A
Letter
sent
from
father
Fr.
IOSEPH
TEXERE
to
a
Bishop
.
POst
acceptam
benedictionem
.
I
wrote
to
your
reuerend
Lordship
from
Paris
,
to
signifie
vnto
you
the
cause
of
my
returne
from
Lions
,
where
I
receiued
a
letter
from
your
L.
dated
the
20.
of
March
.
In
the
which
you
gaue
me
in
charge
that
if
I
had
occasion
to
trauell
into
Laly
,
I
should
giue
you
speciall
intelligence
of
all
the
occurrents
that
should
be
presented
to
my
vnderstanding
in
my
iourney
:
the
16.
of
Aprill
in
the
same
yeare
I
departed
from
Paris
,
towards
these
parts
,
passing
through
Campaigne
:
the
very
first
day
the
gout
began
to
assaile
me
,
and
ceassed
not
,
but
accompanied
me
to
Chalons
,
which
was
wednesday
being
holyday
;
where
I
remained
in
my
couent
vntill
the
wednesday
after
Easter
.
The
same
day
,
after
dinner
(
hauing
vrgent
occasion
)
I
was
compelled
by
meanes
of
my
sicknesse
to
vse
the
benefite
of
a
coach
,
and
came
the
Friday
following
to
Nance
.
On
Saterday
following
I
vndertooke
to
walke
faire
and
softly
with
much
paine
,
to
visit
his
Highnesse
,
and
the
Ladie
sister
to
the
King
,
and
her
husband
,
the
Cardinall
,
the
Count
of
Vandemont
,
and
the
Princesse
his
sister
.
Beleeue
me
I
cannot
expresse
in
words
the
consolation
I
conceiued
,
in
beholding
the
inseparable
bond
of
loue
and
amitie
,
wherein
these
noble
Princes
seemed
to
be
vnited
and
conformed
:
from
whom
like
one
loaden
and
charged
with
honourable
benefits
,
giftes
,
graces
,
and
fauours
,
I
departed
to
Basil
on
munday
being
the
seuenth
of
May
.
Notwithstanding
the
great
confort
my
entertainement
gaue
me
occasion
of
,
yet
bitter
spell
of
discontentment
wounded
me
inwardly
;
for
that
the
friday
before
,
I
had
particular
intelligence
by
the
post
,
that
the
Calabrian
,
the
false
and
counterfeit
Dom
Sebastian
,
as
they
termed
him
,
the
pretended
King
of
Portugale
,
was
rendred
into
the
custodie
of
the
gouernor
of
Orbetelo
,
a
towne
in
Tuscane
bordering
vpon
the
Mediterranian
sea
,
being
a
part
of
the
King
of
Spaines
territories
,
from
thence
to
be
conueyed
to
the
Viceroy
of
Naples
:
so
swift
were
those
bloudie
Spaniards
in
their
cruel
expeditions
.
The
poore
Prince
departed
from
that
towne
the
13
of
Aprill
,
at
eleuen
of
the
clocke
at
night
,
passing
by
Siene
the
foure
and
twentieth
,
and
was
deliuered
the
sixe
and
twentieth
.
The
manner
of
diuulging
these
newes
,
was
by
intelligence
that
came
to
Nance
by
Milan
in
lesse
then
eight
dayes
.
The
eleuenth
of
May
I
came
to
Basill
:
the
thirteenth
I
entred
Soleurre
,
where
because
I
was
ill
at
ease
,
Monsieur
de
Vic
(
your
Lordships
deare
friend
)
and
worthie
Ambassadour
of
his
most
Christian
Maiestie
in
affaires
to
the
Swissers
and
Grisons
,
inforced
me
to
stay
and
repose
my selfe
with
him
,
vntill
the
sixteenth
day
:
wherehence
after
the
fruition
of
infinite
courtesies
I
departed
,
passing
by
the
Swissers
,
Grisons
,
Valtoline
,
and
Valcamonica
,
I
entred
into
Italy
:
the
first
towne
I
lodged
in
was
Bresse
,
the
next
Verona
,
Vicence
,
Padua
.
The
second
of
Iune
I
came
to
Venice
,
where
without
delay
I
hasted
to
visit
Monsieur
Villiers
Ambassador
of
his
excellent
Maiestie
.
This
noble
gentleman
I
found
in
all
respects
as
your
Lordship
had
commended
him
to
me
,
most
reuerend
for
honour
,
vertue
,
and
wisedome
,
as
the
world
can
iustly
testifie
.
From
thence
I
retired
my selfe
in
his
Gundelo
to
a
friend
of
mine
,
an
honourable
gentleman
,
by
whom
with
diuers
other
of
my
friends
that
came
to
see
me
,
I
was
confirmed
in
my
former
knowledge
,
concerning
the
mishaps
before
rehearsed
;
vnderstanding
in
like
maner
,
how
grieuously
the
nobles
and
citizens
of
Venice
,
tooke
the
troubles
of
the
worthie
distressed
King
,
ascribing
the
blame
to
the
negligence
of
the
Portugals
,
that
vndertooke
the
managing
of
his
libertie
,
into
whose
hands
they
had
committed
him
safe
and
sound
:
for
as
much
as
in
those
Lords
presence
,
they
seemed
to
acknowledge
him
,
vnder
which
pretence
they
preased
before
the
Senate
,
to
signifie
vnto
them
a
truth
,
beseeching
them
to
allow
him
some
other
solemnitie
in
proceeding
,
then
they
vse
to
a
common
or
priuate
person
,
and
to
respect
him
as
a
King
.
The
fourth
day
I
returned
to
Padua
:
the
seuenth
I
was
at
breakefast
in
Mantua
,
where
I
was
well
entertained
by
the
reuerend
and
vertuous
Prelate
,
the
rare
and
honourable
Lord
Fr.
Francis
Gonzaga
,
Bishop
of
the
said
citie
.
And
soone
after
I
had
bene
in
my
couent
,
and
receiued
the
chiefe
Prelates
benediction
,
I
went
to
salute
the
Duke
and
the
Duchesse
,
to
whom
I
caried
certaine
letters
,
who
receiued
me
with
no
lesse
shew
of
account
then
they
could
haue
made
to
an
Ambassadour
that
had
bene
employed
in
the
most
Christian
Kings
affaires
.
The
selfe
same
day
to
accompanie
this
my
glorious
entertainement
,
the
despitefull
gout
made
a
returne
into
my
feeble
limmes
,
and
there
soiourned
with
me
seuenteene
or
eighteene
dayes
in
the
same
citie
.
In
which
space
I
drew
a
tree
with
branches
,
expressing
the
genealogie
of
the
house
of
Gonzaga
;
wherewith
the
Duke
seemed
so
well
pleased
,
that
he
gaue
me
a
great
present
in
gratification
.
I
protest
I
should
neuer
haue
dreamed
that
Mantua
had
bene
honoured
with
a
Prince
so
nonoble
for
vertue
,
so
rare
for
honourable
courtesie
,
so
peerelesse
for
bountie
,
so
familiar
in
histories
,
so
conuersant
in
languages
,
so
great
a
louer
of
rare
properties
,
so
intire
a
Christian
.
I
sifted
diuers
of
his
Court
as
narrowly
as
I
might
possibly
,
and
I
discouered
them
to
be
true
and
faithfull
wel-willers
to
our
countrey
of
France
.
On
the
feast
day
of
S.
Iohn
Baptist
somewhat
late
I
set
forward
in
my
iourney
towards
Ferrara
through
Bologne
:
on
the
eight
and
twentith
day
of
the
last
moneth
I
came
to
Ferrara
,
being
S.
Peters
eue
:
the
next
day
being
the
feast
day
,
after
my
morning
repast
,
I
went
to
the
honourable
Duke
,
deliuering
him
certaine
letters
,
which
he
receiued
with
a
smiling
countenance
,
and
made
very
faire
weather
to
me
by
his
honourable
and
courteous
entertainement
,
so
did
likewise
his
Duchesse
.
All
this
while
making
no
mention
to
me
of
the
King
,
nor
of
the
Calabrian
,
nor
I
to
any
man
,
the
Duke
and
Duchesse
seuerally
demaunded
of
me
what
newes
I
heard
of
France
or
Lorayne
,
and
so
sleighted
me
off
with
licence
to
depart
,
saying
,
we
will
take
another
day
fitter
to
handle
these
causes
more
at
large
:
so
I
departed
for
that
time
.
The
next
day
following
,
the
Duke
came
into
our
couent
of
S.
Marke
,
where
I
remained
,
and
our
Prior
intreated
me
to
beare
the
Prouinciall
companie
to
entertaine
his
Highnesse
at
the
Church
porch
:
where
the
Duke
took
notice
of
me
,
and
talked
with
me
all
the
way
passing
through
the
entrie
;
and
at
his
departure
said
,
I
will
choose
a
more
conuenient
time
to
talke
with
you
more
at
large
.
After
breakefast
I
went
to
the
Archbishop
of
Pisa
,
and
deliuered
him
a
letter
from
a
very
friend
of
his
,
in
regard
wherof
he
did
me
many
kind
offices
.
And
I
telling
him
,
I
had
vndertaken
this
iourney
for
the
dispatch
of
businesse
that
concerned
my
order
and
my self
particusarly
,
(
for
so
was
the
tenor
of
my
pasport
)
and
to
acquaint
my selfe
in
the
families
of
the
Princes
of
Italy
:
after
long
deliberation
and
pausing
for
the
space
of
an
houre
,
he
demaunded
of
me
if
I
had
not
heard
any
speech
of
a
Calabrian
,
that
named
him selfe
Dom
Sebastian
King
of
Portugale
:
to
whom
I
answered
,
that
being
in
the
court
of
Lorayne
,
I
vnderstood
by
letters
sent
from
Milane
that
there
was
such
a
counterfeit
,
and
abuser
,
and
that
therefore
I
would
not
meddle
neither
with
him
nor
his
affaires
.
And
he
replied
vnto
me
,
that
he
thought
it
not
amisse
for
me
to
know
what
passed
,
and
was
done
in
that
businesse
.
When
I
found
his
purpose
,
I
prepared
my selfe
to
heare
him
as
patiently
as
I
could
,
and
he
very
pleasantly
began
this
inuectiue
which
followeth
.
This
man
that
would
be
called
Dom
Sebastian
.
&
c.
is
Calabrian
,
a
merchant
,
whose
name
is
Marco
Tullio
Catizone
,
that
hath
both
wife
and
children
aliue
,
which
haue
bene
compelled
to
come
from
Messina
to
go
to
Naples
to
iustifie
the
truth
.
And
the
same
Calabrian
hath
had
accesse
to
Portugal
for
matters
of
trafficke
,
where
some
religious
professors
of
our
order
haue
perswaded
him
to
call
and
proclaime
himselfe
Dom
Sebastian
King
of
Portugale
:
and
the
Monke
hath
burned
and
branded
him
with
hote
yrons
,
in
the
same
places
with
the
like
markes
that
Dom
Sebastian
had
:
and
the
scarre
which
he
carieth
in
his
arme
,
was
forced
by
a
gash
giuen
of
purpose
with
his
owne
hand
,
and
the
Monke
that
on
his
head
.
Beside
,
when
he
was
first
taken
he
had
only
two
crownes
about
him
:
and
assoone
as
the
Venetians
discharged
him
,
the
Portugals
consulted
how
they
might
imbarke
him
at
Liuorne
,
and
send
him
presently
into
France
.
Wherof
the
great
Duke
being
speedily
aduertised
,
caused
all
the
passages
to
be
laid
betwixt
Florence
&
the
sea
coast
,
that
he
could
escape
no
way
:
and
so
soone
as
he
saw
himself
preuented
and
caught
,
he
straightway
discouered
his
legerdemain
,
saying
,
that
he
was
no
longer
able
to
endure
those
torments
and
grieuous
imprisonments
,
to
maintaine
such
foolish
delusions
and
cosinage
.
Presupposed
that
before
he
made
this
confession
,
he
indented
to
haue
his
life
assured
him
,
which
they
ascertained
him
of
,
comforting
him
that
he
should
not
die
.
And
after
that
he
was
detected
in
Naples
by
the
presence
of
his
wife
Donna
Paula
Catizzone
,
he
was
instantly
sent
into
Spaine
,
without
any
violence
done
vnto
him
,
and
was
there
openly
and
generally
shewed
to
all
the
word
,
to
the
end
that
the
Portugals
should
no
longer
abuse
him
,
and
that
it
might
be
published
to
the
world
,
that
he
was
a
very
impostor
,
a
counterfeit
,
and
a
deluder
.
After
I
heard
so
many
foolish
and
grosse
absurdities
vttered
so
confidently
,
my
very
soule
was
so
deeply
plunged
into
extreme
griefe
and
vexation
,
that
I
was
forced
to
craue
pardon
of
that
reuerend
lord
,
for
not
answering
,
being
sore
perplexed
:
knowing
assuredly
,
that
that
Marco
Tullio
Catizzone
died
in
Portugale
,
while
he
indeuored
the
dispatch
of
some
businesse
the
King
sent
him
thither
about
:
which
is
euident
by
a
letter
sent
from
one
D.
Raimond
Marqueti
a
Knight
dwelling
in
Messina
,
by
whose
meanes
and
perswasion
the
King
sent
this
Marco
into
Portugale
.
Which
letter
was
sent
by
Marqueti
to
Venice
to
haue
bin
deliuered
to
Dom
Sebastian
,
which
came
to
the
Venetians
hands
,
whereof
the
lords
of
Venice
caused
a
copie
to
be
taken
,
and
the
originall
remaines
in
the
custodie
of
one
Constantine
Nicoline
,
citizen
and
inhabitant
of
the
same
citie
,
wherehence
a
transcript
was
made
,
which
I
haue
about
me
to
shew
.
This
Constantine
seeing
the
agents
of
Spaine
to
iustifie
an
vntruth
so
impudently
without
blushing
,
saying
,
that
the
prisoner
was
called
Marco
Catizzone
;
shewed
this
letter
openly
in
S.
Markes
church
,
to
stop
and
confound
their
malice
.
Which
letter
when
they
had
scene
and
perused
,
they
were
neuer
afterward
so
bold
as
to
prosecute
the
matter
any
further
,
but
kept
silence
.
Moreouer
it
appeared
that
this
prisoner
could
not
be
Marco
Tullio
by
another
letter
,
written
by
the
prisoner
to
D.
Prospero
Baracco
,
which
he
shewed
me
in
Padua
,
which
I
craued
earnestly
to
haue
deliuered
me
to
bring
with
me
,
but
I
could
onely
obtaine
a
copie
thereof
,
which
I
haue
also
in
my
custody
.
The
same
is
likewise
testified
by
another
letter
from
an
Italian
gentleman
,
attending
the
most
Christian
king
.
Whosoeuer
is
desirous
to
see
the
said
letter
,
shal
find
it
in
the
beginning
of
the
booke
,
called
,
Admirable
aduentures
,
&c.
which
was
imprinted
in
France
before
I
came
from
thence
towards
these
parts
.
I
haue
set
downe
these
proceedings
in
writing
to
your
Lordship
,
to
acquaint
you
with
the
forgerie
and
deuises
of
those
detractors
,
called
Castilians
.
Now
to
returne
to
the
Archbishop
of
Pisa
,
whom
I
cannot
but
charge
with
great
abuse
,
to
report
that
those
naturall
markes
were
inseared
with
a
hot
iron
,
and
to
lay
it
vpon
a
religious
Monke
of
mine
owne
order
.
But
to
set
aside
many
reasons
and
proofes
that
might
easily
confute
his
allegations
,
this
one
shall
serue
to
satisfie
all
men
that
haue
any
sparke
of
discretion
or
iudgement
;
It
is
impossible
that
any
man
should
by
art
,
force
,
or
skil
,
make
a
mans
right
arme
and
leg
bigger
in
all
proportions
,
then
the
left
:
that
is
only
reserued
to
God
that
made
him
.
And
further
,
this
reuerend
Lord
would
haue
perswaded
me
,
that
the
religious
man
that
so
marked
him
was
D.
Sampayo
:
which
was
impossible
to
be
true
,
for
the
said
father
neuer
once
saw
the
King
since
he
departed
from
Lisbone
to
go
into
Afrike
,
vntill
the
eleuenth
of
December
last
past
,
when
he
was
set
at
libertie
by
the
Venetians
.
Beside
,
this
D.
Sampayo
neuer
knew
any
priuie
marks
of
the
Kings
bodie
vntil
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
1599.
that
he
went
into
Portugale
to
inquire
of
them
.
Hearing
so
many
reports
so
much
differing
,
and
knowing
how
hardly
this
Archbishop
could
hide
his
owne
errour
:
and
considering
that
to
answer
him
peremptorily
,
might
rather
hurt
then
further
my
purpose
:
and
to
saue
my selfe
from
perill
,
being
within
his
iurisdiction
,
I
was
faine
to
suppresse
my
inward
passions
,
but
said
vnto
him
:
My
Lord
,
seeing
you
vnderstand
that
the
imprisonment
of
this
man
was
the
chiefe
cause
of
my
arriual
in
these
parts
,
and
as
I
vnderstand
the
honourable
Knight
came
from
thence
,
being
foure
times
sent
for
by
letters
from
Paris
to
the
great
Duke
,
sithence
I
was
in
Loraine
,
whatsoeuer
is
or
shall
become
of
his
person
or
affaires
I
resolue
herafter
to
take
litle
care
,
but
meane
to
follow
the
other
employment
I
recounted
to
your
lordship
.
Notwithstanding
,
as
one
that
hath
some
interest
in
the
cause
,
I
will
render
your
Lordship
my
censure
and
resolution
in
a
word
,
and
make
you
partaker
of
my
inward
and
secret
contemplations
.
Forasmuch
as
your
lordship
hath
acquainted
with
this
impostor
and
deluders
confession
,
dissimulation
,
and
trumperies
,
I
can
do
no
lesse
than
grieue
thereat
very
much
,
and
the
rather
that
he
escaped
without
punishment
,
being
(
as
your
lordship
assures
me
he
is
)
so
vile
and
so
notorious
an
offender
,
maruelling
you
would
suffer
so
pestilent
and
damnable
a
wretch
to
liue
,
that
hath
bene
the
cause
of
so
many
mens
disasters
,
confiscation
of
goods
,
ruines
,
and
extinguishments
,
by
vndertaking
misaduentures
by
sea
&
land
,
and
what
not
indemnities
for
his
sake
,
abandoning
countrie
,
father
,
mother
,
wife
,
children
,
house
and
home
,
rest
and
safetie
:
and
I
wonder
it
pleased
God
to
suffer
such
a
one
to
be
borne
,
that
his
mother
in
his
conception
,
before
her
deliuerance
,
had
not
bene
transformed
into
a
stone
,
or
presently
bin
dissolued
into
smoke
or
aire
.
What
vnhappie
man
could
haue
caused
me
to
forsake
my
place
in
Paris
,
where
I
was
well
and
quietly
seated
,
to
thrust
my
life
into
perill
,
but
onely
he
?
that
wicked
and
vngodly
man
.
I
haue
twise
in
this
vnluckie
iorney
bene
afflicted
with
the
gout
:
diuers
times
almost
ouerwhelmed
with
snow
,
drenched
in
waters
,
tormented
with
clambring
rocks
and
hils
,
sustaining
all
hazards
that
sea
and
land
might
present
me
,
with
thunder
and
lightning
from
clouds
:
and
is
it
iustice
thinke
you
(
my
good
Lord
)
that
a
man
occasioning
so
many
troubles
,
should
liue
vnpunished
?
This
man
hath
troubled
me
much
,
and
grieued
my
very
soule
.
This
(
noble
Duke
)
might
by
the
aprouement
of
many
,
haue
caused
him
to
haue
bene
indited
,
arraigned
,
and
condemned
,
and
haue
ministred
to
him
some
extraordinarie
death
,
to
the
terrible
example
of
all
others
,
and
haue
manifested
the
same
to
all
the
world
.
In
my
conceit
,
my
noble
Lord
,
this
execution
had
bin
most
expedient
&
conuenient
,
to
the
commendation
of
equitie
and
iustice
.
The
Archbishop
hearing
these
words
pronounced
with
such
vehement
passion
,
as
though
my
soule
had
giuen
franke
consent
to
my
passionate
vtterance
,
in
lamentation
of
my
hard
successe
,
said
:
I
am
much
grieued
for
your
vexation
:
notwithstanding
I
cannot
so
hainously
accuse
nor
condemne
the
man
,
but
only
for
his
folly
to
call
himselfe
Dom
Sebastian
king
of
Portugal
:
for
surely
he
was
a
reuerend
man
for
vertue
and
sinceritie
of
life
.
I
could
rather
agree
to
accuse
that
Religious
traitor
,
by
whom
he
was
first
perswaded
and
suborned
to
take
the
name
of
King
vpon
him
.
These
&
many
such
like
words
he
vsed
aswell
to
iustifie
himselfe
,
as
to
recouer
me
out
of
that
affliction
,
which
he
perceiued
his
speeches
had
thrust
me
into
;
but
in
the
end
I
took
my
leaue
of
his
lordship
,
and
returned
to
my
cloister
of
S.
Mark
,
where
the
religious
fathers
receiued
with
many
curtesies
and
kind
welcomes
.
The
like
entertainment
I
found
in
all
other
couents
as
I
went
,
specially
at
Mantua
,
where
I
was
importuned
to
remaine
many
daies
.
God
giue
me
abilitie
&
grace
to
requite
them
,
that
I
may
not
be
found
vnthankfull
;
for
I
assure
your
Lordship
,
I
cannot
expresse
the
merites
and
fauours
I
found
at
their
hands
,
much
lesse
see
which
way
I
may
yeeld
them
due
recompence
.
From
Mantua
I
thought
best
to
go
to
Rome
:
in
hope
by
the
friendship
of
the
Cardinals
,
and
other
noble
Lords
and
Gentlemen
,
to
find
some
furtherance
in
my
affaires
,
to
the
bettering
of
my
vnhappie
Princes
fortunes
.
That
he
should
be
my
very
king
and
lord
,
I
am
greatly
fortified
in
hope
,
&
find
many
good
signes
and
apparant
arguments
amongst
the
most
serious
and
religious
men
of
estimation
,
Princes
,
Lords
,
and
others
:
finding
it
not
expedient
to
nominate
all
the
fauorers
of
this
enterprise
,
desiring
your
Lordship
to
pardon
me
for
not
satisfying
you
in
euery
particular
,
concerning
my
successe
at
this
time
according
to
your
request
:
which
defects
I
will
repaire
in
my
intelligence
from
Rome
,
from
whence
I
hope
to
send
your
lordship
more
exact
aduertisements
,
concerning
the
life
and
successe
of
this
Prince
since
the
battell
in
Africke
,
from
whence
he
hardly
escaped
by
flight
:
with
al
that
past
here
in
the
time
of
his
imprisonment
:
how
,
in
what
maner
,
what
day
&
houre
he
departed
herehence
.
Fa.
Seraphin
Banchi
hath
hitherto
much
assisted
me
in
the
businesse
,
&
was
very
ioyfull
of
the
honourable
greetings
from
your
Lordship
,
desiring
his
continuance
in
your
honourable
fauours
.
By
his
meanes
I
am
so
much
furthered
,
as
I
trust
to
morrow
morning
to
be
dispatched
hence
.
The
Almightie
blesse
your
honourable
person
in
all
you
desire
.
Florence
the
third
of
Iuly
.
1601.
Your
noble
Lordships
humble
seruant
,
father
Fr.
IOSEPH
TEXERE
Portugueze
,
&c.
Another
Letter
written
by
the
foresaid
Fr.
Texere
a
Portugale
,
to
the
same
Bishop
.
I
Wrote
to
your
excellent
Lordship
from
Venice
the
thirteenth
of
August
,
and
departed
thence
the
eighteenth
of
the
same
,
being
then
not
thoroughly
well
:
for
which
reason
I
made
the
way
more
long
and
tedious
then
I
purposed
.
I
staied
many
daies
at
Soleurre
,
because
Monsieur
de
Vic
would
not
let
me
passe
,
vntill
Monsieur
de
Sillery
came
to
towne
.
After
whose
comming
he
stayed
me
to
see
the
order
of
that
Towne
,
in
entertaining
the
Cantons
and
other
prouincials
at
their
first
feast
:
and
this
commaundement
I
could
not
well
disobey
.
This
importunitie
and
such
other
were
the
impediments
,
that
I
could
not
reach
vnto
Paris
before
the
fourteenth
of
October
.
Then
presently
I
went
to
Fontaine
Bleau
,
to
kisse
his
most
Christian
Maiesties
hand
;
who
entertained
me
verie
princely
,
shewing
himselfe
glad
of
my
safe
returne
.
For
to
tell
you
true
,
I
had
no
assured
being
,
but
in
Fraunce
(
so
offensiue
and
dangerous
was
the
Spanish
indignation
vnto
me
)
.
At
my
returne
from
Fontaine
Bleau
,
I
met
with
your
Lordships
Aduocate
agent
,
praying
him
to
giue
your
Lordship
aduertisement
of
my
returne
:
promising
to
write
vnto
your
Lordship
shortly
after
:
which
I
did
not
effect
,
partly
for
mine
vnapt
disposition
,
being
vexed
with
slaunderous
lyes
and
tales
,
which
mine
enemies
found
occasion
to
spreade
in
my
absence
.
Who
for
the
satisfaction
of
their
malice
,
hauing
nēither
care
of
the
law
of
God
,
nor
of
his
feare
,
sticke
not
to
suppresse
any
troth
,
to
further
the
confusion
of
their
neighbour
,
or
Christian
brother
.
And
to
gorge
their
wicked
appetits
,
respect
neither
the
honor
of
the
King
,
his
safetie
,
nor
the
fiering
of
Portugale
,
which
they
had
lately
kindled
and
disturbed
:
and
more
then
that
,
being
blinded
in
furie
themselues
,
thinke
no
man
else
can
perceiue
their
intents
,
be
the
matter
neuer
so
plaine
and
manifest
.
But
of
this
theame
let
this
suffise
,
considering
your
L.
is
not
ignorant
of
Castilian
broiles
.
At
my
first
entrance
into
this
place
,
I
found
certaine
letters
written
from
Rome
,
Venice
,
Padua
,
and
other
ordinarie
passages
in
Italy
;
all
which
gaue
me
credible
intelligence
,
that
the
King
my
Lord
and
maister
liues
,
and
that
he
is
well
intreated
,
in
prison
in
the
Castell
De
Ouo
.
And
my
Romaine
friend
,
being
ioyfull
of
my
good
newes
,
wrote
vnto
me
in
this
forme
following
:
Forasmuch
as
your
afflictions
,
daungers
,
and
trauailes
haue
receiued
some
hope
of
good
euent
,
and
for
that
it
is
certaine
,
that
the
troubles
of
those
that
feare
God
,
shall
be
conuerted
into
prosperitie
,
so
it
may
fall
out
,
that
Haec
olim
meminisse
iuuabit
.
These
words
and
tidings
seemed
very
common
and
vulgar
;
which
being
conferred
with
those
things
that
fel
out
happily
in
Rome
,
for
the
good
of
my
Soueraigne
,
I
conceiued
great
hope
,
yet
once
again
to
see
him
reestablished
in
his
kingdome
.
By
the
same
letter
I
vnderstand
,
that
my
intelligence
hath
bred
him
great
contentment
,
and
that
also
he
conceiued
no
lesse
pleasure
by
those
copies
which
I
sent
him
,
to
present
vnto
his
Highnesse
:
which
were
the
transcripts
of
those
I
sent
your
Lordship
from
Venice
,
which
proue
that
Marco
Tullio
Catizzone
is
one
,
and
Dom
Sebastian
another
.
A
Doctor
and
a
friend
of
mine
dwelling
at
Lions
,
shewed
me
a
letter
which
a
French
gentleman
his
inward
friend
,
of
good
calling
dwelling
in
Rome
,
after
he
had
recorded
many
things
concerning
the
King
my
maister
,
reuealed
as
followeth
.
The
Count
of
Lemos
Viceroy
of
Naples
,
is
very
fauourable
to
Dom
Sebastian
his
prisoner
,
honouring
him
very
much
,
allowing
him
some
small
libertie
:
which
when
he
heard
that
the
King
of
Castile
tooke
in
ill
part
,
he
began
presently
to
restraine
and
kept
him
sporter
.
When
he
was
allowed
to
heare
Masse
amongst
other
prisoners
,
they
did
honor
him
with
much
reuerence
,
saying
among
themselues
,
that
they
discouered
in
his
countenance
and
cariage
,
a
princely
Maiestie
.
And
without
all
question
,
he
must
needs
be
Dom
Sebastian
the
King
of
Portugale
,
or
some
diuell
in
his
likenesse
.
The
Viceroy
(
as
it
is
said
)
craued
licence
of
the
King
of
Castil
,
to
go
into
Spaine
,
because
in
Naples
he
could
not
recouer
his
health
,
which
the
King
would
in
no
wise
grant
him
.
There
be
other
letters
sent
into
these
parts
,
not
from
Portugals
,
or
any
other
by
their
appointment
,
the
contents
whereof
are
here
expressed
.
Heretofore
it
hath
bene
lawfull
and
tollerable
for
this
prisoner
that
termed
himselfe
D.
Sebastian
King
of
Portugale
,
to
speake
with
any
Portugals
or
men
of
other
nations
,
that
desired
to
see
the
said
prisoner
,
that
said
they
had
seene
him
before
:
and
sithence
they
verified
him
to
be
Dom
Sebastian
the
true
king
of
Portugal
,
he
is
more
straightly
kept
from
the
sight
and
speech
of
any
then
before
.
Another
letter
(
hauing
recounted
something
concerning
this
King
)
addeth
:
The
Count
Lemos
lying
in
his
death
bed
about
the
last
of
October
,
said
to
his
sonne
in
the
presence
of
his
wife
and
diuers
other
prisoners
,
that
he
should
looke
well
to
the
place
and
charge
he
had
,
both
of
the
Viceroyship
and
his
prisoners
:
for
you
see
(
said
he
)
that
I
am
vpon
the
point
to
go
to
God
,
to
render
account
for
that
I
haue
done
during
my
life
:
and
here
I
must
cease
and
end
my
worldly
businesse
:
for
the
disburdening
of
my
soule
and
conscience
,
I
protest
that
this
prisoner
here
,
whom
the
vulgar
call
a
Calabrian
,
is
the
very
true
Dom
Sebastian
,
lawfull
King
of
Portugale
.
I
know
it
assuredly
,
hauing
examined
him
,
and
for
that
I
haue
had
often
conference
with
him
before
his
imprisonment
.
Therefore
I
commaund
and
intreat
you
to
vse
him
well
.
This
done
,
he
gaue
him
a
letter
,
which
(
said
he
)
is
written
to
his
Maiestie
,
I
meane
the
Catholicke
King
,
touching
these
affaires
,
and
vse
all
the
diligence
you
can
in
these
things
I
haue
giuen
you
in
charge
.
The
father
being
dead
,
the
sonne
respected
the
prisoner
with
much
more
reuerence
then
he
did
before
,
but
allowed
him
lesse
libertie
then
he
had
in
the
old
Counts
life
.
I
haue
also
two
letters
from
Doctor
Sampayo
,
the
one
bearing
date
the
18
of
Nouember
,
the
other
the
fourth
of
December
,
which
confirme
the
same
contents
before
mentioned
.
There
be
many
other
letters
here
lately
sent
from
Portugals
to
the
same
purpose
,
reinforcing
the
truth
:
and
here
lately
past
a
Portugall
by
this
towne
,
that
protesteth
he
spake
with
Dom
Sebastian
,
declaring
markes
and
tokens
of
his
apparell
,
chamber
,
and
bed
,
and
other
appertenances
.
The
same
Portugall
said
further
,
the
King
inquired
of
him
for
certaine
persons
,
which
this
partie
being
then
but
yong
,
could
not
remember
,
and
therefore
gaue
him
no
direct
answer
.
We
haue
here
many
rumours
from
diuers
places
neare
about
.
One
wrote
out
of
Portugale
,
which
diuers
other
comming
from
thence
confirme
,
that
vpon
S.
Anthonies
day
of
Padua
the
last
yeare
,
they
rong
the
great
bell
at
Villila
in
Arragone
in
the
city
of
Coimbre
,
an
vniuersity
of
Portugale
,
where
befell
a
very
admirable
and
rare
wonder
.
In
the
same
towne
there
is
a
couent
of
Canons
regulars
,
of
the
order
of
S.
Augustine
,
sincerely
reformed
,
great
and
rich
,
in
the
which
is
interred
the
bodie
of
D.
Alphonse
Henriques
,
the
first
King
of
Portugale
,
whom
they
adore
for
a
Saint
.
In
whose
behalfe
(
they
say
)
God
hath
shewed
some
miracles
vnto
men
,
to
confirme
their
opinion
of
him
,
that
they
beleeue
not
amisse
.
Many
religious
men
for
this
foure
hundred
yeares
space
successiuely
continuing
this
Saint
for
their
intercessor
to
God
,
(
vt
ferunt
)
haue
obtained
much
release
and
consolation
in
their
afflictions
,
aswel
strangers
as
the
naturall
countrimen
;
and
to
this
effect
they
haue
a
booke
written
,
recording
all
the
benefits
receiued
thereby
:
so
that
this
house
neuer
harboured
any
other
,
then
those
that
were
deuoted
to
this
holy
King
.
The
last
yeare
an
old
man
(
whom
age
had
made
feeble
and
decrepit
)
vsed
euer
to
kneele
down
and
pray
at
the
sepulcher
of
the
said
King
:
and
vpon
S.
Anthonies
day
the
last
yeare
,
he
there
in
happie
time
offered
his
solemne
prayers
,
and
continued
a
long
time
in
meditation
before
the
sepulcher
,
where
he
remained
vntill
he
was
stiffe
,
and
not
able
of
him selfe
to
rise
,
but
by
the
assistance
of
his
iuniors
and
religious
brethren
,
who
beholding
all
his
face
bedeawed
with
teares
,
demaunded
of
him
how
it
came
to
passe
.
This
old
man
answered
,
I
am
very
much
displeased
and
grieued
at
the
negligence
of
our
Kings
and
Princes
of
Portugale
,
aswell
dead
as
liuing
,
I
meane
descending
from
this
holy
King
,
that
being
assured
by
infinite
miracles
that
he
is
in
heauen
in
eternall
glorie
,
and
liues
in
the
presence
of
God
,
and
we
neuer
yet
knew
any
man
that
trauelled
to
canonize
him
.
To
whom
one
or
two
answered
,
That
houre
shal
come
.
And
father
,
seeing
your
deuotion
and
loue
is
so
great
to
this
holy
King
,
beseech
him
to
be
a
mediator
for
the
libertie
of
Dom
Sebastian
(
descending
of
his
masculine
line
)
that
he
may
be
restored
to
his
former
dignities
and
Realmes
;
and
that
good
deed
will
cause
him
to
be
canonized
.
We
haue
heard
lately
more
reports
by
the
passengers
from
Italy
and
France
,
that
he
whom
the
Venetians
imprisoned
and
released
the
last
yeare
,
is
Dom
Sebastian
our
true
King
and
Lord
,
and
that
he
seemes
no
whit
to
degenerate
from
the
steps
and
traces
of
his
auncestors
.
As
those
religious
men
were
aduising
and
contemplating
vpon
the
vision
of
this
Alphonse
,
which
was
mentioned
in
the
Admirable
aduenture
,
&c.
and
considering
the
promise
God
made
vnto
him
,
when
he
appeared
vnto
him
in
the
field
Orique
,
the
sepulcher
resounded
vnto
them
three
strokes
,
hearing
the
eccho
with
abilitie
to
iudge
from
whence
the
noise
came
.
The
sound
being
past
,
they
approched
nearer
vnto
the
tombe
,
continuing
their
discourse
;
and
sodainly
againe
the
tombe
gaue
three
other
great
blows
,
so
terrible
that
they
were
forced
to
recule
for
feare
,
and
the
eccho
continued
so
long
that
they
all
were
amazed
,
and
became
as
pale
and
wan
,
as
men
vse
to
be
in
the
horror
of
death
.
When
afterward
they
came
to
themselues
,
recouering
their
senses
and
perfect
vnderstanding
,
and
conceiued
that
it
came
by
the
old
mans
praier
,
they
went
and
reuealed
this
accident
to
the
Bishop
of
that
citie
who
in
all
the
time
of
treatie
betweene
Portugale
and
the
King
of
Castile
,
approoued
himselfe
as
ranke
a
traitor
to
his
countrey
,
as
he
proued
true
seruant
to
the
King
of
Spaine
:
who
for
his
recompence
was
established
in
that
sea
,
and
created
Bishop
of
Coimbre
,
Count
of
Arganill
,
&c.
with
50000
duckets
of
yearely
annuitie
.
This
Bishop
aduertised
of
the
noise
,
came
to
the
Couent
and
made
inquisition
,
and
finding
it
a
thing
so
extraordinary
,
said
:
You
Portugals
that
wonder
at
these
toies
,
and
giue
credite
to
bables
,
know
that
the
soule
of
this
Saint
,
being
aloft
in
glory
,
is
so
sore
offended
with
you
,
that
God
suffereth
these
senslesse
monuments
,
to
giue
testimonie
of
your
fopperies
.
These
words
were
so
ill
taken
by
the
people
of
the
town
assembled
about
that
strange
noise
,
that
the
Bishop
was
constrained
to
vnsay
that
he
had
said
,
and
to
confesse
it
was
very
wonderfull
.
Furthermore
,
there
are
many
letters
come
of
late
from
Portugale
,
that
testifie
,
that
at
Lisbone
the
last
of
October
in
the
yeare
1601.
the
Church
and
hospitall
of
the
King
,
(
called
all
Saints
)
sodainly
fell
on
fire
by
night
,
and
flamed
so
furiously
,
that
the
roofe
was
burnt
,
and
all
the
images
of
the
Kings
of
Portugal
that
were
painted
vpon
the
wall
(
only
the
pourtrait
of
D.
Sebastian
)
was
left
vndefaced
.
The
selfe
same
ruine
happened
to
the
armes
of
the
Kings
and
Princes
of
Portugal
,
which
were
drawn
in
scutchions
vpon
the
wall
.
The
day
following
being
the
feast
of
all
Saints
,
in
the
forenoone
fell
an
infinite
number
of
hailstones
as
big
as
small
egges
,
red
of
colour
,
which
bred
as
great
cause
of
wonder
,
as
the
raine
that
fell
the
day
following
,
which
was
so
extreme
,
that
(
as
I
haue
heard
credibly
reported
by
many
)
the
people
of
that
towne
durst
not
go
out
of
their
doores
all
that
day
,
for
seare
of
drowning
.
These
things
to
me
(
aswell
as
to
others
)
I
assure
your
Lordship
seeme
maruellous
,
and
can
find
no
reason
of
their
rarenesse
:
God
of
his
diuine
mercie
turne
them
to
good
.
I
could
haue
written
to
your
Lordship
more
newes
of
great
consequence
,
if
my
paper
had
not
bin
iniurious
.
But
now
to
returne
to
our
first
subiect
,
which
I
wil
intirely
deliuer
vnto
your
Lordship
,
&
seeing
I
haue
recouered
my
strength
,
I
will
proceed
to
declare
vnto
you
the
successe
of
D.
Sebastian
King
of
Portugale
,
since
his
escape
from
the
battell
in
Afrike
:
which
I
intreat
your
Lordship
to
cause
to
be
imprinted
,
that
all
Princes
may
haue
free
knowledge
of
the
historie
.
Paris
the
twelfth
of
Ianuarie
1602.
Immediatly
after
my
last
writing
,
I
receiued
letters
from
my
friends
at
Venice
and
Padua
,
by
which
I
vnderstand
,
the
Agent
of
that
signiorie
(
being
resident
in
the
Catholicke
Kings
Court
)
hath
written
a
letter
to
that
State
,
which
hath
bin
openly
read
at
Pregay
,
part
of
the
contents
whereof
are
:
That
the
Count
Lemos
Viceroy
of
Naples
,
before
his
death
wrote
a
letter
to
the
King
his
maister
,
wherein
he
did
assure
him
,
that
that
prisoner
which
he
caused
to
be
sent
him
from
the
Duke
of
Tuscane
,
vnder
the
name
and
title
of
a
Calabrian
,
was
Dom
Sebastian
the
very
true
King
of
Portugale
,
which
in
the
yeare
1578.
lost
the
battell
in
Africke
:
which
he
affirmed
with
many
assured
reasons
,
and
trials
as
hauing
throughly
examined
him
of
diuers
things
wherein
he
had
dealt
with
him
both
in
Portugale
and
Castile
.
This
Viceroy
neuer
receiued
answer
of
this
letter
,
in
his
life
:
and
therefore
(
being
then
almost
at
the
last
gaspe
)
for
the
disburdening
of
his
soule
,
he
detected
this
secret
to
his
sonne
that
succeeds
in
his
place
,
in
the
presence
of
his
wife
,
his
confessour
,
and
diuers
other
persons
of
good
account
,
giuing
him
also
a
letter
for
the
King
,
wherein
is
ratified
the
same
he
spake
before
.
The
new
Viceroy
sent
to
the
Catholike
king
,
a
noble
man
of
the
house
of
Manriques
;
of
whose
house
proceeded
the
Dukes
of
Najara
.
This
Siegnior
he
sent
with
his
fathers
letter
,
&
it
is
reported
that
the
King
returned
answer
of
the
same
letter
to
the
Count
Lemos
,
commaunding
him
to
intreate
that
prisoner
well
,
and
take
especial
care
that
no
disaster
chanced
vnto
him
.
These
news
inforced
me
to
inlarge
this
treatise
,
I
would
to
God
they
were
like
to
be
true
,
and
that
the
Catholike
King
would
answer
his
title
with
due
correspondency
to
Christianitie
,
according
to
his
Christian
stile
,
by
yeelding
libertie
to
his
Cosin-germaine
,
and
restoring
all
that
to
him
belongeth
:
which
were
an
excellent
branch
of
honour
and
magnanimitie
,
and
an
assured
meane
to
settle
Christendome
in
peace
,
and
to
auoide
the
daunger
of
present
warre
,
which
now
the
lowring
heauens
,
and
malicious
inclination
of
starres
do
assure
vs
to
fall
vpon
vs
.
I
confesse
,
that
so
many
extraordinary
accidents
do
perswade
me
to
expect
a
good
issue
out
of
all
these
troubles
,
that
may
be
both
happie
and
profitable
to
the
whole
common-weale
of
Christendome
.
Pleaseth
it
your
Lordship
to
remember
that
about
the
infancie
of
our
amitie
,
I
said
that
if
the
Portugals
and
the
Castilians
be
not
separated
,
it
will
be
impossible
to
maintaine
a
generall
peace
in
Europe
:
iustifying
my
opinion
,
with
many
euident
demonstrations
,
and
yet
to
this
day
I
hold
the
same
resolution
,
in
which
many
noble
men
both
of
the
counsell
and
others
of
great
calling
do
accord
,
saying
,
They
from
day
to
day
see
more
apparant
reasons
so
to
iudge
.
To
that
end
do
I
dayly
offer
vp
my
sacrifices
and
earnest
prayers
to
intreate
the
Almightie
God
,
that
it
may
please
him
of
his
diuine
mercie
,
to
inspire
the
hearts
of
all
Christian
Princes
,
to
combine
in
one
knot
to
set
this
cause
aright
,
before
the
increase
of
more
mischiefe
:
for
,
so
much
the
longer
as
they
deferre
this
good
worke
,
so
much
the
greater
will
be
the
ruine
of
Portugale
,
and
perill
of
our
vniuersall
destruction
.
Your
noble
Lordships
humble
seruant
,
Fr.
IOSEPH
TEXERE
Portugueze
.
A
NARRATION
OF
THINGS
DONE
BY
DOM
SEBASTIAN
KING
OF
PORTVGAL
,
since
the
battell
he
lost
in
the
fields
of
Alquiber
in
Africke
,
fighting
against
Muley
Maluco
an
Infidell
,
anno
1578.
vntill
this
present
time
.
Written
by
Fr.
Ioseph
Texere
Portugueze
.
The
Preface
.
GEntle
Reader
,
forasmuch
as
I
haue
done
you
the
fauour
by
my
trauell
to
discouer
in
writing
vnto
you
a
Peregrination
so
much
desired
:
I
shall
intreate
the
like
of
you
againe
,
in
giuing
credite
to
that
I
will
most
faithfully
deliuer
vnto
you
,
concerning
the
naturall
inclination
of
the
Portugals
,
and
the
disposition
of
the
King
.
The
Portugals
haue
two
especiall
qualities
,
happily
differing
from
other
nations
,
which
are
as
familiar
to
them
,
as
to
laugh
is
proper
to
all
men
.
The
first
is
,
they
are
extremely
scrupulous
of
conscience
:
the
second
,
they
are
exceeding
constant
in
their
resolutions
,
especially
when
they
are
assured
that
they
are
warranted
by
the
law
of
God
,
and
concerne
his
glorie
:
for
the
first
I
will
recommend
vnto
your
iudgements
two
examples
.
The
first
,
after
the
death
of
D.
Henry
supposed
King
of
Portugale
,
the
succession
of
that
kingdome
being
left
to
the
inheritance
of
women
,
came
directly
to
D.
Katherine
Duchesse
of
Bragance
,
daughter
to
the
sonne
of
D.
Duarte
,
brother
germaine
to
the
said
Henry
:
who
caused
her
title
to
be
disputed
of
in
the
Vniuersitie
of
Coimbre
,
which
disputation
was
published
in
print
,
and
compiled
in
a
booke
confirmed
by
the
hands
of
foureteene
Doctours
,
subscribing
thereunto
:
all
whose
sentences
were
pronounced
in
the
fauour
of
the
said
Katherine
.
The
like
censure
was
exhibited
by
the
Doctors
of
Bologne
,
Pisa
,
&
other
vniuersities
in
that
part
of
Europe
,
the
succession
of
the
said
Realme
of
Portugale
,
being
adiudged
to
the
same
Katherine
,
&
D.
Iohn
Duke
of
Bragance
,
her
husband
&
cosin
germaine
:
by
reason
whereof
(
while
the
Cardinal
liued
being
induced
,
or
rather
informed
by
the
Agents
of
D.
Philip
the
second
King
of
Castile
,
not
to
publish
the
said
D.
Katherine
to
be
his
heire
,
did
respite
the
publication
,
pretending
that
D.
Katherine
,
D.
Anthonie
,
and
D.
Philippo
,
being
all
at
once
with
other
competitours
to
the
crowne
,
might
set
some
variance
among
the
people
about
the
title
,
leauing
it
to
be
censured
after
his
death
by
certaine
Iudges
that
he
had
appoined
and
named
)
he
sware
to
stand
to
the
sentence
of
those
Iudges
,
and
would
not
pronounce
him
King
of
Portugale
himselfe
,
but
said
it
might
be
a
meanes
for
him
to
come
to
the
best
assurance
of
the
enterprise
before
any
other
:
for
that
he
had
on
his
part
,
not
onely
the
most
of
the
Princes
of
Portugale
,
descending
from
that
line
,
but
also
many
cities
and
townes
in
that
Realme
,
whereof
he
was
owner
and
Lord
,
being
aboue
fifty
with
castles
,
beside
the
citie
of
Bragance
,
and
had
vnder
his
gouernement
aboue
two
hundred
thousand
subiects
of
account
,
by
reason
whereof
he
was
the
greatest
and
the
richest
Prince
subiect
,
among
the
Christian
Princes
of
Europe
.
Considering
withall
,
that
out
of
the
citie
of
Bragance
,
and
two
other
townes
called
Chaues
,
which
the
Romaines
termed
AEquas
Flauas
,
he
was
able
to
make
,
and
bring
into
the
field
thirtie
thousand
men
,
betweene
the
age
of
fiue
and
twentie
and
fiftie
yeares
.
And
it
is
to
be
noted
,
that
the
men
bred
in
those
parts
be
hard
and
valiant
souldiers
,
and
haue
bene
so
approued
in
the
battels
and
victories
which
the
Portugals
haue
had
against
the
Spaniards
,
by
whom
they
haue
bene
often
vanquished
in
ranged
battels
.
This
Princes
nice
conscience
,
was
the
cause
why
he
extended
not
his
force
to
defend
his
right
,
but
withdrew
himselfe
into
a
corner
,
without
purpose
or
intent
to
marrie
either
one
or
the
other
:
by
which
means
he
left
the
crowne
to
him
in
the
right
of
his
late
wife
,
and
his
life
in
short
time
after
.
The
second
example
.
The
Lord
D.
Antonio
,
the
Prior
of
Crato
,
likewise
supposed
king
of
Portugale
,
by
reason
of
his
oath
at
Santaren
,
where
he
was
chosen
,
and
after
at
Lisbone
,
in
which
election
he
was
confirmed
by
the
Deputies
of
the
cities
and
townes
of
the
kingdome
,
promised
by
oath
that
he
would
make
no
bargaine
or
agreement
with
any
of
their
enemies
,
but
leaue
.
the
same
Realme
at
libertie
.
The
Catholicke
King
D.
Philippo
offered
to
make
him
Viceroy
of
Naples
for
his
life
time
,
with
foure
hundred
thousand
duckets
of
yearely
rent
,
and
the
bestowing
of
certaine
offices
and
benefites
,
and
fiftie
thousand
duckets
presently
to
pay
his
debts
to
go
into
Italy
:
and
likewise
to
restore
to
their
former
state
,
dignitie
,
houses
,
and
goods
,
those
persons
from
whom
they
haue
bene
confiscated
by
his
occasion
,
and
to
giue
both
honour
and
riches
to
all
them
that
should
accompanie
and
attend
vpon
him
,
according
to
euery
mans
place
and
calling
;
vpon
condition
he
would
renounce
and
disclaime
all
his
right
and
interest
in
the
kingdome
of
Portugale
,
by
vertue
of
their
election
:
and
if
withal
he
would
sweare
neuer
to
giue
attention
to
any
,
that
might
perswade
him
to
the
contrary
.
His
answer
was
to
all
these
great
offers
:
That
his
conscience
bound
him
to
do
nothing
preiudiciall
to
the
contract
he
had
alreadie
made
,
and
that
he
had
rather
liue
poorely
and
die
miserably
in
a
simple
chamber
with
credite
,
performing
the
dutie
of
a
good
Christian
,
then
to
liue
in
great
pompe
and
pride
,
in
sumptuous
pallaces
,
disclaiming
the
law
and
commaundements
of
God
.
Courteous
Reader
,
no
man
can
speake
so
assuredly
,
or
so
sensibly
in
this
matter
as
I
:
for
in
the
yeare
1582.
vpon
S.
Augustines
day
,
being
prisoner
at
Lisbone
,
D.
Christopher
de
Nora
(
for
that
time
appointed
Viceroy
of
Portugal
,
with
whom
his
Catholike
M.
sent
a
gentleman
of
his
chamber
for
me
)
assured
me
,
that
I
might
talke
with
him
as
boldly
as
with
himself
,
telling
me
that
the
king
meant
to
employ
me
to
D.
Antonio
about
these
affaires
.
This
was
not
then
effected
,
for
that
I
escaped
out
of
prison
:
since
when
,
in
this
country
&
in
England
,
I
conferred
with
him
diuers
times
about
this
businesse
being
his
confessor
,
who
often
said
vnto
me
,
God
forbid
I
should
do
a
thing
so
contrarie
to
my
conscience
:
if
I
should
(
said
he
)
I
perswade
my selfe
that
euery
chinke
or
furrow
in
the
ground
would
open
and
swallow
me
vp
presently
,
by
reason
of
that
offence
.
God
first
I
desire
,
to
take
away
my
life
:
I
had
rather
liue
laden
with
afflictions
,
accompanied
with
miserie
and
beggarie
,
reseruing
my
serious
and
publike
promise
,
then
to
leade
a
periured
life
in
great
prosperitie
,
pleasures
,
and
delights
.
Thus
he
died
,
obtaining
(
as
I
thinke
)
for
the
preseruation
of
his
integritie
,
aswell
reputation
among
Christian
men
,
as
recompence
at
Gods
hand
,
desiring
alwayes
to
liue
and
rest
in
peace
:
and
in
regard
of
his
small
ambition
,
could
haue
contented
himselfe
with
the
tenth
part
of
the
King
his
cosins
offer
,
had
it
not
bene
for
the
respect
to
his
oath
at
their
election
:
and
could
haue
found
in
his
heart
,
to
haue
quit
the
right
and
claime
he
had
by
his
father
,
while
the
right
was
in
him
,
but
could
not
dispense
with
the
oath
they
bound
him
with
when
they
elected
him
,
hauing
power
to
do
the
first
,
but
not
the
second
.
This
is
sufficient
(
as
I
take
it
gentle
Reader
)
to
proue
vnto
you
my
first
proposition
,
That
the
Portugals
dwell
vpon
the
seueritie
of
their
conscience
.
Now
comming
to
proue
the
second
,
which
is
,
That
they
are
most
constant
in
their
designes
,
when
they
resolue
to
build
vpon
the
true
law
of
God
,
and
his
honour
,
I
am
to
intreate
you
to
defend
me
against
the
murmurers
,
our
enemies
in
two
respects
:
that
is
to
say
,
not
onely
in
the
principall
point
that
shall
concerne
our
subiect
,
but
that
they
may
become
censurers
of
me
and
of
the
cause
,
saying
,
That
in
the
first
historie
of
two
,
I
spake
not
religiously
,
and
that
I
giue
cause
of
offence
to
the
Kings
and
Princes
of
Europe
,
or
that
I
incite
you
to
take
armes
against
them
.
To
the
first
obiection
I
answer
,
that
when
a
person
of
what
estate
soeuer
he
be
,
deliuer
any
thing
to
good
purpose
,
or
vtter
by
chance
that
which
is
come
to
passe
;
in
that
he
offends
not
,
being
thereunto
obliged
in
dutie
and
conscience
.
As
for
the
second
,
where
they
suggest
that
I
transgresse
against
Christian
Princes
,
they
are
much
deceiued
:
for
though
a
man
make
fine
gold
into
a
chaine
,
yet
for
all
that
it
looseth
neither
the
beautie
nor
reputation
of
gold
,
nor
the
name
of
the
most
excellent
metall
of
all
others
:
so
let
it
be
supposed
that
a
man
descended
of
a
princely
race
,
become
a
meane
subiect
,
yet
cannot
any
man
say
,
he
looseth
by
his
deiection
of
fortune
his
Nobilitie
that
came
by
nature
:
for
Dauids
sheepe-hooke
was
no
disgrace
to
the
Scepter
of
Iuda
,
nor
Iustines
wallet
,
nor
the
halter
of
Gratian
father
to
Valentine
,
were
any
blemish
to
the
imperiall
Crowne
.
Therefore
I
conclude
,
that
no
man
can
accuse
me
of
rashnesse
in
the
narration
of
my
historie
,
speaking
to
a
good
end
accidentally
,
though
I
proue
that
manie
Kings
and
Princes
of
Europe
,
haue
bene
deriued
out
of
meane
or
vulgar
houses
.
The
Chronicles
of
Portugale
offer
vnto
vs
among
the
traditions
of
our
auncestors
,
a
notable
historie
well
worthie
the
reporting
and
obseruing
.
In
Portugale
in
the
Prouince
of
Alentejo
,
otherwise
called
Transtagana
,
there
is
a
towne
called
Veyros
,
by
estimation
about
the
bignesse
of
Manto
vpon
Seine
,
situate
vpon
a
mountaine
,
at
the
foote
whereof
Westward
,
there
runnes
a
riuer
which
hath
the
beginning
from
the
North
part
,
the
current
passing
into
the
South
.
Not
far
from
that
town
vpon
the
highest
part
of
a
litle
mountaine
,
regarding
the
West
for
the
most
part
,
this
riuer
seemes
to
haue
an
issue
towards
the
East
;
and
there
is
a
foord
where
men
are
constrained
to
passe
,
vnder
this
promontorie
:
the
riuer
hath
made
a
sandy
shallow
place
,
as
it
were
knee-deepe
,
where
the
women
inhabiting
the
said
towne
vse
to
wash
their
linnen
,
maides
aswell
noble
as
vulgar
.
It
fell
out
vpon
a
day
that
D.
Iohn
naturall
sonne
to
the
King
of
Portugale
,
was
to
passe
by
that
point
with
D.
Petro
Iusticier
&
great
Maister
ouerseer
of
the
cities
,
and
by
reason
of
that
office
was
indued
with
spirituall
and
temporall
honour
and
authoritie
.
He
being
a
yong
and
lustie
gallant
,
and
gouernour
of
the
same
towne
,
beholding
these
maidens
with
their
clothes
trust
vp
as
women
vse
going
about
that
labour
,
this
noble
man
began
to
ieast
with
the
rest
of
his
companie
at
the
bare-legged
wenches
,
and
passing
by
them
,
some
part
of
his
traine
yet
to
come
,
one
wench
amongst
the
rest
(
as
the
historie
reporteth
)
in
a
red
peticote
,
as
she
was
tucking
vp
her
clothes
,
discouered
her
legs
somewhat
high
,
and
giuing
her selfe
a
clap
with
her
hand
on
the
calfe
of
her
right
leg
,
said
aloud
,
Here
is
a
white
leg
(
girles
)
for
the
master
of
Auiz
.
Which
being
ouer-heard
by
some
of
his
followers
,
whom
she
tooke
no
heed
of
,
hearing
and
seeing
what
the
wench
had
both
said
and
done
,
came
no
sooner
into
their
Lords
lodging
,
but
they
reported
vnto
him
what
they
had
heard
a
young
frolike
wench
say
,
and
seene
her
do
.
Wherewithall
this
noble
gallant
being
stirred
,
sent
for
her
presently
,
and
finding
meanes
to
haue
her
secretly
,
vpon
her
begot
a
sonne
.
And
this
maide
was
a
shoomakers
daughter
of
that
town
,
very
rich
and
of
good
account
,
who
vnderstanding
that
his
daughter
was
sent
for
to
such
a
noble
man
,
and
being
informed
that
her
owne
speech
and
light
behauior
was
the
first
cause
,
and
being
assured
she
was
defloured
by
her
owne
franke
consent
:
took
it
so
hainously
,
that
at
her
return
home
,
he
reuiled
her
with
most
opprobrious
and
despitefull
words
,
and
beate
her
out
of
his
doores
openly
:
and
to
manifest
vnto
the
world
,
how
much
he
was
inwardly
vexed
with
the
spoile
of
his
daughter
,
he
neuer
after
would
eate
at
any
table
,
nor
sleepe
in
a
bed
,
nor
put
on
any
shirt
,
neuer
pared
his
nails
,
pol'd
his
haire
,
nor
cut
his
beard
,
which
grew
so
long
,
that
the
people
called
him
Barbadon
,
for
it
continued
vncut
till
it
reached
beneath
his
knees
.
This
malcontent
liued
so
long
that
his
grand
child
,
called
D.
Alphonse
grew
to
be
a
man
,
and
Duke
of
Bragance
(
created
by
the
great
Auize
maister
his
father
who
by
the
election
of
the
people
,
afterward
became
King
of
Portugale
,
and
for
his
worthie
acts
,
was
surnamed
memorable
)
and
Barcelos
by
the
right
of
his
wife
,
the
sole
daughter
,
and
inheritor
to
the
Constable
of
Portugale
.
This
towne
of
Veyros
,
stands
betweene
7
or
8
other
towns
belonging
to
the
said
Duke
and
is
distant
but
foure
leagues
from
Villa
Vicosa
,
where
his
pallace
is
.
This
vicinitie
was
the
cause
that
he
had
perfect
intelligence
of
the
shoomaker
his
grandfather
,
&
the
reports
he
heard
of
him
,
made
him
so
desirous
to
see
him
,
that
he
determined
to
go
seeke
him
out
himself
in
his
owne
town
:
where
meeting
him
in
the
streets
,
he
alighted
from
his
horse
,
and
kneeled
downe
before
him
bare-headed
,
and
desired
him
to
giue
him
his
hand
and
his
blessing
withall
.
The
shoomaker
hauing
an
eye
to
the
Dukes
traine
that
attended
vpon
him
,
and
seeing
his
base
humblenesse
,
and
hearing
his
speeches
,
amazedly
conceiued
him
to
be
some
great
personage
,
vnknowne
to
him
,
said
:
Sir
,
do
you
mocke
me
?
The
Duke
answered
,
So
God
help
me
I
do
not
:
but
in
earnest
I
craue
I
may
kisse
your
hand
,
and
receiue
your
blessing
,
for
I
am
your
grand
child
,
and
sonne
to
Ines
your
daughter
,
conceiued
by
the
King
my
Lord
and
father
.
Assoone
as
the
shoomaker
heard
these
sayings
,
he
clapped
his
hand
before
his
eyes
,
and
said
:
God
blesse
me
from
euer
beholding
the
soone
of
so
wicked
a
daughter
,
as
mine
was
.
Yet
forasmuch
as
you
are
not
guiltie
of
her
offence
,
hold
,
take
my
hand
and
my
blessing
,
In
the
name
of
the
father
,
&c.
But
neither
the
Duke
nor
his
followers
could
perswade
him
to
pull
away
the
hand
that
couered
his
eyes
,
so
confident
this
old
man
was
in
his
discontentment
:
neither
would
he
talke
any
longer
with
the
Duke
.
Shortly
after
,
this
old
man
died
,
and
before
his
death
,
he
tooke
order
for
a
tombe
to
couer
him
,
whereupon
he
communded
to
be
ingrauen
all
manner
of
tooles
that
belonged
to
a
shoomaker
,
with
this
Epitaph
.
This
sepulcher
Barbadon
caused
to
be
made
(
Being
of
Veyros
,
a
shoomaker
by
his
trade
)
For
himselfe
,
and
the
rest
of
his
race
,
Excepting
his
daughter
Ines
in
any
case
.
I
haue
heard
it
reported
by
the
ancientest
persons
,
that
the
fourth
Duke
of
Bragance
,
D.
Iames
soone
to
Donna
Isabel
(
sister
to
the
king
,
D.
Emmanuel
)
caused
that
tombe
to
be
defaced
,
being
the
sepulcher
of
his
fourth
grandfather
.
As
for
the
daughter
,
after
she
was
deliuered
of
that
son
,
continued
a
very
chast
and
vertuous
woman
all
her
life
,
and
the
king
made
her
Commandresse
of
Santos
,
a
most
honorable
place
,
and
very
plentiful
(
to
the
which
none
but
Princesses
are
admitted
,
liuing
as
it
were
Abbesses
and
Princesses
of
a
Monastery
,
builded
without
the
walles
of
Lisbone
,
called
Santos
(
that
is
,
Saints
)
founded
by
reason
of
some
Martyrs
that
were
there
martyred
.
And
the
religious
women
of
that
place
haue
libertie
to
marrie
with
the
Knights
of
their
order
,
before
they
enter
into
that
holy
profession
:
the
order
is
called
S.
Iames
,
bearing
the
same
Crosse
.
In
this
Monasterie
the
same
Donna
Ines
died
,
leauing
behind
her
a
glorious
reputation
for
her
vertue
and
holinesse
.
Obserue
(
gentle
Reader
)
the
constancie
that
this
Portugale
,
a
shoomaker
continued
in
,
lothing
to
behold
the
honourable
estate
of
his
grand
child
,
nor
would
any
more
acknowledge
his
daughter
,
hauing
bene
a
leud
woman
,
so
purchasing
aduancement
with
dishonour
.
This
considered
,
you
will
not
wonder
at
the
Count
Iulian
,
that
plagued
Spaine
,
and
executed
the
King
Rodrico
for
forcing
his
daughter
la
Caua
.
The
example
of
this
shoomaker
is
especially
worthie
the
noting
,
and
deeply
to
be
considered
:
for
beside
that
it
makes
good
our
assertion
,
it
teaches
the
higher
not
to
disdaine
the
lower
,
as
long
as
they
be
vertuous
and
louers
of
honour
.
It
may
be
,
that
this
old
man
for
his
integritie
rising
from
a
vertuous
zeale
,
merited
,
that
a
daughter
comming
by
descent
from
his
grand
child
should
be
made
Queene
of
Castile
,
and
the
mother
of
great
Isabell
grandmother
to
two
Emperours
,
Charles
the
fifth
,
and
Ferdinando
;
and
confute
the
prouerbe
in
Spaine
:
De
cien
en
cien
annos
los
Reyes
villanos
:
Y
de
ciento
en
seyes
los
villanos
Reyes
.
which
is
,
From
a
hundred
to
a
hundred
yeares
Kings
become
villains
:
and
from
a
hundred
to
sixe
,
villaines
become
Kings
:
so
here
the
plough
was
conuerted
into
the
Scepter
,
in
lesse
then
three
score
and
ten
yeares
.
For
the
proofe
of
my
second
proposition
,
I
must
necessarily
referre
you
to
the
historie
expressed
in
the
discourse
of
the
twelfth
letter
,
intituled
:
Admirable
aduentures
,
&c.
concerning
Dom
Sebastian
the
true
and
lawfull
King
of
Portugale
:
where
it
is
reported
of
D.
Alphonse
the
African
(
King
of
Portugale
)
that
seeing
King
Lewis
the
sixt
deluded
him
,
in
not
giuing
him
aid
according
to
his
promise
made
at
the
beginning
,
when
he
first
arriued
in
France
(
by
which
meanes
for
two
yeares
space
he
left
Portugal
,
not
being
able
for
want
of
power
to
bring
his
purpose
to
any
good
passe
,
for
his
rteurne
,
being
ashamed
to
be
seene
of
the
Portugals
,
for
that
he
lost
a
battell
against
the
Castilians
)
determined
with
himselfe
to
steale
as
vnknowne
out
of
France
secretly
,
and
place
himselfe
in
a
Monastery
neare
vnto
Rome
.
And
to
effect
that
dissigne
he
disguised
himselfe
in
a
strange
habite
,
taking
with
him
but
two
of
his
people
to
accompanie
him
:
but
he
and
they
were
intercepted
and
taken
by
the
way
by
Robinet
(
termed
the
Oxe
of
Normandy
)
:
which
Philippus
Comineus
also
confirmeth
with
this
addition
,
that
king
Lewis
was
much
offended
with
Robinet
for
that
peece
of
seruice
:
forcing
him
to
supply
him
with
an
armie
&
embark
him
for
Portugale
,
where
he
ended
his
life
,
as
I
haue
already
more
at
large
declared
vnto
you
elsewhere
.
That
which
I
haue
said
(
gentle
Reader
)
I
thinke
to
be
sufficient
,
to
acquaint
you
with
the
naturall
disposition
of
Portugales
.
And
to
induce
you
to
beleeue
what
likewise
hath
bin
verified
concerning
D.
Sebastian
my
Lord
and
Maister
,
it
is
conuenient
for
you
to
know
,
that
he
resolued
neuer
to
discouer
himselfe
,
or
to
make
it
apparant
to
any
man
,
what
he
was
;
but
was
fully
perswaded
to
passe
the
rest
of
his
time
vncothly
,
and
so
to
finish
his
life
in
silence
:
because
he
wilfully
tooke
vpon
him
(
contrary
to
the
aduice
of
Xarisa
,
and
all
the
Princes
,
Lords
,
and
Commaunders
that
accompanied
him
,
to
giue
battell
to
Muley
Maluco
,
in
the
houre
,
the
day
and
place
,
that
in
their
iudgement
was
not
thought
fit
for
his
aduantage
:
and
the
King
acknowledging
his
error
and
ouersight
he
committed
that
day
,
so
afflicted
his
soule
,
that
the
memorie
thereof
bred
him
more
inward
torment
and
vexation
,
then
any
misfortune
that
euer
befell
him
in
all
his
wofull
dayes
.
For
the
confirmation
whereof
,
I
will
giue
you
to
vnderstand
(
courteous
Reader
)
what
I
heard
an
old
man
say
,
being
a
man
of
great
authority
,
an
ordinary
assistant
,
and
a
common
releeuer
of
afflicted
persons
be
they
neuer
so
abiect
,
and
a
Religious
man
of
mine
owne
Order
,
and
Archbishop
of
Spalato
,
a
Venetian
borne
,
a
maintainer
and
supporter
of
truth
;
who
during
this
Realmes
last
troubles
,
wrote
in
the
behalf
of
his
Christian
Maiestie
.
This
reuerend
Prelat
,
while
I
lay
sicke
in
his
house
,
distant
some
halfe
league
from
Venice
,
sitting
by
my
bed
side
,
said
vnto
me
:
In
this
very
selfe
same
bed
lay
D.
Sebastian
your
King
,
tormented
with
a
feauer
,
before
his
imprisonment
in
Venice
,
at
which
time
in
my
hearing
,
a
father
of
the
Orderof
S.
Bernard
,
a
Doctor
in
Diuinitie
,
very
famous
for
his
profession
,
intreated
him
to
tell
him
how
it
came
to
passe
that
he
lost
the
battell
in
Africa
:
and
because
the
King
condescended
not
to
his
demaund
,
he
reiterated
the
same
againe
.
Then
suddenly
I
beheld
teares
gushing
from
his
eyes
as
big
as
pease
,
and
in
such
abundance
,
as
they
did
wet
not
onely
his
handkercher
,
but
his
shirt
,
the
sheete
,
and
a
silke
quilt
that
laye
vpon
him
.
This
passion
was
without
weeping
or
sobbing
,
for
that
he
neuer
could
do
,
but
euer
shewed
himselfe
all
one
,
no
changeling
,
come
prosperity
or
aduersity
.
At
length
he
requested
vs
instantly
,
to
vse
some
other
communication
,
saying
,
The
remembrance
of
that
intollerable
mishap
,
was
to
him
such
a
torment
,
as
it
depriued
him
of
reason
and
iudgement
,
and
made
him
desire
to
abandon
both
the
sight
and
conuersation
of
all
men
.
All
this
griefe
could
not
supplant
his
sicknesse
,
which
persecuted
him
so
sore
,
as
he
was
out
of
hope
or
care
of
his
recouery
:
oft
tempting
him
to
end
his
misery
with
his
owne
hands
.
I
considered
it
was
great
inhumanity
to
adde
a
torment
to
his
affliction
,
in
seeking
to
extract
that
from
his
knowledge
,
which
his
extreme
sorow
would
not
giue
his
tong
leaue
to
vtter
:
so
I
desired
the
noble
man
to
depart
with
me
,
and
giue
him
time
to
rest
a
while
:
for
that
the
night
before
he
had
slept
very
little
or
not
at
all
.
To
conclude
,
the
shame
and
griefe
he
sustained
inwardly
by
his
rash
attempt
,
as
is
before
rehearsed
,
committing
so
great
an
error
,
and
so
preiudiciall
to
Christianitie
,
enforced
him
to
obscure
and
hide
himselfe
from
all
his
acquaintance
and
familiars
:
imitating
Alphonso
his
predecessor
,
both
in
temeritie
and
repentance
:
or
to
equall
Boleslaus
king
of
Poland
,
who
to
kill
Stanislaus
the
Bishop
of
Cracouia
,
left
both
his
Crowne
and
Scepter
,
and
retired
himselfe
into
Hungary
,
where
some
say
within
few
yeares
after
the
execution
of
his
bloudie
purpose
,
he
slue
himselfe
.
Others
say
,
that
he
was
deuoured
with
dogs
in
a
forest
:
but
the
most
certaine
report
saith
,
that
he
serued
a
Cooke
in
a
Monasterie
at
Carinthia
(
called
Osia
)
a
litle
distant
from
the
towne
named
Felikirchen
:
and
after
the
sufferance
of
many
troubles
and
trauels
he
died
,
and
was
knowne
by
a
writing
which
was
found
in
his
bosome
,
the
content
whereof
was
:
I
am
Bolislaus
sometime
King
of
Poland
,
that
slue
Stanislaus
Bishop
of
Cracouia
.
In
the
same
maner
I
beleeue
had
Dom
Sebastian
the
King
of
Portugale
died
,
had
he
not
bene
a
religious
man
,
bound
in
conscience
to
shew
and
reueale
himself
,
and
take
paines
to
seeke
to
be
restored
to
his
former
rights
and
dignities
,
so
prouoked
to
do
by
secret
illumination
from
God
himselfe
,
who
otherwise
had
resolued
to
end
his
life
in
an
hermitage
:
which
intent
he
manifested
in
certaine
Italian
verses
composed
by
him
while
he
was
in
prison
in
Venice
,
which
I
haue
about
me
,
vttering
all
his
successe
sithence
he
lost
the
battell
in
Afrike
,
&c.
There
were
foure
examiners
appointed
by
the
Senate
to
attend
that
businesse
all
the
time
of
his
imprisonment
there
,
which
examinations
and
verses
he
sent
inclosed
in
a
letter
to
his
Holinesse
,
which
also
are
in
custodie
.
The
Aduocate
,
Iudge
,
Counsellor
,
and
Inquisitor
testifie
,
that
he
gaue
them
a
princely
,
sententious
,
and
a
pithie
answer
,
rehearsing
all
things
that
had
past
concerning
himselfe
and
others
,
since
that
battell
in
Africke
,
with
the
names
of
the
Generals
,
Colonies
,
Captaines
,
Lords
,
and
Gentlemen
,
that
accompanied
him
in
that
action
:
the
number
and
the
diuersities
of
nations
,
the
day
,
the
houre
,
the
situation
of
the
place
,
where
it
was
fought
;
how
and
in
what
manner
he
escaped
.
I
am
againe
to
intreat
you
friendly
Reader
,
to
giue
credite
to
that
I
shall
report
vnto
you
,
and
not
to
measure
the
nature
of
Portugals
by
the
light
and
leud
dispositions
of
other
nations
.
When
I
was
in
England
with
D.
Antonie
,
the
putatife
King
of
Portugal
,
as
I
told
you
before
,
I
was
solicited
by
Fr.
Diego
of
Chaues
,
a
professor
of
mine
owne
order
,
with
great
importunacie
to
relinquish
and
giue
ouer
this
S'
D.
Antonio
,
and
incline
towards
his
Catholike
Maiestie
,
whose
confessor
this
Diego
was
,
and
his
sole
Gouernor
:
assuring
me
,
that
if
I
would
yeeld
to
his
request
,
I
should
be
very
bountifully
rewarded
;
&
wrote
vnto
me
most
confidently
,
that
my
entertainment
should
not
want
one
mite
of
25
or
30000
duckets
yearely
in
reuenue
to
be
duely
paid
,
which
allowance
would
not
only
serue
competently
to
maintaine
me
in
honorabl
estate
,
but
I
might
also
deduct
a
surplusage
therehence
,
to
inrich
my
kindred
and
friends
withall
,
whom
also
the
king
promised
to
prefer
&
aduance
for
my
sake
,
(
this
Cofessor
was
my
mothers
cosin-germaine
)
assuring
me
that
all
my
actions
,
intents
,
and
purposes
whatsoeuer
,
preiudiciall
to
his
Catholike
Maiestie
,
should
be
quite
buried
in
obliuion
,
and
no
blame
for
any
inuectiues
or
writings
in
derogation
of
his
Maiestie
should
be
once
obiected
against
me
.
And
to
the
end
I
might
the
rather
yeeld
vnto
him
,
he
recapitulated
all
the
particular
offices
and
fauours
he
had
performed
in
my
behalfe
at
the
time
of
my
imprisonment
;
that
he
purchased
my
deliuerance
,
&
saued
me
from
being
adiudged
to
the
gallies
,
and
also
preuented
me
from
being
stretched
vpon
the
racke
:
and
further
,
obtained
pardon
of
his
Maiestie
for
Emanuel
Texere
my
vnkle
,
that
was
condemned
to
loose
his
head
;
and
caused
all
his
goods
to
be
restored
,
that
were
confiscate
,
for
being
in
employment
with
D.
Antonio
against
the
king
:
and
when
he
could
not
obtaine
a
graunt
at
my
hands
of
that
which
he
demaunded
himself
,
he
incited
my
friends
and
acquaintance
to
do
their
vttermost
,
to
win
me
from
my
constant
resolution
,
hoping
in
regard
of
the
great
distance
and
separation
from
my
countrey
,
and
what
by
the
want
and
necessitie
I
endured
in
France
,
with
my
aged
constitution
of
bodie
,
I
would
retire
from
that
place
and
end
my
age
in
Portugal
,
where
I
began
my
youth
:
attempting
afterward
by
rating
&
reuiling
to
make
me
recant
,
when
other
prouocations
would
not
preuaile
.
All
which
inticements
mixt
with
bitter
taunts
,
moued
me
nothing
at
all
:
and
at
this
instant
if
I
would
vouchsafe
acceptance
,
I
might
receiue
the
same
entertainement
before
offered
.
It
is
not
yet
two
yeares
past
sithence
a
very
deare
friend
of
mine
in
this
towne
prest
me
with
vehement
perswasions
to
returne
into
Portugale
,
assuring
me
of
as
much
aduancement
there
as
I
would
defire
:
but
God
forbid
,
that
euer
I
should
accept
it
,
for
I
had
rather
be
a
poore
religious
beggar
in
France
,
then
a
great
discontented
Bishop
in
Castile
,
or
in
Portugale
:
considering
the
countrey
is
not
it selfe
,
but
in
bondage
,
most
seruilly
subiect
to
Castilian
tyrannie
.
In
this
towne
a
nobleman
of
France
,
in
the
presence
of
diuers
Princes
of
the
Bloud
,
accompanied
with
some
religious
men
of
mine
owne
order
,
often
perswaded
me
to
leaue
the
habit
of
S.
Dominicke
,
and
betake
me
to
another
,
assuring
me
in
liew
therof
an
Abbey
(
which
he
had
in
his
power
at
that
time
to
giue
)
&
afterward
a
couent
of
8
or
9
thousand
liuers
annuall
rent
:
and
to
make
me
capable
thereof
,
he
promised
to
procure
me
a
dispensation
from
his
Holinesse
,
to
allow
the
exchange
of
my
present
habite
.
All
which
bountifull
proffers
could
not
once
moue
me
to
change
my
shape
,
like
a
mutable
weather-cocke
,
or
an
airie
Camelion
.
For
if
the
spirit
of
God
forsake
me
not
,
I
will
die
as
I
haue
liued
,
a
religious
votarie
to
S.
Dominicke
,
and
a
naturall
Portugal
:
and
the
same
blessed
stabilitie
possesse
all
those
that
seeke
and
spred
my
reproch
and
defamation
;
and
to
those
that
make
a
scorne
of
me
,
I
answer
nothing
,
but
that
I
am
a
true
religious
Portugale
,
of
the
same
disposition
that
other
my
countrimen
be
:
I
meane
the
godly
,
vertuous
,
and
loyall
Portugals
.
Neither
wil
I
admit
any
for
my
associates
in
this
case
,
but
such
as
be
most
intirely
sincere
and
constant
.
So
I
end
my
present
narration
in
the
name
of
God
,
and
purpose
to
proceed
to
the
handling
of
my
promised
discourse
:
which
,
albeit
I
cannot
so
exacty
relate
,
as
I
desire
(
not
being
an
eye-witnes
of
all
that
hath
bene
done
and
suffered
by
this
miserable
king
my
Lord
and
master
)
I
haue
gathered
out
of
the
greatest
probabilities
and
assertions
of
the
iustest
and
honestest
,
that
I
could
possibly
learne
or
vnderstand
,
that
were
able
to
giue
me
the
best
intelligence
:
which
diligence
I
was
bound
in
dutie
and
conscience
to
exercise
,
and
am
withall
inforced
by
the
importunitie
of
many
(
meeting
me
in
the
towne
and
field
at
euery
corner
)
to
discourse
vnto
them
my
maisters
aduentures
.
Therefore
to
satisfie
them
and
all
the
world
,
and
to
meete
with
their
tedious
inquisitions
,
I
haue
effected
this
collection
,
to
rid
my selfe
of
trouble
,
and
to
quench
their
inordinate
thirst
after
the
truth
,
referring
all
that
can
reade
,
to
this
and
my
former
discourse
of
Admirable
aduentures
.
Farewell
.
The
Narration
.
AT
my
being
in
Venice
(
gentle
Reader
)
I
vnderstood
by
diuerse
,
that
the
opinion
conceiued
of
many
,
and
the
rumor
commonly
spred
concerning
the
death
of
Dom
Sebastian
the
king
of
Portugal
,
my
Lord
and
Maister
,
was
false
:
and
beleeued
rather
,
that
their
reports
were
more
like
to
be
true
,
that
maintained
the
contrarie
.
For
that
it
was
confidently
iustified
by
credible
persons
,
that
he
was
seene
aliue
and
safe
since
the
battell
in
Africke
:
namely
,
by
Cid
Albequerine
,
Emanuell
Texer
my
Vncle
,
N.
Murselo
Higuera
,
and
many
other
Gentlemen
and
personages
of
great
qualitie
and
account
.
He
escaped
by
flight
among
the
route
,
being
sore
hurt
in
his
head
and
in
one
arme
,
and
passed
as
a
priuate
man
to
his
ships
,
and
was
embarqued
amongst
the
remnant
of
his
armie
,
that
saued
themselues
by
flight
,
as
he
was
forced
to
do
.
After
a
few
daies
he
arriued
in
Portugale
in
a
towne
called
Neu
feu
de
mille
fuentes
,
neare
vnto
S.
Vincents
Cape
,
where
he
refreshed
himselfe
,
and
sent
for
a
Chirurgian
from
Faro
:
his
name
I
haue
forgotten
(
but
well
I
remember
he
was
reckened
excellent
in
his
Art
.
)
There
the
king
soiourned
,
accompanied
with
the
Duke
of
Aneiro
,
and
Christopher
Tauora
,
and
diuerse
other
Lords
,
vntill
he
was
perfectly
healed
.
The
tidings
of
his
being
at
the
Cape
were
sodainly
spred
at
Lisbon
,
and
was
soon
published
generally
throughout
all
Portugal
.
And
it
was
affirmed
,
that
he
was
seene
at
the
Couent
of
Capuchins
(
built
vpon
the
point
of
S.
Vincent
)
amongst
his
companions
.
This
rumor
was
soone
quailed
by
the
policie
and
authoritie
of
Petro
de
Alcaçoua
,
great
Secretarie
of
Portugal
,
in
the
behalfe
of
Dom
Philip
king
of
Spaine
,
with
whom
he
had
before-hand
concluded
,
when
Dom
Sebastian
the
king
employed
him
in
Embassage
into
Spaine
,
before
his
departure
into
Africke
.
And
for
that
cause
this
Petro
Alcaçoua
(
a
damnable
Politician
and
a
monstrous
traitour
)
as
soone
as
the
first
newes
came
,
that
the
Christians
had
lost
the
day
,
and
his
King
and
Maister
slaine
,
this
Iew
gaue
secret
intelligence
to
the
king
of
Castill
of
all
that
happened
:
signifying
vnto
him
,
that
nowe
were
a
fit
time
to
surprise
the
kingdome
of
Portugall
,
and
bid
him
make
readie
for
the
purpose
.
I
respected
the
handling
of
the
second
establishment
of
vnion
betweene
the
king
my
maister
before
his
departure
,
and
the
king
of
Castile
,
which
is
expressed
by
one
Connestay
at
large
;
who
being
a
man
of
good
respect
in
Portugal
,
came
post
to
seeke
me
from
Rome
to
Venice
,
and
amongst
many
other
newes
,
he
reported
vnto
me
,
that
as
soone
as
euer
it
was
bruted
abroad
in
Portugall
,
that
Dom
Sebastian
the
king
was
liuing
,
and
prisoner
in
Venice
,
there
were
many
deuises
reuiued
concerning
this
brute
,
that
long
time
before
lay
buried
.
And
withall
you
must
note
,
that
Dom
Diego
de
Sosa
the
Admirall
,
which
conducted
the
king
into
Africke
,
re-embarqued
him
from
thence
into
Portugall
againe
,
and
gaue
continual
intelligence
vnto
his
kindred
and
assured
friends
,
that
their
king
was
liuing
,
and
that
he
had
secretly
receiued
him
a
boord
,
among
the
scattered
troupes
,
and
gaue
them
an
especial
charge
,
that
they
should
conceale
it
.
And
further
,
that
he
gaue
him
a
secret
signe
,
whereby
he
might
know
him
hereafter
,
if
need
required
:
which
priuitie
,
Dom
Diego
discouered
vnawares
,
when
a
counterfeit
(
suborned
for
the
purpose
)
came
to
that
Diegoes
house
,
sending
for
him
into
the
field
to
come
home
to
speake
with
Dom
Sebastian
the
king
:
to
whom
he
said
abruptly
:
Hath
he
deliuered
any
secret
token
betwixt
him
and
me
,
whereby
I
might
credite
thee
?
By
which
question
he
published
that
,
which
he
secretly
had
bewrayed
before
to
his
allies
.
Whereupon
the
Cardinall
Dom
Henry
,
great
Vncle
to
the
king
,
tooke
occasion
to
send
a
trustie
seruant
of
his
,
called
Emanuel
Antunes
,
to
S.
Vincents
Cape
,
charging
him
to
vse
all
the
industrie
he
might
,
in
finding
out
what
certaintie
he
could
learn
of
the
king
his
Nephew
.
All
which
,
this
Emanuel
performed
,
with
as
much
indeuour
as
he
might
possibly
vse
:
and
by
his
diligent
inquisition
about
the
said
Cape
,
found
that
the
king
had
bene
in
the
Monasterie
:
and
was
there
certified
,
that
he
was
both
hurt
in
the
head
and
arme
,
and
in
a
manner
franticke
,
not
onely
for
the
exceeding
anguish
and
vexation
of
mind
which
he
suffered
for
the
losse
of
victorie
,
but
withall
the
shame
did
euer
perplexe
him
,
when
he
considered
the
ouerthrow
came
by
indiscretion
and
rashnesse
,
and
that
by
his
default
the
flower
and
prime
of
all
Portugal
,
was
defeated
and
cut
off
.
Antunes
brought
a
very
large
testimoniall
hereof
to
the
Cardinall
vnder
the
seale
of
the
father
Gardian
,
and
all
the
rest
of
his
brethren
of
the
said
Monasterie
:
which
the
Cardinal
receiued
with
his
owne
hands
,
commaunding
his
seruant
to
impart
this
secret
to
none
,
which
he
for
his
owne
part
buried
in
his
own
bosome
.
And
not
being
able
to
find
out
what
course
his
Nephew
and
his
companie
tooke
for
their
escape
out
of
the
countrie
,
gaue
ouer
the
expectation
of
his
recouery
either
of
his
crown
and
scepter
while
he
liued
,
though
it
were
his
due
.
But
when
it
was
knowne
in
Portugal
that
the
K.
liued
,
Antunes
began
to
acknowledge
the
paines
he
had
vndergone
in
these
affaires
,
by
his
masters
appointment
:
which
was
no
sooner
conueyed
to
the
king
of
Castiles
care
,
but
he
sent
for
this
Antunes
,
of
whom
he
had
a
liberall
relation
of
all
that
he
knew
concerning
that
businesse
:
and
soone
after
Antunes
his
returne
into
Portugall
,
he
died
.
Whereby
it
appeareth
vnto
me
,
that
God
lengthened
his
life
some
space
,
to
reueale
a
truth
,
that
seemed
before
to
be
very
intricate
and
doubtfull
.
Shortly
after
the
Portugals
began
to
murmure
among
themselues
,
boldly
saying
,
that
D.
Philip
the
king
had
made
away
Dom
Sebastian
their
king
(
his
Nephew
)
going
to
him
to
craue
his
aide
before
his
departure
into
Africke
,
because
he
had
a
meaning
to
gaine
the
kingdome
of
Portugall
to
him
and
his
successours
,
and
hold
it
by
vsurpation
.
And
this
scandall
was
neuer
extinguished
,
because
fame
diuulged
his
arriuing
at
the
Cape
called
S.
Vincent
,
and
no
certainty
appeared
to
the
world
,
what
way
he
passed
from
thence
.
But
since
it
is
proued
,
that
from
Spaine
he
got
shipping
and
trauelled
into
Alexandria
,
and
there
liued
in
Prester
Iohns
Court
with
his
followers
,
some
twentie
moneths
,
vnknowne
of
what
qualitie
he
was
,
professing
that
he
had
a
desire
to
see
the
world
,
and
trauelled
onely
to
that
end
and
purpose
:
for
of
want
he
made
no
shew
,
he
and
his
company
being
well
furnished
with
gold
and
iewels
of
great
price
.
From
Aethiopia
they
passed
ouer
the
red
sea
,
and
so
directly
to
the
mount
Sinay
;
from
thence
to
the
great
Sophi
called
Xatama
king
of
Persia
,
whom
he
serued
as
a
Commaunder
fiue
or
sixe
yeares
against
the
Turkes
,
where
he
atchieued
many
victories
,
and
diuerse
wounds
in
his
bodie
,
with
much
honour
and
reputation
.
In
requitall
whereof
,
the
king
of
Persia
did
him
many
honorable
offices
,
and
gaue
him
rich
presents
of
inestimable
price
,
with
the
which
he
and
his
companie
departed
.
I
heard
at
Venice
of
his
conference
with
Colonel
Cigogna
,
a
man
of
great
experience
in
the
warres
,
which
assured
the
Lords
of
the
Senat
,
that
he
neuer
talked
with
any
man
more
wise
,
learned
,
or
better
experienced
in
Militarie
discipline
,
then
this
noble
person
:
and
he
protested
he
could
be
no
other
,
then
the
same
he
professed
to
be
.
The
excellent
and
most
reuerend
Lord
the
Archbishop
said
,
he
heard
the
discourse
between
the
King
and
the
Colonel
,
which
delighted
him
exceedingly
.
This
Archbishop
I
could
not
speake
withall
at
my
being
in
Venice
,
for
that
he
was
employed
in
Dalmatia
in
the
affaires
of
the
State
.
The
King
leauing
Persia
,
went
towards
Ierusalem
,
from
whence
he
trauelled
by
firme
land
to
Constantinople
:
which
after
certaine
dayes
he
left
,
and
came
into
Italie
,
from
thence
to
Hungarie
,
and
from
thence
fetched
a
compasse
by
Muscouie
,
Poland
,
Swedland
,
and
Denmarke
,
where
he
tooke
shipping
for
England
:
and
in
London
it
is
reported
he
saw
D.
Antonio
the
supposed
king
of
Portugal
.
From
England
he
passed
into
Holland
;
from
Holland
by
Almaine
backe
to
Antwerpe
:
therehence
to
Paris
,
anno
1586.
It
comes
to
my
memorie
,
that
in
the
latter
end
of
the
same
yeare
,
one
Antonio
Fernandes
Pignero
,
a
Priest
,
which
had
sometime
bene
Amner
to
the
said
Dom
Sebastian
,
&c.
and
was
with
me
in
seruice
from
the
said
Lord
D.
Antonio
,
told
me
that
the
same
Dom
Antonio
,
had
heard
it
credibly
reported
,
that
Dom
Sebastian
the
King
was
liuing
,
&c.
whereat
D.
Antonio
seemed
to
be
sore
amazed
and
perplexed
.
About
which
time
I
craued
licence
of
D.
Antonio
to
go
out
of
England
into
this
countrie
,
which
he
gaue
with
some
shew
of
discontentment
therewith
.
By
reason
whereof
,
and
to
auoid
all
suspition
,
I
moued
no
question
to
him
concerning
the
particularitie
of
this
matter
;
and
I
must
tell
you
by
the
way
,
that
Pignero
had
all
this
discourse
in
writing
sub
sigillo
confessionis
,
which
although
(
said
he
)
I
make
the
same
knowne
vnto
you
,
yet
I
pray
you
conceale
it
from
D.
Antonio
,
because
it
may
be
very
preiudiciall
to
him
of
whom
I
heard
it
.
In
the
yeare
following
after
Easter
,
in
the
time
of
Ember
,
when
I
was
come
to
that
towne
,
whither
I
made
the
scope
of
my
iourney
,
I
heard
the
like
concerning
the
same
businesse
which
I
before
had
heard
in
England
,
whereof
I
seemed
to
make
no
great
care
:
and
comming
to
Paris
,
after
his
Christian
Maiestie
had
entred
the
town
,
D.
Nouuclet
assured
me
in
the
presence
of
diuers
Portugals
and
French
men
,
not
once
nor
twise
,
but
many
times
,
that
it
was
as
certaine
and
assured
that
D.
Sebastian
(
King
of
Portugale
)
had
bene
lately
in
Paris
,
as
he
spake
to
me
:
describing
him
to
me
by
many
circumstances
:
to
all
which
I
gaue
no
credite
,
esteeming
all
he
said
to
be
meere
fables
.
Not
that
I
held
any
opinion
or
conceit
that
he
was
slaine
at
the
battell
in
Africke
,
but
my
imagination
could
not
receiue
any
impression
that
he
could
be
guiltie
of
any
such
rare
dissimulation
to
passe
so
many
cities
and
regions
without
discouerie
.
The
last
yeare
writing
to
the
said
Doctor
to
Annissi
where
he
dwelt
,
of
these
newes
which
I
heard
,
that
my
Lord
and
maister
should
be
set
a
libertie
by
the
consent
of
the
Siegniorie
of
Venice
:
I
intreated
him
to
write
vnto
me
at
large
,
that
which
he
had
oft
recited
to
me
in
this
town
,
concerning
the
estate
of
that
King
.
And
because
his
answer
was
,
that
he
could
not
agree
to
the
satisfaction
of
my
demaunds
,
I
ceased
to
importune
him
any
further
in
that
behalfe
.
But
forasmuch
as
at
my
being
at
Venice
,
some
of
the
chiefest
of
the
Siegniorie
of
that
State
,
asking
me
if
I
were
able
to
say
any
thing
concerning
that
the
King
had
answered
vpon
his
examination
:
saying
,
that
he
had
bene
in
Paris
,
and
there
conferred
with
a
Portugale
fled
out
of
his
countrey
for
D.
Antonioes
cause
,
being
his
cosin
.
And
further
,
that
he
met
with
a
gentleman
of
Swisser-land
at
Soleurre
,
departing
from
thence
towards
Annissi
,
by
whom
I
sent
a
letter
to
D.
Nouuelet
:
in
the
which
I
most
instantly
desired
him
to
set
downe
in
writing
all
that
he
had
declared
to
me
at
Paris
,
concerning
my
maister
D.
Sebastian
,
&c.
At
my
great
importunity
it
pleased
him
to
grant
me
my
desire
,
and
here
I
haue
annexed
the
same
,
copied
out
verbatim
,
as
it
was
written
,
in
maner
and
forme
,
with
the
recommendations
he
assigned
me
to
do
to
his
friends
,
(
named
in
the
same
originall
)
men
of
good
esteeme
for
birth
,
office
,
and
popular
affectation
.
So
that
to
his
truth
and
sinceritie
no
man
can
take
exception
,
being
a
professor
in
his
art
,
both
very
learned
and
excellently
experienced
,
in
his
life
and
manners
neuer
detected
.
Therefore
all
suspition
either
of
the
matter
or
the
man
is
preuented
.
The
copie
of
a
Letter
sent
from
D.
Nouuelet
to
Fr.
Ioseph
Texere
.
SIR
,
I
receiued
your
last
Letter
dated
the
eighteenth
of
the
moneth
past
:
whereby
you
make
me
recal
to
mind
the
griefe
I
conceiued
by
your
letters
preceding
,
concerning
the
troubles
of
Emanuell
Godigno
,
a
Gentleman
,
borne
in
Portugale
.
I
had
long
since
expressed
in
writing
,
and
sent
it
you
,
if
I
had
coniectured
your
disposition
had
bene
apt
to
entertaine
newes
.
So
ready
and
willing
I
am
to
applie
my
endeuours
to
do
you
seruice
,
in
any
thing
you
shall
please
to
commaund
me
:
but
the
consideration
of
your
rare
perfection
of
memorie
,
made
me
decline
from
doubt
of
any
defect
therein
,
and
so
much
the
slower
in
committing
that
to
writing
,
which
I
had
before
so
obseruantly
vttered
in
your
hearing
,
and
in
the
presence
of
many
persons
of
good
respect
,
aswell
of
your
countrey
,
as
of
other
nations
:
imputing
this
imposition
rather
to
your
desire
to
be
better
assured
,
Obsignatis
tabulis
,
then
to
any
want
of
cariage
in
your
vnderstanding
parts
,
I
thus
addresse
my
pen
to
confirme
my
tongues
discourse
.
In
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
1588.
being
at
Nance
,
in
emploiment
and
seruice
of
my
Lord
the
Cardinall
of
Gondie
,
about
the
affaires
of
my
Lord
the
Bishop
of
Paris
,
his
nephew
,
that
was
called
Abbot
of
Buzai
;
I
tooke
vp
my
lodging
in
the
couent
of
the
Iacobins
,
where
I
found
good
oportunitie
to
ingraft
my selfe
in
the
fauour
and
friendship
of
the
reuerend
father
D.
Sampayo
,
a
man
much
commended
for
his
liberall
erudition
in
letters
,
but
recommended
for
his
integritie
and
zeale
,
one
of
your
owne
order
,
and
of
your
ancient
and
approued
acquaintance
,
and
being
both
godly
and
learned
,
vnited
in
more
assured
bonds
of
loue
and
amitie
,
then
are
exercised
among
the
vulgar
.
Meane
while
that
league
of
friendship
then
planted
betweene
that
good
Dr.
Sampayo
and
me
,
tooke
so
good
roote
in
vs
both
,
as
it
continueth
without
perill
of
supplanting
til
this
day
:
and
is
like
for
your
sake
to
fructifie
aboundantly
,
as
well
by
increase
of
loue
,
as
of
acquaintance
with
many
other
noble
gentlemen
of
good
sort
and
condition
.
Among
the
rest
of
the
ordinary
frequenters
,
came
Sr.
Emmanuell
Godigno
,
to
visite
Doctor
Sampayo
at
my
lodging
,
and
taking
some
acquaintance
of
me
,
continued
the
same
as
long
as
I
lay
in
Nance
:
till
I
retired
towards
Paris
,
leauing
to
my
great
sorrow
the
sweete
conuersation
betwixt
Doctor
Sampayo
and
my selfe
,
louing
each
other
dearely
.
This
Godigno
loth
to
let
slip
out
of
vse
,
the
complements
that
had
past
betweene
him
and
me
at
Nance
,
at
his
comming
to
Paris
frequented
my
lodging
daily
,
to
vnderstand
of
Doctor
Sampayoes
health
and
welfare
:
whereof
I
not
being
able
to
giue
him
any
certaine
intelligence
,
he
began
to
mourne
and
looke
heauily
,
whom
I
could
not
chuse
but
in
that
passion
to
accompanie
,
enuying
any
mans
affection
should
exceed
mine
in
zeale
to
my
friend
.
It
followed
that
,
vpon
a
sunday
(
in
what
moneth
I
remember
not
)
this
Sr.
Godigno
receiued
the
Communion
very
deuoutly
,
ministred
by
the
chiefe
of
the
Iacobins
,
which
made
me
refraine
for
that
time
to
salute
him
,
or
he
me
:
for
in
truth
I
thinke
he
saw
me
not
,
and
I
not
willing
to
interrupt
his
deuotion
,
let
him
passe
without
any
ceremonie
on
my
part
performed
.
Notwithstanding
,
the
same
afternoone
he
repaired
to
my
lodging
,
and
as
his
custome
was
,
demaunded
what
tidings
I
heard
of
his
friend
and
mine
Doctor
Sampayo
:
and
I
hauing
no
better
means
to
informe
him
then
before
,
desired
him
to
excuse
my
ignorance
being
vnable
to
giue
him
any
contentment
by
intelligence
of
him
,
or
from
him
.
At
which
answer
,
the
kind
gentleman
seemed
very
pensiue
and
appaled
,
sitting
still
a
long
while
mute
and
silent
:
whereby
I
imagined
he
had
somwhat
that
inwardly
distempered
him
,
for
I
might
perceiue
the
teares
trickle
downe
his
cheekes
.
Which
perturbation
breaking
out
at
his
eyes
,
afforded
him
some
libertie
to
vtter
these
words
following
:
Sir
,
I
consider
the
great
loue
that
was
betwixt
Doctor
Sampayo
and
you
,
that
maenifestly
appeared
to
me
at
Nance
:
&
withal
,
the
confidence
he
reposed
in
your
fidelitie
towards
him
;
which
perswades
me
,
that
I
cannot
commit
a
secret
matter
of
great
consequence
to
a
man
that
can
more
assuredly
conceale
it
then
your selfe
.
And
I
doubt
not
but
the
same
shall
be
as
safely
guarded
in
the
treasurie
of
your
constancie
,
as
in
his
,
if
you
will
vouchsafe
to
giue
me
your
vnfained
promise
so
to
do
.
Whereunto
I
answered
:
Sir
,
if
it
be
a
secret
neuer
as
yet
by
you
reuealed
to
any
man
but
vnto
me
,
you
may
boldly
speake
it
:
but
if
you
haue
alreadie
trusted
any
man
,
or
shall
hereafter
declare
the
same
to
any
other
,
it
may
so
fall
out
,
that
you
may
lay
some
other
mans
deserued
blame
to
my
charge
.
Therefore
in
this
doubtfull
case
I
beseech
you
trust
your selfe
,
and
tell
me
nothing
:
for
I
will
not
haue
you
ransacke
your
inclosure
vpon
my
protestation
,
although
I
presume
so
much
vpon
your
honest
sinceritie
,
being
a
Gentleman
both
honest
and
religious
,
you
wil
vtter
nothing
vnto
me
,
that
shall
not
be
like
your selfe
:
considering
beside
,
I
haue
seene
you
this
day
participate
a
sound
mystery
,
most
reuerently
and
deuoutly
among
the
Iacobins
,
which
assures
me
,
that
you
cannot
produce
any
thing
out
of
your
mouth
either
prophane
or
wicked
.
Whereunto
he
replied
,
that
he
was
expresly
prepared
to
receiue
the
holy
Communion
vpon
this
day
,
to
the
end
God
might
inspire
him
with
the
vnderstanding
,
what
was
fittest
for
him
to
do
in
this
case
,
and
resolued
absolutely
to
tell
it
me
,
that
I
might
disclose
it
to
Doctor
Sampayo
,
fearing
least
he
might
die
,
burdened
with
so
great
a
secret
,
as
concerned
the
good
of
all
Christendome
,
holding
his
conscience
greatly
charged
with
the
weight
thereof
,
coniuring
me
seriously
to
deliuer
it
safe
to
Doctor
Sampayo
:
meane
while
if
it
please
God
to
take
him
out
of
this
transitorie
world
,
it
might
be
lawfull
for
me
to
publish
it
openly
before
my
death
.
This
and
such
other
like
speeches
being
ended
,
he
began
to
vnbosome
his
conceit
,
in
this
manner
:
It
was
my
chaunce
to
meete
with
a
Gentleman
in
this
towne
,
my
countriman
,
betweene
the
which
and
me
there
had
bene
auncient
amitie
:
after
many
dayes
conference
at
secret
meetings
,
he
told
me
that
Dom
Sebastian
the
King
of
Portugale
was
not
dead
:
wherat
the
said
Godigno
seemed
to
be
astonished
,
and
said
,
he
did
not
beleeue
it
,
vntil
he
had
seene
him
aliue
with
his
owne
eyes
,
and
then
(
said
he
)
I
may
haue
reason
to
be
of
your
mind
.
Which
the
other
promised
should
be
effected
,
and
to
that
purpose
caried
him
to
dinner
to
the
house
where
Dom
Sebastian
was
lodged
,
which
was
as
I
remember
in
S.
Iames
his
streete
,
or
in
harpe
streete
;
whether
the
first
or
second
day
,
or
shortly
after
he
had
vsed
to
that
place
,
he
could
not
certainely
name
the
time
,
but
a
friend
of
his
a
Portugal
came
and
inquired
at
the
house
for
Dom
Sebastian
King
of
Portugal
:
and
as
he
was
comming
vp
the
stayers
,
Godigno
hasted
downe
the
stayers
to
stop
his
passage
,
and
tooke
occasion
to
carie
away
his
friend
,
faining
some
other
affaires
with
him
because
he
would
preuent
the
King
from
discouery
,
who
was
very
iealous
of
publicke
notice
.
But
the
morrow
after
,
the
same
gentleman
came
againe
about
his
former
businesse
,
and
inquired
earnestly
for
the
King
,
and
being
there
denied
him
,
ceased
not
to
aske
of
euery
one
he
met
throughout
all
the
citie
for
Dom
Sebastian
King
of
Portugale
,
but
not
preuailing
at
all
,
he
fell
into
an
extreme
agonie
,
and
desisted
not
from
inquisition
,
to
litle
purpose
:
and
surprised
with
great
care
what
to
do
,
was
at
length
inspired
with
a
motion
from
God
to
professe
a
solitarie
life
,
and
take
vpon
him
the
habit
of
an
hermite
:
so
,
being
disguised
trauelled
towards
Spaine
,
and
arriuing
at
the
Court
,
made
meanes
to
speake
with
the
Catholicke
King
,
saying
,
that
he
had
matters
of
great
importance
to
reueale
vnto
him
,
and
to
none
but
the
King
.
And
after
long
attendance
,
he
was
admitted
to
the
Kings
presence
to
haue
audience
,
to
whom
he
protested
he
had
lately
seene
Dom
Sebastian
in
Paris
,
and
confirmed
it
by
many
signes
and
tokens
of
veritie
.
The
King
presently
forbad
him
by
any
meanes
to
vtter
it
to
any
man
liuing
,
and
willed
him
to
go
abroade
euery
where
to
search
out
and
discouer
what
he
might
possibly
,
allowing
him
present
money
to
beare
his
charges
,
deliuering
him
a
letter
to
D.
Bernardin
Mendosa
,
then
his
ledger
Ambassador
in
France
,
to
giue
him
any
money
he
should
haue
cause
to
vse
,
not
signifying
vnto
him
for
what
cause
or
intent
:
and
thereupon
he
shewed
me
letters
,
which
made
the
matter
euident
that
he
had
bene
in
Spaine
,
as
is
aforesaid
;
but
for
the
particularities
of
the
said
letters
I
do
not
well
remember
,
but
that
I
hold
my selfe
satisfied
thereby
that
he
had
bene
in
Spaine
,
&c.
but
to
continue
his
tale
,
he
told
he
had
trauelled
so
long
that
his
money
being
well
wasted
he
was
forced
to
go
to
Mendosa
,
to
be
supplied
in
his
necessitie
,
to
whom
when
he
would
not
reueale
the
cause
of
his
comming
into
those
parts
,
and
hauing
letters
of
intelligence
out
of
Spaine
from
some
great
man
that
he
should
deliuer
that
Godigno
no
more
money
,
being
but
an
impostor
and
a
deluder
,
as
they
termed
him
,
Mendosa
was
soone
confirmed
in
that
parsimonie
,
intending
before
to
shut
vp
his
liberalitie
and
to
giue
him
neuer
a
deneere
:
at
which
deniall
this
Godigno
began
to
lament
and
burst
forth
into
bitter
teares
:
as
I
iudge
his
lamentation
was
because
he
was
crost
and
preuented
for
comming
to
the
type
of
his
enterprise
.
In
the
end
,
protesting
before
God
and
his
Angels
,
and
by
vertue
of
that
holy
Sacrament
he
had
that
day
receiued
,
that
all
that
he
had
vttered
to
me
was
true
:
in
the
end
without
protestation
of
beleeuing
or
shew
of
incredulitie
,
I
promised
him
my
secrecie
,
as
he
desired
:
some
few
daies
after
this
conference
,
he
returned
vnto
me
as
he
vsed
to
do
inquiring
what
news
I
heard
of
father
Sampayo
:
to
whom
I
answered
,
I
vnderstood
of
him
no
more
then
before
.
Meane
while
,
I
was
(
as
it
were
)
distracted
in
conceit
,
seeing
this
Gentlemans
relation
a
paradoxe
aduerse
to
the
fame
and
vulgar
opinion
of
Dom
Sebastians
death
:
and
weying
this
Gentlemans
integritie
,
zeale
,
and
communication
with
the
lacobins
,
could
not
in
my
conscience
condemne
him
for
a
lier
.
But
whether
it
were
true
or
false
,
according
to
my
promise
I
concealed
it
(
though
it
were
in
some
sort
an
offence
so
to
do
)
.
It
came
to
passe
in
some
litle
space
after
,
in
the
house
of
an
Apothecarie
,
dwelling
in
the
suburbes
called
S.
Germaine
,
neare
the
gate
(
whose
house
was
razed
at
the
siege
of
Paris
)
that
this
man
died
.
Here
is
all
that
I
can
say
concerning
this
subiect
,
which
I
neuer
opened
to
any
man
sauing
to
Doctor
Sampayo
,
which
was
a
good
while
after
,
but
the
time
I
do
not
iustly
remember
:
and
one
cause
why
I
was
loth
to
speak
of
it
,
was
,
for
that
I
was
afraid
to
be
thought
deluded
.
And
me
thinks
this
I
haue
written
vnto
you
may
seeme
very
strange
,
notwithstanding
the
common
report
at
this
houre
is
,
that
Dom
Sebastian
was
seene
aliue
two
yeares
after
he
was
detained
in
Venice
:
but
I
tell
ye
,
the
greater
part
of
the
world
suppose
,
that
he
is
a
counterfeit
,
suborned
,
&c.
God
knowes
what
he
is
,
who
euer
send
you
happie
and
long
life
:
so
with
my
humble
recommendations
to
your
reuerend
self
,
I
leaue
you
.
From
Annisi
the
last
of
September
,
anno
1601.
I
forgot
to
tell
you
,
that
Emmanuel
Godigno
added
to
that
before
mentioned
;
that
the
Catholicke
King
gaue
him
in
especiall
charge
to
tell
Dom
Sebastian
,
that
the
Catholike
King
requested
him
by
any
meanes
to
hasten
his
returne
without
delay
to
him
,
desiring
nothing
so
much
as
to
render
him
the
possession
of
his
Realme
and
kingdome
,
and
to
bestow
his
eldest
daughter
vpon
him
in
mariage
.
I
am
farther
to
desire
you
of
so
much
fauour
,
as
to
send
me
these
bookes
from
Lions
here
mentioned
in
a
catalogue
inclosed
in
this
letter
,
and
I
will
faithfully
repay
whatsoeuer
you
shall
lay
out
to
that
purpose
.
Here
follow
the
titles
:
All
the
workes
you
can
find
,
De
regno
Christi
temporali
.
I
beseech
you
salute
for
me
Monsieur
le
Feure
,
recommending
my
faithfull
seruice
vnto
him
:
of
whom
if
it
please
you
,
you
may
craue
assistance
in
my
businesse
,
for
he
is
a
man
,
multae
lectionis
.
Good
Lord
!
I
had
forgotten
my
dutie
to
Monsieur
de
Tyron
,
to
Monsieur
Pelle
jay
,
to
Monsieur
de
Marnay
,
and
to
my
louing
friends
of
Amboise
,
three
brethren
,
reckning
my self
much
bound
to
them
all
:
notwithstanding
,
I
feare
they
little
trouble
themselues
with
the
thinking
vpon
so
meane
a
man
as
my selfe
,
and
this
conceit
halfe
dismaies
me
to
trouble
you
so
far
as
to
recommend
me
in
all
humilitie
to
my
Lord
Bishop
of
Eureux
.
Whatsoeuer
you
shall
thinke
conuenient
to
performe
in
my
behalfe
,
either
to
adde
or
diminish
,
I
referre
to
your
discretion
.
Your
most
humble
seruant
,
CL.
D.
Nouuelet
.
The
superscription
.
To
M.
Texere
Portugueze
,
Counsellor
and
Amner
to
the
King
,
&c.
A
Declaration
.
THe
King
D.
Sebastian
departing
from
Paris
trauelled
thorough
Fraunce
directly
into
Italy
:
and
I
know
not
who
followed
him
,
or
where
he
forsooke
his
companie
,
but
most
assured
I
am
,
he
resolued
to
giue
ouer
the
pompe
and
glorie
of
the
world
,
and
to
retire
himselfe
to
liue
priuatly
;
and
being
in
Dalmatia
,
he
made
choise
of
an
hermitage
for
his
habitation
,
contenting
him
therewith
in
liew
of
his
former
princely
palace
.
This
poore
hermitage
was
situated
on
the
top
of
a
mountaine
,
neare
the
citie
of
Lesine
,
where
he
abode
for
the
space
of
three
yeares
:
in
the
issue
of
which
time
there
arriued
a
ship
of
Portugale
,
from
whence
some
passengers
going
a
pilgrimage
to
that
hermitage
,
seeing
the
King
,
knew
him
incontinently
,
and
said
aloud
:
Behold
,
yonder
is
our
King
Dom
Sebastian
;
and
spread
this
rumour
presently
about
the
citie
.
The
King
perceiuing
that
he
was
discouered
,
grew
much
displeased
therewith
,
and
vpon
that
discontentment
,
determined
with
himselfe
to
forsake
the
place
,
(
to
the
great
crucifying
of
my
soule
,
for
there
he
liued
in
great
tranquilitie
of
mind
with
no
lesse
consolation
)
being
in
a
bodily
feare
least
the
Portugals
should
come
thither
and
search
for
him
,
he
thought
good
to
go
:
and
before
he
went
from
Lesine
,
he
distributed
all
his
moueables
and
houshold-stuffe
amongst
his
friends
:
three
of
the
which
comming
to
Venice
were
called
before
the
Senate
,
before
whom
they
confirmed
al
which
the
said
King
confessed
vpon
his
first
examination
touching
his
estate
and
accidents
in
those
quarters
.
The
Senators
called
them
to
come
before
the
King
face
to
face
in
open
view
of
the
whole
Senate
and
assistants
,
and
they
knew
one
another
very
well
;
and
one
of
them
brought
a
picture
with
him
,
which
the
King
had
left
behind
him
,
vpon
the
which
was
painted
,
Iesus
Christ
crucified
,
with
S.
Sebastian
and
S.
Anthonie
of
Padua
.
And
this
act
is
so
common
in
Venice
,
that
they
talke
thereof
without
controlement
.
The
King
departed
from
Lesine
wandring
here
and
there
,
seeking
some
conuenient
place
to
retire
himselfe
into
,
fit
for
his
designe
,
lodged
himselfe
in
a
mountaine
neare
Pisa
,
where
he
spent
his
time
as
you
shall
heare
.
He
had
hose
,
and
what
else
I
know
not
,
but
no
hat
,
nor
other
necessary
thing
that
might
serue
instead
there
of
:
by
reason
whereof
you
must
needs
imagine
his
complexion
of
force
must
alter
,
which
from
swart
became
black
,
his
haire
grew
long
,
but
not
vnseemely
,
for
he
vsed
to
cut
it
:
his
garments
were
of
course
cloth
,
and
his
food
herbes
,
rootes
and
fishes
,
which
were
giuen
him
for
Gods
sake
:
he
frequented
the
citie
,
where
,
the
first
moneths
of
his
arriuall
,
he
gaue
monie
towards
the
dowries
and
mariages
of
poore
maidens
,
and
at
his
owne
charge
deliuered
many
out
of
prison
,
discharging
their
debts
.
And
hauing
distributed
all
he
had
for
God
sake
,
he
was
faine
to
receiue
again
for
God-sake
,
and
took
that
in
good
part
which
was
giuen
him
in
the
towne
,
onely
to
serue
the
necessities
of
his
person
,
which
were
few
,
considering
the
austeritie
of
his
diet
and
hard
penance
which
he
willingly
indured
,
relecuing
prisoners
with
the
surplusage
of
his
poore
fortunes
,
if
he
had
any
,
to
whom
he
did
many
seruices
by
his
trauell
&
labor
,
to
dispatch
their
busines
whensoeuer
they
requested
him
.
One
reported
vnto
me
,
that
he
had
many
charitable
almes
at
a
Portugales
house
in
the
towne
,
who
ministred
vnto
him
clothes
and
other
necessaries
,
without
knowledge
what
he
was
,
or
where
he
was
borne
:
which
he
by
his
owne
confession
tooke
very
thankfully
.
The
like
befell
him
in
S.
Alexis
,
where
he
afterward
arriued
:
and
after
in
Edisse
a
citie
in
Syria
,
he
receiued
bencuolence
of
his
owne
seruants
,
that
wandred
almost
through
the
habitable
parts
of
the
world
to
seeke
him
.
After
he
had
remained
certaine
yeares
in
these
mountaines
,
there
appeared
a
vision
vnto
him
by
night
,
wherein
he
thought
God
commaunded
him
to
repaire
home
into
his
owne
kingdome
,
and
leaue
this
desolate
and
solitarie
life
,
and
abandon
both
hermitage
and
mountaines
:
but
afterward
misliking
his
former
opinion
,
he
began
to
suspect
the
same
apparition
to
be
diabolicall
,
or
meere
fantasticall
,
and
reuoked
that
purpose
for
to
proceed
in
his
iourney
homeward
:
but
a
very
old
man
dwelling
neare
vnto
him
in
the
foresaid
desolate
place
,
with
whom
he
liued
in
a
great
league
of
amitie
,
because
he
was
a
vertuous
man
,
exercising
himself
wholy
in
deuotion
and
prayer
,
made
him
reuoke
that
vnreuerent
conceipt
of
his
vision
,
saying
that
it
was
a
good
and
a
godly
motion
,
and
therfore
could
not
proceed
from
an
ill
spirit
:
and
therefore
a
godly
and
a
diuine
vision
,
and
perswaded
him
to
do
his
indeuour
,
to
execute
that
,
which
therein
was
giuen
him
in
charge
.
The
King
listened
vnto
this
old
mans
aduice
,
and
so
much
the
rather
,
for
that
he
discouered
vnto
him
before
many
strange
things
,
and
foretold
many
matters
that
he
had
seene
take
euent
according
to
his
prediuination
.
Whereupon
the
King
wiping
away
the
teares
from
his
cheekes
,
which
his
wofull
heart
had
sent
outward
as
messengers
of
secret
sorow
,
tooke
his
leaue
of
his
fellow
in
affliction
,
like
one
depriued
(
by
griefe
)
of
ready
vse
both
of
reason
and
iudgement
.
So
,
abruptly
leauing
his
louing
friend
and
religious
companion
,
trotted
onwards
of
his
iourney
from
one
place
to
another
,
vntill
he
came
to
Messine
a
citie
in
Cicile
.
In
which
place
it
is
supposed
he
had
left
(
passing
that
way
before
)
some
peeces
of
gold
and
iewels
of
value
,
which
to
recouer
,
to
serue
his
present
turne
,
and
to
furnish
him
in
good
sort
,
he
was
forced
to
discouer
himself
to
his
companions
,
from
whom
he
had
stolne
long
before
.
In
this
voyage
he
sent
Marco
Tullio
Catizzone
into
Portugale
,
with
diuerse
letters
,
to
many
persons
of
qualitie
(
as
is
said
before
in
my
Treatise
called
Admirable
aduentures
.
)
And
at
Messine
he
shipt
himselfe
in
a
Gally
belonging
to
his
Holines
,
bound
for
Genua
,
being
fraught
with
silkes
,
&
afterward
came
to
Ciuita
Vecchia
.
From
whence
without
any
delay
he
posted
to
Rome
,
and
was
lodged
neare
vnto
S.
Peters
Church
,
where
as
he
was
sleeping
in
his
chamber
,
he
was
robbed
by
certaine
of
his
seruaunts
,
whom
he
had
newly
entertained
into
his
seruice
,
not
long
after
his
comming
to
Rome
.
And
very
neare
as
shortly
after
my
departure
therehence
,
hearing
of
the
rumour
,
I
sent
to
a
friend
of
mine
there
,
to
giue
me
intelligence
of
the
certainty
of
these
tydings
.
Who
sent
me
word
that
he
had
bene
at
his
lodging
,
and
spake
with
his
hostesse
,
being
a
widow
,
and
with
her
children
and
seruants
,
which
reported
all
that
had
past
in
that
businesse
,
saying
they
well
discerned
by
his
behauiour
,
that
he
was
some
honourable
personage
,
or
some
very
great
Lord
,
and
said
they
were
very
much
grieued
with
the
infortunate
rumour
that
was
spread
there
,
that
he
was
declared
to
be
Dom
Sebastian
the
true
King
of
Portugale
;
which
by
his
grauitie
and
maiesticall
behauior
assured
them
no
lesse
,
then
that
he
was
some
great
Prince
.
Conferring
this
I
now
learned
,
with
these
circumstances
collected
before
in
this
countrie
,
and
afterward
confirmed
at
Venice
,
any
man
may
be
well
assured
that
this
report
was
true
.
At
Venice
one
shewed
me
an
inuentorie
,
written
with
his
owne
hand
,
of
those
parcels
of
treasure
that
had
bene
stolne
from
him
:
amongst
the
rest
there
was
a
chaine
of
gold
garnished
with
precious
stones
;
which
the
great
Sophi
presented
him
,
with
a
diamond
of
great
value
,
and
rings
with
precious
stones
most
exquisitly
set
,
with
many
other
peeces
of
good
estimation
and
value
.
And
while
he
was
distempered
for
the
losse
of
these
iewels
,
he
mist
certaine
papers
,
the
purports
whereof
were
of
great
importance
:
all
which
were
slipperily
conucyed
away
;
which
being
kept
had
bene
direct
testimonies
to
serue
his
turne
,
in
the
doubtfull
opinions
of
them
that
were
to
trie
and
sift
him
,
whether
he
were
the
same
Dom
Sebastian
he
pretended
to
be
.
And
hauing
vnderstanding
of
some
ambushment
laid
to
intrap
him
by
the
passage
of
Vmbrie
,
he
altered
his
course
and
went
by
Narne
;
and
when
he
came
thither
,
and
heard
no
newes
of
his
enemies
in
his
way
,
he
went
forward
by
Tarne
:
where
he
had
intelligence
that
his
Holinesse
would
go
to
our
Ladies
of
Laret
.
Then
he
addressed
his
iourney
to
that
place
directly
;
and
when
he
came
to
Neuuaine
,
he
vnderstood
his
Holines
had
changed
his
purpose
,
and
was
resolued
to
go
by
Bologne
,
and
so
to
Ferrara
:
the
King
after
his
deuotion
ended
,
bent
his
trauel
towards
Bologne
.
Whither
when
he
came
sore
wearied
and
tired
miserably
,
he
heard
of
another
alteration
,
that
his
Holinesse
by
meanes
of
some
sicknesse
that
came
vpon
him
sodainly
,
had
no
intent
once
to
budge
from
Rome
,
being
forced
to
keep
his
chamber
.
This
tossing
and
reeling
to
no
purpose
,
troubled
the
poore
King
exceedingly
,
hauing
broken
the
necke
of
his
designes
:
not
knowing
then
what
way
to
take
,
thought
with
himself
to
go
some
way
at
a
venture
,
not
resoluing
vpon
any
one
,
his
fortunes
grew
so
variable
:
at
the
last
he
directly
past
to
a
village
,
which
belongs
to
the
Count
of
Verone
,
in
the
mid-way
to
Mantoue
,
which
some
call
Nogara
.
And
when
he
came
to
that
borough
,
a
strange
imagination
possessed
him
,
that
one
violently
withstood
him
,
for
going
any
further
that
way
.
Then
,
he
supposing
himselfe
to
haue
day-light
inough
to
guide
him
to
Mantoue
,
was
contented
to
be
checked
in
the
other
passage
;
finding
his
mind
assailed
with
a
thousand
variable
cogitations
,
which
so
afflicted
him
,
that
he
could
not
vtter
any
one
period
of
his
vexations
,
to
him
that
accompanied
him
.
Al
this
time
I
had
no
certain
report
of
the
kings
being
in
that
place
:
which
is
the
cause
I
made
no
mention
of
the
day
,
as
I
vsed
to
do
of
his
other
passages
.
The
king
being
at
Mantoue
told
a
Gentleman
of
Lorete
,
that
when
he
was
at
our
Ladies
there
,
he
named
himselfe
,
Iuan
Poeta
.
This
Gentleman
being
entred
into
very
good
termes
of
amitie
with
the
King
,
did
him
many
kind
fauours
and
courtesies
,
entertaining
him
at
his
lodging
in
the
best
sort
he
could
deuise
:
and
shortly
after
accompanied
him
to
Ferrara
,
where
he
apparelled
the
King
in
silkes
and
veluet
.
Shortly
after
this
Gentleman
had
performed
these
offices
to
the
King
,
his
vrgent
businesse
called
him
from
that
place
:
but
before
he
went
,
he
conducted
the
King
to
his
tailers
house
,
and
there
tooke
order
for
the
supplying
of
his
wants
,
and
gaue
great
charge
for
his
speciall
entertainment
,
willing
his
host
to
call
him
Ioanne
Baptista
Sartori
della
contrada
de
Santa
Maria
la
Fratra
.
This
man
was
of
good
yeares
,
very
vertuous
and
rich
,
into
whose
house
the
King
entred
the
fourth
of
October
,
anno
1597.
In
which
yeare
,
the
King
vnderstanding
the
Pope
was
to
make
his
entrie
into
Ferrara
;
accompanied
with
this
tayler
,
about
the
first
of
May
set
forward
towards
the
same
citie
:
whither
when
the
King
came
and
found
not
his
Holines
there
,
he
determined
then
to
attend
his
comming
.
In
which
space
the
King
confessed
himselfe
to
Frier
Alonso
,
a
religious
professor
of
my
order
,
a
man
of
great
vertue
and
sinceritie
(
but
very
simple
)
who
thinking
to
do
well
,
did
that
which
fell
out
to
be
very
ill
,
in
reporting
to
diuers
Nobles
and
Gentlemen
,
that
Dom
Sebastian
the
King
of
Portugale
was
in
the
citie
,
attending
the
presence
of
his
Holinesse
:
and
as
it
hapneth
,
that
one
euil
seldom
comes
alone
,
the
tayler
being
acquainted
with
a
gentleman
of
Portugale
(
whose
name
I
know
not
,
some
called
him
Baron
)
this
Gentleman
the
tayler
conducted
home
to
the
Kings
lodging
to
diner
.
This
Portugale
sitting
at
the
table
,
often
beheld
the
King
aduisedly
as
he
sate
at
meate
,
and
obserued
him
in
euery
respect
.
Soone
after
dinner
was
done
,
the
King
rose
and
departed
to
his
chamber
.
After
his
retire
the
Gentleman
said
to
his
hostesse
,
and
the
rest
of
the
company
that
dined
with
them
,
the
tailor
also
being
present
:
Gentlemen
(
said
he
)
this
Gentleman
that
sate
here
at
diner
amongst
vs
,
is
surely
D.
Sebastian
the
King
of
Portugal
.
I
am
that
countriman
and
know
him
well
,
for
I
haue
seene
him
many
times
before
his
departure
into
Africke
to
warre
against
the
Infidels
.
All
we
Portugals
hold
it
for
an
assured
veritie
,
that
he
escaped
at
that
time
very
sore
hurt
,
and
that
he
was
seene
afterward
in
Portugale
,
from
whence
he
fled
,
but
how
or
what
way
we
could
neuer
yet
learne
.
The
tailor
no
sooner
heard
these
words
,
but
he
went
presently
and
told
them
to
the
king
.
This
speech
much
offended
the
king
,
and
grieued
him
not
a
litle
;
and
withall
,
remembring
that
Frier
Alonso
had
in
his
meere
simplicitie
betrayed
him
:
and
moreouer
,
considering
that
the
King
of
Castiles
Agent
was
aduertised
that
he
was
in
that
citie
,
and
plotted
against
him
,
being
in
great
feare
what
euill
might
happen
vnto
him
,
resolued
presently
to
steale
away
secretly
,
without
taking
leaue
either
of
host
,
confessor
,
or
taylor
.
This
discourse
the
tailor
himselfe
vttered
vnto
me
,
with
many
other
particularities
,
in
the
temple
of
S.
Siluester
in
Verona
,
confirming
the
same
in
his
owne
house
afterward
,
with
the
effusion
of
abundant
teares
running
downe
his
cheekes
and
beard
,
with
such
zealous
lamentation
,
as
he
inforced
me
to
accompanie
him
in
the
selfe
same
manner
of
grieuing
.
He
told
me
also
that
he
remained
in
his
house
with
him
seuen
moneths
at
the
least
,
and
was
attended
on
by
his
daughter
,
being
a
faire
yong
maiden
:
and
in
all
that
while
he
protested
the
King
did
not
once
looke
directly
in
her
face
,
commending
him
for
his
temperate
,
affable
,
and
exceeding
vertuous
behauiour
,
and
that
he
obserued
his
fasts
very
seuerely
,
praying
almost
continually
:
and
said
farther
vnto
me
weeping
:
Father
,
I
feare
that
Prince
is
much
iniured
:
I
beseech
the
Almightie
God
to
preserue
him
:
O
that
it
were
lawfull
for
me
,
and
for
his
safetie
,
that
I
might
keepe
him
within
my
simple
habitation
,
not
as
he
is
a
Prince
,
but
in
respect
of
his
bountie
and
honour
:
and
if
I
should
happen
to
die
before
him
,
I
could
leaue
him
sufficient
to
liue
on
all
the
dayes
of
his
life
.
Trust
me
the
simplicitie
of
this
poore
old
man
,
pleased
me
exceedingly
,
and
induced
me
the
rather
to
beleeue
him
.
He
also
informed
me
by
what
title
the
Senate
of
Venice
called
him
,
and
inquired
of
him
if
euer
he
entertained
him
in
his
house
,
and
whether
his
answers
to
diuers
interrogatories
were
true
or
not
,
and
whether
all
that
he
told
the
Lords
were
true
or
false
?
To
which
he
answered
iustly
and
failed
not
a
iot
;
and
he
maintained
him
to
be
the
true
King
of
Portugale
,
hauing
many
reasons
so
to
perswade
him
:
the
one
was
the
confident
assertion
of
the
Portugal
gentleman
that
dined
in
his
company
at
Ferrara
,
saying
he
departed
out
of
Portugal
secretly
,
yet
proued
by
many
circumstances
:
and
this
old
man
assisted
me
much
when
the
Senate
conuented
him
before
them
,
asking
him
how
long
he
kept
companie
with
him
before
he
came
to
Ferrara
,
and
whether
he
were
the
same
man
that
lodged
in
his
house
.
Then
he
kneeled
downe
before
his
feete
,
embracing
them
,
and
looking
towards
the
Senate
,
said
:
This
is
Dom
Sebastian
King
of
Portugale
,
which
lodged
in
my
house
:
whom
afterward
I
accompanied
to
Ferrara
.
And
when
the
king
was
asked
of
the
Iudges
,
whether
he
knew
that
old
man
or
no
:
he
answered
,
that
he
had
neuer
seen
him
before
this
day
.
At
which
answer
,
the
old
man
told
me
he
was
more
perplexed
,
then
he
was
with
his
sudden
departure
from
him
at
Ferrara
,
and
wept
most
bitterly
.
I
must
excuse
the
king
for
thus
confuting
the
old
man
before
the
Senate
,
for
that
he
vnderstood
at
Venice
and
Padua
,
a
litle
after
he
departed
from
the
presence
of
the
Senate
,
that
they
had
straightly
imprisoned
and
punished
one
Monsieur
Ieronimo
at
Venice
,
for
entertaining
him
into
his
house
,
and
had
punished
diuers
other
for
doing
him
the
like
fauour
.
And
the
King
fearing
that
the
like
rigour
might
be
offered
this
silly
old
man
,
made
him
to
disclaime
his
acquaintance
:
which
the
King
vpon
his
returne
to
prison
,
reuealed
incontinently
to
Count
Caesar
Martinengo
,
to
Count
Charles
his
brother
,
and
diuers
other
his
fellow
prisoners
.
And
the
Lords
said
vnto
me
,
they
called
me
to
see
one
Iohn
Baptista
Sartori
de
Verona
,
and
asked
me
if
I
knew
him
;
and
for
that
I
was
much
bound
to
this
good
old
man
,
for
many
good
offices
done
vnto
me
,
and
for
that
I
saw
it
turned
them
al
to
displeasure
,
that
did
me
any
good
,
I
answered
for
his
safetie
,
that
I
knew
him
not
,
nor
had
euer
seene
him
:
which
the
poore
old
man
digests
very
heauily
:
and
if
any
good
friend
would
but
deliuer
this
my
excuse
vnto
him
,
I
wil
acknowlege
my self
much
bound
to
him
for
that
friendly
courtesie
.
The
selfe
same
act
in
the
like
words
,
a
Cannon
of
Bresse
reported
vnto
me
,
meeting
me
in
that
city
,
accompanying
me
as
far
as
Lac
,
hapning
to
speake
of
the
king
,
and
of
the
opinion
that
was
deliuered
of
them
generally
that
had
seene
him
:
that
it
was
thought
verily
he
was
D.
Sebastian
the
king
most
assuredly
,
not
knowing
me
to
be
any
fauorer
of
his
proceedings
:
telling
me
that
al
he
knew
of
the
matter
,
he
heard
of
these
Counts
and
gentlemen
that
were
in
prison
with
him
,
for
the
space
of
fiue
moneths
:
whereof
he
recited
vnto
me
many
particulars
:
and
this
Cannon
(
as
I
take
it
)
was
called
De
Lone
:
so
after
long
conference
the
night
approching
,
I
tooke
my
leaue
of
him
,
&c.
The
King
departing
from
Ferrara
,
held
on
his
way
to
Padua
,
and
being
there
,
he
thought
it
fit
he
should
attend
the
answer
of
his
letters
he
sent
into
Portugale
by
Marco
Tullio
Catizzone
:
his
deuotion
performed
to
S.
Anthony
,
he
determined
to
go
to
Venice
,
where
all
these
things
happened
vnto
him
,
which
we
haue
alreadie
reported
in
the
former
treatise
,
intituled
,
Admirable
Aduentures
,
&c.
as
you
may
reade
in
a
letter
sent
to
me
from
Iohn
de
Castro
;
&
in
that
,
which
the
king
wrote
to
his
Holinesse
:
where
it
is
at
large
specified
,
how
he
was
betraied
into
the
hands
of
the
Castilians
,
by
one
of
his
owne
seruants
for
reward
,
and
so
committed
to
prison
.
This
trecherous
varlet
being
conuinced
and
reproued
by
some
of
the
Kings
friends
,
that
had
vnderstanding
of
his
perfidious
seruice
,
being
already
bought
and
corrupted
with
a
few
pence
,
following
the
periured
faction
like
a
maisterlesse
curre
,
fell
into
the
art
of
slandering
,
and
banding
against
his
loyall
maister
with
hote
pursute
,
and
vehement
accusations
,
as
sodomie
,
cosinage
,
in
prison
and
abroade
.
Notwithstanding
all
this
villanie
,
God
that
weyes
all
mens
causes
in
equall
ballance
,
will
not
suffer
his
seruants
euer
to
quaile
vnder
the
burden
of
iniquitie
:
the
hearing
of
his
cause
was
committed
to
Sr.
Marco
Quirini
,
which
was
at
that
time
Sabio
de
la
terre
firme
,
and
at
this
day
is
,
Sabio
Grande
,
one
of
the
foure
Iudges
,
commissioners
allotted
for
this
circuite
.
The
said
Quirini
reporting
to
the
Senate
what
he
had
heard
concerning
his
accusations
,
and
what
also
was
testified
in
his
defence
,
said
,
That
he
not
only
found
this
man
innocent
and
guiltlesse
of
the
crimes
laid
to
his
charge
,
but
thought
him
generally
to
haue
liued
a
harmelesse
life
.
This
sentence
was
well
approued
and
allowed
by
the
Senators
:
&
assoone
as
it
was
published
,
which
was
in
the
beginning
of
the
yere
1599
they
freed
the
king
from
the
dungion
where
he
lay
before
,
and
placed
him
in
a
more
fauourable
prison
,
a
place
of
some
libertie
.
You
shall
reade
hereafter
the
paines
and
punishment
Dom
Sebastian
the
King
my
maister
indured
sithence
his
misaduenture
in
Africke
,
vntill
the
day
of
his
manifestation
to
the
world
.
I
beseech
you
hold
me
excused
,
though
I
satisfie
you
not
so
plentifully
and
so
orderly
as
you
expect
or
desire
:
it
is
all
I
could
learne
,
and
it
is
hard
to
gather
so
much
in
these
parts
,
where
the
truth
hath
bene
so
ingeniously
laboured
to
be
suppressed
and
smoothered
:
beside
,
the
great
hazard
of
my
person
in
trauelling
to
obtaine
this
litle
,
assuring
you
that
our
hope
withers
not
,
but
springs
dayly
,
to
see
my
Lord
Dom
Sebastian
to
be
as
absolute
King
of
Portugale
,
as
it
is
iustly
due
vnto
him
by
the
law
of
God
and
nations
:
then
shall
my
pen
trample
vpon
the
vale
of
tyrannie
and
oppression
,
that
now
so
imperiously
curbes
poore
patience
and
equitie
.
Seeing
God
hath
hitherto
bene
both
his
lampe
and
shield
,
to
lighten
and
guard
him
,
through
so
many
darke
and
dangerous
ambushments
:
why
should
we
not
be
assured
that
he
that
can
hath
a
purpose
to
make
vs
reioyce
and
wonder
as
much
at
his
aduancement
and
dignitie
,
as
his
poore
friends
and
seruants
are
grieued
and
dismayed
with
his
fall
and
miserie
:
hoping
all
Christian
,
magnificent
,
and
maiesticall
Princes
will
ioyne
in
intercession
to
the
Almightie
,
to
restore
my
poore
(
yet
princely
Maister
)
from
his
wofull
impisonment
,
to
his
Crowne
and
libertie
.
A
Declaration
.
NOw
it
is
requisite
,
that
I
report
vnto
you
somewhat
concerning
the
ring
,
that
hath
bene
so
famous
throughout
the
world
,
and
of
the
rare
vertues
it
was
esteemed
for
:
and
so
forward
to
handle
other
matters
,
whereof
some
make
for
his
purpose
,
and
other
some
as
much
for
his
hinderance
.
You
haue
heard
(
gentle
Reader
)
of
one
that
shewed
this
King
a
ring
,
&c.
thus
it
happened
.
As
soone
as
he
was
come
to
Venice
,
there
was
warning
giuen
to
the
goldsmiths
,
both
by
him selfe
and
some
other
of
his
friends
,
that
he
was
robbed
of
certaine
peeces
of
gold
and
iewels
at
Rome
:
then
he
gaue
them
the
markes
and
tokens
;
desiring
them
,
that
if
any
such
came
into
their
hands
by
chaunce
,
they
would
make
stay
of
them
,
vntill
he
,
or
some
for
him
,
came
to
chalenge
them
.
Not
long
after
,
a
goldsmith
lighted
vpon
a
ring
of
gold
,
wherein
was
grauen
the
Armes
of
Portugale
:
which
ring
he
presently
brought
to
Monsieur
Ieronimo
,
of
whom
you
haue
read
before
,
an
inhabitant
of
the
same
towne
,
who
was
ioyntly
apprehended
with
the
King
for
lodging
in
his
house
,
and
was
not
deliuered
vntill
fiue
houres
after
the
King
was
set
at
libertie
.
Ieronimo
tooke
the
ring
and
brought
it
secretly
to
the
King
,
lodging
priuily
in
his
house
.
Assoone
as
the
King
beheld
the
ring
,
he
said
;
This
ring
is
none
of
mine
,
but
it
belongs
to
D.
Anthony
my
cosin
.
This
relation
I
had
from
Ieronimo
himselfe
at
Venice
,
in
the
presence
of
many
witnesses
,
and
how
the
goldsmith
happened
to
get
this
ring
.
In
Moran
an
Iland
some
halfe
league
from
Venice
,
there
is
an
Abbot
called
Capelo
,
a
gentleman
of
Venice
,
a
graue
personage
,
and
of
great
authoritie
,
hearing
that
the
King
laid
waite
for
certaine
iewels
that
he
had
lost
,
hoping
thereby
to
recouer
some
of
them
;
hauing
a
diamond
in
his
keeping
,
with
the
armes
of
Portugale
,
came
to
the
towne
to
the
conuenticles
of
S.
Francis
,
called
Frari
,
where
the
King
lay
concealed
,
for
that
he
was
pursued
by
some
that
meant
him
no
good
;
who
no
sooner
beheld
the
ring
,
but
he
said
:
Verily
this
is
mine
;
and
I
either
lost
the
same
in
Flanders
,
or
else
it
was
stolne
from
me
.
And
when
the
King
had
put
it
vpon
his
finger
,
it
appeared
otherwise
ingrauen
then
before
.
The
Abbot
inquiring
of
him
that
brought
him
the
ring
,
how
he
came
by
it
:
he
answered
,
It
is
true
that
the
King
hath
said
.
Therehence
arose
a
strange
rumour
of
a
ring
,
that
by
turning
the
stone
you
might
discerne
three
great
letters
engrauen
:
S.
R.
P.
that
is
as
much
to
say
:
Sebastianus
Rex
Portugalliae
.
Ignorant
people
not
conceiuing
aright
of
the
thing
,
raised
thereupon
such
rumours
,
as
their
owne
imaginations
could
gather
:
and
at
all
times
,
so
often
as
the
Abbot
shewed
the
ring
to
the
King
,
he
had
many
witnesses
to
testifie
the
same
.
I
soiourned
three
weekes
in
the
same
I
le
,
very
neare
the
Abbots
house
,
after
this
had
past
.
To
the
second
point
:
although
the
King
were
leane
and
weake
by
reason
of
his
trauell
and
troubles
,
as
it
is
like
he
could
not
be
so
strong
and
puissant
as
he
was
when
he
raigned
in
Portugale
,
being
there
full
fed
and
corpulent
:
yet
in
Padua
in
the
house
of
D.
Prospero
Baracco
,
he
was
seene
to
lift
vp
two
men
at
once
with
great
facilitie
,
one
of
the
which
was
called
Pasquino
Morosini
,
the
other
Bernardino
Santi
;
both
these
together
(
putting
his
arme
betweene
their
legs
)
he
heaued
from
the
ground
,
without
straining
or
wrenching
in
the
view
of
many
.
He
did
the
like
in
the
I
le
of
Moran
to
two
other
,
the
one
called
Ieronimo
Calegari
,
the
other
Pascalino
Calegari
;
and
there
was
present
the
Archbishop
of
Spalato
at
the
like
performance
of
his
puissance
with
other
men
of
qualitie
:
and
this
Pasquilino
was
a
man
both
tall
and
corpulent
.
A
Venetian
gentleman
of
the
house
wherein
the
the
King
was
prisoner
,
oftentimes
took
occasion
to
scoffe
at
the
king
,
saying
:
It
was
impossible
he
should
be
the
person
he
reported
himself
to
be
,
with
other
geering
frumpes
:
whereto
the
King
said
earnestly
:
Sir
,
I
pray
you
tell
me
the
reason
of
your
incredulitie
,
and
whereupon
it
is
grounded
:
and
Moliner
answered
:
Because
I
haue
heard
it
often
reported
,
that
the
King
Dom
Sebastian
was
a
lusty
strong
man
,
of
power
to
pul
a
horse-shooe
in
sunder
with
his
hands
,
and
able
to
tire
sixe
horses
in
an
houre
;
and
you
are
but
a
spare
poore
megar
shrimpe
,
and
a
gristle
in
respect
of
such
a
one
,
and
scarcely
able
to
teare
foure
cards
asunder
,
if
they
be
well
ioyned
together
,
nor
like
to
tire
one
horse
in
an
houre
.
Well
,
said
the
King
,
if
force
will
prooue
me
to
be
Dom
Sebastian
,
&c.
and
the
matter
rest
onely
vpon
that
,
it
may
be
that
one
day
I
may
satisfie
you
in
that
point
.
So
long
this
gallant
continued
in
his
former
geering
and
railing
,
that
one
day
aboue
the
rest
,
he
moued
the
Kings
patience
,
and
made
him
angrie
,
and
constrained
him
to
shew
him
by
the
force
of
his
hands
,
that
he
was
Dom
Sebastian
,
&c.
and
made
him
confesse
the
same
:
for
being
in
a
rage
he
came
vpon
him
directly
,
and
tooke
him
by
the
girdle
with
his
right
hand
,
and
heauing
him
higher
than
his
head
,
caried
him
round
about
the
prison
in
that
manner
,
to
the
great
admiration
of
all
that
beheld
it
:
and
this
Gentleman
neuer
after
durst
abuse
him
any
more
,
but
vsed
him
with
the
honour
and
reuerence
that
was
due
vnto
him
.
In
like
manner
,
he
tooke
vp
in
the
same
prison
by
the
girdle
one
Gasparo
Turloni
(
a
Gentleman
of
Venice
)
with
his
right
hand
,
and
Baptiste
Marsoto
with
his
left
hand
,
and
lifted
them
both
vp
from
the
ground
at
one
time
.
He
also
in
the
same
prison
tooke
vp
(
putting
his
arme
betweene
their
legges
)
two
other
Gentlemen
,
one
very
grosse
and
corpulent
(
namely
Messier
Lucio
de
Messine
,
and
Alexander
de
Alexandria
)
and
lifted
them
both
of
a
good
height
:
the
oportunitie
of
this
Gentleman
made
him
do
it
in
prison
:
and
at
Padua
,
and
at
Moran
he
was
disposed
to
shew
his
force
,
to
pleasure
his
friends
thereby
.
That
which
before
was
spoken
of
the
ring
,
and
of
his
forces
,
were
the
two
things
I
thought
necessarie
first
to
giue
you
notice
of
.
To
ad
to
the
two
first
two
other
.
In
Venice
there
is
a
rich
and
an
honourable
merchant
;
who
hearing
of
this
King
,
what
marks
and
tokens
he
had
on
his
bodie
,
and
what
he
had
said
and
done
,
tooke
occasion
to
go
to
him
,
and
made
meanes
to
deserue
his
loue
and
amitie
,
by
the
performance
of
many
kind
offices
towards
him
.
This
merchant
was
a
Piemontoise
by
nation
,
by
name
called
Monsieur
Iohn
Bassanesse
,
and
his
mother
being
a
widow
maried
after
to
one
Bartholomaeo
Verneti
,
a
Piemontoise
borne
also
:
who
often
vsed
to
checke
and
reprooue
his
sonne
in
law
for
going
so
much
to
the
King
,
saying
,
he
was
am
impostor
and
a
counterfeit
:
and
his
son
in
law
boldly
defended
the
King
,
by
all
the
meanes
and
reasons
he
could
deuise
.
During
this
contention
betwixt
the
father
and
the
son
in
law
,
the
old
man
said
;
Come
hither
,
heare
me
:
Emanuel
Philibert
Duke
of
Sauoy
,
sent
an
Ambassador
to
Dom
Sebastian
king
of
Portugal
his
nephew
,
sonne
to
his
cosin
germaine
,
which
Ambassador
brought
him
a
present
;
and
returned
backe
againe
from
the
said
King
with
answer
:
and
another
present
from
the
King
to
the
Duke
,
the
Ambassadors
name
was
Dominico
Belli
,
whose
seruant
I
was
at
that
very
instant
,
by
meanes
whereof
I
saw
and
was
priuie
to
all
the
parcels
,
and
placed
them
my selfe
in
the
casket
,
and
likewise
saw
aduisedly
what
was
returned
from
the
King
.
Now
sit
,
if
you
can
perswade
that
man
that
says
he
is
D.
Sebastian
,
&c.
to
tel
me
what
parcels
those
were
(
that
were
sent
to
and
fro
)
directly
,
you
shall
bring
me
to
be
of
your
mind
,
and
to
confesse
that
he
is
the
very
same
man
he
nominates
himselfe
to
be
.
Iohn
Bassanesse
hearing
these
words
,
bethought
himselfe
which
way
he
might
come
to
haue
conference
with
the
King
,
to
vnderstand
the
right
of
this
matter
,
&
as
he
was
studying
how
to
bring
his
purpose
about
,
he
dreamed
of
a
stratageme
which
should
effect
his
designe
,
which
was
,
that
he
wold
perpetrate
some
light
crime
,
in
hope
therfore
to
be
committed
to
the
prison
,
where
the
king
was
:
wherupon
he
resolued
to
take
a
cudgel
vnder
his
cloake
&
go
to
the
Realto
,
the
chiefest
place
in
Venice
,
and
there
quarel
with
one
or
other
,
and
bastinado
him
vntil
he
had
drawn
bloud
of
him
,
for
which
act
he
doubted
not
but
to
be
committed
:
he
proceeded
according
to
his
secret
determination
,
and
when
he
was
come
neare
the
Realto
,
he
met
with
a
friend
of
his
,
who
perceiuing
by
his
countenance
,
that
he
was
troubled
in
mind
,
said
vnto
him
:
Sir
,
I
see
by
you
there
is
somewhat
amisse
.
Iohn
Bassanesse
being
wel
assured
,
that
he
was
a
faithfull
seruant
to
the
King
,
laid
open
his
intention
vnto
him
,
who
found
a
meanes
to
get
a
note
in
writing
vnder
the
kings
hand
of
all
the
parcels
,
that
passed
from
the
one
to
the
other
.
This
memorandum
was
put
into
the
hands
of
one
Lecnardo
Donato
,
one
of
the
Sabio
grande
,
that
first
examined
the
King
,
and
was
thought
to
owe
him
litle
good
will
,
but
after
he
surueyed
his
cause
,
and
found
it
so
iust
&
true
,
trauelled
earnestly
to
the
Senate
,
to
pronounce
him
Dom
Sebastian
the
true
king
of
Portugal
.
All
this
I
haue
heard
confirmed
by
many
very
worthy
persons
:
the
originall
I
could
not
bring
with
me
,
for
that
Donato
at
my
being
there
was
employed
as
Generall
of
fiue
and
twentie
thousand
foote
,
and
fiue
thousand
horse
,
in
the
countie
of
Brosse
:
which
force
the
Siegniorie
had
leauied
the
yeare
before
,
for
their
defence
vpon
some
intelligence
,
&c.
But
as
soone
as
Iohn
Bassanesse
had
got
the
writing
,
he
hyed
him
home
to
his
father
in
law
,
and
they
agreed
betweene
them
,
that
one
should
stand
at
one
end
of
the
table
,
and
the
other
below
;
and
the
father
wrote
the
peeces
he
knew
,
and
the
son
by
his
note
was
able
to
informe
the
old
man
of
diuers
parcels
that
he
had
forgotten
:
and
the
old
man
said
it
was
hast
made
him
ouerslip
somewhat
;
those
foure
white
horses
(
said
he
)
I
did
not
well
remember
,
but
I
thinke
verily
it
was
true
:
and
the
old
man
wondred
not
a
little
,
how
his
sonne
came
by
this
intelligence
,
and
said
he
had
deuised
it
himselfe
:
but
seeing
himselfe
vanquished
,
said
to
his
sonne
:
Visit
the
King
,
my
son
,
at
your
pleasure
,
and
do
him
what
good
you
may
,
and
I
beseech
God
to
assist
him
.
Forasmuch
as
I
know
the
curious
sort
of
people
,
desire
to
view
the
particulars
,
and
to
make
our
proofe
the
more
autentical
,
I
haue
here
set
than
down
in
order
as
they
were
inuentoried
.
The
parcels
presented
by
the
Duke
to
the
King
.
A
case
full
of
silkes
,
of
diuers
colours
.
Another
full
of
cloth
of
siluer
,
of
diuers
sorts
and
colours
.
Another
full
of
cloth
of
gold
,
of
diuers
colours
.
A
diamond
set
in
a
ring
.
An
auncient
garment
of
very
great
value
,
being
a
trophe
,
taken
from
the
French
at
S.
Quintaines
,
embrodered
&
garnished
about
the
necke
with
many
iewels
,
foure
white
horses
which
the
old
man
had
forgotten
,
and
diuers
other
peeces
not
named
.
Those
parcels
that
were
sent
from
the
King
to
the
Duke
.
A
great
chaine
of
gold
of
very
good
value
:
two
peutrils
,
two
bits
,
two
paire
of
stirops
,
all
garnished
with
diamonds
,
rubies
,
and
other
stones
of
great
price
.
One
diamond
set
in
gold
,
which
Bartholomeo
Veneti
said
was
as
big
as
the
naile
of
his
right
thombe
.
Many
East-Indian
dishes
of
sundrie
colours
,
with
other
rich
things
of
good
esteeme
.
For
the
second
of
the
last
proofes
,
being
the
fourth
and
last
,
you
shall
vnderstand
that
there
be
foure
merchants
at
Venice
,
men
indued
with
wealth
,
honour
,
estimation
,
and
charitie
,
that
in
my
hearing
haue
named
these
foure
witnesses
Barnaba
Rizzo
,
Iean
Bassanesse
,
Constantin
Nicoli
,
who
keeps
in
his
hand
the
original
letter
of
D.
Raimond
Marqueti
,
by
which
it
is
manifest
that
D.
Sebastian
is
one
man
,
and
Marco
Tullio
Catizzone
another
:
which
letter
he
shewed
publickely
at
S.
Markes
,
to
conuince
the
falshood
of
the
Castilians
,
and
their
adherents
:
for
the
which
and
such
other
like
seruices
,
the
Spaniards
could
not
be
appeased
without
reuenge
.
The
nineteenth
of
October
,
I
had
intelligence
by
letters
,
that
one
came
into
this
honest
mans
shop
,
his
seruants
being
sent
all
out
of
the
way
,
and
cut
him
on
the
head
with
a
curtelaxe
,
and
in
diuers
other
places
so
dangerously
,
that
he
was
in
great
perill
of
his
life
.
The
malefactor
escaped
vnknowne
.
The
fourth
and
last
is
called
Baptiste
Dolphine
,
and
these
foure
haue
bene
euer
good
friends
to
the
King
,
both
by
entertaining
him
and
trauelling
in
his
affaires
,
to
the
vttermost
of
their
power
,
to
set
him
at
libertie
,
without
intermission
of
any
minute
of
oportunitie
,
that
might
be
spent
in
his
profitable
seruice
.
But
the
Castilian
Agents
considering
and
knowing
the
zeale
of
these
personages
,
and
obseruing
their
constancie
,
that
both
with
all
their
might
and
maine
,
defended
the
cause
of
the
King
my
maister
:
seeing
that
neither
faire
promises
,
perswasions
,
nor
threatnings
,
could
make
them
desist
from
their
vowed
fidelitie
and
assistance
,
entred
into
this
diuellish
practise
.
First
they
beganne
to
publish
these
witnesses
to
be
fooles
,
cosiners
,
and
rogues
,
and
perswaded
certaine
bankers
and
brokers
to
lay
wagers
with
them
,
that
the
prisoner
was
not
Dom
Sebastian
the
King
:
assuring
them
that
they
might
offer
to
giue
a
thousand
for
one
,
if
euer
it
were
prooued
or
published
;
for
that
they
knew
assuredly
,
that
he
was
a
Calabrian
,
a
Sodomite
,
a
theefe
,
a
cosiner
,
and
a
counterfeit
,
and
that
ere
long
they
should
see
him
hanged
vpon
one
of
the
pillars
of
S.
Markes
Church
.
These
vsurers
beleeuing
this
to
be
true
,
and
desirous
to
make
gaine
of
any
thing
,
beganne
to
enter
into
the
course
of
laying
wagers
,
as
the
Castilians
had
aduised
them
.
The
witnesses
hearing
they
offered
so
franckly
a
thousand
for
one
,
if
the
prisoner
were
iudged
to
be
Dom
Sebastian
,
&c.
knowing
certainly
that
it
was
he
:
beleeuing
that
the
Senate
,
in
regard
of
such
especiall
markes
;
tokens
,
and
proofes
,
would
not
refuse
to
publish
him
,
what
they
had
found
him
:
were
easily
drawne
to
bargaine
with
these
bankers
,
to
some
of
the
which
,
the
simple
and
honest
men
gaue
out
twentie
,
some
thirtie
,
some
fiftie
,
some
ten
,
some
fiue
crownes
,
in
hope
to
be
paid
a
thousand
for
one
:
so
that
they
had
giuen
out
some
three
hundred
crownes
or
more
;
and
shortly
after
they
found
out
the
wrong
and
hindrance
they
had
done
to
the
poore
Kings
cause
,
by
their
mony
,
they
begun
to
repent
themselues
exceedingly
of
their
folly
:
the
account
was
cast
,
that
the
repaiment
would
amount
to
three
hundred
thousand
crownes
.
And
the
bankers
seeing
themselues
ingaged
for
so
great
a
sum
of
monie
;
and
if
the
Senate
should
chance
to
publish
that
which
they
knew
to
be
true
,
that
they
were
like
to
be
stripped
of
the
greatest
part
of
their
substance
,
began
to
complot
and
oppose
themselues
to
counterchecke
the
truth
,
which
fell
out
to
be
a
great
preiudice
and
barre
to
the
King
my
maisters
cause
;
for
that
many
chiefe
men
,
and
the
factors
of
many
principall
houses
,
were
interested
in
this
hazard
of
indemnitie
:
as
those
of
the
house
of
Astroci
,
Caponi
,
Baglioni
,
Labia
,
Iacobo
Begia
,
Antonio
Simone
,
Pietro
Tobon
,
Bastian
Garinoni
,
and
many
others
of
their
parents
and
allies
,
for
their
sakes
:
among
which
were
diuers
that
bare
office
in
the
common-weale
,
as
Iacobo
Fuscurini
a
proctor
in
S.
Marke
,
that
was
euer
enemie
to
the
King
my
maister
.
In
the
end
this
diuellish
inuention
,
and
Castilian
pernicious
pollicie
,
wrought
vs
much
woe
,
and
multiplied
our
enemies
infinitely
:
for
it
was
so
commonly
knowne
and
spoken
,
that
litle
children
as
they
went
for
mustard
,
could
say
,
that
this
was
the
principall
cause
why
the
Senators
would
haue
had
Dom
Sebastian
say
,
he
was
not
Dom
Sebastian
but
a
Calabrian
,
and
they
promised
straight
to
set
him
at
libertie
;
and
not
that
fauour
alone
,
but
they
would
do
what
else
for
him
,
he
could
or
would
require
.
Whereupon
he
wrote
a
letter
to
the
Pope
,
complaining
iustly
vpon
the
Senators
of
Venice
,
for
requiring
at
his
hands
so
vnlawfull
a
thing
,
to
whom
he
declared
in
his
letter
,
that
he
answered
them
,
that
he
had
rather
die
a
tortured
death
,
then
confesse
so
palpable
an
vntruth
,
to
gaine
an
ignominious
life
and
libertie
.
O
that
it
were
possible
for
me
to
speake
all
that
is
true
in
this
case
!
but
I
must
let
passe
infinite
iniuries
,
least
the
reuealing
all
,
might
rather
aggraute
then
relieue
my
maisters
miserie
.
If
I
durst
,
this
discourse
should
haue
bene
more
ample
,
and
better
vnderstood
,
if
it
were
lawful
that
I
might
say
what
I
could
say
,
that
the
Monarks
and
Princes
of
Christendome
,
haue
done
the
King
my
Lord
secretly
and
openly
much
good
and
ill
,
and
are
vnwilling
either
of
both
should
be
manifested
to
the
world
in
writing
.
Notwithstanding
I
will
neuer
burie
in
silence
an
answer
that
a
grand
Sabio
of
this
commonwealth
made
to
a
magnificent
Prince
in
Europe
,
of
great
vnderstanding
,
but
of
no
great
antiquitie
.
This
Sabio
going
to
visite
this
Prince
,
was
intreated
by
him
to
tell
him
what
ground
the
Seigniorie
of
Venice
had
,
to
proceed
vpon
the
prisoner
in
that
forme
,
which
called
himselfe
Dom
Sebastian
King
of
Portugale
?
for
(
said
he
)
if
they
found
him
to
be
a
Calabrian
,
why
did
they
set
him
at
libertie
without
chastisement
?
And
if
it
were
verified
vnto
them
by
good
proofes
and
euidence
that
he
was
Dom
Sebastian
King
of
Portugal
,
why
did
they
vse
him
in
that
maner
?
The
grand
Sabio
publikely
made
this
answer
in
the
presence
of
many
.
Sir
,
forasmuch
as
the
affaires
concerned
the
estate
of
Spaine
,
the
Seigniorie
would
not
presume
to
iudge
whether
it
was
he
or
not
.
This
man
was
committed
for
disobeying
a
commaundement
the
Seigniorie
laid
vpon
him
,
and
therefore
restrained
two
yeares
of
his
libertie
,
to
the
end
he
might
repent
him
of
his
fault
,
and
after
the
expiration
of
two
yeares
againe
dismissed
him
vpon
the
like
commaundement
.
And
to
be
plaine
with
your
Excellencie
:
the
man
would
follow
no
good
aduice
,
but
was
wilfull
,
turbulent
,
and
of
ill
gouernement
,
by
which
meanes
much
ill
is
come
vnto
him
.
That
word
ill
aduised
,
might
haue
bene
well
interpreted
,
for
that
he
would
not
denie
himselfe
to
be
that
which
vndoubtedly
he
was
.
It
was
not
my
fortune
to
be
present
at
this
act
,
being
elsewhere
employed
out
of
those
parts
:
but
at
my
returne
it
was
related
to
me
,
by
a
learned
person
that
was
there
in
present
;
which
afterward
the
same
Prince
himselfe
did
ratifie
vnto
me
,
assuring
me
that
the
answer
of
that
Sabio
grand
,
did
verily
induce
him
to
beleeue
,
that
that
prisoner
was
Dom
Sebastian
the
very
true
King
of
Portugale
:
for
if
the
Seigniorie
had
held
this
man
to
be
a
Calabrian
:
said
this
Prince
,
to
what
purpose
did
the
Sabio
hold
me
with
such
a
long
discourse
publickely
,
considering
he
knew
the
priuitie
of
the
affaires
;
if
he
had
bene
proued
a
Calabrian
,
it
had
bene
sufficient
to
haue
said
in
a
word
;
Sir
,
he
was
a
Calabrian
,
an
impostor
,
and
a
cosiner
,
without
any
more
ado
.
But
you
see
how
the
world
fares
,
and
how
it
swayes
abruptly
,
and
so
ends
my
pitifull
narration
;
aduising
,
intreating
,
and
coniuring
you
(
gentle
Reader
)
to
shun
the
snares
and
trips
of
these
subtill
enemies
:
for
I
can
assure
you
,
by
the
testimonie
of
a
good
conscience
,
that
they
be
those
that
S.
Chrysostome
terme
the
Pharises
,
Qui
portabant
mel
in
ore
,
&
fel
in
corde
:
they
will
flap
you
in
the
mouth
with
honie
,
which
when
you
begin
to
chew
,
perhaps
you
shall
taste
sweete
,
but
in
the
digestion
,
you
shall
find
it
most
bitter
in
operation
.
Farewell
.
FINIS
.