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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

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

disrespected and scornefully refused And as many times many times hath she therein my will disobeyed and contemned Not regarding her renowne shining in their glory Nor respecting my contentment nor progenie eclipsed both in her neglect of me and in her affoorded favour to her farre inferiours which caused me in iustice to punish her hateful disobedience with imprisonment yet in nature to bewaile her imprisonment though enforced by Iustice Where I left her there so you please may you finde her a prisoner to her will that will not yet submit her selfe to my will and therefore by my will worthily chastised without offence to Nature For where Nature offendeth law there law may iustly 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 drowne her favour you shall redouble the small remainder of my aged dayes and well satisfie the iustice of my displeasure with the honour of your desired affinity All my right is yours your demand my consent and my consent a full Fathers graunt Sirap acknowledging this his so great bounty gave him more thankes then if he had presently intituled and invested him in the Principality of Viennois Yet sayd he it seemes not ouer-strange to me nor should it bee 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 Fancie is altogether guided by Destiny and Love is neither subiect to duty nor reason Then seeing that Love yeeldeth neither reason of choise nor change I will leave to reason further of it and aduenture once to cary up a dish to Venus table that never yet served in her Court The Daulphin glad that his demaund was of no greater consequence secretly smiled at his simplicity that neglecting Honours highest advancements onely contented himselfe with the naked hope of most impossible favours But Sir Sirap being more assured then the Daulphin did assure himselfe rested thankfully contented with the same And the next morning in the pride of his secret ioy hee went unto the Castle where having the Daulphins signet for his warrant hee called for Vienna who fearing some suddaine stratagem for all her hope of welfare was dead fearefully came to the dore to know the end of her punishment But when Sirap sawe the alteration that vertuous Constancie had wrought in her imprisonment griefe so attach'd him that hee was more mortified at the sight then he was Moorefied in sight yet after some secret digested sighes he cheared up his ingreeved spirit with the ioy hee had to see her and thus by his interpreter he saluted her Our Gods of all happinesse make faire Vienna happy in her desires and more fortunate in her life The same Vienna Vienna said yeelds you hearty thankes and prayes that the like content may countervaile your wel wishing Then shall said he my love be made immortall in your liberty and your liberty be purchased by my love Vienna abash'd at his reply replyed againe that griefe had no harbour for love nor loue any acquaintance with distressed Vienna A noble cause said Sirap may yet helpe to heale a grievous case Then leave these for lorne 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 most base and cruell death I though by kinde an unpassionate Moore yet much more then any Moore pittying the wiseries of others had such compassion on your Fathers distresse that growing carelesse of my estate being there then entertained with greatest state I aduentured with great adventure to acquit him from shamefull bondage and more cruell death Conditionally that vpon my arrivall with him in this Countrey he should graunt 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 hy will in the presence of his people Now Madame hearing the well worthy renowne of your renowned beauty though being by Nature fierce yet subiect to affection I could not but in that frailty yeeld to humane condition And therefore prizing my content before a Crowne I required your Ladiship for my Wife which your Father by oath hath graunted which you in duty should yeeld unto and which I in love if love can merit such happinesse doe deserve and yet most humbly doe request Vienna thus moved remooved thus his flattering and aspiting hope If said shee my Father enioy a second life by your conditionall adventure you may Presse him to the performance so farre as it it is in his power to accomplish more you cannot aske lesse hee will not performe But know Sir Knight that love knowes no such paternall law that yet was never subiect to any law The Father hath but a consent not the choyse in the daughters affections his free thoughts have no feeling of her conceit and his mettle minde and corrupted humours are oft unpleasing to his childes fancie Neither stands it with any reason that he that cannot govern his owne passions should command others 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 Madame 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 bee rewarded with the best lest the best want fit requitall for due desert Let it then suffice that with thankes I acknowledge your great good and in any other thing will be ready to pleasure you Onely in this pardon me my Lord for in loves infirmities I have no affinity A troubled soule onely in teares her comfort seekes It is a heavy comfort said Sirap that in mourning stands yet said she doth the custome of sorrow lessen the griefe and it is some comfort to bee voyde of all comfort Dispaire said Sirap is mother to death and death no fit compannion for beauty My beauty said shee poore as it is hath already beene my bane and made me most unfortunate in my most fortunatnesse Why Madame quoth he hath your Grace beene deceiued So said she say they that tolde me so But truth hee replyed stands not on the tongues of men True shee said and that is the cause why we are deceived by men you mistake me much said Sirap Nay said shee not mistaken but overtaken you in the truth and so shee bad him farewell leaving him tormented in minde in that hee gest by her last words that some one to advantage himselfe or in malice to him had wronged him in words Yet could hee not but smile to thinke how his conceit was her deceit But leaving her whom hee meant not so to leave but to re-assay her againe he returned

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