy never-daunted Spirit get thee to some other more safer shore where let Vertue be thy Governour my remembrance thy Loue thy loue my comfort and my comfort thy sole contentment Thou hast conquered men in loue and Loue in me and both in worth and wisedome and neuer shall I deeme my selfe happy but when I shall see thee happy for whom I now am so vnhappy As thou leauest me so shalt thou finde me be but thou as constant a Friend to my Minde as thou shalt be a true Possessor of my Heart and I shall haue as much cause of joy as thou no cause of doubt If thou continue loyall successe thou shalt see will blesse thee well and all good fortune will waite on thy just merits This Diamond which here I giue thee shall be a true remaining record of my sincere loue to thee Onely let me heare of thy aboad and so I leaue thee to the guide of Vertue and seruice of Fortune Sir Paris thus discomforted comforted weighing the danger of delay by his immient perill and forced to set vp his sayles in this so insupportable threating a tempest and there sealing vp the vow of his faith in the silent griefe of a departing kisse he posted to the Riuer side againe where Dispaire made Feare so valiant that ere he found cause of feare hee was past all feare For hauing past he knew not how the Riuer he was got before he wist into the Ship wherein being Cabined hee told of La Mot his fatall accident and forced them to put to sea sayling himselfe with as many contrary thoughts as Eolus sent out windes vpon the Trojan Fleete At length he arriued at Genua where he rested his restlesse selfe and where he liued wanting but little because not desiring much But such was his disconsolate solitary life that the Citizens though strangers affecting the man in his manners pittied much his distresse in the shew of his discontentment In the meane while the Daulphin wasting himselfe in his owne implacable and vnlimited wrath violently and suddainly seazed and consiscated all Sir Jaques Lands and Goods into his hands imprisoning both him and his Lady as Fauters Abetters Confederates and Adjuters thereunto Thus ets Outrage euer the sharpest edge vpon the first aduantage And in this distemper of his ill disposed minde he commanded that naught but bread and water should be giuen them For said he where the offence is greater then the seruice there Iustice changeth the bond of recompence into due punishment During this their faultlesse imprisonment the questing Knights returned with Vienna and the Hospitalious Parson her Host who being brought before the angry Daulphin her enraged Father shee saw the cloud a farre off before the storme fell and therefore prostrating her selfe at his Feete shee required pardon for her offence and prayed that he would not make her sinne deadly which was but veniall pleading ignorance for the Prelate and vnresistable loue for her selfe swearing and assuring him by sacrament of solemne oath and the testimonie of her Host that shee was as honest in her flight as she was in her birth and that her vn potted thoughts were neuer stayned with any vnchast deede or desire The noble followers of the obdurate Daulphin seeing the Princesse washing her repentance in her owne teares humbly besought him to forget and to forgiue her amisse since the frailty of her offence was rather a sore then a sinne and wounds were to be healed and not hurt This submission strengthened by such generall entreaties somewhat quencht the burning heate of his enflamed ire And though his seuere Iustice told him that not to punish an euill was to allow of an euill yet mercy hee knew pardons them oft that deserues it not and judgement in nature should be next a kin to fauour Vpon this calme construction after many sharpe rebukes and protested threates he vowed that determinate and ineuitable condemnation 〈◊〉 punish her next offence and so he pardoned her vpon promise of more regardfull duty Now Sir Paris had not long sojourned in Genua but that mindfull of his charge he writ to Vienna and enclosed it in another writ to La-noua wherein he excused his vnkinde departure without his priuity and conjured him by the sacred lawes of true amity to attend and follow his Lady in all seruice and fast friendship La-noua glad of such glad tydings went in the height of his ioy to Vienna and after some complementall salutes asked her what shee would give to heare of her Paris Vienna great with child with the expectation of her friends welfare longed to be delivered with the notice of his health and said that the whole world afforded not sufficient worth to answer her liberall heart therein La-nova ioying in the constancy of her love shewed her the letter which

to take away the knowledge of our flight For after our departure she must locke the doore againe keepe your Bed with the Curtaines drawne and lay your Cloathes by most in sight and when any comes into her she must carefully say that you are not well and that you are layde downe to sleepe So shall wee gaine time to prevent our hasty pursuites and she may after at her will repaire to some private Friend in such disguise as I will provide for her That sayd Vienna may not be for I will never leave her that hath never forsaken me Nor will I without her venture upon any such adventure Poltron seeing it would not otherwise be yeelded though unwilling thereunto and like Sinnes Solicitor mooved that Izabella would play the Pedler and he would become a Tinker with his Budget on his backe a leatheren coloured Apron before him a Hammer under his Girdle and a Brazen Ladle in one of his hands And thus with his Face besmeared would he goe a pretty way before them as none of their company and yet guide them in the way So gallant a Bonelace-seller so proud a Pedler and so stoute a Tinker all France will not patterne But thus it must be if you Madam will have your desire Nor may you scorne that meanes that promiseth assurance of Liberty and hope of better Happe The Gods to have theyr wills disdained not to undertake the shape of Beastes and wee must with the cunning Fowler cloath our selves in Feathers if we will deceive wylie Birdes It is a Soare no sinne to betray Tyrannie but a shift no shame to get Libertie These guilefull enticing words of his and the betraying instructions of the deepe deceitefull Daulphinis were without any semblance of other reach so smoothly and passionately delivered by this damnable and perfideous Villaine that all his wily words were held as Oracles and the further he seemed to be from her the neerer still hee touched her to the quicke In so much that Vienna being blindly led in her over-affectionate desire beyond the lymit of all due consideration yeelded to referre her selfe to his Trust and to fashion themselves according to his Direction Alasse Vienna where disloyall Treason threatens thy shipwracke and where remorcelesse Murder is thy Plot there assured danger must be thy Harbour and reproachfull destruction thy Host Implacable malice pursues thee invisible fraude betrayes thee and too late repentance will I feare learne thee that they are most miserable that make themselves wretched examples to others But how should Love the Child of Folly looke into a plot of policie when unseduced wit can not see it nor untainted wisedome finde it The apparance of Trueth and the shew of Pitty and simplicity hath in all deceitfull Practises subverted Cities deposed Kings defrauded Subiects of their Rightes and taken away the guitlesse lives of Innocents How then poore Princesse couldst thou avoyd thy running upon the Sandes though Armies of obiections did rise against thy doubtfull hazard yet cannot thy good though free intention make thee faulty though thy over-credulity in entertayning of conjectures made thee erre Thy chast thoughts shines still I see in thy vertue and thy vertue by divine providence must shield thee both from abusive shame and from unexpected slaughter But now Poltron had provided at Viennas cost all materials and the Ladies disroabing themselves hid theyr attyres and to cast a mist before the eyes of ignorance they clothed them to the purpose and at supper time the night being darke upon Poltrons watchword who then stood sentinell they came forth pulling the doore after them For locke it Vienna would not because it should appeare which way they came foorth least vpō further search they might find out La-Nouas private way and so bring him into trouble who at the time was in Flanders enquiring after his lost friend The next morning their escape was discovered the City was searcht Poltron mist and every way was full of inquisitors But that nights travell and their unsuspected disguise being the usuall habite of such wandring professors brought them safe unto a great wood that stood at the foot of a high hill in Languedoc where he perswaded them the Hermit had his Cell At the entrance whereof Vienna stumbled the dull earth forbidding thereby her further passage and Jzabellas eyes were suddenly for the time strucken blinde as though the feet of the one were unwilling to bring their Mistris into perill and the eyes of the other were ashamed to see such intended villany But no presage can forstall desire Love lookes altogether after theyr owne fancies and consters all things according to her affections This helhound the Divels agent seeing Vienna ready to fall stept to her and taking her by the arme in shew to support her led her into the thickest of the wood where sodenly as one transformed this seeming dove shewed himselfe a vulture and like Cruelty her selfe with imbosted mouth staring eyes he drew his short sword that hangd by his lustful side and gashly swore that if either of them made any noyse he would forthwith kill them both whereat the weake and wearied Ladyes were so amazed that all their sences were sencelesse their tongues were bound to the peace by Iustice feare they could not speake nor durst not cry Now Lust the execrable parent of murder seeing her abashed beauty shine like the Sun through a Cloud had so fiered his fancy that where before it was but kindled by her lookes now having her within his power it did violently burne by the touch Death must now forbeare and attend his pleasure for his pleasure and nothing could satisfie this Covetous Foxe but after the stealing of the grapes he meant to forridge the vine To effect which he turned Jzabellas face to a tree and bound her armes round about the same and notwithstanding flatteringly promised them both their lives if Vienna would but consent to his wanton will If not he then prodigally swore that in dispight of all power he would gather the fruite now it was ripe and after leave their flaine bodies a prey unto the beasts of the field Vienna having recovered some spirit and seeing the present danger with elivated eyes erected hands bowed knees shee besought him not to sport in her misery nor to spot his soule with the repenting pleasure of uncleannesse Remember sayd she that I am a Princesse save but my honour as thou art my mothers Sonne and I will freely forgive thee my death as I am my fathers daughter I seeke not life but the honour of my life for my long liv'd griefe makes me hate life and dispise death But in the losse of my chiefest cherished care my curses shall poyson thy salvation and the wildfire of thy lust shall burne up all thy worldly welfare and make thee a speedy prey to speedy destruction O let then my Chaste teares quench the flame of thy sinfull Concupiscence blast not the beauty of