The Entertainment of the French Ambassadors (The Fortress of Perfect Beauty) (Tilt of the Foster-Children of Desire) · chunk 7 of 12
Goldwell, Henry · published 1581 · first performed or written 1581 [May 15-16] (Annals) tilt · before the Court T13 Knights, squires and ladies typicality 0.76 · 452 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T13: knight, raph, lady, knights, george, master, squire, rafe, pray, god.
So manie were the misfortunes, (most renoumed and beavvtifull Princesse) of the desolate knight my master, as neither the shortnes of the time wil suffer me to repeat, nor the greatnes af the misterie to remember? But let this suise that some there were and so manifold, that Geometrie where on the body of man hangeth coulde not beare being intollerable, not the minde which consisteth in Arithmeticke, number being infinite. Thus alvvayes crossed by fortune, whose crossing is no blessing, he determined to seperate him selfe as farre from societie, as his actions were from successe, who wandering through many desertes, yet finding as he thought no place desolate, happened at the last to come to a Cliffe adioyning to the maine Sea, couered all with moste whereon he was walking, much delighted with the solarie seate, but not well liking the cold scituation, he suddenly sunke into a hollovv vaulte, surprised at the first with feare, but seeing it at the last a place of succour, he accounted his former miseries meely appeased by this present fortune. In this Denne he vsed for his bed mosse, for his candle mosse, for his ceeling mosse, and vnlesse novve and then a fevve coales, mosse for his meate. A dry food God wot and a fresh, but so moistened with wette tares, and so salt, that hard it was to coniecture, whether it were better to feede or to fast. Here he gaue himselfe to continuall meditation, seperating his mind frō his body, his thought from his hart, yea deuorcing him self frō himself, in so much that with his strange diet & nevv conceites, he became so enchaunted, that neither the remembrance of others, nor a thought touching himselfe coulde enter into his minde: An alteration seldome heard of, that the place wheres he ws shrovvded in, shoulde make him to forget who he is? Liuing thus a long time for that no limme should seeme short, rising according to s maner to walke in the mosse in the grisping of the day hee espied vpon the shore certaine men either cast avvay by shipvvrake, or cast ouerborde by Pyrattes, vnto whome he went and percing by their plints one which lay dead amōgst thē to be their master, enquired whence they were, but they not willing to repeate their misfortunes, opened the bosome of the gentleman, and pulled out as crovvle containing a claime, a challenge, nay a conquest of BEAVVTIE. At the sight wherof, suddenly (quoth he) Beavvtie, and therevvithall apalled paused, entring by litle and litle out of his present MLANCHOLIS into his former misfortunes, who as one avvaked out of a long dreame, beganne thus to debate.
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So manie vvere the misfortunes, (most renoumed and beavvtifull Princesse) of the desolate knight my master, as neither the shortnes of the time vvil suffer me to repeat, nor the greatnes af the misterie to remember? But let this suise that some there vvere and so manifold, that Geometrie vvhere on the body of man hangeth coulde not beare being intollerable, not the minde vvhich consisteth in Arithmeticke, number being infinite. Thus alvvayes crossed by fortune, vvhose crossing is no blessing, he determined to seperate him selfe as farre from societie, as his actions vvere from successe, vvho vvandering through many desertes, yet finding as he thought no place desolate, happened at the last to come to a Cliffe adioyning to the maine Sea, couered all vvith moste vvhereon he vvas vvalking, much delighted vvith the solarie seate, but not vvell liking the cold scituation, he suddenly sunke into a hollovv vaulte, surprised at the first vvith feare, but seeing it at the last a place of succour, he accounted his former miseries meely appeased by this present fortune. In this Denne he vsed for his bed mosse, for his candle mosse, for his ceeling mosse, and vnlesse novve and then a fevve coales, mosse for his meate. A dry food God vvot and a fresh, but so moistened vvith vvette tares, and so salt, that hard it vvas to coniecture, vvhether it vvere better to feede or to fast. Here he gaue himselfe to continuall meditation, seperating his mind frō his body, his thought from his hart, yea deuorcing him self frō himself, in so much that with his strange diet & nevv conceites, he became so enchaunted, that neither the remembrance of others, nor a thought touching himselfe coulde enter into his minde: An alteration seldome heard of, that the place vvheres he vvs shrovvded in, shoulde make him to forget vvho he is? Liuing thus a long time for that no limme should seeme short, rising according to s maner to vvalke in the mosse in the grisping of the day hee espied vpon the shore certaine men either cast avvay by shipvvrake, or cast ouerborde by Pyrattes, vnto vvhome he vvent and percing by their plints one vvhich lay dead amōgst thē to be their master, enquired vvhence they vvere, but they not vvilling to repeate their misfortunes, opened the bosome of the gentleman, and pulled out as crovvle containing a claime, a challenge, nay a conquest of BEAVVTIE. At the sight vvherof, suddenly (quoth he) Beavvtie, and therevvithall apalled paused, entring by litle and litle out of his present MLANCHOLIS into his former misfortunes, who as one avvaked out of a long dreame, beganne thus to debate.