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A18066	The voyage of the wandering knight. Deuised by Iohn Carthenie, a Frenchman: and translated out of French into English, by VVilliam Goodyear of South-hampton merchant. A vvorke vvorthie of reading, and dedicated to the Right worshipfull Sir Frauncis Drake, Knight; Voyage du chevalier errant. English	Cartigny, Jean de, 1520?-1578.; Norman, Robert, fl. 1590.; Goodyear, William.	1581 (1581)	STC 4700; ESTC S104901	93,834	138

Pallaice stood was a meruailous faire gréene meddow through y e midst wherof ran a riuer of fine fresh water vpon y e brims wherof on both sides al alōg grew apple trées peare trées plum trées Oliue trées elder trées Oake trées elme trees such like Fast by y e goodly bank also grew many young hasil trées ful of nuts at y e time of y e yere by y e againe such store of walnut trées as passe to be spokē besides many pōds ful of fish excellēt orchards of al kinds of fruit goodly gardēs also of swéet flowers The riuer was not w t out great store of water fowles as for y e wood ther bred in it hawks herns pelicās phesants cranes wodcocks bitters kites crowes cormerants turtles woodquists eagles to bée short al kinde of birds possible as might be perceiued by fethers which fel from thē to y e ground in pruning thēselues What shuld I speak of pigin houses of secret banketting places fine delicate why it wer but folly beside al this you must think y t ther wer tennis courts other places for pastime y e wals therof wer very high insomuch y t it wold haue made one amazed dizzie to looke down frō y e top Ther was also a meruailous mote fearful to behold y e bridge wherof was not broad called Desperation y e passage ouer being a long narrow plank so y t if one trode neuer so litle awrie he fel in w t hazard neuer to be recouered The stables wer ful of goodly horses as hobies Ienets bard horses geldings hacnies mules camils colts The kēnels ful of dogs as grehoūds otterhoūds harehoūds spaniels for land water mastiues for bull beare bore We supt in a bāketting house our supper excelled al y e fare y t euer I saw lady Venus kept me cōpany I was dulled with y e sūptuous seruice y t I had All my delight was to behold Ladie Venus who sate ouer against me insomuch y t at last Voluptuousnesse ouercame me Supper being ended in came stage-plaiers daunsers mascars mummers and many sports which we vse daylye in feasting Now when I waxed wearie I tooke my leaue of the companie with good night and then was I brought to the brauest chamber in all the Pallaice Ladie Venus and hir waighting maides tending vpon me But euery one departed after I was in bed sauing onely Venus the Goddesse of Loue with whom I laye all night ¶ THE AVTHOR DECLARETH HOVV THE wandring Knight and such like voluptuous liuers in the world transgresse the x. Commandements of Almightie God vnder written The xij Chapter SO long as the Knight continued in this pestilent Pallaice of worldly desire following his owne fantasie by vaine Voluptuousnes enticed he did no other thing but playe the foole daunce leape sing eate drinke hawke hunt fish fowle haunt whores and such like as did the prodigall sonne and led a dissolute life for the space of eleuen daies Which signifies a meruailous mysterie and vnfortunate For the number eleuen by the opinion of Christian Doctors and Philosophers is a wicked and vnluckie number for that the number of x. signifies the x. Commaundements of God and the number xi which is one more prophecieth and foretelleth the transgressing of them Wherefore the Knight hauing remained xi dayes in that Pallaice greuously transgressed the wil of God letting loose the bridle to his lewd affections without refraining anie of them If you note well the premises and sée into the sequel you shall find that such as liue after the order of that Pallaice of worldly Felicitie being giuen to followe the pompe and pride of the world with the plesures and voluptuousnesse of the same and seeme willing to lead that life without purpose of change nay rather triumphing and reioicing therein I say and I say truly that such are transgressours of Gods Lawes Contrariwise such as accompt themselues héere to be but Pilgrimes and fixe their affection on the other world where royally raigneth Iesus Christ reputing this lyfe an exile desiring to be deliuered out of it to the ende they may enter in at the Pallaice of the heauenly King shall enioy the fulnesse and happinesse thereof As this world yéeldes a great deale of temporall goods transitorie honor so doth it also make an ende of them Now those that haue vsed these gifts to y e glorie of God are Gods people Contrariwise those that haue vsed them voluptuously are vessells of the Diuell and transgressours of the laws of God as may appeare by the x. Commaundements which I haue set downe for that purpose Wherein all worldlings may perceiue that by liuing voluptuously they grieuously transgresse Gods lawes to their owne destruction And as the x. Commandements were written in two tables euen so are they deuided into two parts The first comprehendes thrée concerning the loue of GOD. The seconde seuen touching the loue of our neighbour And therefore who so leades his life worldling like and fixeth his felicitie in Voluptuousnesse is doubtlesse a vessell of the Diuell and loueth not God nor his neighbour because he transgresseth the lawe of God which followeth in due and conuenient order I Am the Lord thy God thou shalt haue none other Gods but me 2 Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen Image nor the likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue or in the earth beneath nor in the water vnder the earth Thou shalt not bow downe to them nor worship them for I the Lord thy God am a iealous God visite the sins of the father vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shew mercie vnto thousands in them that loue me and kéepe my commaundements 3 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine for the Lord will not holde him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine 4 Remember that thou kéepe holy the Sabboth daye vi daies shalt thou labour and doe all that thou hast to doe but the vij day is the Saboth of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt doe no manner of work thou thy sonne thy daughter thy man seruant thy maide seruant thy cattell and the stranger that is within thy gates for in six daies the Lord made heauen and earth the Sea and all that therein is and rested the vii day wherefore the Lord blessed y e vii daye hallowed it 5 Honour thy father thy mother that thy daies may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thée 6 Thou shalt doe no murder 7 Thou shalt not commit adulterie 8 Thou shalt not steale 9 Thou shalt not beare false witnesse against thy neighbour 10 Thou shalt not couet thy neighbors house thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife nor his seruant nor his maide nor his Oxe nor his Asse nor any thing that is his This is the law of God by which

heuēly grace wherof if I may tast the vertue I shall need none other succour O graunt this for the glory of thy great name and in thy name for the loue of thy dere son Iesus Christ who with thee the holy Ghost be all honour power for euer and euer Amen As I was thus praieng with a willing minde shedding teares striking my brest conceiuing griefe sorow for my sins sodeinly I sawe a Lady descending frō heauen downe setting her self before me fast by the bog wher I stuck fast This lady was of a meruailous maiestie wonderful curteous she appeared to me in a garment of white Satten a cloke of blew damaske imbrodered with gold pearls Her face shined like the Sun so y t with much a do I did behold hir I was much amazed at such a sodein vision knew not at the first what she was yet I tooke hart a grace supposing some helpe sent me from heauen to draw me out of the bog wherein I lay In the end with all reuerence I made my petition vnto her saieng O good gracious Lady whatsoeuer thou be I most humbly beséech thée if thou canst that it would please thée to help me out of this beastly bog of filthy infection For nothing is néere me but venemous serpents noisome vermine In the name of God therfore I craue thy help To y e which my request she answered O foole abused beast thou séest now what reward Voluptuousnes yéeldeth thée for following hir If thou hadst beléeued my daughter thou hadst not bene in this miserie Then I asked hir who was that daughter of hirs she answered saieng the swéete Gentlewoman that admonished thée a xi daies past to leaue Voluptuousnes to follow hir whom because thou beléeuedst not but neglectedst hir counsell thou lyest in this vnhappinesse By this speach of hirs I knew she was Gods grace and the mother of Vertue Then fell I on my knées weeping thus I said O deare Lady my cursed counseller Folly drew me from thy daughter and I most vnhappy wretch beléeued hir which deede of mine grieues me greatly and now I crie thée mercie most humbly desiring thée of thy clemencie to deliuer me out of this filthie infectiō I promise vow vnto thee henceforth to follow thée For although I deserue damnation for my misdéeds yet thou being by nature merciful wilt spare me Gods grace hearing this my lamentation of hir benignitie stretched foorth a golden rod and commaunded me to laye my handes vpon it which when I did I rise from my saddle and so was set out of the bog where I lefte Temeritie my horse and Folly my gouernesse to fish for frogs Thus you sée that Gods grace draweth vs from sinne and iustifies vs fréely without any merit of ours howbeit not without an inward heart-griefe and sorrow for sinne which is a speciall gifte of Gods grace and no worke of mans corrupt nature ¶ GODS GRACE SHEVVEH HELL VNTO THE Knight with all the voluptuous companie that he sawe in thee Pallaice of Worldly Felicitie The second Chapter WHen I was out of the bog humbly on my knées I gaue thankes to Gods grace for hir goodnesse being assured that he to whom God doth good is not worthy thereof if he be not thankfull Then Gods grace marched before me saieng that I should follow hir y t which I did For doubtlesse our frée will guideth not Gods grace but Gods grace guideth our frée will Then I followed hir all to be dagled vntill we came where I hadde séene the Pallaice of worldly felicitie in greatest glory turned into a déepe dungeon of darkenesse boyling with consuming fire from whence came a vilde vapor and stinking smoake of burning brimstone ouer the which we must passe by a litle long planke wherat I was so afeard that the haires of my head st 〈…〉 an ende Then with sorrowfull sighes I beséeched Gods grace to tel me what was y e sight which we saw quod she This is y e place of thy voluptuous pallaice with all thy alyes amongst whom thou wast maintained Marke wel if I had not bene thy helpe shewed thée mercie thou hadst bene plagued with them Thinke with thy selfe if the place be pleasant or no. Thou séest how the Diuel handleth those that be héere with torments This is the great King Lucifer whome thou supposedst to haue séene accompanied with so many Nobles and Péeres in the pallaice of counterfaite felicitie These be they that frye in the furnaice héere is the reward of such as serue him Then we saw a great bed of yron red hot wherein lay a naked woman whom a great Dragon imbraced plaieng with his taile betwéene hir legs with two vgly Serpents winding about hir thighs and eating hir priuie members This miserable woman lamenting cried alowd with terrible noise This quod Gods grace is the braue bed wherein thou laist and this woman is the Goddesse of loue which kept thée company Wouldest thou be gladde now to serue hir To the which I said no. Thou séest quod she this is the end of all voluptuous liuers wicked worldlings Aske them now where their goods be their pleasures their voluptuousnes Alas Lady quod I for feare I dare not Then with a lowd voice she began perticularly asking the question and saieng O cursed outcasts of God wretched worldlings wher are now your faire chambers hanged with silke tapestrie your softe beds your great riches your costly cubbards of plate your pearles and precious stones your monie your goodly gardens your dogs of all sorts your birdes your horses your braue apparell your delicate wines your change of meates your sweete waters your pages and seruaunts your Cookes and Butlers your Ladies of the lake and such like O vnhappie-people y e chance is wel changed In stéed of your gluttonie you suffer hunger in stéed of your dronkennesse you suffer thirst for your sweet swellings you suffer sower sauours in stéede of your lecherous louers you are accompanied with tormenting diuels for your former pastimes you endure terrible punishmēts Whē Gods grace had thus spoken that cursed company cried alowde Woe be to the hower that euer we were borne the Iustice of God O the heauie Iustice of God hath deseruedlye punished vs. This being past Gods grace tolde me that we must ouer that waye notwithstanding the planke was narrowe and long Then I though I were afeard followed hir she going before me for my safetie But I had not gone three steps but I sawe Cerberus the Dog of hell with his three heads yelping gaping to deuoure me at which sight all amased my feete slipt straight he had me by the héeles to teare me Then I cried to Gods grace for help who looking back espied me in danger and hearing me crye Succour succour she tooke me vp in a moment deliuered me out of y t dungeon Then I remēbred what Dauid said Si dicebā