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_Painter._--I. ii. 217; II. ii. 324; III. ii. 631; IV. iii. 363.]

x.x.xIV. SULTAN SOLYMAN.

The horrible and cruell murder of Sultan Selyman, late the emperor of the Turkes and father of Selym that now raigneth, done vpon his eldest sonne Mvstapha, by the procurement, and meanes of Rosa his mother in lawe, and by the speciall instigation of one of his n.o.ble men called Rvstanvs: where also is remembred the wilful death of one of his sons named Giangir, for the griefe he conceiued to see Mvstapha so miserably strangled.

[_Source and Origin._--N. a Moffa.

_Painter._--Not in I.; II. ii. 341; III. ii. 663; IV. iii. 395.

_Derivates._--Latin Tragedy of same name _Solyman et Mustapha_ was played in 1581 (Fleay, _History_, 421).]

x.x.xV. THE KING OF MOROCCO.

The great curtesie of the kyng of Marocco, (a citty in Barbarie) toward a poore fisherman, one of his subiects, that had lodged the kyng, being strayed from his company in hunting.

[_Source and Origin._--Bandello, Part i. nov. 57.

_Parallels._--Belleforest, t. ii. f. 190 (ed. 1565, no. 24).

_Painter._--I. ii. 410; II. ii. 348; III. ii. 684; IV. iii. 416.]

INDEX OF NOVELS.

[Double t.i.tles are repeated under both headings, _e.g._, "Romeo and Juliet" will also be found under "Juliet and Romeo." Roman numbers indicate the Tome of Painter.]

Abdolominus i. 12 Acharisto and Euphemia ii. 15 Adelasia and Aleran i. 44 Adultery, Punishment of i. 57 aesop's Fable of Lark i. 20 Alberto of Bologna i. 32 Aleran and Adelasia i. 44 Alexander and Scythians i. 13 Alexander and Sisigambis ii. 2 Alexander de Medici ii. 22 Amadour and Florinda i. 53 Amazons ii. 1 Androdus (Androcles) i. 22 Andruccio i. 36 Angelica and Salimbene ii. 30 Angiers, Earl of i. 37 Anne of Hungary ii. 21 Ansaldo and Dionora ii. 17 Antiochus and Hannibal i. 21 Antiochus and Seleucus i. 27 Appius and Virginia i. 5 Ariobarzanes ii. 4 Aristotemus ii. 5 Artaxerxes and Sinetas i. 9 Athens, Timon of i. 28

Bohemia, Lady of ii. 28 Bologna, Alberto of i. 32 Bologna, Katharine of ii. 19 Borsieri and Grimaldi i. 31

Camillus and Schoolmaster i. 17 Camiola and Roland ii. 32 Candaules and Gyges i. 6 Carthage, Maids of ii. 11 Carthomes and Rhacon i. 8 Chariton and Menalippus i. 10 Coriola.n.u.s i. 4 Countess of Celant ii. 24 Countess of Salisbury i. 46 Crsus and Solon i. 7 Curiatii and Horatii i. 1 Cyrus and Panthea i. 11

Daughter of King of England i. 34 Demosthenes and Lais i. 15 Didaco and Violenta i. 42 Diego and Ginevra ii. 29 Dionora and Ansaldo ii. 17 Doctor of Laws i. 66 d.u.c.h.ess of Malfy ii. 23 d.u.c.h.ess of Savoy i. 45 Duke of Florence i. 54 Duke of Venice and Ricciardo i. 48

Earl of Angiers i. 37 Este, Rinaldo of i. 33 Euphemia and Acharisto ii. 15

Fabricius and Pyrrhus i. 16 Faustina ii. 10 Favorinus i. 23 Filenio Sisterno i. 49 Flanders, Princess of i. 52 Flora, Lamia, and Lais ii. 13 Florence, Duke of i. 54 Florence, Helena of ii. 31 Florinda and Amadour i. 53 Francis I. and Guillaume i. 55

Galgano and Minoccia i. 47 Gentleman of Perche i. 59 Gentleman that died of love i. 60 Giletta of Narbonne i. 38 Ginevra and Diego ii. 29 Gismonda and Tancred i. 39 Gren.o.ble, President of i. 58 Grimaldi and Borsieri i. 31 Gyges and Candaules i. 6

Hannibal and Antiochus i. 21 Helena of Florence ii. 31 Hidrusa, Lady of ii. 9 Horatii and Curiatii i. 1 Hungary, Anne of ii. 21

Irene and Mahomet i. 40

Juliet and Romeo ii. 25

Katherine of Bologna ii. 19 King of England's Daughter i. 34 King of Naples i. 51 King of Morocco ii. 35

Ladies of Venice ii. 26 Lady falsely accused i. 41 Lady of Bohemia ii. 28 Lady of French Court i. 61 Lady of Hidrusa ii. 9 Lady of Pampluna i. 56 Lady of Tours i. 64 Lady of Turin i. 42 Lady, Prudent i. 63 Lais and Demosthenes i. 15 Lamia, Flora, and Lais ii. 13 Landolfo Ruffolo i. 35 Lark, Fable of i. 20 Laws, Doctor of i. 66 Letters of Trajan ii. 12 Lord of Virle ii. 27 Lords of Nocera ii. 33 Lucrece, Rape of i. 2 Lyons, Miracle at i. 65

Maids of Carthage ii. 11 Mahomet and Irene i. 40 Malfy, d.u.c.h.ess of ii. 23 Master and scholar i. 26 Medici, Alexander of ii. 22 Menalippus and Chariton i. 10 Metellus on Marriage i. 14 Minoccia and Galgano i. 47 Miracle at Lyons i. 65 Mithridanes and Nathan ii. 18 Monteferrato, Marchioness of ii. 16 Morocco, King of ii. 35 Mucius Scaevola i. 3 Muleteer's Wife i. 50

Naples, King of i. 51 Narbonne, Giletta of i. 38 Nathan and Mithridanes ii. 18 Nocera, Lords of ii. 33

Pampluna, Lady of i. 56 Panthea and Cyrus i. 10 Papyrius Praetextatus i. 15 Perche, Gentleman of i. 59 Plutarch's Anger i. 19 Poris and Theoxena ii. 8 President of Gren.o.ble i. 58 Princess of Flanders i. 52 Prudent Lady i. 63 Pyrrhus and Fabricius i. 16

Rape of Lucrece i. 2 Rhacon and Carthomes i. 8 Ricciardo and Duke of Venice i. 48 Rinaldo of Este i. 33 Rings, The Three i. 30 Roland and Camiola ii. 32 Rolandine i. 62 Romeo and Juliet ii. 25 Ruffolo, Landolfo i. 35

Saladin and Th.o.r.ello ii. 20 Salimbene and Angelica ii. 30 Salisbury, Countess of i. 46 Savoy, d.u.c.h.ess of i. 45 Scaevola, Mucius i. 3 Scholar and Master i. 26 Schoolmaster and Camillus i. 17 Scythians and Alexander i. 13 Seleucus and Antiochus i. 27 Sertorius i. 24 Sibylline Leaves i. 25 Sinetas and Artaxerxes i. 9 Sisigambis and Alexander ii. 2 Sisterno, Filenio i. 49 Solon and Crsus i. 7 Sophonisba ii. 7 Sultan Solyman ii. 34

Tanaquil ii. 6 Tancred and Gismonda i. 39 Theoxena and Poris ii. 8 Th.o.r.ello and Saladin ii. 20 Three Rings i. 30 Timoclea of Thebes ii. 3 Timon of Athens i. 28 Tours, Lady of i. 64 Trajan, Letters of ii. 12 Turin, Lady of i. 43

Venice, Duke of and Ricciardo i. 48 Venice, Two Ladies of ii. 26 Violenta and Didaco i. 42 Virginia and Appius i. 5 Virle, Lord of ii. 27

Widow and Widower i. 29

Zen.o.bia ii. 14

_The Palace of Pleasure_

Beautified, adorned and well furnished, with Pleasaunt Histories and excellent Nouelles, selected out of diuers good and commendable Authors.

-- _By William Painter Clarke of the Ordinaunce and Armarie._

[Ill.u.s.tration: HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE 1566]

_IMPRINTED AT_ London, by Henry Denham, for Richard Tottell and William Iones.

_To the Right Honourable, my very good Lord, Ambrose Earle of Warwike, Baron of Lisle, of the most n.o.ble order of the Garter Knight, Generall of the Queenes Maiesties Ordinaunce within her Highnes Realmes and Dominions._

Prouoked, or rather vehemently incited and moued, I haue been (right honorable my very good Lorde) to imagin and deuise all meanes possible to auoyde that vglie vice of ingrat.i.tude (which as it is abhorred amonge creatures voyde of reason and deuine knowledge, so of men indued and full possessed with both, specially to be detested.) And that I might not be touched with that vnkind vice, odible to G.o.d and man, I haue many times, with myselfe debated how I might by any meanes shew my selfe thanckfull and beneuolent to your honour, which hath not onely by frequent talke vnto my frendes priuately, but also vpon my selfe openly imployed benefits and commendation vndeserued. The one I haue receiued by frendly report of your dere and approued frends, the other I do feele and tast to my great stay and comfort. For when it pleased your honour of curteous inclination, vpon the first vew, willingly to consent and agree to the confirmation of that which I do enioy: for that bounty then, euer sithens I haue studied by what meanes I might commend my good will and affection to the same. Wherefore incensed with the generositie, and naturall instinct of your n.o.ble minde, I purposed many times to imploy indeuor by some small beginninges, to giue your honor to vnderstande outwardly, what the inwarde desire is willinge to do, if abilitie thereunto were correspondent. And as oportunitie serued (respiring as it were from the waighty affaires of that office wherin it hath pleased our most drad Soueraigne Ladye worthely to place you the chiefe and Generall) I perused such volumes of n.o.ble Authors as wherwith my poore Armarie is furnished: and amonges other chaunced vpon that excellent Historiographer t.i.tus Liuius. In whom is contayned a large campe of n.o.ble facts and exploites atchieued by valiaunt personages of the Romaine state. By whom also is remembred the beginning and continuation of their famous common wealth. And viewing in him great plenty of straung Histories, I thought good to select such as were the best and princ.i.p.al, wherin trauailing not far, I occurred vpon some which I deemed most worthy the prouulgation in our natiue tongue, reducing them into such compendious forme, as I truste shall not appeare vnpleasant. Which when I had finished, seing them but a handfull in respect of the mult.i.tude I fully determined to procede in the rest. But when I considered mine owne weakenes, and the maiestie of the Authour, the cancred infirmitye of a cowardlye minde, stayed my conceyued purpose, and yet not so stayed as vtterlye to suppresse mine attempt.

Wherefore aduauncing againe the Ensigne of courage, I thought good (leauing where I left in that Authour, till I knew better how they would be liked) to aduenture into diuers other, out of whom I decerped and chose (_raptim_) sondry proper and commendable Histories, which I may boldly so terme, because the Authors be commendable and well approued.

And thereunto haue ioyned many other, gathered oute of Boccatio, Bandello, Ser Giouanni Fiorentino, Straparole, and other Italian and French Authours. All which I haue recueled and bound together in this volume, vnder the t.i.tle of the Palace of Pleasure, presuming to consecrate the same and the rest of my beneuolent minde to your honour.

For to whom duly appertayneth mine industry and dilligence, but to him that is the patrone and imbracer of my wel doinges? Whereunto also I may apply the words of that excellent Orator Tullie, in his firste booke of Offices. _De beneuolentia autem, quam quisq'; habeat erganos, primum illud est in officia, vt ei plurimum tribuamus, a quo plurimum diligimur._ Of beneuolence which ech man beareth towards vs, the chiefest duty is to giue most to him, of whom wee be most beloued. But how well the same is done, or how prayse worthy the translation I referre to the skilful, crauing no more prayse, than they shall attribute and giue. To nothing do I aspyre by this my presumption (righte honourable) but cherefull acceptation at your handes: desirous hereby to shew my selfe studious of a frend of so n.o.ble vocation. And where greater thinges cannot be done, these small I truste shall not be contempned: which if I doe perceiue, hereafter more ample indeuor shal be imployed to atchieue greater. In these histories (which by another terme I call Nouelles) be described the liues, gestes, conquestes, and highe enterprises of great Princes, wherein also be not forgotten the cruell actes and tiranny of some. In these be set forth the great valiance of n.o.ble Gentlemen, the terrible combates of couragious personages, the vertuous mindes of n.o.ble Dames, the chaste hartes of constant Ladyes, the wonderful patience of puissaunt Princes, the mild sufferaunce of well disposed gentlewomen, and in diuers, the quiet bearing of aduers Fortune. In these Histories be depainted in liuelye colours, the vglye shapes of insolencye and pride, the deforme figures of incontinencie and rape, the cruell aspectes of spoyle, breach of order, treason, ill lucke and ouerthrow of States and other persons.

Wherein also be intermixed, pleasaunte discourses, merie talke, sportinge practises, deceitfull deuises, and nipping tauntes, to exhilarate your honor's minde. And although by the first face and view, some of these may seeme to intreat of vnlawfull Loue, and the foule practises of the same, yet being throughly reade and well considered, both old and yonge may learne how to auoyde the ruine, ouerthrow, inconuenience and displeasure, that lasciuious desire and wanton wil doth bring to their suters and pursuers. All which maye render good examples, the best to be followed, and the worst to be auoyded: for which intent and purpose be all things good and bad recited in histories, Chronicles and monumentes, by the first authors and elucubrators of the same. To whom then may these histories (wherin be contayned many discourses of n.o.bilitie) be offered with more due desert than to him that in n.o.bilitie and parentage is not inferiour to the best? To whom may factes and exploites of famous personages be consigned, but to him whose prowesse and valiant actes be manifest, and well knowen to Englishmen, but better to straungers, which haue felt the puissance thereof? To whom may the combats, gests, and courses of the victorious be remembred, but to him whose frequent vse of mightye incountrie and terrible shocke of s.h.i.+elde and Launce: is familier in Court, and famous in towne and country? In whom may pacient bearing of aduersitie, and constante suffrance of Fortune's threates more duly to the world appeare, than in him that hath constantly susteyned and quietly pa.s.sed ouer the bruntes thereof? To whom may be giuen a Theatre of the world, and stage of humaine misery, more worthely than to him that hath with comely gestures, wise demeanor, and orderly behauiour, been an actor in the same? Who is he that more condignelye doth deserue to be possest in a Palace of Pleasure, than he that is daily resiant in a Palace of renowmed fame, guided by a Queene adorned with most excellent beautie indued and garnished with great learning, pa.s.sing vertues and rare qualities of the minde. To whom (I say) may constancie of Ladies, and vertuous dedes of Dames, more aptly be applied than to him that hath in possession a Lady and Countesse of n.o.ble birthe (whose sire was the old Earle of Bedford, a graue and faithfull councelor to her Maiesties most n.o.ble progenitors, and father is the same, in deare estimation and regard with her highnesse, vnder whom he trustily and honourably serueth) whose curteous and countesse like behauiour glistereth in court amongs the troupe of most honourable dames: and for her toward disposition, first preferred by her Maiesty into her secret Chamber, and after aduaunced to be Countesse of your n.o.ble Earldome.

Besides all which rare giftes, by nature grated in your honor, and by her bountifully bestowed, the perfect piety and brotherly loue betweene you and the right n.o.ble and vertuous the Earle of Leycester your honourable brother is had in greatest admiration. Whose n.o.ble courage in deedes of honour and pa.s.sing humanity to his inferiours, is very commendable to the worlde. But here I wyll staye, leste whilest I goe about to extolle your fames, I doe (for want of perfit skill in due prayse) seeme to diminishe that whiche among all men by commune proofe is sufficientlye renowmed. And as your honor doth with great prudence gouerne that office of the Ordinance (whereof I am a member) euen so, the same hath with greate care and diligence commended suche vnto her highnes, to ioyne and serue, right worthy their vocations, specially the wors.h.i.+pfull Edward Randolfe Esquire, Lieutenaunt of that office a man for his experience and good aduise rather fostred in the bosome of Bellona, than nourced in kentish soile (although in the scholehouse of curtesie and humanitie he appeareth ful carefully to haue ben trained vp by his vertuous parents) which is famiarly knowne vnto me and other that domestically (as it were) do frequent his companie. But alas my Lorde, among the mid of my reioyce of those before remembred, I cannot pretermit the lamentable losse of the best approued Gonner that euer serued in our time his Prince and countrie, Robert Thomas, the Maister Gonner, who for skill and seruice, a t.i.tle of Prince of Gonners iustly did deserue: And see the lucke, when he thought best to signifie his good will, by honouring Hymeneus bed, at nuptial night, a clap of that he neuer feared did ende his life. Such is the dreadful furie of Gonners art, and h.e.l.lish rage of Vulcane's worke. And therefore that daungerous seruice by skilful men is specially to be recommended and cherished.

Whereunto as your honour hitherto hath borne singuler affection, by preferring to her Maiestie suche as from their infancie haue bene trayned vp in that necessarie seruice and very painefullye haue imployed their time, euen so I humbly beseche your honour for continuance of the same, specially in those, that be indewed with greatest experience, in whome only resteth the brunte of our defence. A seruice and science so rare and nedefull, as none more. But what neede I to prouoke your willing mynde, whiche is more prest to cherishe such, than I am able by wys.h.i.+ng heart for to conceiue? Finallie yet once againe, I humblie besech your honour gratefully to accept this booke, and at your Leisure and conuenient time to reade and peruse it. By reuoluing whereof your honour I trust shall be delighted with the rare Histories and good examples therin contained, such as to my knowledge heretofore haue not bene published. And which with all my good wil and indeuour I dutifully exhibite. Beseching almightie G.o.d fauourably to defende and gouerne your honour, prosperously to maintaine and keepe the same, G.o.dlye to directe my right honourable Ladie in the steppes of perfect vertue, bountifully to make you both happye parentes of manie children: and after the expence of Nestor's yeares in this transitorie life mercifully to conducte you both to the vnspeakeable ioyes of his kingdome.