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<P>THE Right, Plea&s;ant, and Variable TRAGICAL HISTORY OF FORTVNATVS.</P>
<P>Whereby a Young-man may learn how to behave him&s;elf in all Worldly Affairs and Ca&s;ual Chances.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t Penned in the Dutch Tongue:</HI> There hence Ab&s;tracted, and now fir&s;t of all Publi&s;hed in <HI>ENGLISH;</HI> By <HI>T. C.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>A. Pur&s;low,</HI> for <HI>George Saubridge,</HI> at the Sign of the Bible on <HI>Ludd-gate-Hill,</HI> near <HI>Fleet-Bridge.</HI> 1676.</P>
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<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>The Moral Documents and con&s;iderations, which are to be noted in this Book.</HEAD>
<LG>
<HEAD>The example of <HI>The|odorus.</HI> Cap. 1.</HEAD>
<L>HOw carele&s;s youth to plea&s;ure bent,</L>
<L>when wealth doth flow at will;</L>
<L>Till raging riot all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ath &s;pent,</L>
<L>they never had their will.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>The Crafty Servan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Robert,</HI> Cap. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></HEAD>
<L>How fa&s;hood wrought by flattery,</L>
<L>the &s;imple doth a&s;&s;ail:</L>
<L>When &s;pite with open enmity,</L>
<L>by no means can prevail.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Appearing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Andrew,</HI> an unthrifty Merchant. <HI>Cap.</HI> 6, 7, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd 8.</HEAD>
<L>How bankro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> pincht with poverty,</L>
<L>when g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ace is not their stay;</L>
<L>Do &s;eek relief by villany,</L>
<L>to work their ju&s;t decay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Expre&s;&s;ed by the death of <HI>Je <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nimus Roberti,</HI> Cap. 8.</HEAD>
<L>How the&s;e which murder do conceal,</L>
<L>to plague the Lord is bent,</L>
<L>Which all men ought for to reveal,</L>
<L>though guiltle&s;s of con&s;ent.</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>Example of the Thie|vi&s;h Ho&s;t. <HI>Cap.</HI> 16.</HEAD>
<L>How thieves by cu&s;tom in their need,</L>
<L>do venture for their prey,</L>
<L>&V;ntil when they think be&s;t to &s;peed,</L>
<L>they work their ju&s;t decay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>Appearing, <HI>Cap.</HI> 31. and 32.</HEAD>
<L>How &s;ome that fe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r their &s;tate to &s;tayn</L>
<L>for dread of worldly &s;hame;</L>
<L>Will &s;in procure for private gain,</L>
<L>de&s;erving no le&s;s blame.</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>To be noted. <HI>Cap.</HI> 34.</HEAD>
<L>How <HI>Venus</HI> lu&s;t in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing may,</L>
<L>&s;oon force the Amorous Knight,</L>
<L>His greate&s;t &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> to bewray,</L>
<L>to Work his woful plight.</L>
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<HEAD>Appearing by the whole cour&s;e of the Hi&s;tory, e&s;pecially by the divers di&s;po&s;iti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and final de&s;tinies of <HI>Fortunatus</HI> and his two Sons.</HEAD>
<L>How &s;trength &amp; beauty &s;oon do fail,</L>
<L>and health and wealth decay:</L>
<L>All fortunes gifts do nought avail,</L>
<L>where wi&s;dom bears no &s;way.</L>
<L>How vertuous life, an hone&s;t end,</L>
<L>doth commonly en&s;ue;</L>
<L>And they which &s;in do &s;till pretend,</L>
<L>with violent death &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</L>
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<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>_AS in the Writings of Fabulous Poets, and Witty Apothegms of <HI>Ae&s;op, Diogenes,</HI> and &s;uch like Plea&s;ant-Conceited Philo&s;ophers, are to be found many pithy and wi&s;e Le&s;&s;ons, behoveable for the &s;tate of Mans Life, as well as in the &s;evere pre|cepts of the Sage Stoicks; &s;o in this Tragical Hi&s;tory (though it be &s;omewhat fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ced and en|terlaced with Poetical Imaginations,) is to be noted by the di&s;creet Reader, &s;ufficient matter concerning mo&s;t E&s;tates, to bring the mind in remembrance of the ficklene&s;s of Fortunes tran&s;i|tory gifts, of the reward of vertue, the puni&s;hment of vice, and the end of folly. Moreover in this Hi|&s;tory is often occa&s;ion taken, partly to de&s;cribe the names, &s;cituations, &amp; commodities of the chief|e&s;t Countries, Merchants, Kingdoms, &amp; Cities of the Earth, which to the valiant mind bringeth no &s;mall delectation. The&s;e few cau&s;es con&s;idered, I doubt not but this Hi&s;tory &s;hall &s;eem to Men of good Judgement more worthy the Printer's travel, than many vain pamphlets, ballads, &s;ongs,
<PB REF="3"> and dallying devices, tending only to the artifi|cial cloaking of vice, and m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">zling of Amorous Heads therein. And fora&s;much as by con&s;idera|tion, and conference in peru&s;ing thereof, I found much childi&s;h and &s;uperfluous inventions, inter|mingled al&s;o with &s;ome &s;parks of prophane &s;uper|&s;tition (according to the manner of penning, u&s;ed in that barbarous Age) which might &s;eem odi|ous to the godly, and loath&s;ome to the learned (the matter and &s;ub&s;tance of the Hi&s;tory being notwith&s;tanding mo&s;t Variable, Plea&s;ant, and De|lectable to read) I thought it mo&s;t convenient, by rejecting what was un&s;eemly, rather to collect an Ab&s;tract of the &s;ub&s;tance thereof in a plain and Engli&s;h Phra&s;e, than to have re&s;pect to the litte|ral Tran&s;lation: Which if I have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ot accompli&s;h|ed &s;o preci&s;ely as perhaps &s;ome of our Engli&s;h Rhetoricians would have done, I crave pardon for my offence, and give them leave to mend that is ami&s;s, not doubting but the courteous Reader will rather accept thereof, with the like affecti|on as it is offered, than di&s;dain my ab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lity to offer it &s;o perfect in all points as I would.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. I. Of the Birth of <HI>Fortunatus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_IN the I&s;le of <HI>Cyprus</HI> there is a great City called <HI>FAMAGOS|TA,</HI> wherein dwelt a Rich Ci|tizen, de&s;cended of an Ancient and Renowned &s;tock, who&s;e name was <HI>Theodorus,</HI> unto whom his Progenitors had left &s;o much Goods and Reve|nues, that through the abundance of Wealth, he e&s;teemed him&s;elf mighty and pui&s;&s;ant. He was of Age young, of Di&s;po&s;ition lu&s;ty and retchle&s;s, and little con&s;idering the Frugality and thrifty &s;paring of his Ance&s;tors, whereby they carefully augmented their goods and po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ions, which he without care enjoyed. So that his mind being wholly addicted unto honour, pa&s;time, and worldly plea&s;ure, he pre&s;umed to bear the countenance of an high and co&s;tly e&s;tate, by u&s;ual frequenting of Princes Courts, Iu&s;t|ings, &amp; other &s;uch-like Martial games, by which means he &s;oon wa&s;ted much of his goods and tre|&s;ure. His friends being greatly di&s;plea&s;ed with &s;uch his outragious prodigality, determined to marry him unto a Wife; &s;uppo&s;ing thereby &s;omewhat to alter his mind. <HI>Theodorus</HI> wil|lingly conde&s;cended to their de&s;ires: whereup|on
<PB N="2" REF="4"> they diligently &s;earching to find out a com|ly and convenient E&s;pou&s;e for him, found at length in the City of <HI>Nicova</HI> (which is the Head City of the I&s;le of <HI>Cyprus,</HI> where there Kings commonly keep their Courts) a Noble and Rich Citizen which had a fair Daughter named <HI>Gratiana,</HI> whom he forthwith was con|tent to give in Marriage unto <HI>Theodorus,</HI> without any further inquiry what manner of man he was. And thereupon was the Maiden brought home unto him, only upon the great Fame of his Riches and Pui&s;&s;ance; who was at her Comming entertained with a Co&s;tly and Sumptuous Banquet, as the manner is of the Rich, to &s;hew at &s;uch times their Wealth and Magnificence.</P>
<P>After the Fea&s;t was ended, all things accord|ingly fini&s;hed, and every Gue&s;t taking their leave were returned home, <HI>Theodorus</HI> taking his E&s;pou&s;e unto him, lived for a &s;ea&s;on friend|ly and vertuou&s;ly with her; wherewith both &s;he and her friends took great plea&s;ure, thinking they had atchieved a very good deed, in &s;o taming the wild <HI>Theodorus,</HI> by tying him to a Wife: but yet they con&s;idered not the property of Na|ture, which bendeth only to that which &s;he is inclined unto. So in proce&s;s of time, <HI>Gratiana</HI> became great with Child, and was delivered be|fore the year was fully compleat from the day o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Wedding; whereof the friends of both par|ties were very glad. Then was the child chri&s;t|ned with the name of <HI>Fortunatus:</HI> And although
<PB N="3" REF="4"> <HI>Theodorus</HI> herewith rejoyced, yet cea&s;ed he not to follow his old Trade, in Iu&s;ting, keeping a great train of Men and Hor&s;es, and daily haun|ting of Princes Courts, not without intoller|able and exce&s;&s;ive charges; in&s;omuch that he be|gan to &s;ell and morgage, now one piece of Land, and then another, leaving both Wife and Child unregarded. Then in Selling, Gaging, and Wa&s;ting, he continued &s;o long till all was gone: and &s;o fell into &s;uch extream poverty, that he was neither able to keep Man-&s;ervant nor Maiden: So the good <HI>Gratiana</HI> was of nece&s;&s;i|ty forced to dre&s;s her own Meat, and to wa&s;h her own Cloaths like a Hand-maid or poor &s;lave. They on a time &s;itting together at a &s;imple Dinner, pretending to make good chear if they had wherewithal, the Father beholding his Son, &s;ighed from the bottom of his Heart: which when his Son perceived, who was then eighteen Years Old, and could Write and Read, &s;imply (but was expert in Praying on the Lute, in Hunting and Hawking, which were his chief Pa&s;times) he &s;aid to his Father: Dear Father, what a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">leth you? For I well perceive that when&s;oever you beho d me, you become &s;ad, and &s;hew an heavy Countenance: I pray you Father, have I by any means pro|voked you to be offended? tell me truly, and hide not your &s;ecret thought from me; for I am wholly determined to Accompli&s;h your Will in rea&s;onable Points. Then an&s;wered the Father, &s;aying: My dear Son, the occa|&s;ion
<PB N="4" REF="5"> of my grief cometh not by thee, neither may I blame any Creature therefore, but my &s;elf only, for the pinching penury and di&s;tre&s;s which now I &s;u&s;tain, have I my &s;elf cau&s;ed: And therefore I call to mind the great Honour and Wealth that I lately enjoyed, and now am utterly deprived of; which my Ance&s;tors have &s;o carefully &s;pared, as I al&s;o ought to have done, for the maintenance of our &s;tock and progeny in Honour and Dignity, the which alas, I have altogether neglected: And when I call to mind how far unable I am to help and &s;uccour thee my only Child, this is the Vexa|tion and hearts grief that vexeth me both night and day. This moreover doubleth my Sor|rows, that all the&s;e my mo&s;t familiar Compa|nions, to whom I &s;o frankly imparted my goods, have now abandonned my Company, and that I am &s;o little welcome unto them. To this an&s;wered <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> &s;aying: Dearly be|loved Father, ca&s;t off your mourning, and take no &s;uch immoderate care for me; for I am young, &s;trong, and in perfect health, I will tra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">el into far and unknown Countries to &s;erve. In the World by hardy adventuring, there hap|peneth to many good chance and fortune, where|of I doubt not but by the help of God, &s;ome part &s;hall fall to my Lot. As for you Father, you have bu&s;ine&s;s of the Kings, him may you &s;erve, and it is not like that he will &s;uffer you or my Mother long to continue in any great want. Leave off therefore (I &s;ay again) the&s;e
<PB N="5" REF="5"> tears on my behalf: For I have not been &s;o ill trained up (I thank God and you for it) but I can &s;hift for my &s;elf. With this went <HI>Fortu|natus</HI> out of the hou&s;e with a Hawk on his Fi&s;t, toward the Sea-coa&s;t, pondering with him&s;elf what he might be&s;t do, to ab&s;ent him&s;elf from his Fathers &s;ight, that he might be no more grieved thereby. As he thus walked up and down by the Sea-&s;ide, he &s;aw a Galley of <HI>Venice</HI> coming from <HI>Jeru&s;alem;</HI> wherein was an Earl of <HI>Flanders,</HI> who had lo&s;t two of his Men by the way. But fora&s;much as the Earl had no bu&s;ine&s;s with the King, and that the Patron of the Galley cau&s;ed a Sign to be given by the &s;ound of a Trumpet, that every one &s;hould &s;peedily come aboard the Ship, the Earl with many other Gentlemen came forthwith into the Galley: Which <HI>Fortunatus</HI> &s;eeing, he thought in his mind: Would God I might be one of this great Lords men, to accompa|ny him into his Country, that I might be rid of my Country <HI>Cyprus.</HI> With that he &s;tepped boldly to the Earl, making low obei&s;ance and courte&s;ie; (whereby the Earl well perceived that he was no Ru&s;tical Clown;) And there|withal &s;aid: Gracious Lord, I under|&s;tand your Honour hath lo&s;t two of your Men, and therefore plea&s;eth you now to entertain one? Then asked the Earl: What can&s;t thou do? He an&s;wered, I can Hunt and Hawk, and do all that pertaineth thereto: I have al&s;o &s;ome skill in riding and Feats of Arms. To this,
<PB N="6" REF="6"> &s;aid the Earl, thou &s;hould&s;t like me well: but to my Country we have a long and tedious journey, wherefore I &s;uppo&s;e thou wauld&s;t be loth to travel &s;o far. Not &s;o, my Lord &s;aid <HI>For|tunatus,</HI> that &s;hall be to me no let at all, but I would willingly adventure the travel, though it were four times as far. Then demanded the Earl, &s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing: What Wages &s;hall I give thee? <HI>Fortunatus</HI> an&s;wered, I require no wages, (if it &s;o like your honour) but to be rewarded ac|cording to my de&s;erts The&s;e words of the young man liked the Earl very well, &s;aying unto him: The Galley forthwith &s;hall be lanched from the &s;hore, art thou therefore ready to depart with us? He an&s;wered, When it plea&s;eth you my Lord. And &s;o ca&s;ting the Hawk that he had upon his fi&s;t up into the Ayr, departed without ble&s;|&s;ing of Father or Mother with the Earl, and became his man, carrying with him very &s;imple furniture, and little or no money in his Pur&s;e. So hoi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing up their Sail, in &s;hort time they luc|kely arrived at <HI>Venice.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> &s;ailed away with the Earl with|out Knowledge of his Father or Mother: Chap. 2.</HEAD>
<P>ANd when they were come to <HI>Venice,</HI> for|a&s;much as before in pa&s;&s;ing by it, he had &s;een all the Royalties of that City, he &s;tayed not long there, but made all &s;peed po&s;&s;ible to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e|turn
<PB N="7" REF="6">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 2</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE>again into his own Country, to &s;ee his Friends: For he was determined pre&s;ently at his return to be Wedded to the Daughter of the Duke of <HI>Cleave,</HI> which was a Fair and Gracious Lady, the Marriage being appoint|ed before his Departure: For which cau&s;e mo&s;t likely, he made the more ha&s;t. Before they Departed, <HI>Fortunatus</HI> bought for his Lord at <HI>Venice,</HI> very Co&s;tly Iewels, and Gar|ments of Velvet, Silk, and Cloath of Gold, and what&s;oever el&s;e was requi&s;ite for the Wedding. For although he had many Men, yet there was none of them that could &s;peak the <HI>Italian</HI> Tongue, but <HI>Fortunatus</HI> only, who was very expert to Buy and Sell, and
<PB N="8" REF="7"> therefore was in great e&s;timation and favour with the Earl.</P>
<P><HI>Fortunatus</HI> perceiving his Lords good affection towards him, became the more &s;erviceable, ap|plying him&s;elf to be always in the Evening the la&s;t, and in the morning the fir&s;t in his Lords pre&s;ence. Now the Earl had bought many Hor&s;es for his &s;ervants, of the which &s;ome were haply more fair to the eye, than fit for any good purpo&s;e: He therefore would have them mu&s;t|red before him, and &s;o di&s;tributed them among his men, giving to <HI>Fortunatus</HI> one next the be&s;t; which grieved much the other Servants, and thereupon they envyed him, &s;aying among them&s;elves: What Devil hath &s;ent this <HI>Ita|lian</HI> to put us out of conceit and credit? How|beit it lay not in their power to &s;tay him from riding with the Earl, neither could they blame him in any point.</P>
<P>The Earl was now returned home joyfully, and at his coming was received of his Subjects mo&s;t honourably; for he was both affable, ju&s;t, and vertuous, and &s;o the better beloved of his &s;ubjects, for that he loved them, and was careful for their E&s;tate.</P>
<P>The Nobles likewi&s;e, and other his friendly neighbors came together to welcome him, thank|ing God for his pro&s;perous journey: &amp; before all other matters they took &s;pecial care for the pre|&s;ent accompli&s;hing of the wedding, which plea&s;|ed him very well: So that with full con&s;ent he was E&s;pou&s;ed with all convenient &s;peed un|to
<PB N="9" REF="7"> the Duke of <HI>Cleave</HI> his Daughter. For this Wedding was made great preparation, and thither did re&s;ort many Lords and great E&s;tates: where many valiant Knights and Gentlemen in gorgeous attire, mounted on barbed St&eacute;eds, at the Tilts and Turney, and other &s;uch feats of Chivalry, extended their manly force before the fair and Noble Ladies there pre&s;ent. And although there were a&s;&s;em|bled at that Wedding no &s;mall number of pro|per and comely Servitors, attending on the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hief E&s;tates, yet there was none of them all who&s;e &s;ervice and behaviour was more com|mended than the &s;ervice of <HI>Fortunatus:</HI> where|upon divers demanding of the Earl where he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ad gotten him, he declared unto them, that he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y Fortune chanced on him in the way coming <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rom <HI>Jeru&s;alem:</HI> and told them moreover, that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e was &s;o expert in Hunting and Hawking, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat neither Wild Bea&s;t of the Field, nor Fowl of the Air might hardly e&s;cape him: Be|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">des that al&s;o he e&s;pecially commended him <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or his diligent and pliable &s;ervice, and for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat he could &s;o circum&s;pectly apply and frame <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">im&s;elf to all E&s;tates. By means of which com|mendation of his Lord, he had many gifts gi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en him of Noble-men and women.</P>
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<PB N="10" REF="8">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> did his endeavour in ju&s;ting a his Lords Wedding, and gained both th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Jewels. Chap. 3.</HEAD>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 3</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P>AFter that the Lords and Nobles had <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ni&s;hed their tryumphs and martial game<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Duke of <HI>Cleve</HI> and the Bridegroom (t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Earl of <HI>Flanders</HI>) agreed that their Servito<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and retinues &s;hould likewi&s;e have their pa&s;ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> and try Ma&s;teries, in ju&s;ting for two Iewel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> e&s;teemed to the value of an hundred Crown<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and he that might obtain the prize &s;hould ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> one of them. Of this were all the &s;ervants gl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> and every man put forth him&s;elf to do his be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> So it befel that one of the Duke of <HI>Burgun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI>
<PB N="11" REF="8"> his &s;ervants had one of the Iewels on the one &s;ide, and <HI>Fortunatus</HI> won the other on the con|trary part; which mi&s;liked the mo&s;t part of the &s;ervitors, and thereupon they intreated <HI>Timothy</HI> the Duke of <HI>Burgundies</HI> man, making many fair promi&s;es to recompence him with the like de|&s;erts, if he would undertake to challenge <HI>For|tunatus</HI> to try in ju&s;ting who &s;hould have both the Iewels. <HI>Timothy</HI> having no power to deny the reque&s;t of &s;o many good fellows, made open challenge unto <HI>Fortunatus</HI> before the Ladies and Gentlewomen to ju&s;t with him, and that who&s;oever obtained the prize, &s;hould po&s;e&s;s both the Iewels. When <HI>Fortunatus</HI> heard that, he took no great deliberation, but accepted the chal|lenge with a valiant courage. This being noi&s;|ed among the Lords, they gladly drew together to &s;ee this bickering. The challenger &amp; defender each of them well appointed came to the Tilt|yard, where they encountred with a manly and violent courage, being on either part &s;tirred with a fervent de&s;ire both of lucre and fame. At the fourth cour&s;e <HI>Fortunatus</HI> hoi&s;ed <HI>Timothy</HI> from his Hor&s;e the &s;pace of a Spears length: wherewith he won the victory, and obtained the Iewels, e&s;teemed more worth than two hun|dred Crowns. By this was the envy of his fel|low-&s;ervants more vehemently increa&s;ed, but the Earl him&s;elf rejoyced greatly, that one of his retinue had &s;o victoriou&s;ly won the chief Prize. Howbeit he under&s;tood not the Grudge and Malice that his men had again&s;t
<PB N="12" REF="9"> <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> neither dur&s;t any man di&s;clo&s;e it unto him.</P>
<P>Among the Earls Servants there was one, an old wi&s;e fellow, named <HI>Robert,</HI> who offered him&s;elf to practi&s;e a ca&s;t of knavery in the be|half of all his fellows, promi&s;ing unto them, that if they would give unto him ten Crowns in ready money, he would bring to pa&s;s that the Italian &s;hould depart of his own accord, without taking leave of his Lord, or of any o|ther, and that none thereof &s;hould be &s;u&s;pected. Then &s;aid his fellows, <HI>If thou can&s;t do as thou ha&s;t &s;aid, why do&s;t thou linger any &s;tay to at|tempt the &s;ame?</HI> He an&s;wered, <HI>Soft a while, for I cannot do it without pre&s;ent money; but if every one of you will give me half a Crown, I will repay unto each of you a whole Crown, if I work not this feat according as I have &s;aid.</HI> They were all willing to grant to his reque&s;t, &s;o that they &s;peedily collected this &s;um of fifteen Crowns, and gave them to <HI>Robert,</HI> who willed them to &s;peak no more unto him concerning that matter, and that every one &s;hould behave him&s;elf according as he had done before. From henceforth this <HI>Robert</HI> became a daily compa|nion unto <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> &s;hewing him&s;elf very friendly unto him, inveagling him with plea|&s;ant communication, and recounting of things done in the Countrey, which was to <HI>Fortuna|tus</HI> delectable. He enured and enticed him to the company and haunt of fair women, where he of his proper charges, would always &s;end
<PB N="13" REF="9"> for Wine and other Banquetting Iunquets, meet for &s;uch company. <HI>Robert</HI> al&s;o would col|logne with him, prai&s;ing his Riches, Nobility, and valiant courage, which <HI>Fortunatus</HI> could well endure. And when he would always offer his money al&s;o for their expences, <HI>Robert</HI> would not &s;uffer him to pay any part; &s;aying, that he loved him better than any of his bre|thren, and therefore thought all too little that was be&s;towed on him. This Company of good fellow&s;hip continued &s;o long, that their fellows were therewith grieved: &s;aying one to another, <HI>Doth Robert mean to drive away Fortunatus with &s;uch a life? It is rather to be &s;uppo&s;ed that if he were in Cyprus again, and wi&s;t to have &s;uch plea&s;ant entertainment, he would think it long ere he were returned thither: &s;urely he doth not fulfil his promi&s;e, and therefore it is meet that we have our money again. Robert</HI> being adverti&s;ed thereof, &s;coffed thus at his fel|lows, &s;aying, <HI>Would they have me make better chear with their money than I have done?</HI> Not|with&s;tanding at the la&s;t, when the money was near hand &s;pent, on an evening when the Earl and his Wife were gone to re&s;t, cometh <HI>Ro|bert</HI> to <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> into his Chamber &s;ecretly, and &s;aid, <HI>Even now hath the Ma&s;ter Chancellor told me a &s;ecret, for he is my &s;ingular good friend, and did earne&s;tly forbid me upon pain to lo&s;e his friend&s;hip, that I &s;hould di&s;clo&s;e it to no man; but yet I cannot for the friend&s;hip that is between us, conceal
<PB N="14" REF="10"> this thing from thee, which &s;o nearly toucheth thine e&s;tate. Thus &s;tands the cau&s;e (as thou knowe&s;t) our Lord hath a fair woman to Wife, and hath many fair Gentlewomen with her: He hath of late conceived a durable Fanta&s;ie, and is become very jealous in the behalf of his E&s;pou&s;e, and the other Gentlewomen, fearing le&s;t his young Chamberlains might be on them enamoured, and &s;o provoked to Carnal Lu&s;t; and although he dare repo&s;e &s;uch confidence in them, that they would con&s;ent to no di&s;hone&s;ty, yet can he not well put out of his mind what a blind thing Love is, and when it is once kindled, how hardly it is quenched, and that when true Lovers be linked with like Affections, nothing may &s;eparate them but only Death. To prevent this, he is coun&s;elled, yea, and ful<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y minded, on the morrow to ride to <HI>Lau&s;an,</HI> where he mu&s;t wage Law with an Earl concerning certain Money and Land, and meaneth to come thi|ther &s;tately furni&s;hed with all his Men about him, becau&s;e he knoweth that the Earl of St. <HI>Paul</HI> his adver&s;ary, will be there al&s;o with no &s;mall company, gorgeou&s;ly appointed. And while&s;t he remaineth there, he will cau&s;e the four Chamberlains to be Gelded whether they will or not, and then &s;et them in their Office as before. He will al&s;o &s;hew the matter unto his Wife, forbidding her to di&s;clo&s;e it unto any per&s;on. Howbeit he knoweth well that &s;he cannot long conceal it from her waiting Gen|tlewomen, who will mo&s;t likely utter it further
<PB N="15" REF="10"> unto others, &s;o &s;hall it pa&s;s from one to ano|ther until it be &s;pread all abroad. And by this means he pretendeth to prevent all Mi&s;chief that eft-&s;oons might chance among you through Amorous Love; for he con&s;idereth that no woman regardeth a gelded man.</HI> When <HI>For|tunatus</HI> had heard this report, he was therewith amazed; and fir&s;t of all asked him whether he knew any &s;ecret way whereby he might convey him&s;elf with &s;peed out of the City? &s;aying, I will not in any ca&s;e abide the pre&s;ence of my Lord, though he would give me all his Lands; no, though he would make me King of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> would I &s;erve him any longer: I pray th&eacute;e therefore &s;aid <HI>Fortunatus</HI> help me, my good friend <HI>Robert,</HI> and give me &s;ome coun&s;el how I may &s;peedily depart. <HI>Robert</HI> an&s;wered, &s;aying; <HI>Thou knowe&s;t all the Gates of the City be now &s;hut, and none can i&s;&s;ue out or in, until to morrow when the Bell warneth to &s;ervice, and then is the Cow-gate opened. But my beloved <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> if I my &s;elf were in your ca&s;e, I would not greatly refu&s;e it, con&s;idering the great Love and Affection that thy Lord hath conceived toward thee, whereby thou art like to come to great preferment,</HI> Then &s;aid <HI>Fortu|natus,</HI> I would rather become a begger, to wan|der as a vagabond from place to place, than to endure &s;uch a &s;hame and villany. Then &s;pake <HI>Robert</HI> again, &s;aying, <HI>I am now &s;orry that ever I adverti&s;ed thee of the&s;e things, &s;ithence thou wilt &s;o depart: For I tru&s;t we &s;hould have lived
<PB N="16" REF="11"> together in friendly amity, as loving brethren, and to have pa&s;&s;ed our time joyfully, one de|lighting in the other. But &s;ithence thou wilt by no means here longer remain, let me yet be ad|verti&s;ed by Letters from thee, where thou art become, that when our Lord &s;hall be &s;ufficient|ly provided of gelded men to his Chamber|lains, I may write to thee, that thou may&s;t re|pair hither again: for I doubt not but at any time thou &s;halt have entertainment of the Earl:</HI> to this an&s;wered <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> &s;aying, <HI>You &s;hall little need either to write or &s;end unto me, for &s;o long as I live I mean not to come to this court any more. And therefore I in&s;tantly re|quire thee not to di&s;clo&s;e my departure, until I have been three days away:</HI> which thing <HI>Robert</HI> promi&s;ed him, and &s;o he took his leave of him, making &s;emblance as though he were very &s;orry: Thus this traiterous <HI>Judas</HI> wrought this knavi&s;h device. It was about midnight when every one was at re&s;t, but <HI>Fortunatus</HI> head was full of b&eacute;es, &s;o that every hour &s;&eacute;emed unto him three: for he feared le&s;t the Earl &s;hould under&s;tand of his departure, and &s;o cau&s;e him to be &s;tayed. So pa&s;&s;ing all the night in fear and grief, at the break of day he took his journey on Hor&s;e-back with Hounds following him as though he had pretended to Hunt, and rode &s;o &s;wiftly, that if one of his eyes had fallen out of his head he would &s;cantly have &s;tayed to take <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> up.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="17" REF="11">
<HEAD>How the Earl was exceeding &s;orry for the &s;ud|den departure of <HI>Fortunatus.</HI> Chap. 4.</HEAD>
<P>WHen <HI>Fortunatus</HI> had ridden ten miles, he bought another hor&s;e, and &s;ent back a|gain unto the Earl, his Hor&s;e and his Hounds, that he might have no occa&s;ion to pur&s;ue after him. When the Earl under&s;tood that <HI>Fortuna|tus</HI> had departed without leave, fora&s;much as he knew of no cau&s;e whereat he might be of|fended, neither had paid him his wages, he greatly marvelled, and thereupon demanded of all his &s;ervants generally and particularly, whether they knew any occa&s;ion of his depart|ing. They all denyed that they wi&s;t thereof, and took their Oaths that they had not by any means to their knowledge grieved him. Then went the Earl to the Ladies &amp; Gentlewomen, requiring likewi&s;e of them, whether they had moved him to any di&s;plea&s;ure, or whether they mi&s;deemed any cau&s;e of his going away with|out leave. The Counte&s;s and all the other Gentlewomen an&s;wered, that they wi&s;t not of any thing that might offend him either by word or deed: but that in the Evening before his departure he was exceeding merry and plea&s;ant: reporting unto them of the attire of Women, and of many other V&s;ages and Cu&s;tomes of his Country, and that in &s;uch corrupt language, as we could not refrain from Laughing, and he him&s;elf Laughing
<PB N="18" REF="12"> with us al&s;o; and &s;o with no wor&s;e countenance he left our company. Then &s;aid the Earl, al|though the cau&s;e of his flight be now concealed from me, I doubt not but hereafter I &s;hall be adverti&s;ed thereof: and verily if I &s;hall know that any of mine was the occa&s;ion of it, I &s;hall be &s;harply revenged on him; for I know that <HI>Fortunatus</HI> is not fled without &s;ome great cau&s;e. I am &s;ure that he hath gotten about 500 Crowns whil&s;t he hath been here: and I had thought he would not have departed hence du|ring his live. But now I perceive well he is not minded to return, &s;eeing he hath taken with him all his Iewels and his Sub&s;tance.</P>
<P>When <HI>Robert</HI> perceived that his Lord was &s;o grieved for <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> great fear fell on him, for he dreaded le&s;t any of his fellows &s;hould bewray him, that he was weined away by his procurement: whereupon he went to every one particularly, requiring them not to di&s;clo&s;e his doings, which they faithfully promi&s;ed him; and were very in&s;tant to know by what means he brought his purpo&s;e &s;o &s;ubtilly to pa&s;s, and that he was &s;o &s;uddenly fled away. At the length to one that was mo&s;t in his fa|vour, and was more importunate than the re&s;t, he told that <HI>Fortunatus</HI> had &s;hewed him the &s;tate of his Father, how he was become po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> and &s;erved in the King of <HI>Cyprus</HI> Court: Where|upon &s;aid <HI>Robert,</HI> I have &s;hewed him that a Po&s;t was pa&s;&s;ed this way from the King of <HI>Cyprus,</HI> towards the King of <HI>England,</HI> to
<PB N="19" REF="12"> adverti&s;e him of the King of <HI>Cyprus</HI> death, for they were near of Kindred; which Po&s;t report|ed unto me, that the King had exalted the &s;tate of <HI>Theodorus</HI> his Father, and had given him the Earldom of <HI>Anclemus de Teraceno,</HI> who died without any Heir, by rea&s;on whereof, the Earldom was fallen into the Kings hands; for which <HI>Theodorus</HI> making the fir&s;t &s;uit obtained it, and both he and his Heirs were therein con|firmed by his Letters Patents. When I had told him, he &s;carcely believed me: and there|upon &s;aid, I would my Father had &s;ped no wor&s;e, notwith&s;tanding upon this only he is departed. When the other of his fellows heard this, they &s;aid among them&s;elves, how uncir|cum&s;pect was <HI>Fortunatus?</HI> For if &s;uch good for|tune chanceing unto him, he had adverti&s;ed our Earl thereof, doubtle&s;s he would have wor|&s;hipfully &s;et him forth, with certain of us to accompany him, and &s;o &s;hould he have been ho|nourably received into his own Country, and al&s;o &s;till have retained the favour and friend|&s;hip of his Lord and Ma&s;ter.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> came to <HI>London,</HI> and con&s;u|med his Money in the company of Riotous Per&s;ons and Harlots. Chap. 5.</HEAD>
<P>NOw leave we the Earl of <HI>Flanders</HI> with his men, who knew little how <HI>Robert</HI> had deceived <HI>Fortunatus</HI> with a devi&s;ed lie: howbeit
<PB N="20" REF="13"> they heard afterwards that <HI>Fortunatus</HI> did well. Who when he had &s;ent back his Lords hor&s;e, yet fearing lea&s;t he &s;hould be pur&s;ued, travelled with all &s;peed po&s;&s;ible, till he come to <HI>Calis,</HI> where he took &s;hipping, and yet thought him&s;elf &s;cantly out of danger even in the mid&s;t of the Seas, the fear of gelding &s;o &s;ore-troubled his Con&s;cience. When he was arrived in <HI>England,</HI> &s;etting all fear a&s;ide, he took courage again and came to <HI>London,</HI> which is a great and goodly City, frequented of Merchants from all Countreys of Europe. Thither at his arrival was come a Ship from <HI>Cyprus,</HI> freighted with co&s;tly wares, the factors whereof were two young Merchants, who had in <HI>Cy|prus</HI> rich parents: and this being the fir&s;t jour|ney that ever they undertook, were very unex|pert how to behave them&s;elves in &s;trange coun|treys, but only by their Fathers in&s;tructions. When their &s;hips therefore were unloaden, their Wares &s;old, great &s;ums of Money re|ceived, and the cu&s;tome di&s;charged, they were lu&s;ty and jocund, as &s;uch youths commonly be, which have not been accu&s;tomed to the hand|ling and u&s;e of great trea&s;ure. Into the company of the&s;e young men chanced <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> with whom he fell in acquaintance, &s;hewing each o|ther friendly countenance in a &s;trange country. The&s;e three hapned moreover into a rout of o|ther roitous Roi&s;ters, and u&s;ually frequented with them, by whom they were &s;oon allured to the haunt of Harlots, Gameing, and other
<PB N="21" REF="13"> riotous demeanour: &s;o that if one had gotten a fair woman, the other would a&s;&s;ay to get a fairer, what&s;oever it co&s;t him: this life led they the &s;pace of half a year, till their money was &s;o wa&s;ted, that it was time to look to them&s;elves.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How the two Cyprus Merchants, when their mo|ney was con&s;umed, returned to their Coun|try. Chap. 6.</HEAD>
<P><HI>FOrtunatus</HI> had the lea&s;t &s;pring, &s;o that his Well was &s;oone&s;t emptied: and the others al&s;o were drawn almo&s;t dry, and had con&s;umed all that they received of their wares, on &s;um|ptuous banquets and fair women: and then was all the hot love &s;oon quenched with a cold pur&s;e, though they per&s;waded them&s;elves otherwi&s;e, and had often heard that it was &s;coffingly &s;aid unto them, go and fetch more money. In the mean while were the other Merchants of <HI>Cy|prus</HI> ready to repair homewards, and the Ma|&s;ter of the Ship gave warning unto the young men to be in a readine&s;s, who went forth|with to their Lodging, to make their ac|counts with heavy hearts, finding that they had received great &s;ums of money: but that which they &s;hould have be&s;towed in Cloth, Wool, Tin, Lead, and other Merchandi&s;e, they had con&s;umed on Engli&s;h Beer, Deli|cate Fare, and Womens Fle&s;h. And not|with&s;tanding, though they were now but bare Merchants, yet took they Ship with
<PB N="22" REF="14"> the re&s;t; and came home without Wares. But how they were entertained of their Father at their return, let them &s;ee thereto.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> was entertained into Service, and how one <HI>Andrew</HI> a wicked varlet, brought <HI>Fortunatus</HI> Ma&s;ter to great trouble, by mur|thering a Gentleman in his hou&s;e. Chap. 7.</HEAD>
<P>VVHen <HI>Fortunatus</HI> was now al&s;o clean money-le&s;s, he bethought him&s;e f that if he might get two or three Crowns, he would go into <HI>France,</HI> there to get him a Ma&s;ter: &s;o went he to his Love, requiring her to lend him a Rival or <HI>xv.</HI> &s;hillings, &s;aying, that he would go into <HI>Flanders</HI> to his Vncle, to fetch <HI>400</HI> Crowns, which he had in his cu&s;tody, before my departure &s;aid he, I would fain make good chear with thee. She coldly an&s;wered, &s;aying, Goe&s;t thou to fetch Money? God &s;peed thee well, &s;o it be not to my hinderance: whereby he perceived that he had but a cold &s;uit, to wait for money at her hands: and then too late, thought thus in his mind: If I had my mo|ney again, I would be more wary on whom I be&s;towed it: and yet once more tryed her, &s;ay|ing, My be&s;t Beloved, &s;end for &s;ome Wine, and let us yet drink once together e're we de|part. Whereupon &s;he &s;aid to her Maid, go and fetch him a pint of Beer, and let the A&s;s drink e're he go: This was the thin thanks that a har|lot rendred him for his co&s;tly courte&s;ie. <HI>Fortu|natus</HI>
<PB N="23" REF="14"> being thus abandoned, thought with him|&s;elf, I mu&s;t needs &s;erve until I have gained two or three Crowns. So he went to <HI>Lombard-&s;treet,</HI> where was great re&s;ort, enquiring who was de&s;titute of a Servant? There was a rich Merchant of <HI>Florence,</HI> that retained many Servants, who he &s;et at work in his Traffick, of him was <HI>Fortunatus</HI> hired for two Crowns a Month, which liked him well. Being Entertained, he was brought Home to his Ma&s;ter, named <HI>Jeronimus Roberti,</HI> whom he &s;erved at the Table very hand&s;omly; whereby he perceived that <HI>Fortunatus</HI> had been well trained up in civil company: &s;o that in proce&s;s of time, he &s;ent him to Be&s;tow the Mer|chandize into the Ships, and to receive other that came into the Realm, in which Affairs he behaved him&s;elf very well. About the time when <HI>Fortunatus</HI> &s;erved <HI>Jeronimus Roberti,</HI> there was a <HI>Florentine</HI> named <HI>Andrew,</HI> the Son of a rich Merchant, to whom his Father had given much Goods, and &s;ent him there|withal to <HI>Bruges</HI> in <HI>Flanders,</HI> which he un|thriftily in &s;hort time con&s;umed: And being therewith not &s;atisfied, took up al&s;o more Money by Bills of Exchange, making his Father believe that he would &s;end him ma|ny Rich Merchandizes. This he u&s;ed &s;o long, till his Father was able to disbur&s;t no more Money, but waited &s;till to receive the Wares which he looked for from his Son, which are yet to come. When he un|thrifty
<PB N="24" REF="15"> Varlet had con&s;umed all, and lo&s;t his credit, &s;o that no man would lend, nor give, nor tru&s;t him for any more, he pretended to re|turn again into <HI>Florence,</HI> to &s;pie out there &s;ome old Widow whom he might abu&s;e. As he tra|velled home, he came into a Town of <HI>France</HI> called <HI>Turn,</HI> where there lay in Pri&s;on a Rich Gentleman of <HI>England,</HI> a Citizen of <HI>London,</HI> which thing when his Ho&s;t had declared unto him, he asked if he might &s;peak with the Pri|&s;oner. The Ho&s;t &s;aid, <HI>I will bring you thither, but he is &s;o fa&s;t impri&s;oned, that it is pittiful to behold.</HI> When <HI>Andrew</HI> came to the Pri&s;oner he &s;pake good <HI>Engli&s;h:</HI> whereof the Pri&s;oner was glad, asking him whether he knew one <HI>Jeronimus Roberti</HI> at <HI>London:</HI> He an&s;wered, <HI>I know him right well, and he is my good friend.</HI> Then an&s;wered the Pri&s;oner; <HI>Good <HI>Andrew,</HI> would God I might intreat thee to go to <HI>Lon|don,</HI> and require <HI>Jeronimus Roberti</HI> to do his be&s;t that I may be delivered; he is my near acquain|tance, and knoweth my ability; what&s;oever he &s;hall lay out for me, I &s;hall re&s;tore it to him in threefold. For if thou woulde&s;t do this diligent|ly in my behalf, I will give thee for thy pains five hundred Crowns, and al&s;o procure thee a good Office. Thou &s;halt &s;hew my friends al&s;o, that thou ha&s;t &s;poken with me, and reque&s;t them to become &s;ureties for me to <HI>Jero<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">imus.</HI> Andrew</HI> made a promi&s;e to the Pri&s;oner to deal truly in the matter, and &s;o travelled towards <HI>London;</HI> where de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">ing the matter to <HI>Jeronimus Ro|berty,</HI>
<PB N="25" REF="15"> he was well contented, &s;o that he might have for one Crown thr&eacute;e. And although he knew the &s;ame <HI>Andrew</HI> to be a lewd fellow, neverthele&s;s he &s;aid unto him, go to his friends, and try if thou can&s;t in the Kings Court pro|vide &s;ureties for me, and then will I be ready to disbur&s;t the money. <HI>Andrew</HI> went forth to &s;earch the Pri&s;oners friends, to whom he declared how the ca&s;e &s;tood with him, and that he lay in pri&s;on fa&s;t bound. His friends &s;&eacute;em|ed little to regard his mi&s;ery, but willed him to go to the King or his Coun&s;el, and &s;hew them thereof, for he went on the Kings &s;ervice. When he came to the Court, and could have no redre&s;s in the matter, he heard &s;ay the King of <HI>England</HI> had e&s;pou&s;ed his Daughter to the Duke of <HI>Burgundy,</HI> and that thither he meant pre&s;ently to &s;end certain Iewels of great price, the carriage whereof he had committed to a certain Gentleman which had Wife and Chil|dren re&s;ident in <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>As <HI>Andrew</HI> under&s;tood in the Court that &s;uch &s;umptuous Iewels was committed to &s;uch a Gentleman, he inchroached into his company, &s;aying, That he was certified that the King would &s;end certain co&s;tly Iewels to the Duke of <HI>Burgundy</HI> by him: wherefore he prayed him friendly if it were Lawful that he would permit him to &s;&eacute;e them: For, &s;aid he, I am a Ieweller al&s;o; and hearing at <HI>Florence</HI> that the King made enquiry for the mo&s;t expert in our
<PB N="26" REF="16"> faculty, I have travelled &s;o far, in hope the King would buy &s;ome of me. The plain-mean|ing Gentleman &s;aid unto him, &s;tay here a while till I be di&s;patched, and then &s;hall you go with me, where I will &s;hew them unto you. Anon after he came again to <HI>Andrew</HI> and took him home to his Hou&s;e, being then Dinner-time: Wherefore he &s;aid, we will fir&s;t Dine, le&s;t my Wife be di&s;plea&s;ed. So receiving of him Courteous Entertainment, when Dinner was done, he carried him to his Chamber, and there opening a fair Ar|mory, brought out of it a Coffer, wherein were the Iewels which he willee him to view at his plea&s;ure. The Iewels were very pre|cious, amounting to the valud of three&s;core Thou&s;and Crowns, and the more one beheld them, the fairer they &s;eemed. <HI>Andrew</HI> prai&s;|ed them greatly, and &s;aid, I have yet &s;ome, that if they were as well &s;et as the&s;e be, would no doubt di&s;grace &s;ome of the&s;e. The Gen|tleman liked this well, thinking with him&s;elf, if he have &s;o co&s;tly Iewels, the King will yet &s;urely be&s;tow more money. <HI>Andrew</HI> &s;aid, to morrow &s;hall you dine with me, in <HI>Jeronimus Roberty</HI> his hou&s;e, where I will &s;hew you my Iewels. This liked the Gentleman well. <HI>An|drew</HI> went incontinently to <HI>Jeronimus Roberti,</HI> and &s;aid, I have found out a man in the Court, who I tru&s;t will a&s;&s;i&s;t me to deliver the Pri&s;o|ner, and that you &s;hould have good &s;ureti&s;hip in the Kings cu&s;tom-hou&s;e. That liked <HI>Jeronimus</HI>
<PB N="27" REF="16"> well. <HI>Andrew</HI> &s;aid moreover, I pray you ap|point the dinner to morrow &s;omewhat the co&s;t|lier, for I &s;hall bring him with me to dine with us. The next day brought <HI>Andrew</HI> the Man with him; but before they &s;at down at the board, he privily warned <HI>Jeronimus,</HI> that he &s;hould not find much talk of the Pri&s;oner, for the matter mu&s;t be &s;ecretly conveyed. They &s;at down to their meat and were merry, and lingred &s;ome|what long, but <HI>Jeronimus</HI> ro&s;e from the board, and went into his &s;tudy: at the la&s;t &s;aid <HI>Andrew</HI> to the Gentleman, come you up with me into my Chamber, and I will &s;hew you my Iewels. So they went up together into a Chamber that was over the Hall where whey dined, and there <HI>Andrew</HI> making an offer, as though he would have opened a great Coffer, drew his Knife privily, and &s;ticked the Gentleman that he &s;unk down, and therewith &s;tepped unto him and cut his throat. That done, he took from his thumb a gold King, wherein his Seal was gra|ven, and took his Keys from his girdle, and &s;o ran &s;wiftly to the Gentlemans Hou&s;e, and &s;aid to his Wife, Mi&s;tris, your husband hath &s;ent me unto you, willing you to &s;end him the Iewels which he &s;hewed me ye&s;terday, and for a token of truth doth he &s;end you here his King and the Keys of his Armory. The Woman be|lieving his words, &s;earched narrowly, but found not the Iewels in none of the three Armories. Then gave &s;he him the Keys again, and &s;aid; Go and &s;hew him that we
<PB N="28" REF="17"> can find none, let him come him&s;elf and fetch them where they lie. <HI>Andrew</HI> being &s;ore afraid that he had committed &s;o &s;hameful a murther, and yet was fu&s;trate of his purpo&s;e, he purpo&s;|ed to flie incontinently. In the mean while that he went to the Gentlemans hou&s;e, the blood &s;oaked down thorow the boards into the Hall, which when <HI>Jeronimus</HI> e&s;pied, he asking his man from whence came that blood, who ran up to &s;&eacute;e, and &s;ound the good Gentleman &s;lain. Whereat they were &s;ore a&s;tonied, and wi&s;t not for fear what to do.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="8" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Andrew</HI> e&s;caping, <HI>Jeronimus</HI> with his retinue were impri&s;oned for the Murther. Chap. 8.</HEAD>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 8</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<PB N="29" REF="17">
<P>AS they &s;tood thus amazed, came the Var|let <HI>Andrew,</HI> on whom they all cried, &s;ay|ing, What ha&s;t thou done in murthering this man? He an&s;wered; The naughty Knave would have murthered me, hoping to have found co&s;t|ly Iewels about me, and therefore I had lither kill than be killed. Be &s;till therefore and make no out-cry, I will ca&s;t the carca&s;s into the pri|vy, and if any enquiry be made for him, &s;ay ye, &s;oon after dinner he departed, and &s;ince that we &s;aw him not. So when he had conveyed the dead body into the privy, he ha&s;ted night and day to avoid the Country, fearing to &s;tay any where le&s;t he &s;hould be pur&s;ued, and &s;o &s;uffer &s;ome rigorous death for his hainous fact, yea when he was fled as far as <HI>Venice:</HI> wherefore he there offered him&s;elf to be a Rower in a Galley that went to <HI>Alexandria.</HI> Where as &s;oon as he was arrived, he renounced the Chri|&s;tian faith, and thereupon was the better-e&s;t&eacute;em|ed, and &s;afe from the danger of the murther, although he had &s;lain an hundred Chri&s;tians. The &s;ame day that the murther was commit|ted, came <HI>Fortunatus</HI> home to <HI>London,</HI> from <HI>Sandwich,</HI> where he had laden certain Wares of his Ma&s;ters into a &s;hip. And when he perceiv|ed that he was not &s;o joyfully welcome as he was wont, and that his Ma&s;ter, his companions, and the re&s;t of the hou&s;hold were not &s;o merry as he had left them, he mu&s;ed greatly, and thereupon demanded of the chief Maiden, what had chanced in his ab&s;ence, that they all
<PB N="30" REF="18"> &s;hewed &s;uch heavy countenance. The di&s;creet hou&s;ewife which her Ma&s;ter loved well, &s;aid un|to him, be not thou troubled <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> for our Ma&s;ter hath received Letters from <HI>Flo|rence,</HI> that one of his dear Friends is dead, whom he &s;o intirely loved as his own Brother? howbeit he was not &s;o near of Kin, that it &s;hould be requi&s;ite to wear Mourning Gar|ments for him. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> hearing this, made no more ado, but &s;eemed al&s;o to be &s;orry with them. Now the Gentlemans Wife fora&s;much as her Husband came not home, neither &s;ent any word to &s;hew the cau&s;e of that &s;tay, mar|velled much, and that night quieted her &s;elf: But in the morning &s;peedily &s;he &s;ent one of her friends to the Court to enquire whether her Husband were there, or that the King had &s;ent him any other way. When the Kings Coun&s;el heard that enquiry was made for him, they wondred that he appeared not in the Court. And when the King al&s;o was cer|tified hereof, he commanded a Me&s;&s;enger forth|with to go to his hou&s;e, and to &s;ee whether he were there, and had the Iewels about him. For the King &s;omewhat mi&s;deemed of the matter, fearing le&s;t peradventure he were gone clean away with the Iewels: and though he &s;uppo&s;ed him to be an Hone&s;t man, yet thought he it not unlikely that he might be tempted with the great value of his Charge. So when every man had asked each of other, and no man could give certain re&s;olution
<PB N="31" REF="18"> where that Gentleman was become, the King willed that his Hou&s;e &s;hould be incontinent|ly &s;earched for the Iewels: For although he loved the Gentleman well, yet enquired he more earne&s;tly for the Iewels, than for the Man. When the Woman was asked for her Husband and for the Iewels, and what he &s;aid at his departure? She an&s;wering, &s;aid, It is now the third day &s;ince I &s;aw him, and when he departed, he told me he went to Dine with one of <HI>F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">orence,</HI> and in the after noon he &s;ent one unto me with his Signet and his Keys, willing me to &s;end him the Iewels. The Me&s;&s;enger moreover &s;ignified unto me, that he was in the Hou&s;e of <HI>Jeronimus Roberti,</HI> where were (as he &s;aid) many Iewels al&s;o, and that he would confer the one &s;ort with the o|ther. So I led him into the Chamber, and with tho&s;e Keys opened the Armory, but the Iewels could we by no means find, &s;o that the man returned unwillingly without them. Then demanded they of her, whether he had any &s;everal places of cu&s;tody? She an&s;wered: none: For all the chiefe&s;t things whereof he maketh account, as D&eacute;eds, Letters, Seals, and &s;uch like, doth he lay up in the Armony. The Iewels were once there al&s;o, but none at that time, for if they had, I would have &s;ent them unto him. The &s;earchers hearing this, brake up all the Coffers, Che&s;ts, and Cupboards in the hou&s;e, and yet the Iewels could they not find: whereat the Kings Me&s;&s;engers were greatly
<PB N="32" REF="19"> a&s;tonied, and the Gentlewoman exceedingly amazed to &s;&eacute;e her hou&s;e &s;o mi&s;u&s;ed. When this was told the King, it grieved him more for the Iewels, than for the money that was be|&s;towed on them; For that although he had money enough at will, yet he could not have the like Iewels at his plea&s;ure. The King and his Coun&s;el being in this perplexity, wi&s;t not what was be&s;t to do, but in the end concluded to apprehend <HI>Jeronimus Roberti</HI> with all his Family, that they &s;hould give an account what was become of the man; which was &s;o done the fifh day after the Gentleman was mur|thered. So the Sheriff waiting till &s;uppertime, entred the hou&s;e, where he found them all together: Namely, the two Ma&s;ters, the two Servants of Accounts, a Cook, a Hor&s;e-k&eacute;eper, two Maidens, and <HI>Fortunatus.</HI> So that there were in the whole nine Per&s;ons, which were all brought to Pri&s;on, and placed every one apart from the other, and examined whether the two men were become? They an|&s;wered all alike, that pre&s;ently after Dinner they went their way, and &s;ithence that they never &s;aw nor heard of them. But the Sheriff not therewith content, took all the keys of the Hou&s;e, and narrowly &s;earched the Stables, Cellers, and Ware-hou&s;es, where they might have buried the man, and yet found him not. But as they were departing, one among&s;t the Searchers, who had a burning Torch in his hand, &s;etting therewithal on fire a handful of
<PB N="33" REF="19"> &s;traw, ca&s;t it into the privy, and &s;o lookfng down, e&s;pied the dead body with the Legs up|ward; and therewith cried, Alas for pitty the man lyeth here murthered in the privy. Then drew they him out, being filthy and loath&s;om, and laid him openly before <HI>Jeronimus Roberty</HI> his door. When the Citizens of <HI>London</HI> under|&s;tood of this hainous murther, they made &s;uch an outcry upon the <HI>Florentines</HI> and <HI>Lumbards,</HI> that they were fain to keep them clo&s;e in their Hou&s;es, le&s;t if they were &s;&eacute;en abroad, they &s;hould be beaten down by the people.</P>
<P>This tydings was &s;p&eacute;edily brought to the King, who commanded to rack the Ma&s;ter and all the re&s;t, whereby the Truth might be boulted out, and that their confe&s;&s;ions &s;hould be &s;everally written, and e&s;pecially concerning the Iewels. So the Executioner fir&s;t racked <HI>Jeronimus</HI> very grievou&s;ly, enticing him therewithal, to manife&s;t who committed the murther, and where the Iewels were be&s;towed? <HI>Jeronimus</HI> perceiving by the extream pain he was put to, that the King and his Officers had intelligence of the murther committed in the Hou&s;e, without his knowledge or con&s;ent, therefore he was exc&eacute;eding &s;orry. And when he &s;aw there was no remedy but patience, he declared how every thing had happened, &s;hew|ing that one <HI>Andrew</HI> had required him to pre|pare a co&s;tly dinner, &s;ignifying that he &s;hould bring a Gentleman to dinner with him, whom he had procured to a&s;&s;i&s;t him to deliver a Pri|&s;oner
<PB N="34" REF="20"> that was in <HI>Turn</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> which thing (&s;aid he) I did for the honour of the King, and the whole Realm, neither wi&s;t I of any thing el&s;e. Now when dinner was done, I took no regard of them, but went to my &s;tudy to write; and when I had done, coming forth again, I e&s;pied blood dropping from the Chamber above, into the Hall; whereat I being a&s;tonied, &s;ent my &s;ervant to &s;ee what it &s;hould be, who &s;hewed me as it was. And as it happened, at that very in&s;tant came in this Varlet <HI>Andrew,</HI> to who&s;e charge I laid this murder, who an&s;wered, &s;ay|ing, the other would have murthered me, but by Gods help I prevented his pretence, and flew him, and &s;o ca&s;t him into the Privy: and therewith he &s;uddenly fled, and where he is be|come I wot not. The very &s;ame in every re|&s;pect did all the other affirm, when they were all racked. But <HI>Fortunatus</HI> confe&s;&s;ed nothing, though he were racked likewi&s;e; for he was not in the hou&s;e when this mi&s;chief betided, and therefore was clean ignorant of the matter.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="9" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Jeronimus Roberti</HI> with all his family were hanged, and how <HI>Fortunatus</HI> hardly e&s;ca|ped. Chap. 9.</HEAD>
<P>VVHen as by all the policies and extre|mities they had tried, no farther knowledge could be had, the King wrathfully incen&s;ed with anger, cau&s;ed them all to be
<PB N="35" REF="20">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 9</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE>hanged on a new pair of Gallows, &amp; their dead bodies to be fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ned thereto with Iron chains. And when as they orderly one after another &s;uffered execution, there remained only as yet alive <HI>Fortunatus</HI> and the Cook. And when <HI>For|tunatus</HI> was now in this perplexity, not know|ing otherwi&s;e but that he &s;hould be hanged al&s;o; he thought with him&s;elf, would God I had continued with my Ma&s;ter the Earl, and &s;uf|fered my &s;elf patiently to be gelded, then had I not come to this loath&s;ome and vile death. When the Cook (who was an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> man) la&s;t of all &s;aw <HI>Fortunatus</HI> &s;hould be executed, he cried with a loud voice, and declared before all the
<PB N="36" REF="21"> people, that <HI>Fortunatus</HI> was altogether inno|cent, and knowing nothing of the matter. Whereupon by great entreaty, and that he was no <HI>Florentine,</HI> and al&s;o unguilty, the Sheriff &s;aid unto him, get th&eacute;e quickly hence, for if thou be found by the way, the women will &s;ure|ly kill th&eacute;e. So gave he certain men charge to convey him over the water, and &s;o &s;afe conduct him unto the Sea-&s;ide.</P>
<P>When <HI>Jeronimus</HI> with his family were thus di&s;patched, the King permitted his hou&s;e to be &s;poiled: Howbeit the Officers had feathered their ne&s;t with the be&s;t before. When the <HI>Flo|rentines</HI> and <HI>Lumbards</HI> heard &s;ay that &s;uch ha|vock was made of <HI>Jeronimus</HI> goods, they were &s;ore afraid both of their lives and goods, though they were in nothing guilty: Wherefore they collected among them a great &s;um of Money, which they &s;ent unto the King, to purcha&s;e his good will for their &s;afeguard. The King being much moved with pitty, granted them licen&s;e to occupy and traffick as they did before.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="10" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How the Kings Jewels were found under a bed|&s;ted in the Gentlewomans hou&s;e, and delive|red to the King again. Chap. 10.</HEAD>
<P>AFter all things in this &s;ort fini&s;hed, it be|hoved the King notwith&s;tanding to make farther enquiry for the Iewels, on the which as he had be&s;towed much money before, &s;o on condi|tion
<PB N="37" REF="21"> he might po&s;&s;e&s;s them again, he would be content to have paid for them the &s;econd time. Wherefore he cau&s;ed to be publi&s;hed, that who could bring the fir&s;t tydings of them, &s;hould for a reward have five hundred marks: This was al&s;o proclaimed in other Nations, and Letters were written to many Princes and Lords of &s;trange Countries, that if any came to &s;ell &s;uch Iewels, they &s;hould be &s;taid, and tydings &s;ent thereof: Howbeit there was no news heard of them, although every man would gladly have done therein what lay in his power, only to have gained the reward.</P>
<P>Thus pa&s;&s;ed the time, till the Gentlewoman did Solemnize the Funeral Exequies of her Husband at the months end. And when the time of Chief Mourning was over-pa&s;&s;ed, invited her Play-fellows, Go&s;&s;ips, and Neighbours to make good chear with her; Among&s;t whom was one that lately al&s;o had lo&s;t her Husband, who &s;aid, If you will fol|low my Advice, I will teach you how you &s;hall &s;oon forget the Death of your Husband. Make your bed in another Chamber: or if you li&s;t not &s;o to do, remove it from one place to another, and when you go to bed, call to your mind &s;ome lu&s;ty Young man, whom you would wi&s;h to be your Husband, and &s;ay to your &s;elf, the Dead with the Dead, and the Living with the Living; for &s;o did I af|ter my Husbands death. Then &s;aid the Gen|tlewoman, Alas good Play-fellow, but I
<PB N="38" REF="22"> loved my Husband &s;o well, and with &s;o good affection, that I cannot forget him &s;o &s;oon. Howbeit, earne&s;tly imprinted the words in her mind: And &s;o &s;oon as the Company was gone, &s;he began to remove the bed&s;teds, che&s;ts, and Coffers, &s;o that unawares by one of the beds-feet &s;he found a little coffer wherein were the Iewels: which the Gentlewoman well knowing, &s;et a&s;ide for a while, and neverthe|le&s;s continued her moving till &s;he had done. After that &s;he &s;ent for one of her Kin&s;men, to whom &s;he declared that &s;he had found the Kings Iewels by chance, and that if &s;he had not re|moved the Bed, they might have layen long enough there unknown, for that none would have &s;ought in &s;uch a place for them. So &s;he required his Advice how &s;he might be&s;tow them. Who hearing that the Iewels were luckly found, greatly rejoyced, and &s;aid to her: If you de&s;ire my coun&s;el in this ca&s;e, and will accept well thereof, I would wi&s;h you thus to do: Take the Iewels, and I will go with you to make means to &s;peak with the King him&s;elf, and to deliver the Iewels into his own hands, and al&s;o you &s;hall &s;hew him the plain truth, by what chance you found them, referring to his courte&s;ie what reward he will give you; for if the Iewels &s;hould be clo&s;ely imbe&s;eled from the King, it behoveth to carry them into a &s;trange Country to be &s;old, where I warrant you he will lay privy wait if any &s;uch be offered to the Iewellers, and
<PB N="39" REF="22"> then the King being adverti&s;ed thereof, all them that have had to do with them, might lo&s;e both Body and Goods, and the Iewels notwith&s;tanding &s;hould be re&s;tored to him a|gain.</P>
<P>This Coun&s;el liked the Woman very well, and &s;o decking her &s;elf comely in Widows at|tire, went with her kin&s;man to the Court, there making earne&s;t &s;uit to &s;peak with the King him&s;elf. The King being adverti&s;ed thereof, &s;he was admitted in his pre&s;ence in the Cham|ber of State. When &s;he came before the King, &s;he humbly on her knees &s;aid; Mo&s;t gracious Lord, I your poor Hand-maid, am come to &s;ignifie unto your Maje&s;ty, that the Iewels which were committed unto my Husband your &s;ervant, to be delivered unto the Dutches of <HI>Burgundy,</HI> are found this day under a Bed|&s;ted, as I by chance removed my Bed, and &s;o pre&s;ently with all &s;peed I have made ha&s;t to pre&s;ent the &s;ame unto your Maje&s;ty. The King forthwith opened the Coffer, and found all the Iewels as they ought to be, whereof he was exceeding glad, and &s;o delivered them into the Iewel-hou&s;e to be kept. The King al&s;o conceived very well of her diligence, for that &s;he would not hazard them on the credit of any other, but delivered them with her own hands: And fora&s;much al&s;o as through occa&s;ion of the Iewels &s;he had lo&s;t her Husband, he thought in rea&s;on that &s;he &s;hould by &s;ome means or other be recompenced with a &s;pecial reward,
<PB N="40" REF="23"> whereby her &s;orrow might be &s;omewhat dimi|ni&s;hed: wherefore he cau&s;ed a certain lu&s;ty and couragious Young Gentleman of the Court to be called unto him, to whom he &s;aid, I will now reque&s;t of thee a thing, which I tru&s;t thou wilt not deny me. The young Gen|tleman an&s;wered, &s;aying, Gracious Lord, you &s;hall not u&s;e &s;uch entreaty, but command me what liketh you, and I will be obedient. With that the King forthwith &s;ent for a Chaplain, and even in his pre&s;ence did he marry the&s;e two together, and be&s;towed on them rich gifts, who lived joyfully one with the other. The Gentle|woman anon after went to her Play-fellow and thanked her greatly for the councel which &s;he gave her to remove her bed&s;ted, which, &s;aid &s;he, if I had not done, the King had not enjoyed his Iewels again, neither had I gotten &s;uch a fair and lu&s;ty young man to my Husband. There|fore I perceive it is good &s;ometimes to follow a friends advice.</P>
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<DIV1 N="11" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> &s;traying in a Wood was be|nighted, and in danger of life. Chap. 11.</HEAD>
<P>NOw return we to &s;hew how <HI>Fortunatus</HI> fared, &s;ithence he had e&s;caped hanging: for whereas at his departure he was de&s;titute of money, &amp; be&s;et with peril and danger, he &s;p&eacute;edily conveyed him&s;elf out of <HI>England,</HI> and arrived in <HI>Picardy,</HI> where he would gladly have &s;erved,
<PB N="41" REF="23"> but could get no Ma&s;ter. So he went further, and was come to <HI>Brittain,</HI> where he adventu|ring to pa&s;s through a large wood, was driven to &s;tay all day long, and could find no way out. And being benighted, he e&s;pyed an old hou&s;e, whereas &s;ome gla&s;s had been made, whereof he was glad, &s;uppo&s;ing to have found &s;ome People therein. But when he came thither, there was no Creature: neverthele&s;s he &s;tay|ed there all that Night with extream Hunger and Thir&s;t, and al&s;o in great fear of the Wild Bea&s;ts which there haunted, greedily longing for the day, and prayed God to help him out of the Wood, le&s;t he &s;hould peri&s;h for want of food. In the morning he intending to cro&s;s the next way out of the Wood, chanced contrariwi&s;e in the length thereof: So that the farther he went, the more he &s;trayed; and thus wandred the Second day al&s;o with great grief: And when the Night came on, he happened on a Fountain, and being Feeble, for that he had received no &s;u&s;tenance in two days, drank thereof with &s;uch an Appetite, that he was thereby &s;omewhat refre&s;hed. As he &s;at him down by this fountain (the moon &s;hining clear) he heard a noi&s;e in the Wood, as if it had b&eacute;en the grunting of Bears: Wherefore he be|&s;tirred his &s;tumps, and conveyed him&s;elf a lit|tle a&s;ide out of &s;ight; and therewithal devi&s;ing how he might be&s;t &s;hift to be &s;afe from the force of the Wild-Bea&s;ts, he climbed upon a Tree-well freighted with boughs, not far from the
<PB N="42" REF="24"> Fountain, from whence he beheld many &s;orts of wild and &s;avage Bea&s;ts, coming to drink. Among them all was a Bear not fully grown, which winded <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> and began to climb up the Tree after him, therewith he was &s;ore a|fraid. And when he was climbed as high as he was able, he &s;tayed on a bough, drew his &s;word,<FIGURE>
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</FIGURE> and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">icked the Bear in the head, and wounded him el&s;e where in many places, whereupon the fierce Bear &s;o greedily &s;tretched him&s;elf at <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> that the bough brake whereon he &s;tayed, and &s;o fell to the ground. When <HI>For|tunatus</HI> perceived the coa&s;t clear from all other Bea&s;ts, &s;ave only the Bear that could now &s;cantly remove him&s;elf, he de&s;cended from the tree and thru&s;t his &s;word through him, and then <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aying his mouth to the wound, &s;ucked out th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
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<HEAD>How the Lady <HI>Fortune</HI> gave to <HI>Fortunatus</HI> a Pur&s;e that never wanted money. Chap. 11.</HEAD>
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<P>AS &s;oon as he awaked, he &s;aw &s;tanding be|fore him a Fair and Beautiful Woman, mufled over the eyes; wherefore he prai&s;ed and thanked God devoutly, that yet he beheld &s;ome mankind before his death. And to the Woman he &s;aid: I be&s;eech thee &s;weet Virgin for the Love of God to a&s;&s;i&s;t me, that I may come out
<PB N="44" REF="25"> of this Wood, for this is the third day that I have here irk&s;omely wandred without any Meat, and herewith declared to her al&s;o what had chanced concerning the Beat. Then de|manded &s;he of him, &s;aying: Of what Country art thou, and what moved thee to come hither? He an&s;wered, I am of the I&s;le of <HI>Cyprus,</HI> and poverty hath con&s;trained me to wander, I force not greatly whether, until &s;uch time as God (when it plea&s;eth him) &s;hall provide for me a competent living. She &s;aid, fear not <HI>Fortuna|tus,</HI> for I am Lady <HI>Fortune,</HI> and by the influ|ence of the Heavens, Stars, and Planets, are given me &s;ix powers, which I may be&s;tow on one or more, for a long Time, or &s;hort Space, according to the Government of the Cele&s;tial Planets, and the permi&s;&s;ion of the Almighty God. The which are; Namely, Wi&s;dom, Riches, and Strength, Health, Beauty, and long Life: Cho&s;e one of the&s;e &s;ix, and make no long nur&s;ing, for the Hour of Choice is near hand pa&s;t. I was &s;ent by the Divine Power to be&s;tow one of the&s;e worldly gifts on thee, which thy affection doth mo&s;t de&s;ire. <HI>For|tunatus</HI> took no long deliberation of the mat|ter, but &s;aid, then I de&s;ire of Riches &s;uch plen|ty, that I may not lack &s;o long as I live. With that, forthwith &s;he gave unto him a Pur&s;e, and &s;aid, Receive this &s;ame of me, and in what Country &s;oever thou art, as often as thou put|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t thy hand into it, thou &s;halt draw forth ten <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ieces of Gold of the &s;ame Nations Coyn. And
<PB N="45" REF="25"> this Pur&s;e &s;hall retain this vertue, during the life of thee, and of thine own Children, who&s;o|ever &s;hall po&s;&s;e&s;s it, either thou, thy children, or any other; but no longer after your death: therefore e&s;teem it accordingly, and take &s;pe|cial care thereof. Then &s;aid <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> Right courteous and beautiful Lady, Fora&s;much as you have freely be&s;towed &s;uch an incompara|ble Iewel on me, rea&s;on would that I al&s;o be bound to do &s;omething for your &s;ake, le&s;t that this worthy benefit in time &s;lip out of my Re|membrance. She an&s;wered him demurely, &s;ay|ing: If thou had&s;t cho&s;en Wi&s;dom in&s;tead of Riches, thou would&s;t not have been &s;o careful to yield recompence where it is not de&s;erved: For knowe&s;t thou not, that I am guided by the finger of the omnipotent God? And perceive&s;t thou not that mine eyes are mufled not regard|ing whom I plea&s;ure, nor &s;eeing where I be|&s;tow? render thanks therefore only where it is due, unto the Giver of all good Gifts; to whom thou can&s;t yield no better recompence, than of thy riches freely received to be&s;tow on the poor and needy, where, when, and to whom it is ex|pedient.</P>
<P>Then &s;aid <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> this will I willingly perform to the utmo&s;t of my power, and there|with made a &s;olemn Vow, that this day he would evermore keep holy; and in what Coun|try &s;oever he were, he would be&s;tow on the &s;ame day four hundred pieces of Gold of that Nati|ons Coyn, upon &s;ome marriable Virgin, in
<PB N="28" REF="26"> perpetual remembrance how he fir&s;t obtained his riches. Then &s;aid the Lady, follow me, and &s;he led him by chance (as the blindman ca&s;teth his &s;taff) overthwart the Wood into a beaten way, willing him to follow that path without turning on the left hand or the right, and that he &s;hould not look where &s;he become, neither any more tru&s;t unto her. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> did as &s;he willed him, and travelled &s;peedily till he came out of the wood, where he e&s;pied a great hou&s;e that was an Inn, where men that pa&s;&s;ed to and fro the wood, u&s;ually refre&s;hed them&s;elves. Be|fore he approached the hou&s;e, he took the Pur&s;e out of his bo&s;om, to try whether the <HI>Ladies</HI> pro|mi&s;e would prove to effect, that he might have therewith to pay his charges; and in puting his hand into the pur&s;e, drew out ten Crowns, whereof he was very glad and then entred joy|fully into the Inn, calling pre&s;ently to the Ho&s;t for the be&s;t meat he had, &s;aying, He well would content him, for he was very hungry: that liked the ho&s;t well, and &s;o he furni&s;hed the Table with very good fare.</P>
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<DIV1 N="12" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> for buying certain great hor&s;es which an Earl had before prized, was taken pri&s;oner, and in danger of his life. Chap. 12.</HEAD>
<P>NOw when <HI>Fortunatus</HI> had &s;ufficient &s;lack|ed his hunger and thir&s;t, he re&s;ted there three days to refre&s;h his empty &s;tomach, and weary limbs, and at his departure bought of
<PB N="47" REF="26"> the ho&s;t a compleat harne&s;s, and to the intent he might be the &s;ooner entertained; and &s;o di&s;|charging the ho&s;t to his full contentation, de|parted farther. There was two mile from the wood a litt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e town, with a ca&s;tle, wherein dwelt an Earl, which had juri&s;diction of the Wood granted to him by the Duke of <HI>Britain. Fortu|natus</HI> pa&s;&s;ing that way, entred the be&s;t Inn of the town, and asked of the Ho&s;t, where he knew any good Hor&s;es to be bought? The Ho&s;t an|&s;wered, Ye&s;terday came hither a &s;trange Mer|chant with fifteen fair Palfrays, intending to &s;ell them at the fea&s;t that the Duke of <HI>Brittain</HI> doth make to the Kings Daughter of <HI>Arragon,</HI> among which our Earl hath cho&s;en three of the be&s;t, and hath offered for them three hundred Crowns, but the Merchant demanded twenty more. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> being thus certified, went into his Chamber, and privily took out of his Pur&s;e &s;ix hundred Crowns, which he put into a bag, and &s;aid to the Ho&s;t, where is the Mer|chant with his Hor&s;es? I would fain &s;ee them. The Ho&s;t &s;aid, I believe the man will &s;cantly let you &s;ee them, for he was very unwilling to &s;hew them unto the Earl. Then &s;aid <HI>Fortuna|tus,</HI> If the Hor&s;es like me well, I dare perhaps &s;ooner buy them than the Earl. The Ho&s;t &s;up|po&s;ed he had but je&s;ted in &s;o boa&s;ting him&s;elf, being &s;o &s;imply apparelled, and al&s;o a foot-man: yet brought he him to the Hor&s;e-Ma&s;ter, with whom he communed &s;o far, that they were brought forth and ridden before him. He liked
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<PB N="48" REF="31"> them all well, but meant to buy only tho&s;e two that the Earl had cheapned; wherefore he rea+dily delivered for them three hundred and twen|ty Crowns, and willed them to be brought to his Inn. He be&s;pake al&s;o co&s;tly &s;addles and trim furniture for them, and reque&s;ted his Ho&s;t to provide him two comely &s;ervitors, to whom he promi&s;ed to give good entertainment. While<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> he was thus furni&s;hing him&s;elf after the brav|e&s;t manner, the Earl had intelligence that he had bought the hor&s;es which he thought to have had; whereat he was greatly di&s;plea&s;ed, and inwardly vexed, e&s;pecially for that he was &s;o di&s;apointed, when as he purpo&s;ed to accompany many Noble E&s;tates at the &s;olemn Wedding Fea&s;t Wherefore in great indignation he &s;ent one of his Men unto the Inn-keeper, to de|mand what manner of man he was, that had &s;o &s;pightfully bought the Hor&s;es out of his hands: The Ho&s;t &s;aid he knew him not, but that he came into the Inn as a Foot-man, how|beit furni&s;hed with Armour as a Hor&s;e-man, requiring me to procure Hor&s;es for him, and promi&s;ed therefore gladly to content me. But after he had once dined with me, I liked him &s;o well, that except he had payed me for the fir&s;t, I would not have tru&s;ted him for the &s;econd, le&s;t he &s;hould have beguiled me. Then &s;aid the Servant angerly to the Ho&s;t: Where|fore would you &s;eem to wain him to the hor&s;es? The Inn-keeper an&s;wered, therein have I done as every hone&s;t Ho&s;t ought to do for his Gue&s;t
<PB N="49" REF="31"> in &s;uch a ca&s;e. And although he required me to go with him to cheapen &s;uch fair hor&s;es, yet I thought him &s;cant able to buy &s;illy A&s;&s;es.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="13" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> was taken Pri&s;oner, and &s;traightly examined concerning the Pur&s;e. Chap. 13.</HEAD>
<P>THe Servant returned with his an&s;wer to the Earl; who being informed that he was no gentleman, commanded his men in a great rage to lay hands on him; &s;aying, that he had &s;urely committed &s;ome great Robery, or mur|thered &s;ome man. The &s;ervants executed his Commandment, and enclo&s;ed him in a loath|&s;ome Pri&s;on, asking from whence, and what he was?</P>
<P>He an&s;wered, I was born in a Town of <HI>Cy|prus,</HI> called <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> and I am the Son of a poor Gentleman.</P>
<P>Then asked the Earl by what means he got &s;o much money? He &s;aid, My money is my own, truly gotten, and therefore I tru&s;t your honour will not rigorou&s;ly enforce me to recount from whence I had it: but if any man can prove or &s;ay that I have done wrong to any creature, or come untruly by it, I &s;hall willingly &s;tand to thy Law and mercy. To this, &s;aid the Earl, thy prating will not avail thee; but thou &s;halt ere thou depart confe&s;s from whence and how thou ha&s;t obtained this money: with that cau&s;ed they him to be brought to the rack; when <HI>Fortunatus</HI>
<PB N="50" REF="32"> &s;aw how extreamly he &s;hould be dealt withal, he was &s;ore afraid, howbeit he purpo&s;ed rather to die, than to open the &s;ecret Vertues of his Pur&s;e. But when he was Racked, and felt the grievous pangs and torments thereof, he cryed to them to unlo&s;e him, and promi&s;ed to utter what&s;oever they would ask. Then being again demanded how he came by &s;o many fair Crowns? He &s;aid: After I had wandred three days long in the Wood, and with much ado at length came out into the fields, I found a Pur&s;e wherein were &s;ix Hundred and Ten Crowns. Then asked the Earl where is that Pur&s;e? <HI>Fortunatus</HI> &s;aid, When I had told the Money, I put it in my own bag, and ca&s;t the Pur&s;e into the River that runneth by the Wood. The Earl &s;aid, Thou Varlet wilt thou rob me of that is mine? Thou &s;halt well under&s;tand that both thy Body and Goods are forfeited unto me, fora&s;much as what&s;oever is in the Wood is mine own. Then &s;aid <HI>For|tunatus,</HI> Gracious Lord, I wi&s;t not of your Iuri&s;diction therein, for I thanked God there|fore, and e&s;teemed it as a Gift. And think|e&s;t thou, &s;aid the Earl, this to be &s;ufficient excu&s;e for thee? Did&s;t thou never hear &s;ay, <HI>That he which is ignorant mu&s;t ask?</HI> There|fore to be &s;hort, prepare thy &s;elf, for to Day will I take from thee thy Goods, and to Mor|row thy Life. Then thought <HI>Fortunatus</HI> with him&s;elf, mi&s;erable wretch that I am, how uncircum&s;pect was I, having the free Electi|on
<PB N="51" REF="32"> on &s;ix Gifts, that I cho&s;e not Wi&s;dom be|fore the re&s;t, for then I had not fallen into this danger and thraldom. And then he craved for mercy, &s;aying: O gracious Lord, have com|pa&s;&s;ion on the poor wandring wight, and &s;eek not my death, which will nothing avail you: take unto you the goods found, which be yours, and &s;pare me my life which God hath lent me, and I will evermore pray truely for your good e&s;tate.</P>
<P>The Earl was very loath to pardon him, becau&s;e he feared le&s;t he might make ill report of his rigour where he &s;hould become, which might turn to his reproach among other No|ble E&s;tate, they hearing thereof. Notwith|&s;tanding he being moved to mercy, by the in|&s;tance of his men, granted him his Life, but bereft him of all his goods, &s;aving only the Harna&s;s, which he rendred to him again, with a Crown al&s;o in his Pur&s;e.</P>
<P>The Earl moreover in the morning before day commanded his Men to bring him without the Town, and there to take an Oath of him, that he &s;hould never again come into his Iu|ri&s;diction, &s;o long as he lived. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> inwardly rejoyced, that he had &s;o well e&s;ca|ped, for if the Earl had but known the truth, mo&s;t likely he had been bereft of his mo&s;t pre|cious Pur&s;e. After this came <HI>Fortunatus</HI> to <HI>Angiers,</HI> which is the chief Town of <HI>Brit|tain,</HI> &s;cituated by the Sea-Coa&s;t, where were
<PB N="52" REF="33"> then lodged many Lords and Noble E&s;tates, abiding the comming of the Dutches, whom they purpo&s;ed to welcome with all kind of mar|tial games, dancing, masking, and other &s;uch triumphant pa&s;times. Of this was <HI>Fortunatus</HI> very glad: and being de&s;irous to advance him|&s;elf among them, thought thus with him&s;elf, if I &s;hould do in all points as I might if I li&s;t, peradventure I &s;hould be &s;erved as I was late|ly by the Earl.</P>
<P>Howbeit he adventured yet once again to buy three fair hor&s;es with co&s;tly furniture, and hired two &s;ervants, cloathing both them, and him&s;elf pre&s;ently in trim apparel, and &s;o lodged in the be&s;t Inn of <HI>Angiers,</HI> there meaning to wait the Dutches coming, and to receive her in the Company of other Gentlemen. So the Dutches being landed, was met by many No|bles and great E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tates, and &s;o conveyed to <HI>An|giers,</HI> where the Duke held a great Fea&s;t for the &s;pace of &s;ix weeks and three days.</P>
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<DIV1 N="14" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> entertained an <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Gentle|man to be his Guide and Companion in tra|velling. Chap. 14.</HEAD>
<P><HI>FOrtunatus</HI> delighted in the company of &s;uch lu&s;ty Gallants, and with the &s;ight of many &s;umptuous &s;hews, u&s;ed very often to go and come to the Court with his goodly Hor&s;es and his two men, leaving nothing ought worth be|hind him in the Inn: Which the Ho&s;t mi&s;lik|ed,
<PB N="53" REF="33"> fora&s;much as he knew him not, fearing le&s;t he would give him the &s;lip, and leave him in the lurch for his charges, as others had done at the like Fea&s;t before time. Therefore &s;aid he un|to <HI>Fortunatus:</HI> Good Friend, (fithence I have &s;o &s;mall acquaintance with you as you know) I pray you let me be di&s;charged for that you have had every day, before you ride to the Court. With that <HI>Fortunatus</HI> &s;miled, and &s;aid to the Ho&s;t, I mean not to depart without con|tenting you to the uttermo&s;t; and for a &s;uffi|cient te&s;timony to &s;atisfie thy mind, take here of me the&s;e hundred Crowns, and when thou thinke&s;t that I or mine that come with me, have &s;pent the value thereof, tell it me, and I will give thee more, neither will I look for any &s;traight account of thee. The Ho&s;t received the money, and after that much more reverent|ly e&s;teemed of <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> veiling his Bonnet always when he pa&s;&s;ed by: &s;etting him in the worthie&s;t Room at the Table, with the be&s;t; and placed him in a fairer Chamber than he had before.</P>
<P>As <HI>Fortunatus</HI> &s;at at the board with many other Lords, thither re&s;orted many other Mu&s;icians to make Mirth and Pa&s;time for Money. Among&s;t others came before them a Lu&s;ty Old Man, declaring unto them his Poverty: and &s;aid moreover that he was a Gentleman of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and that in &s;even years &s;pace he had travelled throughout ten Empires, and twenty Kingdoms, whereby
<PB N="54" REF="34"> &s;aid he, I am driven to this poor e&s;tate, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> therefore I be&s;eech your honours to a&s;&s;i&s;t ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> with your courteous liberality towards m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Charges, to pa&s;s home into my Country. A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> certain Earl &s;itting at the Board, willed him to name all the Countries through which h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> had pa&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>The Old Gentleman did as he was reque&s;t|ed truly and at large: and &s;aid furthermore there is few of the&s;e Kingdoms but hath al&s;o a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the lea&s;t three or four Dukes under it, be&s;ide<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> other Earls and Lords, both Spiritual and Temporal: All the&s;e have I &s;een, which hav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> every one their proper Language, whereof I learned &s;o much, as if need were, I could expre&s;s my mind in any of them. I have moreover in writing, the name of every King that then reighned when I was in his Court and the True Di&s;tance of every Kingdom from the other.</P>
<P>The Earl &s;aid, would God I had been with thee every where, &s;o I were here again as I am; and therewith gave him four Crowns, and of|fered him al&s;o if he would &s;tay there while&s;t the Fea&s;t la&s;ted, to pay for his charges. The Gent<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eman greatly thanked him for his Gift and gentle proffer, and &s;aid he much longed to &s;ee his Friends and native Country, and there|fore was loath any longer to &s;tay. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> had given good ear to the talk of the old Gen|tleman, and thought in his mind, if I might have him to guide me through &s;trange Coun|tries,
<PB N="55" REF="34"> I would richly reward him. So pre|&s;ently after dinner he &s;ent for the Gentleman, and asked his name, who an&s;wered, I am called <HI>Leopoldus.</HI> Then &s;aid <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> I perceive e|ven now by your words that you have wandred throughout many Countries and Kingdoms, I am a Young Man, earne&s;tly di&s;po&s;ed to pa&s;s my youth in travel, for Experience and Wi&s;|dom: If thou therefore wilt vouch&s;afe, to be my Guide and Companion, I will give thee a goodly Hor&s;e for thy &s;elf, and another for thy Man, whom I will maintain to Attend on thee, allowing you what Money you will with rea&s;on &s;pend, and will e&s;teem thee as my Brother.</P>
<P>Then &s;aid <HI>Leopoldus,</HI> I could be right well content to enjoy &s;uch courteous intertainment, but alas I am old, and have wife and children, that wot not what is become of me, and there|fore Natural Love doth compel me to return home again.</P>
<P>Then &s;aid <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> If thou wilt agr&eacute;e to fulfil my reque&s;t, I likewi&s;e faithfully promi&s;e thee, that I will go with thee al&s;o into <HI>Ireland,</HI> and will moreover endow thy &s;elf, thy wife, and thy children, (if they be alive) with riches &s;uf|ficient, if our journey &s;peed well, and that we may &s;afely return to <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> (that lieth in the I&s;le of <HI>Cyprus</HI>) I will there provide thee a Hou&s;e, Men-&s;ervants, and maidens, and all o|ther things nece&s;&s;ary during thy life, if thou li&s;t there to &s;tay.</P>
<PB N="56" REF="35">
<P><HI>Leopoldus</HI> thought with him&s;elf, this young man promi&s;eth me very much, and if he be able to perform it accordingly, it falleth out luckily for me in my old age: and therewith &s;aid to <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> I am content to grant your Re|que&s;t, &s;o far as you accompli&s;h your promi&s;e. But I would not wi&s;h you to take upon you &s;uch a matter, except you have &s;o much ready money as &s;hall be requi&s;ite, for Travel requir|eth infinite charges, if we look to be well en|tertained.</P>
<P>Then &s;aid <HI>Fortunatus:</HI> For money care thou not, for in every Country can I get enough. Be content therefore to promi&s;e that thou wilt remain with me to my full journeys end. He &s;aid again: Promi&s;e you me al&s;o to give that you beque&s;ted. Thus did they Faithfully vow, the one not to for&s;ake the other, what Danger &s;oever might betide. When they were thus both agreed, <HI>Fortunatus</HI> gave to <HI>Leopoldus</HI> two hundred Crowns, &s;aying: Go and buy two fair Hor&s;es, and hire thee a Ser|vant, or if thou li&s;t, a couple; and when that money is &s;pent, I will give thee more: <HI>Leo|poldu,</HI> thinking this to be a good beginning, furni&s;hed him&s;elf lu&s;tily with a Hor&s;e &amp; a Man. The like did <HI>Fortunatus</HI> al&s;o, and took with him but two Servants and a Page; &s;o that they were in all &s;ix per&s;ons. Then agreed they upon the ge&s;ts of their journey, determining fir&s;t to Travel over the whole Empire of <HI>Rome,</HI> and &s;o took their ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> way by <HI>Norem-Berge,
<PB N="57" REF="35"> Word, Ausburg, Norlingen, U&s;me, Con&s;tance, Bazil, Strasburg, Ments, Colen,</HI> and &s;o from <HI>Colen</HI> to <HI>Bruges</HI> in Flanders, and from thence to <HI>London</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> which is the chief City of the Realm, and &s;o next to <HI>E|denbourgh,</HI> the head City in <HI>Scotland,</HI> which is nine days journey from <HI>London.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="15" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> accompanied his man home, where they went together to St. <HI>Patrick</HI>'s Purgatory. Chap. 15.</HEAD>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 15</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P>ANd when they were there, they had yet three days journey into <HI>Ireland,</HI> whereas <HI>Leopoldus</HI> dwelt: when they were arrived in <HI>London; Leopoldus</HI> reque&s;ted his Ma&s;ter to go
<PB N="58" REF="36"> with him to his Hou&s;e, which was in a Town called <HI>Waldrink:</HI> where at his return he found his wife and children as he had left them, &s;av|ing that one of his &s;ons &amp; one of his daughters were married, which all were glad of his com|ing. And whereas <HI>Fortunatus</HI> con&s;idered that <HI>Leopoldus</HI> had no more Provi&s;ion than was needful for his hou&s;hold, he gave him an hun|dred crowns to ordain all things after the mo&s;t &s;umptuous manner, again&s;t he &s;hould come to make good chear with him. Wherefore <HI>Leo|poldus</HI> made provi&s;ion of great plenty of deli|cate victuals, and bad his Children with their husbands and wives, and many other friends and neighbours to accompany his Ma&s;ter at that Fea&s;t. So there was kept &s;uch bountiful ho&s;pitality for that time, that all the Town fa|red the better for him.</P>
<P><HI>Fortunatus</HI> after the fea&s;t was ended, called unto him <HI>Leopoldus,</HI> and &s;aid: Thou mu&s;t now again take thy leave of thy Wife and Children: Wherefore receive here of me three Pur&s;es, in each of them is five hundred Crowns, whereof thou &s;halt give one to thy wife, another to thy &s;on, and the third to thy daughter for a farewel, that they may have &s;ufficient whereby to live when thou art gone.</P>
<P><HI>Leopoldus</HI> greatly thanked him for his libe|ral gifts, and therewith made his wife and children exceeding glad. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> under&s;tan|ding that two days journey from thence was
<PB N="59" REF="36"> St. <HI>Patr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cks</HI> Purgatory, he was very de&s;irous to &s;ee the &s;ame. Whereupon they rode unto the City <HI>Vernecks,</HI> wherein is an Abby, and there behind the high Altar in the Church is a door, within the which is a deep dark Hole, the &s;ame do men call St. <HI>Patricks</HI> Purgatory: But none may go into it without licence of the Ab|bot. Whereupon <HI>Leopoldus</HI> obtained leave of him, of whom he was demanded of what Country his Ma&s;ter was? he an&s;wered, of the I&s;le of <HI>Cyprus:</HI> Whereupon the Abbot invi|ted <HI>Fortunatus</HI> to Dinner, which plea&s;ed him well. So at his coming he pre&s;ented the Abbot with a Ve&s;&s;el of the be&s;t Wine he could get. The Abbot yielded unto him great Thanks, for in that Country they &s;eldome u&s;e any Wine, except it be in Mini&s;tring the Sacrament. When the Dinner was fini&s;hed, <HI>Fortunatus</HI> &s;aid unto the Abbot. May it plea&s;e your Honour to let me under&s;tand upon what occa&s;ion this Hole fir&s;t was named St. <HI>Patricks</HI> Purgatory? The Abbot an&s;wered, &s;aying: Many hundred Years &s;ithence was this Town and this Abby a De&s;olate Wil|derne&s;s, and not far from it dwelt an Ab|bot called <HI>Patrick,</HI> who was a very Devout Man. He oftentimes re&s;orting to this De&s;art, to do &s;ome work of penance, one day by chance found this long and deep Hole, into the which he went &s;o far, that he could not return. With that he fell on his knees, praying unto God in|&s;tantly, that (if it were his plea&s;ure) he would
<PB N="60" REF="37"> deliver him out of that dark dungeon: while&s;t he thus devoutly prayed, it &s;eemed to him that he heard yet further of a piteous cry. In the mean while &s;uddenly he was delivered out of the Hole: Wherefore he joyfully Prai&s;ing the Lord for his mercy, went again into the Cloi&s;ter, and became more devout than ever he was before. And &s;o in perpetual memory of this chance, was this Abby builded by devout men. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> then asked farther what the Pilgrims reported that came thence out again? The Abbot &s;aid, I &s;eldom en|quire of them: but &s;ome &s;ay, they have heard a pittiful &s;creeking: others report they have neither &s;een nor heard any thing at all, but that they have been &s;ore afraid. Then &s;aid <HI>Fortunatus:</HI> I am come from far Countries to this place, and if I &s;hould return home without &s;ome certain Trial of &s;uch a Monu|ment in my own Per&s;on, it &s;hould be a reproach to me: therefore will I not go hence till I have been in the Hole. Then &s;aid the Abbot, If you will needs adventure, beware you go not too far in, for there be many by|ways wherein you may go a&s;tray, as many others have done in my time, which have not been found till three days after. <HI>Fortu|natus</HI> asked of <HI>Leopoldus</HI> whether he would adventure in with him? He &s;aid: Yea, I will go into any place with you &s;o long as God &s;pares me Life. That liked <HI>Fortuna|tus</HI> well: Whereupon they receiving the holy
<PB N="61" REF="37"> Sacrament: on the next morrow, the Prie&s;t let them in, ble&s;&s;ed them, and &s;hut the Door after them. There they wandring in the dark, at the length wi&s;t not to go backward or for|ward, for they &s;oon went a&s;tray; neither could they hear the calling of the Prie&s;t in the mor|ning, whereon they tru&s;ted, and the bolder ad|ventured.</P>
<P>Thus they not knowing how to help them|&s;elves, and being very hungry and faint, they wholly de&s;paired of all &s;uccour, &amp; dreaded their lives, they &s;at down as men forlorn, neither hearing nor &s;eeing any thing at all, and there|with made their humble prayers unto God; Saying: <HI>Almighty Lord, a&s;&s;i&s;t us with thy Power, by &s;ome means or other, for in this loath|&s;om Den, neither Silver nor Gold can ought a|vail, though we have it at will, but in thee only is our tru&s;t.</HI> The Prie&s;t in the mean while &s;ig|nified unto the Abbot, that the Pilgrims were not as yet come out again, whereof he was very &s;orry; e&s;pecially becau&s;e of <HI>For|tunatus,</HI> who had pre&s;ented him &s;o liberally. The Servants al&s;o at the Door watched continually, and greatly lamented for their Ma&s;ters: But the Abbot notwith&s;tanding remembred him&s;elf of an old Man, who many years before had mea&s;ured the Hole with a Cord, for him he &s;ent, and reque&s;ted him to try whether he could bring forth the men. The Servants al&s;o promi&s;ed him an hundred Crowns for his pains. The old man
<PB N="62" REF="38"> &s;aid if they be yet alive, I &s;hall &s;ure bring them forth; and therewith prepared a mu&s;ical in&s;tru|ment, played on it, and &s;o pa&s;&s;ed from one hole to the other, until he had found them, being very feeble and faint; whom he willed to take hold of him, and &s;o follow the &s;ound of his In&s;tru|ment, as the blind followeth his guide. So by the help of God, and the old mans a&s;&s;i&s;tance came they again to the light, whereof the Ab|bot was very glad: for he feared if tho&s;e two Pilgrims had been lo&s;t, that no more would have re&s;orted thither, whereby he and his Co|vent &s;hould fare the wor&s;e. The men al&s;o told <HI>Fortunatus</HI> that they had promi&s;ed an hundred Crowns to the old men for &s;earching them out, which he forthwith deliver'd with great thanks. He ordained al&s;o a &s;umptuous dinner, whereto he invited the Abbot and his brethren, thanking God for his deliverance out of &s;o great dan|ger. He gave al&s;o unto them for a Farewel, five hundred Crowns, to the intent they &s;hould pray for his pro&s;perous &s;ucce&s;s. Then took they their leave of the Abbot, and &s;etting for|ward to accompli&s;h their purpo&s;ed journey, tra|velled back the next way to <HI>Callis,</HI> and from thence to St. <HI>Jo&s;s</HI> in <HI>Picardy,</HI> and &s;o by <HI>Paris,</HI> through <HI>France, Spain, Naples,</HI> and <HI>Rome,</HI> un|to <HI>Venice.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="16" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="63" REF="38">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> went to <HI>Con&s;tantinople,</HI> to the Coronation of the young Emperor. Chap. 16.</HEAD>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 16</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P>WHen they were come to <HI>Venice,</HI> they heard &s;ay that the Emperor of <HI>Con|&s;tantinople</HI> would have his Son Crowned Em|peror; and for that he was him&s;elf very old, he would yield up unto him the whole Authority and juri&s;diction of the Empire, for the term of both their lives: whereupon the <HI>Venetians</HI> ap|pointed a wor&s;hipful Emba&s;&s;ador to pa&s;s to the young Emperor in a Galley, and to deliver un|to him certain jewels &s;ent in token of gratula|tion from them. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> therefore bargained with the Ma&s;ter of the Galley, &s;o that he had his
<PB N="46" REF="39"> men pa&s;&s;ed therein to <HI>Con&s;tantinople,</HI> which is a great and famous City. Thither were a&s;&s;em|bled &s;uch a number of people of divers Nati|ons, that there was very hardly any lodging to be had: and although the <HI>Venet<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ans</HI> had a&s;&s;ign|ed a hou&s;e for their u&s;e, yet would they admit no &s;tranger under them, &s;o that <HI>Fortunatus</HI> and his men &s;eeking long for a lodging, at the la&s;t they chanced on one (&s;uch as it was) whereof the Ho&s;t was a thief. There continued they a great while, going every day forth to &s;ee the Triumphs and Royalties of the Emperours Court, whereof much might be written.</P>
<P><HI>Fortunatus</HI> always when he went abroad, cau&s;ed his Chamber door to be fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> locked, &s;up|po&s;ing then all things to be &s;afe. But the Ho&s;t had a privy entrance into the Chamber, where the greate&s;t bed-&s;ted was, through the feeling, whereout he had taken a board, and &s;et it in a|gain that none might perceive it, and there en|tred he in and out when he li&s;ted. And when they were all abroad, he would &s;earch the Males and Budgets, and could find no money. Wherefore he thinking of likely-hood that they carried their money with them &s;owed in their Doublets: when as they reckoned with him for their charges, he marked diligently from whence they took the money, and perceived that <HI>Fortuna<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">us</HI> took it from under the Table, and g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ve it to <HI>Leopol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">us,</HI> who payed the Ho&s;t, abat|ing no penny; for &s;o he was willed always to do. But the Ho&s;t was not therewith content,
<PB N="65" REF="39"> but would gladly al&s;o have had both the money and the pur&s;e. About this time was the day at hand, wherein he had vowed in memorial of Lady <HI>Fortunes</HI> Gift, to be&s;tow <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">our hundred pieces of Gold towards the marriage of &s;ome poor maiden. Wherefore he asked of the Ho&s;t, whether he knew any poor hone&s;t man that had a daughter marriageable, and was not able to be&s;tow her for lack of ability: &s;uch a one, &s;aid he, bring unto me, and I will be&s;tow largely on her to prefer her marriage. The Ho&s;t &s;aid, of &s;uch you may have plenty; and to morrow I will bring you an hone&s;t man, who &s;hall bring with him a mode&s;t and comely maiden. This liked <HI>Fortunatus</HI> very well. But then thought the Ho&s;t with him&s;elf, this night will I rob him of his money before he be&s;tow it. So the &s;ame night did he convey him&s;elf into their chamber through the &s;ee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing, when they were all a&s;leep, and &s;earched their cloaths, &s;uppo&s;ing to have found great &s;ums of money in their Doublets, but therein he was foulely deceived. Howbeit out of <HI>Leopoldus</HI> pur&s;e he took forty Duckats, and handled <HI>Fortunatus</HI> pur&s;e on the out-&s;ide al&s;o: but when he felt no money therein, he ca&s;t it under the bed-&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed; which when he had done, he went forth, and &s;et open the door and the windows, as though &s;ome &s;trange thieves had b&eacute;en there.</P>
<P>When <HI>Leopoldus</HI> awaked, and &s;aw the win|dows and door open, he rebuked the men for their negligence, but the &s;ervants being fa&s;t a|&s;leep,
<PB N="66" REF="40"> &s;tarted up &s;uddenly half amazed, &s;aying: That they al&s;o were ignorant thereof. With that <HI>Leopoldus</HI> was greatly afraid, and looked for his Pur&s;e, which he perceived to be cut off, and a piece of the &s;tring hanging yet at his girdle. Then called he to <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> &s;aying: <HI>Our Chamber is bur&s;t open, and the Money which you delivered me is &s;tollen. Fortunatus</HI> forthwith looked to his doublet, and perceiv|ing his fortunate Pur&s;e to be cut away al&s;o, he was therewith a&s;toni&s;hed, that he &s;unk down in a &s;wound as though he were dead. <HI>Leopoldus</HI> and the other Servants not knowing of this great lo&s;s, rubbed and refre&s;hed him, &s;o that his &s;pirits were revived again.</P>
<P>As they were thus affrighted and in great perplexity, in came the Ho&s;t, and &s;et a grim countenance on the matter, asking angerly what ailed them to be &s;o unquiet? they told him that they were robbed of their money; then &s;aid he: <HI>What carele&s;s men are ye? have ye not a clo&s;e Chamber with lock and key? why then did ye not make all things fa&s;t and &s;ure?</HI> They an&s;wer|ed: <HI>When we went to bed, we both &s;hut the windows and locked the door, but now we find them all open.</HI> Then &s;aid the Ho&s;t: <HI>Look that you have not one robbed another, and there be al&s;o at this pre&s;ent many &s;trangers and lu&s;ty Fellows in the City, who perhaps had more skill to break into your Chamber then we wot of.</HI> Howbeit when he &s;aw them in &s;uch &s;orrow|ful plight, he asked of <HI>Fortunatus</HI> whither he
<PB N="67" REF="40"> had lo&s;t any great &s;um of money? He &s;aid: <HI>Not much.</HI> Then &s;aid the Ho&s;t, <HI>Why then do you &s;o take on and di&s;quiet your &s;elf for a little Mo|ney? ye&s;terday you would have be&s;towed a poor mans daughter in marriage: Spare now the Money and be&s;tow it on your &s;elf.</HI> Then &s;aid <HI>Fortunatus: I care more for the Pur&s;e than for the Money, for there is in it a Bill of exchange of great importance which can profit none but my &s;elf.</HI> When the Ho&s;t &s;aw that <HI>Fortuna|tus</HI> was &s;o &s;ad and heavy for his Pur&s;e (though he was a de&s;perate and hard-hearted fellow) yet was he moved with &s;ome Compa&s;&s;ion; &s;aying: <HI>Let us yet &s;earch narrowly about the Chamber: Perchance we may find it, for no thief regardeth an empty Pur&s;e.</HI> With that every man began to &s;earch, and one of them creeping under the bed-&s;ted, found the Pur&s;e, and &s;hewed it <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> who pre&s;ently knew the &s;ame: but yet feared greatly le&s;t that by the cutting it had lo&s;t its Vertue, which he &s;ore longed to know, but dur&s;t not as yet make tryal in his fight; for he mi&s;doubted the wor&s;t, that if any had known the quality of the Pur&s;e, they would have murthered him for it. So then lay he down in his Bed again, and privily under the Covering put his Hand in the Pur&s;e, and found that it retained &s;till the vertue it had before: where|of he was exceeding glad. Howbeit he was &s;o &s;ore affrighted with fear, and vexed with anger and &s;orrow before, that he could not
<PB N="68" REF="41"> &s;o &s;oon perfectly recover again his former &s;trength and colour, but remained &s;o in his bed all that day. <HI>Leopoldus</HI> came to comfort him, &s;aying: Good Sir pluck up your lively &s;pirits, and be content, we have left fair Hor&s;es, Chains, and Rings of Gold and other Iewels: &s;o although we have no money, we will &s;ell all the&s;e things, and by Gods help bring you &s;afe home again: for I have full often pa&s;&s;ed many Countries without money; For <HI>Leopol|dus</HI> thought in his mind that <HI>Fortunatus</HI> had riches &s;ufficient at home, if he might attain thither. But <HI>Fortunatus</HI> an&s;wered faintly, and &s;aid: he that loo&s;eth goods, loo&s;eth under&s;tanding; Wi&s;dom is to be cho&s;en before Riches,: al&s;o health, &s;trength, beauty, and long life, can no man &s;teal; and therewith held his peace. <HI>Leopoldus</HI> wi&s;t not what he meant by tho&s;e affectionate words, neither knew he which he had cho&s;en of all the&s;e gifts: And &s;uppo&s;ing that &s;uch &s;udden pa&s;&s;ions proceeded of the lightne&s;s and di&s;turbance of his head, was no farther inqui&s;itive to know his meaning. Howbeit after a while, <HI>Fortunatus</HI> being with warm meat refre&s;hed, his Colour was re&s;tored, and began to be merry again, commanding his Servants to provide Candles to keep light in the Chamber all the Night long, and that they &s;hould have their naked Swords ready drawn by them, to prevent the like Attempt of thieves. In the morning went <HI>Fortunatus</HI> with his men into the Church of <HI>Sephia,</HI> and
<PB N="69" REF="41"> there gave to the Prie&s;ts ten pieces of Gold, that they &s;hould in our Ladies Chappel which was fair and &s;umptuous, cau&s;e a Sermon to be made, and <HI>Te Deum</HI> to be &s;ung to the prai&s;e of God. From thence went he to the place where Marchants and Exchangers re&s;orted, and willed all his men to go home to tend the Hor&s;es, and prepare their dinner: and deli|vered to <HI>Leopoldus</HI> certain money to buy five Pur&s;es, &s;aying: I will go to my Exchanger to take up &s;ome money, of which we may not in any ca&s;e be long de&s;titute. When <HI>Leopoldus</HI> had bought the Pur&s;es, <HI>Fortunatus</HI> put in one of them an hundred Duckats, which he deli|vered to <HI>Leopoldus</HI> to be disbur&s;ed upon ordi|nary expences. He gave al&s;o to each of his three men a Pur&s;e with ten Duckats therein, and &s;aid unto them, be merry and wi&s;e, take good heed that no &s;uch danger befal unto us, as hath of late hapned. They all thanked him, and pro|mi&s;ed their diligent and careful &s;ervice to their uttermo&s;t power. He moreover put four hun|dred duckats into the fifth pur&s;e, &s;ending for the Ho&s;t, to whom he &s;aid, do I pray as I reque&s;t concerning &s;ome Poor mans Daughter, on whom I purpo&s;e to be&s;tow liberally toward her marriage. The Ho&s;t &s;aid, I will bring unto you a Man with his Daughter, that you may &s;ee them. With that he went to the Poor Man, and told him he had a Rich Gue&s;t; take (&s;aid he) your Daughter with you, and go with me, and thou &s;halt &s;ee how well the
<PB N="70" REF="42"> matter &s;hall fall out for your Commodity as I tru&s;t.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="17" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> be&s;towed four hundred Du|cats towards the Marriage of a poor Maiden. Chap. 17.</HEAD>
<P>THe Maidens Father was a Ioyner, an ho|ne&s;t &amp; homely fellow, who &s;aid to the ho&s;t I would be loath to bring my Daughter any where abroad, I wot not to whom, le&s;t &s;he &s;hould be abu&s;ed &amp; lo&s;e her virginity, which is the chiefe&s;t Iewel that &s;he hath to make her fit for a husband: therefore tell the gentleman if he mean to do her any good, that if it plea&s;e him he may come hither to &s;ee her. Hereat was the ho&s;t di&s;plea&s;ed, &amp; declaring his uncourteous an|&s;wer, &s;uppo&s;ed that <HI>Fortunatus</HI> would be there|with offended al&s;o: but he took it in good part, and was well content. And taking <HI>Leopoldus</HI> with him, willed the ho&s;t to bring him to the mans hou&s;e, to whom he &s;aid: <HI>My ho&s;t here hath given me to under&s;tand that thou ha&s;t a fair daughter, which is at womans &s;tate, let her come unto me with her mother.</HI> He asked, for what intent? <HI>Perhaps,</HI> &s;aid <HI>Fortunatus, more for thy commodity than thou wote&s;t of.</HI> With that the poor man called forth his wife &amp; his daugh|ter, which were a&s;hamed of their homely appa|rel, e&s;pecially the ba&s;hful maiden, which hovered behind her mothers back. Howbeit &s;he was both fair &amp; well-favoured: to whom <HI>Fortunatus</HI>
<PB N="71" REF="42"> &s;aid: <HI>Stand forth fair Virgin before me, and be not aba&s;hed.</HI> Then asked he her Father of her age, who &s;aid: She is full twenty years old. Then &s;aid he, Why have you kept her &s;o long unmarried? to which the Mother made quick &s;peed to an&s;wer before her husband, &s;aying, &s;he was tall and old enough &s;ix years agon, but &s;he wanted ability to marry her. Then &s;aid <HI>For|tunatus,</HI> if I would be&s;tow on her a large dow|rie, could you forthwith find out a fit husband for her? Then &s;aid the mother: Our neighbor hath a Son who beareth unto her good Will, who <HI>I</HI> know but only for want of wealth would take her to his Wife. Then asked he the maiden how &s;he liked of her neighbours Son: She an&s;wered: <HI>I will in no ca&s;e make my own choice, though I &s;hould die without a husband: but whom my Father and Mother will appoint unto me, the &s;ame will I have:</HI> With that the mother could not &s;tay from &s;peaking, and &s;aid: <HI>I know &s;he &s;aith not as &s;he thinketh, and I am certain &s;he loveth him, and would fain have him before any other. Fortunatus</HI> then &s;ending for the young man, whom at the fir&s;t he liked very well, poured out of a Pur&s;e four hundred Duckats upon the Table before them: and &s;aid to the young man, who was but thirty years old, wilt thou be content to Wed this Maid? &amp; to the maid he &s;aid, art thou willing to have this man for thy husband, &amp; I am di&s;po&s;ed to give you freely this little money for a dow|rie? Then an&s;wered the young man, &s;aying: If
<PB N="72" REF="43"> you mean good earne&s;t, and indeed will perform your liberal promi&s;e, for my part we &s;hall be &s;oon agreed. The mother without further pau|&s;ing offered her con&s;ent, and &s;aid: Then doth my Daughter likewi&s;e agree thereto. Where|upon <HI>Fortunatus</HI> forthwith &s;ent for a Prie&s;t, and cau&s;ed them to be married in the pre&s;ence of their Parents, and after the marriage was fini&s;hed, he gave unto them the money which he had brought only for that purpo&s;e. He gave al&s;o to the Father ten Duckats to cloath him and his wife, and ten Duckats more to keep the marriage fea&s;t; whereof they were all glad, thanking greatly <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> and prai&s;ed God for their good fortune, &s;aying among them God hath &s;urely &s;ent this man from heaven to help the poor.</P>
<P>After this they went again to their Inn, but <HI>Leopoldus</HI> marvelled that his Ma&s;ter was &s;o liberal to give money &s;o lightly, whereas before he was &s;o &s;ad for a little money that he had lo&s;t. The Ho&s;t likewi&s;e was grieved that he could not find the Pur&s;e with the four hun|dred Duckats, when as he &s;earched &s;o narrow|ly: and therefore thought thus with him&s;elf, &s;ithence he hath &s;o much to give away, I mu&s;t needs empty his pur&s;e once again. He there|fore knowing that they had a Taper of wax to burn all night, when they were all gone forth to the Court, brake privily into the Chamber, made holes in the Taper, poured in Water, and &s;topped them clo&s;e that it could not be per|ceived:
<PB N="73" REF="43"> &s;o that when it had burnt two or three hours, it &s;hould quench and go out of it &s;elf. So fora&s;much as the Emperours Fea&s;t was nigh ended, when as he knew <HI>Fortunatus</HI> would de|part, he determined the &s;ame night to rob his gue&s;t again. Wherefore he provided for them again&s;t they came from the Court, the be&s;t Wine that he could get, and gave it them of his own co&s;t to drink, to the intent they &s;hould &s;leep the &s;ounder. So when they had made good chear, and were laid down to re&s;t, the taper burning, and their naked &s;words lay by them, they fell into a &s;ound &s;leep without eare.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="28" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Leopoldus</HI> &s;lew the unfaithful ho&s;t at <HI>Con|&s;tantinople.</HI> Chap. 28.</HEAD>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 28</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<PB N="74" REF="44">
<P>BVt the Ho&s;t lay waiting for his Prey, and when he perceived the Light to be quench|ed, he crept through the hole which he had made before, coming fir&s;t to <HI>Leopoldus;</HI> under who&s;e head when he began to grope, <HI>Leopoldus</HI> there|with &s;uddenly awaked, and with his &s;harp &s;word that lay ready by him, &s;triking about him in the dark, by chance &s;o wounded the thief in the neck, that he fell dead to the ground. Then called <HI>Leopoldus</HI> angrily to the men, and &s;aid: Why have you put out the light? They an|&s;wered, that none of them had done it. Then willed he one of them quickly to go fetch a light, and the re&s;t to &s;tand with their &s;words about the door; For, &s;aid he, let none go out, here is a thief in the chamber. When the light came, they found the Ho&s;t deadly wounded, ly|ing by <HI>Leopoldus</HI> Bed-&s;ted. When <HI>Fortunatus</HI> &s;aw that, he was more afraid than ever he was in his life, and &s;aid: Alas that ever we came &s;o <HI>Con&s;tantinople:</HI> it were not much to lo&s;e our goods, but now &s;hall we be bereft of our life al&s;o: and therewith &s;aid to <HI>Leopoldus:</HI> What a hainous fact ha&s;t thou committed in &s;taying our Ho&s;t: if thou had&s;t but yet wounded him, by Gods help and money we might have e&s;cap|ed. <HI>Leopoldus</HI> an&s;wered: It was dark, I wi&s;t not where I &s;mote, nor whom I touched: but my pretence was to &s;trike a Thief that groped under my head, who mo&s;t like hath robbed us before. Therefore if the truth were known why he was &s;lain, we &s;hould be in danger nei|ther
<PB REF="44"> of Life nor Goods. Then &s;aid <HI>Fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+tunatus:</HI> It will in no ca&s;e be believed if w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> make our Ho&s;t a Thief: for his friends wil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> not &s;uffer us to e&s;cape, neither will money <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> rea&s;on help in this behalf. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> al&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in this di&s;tre&s;s, thought in his mind, If <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> had a friend whom I dur&s;t tru&s;t, to &s;hew hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the &s;ecrets of my pur&s;e, though we were impri+&s;oned, and declared the truth of the matter, per+haps the Iudge would be intreated for a grea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;um of money offered by that friend, to &s;pare u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> our lives, and deliver us: Contrariwi&s;e h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> thought again, If I hazard my pur&s;e upon an mans credit, it will be &s;o acceptable to him, tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> rather than he will re&s;tore it again, in&s;tead <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> friend&s;hip, he will exagerate the cau&s;e, &s;ayin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> unto the Iudge, that it were a great &s;hame an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> reproach that Gue&s;ts murthering their Ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;hould e&s;cape unpuni&s;hed. Wherefore he con+cluded by his own Rea&s;on, that it were no good to tru&s;t any man with his Pur&s;e, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> with a great Sum of Money, le&s;t it &s;houl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the &s;ooner work de&s;truction: &s;o that he was i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> a fearful Perplexity. When <HI>Leopoldus</HI> &s;av<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his Ma&s;ter and his Servants &s;o di&s;mayed he &s;aid unto them: Why &s;tand you thu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> trembling and amazed? No &s;orrow will hel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> when a mi&s;chief is once done, neither ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> we Revive him again; let us therefor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;peedily Devi&s;e and take Coun&s;el togethe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> with a bold E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">rage, how we may E&s;cap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> this pre&s;ent Danger. Then &s;aid <HI>Fortunatu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI>
<PB N="76" REF="45"> I cannot devi&s;e what is to be done (repenting inwardly again, that he had not cho&s;en Wi&s;|dom in&s;tead of Riches) but if thou <HI>Leopoldus</HI> can&s;t give us any good coun&s;el, perform it with &s;peed: <HI>Leopoldus</HI> &s;aid, then follow me, and do as I bid you, and with Gods help I will bring us all hence without any danger of body or goods. This &s;peech of <HI>Leopoldus</HI> &s;omewhat re|vived their &s;pirits.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="29" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> and his men conveyed them|&s;elves out of danger from <HI>Con&s;tantinople.</HI> Chap. 29.</HEAD>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 29</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P><HI>LEopoldus</HI> willing them to be &s;ilent, and to hide the light, took the dead Corps on his back, &amp; ca&s;t it into a deep well by the &s;table, with the head downward. It was then about mid|night,
<PB N="77" REF="45"> &s;o that no body &s;aw or heard him. Then returned he to the Chamber and &s;aid: I have rid us of this Thief, &s;o that in a great while none can know where he is become. I &s;uppo&s;e al&s;o that he made no man privy to his attempt: &s;o that it is far unlike to be de&s;cried that we have done ought unto him: therefore be merry again, and pluck up your hearts. He &s;aid more|over to the &s;ervants: Go &s;p&eacute;edily and prepare your hor&s;es, with whi&s;tling, &s;inging, and plea|&s;ant communication, and in any ca&s;e look that none of you &s;how a &s;orrowful countenance, and we will do the like: Then as &s;oon as the day breaketh we will ride away, &s;o that we &s;hall be &s;ix miles hence at the lea&s;t before the Ho&s;t &s;hall be mi&s;&s;ed. With this <HI>Fortunatus</HI> was comfort|ed, and framed him&s;elf a plea&s;ant Ge&s;ture. When the hor&s;es were readily appointed, they called for Malm&s;ey, which there is very good, and made all merry, with lu&s;ty and frolick de|meanour: and at their departure gave unto e|very Man-&s;ervant and Maiden in the hou&s;e a Duckat. <HI>Leopoldus</HI> &s;aid: I tru&s;t we &s;hall re|turn within this month, and make merry here again. Then <HI>Fortunatus</HI> took his leave, and &s;aid to the Servants of the hou&s;e, thank our Ho&s;t for his friendly entertainment, and tell him that I would have brought a Cup of Malm&s;ey to his bed-&s;ide, but that I thought Re&s;t would do him more good. With that rode they forth of the Door towards <HI>Turky,</HI> with all &s;peed po&s;&s;ible, and took their next
<PB N="78" REF="46"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ait in a City called <HI>Raropia,</HI> in the Turki&s;h Empire: in the which was an Officer who&s;e charge was to convey the &s;trange and Chri&s;ti|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n Merchants, and to give them a Pa&s;port through the Country. <HI>Leopoldus</HI> having for|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er experience thereof, went to the Officer, and told him, There were &s;ix Pilgrims that required a &s;afe Conduct to ride with them. He an&s;wered: You &s;hall be &s;afely conveyed, but I will have of each of you four Crowns, and the Guide mu&s;t have a Crown a day. <HI>Leopoldus</HI> (though he thought it overmuch) made not many words, but gave him the money, and the Officer delivered him a pa&s;port in writing, and &s;ent with them an expert guide, who conveyed them throughout all <HI>Turky. Fortunatus</HI> by this time, having abandoned all dread and care for their thievi&s;h Ho&s;t, behaved him&s;elf chearfully, and &s;o rode la&s;tly to the great <HI>Turks</HI> Court, and beholding there his exceeding riches, and the infinite multitude of Souldiers that be continually maintained in Garri&s;ons, mar|velled at the mightine&s;s and glory of his Em|pire, and e&s;pecially to &s;ee &s;o many Mamelukes and Enemies to Chri&s;tian Religion, which greatly m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;liked him: and therefore &s;tayed not long there, but went from thence to the great <HI>Walachia,</HI> wherein was ruler, <HI>Tracola Waida;</HI> and &s;o came to the Kingdom of <HI>Bo&s;na,</HI> from <HI>Bo&s;na,</HI> orderly through <HI>Croatia, Dalmatia,</HI> the City of <HI>Buda</HI> in <HI>Hungary,</HI> from <HI>Buda</HI> to <HI>Cra|covia</HI> in <HI>Poland;</HI> and &s;o to <HI>Coppenhagen</HI> in <HI>Den|mark,</HI>
<PB N="79" REF="46"> to <HI>Stockholm</HI> in <HI>Swecia,</HI> to <HI>Paragon</HI> in <HI>Norway,</HI> to <HI>Prague</HI> in <HI>Bohemia;</HI> and &s;o the next way through the Dukedom of <HI>Saxony</HI> to <HI>Frankenland,</HI> and then to <HI>Augsborough.</HI> There met he with certain Merchants, and accompa|nying them to <HI>Venice,</HI> payed all their charges. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> had regi&s;tred in a book, the names, u&s;ages, ceremonies, religions, and the courtly demeanours of all tho&s;e Countries Cities, Emperours, Kings, and People by whom he had travelled. But now in the time that he &s;tayed at <HI>Venice,</HI> he laid wait for the faire&s;t Iewels that might be gotten, not &s;ticking for the price were it never &s;o great; whereby the <HI>Venetians</HI> received of him a great &s;um of mo|ney, &s;o that he was highly e&s;teemed among&s;t them. He remembring al&s;o in what poverty he had left his Father and Mother when he departed from <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> bought much fair Cloath, Velvet, and Silks for their Apparel; and co&s;tly Hou&s;hold-&s;tuff, of every &s;ort double: And al&s;o bought a Ship to convey all tho&s;e Goods into <HI>Cyprus.</HI> It was now the &s;ix|t&eacute;enth year &s;ithtnce he departed; and when he came to <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> it was told him that his Father <HI>Theodorus,</HI> and his Mother <HI>Gratiana</HI> were both dead, wherefore he was very &s;orry.</P>
<P>He then hired a large hou&s;e, wherein he be|&s;towed his goods, and entertained many more men-&s;ervants and maidens for all purpo&s;es; and from thenceforth maintained mo&s;t &s;tate|ly
<PB N="80" REF="47"> and &s;umptuous Ho&s;pitality, that of every man he was had in great e&s;timation. Howbeit many mu&s;ed and much marvelled how he had obtained &s;uch wealth, whereas the mo&s;t knew that he departed in extream poverty.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="20" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How the King of <HI>Cyp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">us</HI> made a Marriage be|tween <HI>Fortunatus</HI> and the Lord <HI>Nemians</HI> younge&s;t Daughter. Chap. 20.</HEAD>
<P>ANd as &s;oon as he might bring it to pa&s;s, he purcha&s;ed again his Fathers hou&s;e; and many more thereto adjoyning: All which he cau&s;ed to be plucked down, and in that place builded a goodly large Palace after the brave&s;t manner, like as he had &s;een in other Countries. And by the hou&s;e al&s;o he founded a &s;umptuous Church, and twelve more hou&s;es for twelve Prie&s;ts to continue in divine &s;ervice of God, as it were a Chantry or Cathedral Min&s;ter. For the Revenues whereof, he al&s;o allowed yearly <HI>xiv</HI> hundred Duckats: that was for every Prie&s;t one hundred, and the other two for the Reparation and Ornaments of the Church. He cau&s;ed moreover to be made in the Min&s;ter three Tombs, one for his Father, the other for his Mother, who&s;e bones he cau|&s;ed to be digged up, and buried therein: and the third to be re&s;erved for him&s;elf and his Heirs. When all things were fini&s;hed to his mind, he purpo&s;ed to take a Wife, which when the nobility and gentlemen of <HI>Cyprus</HI> under&s;tood,
<PB N="81" REF="47"> every one which had the faire&s;t daughters, &s;et them forth to the uttermo&s;t &s;hew, by training them up with fine qualities, nurturing them with good behaviour, and trimming them in comely and gorgeous attire. But among&s;t all others, not far from <HI>Famago&s;ta</HI> dwell an Earl named Lord <HI>Nemian,</HI> which had three daugh|ters that were pa&s;&s;ing fair, whom the King coun&s;elled to be&s;tow one of them on <HI>Fortunatus</HI> if he might, and offered him&s;elf al&s;o to break the matter if the Earl were &s;o content. Now the Earl, though he were not very rich, &s;&eacute;emed at the fir&s;t to make little account of <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> &s;aying to the King: If he &s;hould be a &s;uitor to any of my daughters, would your Grace ad|vi&s;e me to give my con&s;ent? For we know he hath no lands nor yearly revenues: and where|as perhaps he had great &s;ums of ready money, we &s;ee how he hath be&s;towed it in &s;umptuous building, whereof cometh no profit. And albeit he have &s;ufficient &s;tore yet left, money is ca&s;ual and may &s;oon be con&s;umed and lo&s;t, and &s;o may he come to be in poverty at the end as his Fa|ther did, who &s;ometime was exceeding Rich and Pui&s;&s;ant. Then &s;aid the King to the Earl, I have been certified by them that have &s;een it, that he hath as many precious Iewels as would buy an Earldom, and yet will &s;ell none of them. I hear &s;ay al&s;o, that he hath travelled through many nations, whereby it is to be pre|&s;uppo&s;ed that he would not have builded &s;uch a gorgeous Palace, and a Chantry which he
<PB N="82" REF="48"> hath &s;o endowed with perpetual Rents, except he well knew how to maintain an e&s;tate agree|able: And therefore if you will do by my coun&s;el, you &s;hall (now he is di&s;po&s;ed to marry) offer unto him one of your Daughters. And if &s;o be you are willing &s;o to do, I my &s;elf will do my diligence in fir&s;t motioning of the matter, not doubting to bring it to pa&s;s. For <HI>Fortu|natus</HI> I know will do much at my reque&s;t: and indeed I had rather he &s;hould match in a No|ble kindred, than with one of the meaner &s;ort, being al&s;o unmeet (as to me &s;eemeth) that one of a ba&s;e Linage &s;hould po&s;&s;e&s;s that fair Pa|lace, and dwell therein.</P>
<P>The Earl under&s;tanding that <HI>Fortunatus</HI> was greatly in the Kings favor, &s;aid: fora&s;much as I perceive your graces plea&s;ure is that I &s;hould give one of my daughters to <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> therein I give your maje&s;ty full power, both of her and my goods, Then &s;aid the King, Lord <HI>Nemian</HI> &s;end your three daughters to my Wife the Queen, and I will cau&s;e them to be gorgeou&s;ly attired, upon hope that one of them &s;hall plea&s;e him: howbeit I will give him the choice, to take which he be&s;t fan|cieth; I will moreover be&s;tow all the charges of the Wedding Fea&s;t, and look what he re|quireth more, that will I perform, for that thou ha&s;t frankly committed both Body and Goods unto me. The Earl humbly thanked his Maje&s;ty, and &s;o taking his leave of the King, rode home and declared to the Coun|te&s;s
<PB N="83" REF="48"> his wife all the matter as it was decreed between the King and him.</P>
<P>The Counte&s;s liked of their Agreement well, &s;ave only that <HI>Fortunatus</HI> was not no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> enough of birth, and that &s;he was loath he &s;hould have his free choice: for &s;he loved one of them above the re&s;t, whereof &s;he would in no wi&s;e make the Earl privy. Howbeit &s;he agreed to his will: whereupon &s;he comely addre&s;&s;ed them, and appointed a motherly Gentlewoman to be their Guide, with men and maidens to attend on them, as was meet for their e&s;tate; they were &s;ent unto the Kings Court, where they with their retinue were honourably re|ceived, and were taught the courteous gui&s;e and nurture of the Court, whereof they were not altogether ignorant before. When the King thought it mo&s;t convenient, he &s;ent a Me&s;&s;enger for <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> that he &s;hould come to the Court. And albeit he was not certified for what cau&s;e he was &s;ent for, yet he pre&s;up|po&s;ing that it was for no ill intent, &s;peedily prepared him&s;elf and rode to the King, of whom he was friendly entertained.</P>
<P>Then &s;aid the King unto him: <HI>Fortunatus</HI> thou art my Subject, and I am well per&s;wa|ded of thee, that thou will have re&s;pect unto my coun&s;el, for that I would be loath to with thee any evil. I am informed that thou ha&s;t builded a goodly Hou&s;e, and erected a Church with a Chantry, and that thou art now mind|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d to marry a Wife: wherefore I fearing le&s;t
<PB N="84" REF="49"> thou &s;houlde&s;t take one whom I &s;hould not well like of, I have bethought me of a wife for th&eacute;e, by whom the worthine&s;s of thy Linage &s;hall be advanced. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> an&s;wered, &s;aying: Graci|ous Lord, truth it is, that I am di&s;po&s;ed to marry, and meant to have e&s;pyed out a wife for my liking, but fora&s;much as I now perceive that your Grace will vouch&s;afe &s;o far to debate your Royal e&s;tate, as to provide &s;o favourably for me, I will no farther &s;eek nor be careful, but will gladly put my whole tru&s;t and confidence in your Maje&s;ties a&s;&s;ignment. When he had this an&s;wer of <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> and was al&s;o a&s;&s;ured of the Earls a&s;&s;ent who had committed to him his daughters, he thought in his mind, a Mar|riage is here ea&s;ie to be made, and &s;aid to <HI>For|tunatus</HI> as en&s;ueth.</P>
<P>I have in my cu&s;tody three fair Ladies, which be all Si&s;ters by one Father, and one Mother: The elde&s;t is eighteen years of age named <HI>Ger|mana;</HI> the &s;econd is &s;eventeen years old, called <HI>Marcepia;</HI> the third of the &s;econd lacketh four years, who&s;e name is <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra,</HI> I will permit thee of the&s;e three to have thy choice: therefore advi&s;e thee whether thou wilt &s;ee them one af|ter another, or view them altogether. <HI>Fortuna|tus</HI> made no long deliberation, but &s;aid: My So|veraign Lord, &s;ix hence your grace granteth me &s;uch free choice, I require of your Maje&s;ty that I may &s;ee them all three &s;tanding together, and hear each of them &s;peak.</P>
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<P>The King granted his reque&s;t, and &s;ent word pre&s;ently to the Queen, that &s;he &s;hould cau&s;e her Ladies to be trimmed in the be&s;t attire, for that he would come thither, and bring a Gue&s;t with him. When the King thought all things were ready, he would have taken <HI>Fortunatus</HI> alone with him, who entreated the King, &s;ay|ing: if it plea&s;e your Grace, &s;uffer al&s;o this old &s;ervant of mine to go with me: the King grant|ed: &s;o took they <HI>Leopoldus</HI> with them, and came into the chamber where the Ladies were.</P>
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<DIV1 N="21" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> of three Si&s;ters cho&s;e the Younge&s;t, named <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra,</HI> for his Wife. Chap. 21.</HEAD>
<P>THe King there &s;etting down with <HI>Fortu|natus</HI> &s;tanding by him, called the thr&eacute;e vir|gins before his pre&s;ence. They Reverently kneeling before him, he willed them to &s;tand up, and &s;aid fir&s;t to the elde&s;t: Tell me <HI>Germa|na,</HI> had&s;t thou lever remain with the Queen, or with the Earl thy Father, and the Counte&s;s thy Lady Mother? She an&s;wered: My So|veraign Lord, it is not meet for me to an&s;wer that que&s;tion: and although I might choo&s;e, yet would I not follow my own Fanta&s;ie: but that your Grace and my Lord and Father do Command, the &s;ame ought I to Obey. Then &s;pake he to the &s;econd, &s;aying: <HI>Marcepia,</HI> tell me truly which thou love&s;t be&s;t, the Earl thy Father, or the Counte&s;s thy Mother. She
<PB REF="50"> likewi&s;e an&s;wered, Let your grace pardon me for it is not convenient to give my re&s;olution to this demand. I love them both well, and with all my heart; if I loved the one better than the other, I &s;hould be &s;orry my Heart &s;hould know it, and a&s;hamed that my Mouth &s;hould confe&s;s it: for I have found in them both as much natural love and friend&s;hip, as a Daughter might look for of her parents. Then moved the King the younge&s;t to &s;peak, &s;aying: an&s;wer me <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra</HI> unfeignedly to this que|&s;tion. If there were here in our Court a com|pany of noble and wor&s;hipful men and women preparing to dance, your Father and Mother &s;tanding by, if one of them &s;ay &s;tand forth and dance with them, and the other bid &s;tep a&s;ide, and appear not among them, who&s;e command|ment woulde&s;t thou obey? She replyed, &s;aying: Let not your Maje&s;ty be offended, your Groce<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> knoweth that I am but young, and that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> cometh not before age: your Maje&s;ty may al&s;o con&s;ider the affections and de&s;ires of Youth, therefore it is not for me to di&s;clo&s;e my un|known determination in this doubt; For <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> I obey the one, I mu&s;t needs di&s;plea&s;e the other, which I were very loath to do. But yet urged the King farther, asking, if either of them mu&s;t needs be done, whom had you rather to plea&s;e? Then &s;aid <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra,</HI> may it plea&s;e your High|ne&s;s to grant me a year and a day to delibe|rate of this que&s;tion, that I may ask coun&s;el of wi&s;er than I am, to give you a direct an|&s;wer.
<PB N="87" REF="50"> With that the King cea&s;ed asking, and troubled them no more. Then went the King a&s;ide into another Chamber with <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> and &s;aid unto him: Thy de&s;ire was to &s;ee the&s;e three Ladies, and to hear them &s;peak, which I have &s;hewed thee to the uttermo&s;t: now there|fore determine with thy &s;elf which of them thou thinke&s;t meet to be thy Spou&s;e. <HI>Fortu|natus</HI> an&s;wered: I like them all &s;o well (my Liege) that I cannot &s;o &s;uddenly advi&s;e me which I may choo&s;e. Wherefore I be&s;eech your Maje&s;ty, to grant me but a little &s;pace to con|fer and con&s;ult with my old and tru&s;ty &s;ervant <HI>Leopoldus</HI> therein. The King therewith was well content, and &s;o let him depart a&s;ide to de|liberate of the matter.</P>
<P>Then <HI>Fortunatus</HI> withdrawing him&s;elf into a &s;ecret place, &s;aid to <HI>Leopoldus:</HI> Thou ha&s;t &s;een and heard the&s;e three Ladies as will as I, and fora&s;much as I con&s;ider that in matters con&s;i&s;ting of meer Fanta&s;ie, rea&s;on and right judgement be often abandoned by wilful af|fection, therefore do I fir&s;t require thy opini|on al&s;o in this ca&s;e, before I proceed to farther choice, de&s;iring thee to councel me, even as the Ca&s;e were thine own. <HI>Leopoldus</HI> being &s;omewhat aba&s;hed with this Demand, &s;aid, Sir, It is not for you to regard my judge|ment in this Point: For many times one Brother liketh of that which is Di&s;plea|&s;ant unto the other; and mo&s;t often it chanceth that every Singular man hath a
<PB REF="51"> particular judgment, and that e&s;pecially in the choice of a woman. Therefore your own af|fection in this ca&s;e &s;hould be more acceptable, than any forreign councel: for that good liking is the root of &s;ound love. Then &s;aid <HI>Fortunatus:</HI> Of all this full well I wot, and that I take a Wife for my &s;elf and for no other: But yet would I fain that thou &s;houlde&s;t di&s;clo&s;e the &s;ecrets of thy heart unto me, for thy experience is far greater than mine, to judge the inward di&s;po&s;ition by the outward marks and tokens of Phy&s;iognomy, which often proveth true.</P>
<P><HI>Leopoldus</HI> was very loath to move him any way, fearing le&s;t if he did not coun&s;el him as his Fancy was before bent, he would there|with be di&s;contented. Howbeit thus much he &s;aid: Sir, They all three like me very well; and as far as I can gue&s;s, they be ei|ther &s;i&s;ters, or &s;i&s;ters Children: neither do I mark any tokens of unfaithfulne&s;s in them. Then asked <HI>Fortunatus</HI> of which of them he thought be&s;t? <HI>Leopoldus</HI> an&s;wered: I will not fir&s;t coun&s;el, neither &s;hall you fir&s;t choo&s;e, le&s;t if I &s;hould mi&s;like that you be&s;t fancied, you might be offended. Therefore take we each of us a piece of Paper, and therein let us write both our minds a&s;under, you at one end of the Table, and I at the other. This device liked <HI>Fortunatus</HI> well, and &s;o did both accord|ingly.</P>
<P>When as they had read in each others wri|ting,
<PB N="89" REF="51"> that <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra</HI> was of them both fanci|ed more than the re&s;t. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> was glad that the &s;ame liked <HI>Leopoldus,</HI> which liked him: and <HI>Leopoldus</HI> al&s;o rejoyced that he had mo&s;t preferred the Lady whom his Ma&s;ter had cho&s;en. When <HI>Fortunatus</HI> had thus determined with him&s;elf, with the advice al&s;o of <HI>Leopol|dus,</HI> he went again unto the King, and &s;aid: my Soveraign Lord and King, fora&s;much as your Grace hath a&s;&s;igned unto me a choice, which (though it were not, as indeed it is, very ac|ceptable unto me) I ought to take it in good part, e&s;teeming my &s;elf not unworthy thereof: I therefore humbly pre&s;ent unto your Grace my faithful &s;ervice in all your affairs; and will imploy my whole might and power to recom|pence your benevolence. And to &s;atisfie your Maje&s;ty as concerning my determination, I give you now to under&s;tand; that by your fa|vour and licen&s;e, I have cho&s;en <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra</HI> the younge&s;t &s;i&s;ter for my Spou&s;e, if &s;o it like your Maje&s;ty to grant me. The King &s;aid, thy re|que&s;t is granted, and &s;o &s;ent pre&s;ently for the Queen to bring <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra</HI> with her. When the Qu&eacute;en and <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra</HI> were come, the King &s;ent for a Prelate, and cau&s;ed them to be Married incontinently: Wherewith <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra</HI> was &s;cantly well content, for that &s;he was &s;o &s;udden|ly wedded without the con&s;ent or pre&s;ence of her Parents; howbeit the King would needs have it &s;o. Now when the wedding was fini&s;hed; the Si&s;ters of the Bride, with many other La|dies
<PB N="90" REF="52"> and Virgins, with courteous &s;alutations wi&s;hed under her good luck; but yet the two &s;i&s;ters wept bitterly. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> demanding the cau&s;e of their mourning, comforted them, &s;aying: <HI>Be of good chear, lament not at your &s;i&s;ters good fortune, le&s;t you be rather &s;u&s;|pected of envious di&s;dain, than commended for natural kindne&s;s: hope the be&s;t, and I will ere long &s;omewhat ca&s;e you of your &s;or|row.</HI> With that he &s;ent forthwith to <HI>Fama|go&s;ta</HI> for the Iewels that he bought at <HI>Venice,</HI> and gave two of the be&s;t to the King and the Queen, and to the Bride and her two Si|&s;ters each of them one, which were al&s;o very &s;umptuous, fair, and beautiful: And on every one of the Queens waiting Ladies be&s;towed he a precious Iewel al&s;o, for the which they all greatly thanked him, and marvelled at his bountiful liberality. The King then &s;ent for the Earl of <HI>Nemian,</HI> and the Counte&s;s, his Wife. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> under&s;tanding thereof, &s;ent <HI>Leopoldus</HI> together with the Me&s;&s;engers, and delivered to him a thou&s;and Duckats to give unto the Counte&s;s; and willed him to &s;ay un|to her, that her Daughters Husband hath &s;ent her that pre&s;ent, that &s;he might come with a chearful Countenance to the Wedding Fea&s;t of <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra:</HI> The Counte&s;s at the fir&s;t bearing of this Me&s;&s;age, was di&s;plea&s;ed, becau&s;e <HI>Fortunatus</HI> had cho&s;en the Younge&s;t, which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e loved more tenderly than the other: But w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en <HI>Leopoldus</HI> had given her the money, her
<PB N="91" REF="52"> choller was &s;oon allaied, and her Di&s;plea&s;ure pacified; &s;o that &s;he and the Earl prepared them&s;elves with gorgeous Attire, and all o|ther comely Furniture accordingly to go to the Court, where they were received of the King very honourably. Their lodging al&s;o was prepared exceeding &s;umptuou&s;ly, and of all kind of delicate fare they had great plenty: In&s;omuch that the Earl &s;aid to his Wife; as often as we have repaired unto this Court, &s;uch honour was never done unto us before: wherefore &s;ithence our King is become &s;o gra|cious unto us, and hath ordained &s;uch a pui&s;&s;ant Husband for our Daughter, we be much bound to render thanks unto the Omnipotent God. And as they were all a&s;&s;embled together, the King &s;aid unto <HI>Fortunatus;</HI> now re&s;teth only the Wedding Fea&s;t to be ordained, which I mean to have kept in my own Palace. Then &s;pake <HI>Fortunatus:</HI> May it like your Grace to grant me &s;o much, as that I may Solem|nize the &s;ame at <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> in my new Lodg|ing, wherein never was yet any triumphant Pa&s;time. The King &s;aid: Not &s;o, le&s;t the Lord <HI>Nemian</HI> and you &s;hould be over-much charged. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> again replied, &s;aying: no co&s;t, be it never &s;o great, &s;hall either grudge or grieve me, therefore I be&s;eech your Maje|&s;ty vouch&s;afe to honor my fea&s;t with your own per&s;on, and the pre&s;ence of the Queens Grace, and all the Noble and Wor&s;hipfvl Retinue of your Highne&s;s Court: and although perhaps
<PB N="92" REF="53"> I cannot give &s;ufficient Entertainment in all points corre&s;pondent to the worthine&s;s of &s;uch princely and noble e&s;tate: yet I will undoubt|edly &s;o provide, that there &s;hall be nothing ne|ce&s;&s;ary wanting, which money can procure.</P>
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<DIV1 N="22" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How the King and Queen of <HI>Cyprus</HI> accompa|nied the fair <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra</HI> to <HI>Fortunatus</HI> Hou&s;e, where they were bountifully fea&s;ted. Chap. 22.</HEAD>
<P>WHen the King heard <HI>Fortunatus</HI> make &s;uch a bountiful and magnificent prof|fer, he thought to him&s;elf; I would gladly &s;ee his behaviour, and &s;aid unto him: be it as thou ha&s;t reque&s;ted; ride home before to make pre|paration, and I will &s;hortly come with the Queen, thy Father and Mother-in-Law, with thy &s;pou&s;e, and with all our retinue. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> was thereof glad, thanking the King, and &s;aid: Your Grace &s;hall not need to be long ab&s;ent, for in three days I &s;hall be ready for your com|ming. So rode he forthwith to <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> and there made provi&s;ion as magnificently as he could devi&s;e. After the fourth day, the King came to <HI>Fortunatus</HI> hou&s;e, with no &s;mall num|ber of noble e&s;tates: where at the fir&s;t entrance they were triumphantly received with &s;undry kinds of melody, and mu&s;ical harmony, and with many delectable and plea&s;ant &s;hews to delight their &s;en&s;es, the hou&s;e al&s;o being triml<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> compacted, and &s;o gorgeou&s;ly garni&s;hed, that it was mo&s;t glorious to behold. Thus con|tinued
<PB REF="53"> they the whole day, and mo&s;t part of the night, with fea&s;ting, banquetting, and dancing, after the mo&s;t &s;umptuous manner that might be devi&s;ed, until <HI>Fortunatus</HI> and fair <HI>Ca&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ndra</HI> were brought to their Chamber: And in like manner continued the &s;pace of fourteen days after. But notwith&s;tanding the Counte&s;s, the Brides Mother had &s;een this Royalty, and all things &s;o &s;umptuou&s;ly accompli&s;hed, yet was not &s;he fully &s;atisfied, becau&s;e <HI>Fortunatus</HI> had no Land nor yearly Revenues, and &s;o &s;ignified unto her Husband the Earl, who &s;aid: trouble not your &s;elf therewith, for there is no doubt but that he will &s;ufficiently provide for your Daughter. On the next morrow went the King, the Earl, and the Counte&s;s, and reque&s;t|ed him that he would a&s;&s;ign &s;ome certain dow|ry unto <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra,</HI> what ca&s;ualty &s;oever might befal. Then &s;aid <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> I have neither Land, Lord&s;hip, nor yearly Revenues; but I will give to her five thou&s;and Duckats in ready money, wherewith I will put you (my Lord and Father) in tru&s;t, to purcha&s;e for her &s;ome mannor-hou&s;e with Lands, where you and &s;he &s;hall think mo&s;t convenient. Then &s;aid the King: I wot well how it is be&s;t to do in this matter. Here is the Earl of <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">gorn,</HI> which is forced of nece&s;&s;ity to &s;ell a parcel of his Li|ving for ready Money: He hath a Ca&s;tle and a Town three miles hence called <HI>Lar+ganenbo at the Rainbow;</HI> the &s;ame you may buy of him, with the Title that he hath both of
<PB N="94" REF="54"> the Land and People. So &s;ent they pre&s;ently for the Earl, who was contented to bargain with them for &s;even thou&s;and Duckats. <HI>For|tunatus</HI> therfore without delay told out the money, and the Earl of <HI>Legorn</HI> concluded with him to yield up all his right, title, intere&s;t, and juri&s;diction that he had, in, or to the Counti&s;hip Ca&s;tle, and Town of <HI>Legorn</HI> unto <HI>Ca&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ndra,</HI> and never to make more challenge thereto. When this matter was throughly accompli&s;h|ed, then was the Counte&s;s in all points well plea&s;ed.</P>
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<DIV1 N="23" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How the King and the Queen departed, and <HI>Fortunatus</HI> ordained a new Fea&s;t for the Ci|tizens. Chap. 23.</HEAD>
<P>NOw le&s;t the time while&s;t the King there remained, &s;hould &s;eem tedious <HI>Fortunatus</HI> ordained three Iewels; the fir&s;t valued at &s;ix hundred Duckats, for the which the Nobility and chief Champions of Chivalry &s;hould Iu&s;t three days, and he that did be&s;t, freely to po&s;|&s;e&s;s the &s;ame. The &s;econd was worth four hundred Duckats, provided for Squires and Gentlemen. The third pri&s;ed at two hundred Duckats, appointed for &s;ervitors and yeomen: for the which, each degree for three days &s;pace &s;hould orderly contend; and to him that did be&s;t &s;hould the jewels be frankly given. Thus every man extending his manly force to the uttermo&s;t trial, they &s;pent every Day three
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<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 23</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE>hours in ju&s;ting: and the re&s;t of the day, and great part of the night, they pa&s;&s;ed merrily in Banquetting, Dancing, Masking, and other &s;uch like Revels. Now when this &s;umptuous Fea&s;t, and triumphant pa&s;time had continued the &s;pace of fourteen days, the King with all his Train and Retinue would depart, whom <HI>Fortunatus</HI> fain would have had to continue longer, e&s;pecially his Father and Mother in Law: But they would in no wi&s;e &s;tay, fear|ing le&s;t through over-much co&s;t and charges, he might run too far in the lurch. When the King &s;hould depart, <HI>Fortunatus</HI> with all his men brought him on his way: and when he took his leave of them, he gave great thanks unto the King, the Queen, and the Nobility, for that they had &s;o vouch&s;afed to Honour
<PB N="96" REF="55"> his Wedding Fea&s;t with their acceptable pre|&s;ence, and &s;o returned home again to <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra.</HI> After this he prepared yet another fea&s;t, invit|ing thereto all the Citizens, both men, women, and children; which al&s;o continued eight days, whereby he won great favour and friend&s;hip of all the inhabitants of <HI>Famago&s;ta.</HI> When that Fea&s;t was likewi&s;e ended, he purpo&s;ed from thenceforth to lead a quiet life with fair <HI>Ca&s;&s;an|dra,</HI> and in this wi&s;e &s;pake to his old &s;ervant <HI>Leopoldus:</HI> Dear friend, according to my pro|mi&s;e when I fir&s;t entertained thee, I will now propo&s;e the choice of three things unto thee, wherein &s;hew me thy mind, and I will &s;urely perform it accordingly.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, If thou be di&s;po&s;ed to return into <HI>Ireland</HI> again, then will I give thee four &s;er|vants to bring thee wor&s;hipfully thither, and will give thee al&s;o as much money in thy pur&s;e, as &s;hall maintain a competent living for thee and thine during thy life: Or if thou li&s;t hereto remaine <HI>Eamago&s;ta,</HI> I will provide thee a Hou&s;e, and allow th&eacute;e yearly as much as &s;hall maintain thr&eacute;e &s;ervants, and two mai|dens to attend on thee, and will not &s;uffer th&eacute;e to want during thy life: or if thou wilt &s;till a|bide in hou&s;e with me, thou &s;halt have all things that are nece&s;&s;ary, as good as I my &s;elf. Now choo&s;e of the&s;e three proffers which thou like&s;t be&s;t, and I will faithfully perform my promi&s;e in either of them.</P>
<P>Then &s;aid <HI>Leopoldus:</HI> This is much more
<PB N="97" REF="55"> than I have de&s;erved either of God or Man, that &s;uch honour and courte&s;ie &s;hould be proffered to me in my old Age: wherefore I yield to you as hearty thanks as one man may tender to another.</P>
<P>But as concerning this choice; to ride home again, for one of my years, it is very painful and unmeet; and perhaps I may dye by the way; yea, though I might come &s;afely home, <HI>Ireland</HI> being a hard and uncivil country, where are no good wives, nor delicate victuals well prepar|ed, whereto I have been long accu&s;tomed, my life (mo&s;t like) would be the &s;ooner &s;hortned. And to remain &s;till in hou&s;hold with you, for me is more unfit: For whereas you have now a Fair young lu&s;ty Wife, many goodly Gen|tlewomen and jolly Fellows about you. I be|ing old and feeble, &s;hall be loath&s;ome unto them; for the behaviour of old men, is irk|&s;ome unto the younger &s;ort. Howbeit I mi|&s;tru&s;t not your vertuous di&s;po&s;ition. There|fore if it &s;hall plea&s;e you, I e&s;pecially reque&s;t you to buy me a hou&s;e in the City, wherein I may end my life; be&s;eeching you notwith&s;tand|ing, that <HI>I</HI> may not be &s;ecluded from your coun|&s;el, &s;o long as we both live. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> thereto yielded, not attempting any weighty cau&s;e without his advice &s;o long as he lived. He al&s;o bought him a hou&s;e according to his de&s;ire, gave him men &amp; maidens, &amp; alow'd him for his charg|es an hundred duckats every month. <HI>Leopol|dus</HI> was glad to be fr&eacute;e at his own liberty, to eat
<PB N="98" REF="56"> or drink, ri&s;e or go to bed when he lifted, and not bound to any kind of &s;ervice. Neverthele&s;s he went daily to the Church, there to &s;hew him|&s;elf to <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> and other his attendants, when need required; whereby appeared his fi|delity. When <HI>Leopoldus</HI> had now lived half a year in his e&s;tate, he was taken with a grie|vous &s;ickne&s;s, which when no Phy&s;itians could remedy, &s;oon after he died, whereof <HI>Fortunatus</HI> was exceeding &s;orry, cau&s;ing him to be wor|&s;hipfully buried in his own Church.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="24" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> had by his Wife two Sons, the fir&s;t named <HI>Ampedo,</HI> the younger <HI>Andol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI> Chap. 24.</HEAD>
<P><HI>FOrtunatus</HI> and <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra</HI> his wife now liv|ing in joyful and happy E&s;tate, found lack of no earthly thing but only of Children; for he knew that the vertue of his Pur&s;e would end after his decea&s;e, if he had no lawful heirs of his body: howbeit he made not his wife a coun|&s;el thereof, but prayed daily together with her, that God would make them Fruitful. In&s;o|much that the Lord hearing their reque&s;ts, <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra</HI> was conceived with a Son, whom they Baptized with the Name of <HI>Ampedo.</HI> Shortly after &s;he came with Child again, and brought forth another Son, which was Chri|&s;tened by the name of <HI>Andolocia.</HI> Thus <HI>For|tunatus</HI> was not a little joyful, that he had now two &s;uch fair and well-proportioned chil|dren,
<PB N="99" REF="56"> whom he and his E&s;pou&s;e trained up care|fully, and tenderly loved: Howbeit <HI>Andolo|cia</HI> was always of &s;touter courage than <HI>Ampe|do,</HI> as after it appeared. And although <HI>Fortuna|tus</HI> would gladly have had more Children by <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra</HI> (e&s;pecially a daughter or twain al&s;o) yet from thence forth &s;he conceived no more by him.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="25" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> got leave of <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra</HI> to go unto the Heathen Nations. Chap. 25.</HEAD>
<P><HI>FOrtunatus</HI> having now lived joyfully with <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra</HI> twelve years, and per&s;wading with him&s;elf that it was unlikely he &s;hould have any more Children, it &s;eemed irk&s;ome and grievous unto him to abide any longer at <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> though he there wanted no kind of plea&s;ant Recreation and Pa&s;time; but pur|po&s;ed to travel among the Heathen, through both the greater and le&s;&s;er <HI>India,</HI> and over all the Kingdoms of <HI>Pre&s;ter John:</HI> For the which he demanded the good will of <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra,</HI> and told her, that fora&s;much as he had already ran|ged through one half of the earth, he was mind|ed to &s;ee the other half al&s;o, though he &s;hould lo&s;e his life thereby. When <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra</HI> heard him &s;o earne&s;tly bent to depart &s;o far from her, &s;he lamentably entreated him to de|&s;i&s;t from his purpo&s;ed Voyage, &s;aying: If you thus without cau&s;e will adventure your quiet e&s;tate, it is no other likelyhood, but that
<PB N="100" REF="57"> you will greatly repent it. For although here|tofore you have pa&s;&s;ed throughout mo&s;t Chri&s;ti|an Nations in your youthful, &s;trong, and lu&s;ty age, yet now you being long accu&s;tomed to a quiet life, may not &s;o well endure to travel in the&s;e elder years into the Savage and Heathen Countries, who al&s;o be mo&s;t envious, unfaith|ful, and tyrannous to all Chri&s;tians; therefore oh my well-beloved <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> oh my dear and faithful &s;pou&s;e, on whom I repo&s;e all my tru&s;t, I be&s;eech thee for Gods &s;ake, and the love thou owe&s;t unto me, that having re&s;pect unto thy Wife and Children, thou wilt ca&s;t out of thy mind &s;uch dangerous and unneedful travel, and abide &s;till with us; and if I have di&s;plea&s;ed you in any thing, or have done ought that mi&s;liked you, let me under&s;tand of it, and I will endea|vour to e&s;chew the &s;ame: with that &s;he wept bitterly, and &s;hewed her &s;elf very &s;orrowful. Then &s;aid <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> my dearly beloved bed-fellow, take not the matter &s;o grievou&s;ly, I in|tend to be but a &s;mall time ab&s;ent, and when I return, from thenceforth I will continue with you &s;o long as we both live. Then &s;aid <HI>Ca&s;&s;an|dra,</HI> If I were &s;ure of your return, I would pa|tiently abide your departure: Or if you went el&s;e-where than among&s;t an unfaithful people that coveteth the blood of Chri&s;tians, it &s;hou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d the le&s;s grieve me. Then &s;aid <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> I am &s;o fully minded to accompli&s;h this journey, that no creature &s;ave God and death only &s;hall alter my pretence: howbeit at my departure I
<PB N="101" REF="57"> will leave you &s;o much ready money, as &s;hall maintain you and your Children during your lives, though I never come again. When <HI>Ca&s;|&s;andra</HI> perceived that no entreaty would pre|vail, &s;he &s;aid: Well-beloved husband, &s;ithence it cannot be otherwi&s;e, I be&s;eech you ha&s;ten your return, and let not the love and faithfulne&s;s which you have hither &s;hewed, be bani&s;hed out of your heart, and we will all pray unto the Lord day and night, that you may have health, peace, and good weather, and favour of all them with whom you &s;hall be conver&s;ent, and under who&s;e power you &s;hall fall. Then &s;aid <HI>Fortuna|tus;</HI> God grant your prayer take effect, and I tru&s;t to return the &s;ooner.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="26" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> departed from <HI>Cyprus</HI> again to vi&s;it more &s;trange countries. Chap. 26.</HEAD>
<P>SOon after <HI>Fortunatus</HI> taking leave of his Wife and Children, de&s;iring God to ble&s;s them all, departed in a Ship of his own, and &s;ailed to <HI>Alexandria;</HI> where when they had at|tained licence to come on land, they were de|manded who was Lord of the Ship, to whom they an&s;wered: That <HI>Fortunatus</HI> of <HI>Famaga&s;ta</HI> in the I&s;le of <HI>Cyprus</HI> was the only owner there|of: then required they <HI>Fortunatus</HI> to be brought into the Kings pre&s;ence, to pre&s;ent a Gift unto him; for &s;uch was the Cu&s;tom there: And every Merchant at his fir&s;t arrival at <HI>Alexan|dria,</HI> &s;hould give &s;ome pre&s;ent unto the Soul|dan.
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<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 26</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE>Wherefore the Courtiers were ready and diligent to bring him unto the Court: where he willed a Cup-Board to be prepared, and thereon he &s;et many fair and co&s;tly Iewels for the King to behold. When the Souldan came forth and beheld them, he marvelled, &s;uppo&s;ing they were brought to be &s;old: And thereupon enquiring the price of them. <HI>Fortu|natus</HI> again cau&s;ed to be demanded of the Soul|dan whether they liked him? The Souldan an|&s;wered, I have not lightly &s;een fairer, therefore I cannot but like them well. Then reque&s;ted <HI>Fortunatus</HI> that his Grace would take them in good worth for that he would freely give them all unto him: when the King heard that, he marvelled that one Merchant &s;hould pre&s;ent
<PB N="103" REF="58"> him with &s;uch a rich gift; for he e&s;teemed them worth 5000 Duckats, which he thought was a &s;ufficient Pre&s;ent for the Commonalty and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">att of a whole City, &s;uch as <HI>Venice, Florence,</HI> or <HI>Genua:</HI> Howbeit he would not refu&s;e them, but accepted it for a gift, recompencing him with an hundred barrels of Pepper, which a|mounted to the value of the Iewels. When the Factors of <HI>Venice, Florence,</HI> and <HI>Genua,</HI> and <HI>Catholonia</HI> (who were then at <HI>Alexandria</HI>) had heard that the King had given unto <HI>For|tunatus</HI> &s;uch a reward; fora&s;much as they abid|ing there continually, brought great commo|dity unto the Realm, and gave Gifts once or twice a year unto the King, and yet none of them at any time received any reward, great or &s;mall, they envied <HI>Fortunatus.</HI> Be&s;ides that, he bought all the be&s;t Merchandize, not &s;ticking at any price: Wherefore they fearing their Hinderance, &s;ought to bring <HI>Fortu|natus</HI> in di&s;plea&s;ure with the Souldan. Where|upon they gave unto the Lord Admiral great Gifts, to the end he might conceive the wor&s;e of <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> and &s;o Di&s;credit him to the King. But <HI>Fortunatus</HI> having intelligence thereof, gave unto him privily every time &s;o much more than they. This fell out well for the Admiral, who took Money on both Parties, and yet did what he thought good, and was neverthele&s;s friendly unto <HI>Fortu|natus;</HI> wi&s;hing that many more &s;uch would come unto <HI>Alexandria.</HI> After <HI>Fortunatus</HI>
<PB N="104" REF="59"> had been there certain days, behaving him&s;elf very wor&s;hipfully: the King invited him and the chief Ma&s;ters of the Ship to Dinner, giv|ing them honourable entertainment, which grieved the Merchants greatly. Soon after the Admiral did in like manner fea&s;t them: And then did the Merchants plainly perceive that their gifts were in vain be&s;towed; for the which they inwardly fretted. When the time drew nigh that the Ship mu&s;t needs depart, for the cu&s;tom was, that no ve&s;&s;el might &s;tay at <HI>Alexandria</HI> above &s;ix weeks, (whether he had &s;old or not.) <HI>Fortunatus</HI> had appointed another Patron over his Ship in his &s;tead, whom he charged to &s;ail with his Merchandize to <HI>Ca|thalonia, Portugal, Spain, Flanders,</HI> and <HI>Eng|land,</HI> and to augment his &s;tock by exchange of Wares at all tho&s;e Coa&s;ts. He al&s;o charged him, that after two years he &s;hould repair a|gain with the Ship unto <HI>Alexandria:</HI> For in the mean while he purpo&s;ed to &s;&eacute;e many &s;trange Countries, and at the two years end would he there meet him again: but if they found him not there, that they &s;hould make no account that he were alive, then they &s;hould return to <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> and there deliver the &s;hip and the goods into the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of his Wife <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra</HI> and his Children; which Commandment of his, the Patron faithfully promi&s;ing to accom|p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;h, took his leave and &s;o departed.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="27" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="105" REF="59">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> departed to travel towards the Indies, and many other &s;trange countries, and at the length returned again to <HI>Alexan|dria.</HI> Chap. 27.</HEAD>
<P><HI>FOrtunatus</HI> forthwith made reque&s;t unto the Lord Admiral, that he would procure him of the Souldan a &s;port, a guide, and letters of com|mendation to tho&s;e Princes and Monarks, by whom he minded to travel. The Admiral ac|compli&s;hed his reque&s;t in all re&s;pects, whereof he was glad, and incontinently furni&s;hed him|&s;elf and all that &s;hould accompany him with all things nece&s;&s;ary &amp; expedient at his own char|ges; &amp; &s;o made his fir&s;t journey through the land of <HI>Per&s;ia;</HI> from thence he pa&s;&s;ed through the do|minions of the great <HI>Cham</HI> of <HI>Cathay,</HI> and &s;o through the de&s;art, came to the Court of <HI>Pre&s;ter John,</HI> who had under him, both of the I&s;les and firm Land <HI>lxxii</HI> Kings, every one of the which Countries is full of People, fair Cities, and &s;trong holds: There <HI>Fortunatus</HI> gave unto <HI>Pre|&s;ter John</HI> many goodly Iewels and pre&s;ents, &s;uch as were rare and &s;trange in tho&s;e Coun|tries. He gave al&s;o many gifts unto the Gen|tlemen of the privy Chamber, and &s;uch as were in authority; reque&s;ting them to a&s;&s;i&s;t and further him, that he might take up certain Men, and have the Kings Letters to addre&s;s him to <HI>Calicuate,</HI> whereas the be&s;t Pepper groweth like unto Grapes, and the men of the
<PB N="106" REF="60"> country for extream heat go all naked. <HI>Fortu|natus</HI> therefore not able for parching heat to travel any farther that way, and now remem|bring his beloved wife and his two &s;ons, long|ed to be at <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> and &s;o returted a contra|ry way homeward, through many other &s;trange Countries, until he came to the City <HI>Lamecha;</HI> and there bought a Chamel, whereon he rode through the de&s;art of <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> to &s;ee the ho|ly Monuments of our Saviours Pa&s;&s;ions. The time whereas he appointed to be again at <HI>Alexandria</HI> was nigh at hand, within two months: wherefore he took &s;hipping to abridge his Iourney, and made ha&s;t away, until he was arrived again at <HI>Alexandria;</HI> where he went pre&s;ently unto the Souldan, thanking him and the Lord Admiral highly for their Letters; by whom he was entertained very honourably, when they under&s;tood that he had &s;o manly behaved him&s;elf, and had &s;een &s;o many &s;trange Countries.</P>
<P>When <HI>Fortunatus</HI> had been now eight days at <HI>Alexandria,</HI> having there with him many &s;trange bea&s;ts and other rare Novelties, he longed greatly for the Ship, that he might &s;et forward to <HI>Famago&s;ta.</HI> In the mean time was the &s;hip arrived, laden with &s;o much, and &s;o rich Merchandi&s;e, that &s;he was thrice better in value than when &s;he departed, whereof <HI>Fortu|natus</HI> was exceeding glad, e&s;pecially for the health of his men, and that they had brought Letters from <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra,</HI> &s;ignifying that &s;he
<PB N="107" REF="60"> and her Children were in good e&s;tate, wanting only his pre&s;ence. Wherefore he willed his Merchants to make a &s;peedy &s;ale, and to afford the&s;e wares better cheap than they commonly u&s;ed. And in &s;o doing, as they were willed, whereas other &s;hips do &s;cant make their Mart in &s;ix weeks, they di&s;patched all their bu&s;ine&s;s in twenty days, when as <HI>Fortunatus</HI> would have pre&s;ently taken his leave and departed: But the Souldan reque&s;ted him to &s;tay with him at Supper the night before he departed, which he could not refu&s;e, but willed his men to go aboard, and to lanch out the Ship from the Haven into the Rode, appointing pre&s;ent|ly after &s;upper to come unto them, and &s;o to de|part. In the mean while went <HI>Fortunatus</HI> with the Admiral unto the Kings Palace, where he was worthily entertained. Then communed the Souldan with him concerning his Affairs and &s;ucce&s;s in &s;trange Nations, which he ut|tered at large, thanking him again for his Letters of addre&s;s, &s;aying: That by them he was greatly furthered, and the more accepted of &s;trange Princes. By this time was the &s;up|per ready; the King was &s;et at the Table, and <HI>Fortunatus</HI> was placed almo&s;t over again&s;t him, where they were &s;erved with all kind of delicate fare, as was convenient for &s;uch a Mighty Prince.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="23" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="108" REF="61">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> gave great Gifts to the Soul|dans hou&s;hold-&s;ervants, and how the Soul|dan &s;hewed him his trea&s;ure and his wi&s;hing-Hat, which <HI>Fortunatus</HI> carried away. Chap. 23.</HEAD>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 23</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P>VVHen &s;upper was ended, <HI>Fortunatus</HI> craved licence to be&s;tow his benevo|lence on the hou&s;hold, which the Souldan gran|ting, he opened his pur&s;e privily under the Ta|ble: and when he had given to every man in the hou&s;e a large gift, according to their degr&eacute;e, the Souldan marvelled with him&s;elf how he could bear &s;o much Gold about him unperceived, e|&s;t&eacute;eming it a great honour done to him, that he had b&eacute;en &s;o liberal to his &s;ervants, &s;aying: right
<PB N="109" REF="61"> courteous Gentleman, this your bountiful be|haviour, and liberal disbur&s;ing towards me and all mine, de&s;erveth no &s;mall commendation and recompence: come therefore with me, and I will &s;hew you that before you go, which few or none doth know but my &s;elf, and the like whereof you never &s;aw: With that he brought him unto a &s;trong Tower, vau~ted all with Marble-&s;tone; in the fir&s;t room whereof were a great number of ve&s;&s;els, and Iewels of Sil|ver, and huge heaps of &s;ilver coyns: In the &s;econd were many ve&s;&s;els and hou&s;hold imple|ments of Gold; and many great Che&s;ts full of golden Coyn: within that was a great Ward-rope, full of many co&s;tly Iewels and gorge|ous garments, beautified with precious &s;tones of all &s;orts, belonging to the ornaments for his Body: There were al&s;o two golden Candle|&s;ticks, upon which &s;tood two orient and great Carbuncles, which &s;hone in the night all over the Chamber. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> was rapt with great admiration to behold this infinite Trea&s;ure, prai&s;ing it greatly: Then &s;aid the Souldan, I have yet a jewel in my Chamber which I more e&s;teem than all tho&s;e you have &s;een: Then the King carried him to his own Bed-chamber, which was &s;umptuou&s;ly adorned, having a pro&s;pect unto the main Sea, and there opening a clo&s;et, brought forth in his hand a plain Felt hat, ba&s;e and &s;imple to behold, &s;aying: I &s;et more by this Hat, than by all the Precious Iewels that I po&s;&s;e&s;s, for that if I had no Iew|els,
<PB N="110" REF="62"> money would get them, but &s;uch an Hat is not to be had.</P>
<P>Then &s;aid <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> if it &s;o plea&s;e your Maje&s;ty, I would gladly know what power and vertue con&s;i&s;teth in this hat. The King &s;aid, it hath this quality, that who&s;oever hath it on his head, where he wi&s;heth then to be, he is with a thought conveyed thither; &s;o that with the fame have I more plea&s;ure than with all my je|wels: for when my men go forth to hunt, and I long to be with them, &s;etting my Hat on my head, where the be&s;t game is to be &s;een, I am there &s;uddenly pre&s;ent: and where the Deer re&s;teth, I can be there when I li&s;t, to drive them to the hunters hand. In time of wars al&s;o, I can be with my Souldiers when I lift, and in my Palace again w th a wi&s;h, which all my Iewels cannot do. Then demanded <HI>Fortuna|tus,</HI> if he that made that Hat were yet alive: The King &s;aid, of that I am uncertain. Then thought <HI>Fortunatus</HI> in his mind: How well would this Hat agree with the Pur&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and &s;aid unto the King: Methinks, &s;ithence that Hat hath &s;uch great vertue, that it would &s;eem very heavy on his head that weareth it. Then an|&s;wered the King, that it was no heavier than another Hat, and therewith bid him to e&s;&s;ay it on his head, asking him whether he fe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t it o|therwi&s;e. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> an&s;wered, &s;aying: Verily I did not think it had been &s;o light, neither &s;up|po&s;ed I that your Grace wou d be &s;o unadvi&s;ed to &s;et it on my head: with that he &s;uddenly
<PB N="111" REF="62"> wi&s;hed him&s;elf into his &s;hip, willing &s;peedily to hoi&s;e the &s;ail, and having a fre&s;h gale of wind, they &s;ailed &s;wiftly away: when the Souldan &s;aw he was thus deceived of &s;uch an incomparable Iewel, perceived al&s;o at the window that the &s;hip was under &s;ail, he in great rage comman|ded his men to &s;et after <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> and to bring him back pri&s;oner, threatning to him a cruel death. But ere they could be &s;cantly ap|pointed, the &s;hip was clean pa&s;&s;ed out of &s;ight; &s;o that the Me&s;&s;engers returned again in vain, whereof the King was exceeding &s;orry.</P>
<P>Now when the Factors of <HI>Venice, Florence,</HI> and <HI>Genua</HI> under&s;tood that <HI>Fortunatus</HI> was gone with the Kings Iewel, they inwardly re|joyced, &s;aying among them&s;elves: The King and the Admiral are but very wel &s;erved; for whereas they thought they could not do unto him too much honour, he hath therefore yield|ed them a fair recompence: but yet are we now &s;ure that he will not return hither again to hinder our Marts as he hath done. Now the Souldan being thus in a great agony for his Hat, would gladly have devi&s;ed how to obtain it again, but wi&s;t not how to attempt the matter.</P>
<P>To &s;end his Admiral, or any of his heathen Lords among the Chri&s;tians, he thought it both dangerous and little available: where|fore he thought be&s;t to &s;end the Captain of the Chr&s;tians in his Emba&s;&s;age unto <HI>Cyprus,</HI>
<PB N="112" REF="63"> to deal by way of entreaty. Wherefore he called the Captain unto him, who was a <HI>Venetian,</HI> named <HI>Marcholandus,</HI> reque&s;ting him to accom|pli&s;h an Emba&s;&s;age faithfully unto <HI>Fortunatus</HI> in <HI>Cyprus:</HI> and &s;hewing him the ca&s;e before, wil|led him to &s;ay unto <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> that if he would vouch&s;afe of courte&s;ie to &s;end him the hat again, &s;ithence he &s;hewed it him upon tru&s;t, he would accept it thankfully, and would &s;end his Ship a|gain laden with co&s;tly &s;pices: but if he would not be &s;o entreated, that he &s;hould make his complaint unto the King of <HI>Cyprus,</HI> reque&s;ting him to enforce <HI>Fortunatus</HI> to &s;end the Iewel which he had unfaithfully carried from him: the Captain promi&s;ed truly and diligently to do his me&s;&s;age. Whereupon the Souldan cau&s;|ed to be ordained for him a fair and &s;trong &s;hip, well manned with Chri&s;tian Marriners, in all points &s;ufficiently appointed, promi&s;ing unto him rich rewards if he could bring the Hat a|gain. But the Souldan was &s;o di&s;maid that he could take no <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">, whereat his &s;ervitors were very &s;orry, who prai&s;ed <HI>Fortunatus</HI> highly when he dealt &s;o liberally with them; but when he had thus di&s;quieted their King, they &s;aid, he was the naughtie&s;t man that ever lived.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="20" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How the Souldans Emba&s;&s;adour could not ob|tain the Hat of <HI>Fortunatus.</HI> Chap. 20.</HEAD>
<P><HI>MArch olandus</HI> being arrived in <HI>Cyprus,</HI> tame to <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> where <HI>Fortunatus</HI>
<PB N="113" REF="63"> was come home ten days before. But how joy|fully he &amp; his company were received of <HI>Ca&s;&s;an|dra,</HI> of his two children, &amp; of all the City, it were tedious to report: for there were many citizens al&s;o, who&s;e friends were landed with <HI>Fortu|natus,</HI> that had travelled far with him; which mirth and joy <HI>Mercholandus</HI> well perceived. And when <HI>Fortunatus</HI> under&s;tood that an Em|ba&s;&s;ador was come from the Souldan, to <HI>Fama|go&s;ta,</HI> he ea&s;ily deemed what was his errand: howbeit he cau&s;ed a fair lodging to be appoint|ed for him, and all other things requi&s;ite, wil|ling his provi&s;ion to be brought in, which he would di&s;charge. When <HI>Marcholandus</HI> had bin now three days in <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> he &s;ent word un|to <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> that he had a me&s;&s;age to do unto him. <HI>Fortunatus</HI> willed him to come unto his fair Palace, where he did his Me&s;&s;age: &s;ay|ing: <HI>The King Souldan of <HI>Babylon,</HI> Lord of <HI>Alcary</HI> and <HI>Alexandria,</HI> &s;endeth his greeting to thee <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> by me <HI>Marcholandus:</HI> requi|ring that thou wilt vouch&s;afe to let me be a &s;peedy Me&s;&s;enger, and &s;end unto him his Jewel again by me. Fortunatus</HI> an&s;wered in &s;cotting manner, &s;aying: <HI>I marvel that the King Soul|dan was &s;o uncircum&s;pect to tell me the vertue of the Hat, and al&s;o him&s;elf to &s;et th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ame up|on my head; by occa&s;ion whereof I was in &s;uch Danger, that it will never be out of my remembrance &s;o long as I live: For my Ship being at rode on the Sea, and upon his &s;aying. I wi&s;hing my &s;elf therein, if it had then failed</HI>
<PB N="114" REF="64"> by the way, I had been drowned, and &s;o have lo&s;t my life, which I e&s;teem more than all the King Souldans Kingdom; and therefore am I minded not to depart from the Iewel &s;o long as I live. When <HI>Marcholandus</HI> heard this an&s;wer, he thought by fair entreaty to per|&s;wade him: Wherefore he &s;aid unto him; <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> be not &s;o hard-hearted, but advi&s;e you by rea&s;on and coun&s;el: What profit can you make of the Iewel? I will warrant you an hundred times the Value of that pild Hat, whereof if I had a &s;ackful, and each of them had the vertue that it hath, I would give them all for the third part of that I &s;hall procure you for the &s;ame: Wherefore let me &s;peed I be|&s;eech you of my me&s;&s;age, and I will promi&s;e you that the King &s;hall lade your Ship with the fine&s;t Spices; as Pepper, Ginger, Cloves, Nutmegs, and Cinnamon, and &s;uch-like: the which may be worth an hundred thou&s;and Duckats. Be&s;ides that, &s;hall it be granted you not to yield the Hat before you have the &s;aid Spices delivered into your Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion. Therefore if it plea&s;e you on this Condition to agree, I will my &s;elf go with your &s;hip to <HI>Alexandria,</HI> and bring it home unto you load|en, tru&s;ting unto you, that when I bring that I have promi&s;ed, you will likewi&s;e yield o|ver unto my Gracious Lord the King, his Iewel again.</P>
<P><HI>Fortunatus</HI> an&s;wered, &s;aying: I would fain be in the Kings friend&s;hip, and in yours al&s;o,
<PB N="115" REF="64"> but let no man per&s;wade with him&s;elf that he &s;hall get the Hat out of my hands &s;o long as my life endureth.</P>
<P>Vpon the&s;e words <HI>Marcholandus</HI> tru&s;ted no more to entreaty, but wrathfully departed unto the King of <HI>Cyprus,</HI> to whom he made his com|plaint, reque&s;ting his Maje&s;ty that he would en|force <HI>Fortunatus</HI> his &s;ubject to re&s;tore again to the Souldan the Iewel which he had mo&s;t de|ceitfully gotten, and now wrongfully detained: &s;aying, that if it were not by fear means re|&s;tored, great Wars were like thereof to en&s;ue. The King &s;aid again to <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rcholandus,</HI> I have Princes and Lords in my Kingdom, whom though I command, they will do what they li&s;t: But if your King have any ju&s;t Complaint or Quarrel again&s;t <HI>Fortunatus,</HI> let him deal with him as he thinketh good; for I would that he &s;hould have Iu&s;tice as he hath de&s;erved.</P>
<P><HI>Marcholandus</HI> then &s;uppo&s;ing with him&s;elf that the Heathen in <HI>Cyprus</HI> &s;hould have but &s;lender ju&s;tice, returned to <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> there to take &s;hipping and depart. But <HI>Fortuna|tus</HI> notwith&s;tanding, at his return bad him to Dinner, entertaining him &s;umptuou&s;ly. He gave al&s;o unto him many goodly Iewels, and freighted his Ship with &s;ufficient Vi|ctuals, at his own charge, &s;aying unto him: Have me commended unto the Souldan, and tell him; That if he had &s;uch a Hat of mine in like manner, I &s;uppo&s;e he would not
<PB N="116" REF="65"> &s;end it me again, neither would his councel per&s;wade him &s;o to do: likewi&s;e am I advi&s;ed by my friends and my own rea&s;on, not to de|part from it, &s;o long as I may k&eacute;ep it.</P>
<P>The <HI>Marcholandus</HI> thanked <HI>Fortunatus</HI> for his courteous entertainment, and his co&s;t|ly gifts, &s;aying: he would &s;o &s;ignifie unto the King, and departed &s;orrowful for his cold &s;uit.</P>
<P><HI>Fortunatus</HI> having now pa&s;&s;ed over mo&s;t part of the World, and wanting almo&s;t no earth|ly Commodity that man might wi&s;h; he be|gan to tender the advancement of his own and his Childrens e&s;tates; maintaining a Prince|ly port, procured Ma&s;ters and Men of facul|ties to in&s;truct his Children, e&s;pecially in Learning, and in feats of Chivalry, whereto the younge&s;t was mo&s;t inclined, behaving him|&s;elf manfully; for which cau&s;e <HI>Fortunatus</HI> be|&s;towed many Iewels, for the which was much Iu&s;ting at <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> wherein the Younge&s;t Son had always the chief prai&s;e: Whereupon the common people would &s;ay, that <HI>Andolocia</HI> did honour to the whole Coun|try: <HI>Fortunatus</HI> therefore rejoyced, pa&s;&s;ing his days in great &s;olace with the pa&s;time and plea&s;ure that he conceived with the Hat, and al&s;o by Hawking, with <HI>Andolocia</HI> and fair <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra.</HI> When they had thus many years enjoyed all earthly plea&s;ures, Fair <HI>Ca&s;&s;an|dra</HI> was &s;ummoned with a Grievous and Deadly Sickne&s;s, to yield up her immor|tal
<PB N="117" REF="65"> Soul from the tran&s;itory and corruptible Body, were it never &s;o near; whereof <HI>Fortu|natus</HI> al&s;o conceived &s;uch an inward thought, that he langui&s;hed with a deadly con&s;umption, and an impo&s;thumation in the head. When the feeble e&s;tate of his Body put him in fear of death, he &s;ent far and near for the be&s;t Phy&s;i|tians that might be had; but they only pro|longed his life for a &s;mall time, but could give him no comfort of recovery.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="30" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Fortunatus</HI> on his death-bed, declared un|to his Sons the vertue of the Pur&s;e and the Hat. Chap. 30.</HEAD>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 30</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P><HI>FOrtunatus</HI> therefore perceiving no amend|ment, but rather that Death approached,
<PB N="118" REF="66"> &s;ent for his two Sons, <HI>Ampedo</HI> and <HI>Andolo|cia,</HI> &s;aying to them, My dear Children, your Mo|ther that &s;o carefully trained you up, is depart|ed out of this world, and I likewi&s;e perceive by the feeblene&s;s of my tormented body, that death is nigh at hand; therefore I will &s;hew you how you may continue in honour and wealth as I have do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e until my dying day. With that he declared unto them the vertue of the Pur&s;e, and that it &s;hould la&s;t no longer than their two lives; and al&s;o told them the vertue of the Hat, and how much the Souldan would have given for it. He commanded moreover that they &s;hould not part the Iewels, but u&s;e them in common friendly together, neither that they &s;hould make any per&s;on privy to the vertue of the pur&s;e, were &s;he or he never &s;o well beloved unto them: for &s;o &s;aid he, have I concealed it this <HI>xl.</HI> years, and never uttered it &s;ave now to you only: With that he cea&s;ed &s;peaking, and gave up the Gho&s;t; whom his Sons cau&s;ed to be honourably buried in the Min&s;ter which he had erected.</P>
<P><HI>Ampedo</HI> and <HI>Andolocia,</HI> having now left off all kind of martial Exerci&s;es, and mourned twelve months for the death of their Father: <HI>Andolocia</HI> having read over his fathers books, wherein was regi&s;tred in how many Nations he had travelled, was therewith greatly de|lighted, and earne&s;tly moved to do the like. Wherefore he &s;aid to <HI>Ampedo:</HI> My dear bro|ther, that we may not pa&s;s the&s;e our lu&s;ty
<PB N="119" REF="66"> and youthful years together in vanity, idle|ne&s;s, and ob&s;cure behaviour; let us travel into &s;trange Countries, to get experience, and pur|cha&s;e Honour, as our Father hath done; a memorial whereof he hath left to us in writ|ing, which I greatly de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ight to read. <HI>Ampedo</HI> an&s;wered, &s;aying: Let them wander that is di&s;po&s;ed; for I mean nothing le&s;s, le&s;t per|haps (as mo&s;t like it is) I &s;hould come into many a place where I &s;hould gladly wi&s;h me at home again: So that (God willing) I am determined to remain here at <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> and to end my life in this fair Palace. Then &s;aid <HI>Andolocia:</HI> Sithence you are &s;o minded, let us part the Iewels. <HI>Ampedo</HI> &s;aid: wilt thou &s;o tran&s;gre&s;s our Fathers commandment: wote&s;t thou not that by his la&s;t will, he charged us that we &s;hould not divide them: <HI>Andolocia</HI> &s;aid: What need we care for that? he is dead and we be alive, therefore &s;ithence we mean to part company, let us al&s;o divide them.</P>
<P>Then &s;aid <HI>Ampedo,</HI> Take the Hat for thy &s;hare, and go whither thou wilt. <HI>Andolocia</HI> &s;aid, take thou it thy &s;elf and abide here: thus when they could not agree, for that they both de&s;ired the Pur&s;e, <HI>Andolocia</HI> &s;aid: Good Brother, then I pray you hearken to my Coun&s;el; which &s;hall be indifferent for us both. We will privily fill two coffers full of gold, where|with thou &s;pending at thy plea&s;ure, mai&s;t live merrily during thy Life: Thou &s;halt have
<PB N="120" REF="67"> the Hat al&s;o to make thee pa&s;time, and let me only have the Pur&s;e during the &s;pace of &s;ix years, wherein I will travel to purcha&s;e expe|rience and honour: And at my return thou &s;halt enjoy the pur&s;e at thine own u&s;e &s;ix years in like manner; thus &s;hall we not break our Fathers Will. <HI>Ampedo</HI> thinking this to be a rea&s;onable demand, was contented that &s;o it &s;hould be.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="31" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Andolocia</HI> having the Pur&s;e, went well fur|ni&s;hed unto the Fren<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h Kings Court. Chap. 31.</HEAD>
<P>WHen <HI>An<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">olocia</HI> had the Pur&s;e, he atti|red him&s;elf gorgeou&s;ly, entertained forty tall and comely Men, whom he apparelled at his own co&s;t, after the brave&s;t manner: And taking leave of his Brother he departed in a Ship of his own, and &s;ailed towards <HI>France,</HI> until he came to the Haven, called <HI>Aqua|morte,</HI> where he went on Land, and pa&s;&s;ed to the <HI>French</HI> Kings Court, where he was well Entertained of the King and all the Courtiers. There he accompanied him&s;elf with Earls, Lords, and Knights; for he maintained his E&s;tate as &s;umptuou&s;ly as the be&s;t of them: Wherefore he was had in great e&s;timation with every man; attending al&s;o daily on the King, as if he had been an ordinary Servant. In the mean time it be|fel, that a Challenge was made by certain Lords and Gentlemen, to Iu&s;t, Wra&s;tle,
<PB N="121" REF="67"> and leap with any one that would contend with him: <HI>Andolocia</HI> advanced him&s;elf to try his force in all the&s;e Games, wherein he excelled them all. And in the evening when the Nobles and Ladies &s;hould dance before the King, he was al&s;o called and preferred to Dance with them, wherein likewi&s;e he behaved him&s;elf &s;o well, and with &s;uch a comely grace, that the Gentlewomen had him in great favour, de|lighting to recreate them&s;elves, and pa&s;s the time in his company, whereof he was glad, yielding unto them again plea&s;ant communi|cation, and familiar courte&s;ie.</P>
<P>After the Revels was ordained a Banquet, whereto the King al&s;o invited <HI>Andolocia,</HI> and as he &s;at at the Table, it chanced that he was fuddenly pricked with a pa&s;&s;ion of hot love to|wards a fair Gentlewoman, who&s;e Husband was mo&s;t familiar with him of all the other in the Court: Wherefore as &s;oon as he was ri|&s;en from the Table, without delay or long circum&s;tance, he rounding her in the ear, offered her a thou&s;and Crowns, on condition &s;he would grant to lye with him but one night. The Gentlewoman being a Faithful and Cha&s;t Wife, would not Con&s;ent thereto, but pre&s;ently detected the great offer of <HI>Ando|locia</HI> unto her husband; who &s;aid unto her: A thou&s;and Crowns would do us great plea&s;ure, and were &s;oon earned: howbeit hone&s;ty pa&s;&s;|eth Riches, and the infamy that thereby to us both might en&s;ue, can with no Money be ta|ken
<PB N="122" REF="68"> away; notwith&s;tanding (if &s;o be you think it good) we may &s;o u&s;e the matter, to have mo&s;t part of the money without de&s;training of your own body, by this policy: You know we have a fair and well-proportioned Neighbour, who is nothing nice of her fle&s;h, neither refu|&s;eth any clean mans bed for money; to her you may promi&s;e an hundred Crowns to lye with <HI>Andolocia</HI> in your &s;tead, and the re&s;t may we re&s;erve unto our &s;elves: I need no further to in&s;truct you, for a Woman I tru&s;t is not com|monly to &s;eek in &s;uch a &s;hift: The Gentlewo|man liked well of this device, and forthwith went unto her Neighbour, &s;aying unto her: So it is, that a fair, lu&s;ty, and valiant young Gen|tleman, being a Stranger, offered unto me two hundred Crowns if I would lye with him one night; and fora&s;much as my Husband loveth me &s;o dearly, I dare not therein to de|ceive him, le&s;t it co&s;t me my life; therefore if thou <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">are&s;t to adventure in my &s;tead, I will bri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g to pa&s;s that thou &s;halt lye with him in my Chamber in my own bed, and will give th&eacute;e for thy part an hundred Crowns. Then &s;aid the arrant hone&s;t Woman, I would not &s;tick to lye with &s;uch a one for bodily Recrea|tion, and Amorous plea&s;ure only: but if I do this at your Reque&s;t, you will perhaps &s;end me away with a Crown or twain, and keep the hundred Crowns to your &s;elf. The Gentlewoman &s;aid: Thou &s;halt have that I have promi&s;ed thee before-hand. Then was
<PB N="123" REF="68"> the bonny Wench well plea&s;ed; and willing her to prepare all things accordingly, promi&s;ed to be ready at a call to Accompli&s;h her Will. The Gentlewoman declared to her Husband, how &s;he had appointed the matter with her Neighbour, whereof he was glad. <HI>Andolocia</HI> being not yet &s;atisfied, repaired again unto the Gentlewoman, and was importunate to obtain his &s;uit; to whom the Gentlewoman &s;aid: Sir, &s;ithence you will not be otherwi&s;e an&s;wered, if you will perform your promi&s;e concerning the Thou&s;and Crowns, come to morrow night unto my hou&s;e, and bring the money with you, for my Husband will be then forth about the Kings bu&s;ine&s;s. <HI>Andolocia</HI> with this an&s;wer was a joyful man; and next night as he was willed, came privily alone unto the Gentlewomans hou&s;e, and brought with him the thou&s;and Crowns.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="32" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Andolocia</HI> was deceived by a Gentlewo|man, which layed another in bed with him in her &s;tead. Chap. 32.</HEAD>
<P>THe Gentlewoman gave him very friend|ly entertainment, and receiving the Mo|ney of him untold, brought him into her Chamber, willing him to go &s;o bed, and &s;he would immediately come unto him. Then &s;ent &s;he ha&s;tily for her kind-hearted neighbour, to whom &s;he gave an hundred Crowns, and &s;ent
<PB N="124" REF="69"> her to bed to <HI>Andolocia,</HI> where he &s;olaced him|&s;elf with her in the plea&s;ant pa&s;time of <HI>Venus</HI>-game, &s;uppo&s;ing he had lain with his Compa|nions Wife. But when the Wench perceived that <HI>Andolocia</HI> was &s;ufficiently delighted with the u&s;e of her body (for <HI>Joan</HI> was as good as my Lady till he knew the contrary) &s;he declared how the Gentlewoman had beguiled him, hi|ring her for an hundred Crowns to take her place.</P>
<P><HI>Andolocia</HI> hearing that he was &s;o deceived, waxed angry in his mind, not &s;o much for the lo&s;s of the money, but rather for &s;hame that it &s;hould be blazed abroad to his reproach, how he was deluded by two Women. Wherefore he forthwith ro&s;e up, and gave his Leman an hundred Crowns, willing her that after his departure, &s;he &s;hould challenge nine hundred more, which the Gentlewoman wrongfully detained, and that &s;he her &s;elf hath duly earn|ed; which the Wench performed with &s;uch impudent and open contention, that the Gen|tlewoman for all her pretended hone&s;ty being noted for a Baud, &s;u&s;tained great &s;hame. But <HI>Andolocia</HI> pre&s;ently went to his lodging, and called up his men, willing them to prepare all things ready, for he would forthwith depart, thinking with him&s;elf, I will hereafter beware of the enticing beauty &amp; di&s;&s;imulation of wo|men, and &s;o rode di&s;plea&s;antly away. When he was now gone ten or twelve miles from <HI>Paris,</HI> he thought in his mind, it was well the fal&s;e
<PB N="125" REF="69"> Harlots had not beguiled me of my Pur&s;e, and began to be merry and plea&s;ant, and &s;o rode unto the King of <HI>Arragons</HI> Court: from thence to the King of <HI>Ca&s;tile:</HI> then to the King of <HI>Por|tugal:</HI> and next to the King of <HI>Spain's</HI> Court: There did the people and their behaviour like him &s;o well, that he apparelled him&s;elf and all his men after their Country Gui&s;e; and offer|ing his &s;ervice unto the King, was thankfully entertained. He daily practi&s;ed all feats of chi|valry, and oftentimes gave Iewels, for which Gentlemen &s;hould contend in martial games, and invited the Ladies and Gentlewomen to many co&s;tly Banquets. Moreover when there was any pre&s;&s;ing of Souliers, he would &s;et forth an hundred at his own charges, and load them, whereby he was had in great favour and e&s;timation with the King. And fora&s;much as he was &s;o active, valiant, and couragious, that he would commonly be in the forefront of the battel, the King dub'd him Knight, and pre|tended otherwi&s;e to advance him. In&s;omuch that whereas there was in the Court, and Old Earl which had one only Daughter, which was his Heir, to her would the King have Married <HI>Andolocia,</HI> promi&s;ing him al&s;o the Earldom after her Fathers decea&s;e. But <HI>Andolocia</HI> lik|ed not the Earls daughter, neither regarded he the Earldom; for he was rich enough by the vertue of his Pur&s;e: When <HI>Andolocia</HI> had &s;er|ved the King of <HI>Spain</HI> certain years, he requi|red leave to depart. The King granted to his
<PB N="126" REF="70"> reque&s;t, and told him, that when&s;oever his plea|&s;ure was to repair to <HI>Spain</HI> again, he &s;hould find him always a friendly and gracious Lord, for his faithful &s;ervice. Then bought <HI>Andolo|cia</HI> a &s;hip, wherein he and his men &s;ailed into <HI>England,</HI> whereof &s;ome that envied at his co&s;tly and &s;umptuous behaviour were glad, and many other were &s;orry, which had received commo|dity by him.</P>
<P>When he was now come to the fair City of <HI>London,</HI> where the King then kept his Court, he hired a goodly hou&s;e, and bought all nece&s;&s;ary furniture plentifully for it: There he kept an open Court, with liberal ho&s;pitality, like as if he had been a Prince, daily fea&s;ting the Nobi|lity and Courtiers, to whom he al&s;o gave many gifts, and u&s;ed to ju&s;t, and practi&s;ed other martial exerci&s;es with them: but in all feats of chivalry, both men and women gave <HI>Andolo|cia</HI> the prai&s;e.</P>
<P>When the King under&s;tood of his Noble de|meanours, he demanded whether he would retain to his Court? He an&s;wered, That he would mo&s;t willingly be&s;tow his body and goods in his &s;ervice. In the mean while it chan|ced that there was wars between <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland;</HI> &s;o that <HI>Andolocia</HI> led a band of men again&s;t the <HI>Scots,</HI> at his own charges, where he behaved him&s;elf &s;o couragiou&s;ly in the bat|tel, that although he was a &s;tranger, yet for his manly exploits, he was commended above all other.</P>
<PB N="127" REF="70">
<P>When the victory was obtained upon <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Scots, Andolocia</HI> returned home to <HI>London;</HI> where he was received of the King and Queen very honourably, and was had in great e&s;tima|tion with the people.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="33" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How the King had <HI>Andolonia</HI> to dinner, where he fell in Love with <HI>Agrippina</HI> the King's Daughter. Chap. 33.</HEAD>
<P>THen ordained the King a great Dinner, and invited thereto <HI>Andolocia,</HI> and all the other Captains, where was al&s;o pre&s;ent the Queen and her fair Daughter <HI>Agrippina,</HI> who &s;urpa&s;&s;ed in beauty all the women in <HI>England:</HI> whom when <HI>Andolocia</HI> had &s;tedfa&s;tly beheld, his Heart was &s;o fervently kindled with the love of her, that he had no more li&s;t to eat or drink, were the meats never &s;o delicious or de|licate. When the fea&s;t was done, and he was re|turned home to his hou&s;e, he thought by him|&s;elf how he might win the favour of <HI>Agrippi|na:</HI> wi&s;hing that he were of Royal blood, that he might be e&s;teemed Worthy to Marry her: Howbeit he encouraged him&s;elf with Hope, to purcha&s;e her good Will and Liking by &s;ome means or other. Wherefore he advanced him|&s;elf from thenceforth in Ju&s;ting and other Martial exerci&s;es before the Queen and her Daughter very often, and in more Gorgeous manner than he was wont, wherewith Fair Ladies be mo&s;t delighted. And when he
<PB N="128" REF="71"> thought it convenient, he invited the Queen and her daughter, with many other Ladies of the Court to dinner, which was &s;o &s;umptuou&s;ly in all points adorned, that it was wonderful in a &s;ubjects hou&s;e to behold.</P>
<P>He gave al&s;o to the Queen a co&s;tly Iewel, and another to <HI>Agrippina,</HI> and to every one of her Waiting Gentlewomen one, that he might be the better E&s;teemed of <HI>Agrippina,</HI> when he came to the Court: whereof the King was informed: In&s;omuch that when <HI>Andolo|cia</HI> came unto the Court, the King &s;aid unto him: I under&s;tand by the Queen that &s;he hath been very well and &s;umptuou&s;ly entertained at your Hou&s;e: Why had not I al&s;o warning thereof?</P>
<P><HI>Andolocia</HI> &s;aid: Mo&s;t gracious Lord, if your Maje&s;ty would not di&s;dain to honour my poor Hou&s;e with your pre&s;ence, how acceptable &s;hould it be unto me! Then &s;aid the King: I will al&s;o come to morrow unto you, and bring ten more of my Coun&s;el with me.</P>
<P>Of this was <HI>Andolocia</HI> very glad, and ha&s;t|ed him home to prepare all things accordingly. The next day came the King and the Lords to dinner; where all things were &s;o magnifi|cently accompli&s;hed upon &s;o &s;hort warning, that the King and &s;uch as came with him greatly marvelled thereat. Then thought the King, it were good to abate the pride of <HI>Ando|locia,</HI> and to make him a&s;hamed; wherefore he appointed the next day al&s;o to take his re|creation
<PB N="129" REF="71"> with <HI>Andolocia</HI> again, and forthwith &s;ent privy commandment, that no Wood-&s;eller &s;hould upon pain of his grievous di&s;plea&s;ure, &s;ell or give one &s;tick of Wood, or any kind of fuel unto <HI>Andolocia,</HI> or any of his retinue, during the &s;pace of two days. Howbeit <HI>An|dolocia</HI> was glad of it, and had prepared all the Delicate&s;t Victuals that was to be had for money: but when he could by no means get any Wood or other fuel, he was &s;ore afraid left he &s;hould be utterly &s;hamed, not knowing how the Cooks &s;hould dre&s;s the meat; but when he &s;aw no other remedy, he &s;ent &s;peedily to the Merchants Ships, and to all the Grocers in <HI>London</HI> to buy an huge quantity of Canes, Cloves, Nutmegs, Liquori&s;h, Ginger, and Cinamon, which were u&s;ed in the Chimneys and Ovens, to burn in&s;tead of Wood, to dre&s;s the Meat. About dinner time, though the King &s;uppo&s;ed that <HI>Andolocia's</HI> Kitchin was but &s;imply provided for lack of Fire, yet would he and other Lords that were with him before, ride unto <HI>Andolocia's</HI> Lodging, where they &s;melt &s;uch an exceeding &s;trong and &s;weet &s;avour, that they mu&s;ed whereof it &s;hould be. Then the King demanded whe|ther Dinner was ready? it was an&s;wered, that all Things were Prepared, and that with &s;weet Spices in&s;tead of Fuel, where|at the King and all the Lords marvelles greatly.</P>
<P>When dinner was done, and the Kings train
<PB N="130" REF="72"> came to fetch him home, he gave each of his Guard ten Crowns, and &s;o returned the King with his Lords home again, thanking <HI>Ando|locia</HI> for their &s;umptuous entertainment.</P>
<P>When the King came unto the Court, he re|counted unto the Queen what a co&s;tly dinner they had, and that all the meat was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">e&s;&s;ed with pure &s;pices in&s;tead of wood, and that he had given to each of his Guard ten Crowns. Wherefore &s;aid the King, I greatly mu&s;e, and long to under&s;tand from whence, or how he hath &s;uch exceeding &s;tore of money <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> he &s;pareth for no co&s;t, and is every day more &s;umptuous and co&s;tly.</P>
<P>The Queen &s;aid, I know none that I &s;up|po&s;e could &s;ooner or better under&s;tand his &s;ecret in that behalf than our Daughter <HI>Agripp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">na:</HI> For that, as it &s;eemeth, he loveth her &s;o well, that I believe he will not deny her ought that &s;he &s;hall demand. Then willed the King that the Queen &s;hould do her diligence, and u&s;e her di&s;cretion with her daughter, to put this de|vice in practi&s;e. Then went the Queen unto her daughter, and told her in &s;ecret of the &s;um|ptuous and rich Port that <HI>Andolocia</HI> main|tained, whereat (&s;aid &s;he) the King and I do greatly marvel, &s;ithence he hath neither lands, Subjects, nor Kent, (as far as we know) to continue and uphold the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Wherefore fora&s;much as I perceive by his behaviour in your pre&s;ence, that he is far in
<PB N="131" REF="72"> love with you, I would have you when he com|eth next in your company, to delight him with long and friendly communication, and in the end to try whether you can obtain to under|&s;tand of him, whence he getteth &s;uch abun|dance of goods: <HI>Agrippina</HI> promi&s;ed to do her utmo&s;t endeavour in that behalf.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="34" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Agrippina</HI> with fained love, deceived <HI>An|dolocia</HI> of his Pur&s;e. Chap. 34.</HEAD>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 34</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P>WHen <HI>Andolocia</HI> came again to the Court, the matter was of purpo&s;e &s;o handled, that he was appointed to have &s;ecret communion with <HI>Agrippina.</HI> So that when they thus were all alone, after mo&s;t friendly
<PB N="132" REF="73"> &s;alutation, and many courteous proffers offered by <HI>Andolocia: Ag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ppina</HI> &s;aid: Sir <HI>Andolocia,</HI> there goeth an honourable report of your mag|nificence, and how you have Entertained the King with an exceeding Co&s;tly Banquet, and have given largely to his Guard: I pray you tell me, do you not fear le&s;t your Money will at length fail? He an&s;wered, &s;aying: Gracious Lady, I cannot want money &s;o long as I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ive: Then belike (&s;aid &s;he) your Father was very pui&s;&s;ant, that he hath left you &s;o rich. <HI>Andolocia</HI> &s;aid, I am as rich as my Father, neither was he richer than I am now: howbeit he was otherwi&s;e inclined than I am; for his delight was to &s;ee &s;trange Countries, but my greate&s;t plea&s;ure is to obtain the love of Fair Women and Ladies. Then &s;aid <HI>Agrippina,</HI> I have been certified that you have been in many Kings and Princes Courts, did you never yet find any there which liked you? <HI>Andolocia</HI> an&s;wered: I have been in &s;ix Kings Courts, where I have &s;een many goodly Ladies and Gentlewomen, but (without Flattery be it &s;poken) in beauty and comely demeanour you pa&s;s all that ever I yet &s;aw: Wherewith you have &s;o ravi&s;ht my Heart with Love, that my doubtful Pa&s;&s;ion engendred between Hope and De|&s;pair, enforceth me to crave a Salve for my Sore: And although I am de&s;cended of no Princely Progeny, yet may Love, which hath only Re&s;pect of Per&s;onal liking, be re|quited
<PB N="133" REF="73"> with love again on your behalf: if it be my good hap to find &s;uch favour with your Grace, be&s;eeching thee not to deny me a medi|cine to heal my wound, that <HI>Cupid</HI> hath pierced with his poi&s;oned Dart: and what&s;oever you &s;hall require of me (in my power con&s;i&s;ting) you &s;hall at your plea&s;ure obtain.</P>
<P>Then &s;aid <HI>Agrippina,</HI> tell me the truth un|feignedly <HI>Andolocia,</HI> from whence thou ha&s;t &s;o much money, and riches, and then I'le live in thy love, and yield to thy reque&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Andolocia</HI> was now glad, and not remem|bring that he had not long before vowed to be|ware of Womens unfaithfulne&s;s, &s;aid unto her:</P>
<P>My mo&s;t dearly beloved <HI>Agrippina,</HI> I will fulfil your de&s;ire, on condition you will keep all things &s;ecret, and perform your promi&s;e. She &s;aid: Right well-beloved <HI>Andolocia,</HI> doubt not you of my fidelity, for what I promi&s;e you in words, &s;hall be &s;urely performed in deed. Vpon the&s;e &s;ugred words, <HI>Andolocia</HI> willed her to hold up her lap, and told out a thou&s;and crowns out of his vertuous pur&s;e, &s;aying: this do I give you; and can without any hinderance afford you as much as you will have more: for &s;o long as I have this Pur&s;e, I do want no money: and now you may believe me that I have uttered the certain truth of that you longed to know. She an&s;wered, I &s;ee &amp; acknow|ledge this to be &s;o manife&s;t, that I need no more to wonder at your &s;umptuous expences.
<PB N="134" REF="74"> Wherefore my beloved <HI>Andolocia,</HI> fora&s;much as on this night the Queen hath appointed to &s;leep with the King, I will procure with my Chamberlain that you &s;hall lye with me: for without her con&s;ent I cannot bring it to pa&s;s: Therefore you mu&s;t reward her largely, that &s;he might con&s;ent and be &s;ecret. <HI>Andoloc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a</HI> thanking her, promi&s;ed &s;o to do, and not to fail of his coming at night to her Chamber.</P>
<P>As &s;oon as <HI>Andolocia</HI> was gone, <HI>Agrippina</HI> went to the Queen, and &s;hewed her with great joy, how &s;he had gotten knowledge of <HI>Andolo|cia,</HI> whence he had his abundant wealth, and &s;he had promi&s;ed him to lye with him that night. The Queen thereof was glad, and &s;aid to her: If you can well remember the fa&s;hion, the co|lour, and the bigne&s;s of the Pur&s;e, it were ex|pedient that the like in all points were pre&s;ent|ly made; which they rau&s;ed to be done with all &s;peed, and &s;lubbered it al&s;o to make it &s;eem old. The Queen al&s;o cau&s;ed her Phy&s;itians to make a &s;trong Potion, which &s;hould &s;ud|denly ca&s;t one into a dead &s;leep. The&s;e Iug|ling Tools being thus prepared ready in <HI>Agrippinas</HI> Chamber, to &s;hew unto <HI>Andolocia,</HI> a Ca&s;t of Legerdemain, they enformed the Chamberlain, that at night when <HI>Andolocia</HI> came, &s;he &s;hould receive him courteou&s;ly into the Chamber and that when <HI>Agrippina</HI> and he &s;at together at their banquet, &s;he &s;hould be cir|cum&s;pect to put the drink into <HI>Andoloci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> Cu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="135" REF="74"> that was ordained for him. <HI>Andolocia</HI> com|ing to the Chamber at the hour appointed, was let in; and friendly entertained by the old Gentlewoman of the Chamber: and &s;oon after came <HI>Agrippina,</HI> who had him welcome with a chearful countenance, &s;at down by him, and of|fered much friendly communication; while&s;t they recreated them&s;elves with many dei&s;ci|ous junkets and plea&s;ant wines. Wherefore <HI>Agrippina</HI> drank unto him, &s;aying: I drink to you this Bole full of Hypocras, more than I commonly am accu&s;tomed, in token of my love, reque&s;ting you to pledge me as much for my &s;ake.</P>
<P>The Chamberlain filling the Goblet again with the Somnoriferous Potion (having the Relli&s;h of Delicate Hypocras) gave it unto <HI>Andolocia,</HI> which he Quaffed with a chearful Heart. Whereupon he incontinent|ly fell into &s;uch a Sound Sleep, that he might not feel what&s;oever was done unto him. <HI>Agrippina</HI> boldly &s;tepped unto him, opened his Doublet, cut off his Pur&s;e, and &s;ewed another in&s;tead thereof. Then car|ried &s;he the Pur&s;e pre&s;ently unto the Queen, and putting her hand therein, to try whether it were the right Pur&s;e, &s;he pulled out three handfuls of Gold, which the Queen brought in her Lap to the King, and told him how luckely the matter was conveyed, <HI>Andolocia</HI> being left in a Dead Sleep. The King thereat exceedingly Rejoyced, and
<PB N="136" REF="75"> reque&s;ted to have the Pur&s;e to his own Cu&s;to|dy, le&s;t <HI>Agrippina</HI> &s;hould come in danger there|by. But &s;he alledging the danger that &s;he ad|ventured in the getting of it, if he had awaked on a &s;udden, reque&s;ted earne&s;tly of her Father that &s;he might have the keeping of it only for her labour; affirming that the King and Queen both notwith&s;tanding, might have as great commodity by it as &s;he her &s;elf: wherewith they were content.</P>
<P>When <HI>Andolocia</HI> was awaked, and &s;aw none by him but the old chamber-maid, and perceiv|ed that he had &s;lept all night in the chair, he mu|&s;ed greatly, and asked what was become of <HI>A|grippina?</HI> the old gentlewoman &s;aid: the Qu&eacute;en &s;ent for her, and &s;he is ri&s;en: but &s;ir, I marvel much how you could &s;leep &s;o out of mea&s;ure: for I often a&s;&s;ayed to awake you with great noi&s;e and &s;tirring of your body, but all your &s;ences were &s;o benumbed, that if I had not per|ceived breath to i&s;&s;ue from your mouth, <HI>I</HI> &s;hould have &s;uppo&s;ed you had been dead, whereby you have lo&s;t your pa&s;time with <HI>Agrippina.</HI> When <HI>Andolocia</HI> under&s;tood that by drow&s;te &s;leeping he was &s;o fru&s;trated of his purpo&s;e, he began to cur&s;e him&s;elf, and &s;wear like a Tyrant. The Old Gentlewoman a&s;&s;ayed to pacifie his wrath with fair words, &s;aying: Sir, I pray you let rea&s;on rule your furious pa&s;&s;ion, and be contented, for that you have now let pa&s;s, may hereafter be obtained at a like opportuni|ty. <HI>Andolocia</HI> &s;aid again, ragingly, a mi&s;|chief
<PB N="137" REF="75"> light on thee thou old Bawd, why did&s;t thou &s;uffer me to &s;leep &s;o long? for I never yet &s;lept &s;o long in all my life, but that if I were lightly touched, I did pre&s;ently awake: But &s;he &s;till affirmed, and thereto &s;wore, that &s;he did her utmo&s;t endeavour, and an&s;wered him with fair language (for in the evening before, he had given her a hundred Crowns) &s;o that with fair words in the end &s;he brought him out of <HI>Agrip|pina's</HI> Chamber. <HI>Andolocia</HI> then went home to his hou&s;e very &s;ad and di&s;plea&s;ant, for that he had &s;o &s;hamefully lo&s;t the amorous pa&s;time that he hoped to enjoy with the fair Princes, but he wi&s;t not as yet that he had lo&s;t his peerle&s;s and fortunate Pur&s;e.</P>
<P>The King being di&s;po&s;ed to try how he would behave him&s;elf after the lo&s;s of his pur&s;e, and whether he had any more of them, &s;ent word to <HI>Andolocia,</HI> that he would din<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> a|gain with him the next day. <HI>Andolocia,</HI> being certified thereof, called the Steward, and willed him to prepare a co&s;tly Dinner; for that the King would be there on the next mor|row. The Steward an&s;wered, that he had di&s;|bur&s;ed much money of &s;ate, and had not &s;uffi|cient &s;tore to &s;erve the turn. Then took <HI>Andolocia</HI> the Pur&s;e out of his bo&s;ome, and would have Delivered him five Hundred Crowns: but when he groped in his Pur&s;e, af|ter his accu&s;tained manner, and brought no|thing forth, he turned the in&s;ide outward, and felt it throughly, but there was no money to
<PB N="138" REF="76"> be found. Then was he in a great perplexity, and almo&s;t di&s;mayed with bitter angui&s;h and &s;orrow: calling to mind, how for the contempt of his Fathers advice (that willed him to ut|ter the &s;ecrets of the Pur&s;e to no creature) he was in this manner plagued; but this re|membrance was now too late, and all his &s;umptuou&s;ne&s;s and pride was now quelled, and at an end.</P>
<P>Wherefore he called all his men before him, and &s;aid unto them: I have been your Ma&s;ter the&s;e ten years, wherein I have &s;o entertained you, that you wanted nothing which was fit for men to have, neither am I debter to any of you, for you be paid all before hand. The time is now come that I can no longer k&eacute;ep Hou&s;e, and maintain &s;uch a &s;tately port as I have done: therefore I mu&s;t de&s;ire you all to provide for your &s;elves; as well as you may: for I may remain here no longer, neither have I any more money left than one hundred and fifty Crowns, whereof I will &s;pare to each of you ten &s;hillings, and will al&s;o fr&eacute;ely give to every man his hor&s;e whereon he is accu&s;tomed to ride, and his harne&s;s thereto belonging.</P>
<P>The&s;e words made all the men a&s;toni&s;hed and affraid, looking one on the other, and mar|velled what &s;udden mi&s;chance was happened unto their Ma&s;ter. Whereupon one that was of all the re&s;t mo&s;t loving, faithful, and tru&s;ty unto <HI>Andolocia,</HI> &s;aid, Sir, if any man have done ye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> di&s;plea&s;ure, or betrayed you, let us under|&s;tand
<PB N="139" REF="76"> of it, and we will be revenged on him, though it were the King him&s;elf, and we &s;hould lo&s;e our lives therefore. <HI>Andolocia</HI> an&s;wered, that on his behalf &s;hould no man hazard his life. Then &s;aid they: We would be loath in your mi&s;ery to leave you, but we will rather &s;ell hor&s;e, and harne&s;s, and all that we have, to re|main with you for your comfort &amp; &s;olace. <HI>Ando|locia</HI> &s;aid: I thank you for your faithful good will, my well-beloved &s;ervants: if ever fortune &s;mile on me again, I will requite your courte|&s;te: but now as I have &s;aid, and &s;addle my hor&s;e, forthwith, for I will have no man to go or ride with me. The &s;ervants for &s;orrow could not re|frain from tears, to &s;&eacute;e the &s;uddain calamity of their Ma&s;ter, with whom they had lived &s;o plea|&s;antly, and &s;o brought him to his hor&s;e. <HI>Andolo|cia</HI> then taking his leave of them all, departed with an heavy heart, and travelled the next way both by &s;ea and land, until he came to his brother <HI>Ampedo.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="35" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Andolocia</HI> returned to <HI>Cyprus,</HI> and com|plained to his brother of the lo&s;s of his Pur&s;e. Chap. 35.</HEAD>
<P>WHen <HI>Andolocia</HI> was now come near unto the fair Palace, <HI>Ampedo</HI> had e&s;pied him from the top of a tower, whereof he was exc&eacute;ed|ing glad, hoping to enjoy the pur&s;e again, &amp; that he &s;hould be no more careful to &s;pare as he had done the&s;e ten years: then came he down to meet his brother (who received him joyfully, asking
<PB N="140" REF="77"> why he came &s;o alone, and where his men were become? He an&s;wered, I have left them all, and thank God that I am come &s;afe home. <HI>Am|pedo</HI> &s;aid: I pray you brother &s;hew me what misfortune hath befallen unto you, for you make me greatly afraid. <HI>Andolocia</HI> &s;aid, let us fir&s;t Dine, and then you &s;hall under&s;tand the truth of all matters. After dinner went they together into a Chamber, where <HI>Andolocia</HI> &s;aid to <HI>Ampedo,</HI> with an heavy countenance: O dear Brother, &s;hame will &s;cantly let my fal|tering tongue to utter what mi&s;chance is hap|ned on our behalf; for our fortunate Pur&s;e is taken from me, for &s;orrow whereof my heart is ready to break, but patience per&s;wadeth that grief nothing availeth. <HI>Ampedo</HI> being with this heavy tydings a&s;tonied, pittifully &s;aid: is it taken from thee by violence, or ha&s;t thou lo&s;t it by negligence? He an&s;wered, I have mo&s;t &s;hamefully tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed our dear Fathers com|mandment, and di&s;clo&s;ed the &s;ecrets of it to a Lover of mine, who beguiled me when I lea&s;t mi&s;tru&s;ted her. <HI>Ampedo</HI> &s;aid, if we had ob&s;erved our Fathers will, our Iewels had not been &s;eparated, but you will needs adventure in dan|gerous travel to work your own mi&s;chief, whereof I &s;ufficiently forewarned you. <HI>Ando|locia</HI> &s;aid: Dear brother, it doth &s;o &s;ore and in|wardly grieve me, that I fear it will co&s;t me my life.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="36" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="141" REF="77">
<HEAD>How <HI>Andolocia</HI> beguil'd his brother of the hat, and conveyed him&s;elf therewith into <HI>E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g|land,</HI> and carried away <HI>Ag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ippina</HI> with the Pur&s;e. Chap. 36.</HEAD>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 36</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P>BVt when <HI>Ampedo</HI> heard that his brother took the matter &s;o heavily, he recomforted him, &s;aying: Let not &s;orrow come &s;o near thy heart, we have yet two che&s;ts full of duckats, &amp; the wi&s;hing Hat, whereof we will write to the King Souldan, who if need be, will give us &s;uf|ficient to maintain us during our life, though we had no more; and let the pur&s;e go with all ill luck and mi&s;chief with it. Then &s;aid <HI>An<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o|locia:</HI> But goods and Money are &s;ubject to many ca&s;ualties, and in time of conque&s;t and other &s;uch extreamities, cannot be lightly con|veyed.
<PB N="142" REF="78"> Wherefore I be&s;eech th&eacute;e good brother grant to lend me your wi&s;hing hat, and I tru&s;t therewith to get the Pur&s;e again. <HI>Ampedo</HI> &s;aid, it is a common proverb; <HI>Who&s;o loo&s;eth his goods, loo&s;eth his wits:</HI> which appeareth by th&eacute;e, who when thou ha&s;t already deprived us of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ur greate&s;t trea&s;ure, woulde&s;t al&s;o bereave us of the chiefe&s;t plea&s;ure: but I trow one of us will be wi&s;er than to &s;uffer thee to carry away the Hat al&s;o. For me &s;&eacute;emeth you might be contented to make you pa&s;time with it when you li&s;t. When <HI>Andolocia</HI> perceived that his brother would not in any ca&s;e grant that he &s;hould carry the Hat from him, he thought by policy to deceive him of it, and &s;aid: Dear bro|ther, if I have reque&s;ted that you think incon|venient, I will be contented from henceforth to be ruled by you.</P>
<P>Soon after as his brothers men were gone forth to hunt, he reque&s;ted the Hat to convey him&s;elf among them. His Brother not mi|&s;tru&s;ting any deceit, delivered it unto him. But he having gotten it, came neither at the Wood nor the Men, but wi&s;hed him&s;elf at <HI>Genua.</HI> When <HI>Ampedo</HI> &s;aw that his Brother had thus deceived him, he took it notwith|&s;tanding patiently, and hoped that perhaps he would thereby return again with the Pur&s;e al&s;o. <HI>Andolocia</HI> being now at <HI>Genua,</HI> willed that the faire&s;t Iewels that were to be had &s;hould be brought to his lodging; which when they were &s;hewed him, and had agreed on the
<PB N="143" REF="78"> price, he put them in a Casket, &amp; poi&s;ed them with his hand, as though he would e&s;&s;ay whe|ther he might ea&s;ily carry them; and there|with wi&s;hed him&s;elf away without payment. The like did he at <HI>Florence</HI> and <HI>Venice,</HI> and at la&s;t with all the Iewels conveyed him&s;elf to <HI>London</HI> in <HI>England;</HI> &s;o that the Iewellers whom he had deceived, thought verily &s;ome Spirit Incarnate had be guiled them. Then went he unto the Court, apparelled like unto a Merchant, and got licence to di&s;play his Iew|els upon a Table, as <HI>Agrippina</HI> with her train of Ladies &s;hould came from the Chappel, whom he well knew, but they knew not him, for that he had disfigured his heard, and the colour of his face.</P>
<P>But when <HI>Agrippina</HI> was pa&s;&s;ed by, he gave two Kings unto the two chief Gentlewomen that attended in the Chamber, and reque&s;ted them that they would &s;o procure that he might come to their Ladies pre&s;ence, &s;aying: that he would &s;hew her &s;uch Iewels, as her Grace ne|ver &s;aw the like. They promi&s;ed &s;o to do, and pre&s;ently &s;hewed the rings to <HI>Agrippina,</HI> which they &s;aid the Merchant had given them, to the intent they &s;hould procure that he might come before her, and &s;ell unto her Grace &s;ome of the be&s;t Iewels, for he had many which were very fair and co&s;tly.</P>
<P><HI>Agrippina</HI> &s;aid, I believe well that he hath exc&eacute;eding rich Iewels, for that he would not &s;tick fr&eacute;ely to give &s;uch fair Kings, therefore
<PB N="144" REF="79"> will him to come unto me, for I long to &s;ee his Wares.</P>
<P>When he had laid forth the Iewels before <HI>Agrippina,</HI> &s;he liked very well of them, and cheapened tho&s;e that &s;he be&s;t fancied, whereof &s;ome were worth a thou&s;and Crowns, for which &s;he offered not half the Money. The Merchant &s;aid: Gracious Lady, I have been informed that you are the riche&s;t Prince&s;s in the World, which moved me to &s;eek out the mo&s;t co&s;tly and faire&s;t Iewels that are to be be found, to bring unto your noble Grace, for the which I have &s;u&s;tained painful travel, and great danger: Therefore I tru&s;t your Grace would not I &s;hould be &s;o much loo&s;er by them, as to &s;ell them for le&s;s money than they co&s;t me: But if it plea&s;e your grace to choo&s;e and lay out tho&s;e that you be&s;t like, they &s;hall be yours for as ea&s;ie a price as I can afford them. Then did <HI>Agrippina</HI> chu&s;e out ten Iewels, whereof the price amounted to five thou&s;and Crowns; but &s;he would in no wi&s;e give &s;o much. <HI>Andolocia</HI> hoping &s;he would bring the Pur&s;e, was contented to agree for four thou|&s;and Crowns. So that <HI>Agrippina</HI> took the Iew|els, and went unto her Chamber, where &s;he took the Pur&s;e out of a Coffer, and knitting it carefully to her girdle, came forth to pay the Merchant. As &s;he came near unto him, be|ginning to tell the money, he cla&s;ping her &s;ud|denly, held her fa&s;t, and wi&s;hed that he were in &s;ome Wilderne&s;s with her, wherein was no
<PB N="145" REF="79"> dwelling nor re&s;ort. With that they were car|ried through the Air in a &s;mall &s;pace unto a de&s;art place in an I&s;le that bordereth upon <HI>Ire|land,</HI> and were &s;et there under a tree, whereon were growing fair Apples. As <HI>Agrippina</HI> was thus &s;uddenly under the tree, having the Iew|els in her Lap, and the Pur&s;e at her Girdle, &s;he &s;aid to the Merchant: Lord, for thy mercy where are we now, or how came we hither? I am exceeding faint and hot; therefore I pray reach me &s;ome of tho&s;e Apples to refre&s;h me. The Iewels that he had left poured he into her lap al&s;o, and &s;et the hat on her head to &s;hadow her from the parching heat of the Sun, le&s;t it &s;hould trouble him in climbing. As he was thus on the top of the tree, looking for the fair|e&s;t Apples, &s;he &s;itting under full heavily, began to &s;ay, would God I were in my Chamber a|gain. With that &s;he was pre&s;ently in her Chamber. The King, the Queen, and the Courtiers asked where &s;he had been, and where the Marchant was become that carried her a|way? She &s;aid: God ble&s;s me from &s;uch Merchants; I &s;uppo&s;e it was the Devil him|&s;elf, or &s;ome of his Angels; Howbeit I left him on the top of a tree: but I pray you trou|ble me with no more que&s;tions, for I am ex|ceeding faint and weary, and mu&s;t needs re&s;t me a while.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="37" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="146" REF="80">
<HEAD>How <HI>Andolocia</HI> by eating two Apples, had two Horns growing on his head. Chap. 37.</HEAD>
<P>VVHen <HI>Andolocia</HI> &s;itting on the tree, &s;aw that <HI>Agrippina</HI> was gone with the Hat, and with all the Iewels, he bitterly cur&s;ed the tr&eacute;e, the fruit, and him that planted it: &s;aying moreover, cur&s;ed be the hour wherein I was born, and the days and hours that I have lived. O death, why had&s;t thou not &s;trangled me be|fore ever I came into this mi&s;erable danger &amp; di&s;tre&s;s, and ere ever I knew or beheld the be|witching beauty of <HI>Agrippina:</HI> would God my brother were with me in this wilderne&s;s, then would I &s;urely &s;trangle him, and hang my &s;elf: &s;o that we being both dead, the pur&s;e &s;hould lo&s;e his vertue, &amp; the fal&s;e Queen, &amp; cruel <HI>Agrippina</HI> &s;hould enjoy no further comodity nor plea&s;ure thereby. As <HI>Andolocia</HI> went wandring thus to and fro, the night came on, that he could go no further; &s;o that he &s;at him down to re&s;t, but could not &s;leep for fear, neither thought other|wi&s;e than to dye in the Wilderne&s;s. Thus lay he all night as a de&s;perate man de&s;irous rather to dye than live any longer. When it was day, he aro&s;e &amp; walked every way, but could not hear nor &s;ee any man; and being very hungry, came at la&s;t unto a tree, whereon grew very fair red Apples, whereof as &s;oon as he had eaten a couple, there &s;prang out of his head two horns, like as it were of a Goat, which he could by no
<PB N="147" REF="80"> means get off. Then began he more inwardly to feel the vengeance of God, for his theft and whoredom before time committed, and asked mercy for his &s;ins, &s;aying: O wretch that I am, O unhappie&s;t of all other men; thus mon|&s;trou&s;ly disfigured like a bea&s;t, for that I have bea&s;tly lived, and have not taken &s;mall correct|tion therefore patiently: Wherefore, O God Almighty, &s;ithence I am deprived of all mens help and &s;uccour, forgive me my offences, take from me this deformity, and a&s;&s;i&s;t me in this extream calamity.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="38" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How an Hermite helped <HI>Andolocia</HI> to be rid of his Horns. Chap. 38.</HEAD>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 38</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P>IT chanced that an old Hermite which had been xxx. years in that de&s;art, and never had
<PB N="148" REF="81"> &s;een any man, heard this piteous lamentation of <HI>Andolocia,</HI> and going to him, he &s;aid: Alas poor man, who brought thee hither, for what &s;eeke&s;t thou in this de&s;art? <HI>Andolocia</HI> &s;aid: good brother, God be thanked that hath &s;ent thee hither, &s;omewhat to my comfort; verily full &s;ore again&s;t my will do I here remain. Then <HI>Andolocia</HI> being very hungry and faint, ask|ed the Hermite for &s;ome meat: he brought him into his Hermitage, where was neither meat, bread, nor wine, but only fruits and water, whereby he lived: <HI>Andolocia</HI> therefore took a &s;mall refection, and then asked if he could &s;hew him by any means how to get his horns away. The Hermit wi&s;hed <HI>Andolocia</HI> to follow him, going through a little path from his Hermitage, and there plucking down two Apples from another tree, willed <HI>Andolocia</HI> to eat them. So &s;oon as he had clean &s;wallowed the two Apples, his Horns were vani&s;hed a|way. <HI>Andolocia</HI> thereof was exceeding glad, &amp; demauded of the Hermit how it came to pa&s;s that he had &s;o &s;oon gotten Horns, and was &s;o &s;oon rid of them again: The Hermit &s;aid: The Creator of all things hath given this &s;e|cret nature to the&s;e two trees; neither be there their like on earth, but in this de&s;art only. Then de&s;ired <HI>Andolocia</HI> that he might carry &s;ome of the&s;e Apples with him. The Hermit willed him to take as many as he li&s;t: But (&s;aith he) I perceive thy mind is greatly cum|bred with temporal and tran&s;itory e&s;tates, but
<PB N="149" REF="81"> it were far better to content thee with a com|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">cent life, and not to bring thy &s;oul in danger, for a &s;mall plea&s;ure. But the&s;e per&s;wa&s;ions could not now &s;ink very deep into <HI>Andolocia's</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eart, who was now wholly bent to recover again his Pur&s;e and his Hat, and to be re|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">enged of <HI>Agrippina.</HI> Wherefore he got as many Apples as he might conveniently car|ry of both &s;orts, and reque&s;ted the Hermit to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hew him the way to &s;ome Town. The Her|mit brought him to a way lying towards a Town: wherefore he greatly thanked him, and &s;o departed and came unto the Town: where with good meat and drink he refre&s;hed him&s;elf. From thence went he to a Haven-Town not far off, where he found &s;hips that were &s;etting forth towards <HI>London,</HI> with whom he departed. As &s;oon as he was come to <HI>London,</HI> he clo&s;ed up one of his eyes, and di&s;|figured his face with a loath&s;ome colour, as &s;trangely as he could devi&s;e. Then went he to the Court, and when he knew <HI>Agrippina</HI> &s;hould pa&s;s, laid abroad his Apples very hand&s;omly upon a fine cloath and wrapped them in Sarce|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et, whereby they &s;hould &s;eem more precious, and called them Apples of <HI>Dama&s;co.</HI> When many did require the price of them, he held them at three Crowns every Apple: &s;o that none would buy of them, whereof he was glad, not meaning to &s;ell of them but only to <HI>Agrip|pina.</HI></P>
<P>At the la&s;t when <HI>Agrippina</HI> with her Ladies
<PB N="150" REF="82"> pa&s;&s;ed by, he asked if it would plea&s;e her grace to buy any precious Apples of <HI>Dama&s;co. Agrip|pina</HI> asked what was the price of one of them? He &s;aid: Three Crowns. Then asked &s;he what vertue was in them more than in other to be &s;o dear? <HI>Andoloc a</HI> an&s;wered, that they would cau&s;e excellent beauty, and make a &s;harp wit in them which &s;hould eat of them. <HI>Agrippina</HI> then willed one of her Gentlewomen to buy two of them. <HI>Andolocia</HI> then having accompli&s;hed his purpo&s;e, put up his wares, and conveyed him|&s;elf &s;peedily away.</P>
<P>And as &s;oon as <HI>Agrippina</HI> came to her Chamber, &s;he eat her two Apples, and pre&s;ently two great horns &s;prang out of her head with great ach and pain, &s;o that &s;he laid her down to bed. When the horns were fully grown out, and her head-ach cea&s;ed, &s;he felt and beheld in a gla&s;s two great horns. Then called &s;he two of her Ladies, who ble&s;&s;ed them<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">elves, and were affrighted at that &s;trange &s;ight, and &s;he was &s;o a&s;tonied with &s;hame and grief, that &s;he could not for a while &s;peak. Then asked they how it was come to pa&s;s, that her Noble Per&s;onage was &s;o mon&s;trou&s;ly disfigured. She &s;aid: I wot not how, but it is a ju&s;t plague of God as I &s;up|po&s;e, or el&s;e it commeth of the Apples of <HI>Dama&s;|co,</HI> which I bought of that villanous Merchant. Wherefore I be&s;eech you find &s;ome means that I may be rid of them.</P>
<P>Then got they privately a &s;aw, &amp; &s;awed them off hard by the head, which &s;he patiently endu|red:
<PB N="151" REF="82"> But they pre&s;ently &s;prang up again, whereat &s;he was greatly di&s;mayed, and pitti|fully lamented, &s;aying: O cur&s;ed and mi&s;era|ble wretch that I am, what availeth it me to be a Kings Daughter, the riche&s;t that liveth on the Earth, and to have the prai&s;e of beauty above all other Women, and now to be thus mon&s;trou&s;ly mi&s;hapen like a br<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">te bea&s;t: there|fore alas that ever I was born, if I cannot have &s;peedy help, I will &s;urely by &s;ome means &s;horten my life: One of her Ladies, a Witty Gentlewoman, comforted her, &s;aying: Be patient a while (O gracious Lady) and pluck up a chearful heart; for no doubt as you have gotten tho&s;e horns by &s;ome cau&s;e, &s;o by re|moving of the &s;ame cau&s;e you may have reme|dy: and if any earthly thing hath power to work this effect, undoubtedly God hath created the like to take it away again. Therefore we will &s;end for Phy&s;itians, it cannot be but that they have found written by what oca&s;ion they grow, and how they may be con&s;umed away. <HI>Agrip|pina</HI> with the&s;e words was comforted with &s;ome hope, willing them to keep all things &s;e|cret, and by privy means to learn if Phy&s;ick might help her.</P>
<P>Whereupon the Old Chamberlain went with &s;peed to all the be&s;t Phy&s;itians, and told them: That whereas one of her Kin|dred had two great Horns grown out of her Head, &s;he would know whether they could by Phy&s;ick be taken away or not. The
<PB N="152" REF="83"> Phy&s;icians hearing of this &s;trange infirmity, were all de&s;irous to &s;ee the party. But the Gentlewoman &s;aid, you mu&s;t not in any ca&s;e &s;ee her, except you will be bound in great bonds to take them clean away, which if you can do, you &s;hall be richly rewarded. But there was none would take upon him to take away the growing of the horns, for they had never &s;een, heard, nor read of the like. When the Gentle|woman thought that no remedy would be had, &s;he was returned home again to <HI>Agrippina</HI> with a heavy heart.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="39" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Andolocia</HI> did counterfeit a Phi&s;itian, and cured the Kings Daughter of her Horns, whereby he recovered again his wi&s;hing hat and his Pur&s;e. Chap. 39.</HEAD>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 39</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<PB N="153" REF="83">
<P>AS &s;he was coming towards the Court, &s;he met with <HI>Andolocia,</HI> who being apparel|led like a Phy&s;itian in an ancient Gown, and disfigured with a counterfeit bottle-no&s;e, &s;aid unto her: I perceive good Mi&s;tris that you have been with three &s;undry Phy&s;itians in my light, I pray you &s;hew me, have you &s;ped of your purpo&s;e? Be not di&s;plea&s;ed that I am &s;o bold to ask you this Que&s;tion, for I am a Phy&s;itian al&s;o: And if you have any grief, you may &s;hew it me, for it mu&s;t be a very &s;trange di&s;ea&s;e that I will not with Gods help cure and take from you. The Gentlewoman &s;uppo&s;ing that God had &s;ent this Phy&s;itian, which offered him&s;elf &s;o luckely, &s;aid: there is a marvellous impediment chanced to a Noble Gentlewoman, out of who&s;e head are grown two horns of a Goat, which if you can take away, that they &s;pring no more, you &s;hall be richly rewarded, for &s;he hath money at will. The Phy&s;itian &s;miling, courteou&s;ly &s;aid, if that be the wor&s;t, I have the &s;cience to rid her of her horns without any pain or &s;mart. I know well al&s;o the cau&s;e whereof they came. She earne&s;tly reque&s;ted him to declare the oc|ca&s;ion of that &s;trange di&s;ea&s;e. He &s;aid: She hath been unfaithful where &s;he profe&s;&s;ed Love, and hath inwardly rejoyced at Wickedne&s;s done to her friend, which joy &s;he dur&s;t not open|ly utter: howbeit, whereas it mu&s;t needs in &s;ome place of the body have an i&s;&s;ue, it is lea&s;t dangerous when it breaketh out upward: for if
<PB N="154" REF="84"> it &s;hould not be expelled; it would &s;o oppre&s;s the heart, that death would &s;hortly en&s;ue. It is not now two years &s;ithence that I was in the King of <HI>Spains</HI> Court, where an Earls Daughter of a fair and tender Complexion, had grown on her forehead two great Horns, which I by my &s;cience, and Gods help took away.</P>
<P>When the Chamberlain had now great hope of his cunning, &s;he asked where he lodg|ed, &s;aying: that &s;he would pre&s;ently come a|gain to him. He &s;aid: I am lodged here-by, at the &s;wan, there may you enquire for me; I am called the Doctor with the great No&s;e; and al|though I have another Name, yet am I be&s;t known thereby, becau&s;e I am but a &s;tranger. Then went &s;he joyfully unto the &s;orrowful Prince&s;s, and &s;aid: Gracious Lady, pluck up a merry heart, and be of good chear, you &s;hall be &s;hortly rid of your Horns; &s;hewing unto her how when mo&s;t of the <HI>London</HI> Phy&s;itians had &s;ent her away comfortle&s;s, &s;he met by chance with a &s;trange Doctor, who made light of the matter, and would warrant me to help your grief, for that he had taken away the like from an Earls Daughter of <HI>Spain</HI> before. Moreover he told me the cau&s;e whereof they did &s;pring, which your grace doth well know, whereby I did the better believe him. Then &s;aid <HI>Agrip|pina,</HI> why had you not brought him with you, &s;&eacute;eing you know how earne&s;t I de&s;ire to be cured? Go incontinently and fetch him hither,
<PB N="155" REF="84"> and will him to bring all things nece&s;&s;ary for the purpo&s;e, not &s;paring any co&s;t. Take al&s;o with you to give him an hundred Crowns, and if he demand more, give him as much as he asketh. The Gentlewoman went to the Phy&s;i|tian, gave him an hundred Crowns, &s;aying: I pray you be now diligent, and to the patient, that I &s;hall bring you, mu&s;t you come only by night, neither mu&s;t you di&s;clo&s;e the matter to any per&s;on; for her own father and mother as yet know not of it. The Phy&s;itian &s;aid: Doubt not you of my &s;ecretne&s;s: but before I go with you, I mu&s;t buy at the Apothecaries &s;uch things as are requi&s;ite: in the mean time you may &s;tay here, or return again two hours hence: &s;he &s;aid, I will tarry for you, for I dare not go home without you.</P>
<P>Then went <HI>Andol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cia</HI> to the Apothecaries, and bought a quantity of Rubarb, Sugar, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Ro&s;e-water, and therein &s;oaked and rol|led one of his Apples, being cut in little pieces. He bought al&s;o a Box of &s;weet Oynt|ment, and many other &s;weet odours and per|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">umes to delight her &s;en&s;es withal, and then <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ame again to the Gentlewoman who con|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eyed him by night to <HI>Agrippina,</HI> to whom he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aid, let your Grace be of good comfort, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oubt not but by Gods help and my &s;cience, you &s;hall be &s;oon ea&s;ed of your di&s;ea&s;e: there|fore prepare you that I may &s;&eacute;e and f&eacute;el your grief. <HI>Agrippina</HI> though &s;he were greatly a|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hamed to &s;hew her Horns, &s;at up in her Bed.
<PB N="156" REF="85"> The Phy&s;itian viewed and handled the horns, &s;aying: You mu&s;t have upon each horn a piece of rough Apes-skin, taken warm from the Ape, and with this confection will I anoint them al&s;o. There was an old Ape in the Court which was pre&s;ently &s;lain, and the skin flayed off, of which were made two ca&s;es, as the Phy&s;itian had commanded. Then did he annoint the horns and her temples with Apes-grea&s;e, and his &s;weet confection, and put on the ca&s;es of the skin, and &s;aid to her: This have I done to &s;of|ten and mollifie the horns: but they mu&s;t be brawn away by purging, for the which you &s;hall &s;wallow the&s;e &s;mall Pills, and re&s;t there|upon, whereby you &s;hall perceive a &s;peedy a|mendment.</P>
<P><HI>Agrippina</HI> received the purgation, which was the Apple to drive away horns, cut in &s;mall pieces, and mingled with rubarb. And although this counterfeit Phy&s;itian had u&s;ed &s;uch Api&s;h Medicines to make a &s;hew of rare cunning; yet was it the Apple indeed that only did the feat. <HI>Andolocia</HI> withdrawing him&s;elf a little a&s;ide, the Rubarb began to work with his Patient, &s;o that &s;he went twice or thrice to the Stool. Af|ter a while came in the Doctor, and &s;aid: Let us &s;ee whether the Phy&s;ick hath done any good, and therewith he pulled off the skins, and the horns were al&s;o dimini&s;hed, whereof &s;he was exceeding glad. Then departed he, and &s;aid, he would go to the Apothecaries again, and that the next night he could fini&s;h his cure.
<PB REF="85"> When he had tempered the other Apple with Sugar and Spice of another relli&s;h, he came the next night unto her again, and dre&s;&s;ed her as he had done before, but gave her not &s;o much of the Apple, becau&s;e &s;he &s;hould not be throughly cured, before he had talked with her, and had &s;ome likelihood to bring his purpo&s;e to pa&s;s. Wherefore as he &s;at by her, &s;he being a|&s;leep, he thought with him&s;elf, two or thr&eacute;e thou&s;and Crowns were a &s;ufficient reward if another had done this cure, but it is nothing comparable to the mi&s;chief &s;he hath done unto me; wherefore before I clean take away the horns, I will let her under&s;tand my mind, to the which if &s;he will not con&s;ent, where &s;he thinks to be rid of her horns, I will cau&s;e them to grow &s;o long as they were before; and then I will go into <HI>Flanders,</HI> and from thence &s;end her word, that if &s;he will have remedy, &s;he &s;hall come unto me, and bring with her the wi&s;hing-Hat and Pur&s;e. As he was thus devi&s;ing, came in the Gentlewoman with a candle to &s;ee <HI>Agrip|pina,</HI> who was a&s;leep,</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="40" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Andolocia</HI> by chance found the Wi&s;hing-Hat. Chap. 40.</HEAD>
<P>IT chanced that <HI>Andolocias</HI> Cap fell from his head, &s;o that when he &s;tooped to take it up a|gain, he e&s;pied his wi&s;hing-hat lying under the bed on the ground, which none regarded, for
<PB N="158" REF="86"> they knew not the vertue of it: neither knew the Prince&s;s her &s;elf, that by the means there|of &s;he was conveyed out of the Court, and from the De&s;art; for if &s;he had, it &s;hould not have been &s;o negligently laid up. The Phy|&s;itian then &s;ent the Gentlewoman for &s;ome Conduit Water; and in the mean while he took it up from under the Bed, and held it pri|vily under his Gown. By this time was <HI>A|grippina</HI> awaked, then took he the skin from her Brow, to &s;&eacute;e how much the Horns were &s;unk, which were now become very &s;lender, and &s;cant an handful long, whereof <HI>Agrippina</HI> was very glad. And whereas <HI>Andolocia</HI> meant to have rough and &s;harp Communion with <HI>Agrippina,</HI> he was now &s;omewhat paci|fied when he had the Hat, and in Courteous manner &s;aid unto her: Gracious Lady, you &s;ee that your malady is now well-dimini&s;hed, the chiefe&s;t cure that re&s;teth behind, is to drive the root of the Horns out of the skul, to the which mu&s;t be u&s;ed very co&s;tly medicines, which if I cannot find in this Realm, I mu&s;t needs ei|ther go my &s;elf, or &s;end &s;ome other Doctor to fetch &s;uch things whereof I &s;hall inform him, in other Countries; which will ask great charges. Be&s;ides this, would I know what certain &s;um of money you will give me, when you &s;hall be clean rid of your Horns, and that your forehead &s;hall be as &s;mooth as ever it was. The Prince&s;s an&s;wered, I have certainly found that your &s;cience is exxellent and true,
<PB N="159" REF="86"> therefore I be&s;eech you to do your be&s;t to help me, and &s;pare no money. The Phy&s;itian &s;aid: You bid me not to &s;pare, but I have no money, whereof I &s;hould be liberal. For <HI>Agrippina</HI> (as naturally all Women be more nigardly than men) was careful in &s;paring, though &s;he had a Pur&s;e which could not be empty. Howbeit when he craved her liberality &s;o plainly, &s;he went to her Coffer and brought out the Pur&s;e, hanging it at her girdle, wherein were al&s;o her be&s;t Iewels; the &s;ame &s;he tyed about her middle, and went to the Window, where &s;he counted out three hundred Crowns. When <HI>An|dolocia</HI> perceived &s;he had the Pur&s;e and Iew|els about her, he groped under his Gown, as though he &s;ought for a Pur&s;e to put his money in, ca&s;t off his Cap, &s;et on his Hat, cla&s;ped <HI>Agrippina</HI> fa&s;t about the middle, and wi&s;hed him&s;elf in a &s;olitary De&s;art, which was pre|&s;ently accompli&s;hed by the vertue of the Hat. When <HI>Agrippina</HI> was thus &s;uddenly gone, the Gentlewoman of the Chamber ran to the Qu&eacute;en, and told her that a Phy&s;ician had carried away her daughter in &s;uch &s;ort as the Merchant had done, and declared what had chanced concerning the Horns. The Qu&eacute;en with this heavy news was a&s;tonied: but yet hoped that &s;he would quickly return, as &s;he had done before the other time. But when &s;he came not again after one day and a night pa&s;t &s;he was exceeding &s;orrowful, and recount|ed unto the KING al&s;o, how &s;trangely
<PB N="160" REF="87"> all things had chanced, and how the Phy&s;itian had conveyed her away.</P>
<P>The King &s;aid, he is indeed a wi&s;e Phy&s;iti|an, and hath I warrant you more knowledge than the common &s;ort: It is none other then <HI>Andolocia,</HI> whom you have fal&s;ly deceived. For it is no other like but he that gave unto him &s;uch a Pur&s;e, hath given him &s;uch Wi&s;|dom al&s;o, when he &s;hould lo&s;e it, to recover it again. It is the will of God that he only &s;hould enjoy the Pur&s;e, and none el&s;e; like as his plea&s;ure is that I &s;hould be only King of this Realm: would God therefore that we had but our Daughter again, and with the Pur&s;e well might he &s;peed that hath mo&s;t Right thereto.</P>
<P>Then &s;aid the Qu&eacute;en, let us &s;end forth Me&s;|&s;engers into every coa&s;t, to hear of her if it may be, le&s;t &s;he come to &s;ome poverty and di|&s;tre&s;s.</P>
<P>The King &s;aid, it were in vain to &s;eek her, un|til God re&s;tore her againe and al&s;o it were a &s;hame for us that we have kept her no better. But when <HI>Andolocia</HI> and <HI>Agrippina</HI> were alone in the de&s;art, he ca&s;t off the Doctors Gown, and plucked away his counterfeit great no&s;e; where|by &s;he perceived it was <HI>Andolocia,</HI> to whom &s;he could not yet &s;peak for &s;hame &amp; fear, for that he looked on her with &s;uch an angry &amp; grim coun|tenance, as though he would have pre&s;ently kil|led her. And fir&s;t he drew a knife, and cutting her girdle a&s;under, took the pur&s;e, and fa&s;tned it
<PB N="161" REF="87"> to his Doublet where it was before, whereat <HI>Agrippina</HI> trembled and quaked with great fear. Then &s;aid <HI>Andoloc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a</HI> a fiercely unto her: O thou fal&s;e faithle&s;s Woman, thou art now fallen into my power, where I will requite the Trea&s;on thou did&s;t Con&s;pire again&s;t me, when thou tooke&s;t the Pur&s;e from me. How could thy Heart &s;erve th&eacute;e (thou Perjured Wight) to &s;hew &s;uch unkindne&s;s towards me, who committed unto th&eacute;e both my &s;ecrets, bo|dy, and goods, and &s;o often adventured my &s;elf to ju&s;t, and to u&s;e other feats of Chivalry only for thy &s;ake? For recompence whereof thou wroughte&s;t me &s;uch mi&s;chief, and broughte&s;t me into &s;uch de&s;perate mi&s;ery, that if God of his grace had not comforted me, I had &s;urely de&s;troyed my body, and thereby damned my &s;oul. Now be thine own judge, whether it be rea&s;on that I take as little pitty on thee, as thou ha&s;t done on me,</P>
<P><HI>Agrippina</HI> di&s;tilling many tears, lamenta|bly &s;aid: O vertuous and valiant Knight, I confe&s;s that I have done di&s;hone&s;tly, and have intollerably abu&s;ed you: yet notwith&s;tanding have &s;ome compa&s;&s;ion on me, and con&s;ider the frailne&s;s aod ignorance that is naturally in Women more than in Men, and do good for evil, as it becometh a Chri&s;tian, Vertuous and valiant Knight. <HI>Andolocia</HI> an&s;wered: but the mi&s;ery and &s;hame that I have &s;u&s;tained by th&eacute;e, went &s;o near my heart, that I can hard|ly Forget or Forgive. Then &s;aid &s;he again:
<PB N="162" REF="88"> yet <HI>Andolocia</HI> for the love of God advi&s;e your &s;elf, what di&s;honour it would be for you to a|venge your Wrath on a poor Woman, being a|lone with you as a Pri&s;oner in the De&s;art, the report whereof you may &s;uppo&s;e would be a great blemi&s;h unto your Noble Chivalry. Then &s;aid <HI>Andolocia:</HI> Well <HI>Agrippina,</HI> though thou de&s;erve no mercy, yet will I re&s;train from tyranny, and do promi&s;e th&eacute; by my Knight|hood, that I will neither di&s;tain thy honour, nor hurt thy body. But thou ha&s;t one token on thy head, which thou &s;halt carry with th&eacute;e to thy Grave, that thou maye&s;t the better re|member thy unfaithfulne&s;s towards thy Lo|ver. <HI>Agrippina</HI> being glad that &s;he had e&s;ca|ped Violence or Death, thanked him, and therewith &s;aid: Now would God my Horns were away, and I were again in my Fathers Palace. <HI>Andolocia</HI> hearing her begin to wi&s;h, &s;uddenly caught up the Hat, that lay not far from her, and held it fa&s;t in his hand: Where|by <HI>Agrippina</HI> perceived that he greatly e&s;t&eacute;em|ed the Hat, and that by vertue of it &s;he was thrice conveyed, whereat &s;he was inwardly vexed, that &s;he had e&s;t&eacute;emed and kept the Hat no better. But &s;he earne&s;tly entreated <HI>An|dolocia</HI> that he would clean rid her of her Horns, and convey her again to her Father. To whom he &s;aid: It is bootle&s;s for th&eacute;e to crave that of me (be thou never &s;o importu|nate) but thou mu&s;t have the Horns during thy Life. Notwith&s;tanding I will carry th&eacute;e
<PB N="163" REF="88"> &s;o near thy Fathers Palace, that thou maye&s;t &s;&eacute;e it; but I mean my &s;elf not to come no more there. She reque&s;ted him again twice or thrice, to deliver her of her Horns, but he was fully determined not to grant her reque&s;t.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Andolocia</HI> put fair <HI>Agrippina</HI> in a Hou&s;e of Religion.</HEAD>
<P>WHen <HI>Agrippina</HI> &s;aw that no Entreaty would prevail, &s;he &s;aid: Sithence I mu&s;t n&eacute;eds continue thus &s;hamefully disfigured, I will not covet to come any more into <HI>England,</HI> neither to &s;ee Father or Mother, or any other of my friends; but convey me I pray you into &s;ome &s;trange place, where I am unknown: And if you would place me in &s;ome Hou&s;e of Religion, where I might keep me clo&s;e from all Worldly Affairs and Company, I were greatly beholden unto you.</P>
<P>Then &s;aid <HI>Andolocia:</HI> That will I not &s;tick to do for you.</P>
<P>With that he prepared him&s;elf, bound his Hat fa&s;t on his Head, took her by the middle, and conveyed her into <HI>Ireland,</HI> near unto St. <HI>Patricks</HI> Purgatory, where there was a great Nunnery of Noble Women. He leaving her thereby in the fields, went unto the Abbe&s;&s;e of the Hou&s;e, and told her that he had brought with him an hone&s;t and noble Virgin, which is very fair and beautiful, &s;ave that certain knobs are &s;pring out of her Head, whereof &s;he
<PB N="164" REF="89"> was &s;o a&s;hamed, that &s;he could not abide with her friends, but reque&s;ted to be in &s;ome &s;olita|ry place where &s;he was unknown. Wherefore if it will plea&s;e you to take her into your Cloi|&s;ter, to be one of your company, I will pay her portion thrice double. The Lady Abbe&s;&s;e an&s;wered, &s;aying: Every Gentlewoman that is in this Cloi&s;ter entertained, mu&s;t pay at her fir&s;t entrance, two hundred Crowns, for they be every one allowed a Waiting-Maid, and do want nothing that is convenient for them: If you will then pay the Duties thrice double, bring her hither whatever &s;he be.</P>
<P><HI>Andolocia</HI> went forthwith and brought <HI>A|grippina</HI> to the Abbe&s;&s;e, who bid her heartily welcome. <HI>Agrippina</HI> thanked her &s;o mannerly, and with &s;uch courteous demeanour, that the Abbe&s;&s;e well perceived &s;he was born of Noble Linage, and pittied her greatly, that &s;uch a comely per&s;onage &s;hould be &s;o disfigured with Horns. Then declared &s;he unto her the Or|ders of the Hou&s;e, and that the greate&s;t charge was to k&eacute;ep the only Ordinary Hours of Divine Service; and that the Cu&s;tome of their Hou&s;e was not altogether &s;o &s;traight as other Nunneries, but that when they were di&s;po&s;ed to leave the Order, they might depart and marry, leaving behind them the money that was given with them at their entrance. <HI>Agrippina</HI> &s;aid, Madam Abba&s;s, your orders be &s;o tollerable, that no Chri&s;tian may mi&s;like thereof; which I to the utmo&s;t of my power
<PB N="165" REF="89"> will learn to ob&s;erve. Then did <HI>Andolocia</HI> count unto the Abbe&s;&s;e &s;ix hundred Crowns requiring her to entertain and to treat <HI>Agrip+pina</HI> courteou&s;ly, which &s;he promi&s;ed faithfull, to do, for &s;he was glad to have received &s;o muc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> money for one &s;i&s;ter. <HI>Andolocia</HI> took leave of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Abbe&s;&s;e, and &s;aid to <HI>Agrippina:</HI> God ble&s;s you and give you health to live quietly in this Cloi+&s;ter. She therewith W&eacute;eping bitterly, &s;aid Right courteous Knight, yet remember me er<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> it be long, and deliver me from this thraldom for I &s;hall have little joy to &s;erve God, or do a+ny thing el&s;e, until I be rid of the&s;e Horns The&s;e Words <HI>Andolocia</HI> printed in his mind but gave her no other an&s;wer but this, &s;aying <HI>When it plea&s;eth the Lord you &s;hall have Re+medy;</HI> and &s;o departed.</P>
<P>The &s;orrowful <HI>Agrippina</HI> went in with th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Abbe&s;s, who appointed her a fair Chamber and a Maid to wait on her, where &s;he live<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;olitarily, and &s;erved God &s;o well as &s;he might When <HI>Andolocia</HI> had thus well rid him&s;elf o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Agrippina,</HI> and obtained his purpo&s;e in al re&s;pects, he was a Ioyful Man; and &s;etting his Hat on his Head, wi&s;heth him&s;elf from one Country to another, until he came t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Bridges</HI> in <HI>Flanders,</HI> where he &s;olaced him &s;elf with all manner of Pa&s;time, in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> company of fair women. He there al&s;o bough <HI>xl.</HI> goodly Hor&s;es, and entertained as man men, and cloathed them all in a Livery, an u&s;ed to practi&s;e him&s;elf again in feats of Ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+valry.
<PB N="166" REF="90"> From <HI>Bridges</HI> he rode thorow <HI>Germany,</HI> and &s;aw mo&s;t of the fair Cities of the Empire, and from thence pa&s;&s;ed by <HI>Venice, Florence,</HI> and <HI>Genua,</HI> where he &s;ent for the Merchants of whom he had bought his Iewels, and payed them in ready money. After that he took &s;hiping with his men and his hor&s;es, and come joyfully home to <HI>Famago&s;ta</HI> to his brother, who received him gladly, and liked well that he came home <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;tately.</P>
<P>When they had dined together, <HI>Ampedo</HI> walked with his brother into the Garden, and asked him how he had &s;ped in all his affairs? <HI>Andolocia</HI> told him at large what had hap|ned concerning the pur&s;e, and the Hat, the Hermit in the de&s;art, the &s;trange Apples, and <HI>Agrippina,</HI> whom he had left with Horns on her head.</P>
<P><HI>Ampedo</HI> marvelled at his &s;trange adven|tures, &amp; yet greatly rejoyced that he was now <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;e come home with the pur&s;e and the hat, both which <HI>Andolocia</HI> offered to his Brother; but <HI>Ampedo</HI> &s;aid: I will not have the Pur&s;e at all, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t bringeth him that hath it to &s;uch care and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">anger, as I have read of our Father, and now <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eard the like of thee: <HI>Andolocia</HI> was thereof <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ery glad and after he had been a while at <HI>Fa|nago&s;ta,</HI> exerci&s;ing him&s;elf in martial pa&s;time, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e rode with all his men unto the Court to &s;&eacute;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he King, of whom he was honourably enter|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ained, and demanded where and how he had <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ent his time in travel. <HI>Andolocia</HI> made report
<PB N="167" REF="90"> at large of all the Countries whereby he had pa&s;&s;ed; but concealed his &s;ecret mi&s;chances and adventures. Then demanded the King, whether he had b&eacute;en lately in <HI>England?</HI> He an|&s;wered, that it was not long &s;ithence he came thence. Then &s;aid the King: the King of <HI>Eng|land</HI> hath a fair Daughter named <HI>Agrippina,</HI> who is the only Heir to the Crown, to whom I &s;uppo&s;ed to have married my Son, if all parties &s;hould agree: But I heard &s;ay lately, that &s;he was &s;uddenly conveyed away, none can tell whether: can you certifie me whether &s;he be yet found again or not? <HI>Andolocia</HI> &s;aid: thereof I can inform your Grace. It is mo&s;t true that he hath a daughter that is very beau|tiful, who by &s;ome conveyance of Negromancy was brought into <HI>Ireland,</HI> and there is remai|ning in a Religious Hou&s;e of Gentlewomen, with whom not long agon I had long talk.</P>
<P>The King asked: May it not be brought to pa&s;s, that her Father may have her again? for I am old, and would fain e&s;tabli&s;h my Son in Marriage, and the Realm in good order be|fore I die.</P>
<P><HI>Andolocia</HI> &s;aid: Gracious Lord to plea&s;ure your Maje&s;ty and your Son, I will travel in the matter, and will cau&s;e her in &s;hort &s;pace to be brought again into her Fathers Palace. The King required him to do it, and to &s;pare no charges, promi&s;ing to con&s;ider him well for his travel, and largely to requite his courte&s;&s;e, if he could bring it to pa&s;s. <HI>Andolocia</HI> &s;aid: let
<PB N="168" REF="91"> your Grace appoint a Noble Emba&s;&s;age, and let them be &s;ent fourt&eacute;en days after me into <HI>England,</HI> and they &s;hall find her at <HI>London</HI> in her Fathers Palace: It were al&s;o expedient that there were al&s;o a Lively Picture drawn of the young Prince, which the Amba&s;&s;adors may &s;hew unto the King and Qu&eacute;en, whereof they cannot but like very well, if it be truly and cunningly limned. The King thanked him for his advice, willing him to accompli&s;h his Promi&s;e, and all things &s;hould be done as he had &s;aid.</P>
<P>The young Prince al&s;o reque&s;ted <HI>Andolocia</HI> to be diligent in the matter, for that he was greatly de&s;trous to &s;&eacute;e her, having heard &s;o great commendation of her beauty: <HI>Andolocia</HI> promi&s;ed both the King and his Son, to do his be&s;t: and &s;o taking his leave of them, went to <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> there borrowed he the wi&s;hing hat of his brother, &amp; willing his &s;teward to let his men be well u&s;ed, &amp; to want for nothing that was expedient for them in his ab&s;ence: &s;aying; that he would very &s;hortly return: wert out of &s;ight, &s;et the hat on his head, &amp; wi&s;hed him&s;elf in the wilderne&s;s, where the Apples were that would procure and take away horns, where he found the tr&eacute;es laden with Apples. Now wi&s;t he not certainly which was the one from the o|ther: howbeit at all adventure he ta&s;ted of the one tr&eacute;e, &amp; there pre&s;ently &s;prang horns on his head. After that he did eat the Apples of the o|ther, &amp; the horns vani&s;hed away. So took he of
<PB N="169" REF="91"> both &s;orts with him, and from thence convey|ed him&s;elf unto the Abby in <HI>Ireland,</HI> where he knocked, and was let in to &s;peak with the Lady Abbe&s;&s;e; of whom he required licen&s;e to talk &s;ecretly with <HI>Agrippina.</HI> The Abbe&s;&s;e knowing him very well, called <HI>Agrippina</HI> unto him; who when &s;he &s;aw <HI>Andolocia,</HI> looked on him with a &s;trange countenance, not knowing the intent of his coming, and therefore was &s;omewhat afraid. <HI>Andolocia</HI> taking her a lit|tle a&s;ide, &s;aid unto her: Lady <HI>Agrippina,</HI> tell me, if you were now rid of your horns, where would you wi&s;h to be? <HI>Agrippina</HI> &s;aid: You may well &s;uppo&s;e that I would then long to be with the King my Father, and the Queen my dear Mother. Then &s;aid <HI>Andolocia,</HI> God hath heard thy Prayer <HI>Agrippina,</HI> and thou &s;halt obtain thy de&s;ire: with that he gave her an Apple, and willed her to eat it, and re&s;t thereupon a while, and when &s;he did ri&s;e a|gain, her Horns &s;hould be clean con&s;umed a|way. <HI>Agrippina</HI> did as &s;he was willed, and when &s;he awake, &s;he felt that all was well, wherewith it is to be thought the did not a lit|tle rejoyce.</P>
<P>Then called &s;he her waiting-maid, to help to comb and trim her head, which being done, &s;he came before the Abbe&s;&s;e, who marvelled greatly to &s;ee &s;uch a &s;udden change; and cal|ling her Ladies to behold her al&s;o; they won|dred likewi&s;e that &s;he was become &s;o beauti|ful, and &s;o clean rid of the Horns, as
<PB N="170" REF="92"> there remained no &s;ign of them; wherefore they all &s;ang prai&s;e to God for his miracle &s;hewed. Then &s;aid <HI>Andolocia: Agrippina</HI> is a Prince&s;s of a Kings Linage; I mu&s;t now take her from you, and carry her to her Father and Mother again, and before a month be ended &s;he &s;hall be married to a young King, being of a fair and comely per&s;onage, as likely to be &s;een. <HI>Ando|locia</HI> gave unto the Abbe&s;&s;e and her company an hundred Crowns, and thanked them for their gentle entertainment and u&s;age of <HI>A|grippina:</HI> &s;he her &s;elf al&s;o gave them mo&s;t cour|teous thanks. And &s;o taking both their leaves, they went forth into the field, where <HI>Andolo|cia</HI> &s;etting his hat on his head, carried her to <HI>London</HI> by the Kings Palace, and forthwith departed to <HI>Famago&s;ta.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="42" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Agrippina</HI> was e&s;pou&s;ed to the young King of <HI>Cyprus.</HI> Chap. 42.</HEAD>
<P>WHen <HI>Agrippina</HI> was now come into the Court, there was exc&eacute;eding joy and glad|ne&s;s on every behalf: and the King and Queen ordained a &s;olemn Fea&s;t, and adorned her in mo&s;t &s;umptuous attire, that all the Courtiers &amp; Commonalty might rejoyce with them, for the return of their fair daughter, that they &s;up|po&s;ed to have b&eacute;en lo&s;t. As the King, the Qu&eacute;en, and the Nobility were in the mid&s;t of their mixth and pa&s;time, there was tidings brought, that the King of <HI>Cyprus</HI> had &s;ent a noble Em|ba&s;&s;age
<PB N="171" REF="92"> to entreat of a Marriage between <HI>A|grippina</HI> and the young Prince of <HI>Cyprus.</HI> The Emba&s;&s;adors at their coming were very ho|nourably entertained after their e&s;tate, where|of the one was a Duke, and the other two were Earls, with many other Knights and Gentle|men, who did their Emba&s;&s;age before the King and the Coun&s;el, and had &s;o far thereof con|cluded, that they began to confer about the dowry and the wedding-day. When the Queen perceived that they had almo&s;t determined of the matter, it grieved her that her Daughter &s;hould be carried &s;o far into a &s;trange country, and to be married to one of who&s;e demeanour, favour, and per&s;onage, &s;he was altogether ig|norant. Then required the Emba&s;&s;adors that the Queen might come in pre&s;ence, to whom they &s;hewed that painted Portraicture of the young Prince, affirming with an oath, that the per&s;on whom that picture did repre&s;ent, was rather more amiable than the Image did ex|pre&s;s and that he was but four &amp; twenty years of age. With this they were all plea&s;ed, and the Qu&eacute;en, who took the picture and brought it to <HI>Agrippina,</HI> &s;hewing it to her, and how they had determined to marry her unto a young King, which was more beautiful than the Picture could &s;hew. <HI>Agrippina</HI> remembring the words of <HI>Andolocia</HI> in the Abbey, gave the more cre|dit, and granted her con&s;ent, that what her fa|ther and the Queen &s;hould do in that behalf, &s;he would be obedient thereto.</P>
<PB N="172" REF="93">
<P>When it was perceived that <HI>Agrippina</HI> was willing to con&s;ent, they concluded fully of the Marriage. Then were their &s;hips prepared with men, vict<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">als, artillery, and &s;umptuous garments, and precious Iewels were put to making for <HI>Agrippina:</HI> and &s;he had a&s;&s;igned to attend on her many goodly and tall Gentlemen and Yeomen, and many fair Ladies and Gentlewomen. When all things were in readine&s;s, <HI>Agrippina</HI> took her leave of her Father the King, and the Queen her Mother, kneeling and &s;aying: <HI>Gracious Prince my Father, and Dearly Beloved Lady Mother, the Almighty God have you in his Protection, and grant you health and long life: And now I mu&s;t needs depart, give me I pray you your la&s;t ble&s;&s;ing.</HI> The King &s;aid: <HI>My mo&s;t dea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ly beloved Daughter; The Ble&s;&s;ing of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Gho&s;t, defend thee from all grief and misfortune, and grant thee to be a Mother of many Children.</HI> The Queen thereto &s;aid, <HI>Amen.</HI> Then ro&s;e up <HI>A|grippina,</HI> and went aboard the &s;hip with all her Train: And the Marriners hoi&s;ed up the &s;ails: they pa&s;&s;ed forthwith a pro&s;perous wind until they came altogether &s;afe and &s;ound unto <HI>Famago&s;ta</HI> in <HI>Cyprus,</HI> where the King had appointed to receive her by a Duke, a Dutche&s;s, four Earls, and many Noble La|dies. There was al&s;o at her arrival a &s;um|ptuous Fea&s;t in <HI>Famogo&s;ta</HI> for all that came, and every man rejoyced that they had gotten
<PB N="173" REF="93"> &s;uch a fair and beautiful Queen. From thence was &s;he conveyed by land unto <HI>Medu&s;a,</HI> where the King kept his Court; thither were re&s;ort|ed all the Nobility of the Realm, both of men and women: And although &s;he was Royally received at <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> yet was &s;he ten times better and more gorgeou&s;ly entertained at <HI>Me|du&s;a,</HI> by the King, and Queen, and her Ladies, and by the young Prince &amp; his train; all which &s;he thanked with a merry countenance, and rode joyfully unto the Kings Palace. There was Fea&s;ting and Triumphs the &s;pace of &s;ix weeks after the Wedding, with &s;uch &s;olemnity and &s;umptuou&s;ne&s;s as had never been &s;een in <HI>Cyprus</HI> before: And among&s;t many other rich gifts that were pre&s;ented to the young Prin|ce&s;s at the Fea&s;t; <HI>Andolocia</HI> for his part gave a whole &s;hip full of Malm&s;te and Mu&s;cadel; &s;o that it was as common a drink with them du|ring the Fea&s;t, as Beer or Ale.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="43" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Andolocia</HI> did be&s;t in Ju&s;ting, whereby he got the prai&s;e of women, but hatred and envy of certain Lords. Chap. 43.</HEAD>
<P>ALL the while that the Fea&s;t la&s;ted, the Lords &amp; Knights practi&s;ed daily ju&s;ting, Turny, fighting at Barriars, and &s;uch other martial exerci&s;es. And he which had quitted him&s;elf mo&s;t manfully in the day, at night in the time of Dancing and Revels, the young Queen did openly &s;et a Garland on his Head.
<PB N="174" REF="94"> But <HI>Andolocia</HI> was crowned with the Gar|land more often than any of them, and was prai&s;ed for his active carriage, both of men and women. At the la&s;t it chanced on a time, <HI>An|dolocia</HI> had by right de&s;erved the Garland, yet for honour &s;ake it was given unto the Earl <HI>Theodorus</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> who came over with the Queen, whereof <HI>Andolocia</HI> made &s;mall ac|count; howbeit that all men &s;aid openly that <HI>Andolocia</HI> had better de&s;erved it. And when this rumor came to <HI>Theodorus</HI> ears, it &s;pight|ed him greatly, and thereby he conceived in|ward malice again&s;t <HI>Andolocia.</HI> Wherefore he concluded a con&s;piracy with the Earl of <HI>Li|mo&s;e</HI> (who had his Hou&s;e in an I&s;le not far from <HI>Famago&s;ta</HI>) to put <HI>Andolocia</HI> to &s;hame and reproach, or el&s;e to de&s;troy him for envy, that he carried the greate&s;t honour and prai&s;e of Knightly manhood &s;o far from them, that no Lord, Knight, nor Squire might compare with him. Wherefore they appointed at his return towards <HI>Famago&s;ta</HI> after the Fea&s;t, to &s;et up|on him, to &s;lay all his men, and carry him Pri|&s;oner to <HI>Limo&s;e,</HI> out of the Kings Land, where the Earl had a Ca&s;tle, and that there they would rack him, and put him to &s;uch intoller|able pain, that he &s;hould confe&s;s where his greate&s;t trea&s;ure lay, and &s;hould by &s;ome privy token &s;end for the mo&s;t part of it, whereby they &s;hould keep a &s;tately port, and his pride &s;hould be much abated.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="44" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="175" REF="94">
<HEAD>How <HI>Andolocia</HI> after the Fea&s;t, riding home|wards to <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> was taken Pri&s;oner by the two Earls, and all his men &s;lain. Chap. 44.</HEAD>
<P>SO when <HI>Andolocia</HI> after the Triumph had taken his leave, and was returning to <HI>Fa|mago&s;ta,</HI> the two Earls having appointed an ambu&s;h of men, they took <HI>Andolocia</HI> Pri&s;oner, &s;lew all his men, and carried him into the Ca|&s;tle of <HI>Limo&s;e,</HI> where he was &s;o &s;traightly kept, that in no wi&s;e he could come out. Then pro|mi&s;ed he unto the Keepers a great &s;um of mo|ney, if they would let him go fr&eacute;e, but they dur&s;t not &s;o do, le&s;t that when he were at liberty he would not keep promi&s;e with them: neither dur&s;t he tell them of any great &s;um of money before-hand, le&s;t they &s;hould thereby perceive the vertue of his Pur&s;e, and &s;o might lo&s;e both the Pur&s;e and his life al&s;o. Soon after came tidings to the King that <HI>Andolocias</HI> men were &s;lain, &amp; he him&s;elf gone no man knew whither, neither was it known who had committed that hainous murther. The two Earls after this wicked fact rode again unto the Court, &amp; behaved them&s;elves as if they knew nothing thereof. When <HI>Ampedo</HI> likewi&s;e was certi|fied what had chanced to his Brother, he re|que&s;ted the Kings a&s;&s;i&s;tance to lay privy wait throughout his dominions for <HI>Andolocia.</HI> The King an&s;wered: That he was as &s;orry for him,
<PB N="176" REF="95"> as him&s;elf, and that on condition he could learn whether he was &s;afe and alive, he would &s;pare no money to look him, though it &s;hould co&s;t him half his Kingdom.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="45" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Ampedo</HI> burned the wi&s;hing-hat. Chap. 45.</HEAD>
<P><HI>AMpedo</HI> imagining with him&s;elf that his Brother was come into &s;ome di&s;tre&s;s by occa&s;ion of his Pur&s;e, and that by racking and torments he might be forced to confe&s;s of the Hat al&s;o, whereby he might in like manner come into the like danger; in a great fury he ca&s;t the Hat into the fire, and &s;tood by it till it was burned to a&s;hes. And when he could by no means hear tell what was become of his Brother, he conceived thereby &s;uch an inward grief, that for thought he fell &s;ick, and &s;hort|ly after ended his life.</P>
<P>The King had cau&s;ed Proclamation to be made, that who&s;oever could bring word whe|ther <HI>Andolocia</HI> were dead or alive, he &s;hould have a thou&s;and Duckats in ready money, but no tidings could be heard of him. Then the Earl of <HI>Limo&s;e</HI> took his leave of the King, and departed home to his Ca&s;tle, where he found <HI>Andolocia</HI> in a deep dungeon. When <HI>Andolo|cia</HI> &s;aw him, he was glad, be&s;eeching him to be merciful unto him, and to deliver him out of pri&s;on; for (&s;aid he) I wot not who&s;e pri&s;oner I am, neither for what cau&s;e I am thus &s;traitly penned up: if I hade done wrong to any man, I
<PB N="177" REF="95"> will recompence it either with body or goods. The Earl &s;aid: <HI>Andolocia,</HI> thou art not brought hither to be delivered again, thou art my pri&s;oner, and before thou depart &s;halt thou tell me how and from whence thou had&s;t to much money, to maintain &s;uch a &s;umptuous and Princely Port, as thou ha&s;t &s;o long time done, or el&s;e I will &s;o torment thee, that thou &s;halt be glad to &s;hew it. When <HI>Andolocia</HI> heard tho&s;e cruel and threatning words, he was exceedingly afraid, his hope failed him, and he wi&s;t not how to di&s;&s;emble the matter, but &s;aid on a &s;uddain: My Father when he died, &s;hewed me a Privy which is in our Hou&s;e at <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> wherein I &s;hould find more money than I were able to &s;pend during my Life: and if it plea&s;e you to carry me as a Pri&s;oner thither, I will &s;hew you the experience there|of. The Earl would not be per&s;waded that this was the truth, but took him out of the Stocks, and racked him grievou&s;ly, which he a while endured, but at the length he was &s;o bitterly tormented, that he might no longer refrain, but &s;hewed plainly the vertue of the Pur&s;e. When the Earl heard that, he took the Pur&s;e of him, and by trial finding his &s;aying to be true, cau&s;ed <HI>Andolocia</HI> to be a|gain &s;et in the Stocks, and committed him to one whom he tru&s;ted well.</P>
<P>The Earl then paid his Debts, &s;tored his Ca&s;tle with victuals and furniture, and rode forthwith to his Companion the Earl <HI>Theo|dorus,</HI>
<PB N="178" REF="96"> who rejoyced at his coming to the court. And when they had communed together con|cerning the pur&s;e that the Earl had gotten of <HI>Andolocia</HI> by racking, there was no &s;mall tri|umphing between them on either part. But <HI>Theodorus</HI> liked not that <HI>Andolocia</HI> was left alive: For (&s;aid he) I hear it reported in the Court, that he is a Doctor in Negromancy, and can fly in the Ayr: Therefore it is to be feared that he will by &s;ome means e&s;cape, whereby we may both come in Danger of death. But the Earl &s;aid, he lieth &s;o fa&s;t &amp; &s;ure in Pri&s;on, that I warrant you he cannot come forth. Then went they together and took out as much money as they li&s;ted, and were both alike de&s;irous to have the pur&s;e: but to e&s;chew all controver&s;ie, they agreed that one &s;hould have it one half year,, and the other &s;hould have it another half: and that who&s;o had the pur&s;e, &s;hould not &s;uffer the other to want, or remain in danger: and that fora&s;much as the Count of <HI>Limo&s;e</HI> was the elder, he &s;hould fir&s;t enjoy it, The two elders having now money at will, yet were they circum&s;pect, and dur&s;t not &s;eem very liberal or wa&s;tful, for fear of &s;u&s;pition. But <HI>Theodorus</HI> could not be yet &s;atisfied, as long as <HI>Andolocia</HI> was alive, for dread le&s;t they &s;hould again lo&s;e the pur&s;e. Be&s;ides that, he purpo&s;ed when he had the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the pur&s;e, to go &s;o far with it, that he would be &s;afe and &s;ure both from the King and the Earl of <HI>Limo&s;e.</HI> And therefore he entreated of the
<PB N="179" REF="96"> Earl that he might have his Letters, and one of his men to &s;ee <HI>Andolocia</HI> in Pri&s;on, which the Earl granted. Then took the Lord <HI>Theo|dorus</HI> his leave of the King, and &s;aid, he would travel to &s;ee the plea&s;ant commodity of his Dominion. Then rode he &s;traight unto the Pri&s;on to <HI>Andolocia,</HI> who&s;e legs were rotted with the &s;tocks and irons, but now he hoped that &s;ithence they had his Pur&s;e, they took no more regard of him, but &s;uppo&s;ed that the Earl had &s;ent <HI>Theodorus</HI> to let him out of Pri&s;on.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="47" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>How <HI>Andolocia</HI> when his pur&s;e was gone, was al&s;o murthered him&s;elf in Pri&s;on. Chap. 47.</HEAD>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 47</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<PB N="180" REF="97">
<P>BVt the Earl <HI>Theodorus</HI> &s;aid unto him: tell me <HI>Andolocia,</HI> ho&s;t thou any more &s;uch Pur&s;es as thou ha&s;t given to the Earl of <HI>Li|mo&s;e?</HI> If thou ha&s;t the like be&s;tow it on me, and I will pre&s;ently let thee go free: He an|&s;wered: Gracious Lord, &s;o God help me, I have no more, but if I had, it were at your Com|mandment. Then &s;aid <HI>Theodorus:</HI> It is report|ed that thou art skilful in Negromancy, and can flie in the Air: Why do&s;t thou not now practi&s;e thy Cunning to deliver thee from hence? He &s;aid: My good Lord, I neither have, nor never had, any plea&s;ure in that Art; but have only had my plea&s;ure with the Pur&s;e which ye have, the &s;ame will I freely give to you and the Earl of <HI>Limo&s;e,</HI> before God and the world, and will never make claim to it again, if you will for the Honour of God, but only de|liver me poor wretched man out of this pri&s;on, le&s;t I die here mi&s;erably.</P>
<P><HI>Theodorus</HI> &s;aid: Can&s;t thou now &s;ubmit thy &s;elf? Why wa&s;t thou not &s;o lowly, when with &s;uch Pride and Pre&s;umption thou did&s;t advance thy &s;elf before the King and the Queen to di&s;honour us all? Where are all the fair Ladies whom thou did&s;t &s;o well plea&s;e, and which gave thee all the prai&s;e? Try now if any of them can help thee: but &s;ithence thou doe&s;t &s;o &s;ore long to be out of Pri&s;on, I will &s;oon deliver thee from thy &s;orrow. Then of|fered he five hundred Duckats unto the K&eacute;eper to &s;trangle <HI>Andolocia,</HI> but he would not do it,
<PB N="181" REF="97"> &s;aying: He is an hone&s;t man, and very freble, &s;o that he mu&s;t needs ere it be long die of him|&s;elf, but I &s;urely will not commit &s;uch a hai|nous &s;in. Then &s;aid <HI>Theodorus:</HI> Give me a Halter, and I will Strangle him; but the Keeper would not in any ca&s;e help him. Then took he his girdle that was about his middle, and ca&s;ting of it about <HI>Andolocias</HI> neck, with his Dagger writhed in it, and &s;o &s;trangled poor <HI>Andolocia</HI> to death, &s;itting in the &s;tocks, and gave the Keeper a reward to convey the dead body out of fight. When this cruel tyrant had fini&s;hed this horrid murther, he incontinently departed again to the Court, where he &s;ecretly told unto the Earl of <HI>Limo&s;e</HI> what he had done: &s;aying; <HI>Andolocia</HI> is like to work us no more mi&s;chief, for I have killed him with mine own hands, neither could I re&s;t before I was &s;ure that he was dead. Now whereas the Earl in four days &s;pace had not medled with the pur&s;e, and the half year was expired that <HI>Theo|dorus</HI> turn came to enjoy it as long, he deman|ded him to deliver it, and take as much &s;pend|ing money as he would. The Earl of <HI>Limo&s;e</HI> was well content, and went forthwith to the Coffer, and brought forth the Pur&s;e, ca&s;ting it upon the Table. <HI>Theodorus</HI> took it in his hand, and would have Coyned out &s;ome money, but there was none to be felt, neither would the Pur&s;e yield any more fruit. Then looked they &s;trangely one on the other, not knowing that by Rea&s;on that <HI>Ampedo</HI>
<PB N="182" REF="98"> and <HI>Andolocia</HI> were both dead, the Pur&s;e had lo&s;t his vertue. Then the Earl <HI>Theodorus</HI> &s;aid angerly: Thou fal&s;e and deceitful man, thinke&s;t thou &s;o fondly to deceive me? by delivering unto me this &s;imple Pur&s;e that is not worth a groat, in&s;tead of that pretious Pur&s;e whereof we had &s;o much money? fetch me therefore that which <HI>I</HI> now ought to have. He an&s;wered: It is in good faith the &s;ame Pur&s;e that I took from <HI>Andolocia,</HI> neither have I any other: but how it comes to pa&s;s that it yieldeth not as it bid before, I know not. <HI>Theodorus</HI> would not be pacified with this An&s;wer, but was far more angry, and &s;aid he would be revenged on him whatever befel, and therewith drawing his Rapier, &s;trook at him. The Earl of <HI>Limo&s;e</HI> having no other defence, ran within him, and &s;taid his hands as &s;oon as he might, whereby they made &s;uch a noi&s;e, that their men being in the next Chamber, brake up the Doors, and parted them. Howbeit the Earl of <HI>Limo&s;e</HI> was deadly wounded therefore his men laid hold on <HI>Theodorus.</HI> When tidings came to the King, that the Earls which were great friends, had fought in a Chamber, and one al|mo&s;t &s;lain the other, he commanded both to be brought before him, to enquire the cau&s;e of their debate; but <HI>Theodorus</HI> only was exami|ned, the other being &s;o wounded, that he could not come.</P>
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<HEAD>How the two Elders by &s;triving for the Pur&s;e were detected of the Murther, and put to death. Chap. 48.</HEAD>
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<FIGDESC>Scene from Chapter 48</FIGDESC>
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<P>WHen the King by &s;trict Examination and grievous Racking, had violently forc'd <HI>Theodorus</HI> to confe&s;s how they had dealt with <HI>Andolocia,</HI> he was exc&eacute;edingly grieved, &amp; being mov'd with wrathful di&s;plea&s;ure again&s;t the murtherers, without longer deliberation, he gave judgement, that they &s;hould be execut|ed with brui&s;ing their bones upon wheels, and that if the Earl of <HI>Limo&s;e</HI> were &s;ick, he &s;hould be carried to the place of execution, and if he were dead, that his carka&s;s notwith&s;tanding &s;hould be &s;et on the wheel, which was execu|ted
<PB N="184" REF="99"> on the two Earls, as the King had com|manded. Then &s;ent the King al&s;o certain Officers to the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Limo&s;e,</HI> to &s;eize upon all the goods and lands of the Earl; and willed al&s;o that as many men and women as were in the ca&s;tle, con&s;enting to the murther, or that had concealed the &s;ame, &s;hould be all hanged out upon the Ca&s;tle walls without any mercy. And whereas they had knowledge how the bo|dy of <HI>Andolocia</HI> was ca&s;t into a ditch by the Ca&s;tle, they cau&s;ed it to be taken up, and car|ried it to <HI>Famago&s;ta,</HI> where it was honourably buried in the Chantry Church, which his Fa|ther had founded; for whom the King and the Queen, and the Prince, and Prince&s;s mourn|ed, as if he had been of their near Linage. And fora&s;much as neither <HI>Ampedo</HI> nor <HI>Ando|locia</HI> had any Heirs left behind them, the King took the Co&s;tly Palace into his Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, wherein he found &s;o much goods and ready coin, &s;uch &s;umptuous hou&s;hold-&s;tuff, and &s;o pre|cious and co&s;tly Iewels, that it might rather &s;eem the Palace of &s;ome mighty Emperour, than of a Subject. In the &s;ame Palace the young King and Queen held their Court, un|till his Father departed out of this life; and then began they to reign and govern the whole Realm of <HI>Cyprus.</HI></P>
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