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And therefore may it please your highnesse, sith this
fond deuice can not be beaten out of their heads, to gieue
Licence vnto those Noblemen, the Lords Vladislao and Alberto,
(so were they called) to put in proofe the mery conceipt of
their disposed mindes (whereof they do so greatly bragge) and I
by your good grace and fauoure, am content to agree to their
demaundes: and wee, answered the Hungarians, do once agayne
affirme the same which wee haue spoken.” The king willing to
haue them gyue ouer that strife, was intreated to the contrary
by the Barons: whereupon the kinge perceyuinge their Follies,
caused a decree of the bargayne to be put in writing, eyther
Parties interchaungeably subscribiug the same. Which done, they
tooke their leaues. Afterwards, the two Hungarians began to put
their enterprise in order and agreed betweene themselues,
Alberto to bee the firste that should aduenture vppon the Lady.
And that within sixe Weekes after vpon his returne, the lord
Vladislao should proceede. These things concluded, and all
Furnitures for their seuerall Iorneys disposed, the lord Alberto
departed in good order, with two seruaunts directly trauayling
to the castle of the Boeme Knight, where being arriued, hee
lighted at an Inne of the towne adioyning to the Castle, and
demaunding of the hoste, the Conditions of the lady, hee
vnderstoode that shee was a very fayre Woman, and that hir
honesty, and loue towards hir husbande farre excelled hir
beauty. Which wordes nothing dismayede the Amorous Baron, but
when hee had pulled of his Bootes, and richely arayed hymselfe,
he repayred to the Castle, and knockinge at the Gates, gaue the
Lady to vnderstand that he was come to see hir. She which was a
curteous Gentlewoman, caused him to be brought in, and gently
gaue him honourable intertaynment. The Baron greatly mused vppon
the beauty, and goodlinesse of the Lady, singularly commending
hir honest order and Behauiour. And beinge set down, the young
Gentleman sayd vnto hir: “Madame, mooued with the fame of your
surpassing Beauty, which now I see to bee more excellent than
Fame with hir swiftest Wyngs is able to cary: I am come from the
Court to view and see if that were true, or whether lyinge
Brutes had scattered their Vulgar talke in vayne: but finding
the same farre more fine and pure than erst I did expect,
I craue Lycence of your Ladyship, to conceyue none offence of
this my boulde, and rude attempt.” And herewithall hee began to
ioyne many trifling and vayne words, whych dalyinge Suters by
heate of Lusty bloude bee wont to shoote forth, to declare theym
selues not to be Speachlesse, or Tongue tied. Which the Lady
well espying speedily imagined into what Porte hys rotten Barke
would arriue: wherefore in the ende when shee sawe his Shippe at
Roade, began to enter in prety louinge talke, by little, and
little to incourage his fond attempt. The Baron thinkinge hee
had caught the Ele by the Tayle, not well practised in Cicero
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