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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19901	Alektor = The cock Containing the first part, of the most excellent, and mytheologicall historie, of the valorous Squire Alector; sonne to the renowned Prince Macrobius Franc-Gal; and to the peerelesse Princesse Priscaraxe, Queene of high Tartary.; Alector. English	Aneau, Barthélemy, d. 1561.; Hammon, J.	1590 (1590)	STC 633; ESTC S104401	136,307	201

and assemble the 24. knights with a sufficient number of the common people to whome shée shewed the faire childe declaring to them that it was conceiued by Franc-Gal whereof they were all glad and accepted him for their King to come and for that cause in their presence put vpon his head the vermiliō crowne which Franc-Gal had left for him which becommed him the most properest that might be and he planted it so naturallie on his head that it neuer after from thence departed After this the Quéene presented him her vermillion nib of her white dug that he might suck but he obstinately refused it and when she would instantly haue applied the end thereof to his mouth he turned away his face and began to crie aloude this Phrigian word Beco beco which is as much to say as bread bread then did they present him bread which he eate together with rosted flesh with a good appetite and likewise both chéese and fruite and dranck without difficultie both milke and wine of honey Wherefore from that day forwards hee was norished with whole meates wherewith he grew and fortified so great membrous and strong that he grew thrée time so much as other children in such sort that at siue yeares end hee was as corpulent puissant and right of his members and as prudent and aduised in his spirit as though hee had béen fiftéene yéeres fully compleat And from that time he began to tame horses to runne the hart to hunt the wilde boare to breake lances against the ground to skirmish wrastle vault leap throw the bar and stone to runne the stade swim in the water to assault and clime high trées and walls in such sort that of all the young squires of 20. yeares age there was not his match although hée had not full sixe chiefely in hardines of enterprise nor more vertuous in franchise liberalitie especially towards the damosels of the Quéene and all other young and faire maides and women towards whom he began alreadie to be so enclined and giuen that he could not bée withdrawne their companie so addicted was he to present the humble seruice of his gentle person to young and faire damosels and other maides and women yea and by reason of the entier familiaritie which hée had with his mother being one of the fairest exeatures in the world he assayd to returne to the place from whence he was issued Which thing the Quéene perceiuing and fearing least his ouer hardy youth through ignorant simplicitie should doo some outrage to honour and nature like a most wise woman determined to reare him out of his nest and to send him into some place where he might finde me Of the perigrination of Franc-Gal through the world of the newes receiued from Priscaraxe his letters and presents sent back to her to Alector and to the foure and twentie Knights and what issued thereof CAP. XVII NOw was I entred into the fift yeare of my perigrinatiō where leauing Tartary scituated in the great land of Jmans I mounted on the Sea vpon my great horse Durat Hippopotame in the harborles goulph of Pont Euxin and hauing passed the large Propon tide therof and entred into the Mediterran Seas by the straights of Hellespont the arme of S. George I visited towards the East and South vppon the coast of Asia Minor Natholica Phrygia Pamphilia Cilicia Caramania Suria Aegypt and the seauen mouthes of Nilus Lybia and Barbary euen to the Mount Atlas And towards the North and West I discouered La Maree de Peloponnesse and after that passing the hill of Isthma I boorded the famous ports of the noble towns of renowmed Greece aswel in the seas of Negropont as of Archipel without leauing one Isle neither Rhodes Candy Lango Methelyn nor Malto nor the disperced Isles where my Hippopotame aboorded not and brought mee where I might discend Likewise in the firme lands of Macedonia of the gulph of Larthe of Epidaure or Albany and of the foote of the smoking Mountaines In which place my cierge of sight life and way had like to haue béene extinguished and I and all my people in perill and danger For from these Acroceraunes and lightning mountaines arose a multituds of wicked spirits aswell ayrie as watrie deing enuious as is credible of the good aduancement of humaine kinde or rather of my ouer hardy experience in daring to attempt and proue their elements of water and ayre being vnaccustomed to man and beyond the course of his condition which damageable diuels with the wicked winds of Cecias and of Turbin heaped together ouer mee and round about mee grosse cloudes like great mountaines one linked in another black leuid heauie sulphurian hot colds and coole heats beating and striking the one against the other in fearefull breakings whereby and whereout aboundant and often fire flashes coruscations procéeded horrible thunders abounded redoubtable lightnings issued and most hard and penetrable stones fell together with wrastling winds and sounding tempests By and through al which perilous moliments these wicked Cacodemones enuious of the prosperitie of man so sturred vnquieted the waues of the seas that sometimes they were eleuated aboue the clouds and of a soddaine againe into the very bottomes fighting and breaking their waues and séeking aboue al to thrust my horse Durat Hippopotame against the craggie rocks stony cliffs or els to burne him with their hot and ardent lightnings which 2. things were the chiefest greatest to be feared But he holpe himselfe so well with his flat féet and with his strong and puissant tayle ruling the torment of the waues that he saued both himself and vs who were trembling with feare of the present death hanging ouer our heads And albeit these tempestuous sprites did so charge him with al their force that they made him to abate strike his wings and so tormented heated and altred him that hee was constrained to drinke wherby he became according to his nature as hath béen said more dangerous furious vntractable and perilous insomuch that what with force of sodaine leapings rude flingings prompt windings often risings hee had almost drouned vs in the Ambracian gulph But I kept him so uarrowly hild his bridle so closely his cruper so highly that I made him rise vp spring out into the plaine seas And then came to my memory the auncient lady Anange who by viue imagination aduised mee to beare vp the cierge giuen mée by Cleronome lightned by zodore The which hauing reared on high ventiled to make it burne more high and cleere I might behold two celestial lights procéeding from the highest to come ioyne with my light by vertue of that which together with mine endeuor knowledge strength al this wicked wandring sprits ayry and watry al aduerse and trauerse winds flotes waues hoystings sinkings thunders lightnings tempests al other torments departed at an instant returned to the tops of those Acrocerean mountains whereas yet

vpon the coast of fruite full Aquitaine And of thy seede shall come the first of all those worthie wights Which after to the house of Lux shall giue their shining lights By twelue faire signes so shalt thou liue in perfect rest and peace Till at the length through curious care who will not seeme to cease Because thereof thou takest name to cast her eye aside And that disclose which thou hast sought with al thy care to hide And when those secrets thine shall be disclosd in mornefull wise Thou shalt depart that sappie soyle pearcing the heauens with cries Still loosing more more the forme and figure of thy Syre And shalt vnto thy Mothers shape thy selfe at once retire Now therefore get thee to thy house see thou looke not backe With carefull eye keepe thou thy child that nought he seem to lack And if thou wouldest learne his name that doth these things discrie Knowe that it is olde Protëus which neuer yet made lye These diuine verses pronounced quoth Franc-Gal continuing his purpose the old man plunged himselfe to the bottome of the Sea with his troupe of Sea calues so that nothing remained to be séene but the troubled superficialitie of the water and this paper of the barke of a white Phylire trée swimming to the shore which was taken vp and kept and afterwards sent to mee written in such verses as thou hast heard After then that this prophecie was pronounced and vnderstood the knights who were about the Quéene and had séene heard vnderstood and kept the prognostication of Protëus ●ame towards her to comfort her and leade her in with all the people consolating her and so two or those knights tooke her by the armes to comfort lead her away So they returned backe the Quéene Priscaraxe sliding so easily vpon her serpenticall taile being hidden and couered vnder her long trained gowne that her going séemed diuine yea like the Gods who go without moouing féete or knées the rather because she was so well apparailed richly decked and crowned with this illustrate crowne that it made her to shine like the daughter of Phoebus And when they were come to the Pallaice which I had caused to bee begun and well aduanced the Quéen Priscaraxe hauing sent away the multitude populare who had folowed her in admiration reuerence thanking them of their paines retired into her lodging and all the people into their houses and cabins But the 24. knights made their habitation the honestest that they could round about the Palaice royal to be alwaies readie at the cōmandement of the Quéen who for honour and for pledge of their fidelities towards her tooke 12. yong boyes and 12. yong maides of the children of the 24. knights of either of them one to her seruice whom she caused to be clothed and decked with faire skins and precious iewels which I had left her gouerning and maintaining her self in such sort that she was beloued and honored of all And the popular people of all their fruits milch cattle venisons foule fish and to be briefe of all that they got by proy or conquest would giue her the first presents likewise did the Gentlemen knights who aboue all things honored and serued her and made her to be feared of her subiects by their ordinarie exercises of armes cheualrie which they vsed euerie day before her Pallaice continuing and encreasing better and better The Quéene in the meane season became greater and greater insomuch that at the ende of eight moneths being one night a bed in her secret chāber all alone as one who for her lower parts kept her self the most couert that might be so as therwas none but two damsels onely the one called Piste and the other Siope that were priuie to her serpents form the anguishes and paines of childbirth came vpon her where after long fluxions of great dolour she brought forth a great lumpe in the figure of a long round egge farre excéeding in bignes the egge of an Ostrich of substance skinnie white cleare and shining like a transpiercing christall so as with in she might behold a most faire childe swimming in cleare water whereof this massie lumpe was full and the childe wound and wrapped vp in the midde thereof Which the mother séeing knewe not what to doo either to breake this lumpe to take out the naked childe which she long desired and whereunto motherly loue sollicited her or els to leaue it whole for feare of hurting the fruit within it which mortall feare forbad her Wherefore at length she concluded to let nature worke and for that cause she kept it alwayes in naturall heate neare to her bodie and naked flesh and in the most hot and couert places in the night shée put it in her bed and in the day vnder her furres vntill the end of nine dayes that in holding it betwéene the palmes of her hands which are of most temperate heate and warming it with her breath beholding still the enclosed sodainely it began to vnfould the members stretching out the bodie armes and legges and to turne round in such sort that it brake the shell wherein it was enclosed and so came foorth into the hands of the mother who receiued with great ioy this child twise borne crying in the infants voyce for the new sent of the ayre at the voyce whereof the two familiar damosels Piste and Siope came in who tooke it and washed it with water and wine luke warme and being once washed it appeared so faire as it was merueilous to behold so white as snowe with frizled haires as yellow as gold the bodie great and strong as it were of the age of three yeares strayning it self and incontinently going alone and which is more it began to laugh and play with the damosels and so soone as it saw the Sunne it lift vp the head and eyes in knowledge of his mothers Syre and saluted it by and by with loud voyce but somewhat lisping in singing these words I salute thee Whereat the Quéene and damsels began to laugh hartely although they were verie much abashed thereat the rather for that hee was borne booted with buskins of siluered skales and spurred with gilded spurs in token that he should be a magnanimious knight And it is verie like that for so much as he was borne with such armes that nature for not hurting the body of his mother had prouided this shelly vessell to emlose him withall Who after he was clensed hée was brought and rendred to his mother who receiued him with great ioy and remembring the name which his father had ordeyned called him after this maner Alector faire child the Soueraigne encrease in thée vertue honor liberalitie hardines and prowesse for of beautie thou hast not fayled and therewithall shée kissed him right tenderly The Childe as it were vnderstanding her voyce began right gratiously to smile and by a swéete laughter began to acknowledge his mother who caused to call