The pityfull Historie of two Louing Italians, Gaulfrido and Barnardo le vayne which ariued in the countrey of Grece, in the time of the noble Emperoure Vaspasian. And Translated out of Italian into Englishe meeter by John Drout |
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he lefte alone his guest.
Bernarde le Vayne who when he sawe
that no man coulds discrye
The acte whiche he pretended had,
when no man there was by,
He drewe a glistering blade at once,
he sette it to his harte:
Till he had done that rufull deede,
it dyd not once departe.
This doone, Galfrido he comes home,
a mery man was hee,
Charinas smyling smirkyng lookes
had made him so to bee.
Where when he came in chamber foule
his ioyes were layde asyde,
He sawe his frende lye all for deade,
the blaudy swoorde he spyde,
Which had bereaued him of breath,
the letter there he founde,
He redde it out, when hee had doone
he layde it on the grounde,
He tooke the blade, he after went
in darkenesse for to lye,
Since that his frende was gone afore,
he past not for to die.
When as the host he hearde of this,
hymselfe he went and hoong,
hir comely corps she floong.
And Tibine too, when as he he heard
his daughter to be dead,
De stayed not, but with a knyfe
his hungry throate hee fead.
His wife, the mother to the mayde,
she ranne to riuer rounde,
Where as the crue of maryners
that instant tyme shee founde:
Shee tells to them these bloodie broyles
whiche she that tyme did see,
Howe blood, by blood, and death by turnes
in Greece nowe for to bee:
These wordes once spoke, shee leaped in
there shee gaue vp the ghoste.
The Maryners they hoysed vp
theyr sayle and left the coast.
Not twice two leagues they had not gone,
(as many men did thinke,)
But that the shippe vnluckily,
there presently did sinke.
In deepest sea, their graue was made
the louers lye in towne,
Where Tibine hath a place, besides
Charina hath a roome.
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