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A20686	The patterne of painefull aduentures Containing the most excellent, pleasant and variable historie of the strange accidents that befell vnto Prince Apollonius, the Lady Lucina his wife, and Tharsia his daughter. Wherein the vncertaintie of this world, and the fickle state of mans life are liuely described. Gathered into English by Laurence Tvvine Gentleman.	Twyne, Thomas, 1543-1613, attributed name.; Twyne, Laurence.	1594 (1594)	STC 709; ESTC S112705	52,838	92

care away Shew gladnesse in your countenance cast vp your cheerfull eyes That God remaines that once of nought created earth and skies He will not let in care and thought you still to liue and all for nought When Apollonius heard her sing these verses lifting vp his eyes and fighing he said Alas poore wretch as I am how long shall I striue with life and abide this gréeuous conflict Good maiden I giue hearty thanks both to your wisedome and nobilitie requiting you with this one thing that whensoeuer if euer such occasion doe chance I shall haue desire to be merrie I will then thinke on you or if euer I be restored vnto my kingdome And perhaps as you say you are descended of the race of kings and indeed you doe well represent the nobilitie of your parentage But nowe I pray you receiue this reward at my handes an hundred péeces of golde and depart from me and trouble me no longer for my present griefe is renued by your lamentable recitall and I consume with continuall sorrowe When the maid had receiued the reward shee was about to depart Then spake Athanagoras whither goest thou Tharsia quoth hee hast thou taken paine without profite and canst thou not worke a deed of charitie and relieue the man that wil consume his life with mourning Tharsia answered I haue done all that I may and he hath giuen me an hundred péeces of gold and desired me to depart I wil giue thée two hundred said Athanagoras and goe downe vnto him againe and giue him his money and say vnto him I seeke thy health and not thy money Then went Tharsia downe againe and set her selfe downe by him and saide vnto him Sir if you bee determined to continue alwaies in this heauinesse giue mée leaue I pray you to reason a little with you And I meane to propose certaine parables vnto you which if you can resolue I will then depart and restore your money But Apollonius not willing to receiue the money againe but thankefully to accept whatsoeuer shee should vtter without discouraging of her albeit in my troubles quoth he I haue none other felicitie but to weepe and lament yet because I will not want the ornamentes of your wisedome demaund of me whatsoeuer shall be your pleasure and while I am aunswering you pardon me I pray you if sometime I giue libertie vnto my teares and shall not be able to speake for sobbing Sir I wil beare with you somewhat in that respect said Tharsia and nowe if it please you I will begin A certaine house on earth there is that roomths hath large and wide The house makes noise the guests makes none that therein doth abide But house and guest continually togither forth doe slide Now if indeed you be a Prince as your men say you are it behooueth you to be wiser than a simple maiden and to resolue my probleme Apollonius answered Maiden to the intent you may not thinke that you were tolde a lie hearken now to the resolution The house on the earth is the Sea or euery great water the fish is the dumbe guest which followeth the water whither soeuer it runne Sir you haue answered truely said Tharsia and now I assaile you the second time In length forth long I runne faire daughter of the wood Accompanied with many a one of foote and force as good Through many waies I walke but steps appeare none where I stood Apollonius answered If I might be so bold and opportunitie serued thereto I could declare vnto you many things that you doe not knowe faire maiden but not interrupting your questions whereunto I haue to answere wherein I much wonder at your yoong yeares so plentifully fraught with excellent knowledge But to come to the purpose The daughter of the wood is the tree whereof is made the long ship which is accompanied with many companions and walketh vppon the seas many wayes leauing no print or footsteppes behinde You haue gessed right said Tharsia and therefore nowe I propose my third parable There is an house through which the fire doth passe and doth no harme Therein is heat which none may mooue from thence it is so warme A naked house and in that house guests naked doe desire To dwell from whence if boords you draw then fall you in the fire Apollonius answered Maiden this that you meane were a méet place for men that liue in delight and pleasure And the time hath been when I haue also delighted in the bath and hoat-house where the heate entreth through the creuises of the boordes and chinkes of the stones and where by reason of sweating it behooueth a man to be naked When hee had done speaking Tharsia wondering at his wisedome and the rather lamenting his discomfortablenesse threw her selfe vppon him and with clasped armes embraced him saying O good gentleman hearken vnto the voice of her that beséecheth thee and haue respect to the suite of a virgin that thinking it a far vnworthy thing that so wise a man should languish in griefe and die with sorrow But if God of his goodnes would restore vnto thée thy wife safe whom thou so much lamentest Or if thou shouldst find thy daughter in good case whom thou supposest to be dead then wouldest thou desire to liue for ioy Then Apollonius fell in a rage and forgetting all courtesie his vnbridled affection stirring him thereunto rose vp sodainly and stroke the maiden on the face with his foote so that shee fell to the ground and the bloud gushed plentifully out of her cheekes And like it is that shee was in a swoone for so soone as shée came to her selfe shée beganne to wéepe saying O immortall God which madest heauen and earth looke vppon my afflictions and take compassion vppon mée I was borne among the waues and troublesome tempests of the sea My mother died in pangues and paines of childbed and buriall was denied her vpon the earth whom my father adorned with iewels and laid twentie sestercies of gold at her head and as much in siluer at her feete and inclosed her in a chest and committed her to the Sea As for mée vnfortunate wretch I was at Tharsus committed to Stranguilio and wicked Dionisiades his wife whom my father put in trust with me with mony princely furniture and their seruants were commāded to slay me And when I desired time to pray which was grāted me there came pyrates in the meane while and carried me away and brought me vnto this wofull city where I was solde to a most cruell bawd and with much adoe haue preserued my virginitie and I sée nothing ensuing but continuall sorrowe whereof I féele both nowe and euery day some part and shall doe euer more and more vntil it please God to restore me vnto my father Apollonius Apollonius gaue good eare vnto her words and was strangely moued within himselfe knowing that all these signes and tokens were most certaine that she was his daughter and hée

comfort vnto our citizens but that we shall all perish by extreme famine and now certes there resteth nothing but the fearefull image of gastly death before our eies When Apollonius heard these wordes he said vnto him Then giue thankes vnto God who in my flight hath brought me a land into your costes For I haue brought great store of prouision with me and I will presently giue vnto your citie an hundreth thousand bushels of wheate if you will onely conceale my comming hither At these wordes Stranguilio being strooken as it were into a sodaine amazednesse as it happeneth when a man is ouerioyed with some glad tidinges fell downe prostrate before prince Apollonius feete and saide My lord Apollonius if you coulde and also if it might please of your great goodnesse in such sort as you say to succour this afflicted and famished citie we wil not onely receiue you gladly and conceale your abode but also if néede so require willingly spend our liues in your quarrell Which promise of mine to the intent you may heare to be confirmed by the full consent of all the citizens might it please your Grace to enter into the citie and I most willingly will attend vpon you Apollonius agréed thereto and when they came into the citie he mounted vp into the place of iudgment to the intent he might the better be heard and gathering al the people togither thus hee spake vnto the whole multitude Ye citizens of Tharsus whom penurie of vittell pincheth at this present vnderstand ye that I Apollonius prince of Tirus am determined presently to relieue you In respect of which benefite I trust ye will be so thankfull as to conceale mine arriuing hither And know ye moreouer that not as being driuen away through the malice of king Antiochus but sayling along by the Seas I am happily fallen into your hauen Wherefore I meane to vtter vnto you an hundred thousand busshels of wheate paying no more than I bought it for in mine owne countrey that is to say eight péeces of brasse for euerie bushell When the citizens heard this they gaue a shout for ioy crying God saue my Lord Apollonius promising to liue and die in his quarrell and they gaue him wonderfull thankes and the whole citie was replenished with ioy and they went forthwith vnto the ships and bought the corne But Apollonius doubting lest by this déede he should séeme to put off the dignitie of a prince and put on the countenance of a merchant rather than a giuer when he had receiued the price of the wheate he restored it backe againe to the vse and commoditie of the same citie And when the citizens perceiued the great benefites which he had bestowed vpon their citie they erected in the marked place a monument in the memoriall of him his stature made of brasse standing in a charret holding corne in his right hand and spurning it with his left foot and on the baser foot of of the pillar whereon it stoode was ingrauen in great letters this superscription Apollonius prince of Tirus gaue a gift vnto the citie of Tharsus whereby hée deliuered it from a cruell death CHAP. IIII. How Apollonius departing from Tharsus by the perswasion of Stranguilio and Dionisiades his wife committed shipwracke and was relieued by Altistrates king of Pentapolis THus had not Apollonius aboden many daies in the citie of Tharsus but Stranguilio Dionisiades his wife earnestly exhorted him as séeming very carefull and tender of his welfare rather to addresse himselfe vnto Pentapolis or among the Tirenians as a place most fit for his securitie where he might lie and hide himselfe in greatest assurance tranquilitie Wherefore hereunto he resolued himselfe and with conuenient expedition prepared al things necessarie for the iourney And when the day of his departure was come he was brought with great honour by the citizens vnto his ships where with a courteous farewell on ech side giuen the marriners weighed anker hoysed sailes and away they goe committing themselues to the wind and water Thus sailed they forth along in their course thrée days and thrée nights with prosperous winde and weather vntill sodainly the whole face of heauen and sea began to change for the skie looked blacke and the Northerne wind arose and the tempest increased more and more insomuch that prince Apollonius and the Tyrians that were with him were much apalled and began to doubt of their liues But loe immediatly the winde blew fiercely from the South-west and the North came singing on the otherside the rain powred down ouer their heads and the sea yéelded forth waues as it had béene mountanes of water that the ships could no longer wrestle with the tempest and especially the admirall wherein the good prince himselfe fared but néeds must they yéeld vnto the present calamitie There might you haue heard the winds whistling the raine dashing the sea roaring the cables cracking y e tacklings breaking the shippe tearing the men miserable shouting out for their liues There might you haue séene the sea searching the shippe the bordes fléeting the goods swimming the treasure sincking the men shifting to saue themselues where partly through violence of the tempest and partly through darcknes of the night which then was come vpon them they were all drowned onely Apollonius excepted who by the grace of God and the helpe of a simple boord was driuen vpon the shoare of the Pentapolitanes And when he had recouered to land wearie as he was he stoode vpon the shoare and looked vpon the calme sea saying O most false and vntrustie sea I will choose rather to fall into the handes of the most cruell King Antiochus than venture to returne againe by thée into mine owne Countrey thou hast shewed thy spite vpon me and deuoured my trustie friendes and companions by meanes whereof I am nowe left alone and it is the prouidence of almightie God that I haue escaped thy gréedie iawes Where shall I now finde comfort or who will succour him in a strange place that is not knowen And whilest he spake these wordes hée sawe a man comming towardes him and he was a rough fisherman with an hoode vpon his head and a filthie leatherne pelt vpon his backe vnséemely clad and homely to beholde When hée drewe neare Apollonius the present necessitie constraining him thereto fell down prostrate at his féet and powring forth a floud of teares he said vnto him whosoeuer thou art take pitie vpon a poore sea-wracked man cast vp nowe naked and in simple state yet borne of no base degrée but sprung foorth of noble parentage And that thou maiest in helping me knowe whome thou succourest I am that Apollonius prince of Tyrus whome most part of the worlde knoweth and I beséech thée to preserue my life by shewing mée thy friendly reliefe When the fisherman beheld the comlinesse and beautie of the yoong Gentleman hée was mooned with compassion towardes him and lifted him vp from the ground and lead

as you sée not moued by my will but constrained by iniurie Wherfore tell me was I euer vnthankfull vnto your Citie in generall or vnto any of you al in particular They all aunswered with one voice no my lord and therfore wee are ready all to spend our liues in thy quarrell and as thou knowest well wée haue erected heere in perpetuall memorie of thee a statue of brasse because thou preseruedst vs from death and our citie from vtter destruction Then said Apollonius vnderstand then this much my friends that when I departed last from this citie I committed my daughter in trust vnto Stranguilio and his wife Dionisiades and when I came to require her they woulde not deliuer her vnto me nor tell me the trueth what is become of her Immediatly they were both called forth to aunswere vnto these matters before Apollonius where falling downe on their knees before him Dionisides answered in this manner My lord I beséech you stand fauourable vnto my poore husband and mee and not to beleeue any other thing concerning your daughter then that shée is departed this life And as for hir graue you haue seene it and also the monument of brasse erected by the whole citie in the memoriall of her and moreouer you haue read the superscription Then Apollonius commaunded his daughter to stand foorth in the presence of them all and shée saide vnto Dionisiades beholde thou wicked woman dead Tharsia is come to greete thée who as thou diddest well hope shoulde neuer haue béen forth comming to haue bewrayed thy wickednesse But when the miserable woman beheld Tharsia her heart quaked for feare and shée fell to the ground in a swoond and when shée recouered againe shee cried out vppon the iust iudgement of God and cursed the time that shee was borne And all the people ranne thronging about Tharsia and wondered at her thinking howe greatly they had been of long time abused by Stranguilio and Dionisiades and they reioyced much in her safetie and all knewe by her countenance that it was shée and none other O now who were able to declare the bitter griefe and intollerable care which eftsoones assaied the wearisome consciences of these twaine the husband and the wife when they sawe her liuing and in good liking before their faces whose death they had so traiterously conspired Euen hell it selfe is not comparable vnto so heauie a burden the vnspeakable weight whereof all men ought to feare and none can sufficiently describe vnlesse hée haue been semblably plunged in the like gulfe of horrible desperation Then Tharsia called for Theophilus Stranguilios villaine and when hée was come into her presence shée saide vnto him Theophilus aunswere mée aloud that all the people may heare who sent thee forth to slay me Hee aunswered Dionisiades my Mistresse What mooued her thereunto saide Tharsia None other thing I suppose saide the villaine but to enioy the money and ornamentes and also because thy beautie and comelinesse were commended aboue Philomacias her daughters Nowe when the people heard this they ranne vppon Stranguilio and Dionisiades and tooke them violently and bound them and drew them out of the citie and stoned them to death and would likewise haue slaine Theophilus the villaine for that that at his mistresse commandement he would haue murdered the innocent maiden But Tharsia intreated for him saying Not so my deare friends I pray you let me obtaine pardon for him at your handes for vnlesse he had giuen me respite to say my praiers I had not been heere now to haue spoken for him and when she had said so the furious multitude was appeased And Apollonius gaue many exceeding rich giftes vnto the citie and repared it strongly in many places where it was decaied and abode there with them the space of three monthes in feasting and making merry before he departed CHAP. XXII How Apollonius sailed from Tharsus to visite his father in law Altistrates king of Pentapolis who died not long after Apollonius comming thither THe terme of thrée monethes that Apollonius purposed for his delight to remaine at Tharsus was almost expired and he cōmanded all things to be prepared for the iourney and when the day was come hee made generall proclamation vppon paine of death euery man to ship And when the whole army was imbarked he took ship himselfe with his wife and his daughter being honourably accompanied by the citizens vnto the water side and after due courtesie on both sides done and receiued hee hoysed sayle and departed towardes Pentopolis king Altistrates Citie And when they had sailed with prosperous winde ten dayes vppon the Sea they discouered a farre off the Steeples and Towres of Pentapolis and the Souldiers reioyced and gaue a shout for gladnesse that they were so neere to their wished land Then they cast about and cut towards the hauen and cast anker and landed all safe and Apollonius with his wife and daughter after hee had taken order for the companie rode vnto the court vnto king Altistrates whom they found in good health and merry And when Altistrates saw his sonne in lawe his daughter and his neece Tharsia hee bid them welcome and reioyced exceedingly and sent for the Nobles of his land to keepe them companie and gaue them the best entertainement that hee could deuise and they soiourned with him an whole yeare in pleasure and pastime whereof the king tooke as great comfort as was possible for a man to doe in any worldly felicitie But as there was neuer yet any thing certaine or permanent in this mortall life but alwaies we be requited with sowre sauce to our sweete meate and when wee thinke our selues surest in the top of ioy then tilt wée downe soonest into the bottome of sorrow so fared it now vnto these personages in the midst of their iollitie For the good old king Altistrates fell sodainly sick which much appalled them all and grew euerie day weaker than other Then were the Phisitions sent for in haste who left nothing vntried that appertained vnto Art and experience to doe and aboue all Apollonius and Lucina his wife plaied the parts of duetifull children in tendring their aged and weake father with all care and diligence possible But alas olde age which of it selfe is an vncurable sickenesse and had béene growing nowe well nigh an hundred yeares lacking seuen vpon him accompanied with the intollerable paine of the gowt and the stone of the bladder had consumed naturall moisture so that his force gaue ouer to the disease and shortely after changed this transitorie life for a better When report was spread abroad of the kings death there was great sorrowe and lamentation made in all places neither was there any that tooke not grieuously the losse of so good a Prince But to describe the inward affliction of Apollonius and the teares of the Ladie Lucina and Tharsia her daughter woulde make any heart of flint to bléede considering the tender affections of women aboue men and howe prone