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A Table of the Chapters and matter contained in the three Bookes of the first Part.
- CHAP. I. GVzman de Alfarache recounteth who was his Father, and thereupon takes oc∣casion learnedly to discourse of Detractors, and euill speakers, of vnconscionable Merchants, of Iudges, of bad Clerkes, of Lites, and Litigants, and that too much neatnesse in cloathes, and nice dressing, is ill in a Woman, and worse in a Man.
- CHAP. II. Guzman de Alfarache goes on, in recounting who were his Parents, and declareth withall who his Mother was; and for our better instruction, describes the euill con∣ditions and bad qualities of a lewd woman, of Bawdes; of a sensuall and lasciuious man, & that the end of dishonest Loue, is the wasting of a mans honour, of his wealth, and of himselfe.
- CHAP. III. How Guzman departed from his Mothers house vpon a Friday towards the Euening, discouering by the way the torments of hunger, and that which befell him with his Hostesse, recounting many not able examples of some Rules of ill Gouernment.
- CHAP. IV. Guzman de Alfarache recounteth to a Carrier what had betided him with his Ho∣stesse: And discourseth of laughing. After that, he tels two short Tales; one, of a co∣uetous Physician; the other of two yong men, how they vs'd the said Hostesse: And vpon the neck of that, fals into a learned discourse, touching the pardoning of iniuries.
- CHAP. V. How Guzman and the Carrier did eate of a yong Mule, thinking it had beene Ueale, being coozened by his Host in Cantillana, and discourseth by the way of the cooze∣ning tricks, which bad Hosts put vpon poore Trauellers.
- CHAP. VI. Guzman goes on, in recounting what succeeded with his Host of Cantillana, who had giuen him to eate of his yong Mule, and of the misfortunes that befell the said Guz∣man: And how it is not good vpon the way to quarrell with our Host.
- CHAP. VII. Mans misfortune is here discoursed of, and to that purpose you haue a story told you of the gods of those ancienter times: And how Guzman, being thought to be a Thiefe, was apprehended; but afterwards being knowne what he was, hee was set at liberty. One of the Clergy-men promiseth to tell vs a story, to entertaine the time withall, vpon the way.
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CHAP. VIII. Wherein Guzman de Alfarache relateth the Story of those two Louers, Ozmin and Daraxa.
THE ARGVMENT.
How Ferdinand and Isabell, King and Queene of Spaine, tooke Baca, a Citie of the Moores, wherein Daraxa a beautifull and noble Damozel was taken Prisoner, whom Queene Isabell brought with her to Seuill, and there left her in the custodie of Don Luys de Padilla. And how Ozmin a yong Gentleman well descended, and inamou∣red of that Lady, after hee had suffered long sicknesse for the imprisonment of his faire Daraxa, went to the said Citie; together with the diuers accidents that happe∣ned to them both.