French fiction -- Translations into English; Italian fiction -- Translations into English
There shall passe no day of my Lyfe, from makyng complaynts of
the disloyall and periured Louer, who being more esteemed and
better beloued than thou dydst deserue, hast made so small
accompte of mee, whereof I wyll be reuenged vpon my selfe,
for that I so lyghtly beleued thy wordes so full of crafte and
guyle. I am in mynd that thou henceforth shalt flye to buzze and
beat the Bushes, where thou suspectest to catch the pray: for
heere thou art lyke to be deceiued. Goe varlet, (goe I say,) to
deceyue hir whych holdeth thee in hir nets and snares, and whose
Presentes (althoughe of small Value) moued thee more than the
Honeste, Vertuous and Chaste Loue, that Vertue hir selfe began
to knytte betweene vs. And sith a Carrion Kyte hath made the fly
further off, than the Wynde of the Ayre was able to bear thee,
God desende that Gineura should goe aboute to hynder thy
follyes, and mutch lesse to suffer hir selfe to bee beguyled
throughe thine Excuses. Nay rather God defend (except thou
desirest to se me dy) that thou shouldest euer bee in place
where I am, assuryng thee of thys my mynde, neuer to be chaunged
so long as my soule shall rest wythin my body: which giuing
breath vnto my panting breast, shal neuer be other, but a
mortall enimy to Dom Diego: and sutch one as euen to the Death
wyl not fayle to prosecute the default of the most traiterous
and vnfaythfull Knyght that euer was gyrte in girdle, or armed
with Sword. And behold the last fauour that thou canst, or
oughtest to hope of me, who lyueth not but onelye to martir and
crucify thee, and neuer shal be{ }other but
The greatest Enimy, that euer thou haddest, or
shalt haue, Gineura the fayre.
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