<!DOCTYPE ETS PUBLIC "-//UMDLPS//DTD EEBOPROOF 2.0//EN">
<ETS>
<TEMPHEAD>
<REVDESCR>
<CHANGE>
<DATE>2013-03-26</DATE>
<RESPSTMT>
<NAME>Alexis Jakobson</NAME>
<RESP>MURP</RESP>
</RESPSTMT>
<ITEM>*Proofed title page(s).
*Reviewed structure.
*Checked division-marking material at heads and feet of divisions (HEADS, CLOSER, OPENER, ARGUMENT, EPIGRAPH, SIGNED, BYLINE, etc.).
*Added TYPEs to DIVs in order to validate.
*Checked for N=""s.
*Checked ^s.
*Checked placement and completeness of PBs.
*Checked for foreign, damage and missing-page GAPs, #, --.
*Checked for LBs, startqs / endqs, q;s, ABBRs, LETTERs and Qs.
*Checked for FIGUREs and decorated initials.
*Checked proofsheets and made corrections found there.
*Corrected <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s etc.
*Converted <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s to GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="[vendor name]".
*Revalidated.</ITEM>
</CHANGE>
</REVDESCR>
</TEMPHEAD>
<EEBO>
<IDG S="marc" R="UM" ID="A77266">
<STC T="W">B4273</STC>
<STC T="T">E1797_1</STC>
<STC T="C">R209702</STC>
<BIBNO T="umi">99868569</BIBNO>
<VID>170382</VID>
</IDG>
<TEXT LANG="eng">
<FRONT>
<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<P><HI>PANTHALIA:</HI> OR THE Royal Romance.</P>
<P>A DISCOURSE Stored with infinite variety in relation to STATE-GOVERNMENT And Pa&s;&s;ages of matchle&s;s affection gracefully interveined, And pre&s;ented on a <HI>Theatre</HI> of Tragical and Comical <HI>State,</HI> in a &s;ucce&s;&s;ive conti|nuation to the&s;e Times.</P>
<P>Faithfully and ingenuou&s;ly rendred.</P>
<Q><L>Qui &s;e &s;cire dicit quod ne&s;cit, temerarius e&s;t:</L>
<L>Qui &s;e negat &s;cire quod &s;cit, ingratus e&s;t.</L>
<BIBL><HI>AUG.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>J. G.</HI> and are to be &s;old by <HI>Anthony Willi|am&s;on</HI> at the <HI>Queens-Arm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> in St. <HI>Pauls</HI> Church-yard. 1659</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="frontispiece">
<PB REF="2">
<P><FIGURE>
<HEAD>Charles y^e &s;econd, by y^e grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, &amp; Ireland. Defender of the Faith &amp;c:</HEAD>
<FIGDESC>portrait of Charles II</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<PB REF="2" MS="y">
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="preface">
<PB REF="3">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD>The Opinion of a Native <HI>Candiot</HI> touching this <HI>ROYAL ROMANCE.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_HEre is pre&s;ented to your judici|ous view, candid Gentlemen, (for to you I make this addre&s;s, who&s;e Judgments are clear, and &s;en&s;es unbya&s;&s;ed) a Di|&s;cour&s;e of infinite con&s;e|quence, not only in its u&s;eful relation to the&s;e pre&s;ent times, but as it may properly reflect in a &s;ucceeding con|tinuation to Po&s;terity.</P>
<P>It was an excellent Ob&s;ervation of an eminent State&s;-man, then whom none more exqui&s;ite in the di&s;covery or &s;urvey of the qualities, natures, and temperatures of Nations; <HI>That nothing is more re|qui&s;ite, then to be familiarly and intimately ver&s;ed with the humors, garbs and conditions of &s;uch people, with whom we are by interchange of Commerce (the &s;taple of every active and flouri&s;hing State) to ne|gotiate.</HI> Of what high con&s;equence then may this Relation appear, having to life &s;o exactly portray'd the Laws, Natures, and Qualities, <HI>&s;erious</HI> and <HI>amorous,</HI> with the di&s;tinct tempers of neighbour|ing Nations, with which we have continued for|merly &s;o free and frequent Commerce, &s;o familiar
<PB REF="4"> and a&s;&s;iduate conver&s;e? And in both the&s;e highly advantageous to the individual Union and Con&s;ti|tution of a State.</P>
<P>As for the &s;tyle, dialect and method of the Au|thor, I &s;hall render you an account &s;eriou&s;ly and &s;uccinctly: He has with a plea&s;ing facility (an Argument of much ingenuity) ob&s;erv'd punctually that cour&s;e in this Excellent <HI>Romance,</HI> which may &s;erve for a Directory to every equal and &s;inewy <HI>Author,</HI> who by his integrity, purity and candor, vindicates his &s;incere Labour from the lea&s;t jealou|&s;ie of a rigid Cen&s;ure. To &s;econd this Opinion (for my Pen was never ingaged to a&s;&s;entation) you &s;hall find in this <HI>National Survey,</HI> neatly inter|woven with &s;undry delightful pa&s;&s;ages; tho&s;e three Requi&s;ites highly approved in Subjects of thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> nature.</P>
<P N="1">1. Fruitfulne&s;s in the Relation.</P>
<P N="2">2. An apt compo&s;edne&s;s in his Dige&s;tion.</P>
<P N="3">3. And a native quickne&s;s in his Expre&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>So as, if <HI>Homer</HI> (that Honour of his Age) was &s;o highly commended for his contracted &s;weetne&s;s, in reducing his memorable <HI>Iliad</HI> to the compa&s;s of a <HI>Nut;</HI> what opinion may you retain of this Rela|tors indu&s;try, who with &s;uch per&s;picuity, brevity, and facetious elegancy has inlarg'd his A&s;&s;ay to &s;o curious and copious a di&s;covery? The atte&s;t where|of, with a free and ingenuous appeal to your own Judgment, is here tran&s;mitted to your peru&s;al, by</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your well-wi&s;hing Friend <HI>FLORENCIO TRIBACCIO.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="4">
<HEAD>An Adverti&s;ement to the judicious Reader.</HEAD>
<P>_SO keen and eager were the Talons of our Statizing Cen&s;ors, as this <HI>Royal Romance</HI> would not upon its fir&s;t pro|duction or pre&s;entation be admitted to the Pre&s;&s;e. It came too neer Truths heels to be entertain'd as a welcome Gue&s;t. The Sta|tioner, to whom it was at fir&s;t addre&s;t, though he held clo&s;e to the <HI>Principles</HI> of a <HI>ju&s;t Monarchy;</HI> and in the mo&s;t distracted and Anarchical times (may this redound ever to his honour) has never given accep|tance nor countenance to any Copy, that might &s;aucily detract from the <HI>High Prerogative</HI> of his <HI>Great Ma&s;ter,</HI> dur&s;t not make it his <HI>Land-adventure</HI> to af|ford it a publication, le&s;t his attempt &s;hould incurre a publick cen&s;ure. But &s;ince the <HI>Dolphin</HI> (by means of a prudent re-a&s;&s;embled Synod, which made their con&s;tant care for con&s;titution and con&s;ervation of a <HI>Republick,</HI> their &s;ole <HI>Intere&s;t</HI>) kept aloof from the <HI>&s;hore,</HI> which divined a calm; <HI>PANTHALIA,</HI> bear|ing the title of this <HI>Royal Romance,</HI> has taken upon her the &s;pirit to &s;hew her &s;elf to the world, without an intended ground of exception to any, an amicable com|plyance with all; where &s;uch is her confidence ground|ed on the &s;trength of Rea&s;on, and judicious Opinion, &s;he &s;tands at defiance ag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">in&s;t all corky and unballanc'd judgments. And having now got the boldne&s;s to &s;peak Loyalty, and with the re&s;olution of <HI>Hiero</HI> and <HI>Leaena,</HI> to spit in the face of Trea&s;on: &s;he blu&s;heth not in
<PB REF="5"> coming abroad into the world, being equipag'd with the livery of Loyalty. Neither is it in her to harbour the lea&s;t occa&s;ional fear of coming off with as much ho|nour in the &s;cale of an equal cen&s;ure, as ever any <HI>Sub|ject</HI> has hitherto done of this nature, though in <HI>the&s;e,</HI> many with much eminency, to the infinite delight and improvement of Posterity, be&s;towed their labour. Such variety and propriety (tho&s;e native Beauties of an Hi&s;tory) &s;hall the Reader find in her relations. So as though <HI>Epicurus</HI> became highly tax'd for having his Table better furni&s;hed then his Di&s;hes were &s;ea&s;oned; And <HI>Epimenides</HI>'s prodigality, for his having too much meat, and too little &s;auce; And <HI>Eriphilus</HI>'s curio|&s;ity, in his having too much &s;auce, but too little meat; Your pallat, be it never &s;o accurate, &s;hall find <HI>Pantha|lia's</HI> provi&s;ion &s;ufficient in both, deficient in neither: Viands &s;o well &s;ea&s;oned, as they &s;hall give a plea&s;ing reli&s;h to your ta&s;te; and &s;o well ordered, as they &s;hall render a delightful &s;atiety, without cloying to your fancy. Neither am I &s;o per&s;onally obliged to <HI>Pan|thalia,</HI> as to flatter her; nor &s;uch a &s;tranger to the E&s;&s;ence of de&s;ert, as to hold the quality of <HI>Goodne&s;s</HI> in a capacity, either of being over-priz'd or over|prais'd: To the inlargement then of her Honour, I &s;hall leave her to her own expre&s;&s;es to accompli&s;h her.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="encomia">
<PB REF="5">
<DIV2 TYPE="encomium">
<HEAD>To his highly meriting Friend, upon his genuine Compo&s;ure of this Compleat Work, Intituled <HI>PANTHALIA:</HI> Or the ROYAL ROMANCE.</HEAD>
<L>ENcomia&s;tick Bards want weight to rai&s;e</L>
<L>With their be&s;t Layes</L>
<L>His <HI>Work,</HI> who&s;e <HI>Worth</HI> de&s;erves <HI>Apollo</HI>'s Bayes.</L>
<L>His happy Wit</L>
<L>Improves their Judgment who approveth it.</L>
<L>Look, <HI>Reader,</HI> look</L>
<L>Into the pure Elixer of this Book,</L>
<L>And thou &s;hal find</L>
<L>A Mine of trea&s;ure from a matchle&s;s Mind</L>
<L>Retriv'd and gain'd</L>
<L>To thy advantage, where it only aim'd.</L>
<L>This is <HI>rich Oyle,</HI></L>
<L>El&s;e mu&s;t we blame our <HI>unmanured Soyle;</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e only &s;en&s;e,</L>
<L>Wit, Learning, Judgment come by Influence;</L>
<L>Where <HI>Academicks</HI> are for <HI>Bug-bears</HI> ta'ne,</L>
<L>Till mad men may recall their Wits again:</L>
<L>And this chang'd Clime in folly lo&s;e her claim.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>AMADIN BARCLAY.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="encomium">
<PB REF="6">
<HEAD>To the living memory of <HI>Ca&s;talion Pomerano,</HI> Author of <HI>Panthalia:</HI> Or the <HI>Royal Romance.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>CA&s;talion</HI> and <HI>Pamoleus</HI> I have read,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo&s;ephus Ca&s;talion Aencomi|tanus. Jo. Pamo|ieus Genu|en&s;is, Juli|us Capilu|pus Man|tuan.</NOTE>With <HI>Capilupus</HI> that fam'd <HI>Mantuan,</HI></L>
<L>But none of the&s;e my Fancy ravi&s;hed,</L>
<L>Like the <HI>Romance</HI> of Royal <HI>Pomeran;</HI></L>
<L>Who though he were a Native <HI>Genuan,</HI></L>
<L>Princely <HI>Parna&s;&s;us</HI> &s;o in&s;pir'd his Quill,</L>
<L>Each line-deriv'd invention from that Hill,</L>
<L>And School'd the Quire with univer&s;al Skill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Each line gives life and influence to Love</L>
<L>Nurs'd in the brea&s;ts of State; where choice&s;t Flowers</L>
<L>Breath forth their perfume, and where <HI>Turtles</HI> move</L>
<L>In <HI>Ida's</HI> Chariot, and be&s;tow their hours</L>
<L>On <HI>fair</HI> but <HI>pure</HI> Embraces: &mdash;th' Paramour</L>
<L>Is not admitted, but &s;hut out a-dore.</L>
<L>Cha&s;t Beauties be the <HI>Subjects</HI> of his Pen,</L>
<L>And his contentment in admiring them.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O ye who make expence of precious time,</L>
<L>In &s;acrificing Mornings to your Gla&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Poize in Loves &s;cale the weight of ev'ry line,</L>
<L>And you'l conclude, his pa&s;&s;ion did &s;urpa&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Inferiour Fancies, &mdash;that HE only was</L>
<L>The Mirrour of his Age full fraught with &s;en&s;e,</L>
<L>Enamel'd with a native Eloquence!</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Native and unaffected; <HI>threads</HI> ne're &s;pun</L>
<L>On a <HI>Mechanick Loom;</HI> But &s;uch as &s;how'd</L>
<L>As if they were by <HI>Pallas</HI> lately done:</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Morellio's</HI> te&s;timony to perpetu|ate his me|mory.</NOTE>Each Comm', Point, Colon, and Di&s;tinction good;</L>
<L>'Tis pity Death &s;hould put his Period;</L>
<L>Yet having trac'd the track where Mortals trod,</L>
<L>'This rich <HI>Romance</HI> this &s;entence on him gives,</L>
<L>'He dyes to life, yet in his death he lives.</L>
<L>&mdash;<HI>Dion. Morellio.</HI></L>
<L>Come, <HI>Gentils,</HI> come, if hither you re&s;ort,</L>
<L>You may find <HI>Ve&s;ta</HI> in a <HI>Venus</HI> Court.</L>
<L>State-Stories intervein'd with amorous Tales,</L>
<L>Rare loyal love breath'd on with pro&s;perous Gales;</L>
<L>Di&s;cur&s;ive Treats from th' Pallace to the Grange,</L>
<L>And if the&s;e plea&s;e not Ladies, it were &s;trange.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="text">
<PB N="1" REF="6">
<HEAD><HI>PANTHALIA:</HI> OR, The Royall ROMANCE.</HEAD>
<P>_IN <HI>Candy,</HI> by all Hi&s;torians ancient and moderne, related to be mo&s;t happy for plea&s;ure of Seate and fertility of Soil: &s;tored with variety of all fruits: and refre&s;hed with an equall temperature of ayre, to render more &s;pirit, increa&s;e and vivacity to tho&s;e fruits; there reigned &s;ometimes a Prince&s;&s;e called<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Cu&s;ano</HI> calls her <HI>Athalia;</HI> but d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ffe|rent from other Au|thors.</NOTE> <HI>Bellingeria:</HI> a Lady of a ma&s;culine &s;pirit, and a|bove the effeminacy of her Sexe, and delicacy of her Education, warlike and couragious. All her raign &s;he lived a &s;ingle life: &s;ingularly indowed with all eminent vertues and princely Ornaments &s;uitable to a per&s;on of her quality: affecting no|thing more then to pre&s;ent per&s;onall &s;tate corre&s;|ponding with the dignity of her place: and to im|print a gratefull emulation in tho&s;e <HI>Ladies</HI> of <HI>Ho|nour,</HI> that attended her of admiring, if not of imi|tating &s;o incomparable a pattern of becoming &s;tate, pre&s;ence and maje&s;ty. Main and many were her Intere&s;ts with forraign Nations: who&s;e Em|ba&s;&s;ies
<PB N="2" REF="7"> (&s;o generally vers'd &s;he was in all tongues) She ever an&s;wer'd in her own per&s;on, without the hel of any Interpretour. Neither was &s;he at any time ob&s;erv'd to di&s;mi&s;&s;e the&s;e without &s;atisfacti|on: &s;o copiou&s;ly happy &s;he appear'd in her ex|pre&s;&s;e, &s;o expedite in her di&s;patch. Many pro|fe&s;t them&s;elves her Servants; among&s;t which one Mon&s;ieur <HI>Arte&s;io;</HI> a gentleman of eminent Family, and &s;ingularly imbelli&s;hed with all corre&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">onding qualities to ennoble his de&s;cent: but her innate affection to a &s;ingle l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fe would &s;toup to no lure. Though Cen&s;ure, which is ever &s;hooting her im|poy&s;on'd &s;hafts at per&s;ons of highe&s;t place, would not &s;tick to taxe her of too much freedom in en|tertaining Favorites. And of the&s;e, <HI>Clarentio;</HI> whom &s;he was thought to receive with far more intimacy and familiarity then any of her re&s;t, as he well de&s;erved: For his actions were amiable: and his di&s;po&s;ition &s;o &s;weetly tempered; as he became popular without &s;eeking it: and generally belov'd without any ob&s;equious officiating of it. But this continent Lady; who&s;e actions were richly inter|lay'd with Princely Strains of Mode&s;ty and Maje|&s;ty; holding it not &s;ufficient to be <HI>innocent;</HI> that &s;he might decline all occa&s;ion of a&s;per&s;ion, apt to traduce the pure&s;t and refined&s;t tempers; &s;he inti|mated her con&s;tant re&s;olvs to her much endeered <HI>Clarentio:</HI> and putting pen to paper: caution'd him, forth of a tender relation to her Honour, in this manner:
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<P>Although <HI>Clarentio,</HI> I am confident that your thoughts are &s;o pure, as you make it the lowe&s;t of your &s;corne, to entertain an unbecoming and inordinate
<PB N="3" REF="7"> affection: &s;o it behoveth us to reflect on what&s;oever may properly conduce to the advancement or im|provement of our honour. Fame is a precious Odour: but never &s;o fre&s;h nor fragrant, as when it breaths in the bo&s;om-border of eminent Per&s;onages: who&s;e ver|tues appear mo&s;t transparent, when they diffu&s;e their rayes from the face of Greatne&s;&s;e. We will not <HI>Cla|rentio,</HI> inlarge our &s;elves too much, le&s;t we &s;hould per|plex your thoughts with a tedious Preamble, before we acquaint you with our aime. Truth is, my much endeered <HI>Clarentio,</HI> that the whole Court has taken n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ce of your free and frequent acce&s;&s;e unto us: The facility of your admittance; with our liberty and freedom of di&s;cour&s;e. That excellent <HI>States</HI>-man had made an exact Survey and Di&s;covery of Prin|ces Courts, who charactred them full of <HI>Eyes</HI> and <HI>Eares:</HI> Eyes, to pry and ob&s;erve: Eares, to hear and traduce. This has begot in us that circumspection: as our addre&s;s mu&s;t be to appear in that Robe of In|nocence to the eye of the World, which we cordially profe&s;s: And as an ine&s;tim<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ble Jewel in our &s;ecret&s;t Cabinet above all other Ornaments, which either Art or Nature can po&s;&s;ibly confer upon us, we carefully retain. Our Injunction then <HI>Clarentio,</HI> mu&s;t be this; that you henceforth di&s;continue our vi&s;its, and leave us to our &s;elf. Yet that it may appear, how your zeal &amp; alacrity in your &s;ervice to us both at home &amp; abroad; retains a con&s;tant impre&s;&s;ion in your Prin|ce&s;s: and that &s;he is as prompt to exhibit as to re|ceive Favours: accept this Ring here inclo&s;ed for an affectionate pledge and tender of your loyalty: which merits an higher guerdon: though I mu&s;t ingenu|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;ly tell you, my loyal <HI>Clarentio;</HI> that this token,
<PB N="4" REF="8"> though at fir&s;t &s;ight of &s;mall con&s;equence, may re|dound to your advantage. I am not ignorant of your condition; how you are or may be encountred with many occurrences. Profe&s;t Enemies and private om|pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ors to your ri&s;ing greatne&s;s. The&s;e, when they &s;ee my eyes averted from you; wil work upon your di&s;tance: and mould &s;ome de&s;ign or other to your precipice. But let not this amate you; when you are expo&s;ed to the ex|treame&s;t of danger, &s;o tender am I of your &s;afety and honour: that this Ring returned to us, &s;hall &s;ecure you, and bring you fairly off, in spi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e of all oppo&s;ition. Private Pre&s;ents are exempted from jealou&s;ies: and inioyn an acceptance, compa&s;&s;ionating the per&s;ons di|&s;tance. No more; let this confirme me thy con&s;tant and affectionate Protectre&s;s, while I am,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Bellingeria.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER></P>
<P>This unexpected Letter was not with that di&s;|cretion reli&s;hed; nor with that moderation dige|&s;ted, as became his condition. For apprehending, as his di&s;tempered thoughts &s;ugge&s;ted to him, who the&s;e active In&s;truments mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ht be, by who&s;e &s;ubtile undermining, he became thus, debarred of all acce&s;s to his endee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed Prince&s;s: as one highly tran&s;ported with pa&s;&s;ion (as what will not the heat of Competition do?) he re&s;olved to take revenge of his &s;u&s;pected Corrivals, or to peri&s;h in his de|&s;ign. And to fortifie him in his re&s;olvs the better, he joynes <HI>Licorus</HI> and <HI>Merannes</HI> unto him; Per|&s;ons of power: and &s;uch as retained no good o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i|nion of <HI>Licinio;</HI> being the very &s;ame whom <HI>Cla|rentio</HI> &s;u&s;pected, and mortally hated.</P>
<P><HI>Licorus</HI> had &s;ome grounded rea&s;ons to pur&s;ue the Que&s;t of <HI>Clarentio</HI>'s de&s;ign; having received
<PB N="5" REF="8"> &s;undry affronts, and tho&s;e in&s;upportable to his Heroick &s;pirit, from an inferiour Favorite to the Prince&s;s: &s;o as no occa&s;ion could be more welcom then this forward attempt of di&s;contented <HI>Claren|tio.</HI> Which within few dayes after (with &s;o im|petuous a Career was the torrent of their revenge hurried) broke forth into an o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en commotion.</P>
<P>The prime Seat, where at that ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e the Prince&s;s kept her Court, became wholly di&s;compo&s;ed, the Citizens variou&s;ly affected, and into factions di|vided. Some out of their love to <HI>Clarentio,</HI> as none more generally endeered, nor popularly in|tere&s;&s;ed. Others of lower Fortunes, de&s;iring no|thing more then to Fi&s;h in troubled waters, itched eagerly after Innovation, the onely Object of ma|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ignant &s;pirits: but weak and &s;andy is the Founda|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ion of that Building, which rears the Arches of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er Fabrick upon Po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ular affection. The giddy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ltitude, con&s;i&s;ting of undi&s;ciplin'd men; who&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cefull Education had initiated them more to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hop then Camp, after &s;ome light <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">icqueers and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;ie repul&s;es, left unfortunate <HI>Clarentio</HI> to all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">xtreames; which afterwards threw him into an <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">reparable Precipice. For though he with his few <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dherents demeaned them&s;elvs with incompa|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">able re&s;olution; yet at la&s;t oppre&s;&s;ed with num|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er; by <HI>Licinio</HI>'s inter<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;ing him&s;elf (as it highly <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oncerned him) and di&s;&s;wading &s;uch as appeared <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;i&s;tants to <HI>Clarentio:</HI> from expo&s;ing them&s;elvs <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Fortunes to manife&s;t ruine, by neglecting <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">eir loyalty; and adhering to a publick Incendi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y, who&s;e pur&s;uit after private ends and ungrate|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll requital of his Princes favours, had &s;ufficiently
<PB N="6" REF="9"> manife&s;ted to the World, whereto his ambitious de&s;igns were levelled, and with what a Tragicall period clo&s;ed. Tho&s;e, who had profe&s;t them&s;elv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his to death, de&s;erted him; preferring the &s;afety of their Per&s;ons, before their ingaged reputation. Such was the mutability of Plebeian a&s;&s;urances. All this while, <HI>Clarentio</HI> with his few A&s;&s;i&s;tants, &s;tood upon their guard; re&s;olved to &s;ell their blood at as dear a rate as they could. But being fir&s;t advi&s;ed to try the affections of tho&s;e who ap|peared wavering: and by declaration of his loyall intendments to decline their defection and fal|ling from him; he expre&s;t him&s;elf in this manner, to &s;atisfie &s;uch as &s;tood for him; as likewi&s;e tho&s;e who were fluctuant in their re&s;olvs, or &s;u&s;pected him: that his actions, maugre all &s;ini&s;ter mi|&s;takes, were wholly grounded on termes of ho|nour.</P>
<Q><P>Gentlemen, how much I have been traduced in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> progre&s;s of this action, by &s;ome cen&s;orious spirits mi&s;|&s;tyled an In&s;urrection; I am not wholly ignorant But I have &s;o much charity, as to pitty thei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Error. It is well known to all &s;uch as have been in+timately conver&s;ant with me during all my &s;ervic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> abroad: and &s;ince my recall home, in my carriag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> at Court, how my addre&s;&s;es have had no other ayme then how they might advance your ende<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">red priviled+ges; not onely to pre&s;erve but inlarge the Liberty o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> all free-born Sub<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ects: and procure publick peace <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> your Nation. For if my ambition had entertain'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> any other thoughts; time I had, and opportunity e|nough to have pro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ected my ends, and required th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> utmo&s;t pitch and period of my de&s;ires in the pur&s;ui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="7" REF="9"> of Soveraignty. But the loyall reclu&s;e of this brea&s;t never harbour'd any &s;uch thought. My endeavours were ever addre&s;&s;ed for my Princes and Countreys honor; though lately mi&s;con&s;trued, or rather purpo&s;e|ly perverted: to make my actions appear more odi|ous: and my Per&s;on an immerited &s;pectacle of di&s;re|gard in the eye of the Court and pre&s;ence of my Prin|ce&s;s. Neither can the&s;e &s;ubtile Cubbs, my priva<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Underminers, walk with &s;uch &s;ecrecy in the clouds, as they can priviledge their malicious de&s;ignes from an apparent di&s;covery. That politick Para&s;ite <HI>Li|cinio,</HI> though <HI>Neme&s;is</HI> &s;it upon his &s;houlders: and with much &s;ecurity skrue him into the opinion of the State, &s;hall not in the pro&s;tituted lapp of his in&s;atiate <HI>Pavedone,</HI> traduce mine honour nor the incompa|rable value of the&s;e noble Per&s;ons who here a&s;&s;i&s;t me; and &s;tand upon the &s;ame termes of Ju&s;tification in re|lation to their actions equally as my &s;elf, without con|digne revenge. The&s;e Carpet-Curtain-Knights are tho&s;e profe&s;t Tetters of Martiall honour; that though our perills &s;ecure their Per&s;ons: our highe&s;t actions mu&s;t undergo their cen&s;ure, and by their mi&s;|con&s;truction become branded with di&s;honour. I &s;hall not much fear to appeal even to tho&s;e who&s;e affections have been aver&s;e&s;t from me: and who&s;e ambitious thoughts, envying Competitors, have ever &s;oared with Eagles wings to build their Ne&s;ts in the talle&s;t Cedars: To the&s;e, (I &s;ay) I ingenuou&s;ly ap|peal, if their &s;tricte&s;t &s;crutiny or di&s;covery of all my actions dome&s;tick or forrain, may ju&s;tly render me guilty of the lea&s;t deviation from the track of honour: or during my re&s;ide in the Court or my a&s;&s;iduate at|tendance upon my Prince&s;s: by preferring any un<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;t
<PB N="8" REF="10"> reque&s;t or incompetible &s;uit to the prejudice of a Sub|jects liberty: or any &s;elf Intere&s;t in my daily appli|ance and continued addre&s;s to her &s;acred Maje&s;ty. Look upon me, I be&s;eech you, not with &s;o contemptible an eye; as if I were wholly in my Eclip&s;e; or totally declining. The Divine powers, under which I &s;tand or fall, have cloathed me with that spirit of re&s;o|lution, as it can encounter with the &s;ini&s;tre&s;t and cro&s;|&s;e&s;t occurrents: and &s;mile with a &s;erene eye upon the unprosperou&s;e&s;t Overtures. I have oftimes look'd in the face of death for the pre&s;ervation of my Coun|trys honour: and with a re&s;olute zeal grappled with the apparent&s;t Objects of danger. Then were there times, when by the prowe&s;s of my Souldery, who&s;e spi|rits were armed for the highe&s;t a&s;&s;ayes: and who&s;e cordiall affections were &s;o e&s;pou&s;ed to me: as from the highe&s;t to the lowe&s;t there was none in all my Ar|my, were he private Souldier or Commander, but he would expo&s;e his life to the utmo&s;t of danger, to &s;ecure me. Then, I &s;ay, had my de&s;ires opportunity enough to work upon; and to accompli&s;h their ends: if I had entertain'd any &s;uch ambitious thir&s;t of aspiring to a Crown: or of abu&s;ing my Mi&s;tre&s;s confidence, (who&s;e advancement, both in title of Honour and Soveraign|ty, it &s;hall be my endeavour with much alacrity and loyall fervour con&s;tantly to promote.) No; ye noble and ever endeered Citizens, of who&s;e affections I have hitherto amply pertakt: and who&s;e numerous respects I &s;hall no le&s;s readily then really &s;tudy to re|quite: my loyally-dispo&s;ed bre&s;t became never yet fired with any &s;uch irregular heat: <HI>Licinio</HI> was the &s;ole Object of my revenge: who under pretence of a prudent and di&s;creet management of our State;
<PB REF="10"> whereof he will not &s;tick to boa&s;t, how he by his vigi|lant care and ince&s;&s;ant devoire &s;its at the Sterne: skrues him&s;elf into the opinion of our complying&s;t Fa|vorites: enriching his own Coffers with the revenues of the Crown: &amp; reering the foundation of his fortunes upon the Marchants ruine: by rai&s;ing injurious Im|posts: and making others adventures; the &s;ole ground of his advancement. Compa&s;&s;ionate then his condi|cion, who&s;e hand has been ever ready to &s;upport you; when the wor&s;t of extreams incountred you. You can|not be ignorant with what &s;olicitous and ince&s;&s;ant care I have laboured not onely the continuance, but al&s;o for the inlargement of your Charter: and with what in&s;tancy I pur&s;u'd it to the ingagement of mine honour. Look then vpon <HI>Clarentio,</HI> as he has ever in your greate&s;t &s;traits devotionally &s;erv'd you. Let him enjoy by your mutuall a&s;&s;i&s;tance, the liberty of a Subject; and priviledge of a Peer: e&s;pecially upon this &s;core; &s;tanding in competition with a <HI>Mu&s;hrom</HI> of <HI>Honour:</HI> who&s;e de&s;cent had its Originall and late derivall from a Deske. Now is the time of mani|fe&s;ting tho&s;e arguments which of love you have &s;o nu|merou&s;ly expre&s;&s;ed: wherein &s;hould you fail, he irrepa|rably falls who highly valued you, and who upon the word of Honour would hav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;acrific'd his life for your &s;afety.</P></Q>
<P>This Speech, though delivered by a gallant &s;pi|rit and a Rhetoricall tongue (being no le&s;&s;e <HI>Mer|curiall</HI> then <HI>Martiall</HI>) was not &s;o well reli&s;hed as he expected. So full of levity and incon&s;tancy is vulgar favour; being not back'd nor &s;econded by &s;ager nor &s;tronger heads then a confus'd Rable, or di&s;ordered Multitude can any way afford: as may
<PB REF="11"> appear by the &s;equele. For he found his &s;peech to be an incon&s;iderable breath, no &s;ooner uttered then &s;leighted.</P>
<P>For their Mechanick &s;pirits quickly cooled and recoiled. Friendle&s;s <HI>Clarentio;</HI> then whom none more nobly endowed, nor con&s;tantly re&s;olved, af|ter &s;ome &s;mall re&s;i&s;tance of the City-Guards, which came thick upon him; finding his u&s;ele&s;s valour, and the declining &s;trength of his affectio|nate a&s;&s;i&s;tants <HI>Lycorus</HI> and <HI>Merannes</HI> to fall off &s;till to their great di&s;advantage: he was advi&s;ed to give way to nece&s;&s;itie: and to apply to &s;o de&s;perate a &s;ore, a relenting remedy. A remedy, I confe&s;s, which his brave &s;pirit would not ea&s;ily incline to: for nothing held a greater di&s;tance with his heroick thoughts then laying down his Arms by &s;ubmi&s;&s;i|on; albeit he could not vi&s;ibly apprehend any other refuge for &s;afety to his own per&s;on or his weak &s;upplies. Attached he mu&s;t be and Com|mitted too of High Trea&s;on: For under that noti|on <HI>Licinio,</HI> his mortal Enemie &s;tiled it: and highly aggravated it: that he might more indelebly lay an a&s;per&s;ion upon his untainted honour: and beget him a la&s;ting <HI>Odium</HI> with his Prince&s;s, which was his &s;ummary Labour. Some few dayes after (for the cruell &s;ubtilty of <HI>Licinio,</HI> would admit no de|lay) a Council of State was convened, wherein <HI>Clarentio</HI> with his Adhaerents were brought to a Judiciall Tryal. In which tryal the Pri&s;oners, be|ing brought to Bar, might be di&s;played by their di&s;covery of &s;everal pa&s;&s;ions or affections. For <HI>Clarentio,</HI> as one commi&s;erating the &s;ad condition of tho&s;e Gentlemen, whom their endeered love
<PB REF="11"> and per&s;onal affection to him and his concerns, had drawn into this action, was ob&s;erv'd to be e|ver <HI>praying:</HI> in relation to their &s;ecurity, more then his own &s;afety. <HI>Lycorus,</HI> who&s;e thoughts were not con&s;cious of the lea&s;t tincture of trea&s;on, as he conceived, at the time of his tryal, <HI>played.</HI> But <HI>Merannes,</HI> whither it was out of pu&s;illanimity or too deep a re&s;entment of his mi&s;ery, I know not: but too much effeminate pa&s;&s;ion was he ob|&s;erv'd to di&s;cover, by &s;uch as &s;tood near the Bar, all the time while his Evidence was in reading: for he <HI>wept;</HI> which detracted much from a &s;pirit &s;uppo&s;ed to be &s;pritely and re&s;olute. <HI>Magirides</HI> and <HI>Pernio</HI> being Delegats for this tryal: as they were Intimates to <HI>Licinio,</HI> left nothing un&s;aid or undone, that might any way aggravate their Crime: or exa&s;perate the Jurors, on who&s;e verdict their lives depended, again&s;t them. In fine, they were all found guilty: which Sentence <HI>Magirides</HI> was plea&s;ed in a Rhetorical way (an improper Scheme of Elocution upon &s;o Tragical an occa&s;i|on) to dilate on in this manner.</P>
<P><Q>My Lords, you hear the qualitie of your Crimes, whereof you are all found guiltie: yet in my opinion, they admit a main and con&s;equent difference. Though your attempts hold relation in the identitie of their Object: They are of di|ver&s;e qualifications in re&s;pect of the per&s;ons act|ing. The Act, as you hear, manife&s;tly prov'd, extends to Trea&s;on: the Object or per&s;on at whom your impoi&s;oned arrows were levell'd, was your Soveraign: a Prince&s;s, then whom none more gracious: nor to &s;ome of you more immeri|toriou&s;ly
<PB REF="12"> bounteous. Excu&s;e me, my Lord <HI>Cla|rentio,</HI> if I come home to you. No doubt, if you retain the lea&s;t Impre&s;&s;ion of civil gratitude, an innate qualitie to per&s;ons of Honour, but you mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily acknowledge what a multitude of unde<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erving Favours have been conferred, nay accumulated by your Prince&s;&s;es &s;ingular bountie upon you. And how <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">rangely you have recom|pen&s;ed tho&s;e royal exten&s;ions of he Highne&s;s, I appeal unto your &s;elf: was it not &s;ufficient for you to receive from her princely hand incom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">arable additions and tran&s;cendencies of h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nour; but your ambitious aimes mu&s;t a&s;pire unto a C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">own: and by your di&s;loial and ungrateful de&s;igns, make it your &s;ole endeavour to deve&s;t her of all regal honour? Have you not at all times had her eare readie to give attention to your Suit? her Ex|chequer open to inlarge your E&s;tate? her Letters of Command to impower you both by Sea and Land? Yet all the&s;e would not confine your va&s;t and illimited thoughts to tho&s;e ju&s;t and con&s;ci|entious bounds of Loialtie, which National con|formitie obliged you to: Neither, has it been e|nough for you in this pre&s;ident of Trea&s;on to act your own intere&s;t: but to inwreath others, who&s;e native affection to allegeance had impre&s;&s;ed in their innocence better principles, in the like pre|ci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ice. If the&s;e merit not a penall and per&s;onall judgement above example, I know not whereto the bent of Ju&s;tice aimes.</Q></P>
<P>Upon his high and rigid aggravation of the&s;e in this manner, <HI>Clarentio</HI> in a compo&s;ed and civile ad|dre&s;s being ready to make a reply: He was inter|rupted:
<PB REF="12"> and not permitted to &s;peak either in his own or A&s;&s;i&s;tants defence: but returned with the re&s;t to their Commitment, with an expre&s;s day a&s;|&s;igned for their Execution, according to the &s;en|tence already pronounced.</P>
<P>It was now high time for <HI>Clarentio,</HI> as he tende|red his own or his Adhaerents &s;afety; to bethink him&s;elf of &s;ome way or other how to divert the imminent danger whereto they were expo&s;ed; and the more inevitable, in regard of his Enemies in|fatigable pur&s;uit for expediting the cour&s;e of Ju|&s;tice: which they went on with by their Officious Beagles &s;o &s;peedily: as nothing could be acted with more &s;ecrecy or &s;ubtilty: fe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ring, as might be pro|bably collected by all con&s;equence, that the Cle|mency of his Prince&s;s by &s;ome powerful interceed, might rever&s;e the &s;entence already delivered: and receive them to mercy: which might fall heavy upon them (as they had good rea&s;on to feare) if e|ver <HI>Clarentio</HI> came in to Command, to vindicate the indignities he had formerly &s;uffered: and their &s;evere Judgement which they had lately pro|nounced. It was no time then for <HI>Clarentio,</HI> who &s;tood now a Condemned man, to trifle minutes: but &s;ea&s;onably to recollect his thoughts: by ap|plying a Soveraigne cure to &s;o de&s;perate a &s;ore&punc; and by way of prevention either to decline or ad|journe the approaching houre of their Execution. Amid&s;t his perplexed thoughts, he happily call'd to mind, that gage and token which it plea&s;ed his Prince&s;&s;e to be&s;tow upon him at his departure from her: and his hevy receed from the Court. That <HI>Ring,</HI> the pledge of her Princely affection
<PB REF="13"> he happily recall'd to memorie with the&s;e very word &s;he &s;poke unto him at the &s;ame time by let|ters, for no other Communication would be ad|mitted.</P>
<P><Q>Accept this Ring here inclo&s;ed for and affe|ctionate pledge and tender of your loyaltie: which merits an higher guerdon: though I mu&s;t ingenuou&s;ly tell you, my loyall <HI>Clarentio;</HI> that this Token, though at fir&s;t fight of &s;mal con&s;e|quence; it may redound to your advantage. I am not ignorant of your Condition; how you are, or may be incountred with many occurren|ces; Profe&s;t Enemies and private Competitors to your ri&s;ing greatne&s;&s;e. (Which prov'd within &s;hort time after a true divination.) The&s;e, when they &s;ee my Eyes averted from you; will wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ke upon your di&s;tance: and mould &s;ome de&s;igne or other to their precipice. But let not this amate you; when you are expo&s;ed to the extreame&s;t of danger (&s;o tender am I of your &s;afety and ho|nour:) that this Ring returned to us, &s;hall &s;e|cure you: and bring you fairely off, in &s;pite of all Oppo&s;ition.</Q></P>
<P>The memory and enjoyment of &s;o precious a pledge could not chu&s;e but be a Soveraigne receipt in a time of &s;uch peril, wherein both lifes and live|lihoods lay at &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ke. Forthwith then, to remove all delays which might prove fatally noxious to his condition: He made choice of one <HI>Athalia,</HI> a La|dy of honour: and of high e&s;teem with his Prin|ce&s;&s;e, to returne this Ring; which he inclo&s;ed in a paper containing the&s;e lines.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<P>Madam, the&s;e very la&s;t words which you
<PB REF="13"> &s;poke unto me upon my unhappy departure from you; I have now good cau&s;e to hold them true diviners of my pre&s;ent mi&s;ery. Your loyall Ser|vant <HI>Clarentio</HI> is become a condemned man: and expects daily a &s;eparation from the world: as he before received a pro&s;cription from your Court. Innocence, it &s;eemes, is not &s;ufficient, where enemies are malicious and prepotent. I was attached and injuriou&s;ly impeached of a Crime, which I call heaven to record, I ever ab|horred. My trembling &s;oul &s;o commi&s;erates the in|tegrity of my di&s;po&s;ition: aggravated with the in|felicity of my pre&s;ent condition: as &s;he blu&s;heth to leave a line con&s;cious of it.&mdash; Shall my unwil|ling pen whi&s;per it! <HI>Trea&s;on!</HI>&mdash; with what a fe|vori&s;h temper do I mutter it! O my deare Prin|ce&s;&s;e, may this token of your gracious favour here inclo&s;ed, nere &s;peake for me; if ever my loyall heart, dedicated to your &s;ervice in all faith|full allegeance, harbour'd &s;o ungratefull a thought. My life I value not; mortality will injoyne it a Period. But honour is of a more durable temper; being the preciou&s;e&s;t Pearl, man can enjoy living: and the &s;weete&s;t perfume, that can embalme him dying. My captivity does not at all afflict me: nor the malicious de&s;igns of my implacable Enemies amate me: my &s;pirit is &s;pheared far above their &s;pleene; their &s;pite verg'd far beneath my &s;corne. &s;hould I lo&s;e the opinion of fidelity in the pier|cing and quick-di&s;cerning judgment of your Ma|je&s;ty; I &s;hould hold the encounter of death an ea&s;ie Combat to &s;uch a to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ture. I &s;hall de&s;erve to live no longer then a pure and unblemi&s;h'd fame
<PB REF="14"> adjudgeth me worthy of it. It is neither the Sen|tence of death already pronounced: nor the fury of my Competitors clearly di&s;covered; that can perplex me. I &s;tand or fall in the skale of your opinion. Reteine but that conceipt of me, which my actions have merited: and which to my la&s;t ga&s;pe &s;hall be inviolably continued: and death &s;hall be hugg'd as a welcome Gue&s;t by</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Condemned <HI>Clarentio.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>The Ring inclo&s;ed in the&s;e lines was given to <HI>Athalia;</HI> with promi&s;e that his de&s;ires &s;hould be effectually &s;econded: nor no opportunity omitted to expedite the Prince&s;&s;e an&s;wer in this particular. But <HI>Athalia,</HI> either through neglect, or over-born by the adver&s;e part, injuriou&s;ly depriv'd him of the benefit of his Pre&s;ent. So mutable and generally unfaithfull advancers be the&s;e Court-favorites of di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Plaintiffs &s;uits. But we mu&s;t impute this to <HI>Clarentio's</HI> unhappy fate, in making choice of &s;uch a Me&s;&s;enger; who&s;e affection was either &s;o coole in relation to his &s;afety: or &s;o in&s;en&s;ible of his Captivity; as her &s;urfets in Court, or di&s;-re|&s;pect to his Per&s;on; begot in her an Act of Obli|vion: making her wholly forgetful of his di&s;-con|&s;olate Condition.</P>
<P>Many daies had not the <HI>Phoebean</HI> beauty be|&s;pangled this inferiour Orbe with his Oriental Iu|&s;tre; til care was taken by his ho&s;tile actuaries for preparing and erecting a Tragick Scaffold. Where, He with his two A&s;&s;i&s;ting Lords at a preci&s;e houre were to &s;uffer. The Execution was intended to be done with more privacy, for tho&s;e Cautions forementioned, then it could po&s;&s;ibly be perfor|med.
<PB N="17" REF="14"> For the report of <HI>Clarentio's</HI> death became &s;o di&s;per&s;ed, that the whole City was filled with the fame of it. Wherewith &s;everall per&s;ons, as they &s;tood variou&s;ly affected, became &s;trangly &s;urprized. Many, and tho&s;e of the eminenre&s;t quality, be|moaned his premature fall: Relating the noble actions he had done to the &s;urviving honour of his Countrey: and high approvement of his loyalty: imputing the grounds of his Impeachment to no guilt of his, but to his Enemies malignant humour: who&s;e &s;ole bent it was, as they conceiv'd, to im|prove their future advancement by his Di&s;honour. But others there were far otherwi&s;e prepo&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed. For the&s;e, being of the Plebeian Ranck, and con|&s;equently more ea&s;ie to be wrought upon by the adver&s;e part: too credulou&s;ly inclined to the re|port which his malicious Adver&s;aries had &s;pread abroad concerning him: pretending, that <HI>Clarentio</HI> by his factious In&s;truments, had practi&s;ed the Ci|ties ruine: intending to &s;eize upon their Trea&s;u|ry: and by the &s;inews thereof to leavie Arms, Ammunition and men to act his own u&s;urping in|tere&s;t. The hour now approaching for this fatall and immerited execution: a great confluence of people a&s;&s;embled, contrary to the intention of the malignants;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Never was any de&s;ign carried on with more &s;ecre&s;ie &amp; &s;ubtilty, as we receive it from the Origi|nal Hi&s;to|ry.</NOTE> who de&s;igned nothing more then pri|vacy to vail it from the Eye and Ear of that Su|preme Soveraigntie, whereof they remained ever jealous, le&s;t the di&s;coverie might produce an un|&s;ea&s;onable prevention of their bloody intendment. <HI>Clarentio</HI> was pre&s;ented fir&s;t upon this &s;able Stage of State: the other two Per&s;onages onely appear|ing; to whom under a counterfeit colour of Cle|mencie
<PB N="18" REF="15"> a Reprieve was granted. The fatal Axe and Block being now prepared: and the Executi|oner ready to performe his Office: <HI>Licinio, Ma|girides</HI> and <HI>Pernio</HI> being &s;ecretly &s;hrouded, to be glad Spectators of this Theatral Tragedie, <HI>Cla|rentio</HI> with an undaunted and fortifi'd &s;pirit (as nothing could be le&s;&s;e expected from a Per&s;on of that gallantrie) addre&s;&s;ed him&s;elf in this &s;ort to his funeral farewel.</P>
<P><HI>My Lords and Gentlemen, you may here &s;ee to what a Cata&s;trophe the progre&s;&s;ion of my loyall &s;er|vice has reduc'd me! Neither do I impute this to the levity of my Prince: of who&s;e gracious favours I have &s;o amply partak't: but the ingratitude of time, and the mortall Enmity of my Oppo&s;ers: who with one unite con&s;ent pitch upon this re&s;ult; to ground their ri&s;ing upon my ruine. And &s;o far be my thoughts di&s;tanced from envying their imaginary happine&s;&s;e: or maligning their &s;urreptitious greatne&s;&s;e: that I here prote&s;t before you all, Gentlemen, and atte&s;t Heav'n to record it: that I freely and cordially re|mit tho&s;e numerous and in&s;upportable indignities they have done me: not onely in de&s;igning my death: for that is the lowest in the skale of my &s;ufferings: and the lea&s;t in my dimen&s;ion: but in their traducing of my fame: and blemi&s;hing mine honour, which might de&s;cend (if the Charity of good men &s;hould not re|move it) in after-ages to my po&s;terity. The&s;e, I &s;ay, in this my la&s;t accompt to Nature, I really pardon: wi&s;hing, they may receive the like entertaine in Hea|ven, as I render them now cancell'd in this my re|ceed from Earth. Now to confirm your opinion of my innocency, I be&s;eech you lend me your attention with
<PB N="19" REF="15"> a firme confidence of what I deliver to be authentick truth. The words of dying men &s;hould enforce the deepe&s;t impre&s;&s;ion, and receive mo&s;t credit.</HI></P>
<P><HI>I here vow before him that made me: and before whom I am to &s;tand or fall: that this brea&s;t never fo&s;ter'd &s;uch a thought, as might tend to Trea&s;on: or any &s;editious project again&s;t my Prince or the Con|&s;titution of her State. I was ever more retentive of tho&s;e Graces and Priviledges of Honour I had re|ceived; then to blaunch them with an Act of &s;uch palpable ingratitude. It is not unknown to mo&s;t of you, my Noble Lords, how per&s;onall Enmity and &s;elf-in|terests were the active&s;t in&s;truments of my fall. If they were here in pre&s;ence, whom I onely glance at: for my time, as it is &s;hort, &s;o mo&s;t improper for vin|dication of wrongs, or impeaching of per&s;ons; They could not with mode&s;ty deny, with what instancy they have &s;ollicited my compliance: and with what plan|&s;ive pretences they labourd to traine me to their Lure. Which I could never in honour acquie&s;ce to: finding their aimes to be mercenary: and grounded on indirect Principles: yet this, to this houre I never di&s;covered; &s;o tender I was of pre&s;erving their re|putes; who now make my Pa&s;&s;age hence, their mo&s;t Comicall and delightfull pa&s;time.</HI></P>
<P><HI>I &s;hall reque&s;t one &s;uit more of you my Lords; but e&s;pecially of you, my L.</HI> Stratonico; <HI>being mo&s;t ver&s;'d in the Court: and mo&s;t frequently in the eye of my Prince; that you would vouch&s;afe me that honour, as to pre&s;ent the mo&s;t humble and devotionall Obei|&s;ance of a dying Servant to her Maje&s;ty. Who&s;e la&s;t votive Sacrifice unto God, &s;hall be for her long, happy and prosperous Continuance in this her flou|ri&s;hing
<PB N="20" REF="16"> State and Imperiall Command of</HI> Candy. <HI>And to &s;upport this &s;o glorious a Fabrick of State, may &s;he have a grave and con&s;cientious Coun&s;ell to advi&s;e her in the mannage and government of her affaires. And that her prudentiall Senate may be ever purged of tho&s;e ulcerous members, who&s;e im|po&s;thum'd condition might corrupt the Con&s;titution of her State.&mdash; Now good night to all the world: &mdash; Executioner performe thy Office. My peace is made.</HI></P>
<P>The Executioner, more &s;en&s;ible it &s;eem'd of <HI>Clarentio's</HI> &s;uffering, then he was of his own; holding it an ungratefull Act to take off his head, who had formerly &s;av'd his life; became &s;urpriz'd with &s;uch a Panick fear; as his trembling hand, knew not how to direct the Axe. Which <HI>Clarentio</HI> ob&s;erving, incouraged him to do his work; &s;ay|ing, <Q>Be not &s;o di&s;courteous to me, <HI>Funello,</HI> for the favour I once &s;hew'd thee; as to delay the expected minute of my remove: Tru&s;t me, I &s;uffer more in thy protraction, then I &s;hall in the performance of thine office.</Q> But the&s;e words did but lightly allay his feares; which appeared at the very in&s;tant of this Execution. For &s;uch a trembling paralyticall motion indi&s;po&s;ed his hand, as his Axe mi&s;&s;ing the joynt at which he aimed wounded him twice or thrice, terribly in his &s;houlder; before he took off his head: which was pre&s;ently put into a damaske bag: and his body, though privately; yet with much decencie con|veyed and interred in a Vault anciently belonging to his Family.</P>
<P>Many howers were not pa&s;t, till the Relation of this Tragicall Action came to the eare of the Prin|ce&s;&s;e,
<PB N="21" REF="16"> either from the hand of <HI>Stratonico;</HI> a Favo|rite of principall e&s;teeme: and to whom <HI>Clarentio</HI> had at his death made his addre&s;s for pre&s;enting his humble&s;t Service to her Maje&s;ty: or from <HI>Athalia;</HI> who, as you forme<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ly heard, had either neglected or injuriou&s;ly &s;leighted that pious and amicable of|fice of delivering tho&s;e lines and Ring to the per|plexed Prince&s;&s;e, which <HI>Clarentio</HI> had recom|mended to her care and charge.</P>
<P>And by all probabilitie it came from <HI>Athalia,</HI> who having a deep re&s;entment of her unexpiable guilt: the very Evening after this Execution done; &s;he repaired to the Court: and going up to the Prince&s;se Bed-chamber; di&s;covered with much pa&s;&s;ion what was befaln <HI>Clarentio:</HI> with her neg|lect of that office which &s;he was obliged to per|forme. Wherewith the Prince&s;s, as one &s;urpriz'd with fear of the i&s;&s;ue, no le&s;s quickly then pa&s;&s;io|nately interrupting her; what office might that be whereto you flood obliged, <HI>Athalia;</HI> and failed in your performance? In my not pre&s;enting tho&s;e lines with a Ring inclo&s;ed to your Maje&s;tie. What lines? what Ring? and from whom? with tear-&s;woln eyes, and a weak-breathing accent, &s;he replied, from <HI>Clarentio.</HI> Oh then, have we lo&s;t eternally, <HI>Clarentio!</HI> May Iliads of mi&s;eries pur|&s;ue thee, faithle&s;s <HI>Athalia.</HI> Be a &s;tranger to our Court for ever; for ruining him; who&s;e actions compleated him in every Charge that our Com|mands impo&s;ed on him, an ab&s;olute Per&s;on of ho|nour. More would not her Princely pa&s;&s;ion either give way to hear; nor inquire: but retiring to her Clo&s;et, with a &s;evere injunction of <HI>Athalias</HI> ab|&s;ence
<PB N="22" REF="17"> from her Court: She remained as one exta|ciz'd for many daies after; admitting none to her pre&s;ence.</P>
<P>Not long after this uncouth &s;olitude and di&s;-pa|&s;&s;ionate retirement, <HI>Stratonico</HI> was &s;uffer'd to ac|quaint her with the whole <HI>Series</HI> of this Proceed|ing again&s;t <HI>Clarentio,</HI> and by whom he was with mo&s;t vehemencie and rigour pro&s;ecuted; together with his free and ingenuous atte&s;tation upon the Scaffold, of his integrious thoughts during the whole carriage of his imploiments in his relations to loyaltie and con&s;tant fidelitie, which he would with all alacritie &s;eal, (to clear his Familie of any &s;uch tincture) with the Sacrifice of his blood. This Narration recruted her pa&s;&s;ion: and imprin|ted in her royal affections a &s;tronger apprehen&s;ion Of his vertues. But alas, within &s;hort time this conceipt of his approved integritie: and his im|merited Cen&s;ure &s;o &s;trongly wrought upon her, as it brought her into a great indi&s;po&s;ition of health: but attempered nothing of her heat, in pur&s;uing his revenge again&s;t tho&s;e active In&s;truments of his ruine. For <HI>Magirides,</HI> and <HI>Pernio,</HI> who were his Rhadamanthean Judges were &s;hortly after degra|ded: and with Writts of Ea&s;e ju&s;tly rewarded. And for <HI>Licinio</HI> the prime Actor in this Tragedy; had not a noi&s;ome di&s;ea&s;e abridged his daies; an heavie and exemplarie Sentence of Pro&s;cription had attached him.</P>
<P>Now to Epitomize the Excellencies of this Prince&s;&s;e <HI>Bellingeria,</HI> it were ea&s;ie to collect hence; the noblene&s;s and puritie of her di&s;po&s;iti|on; in reteining the memorie of &s;uch as had be|&s;tow'd
<PB N="23" REF="17"> their Endevours in the Carriage of her af|faires with fidelitie: and her care to vindicate their honours, whom irregular Command or in|ju&s;tice of Proceeding, to the prejudice of her Court, had illegally cen&s;ured. Favorites &s;he would admit none, &s;ave &s;uch as favoured vertue. For Councellours of State; &s;he made choice of none, but where Judgment and Con&s;cience were Concomitants. Humane Learning &s;he affected; as an Imbelli&s;hment to higher Studies. State-read|ing &s;he made &s;ingular u&s;e of: and to times and occa&s;ions prudently applied tho&s;e requi&s;ites. Though unprovoked, &s;he appear'd of a benigne and peaceable nature, lyable to no feminine nor weak humour; yet if a&s;&s;aulted, or by any inva&s;ive Force were it never &s;o formidable di&s;gu&s;ted; She would appeare a Princely Martiali&s;t: and in time of danger, give ample te&s;timonies of her incompa|rable vallour: for &s;he would not &s;tick to go before her Souldiers with her Leading Staffe in her hand: and play the General in the Field, to incourage her men by her example to fight.</P>
<P>So accompli&s;h'd was <HI>Bellingeria;</HI> and of &s;uch Princely endowments, being no le&s;&s;e formidable to her Enemies; then infinitely winning and af|fectionate to her own: as &s;he might appeale to the whole progre&s;&s;e of her flouri&s;hing Government, if ever any State were managed with more Forraigne feare and Dome&s;tick love. A pre&s;ident to pre&s;ent times: and memoriall to future Ages. Yet the pure&s;t Cloath may admit it's &s;taine: and the inte|griou&s;e&s;t per&s;on incurr a blemi&s;h.</P>
<P>This I might in&s;tance in this unparallel'd Prin|ce&s;&s;e;
<PB N="24" REF="18"> a Lady memorable for her virile and ma&s;|culine valour; and no le&s;s generally fam'd for her virgin honour. Who&s;e royall repute receiv'd a deep taint or tincture in one action; which, to contract our &s;tory with more brevity, clo&s;ed thus.</P>
<P>There was one <HI>Mariana,</HI> a Lady for &s;tate and magnifi&s;cence, a <HI>Sophonisba;</HI> for bounty and mu|nificence a <HI>Berenice;</HI> who was nearly linkt in blood to <HI>Berengeria.</HI> She, for diver&s;e occurrences thwartly incountring her, was advi&s;ed to leave her Country, where &s;he had &s;o many powerfull Ene|mies: and to retire to the Confines of <HI>Candy;</HI> where &s;he might be confident of a free and grace|full Ho&s;pitality; with all &s;uch princely accommo|dations as might hold corre&s;pondence with a Per|&s;on of her quality. With the&s;e faire and plau&s;ive promi&s;es was <HI>Mariana</HI> induced to decline her Countrey: and repaire to <HI>Candy.</HI> Where &s;he had not long &s;ojourned; till &s;ome unworthy In&s;tru|ments of State, pretending a zeal to the Prince&s;&s;e; &s;ugge&s;ted to her too credulous &s;pirit; what am|bitious thoughts <HI>Mariana</HI> had of u&s;urping a Sove|raignty: and how her recour&s;e to <HI>Candy,</HI> although it pretended per&s;onall &s;afety: was to ingratiate the eminent&s;t Peers to &s;econd her in the pur&s;uit of her regall Title; in &s;ucce&s;&s;ion to the Kingdom; where|to &s;he held her &s;elf neare&s;t by a lineall and heredi|tary de&s;cent, to the Crown.</P>
<P>This private &s;ugge&s;tion infinitely perplext the Prince&s;&s;e; neither would &s;he at fir&s;t give eare unto it: interpreting all things, according to the good|ne&s;s of her nature, to the be&s;t &s;ence. But at la&s;t by long per&s;wa&s;ion, and &s;undry arguments of pro|bability
<PB N="25" REF="18"> to induce her belief; &s;he became doubtfull of <HI>Mariana's</HI> fidelity. And within few daies after, injoyned her a re&s;traint: and that &s;o ea&s;ie, as it abridg'd not much her Liberty. But this jealou&s;ie, fomented by &s;ome officious Agents, became daily increa&s;ed; and by degrees to &s;uch height, as &s;he became attached of High Trea&s;on (which to cleare the Prince&s;&s;e innocence, &s;he was wholly unknown to.) The Malignants of this di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Lady, were main and many. And to expedite their de&s;igne, &s;he became &s;oon impeached. Arti&s;ts they could not want to execute their work. At <HI>Famorgned</HI> was a Stately Scaffold &s;hortly erected, where this unfortunate Lady was to &s;acrifice her life. Where &s;he appeared with a cheerfull and amicable Coun|tenance: (as what will not innocence cloathed with a noble &s;pirit per&s;onate) and calling upon her Gentlewomen <HI>Philanthe;</HI> wi&s;hed her not to be at all amated with her death: <Q>though it be a Cen|&s;ure, &s;aid &s;he, that I neither expected nor meri|ted. My innocence incourageth me, and bids me boldly look death in the face.</Q></P>
<P>After &s;he had taken a turn or two over the Scaf|fold; and eying the Exetutioner: <Q>I am per&s;wa|ded, &s;aid &s;he, that thou art more fearfull of exe|cuting thy Office, then I &s;hall be in &s;uffering the &s;troak of Ju&s;tice. But it behoves me to &s;peak &s;omething in my own defence: though I could not be admitted to that favour at th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> time of my judgment.</Q> Then inclining her body with a ma|je&s;tick grace (as no Per&s;on could put on Maje&s;tie with a more becoming or unaffected po&s;ture) &s;he delivered her&s;elf in the&s;e words.</P>
<PB N="26" REF="19">
<P><Q>Gentlemen, and you that are Per&s;ons of ho|nour; be plea&s;ed to hear the la&s;t words of a con|demned Stranger; One, the innocencie of who&s;e actions never de&s;erved any &s;uch cen&s;ure.</Q></P>
<P><Q>I came here for Sanctuarie; and behold the fruits of <HI>Candies</HI> ho&s;pitalitie! I came here for &s;afetie; and the Sacrifice of my life a&s;&s;ures me of Securitie. To tell you what I am, I &s;hall not need much to acquaint you: few of you &s;pheared in the rank of Nobilitie, but are known to my de&s;cent; I leave it to the puritie of my Soul to atte&s;t my de&s;ert. But the Cau&s;e is &s;oon pleaded, where no Advocate will be admitted. Before I came forth of my own Countrey, I heard great fame of your Prince&s;s goodne&s;s: and <HI>Candies</HI> benignitie. My Entrance was no De&s;ign of di&s;loyaltie, but an a|ction of apparent nece&s;&s;itie; hoping to find that entertain abroad, which I could not partake of at home. I cannot but acknowledge my lineal right, but to reach at a Crown before it fell due: or to u&s;urpe a Command from an others intere&s;t, was the lea&s;t of my thoughts, the lowe&s;t of my &s;corn. To my knowledge, my demean has not merited any of the&s;e high indignities from any of your Peerage. My life has been hitherto of more retirement, then to imbroile my Per&s;on in any forraign affairs, or to fi&s;h in troubled wa|ters; whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">in active and unquiet &s;pirits are mo&s;t ver&s;s'd. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t to what end do I di&s;cour&s;e the fore|pa&s;t Condition of my life, drawing &s;o near a pe|riod?</Q></P>
<P><Q>My Lords, I know there be &s;ome of you, who out of a native compa&s;&s;ion (the expre&s;s Character
<PB N="27" REF="19"> of a noble nature) will commi&s;erate my fall: and retein an har&s;h conceipt of tho&s;e that were &s;uch eager hunters after my bloud. To you I appeal as vindicators of mine honour; which upon the word of a di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Prince&s;s, you may &s;afely act without the lea&s;t blemi&s;h to your unque&s;tion'd repute. It was the Clande&s;tine practi&s;e and con|&s;piracie of my Enemies, who de&s;igned my ruine, that winged my cour&s;e for <HI>Candy.</HI> And by &s;ome eminent per&s;ons, as their a&s;&s;urance by Letters will manife&s;t; I was made to believe (&s;o apt was my innocence to become credulous) that nothing could be wanting, that might &s;uit with a per&s;on of my qualitie in the Puncto of Honour, or any proper accommodation corre&s;ponding to &s;o ac|ceptable a Stranger. But my too late experience taxeth now my indi&s;creet Credulitie. It had been much better for me to have peri&s;hed in my own Confines with honour: then to die in another, and remain branded with an ignominious Cen|&s;ure. But we mu&s;t not conte&s;t with Fate: nor condemn Heaven of Inju&s;tice. Fit it is that Su|periour Powers &s;hould exerci&s;e their dominion over Inferiour Bodies. Such high Decretals ad|mit no Prohibitions. But I a&s;&s;ume too much pri|viledge upon your patience: this unnece&s;&s;arie &s;pinning out of time, may &s;ome argue, implies a pu&s;illanimitie of &s;pirit: which, thanks to my Ma|ker, &s;tands at great di&s;tance with the re&s;olution of my temper. We have hitherto, for the mo&s;t part of our time, &s;ailed on a rough and turbulent Ocean: and arriving now near our Harbour, what &s;hould we fear? Farewell to all; with a
<PB N="28" REF="20"> free remitment to tho&s;e who pur&s;ued me to death. Then calling upon <HI>Philanthe;</HI> who all this while appeared like another <HI>Niobe,</HI> drenched in tears. Lend me thine hand, &s;aid &s;he, <HI>Philanthe:</HI> and pay thy la&s;t dutie to thy dying Ladie.</Q> Where laying her Head, (above a feminine compo&s;ure) up|on the Block; with a princely maje&s;tie elevating her Eyes to heaven, where no doubt, her thoughts and fervorous de&s;ires were already fixed, &s;he un|dergoed with incomparable patience, and &s;overaigntie over her pa&s;&s;ions, the &s;troake of death.</P>
<P>This immerited Action lay a fowle a&s;per&s;ion up|on <HI>Bellingeria:</HI> taxing her both for her too light credulitie; and too much crueltie.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t of Credulitie; in opening her bo&s;om to &s;uch groundle&s;s reports as the malignancie of her Foes had merely &s;ugge&s;ted. Secondly, of Cruel|tie; in embruing her imperial hand in her Kin&s;|womans bloud; who fled to her Court for &s;uc|cour: and not to be proceeded withall, as a Trai|tor. Hence it was, that &s;ome of her neare&s;t, and tho&s;e of the pure&s;t and cleare&s;t Judgment &s;par'd not to &s;ay; That it was an apparent breach of Na|tional amitie: and a flat violation of Ho&s;pitalitie; which might be by the&s;e Evidences clearly at|te&s;ted.</P>
<P>For, in the fir&s;t place, there had been a firme Juncto and con&s;tant corre&s;pondence, confirmed by mutual pre&s;ents and arguments of affection, cemented more &s;trongly by the tie of Con&s;angui|nitie; betwixt the&s;e two Royal Ladies. U&s;ual a&s;&s;i|&s;tances upon occa&s;ional intere&s;ts, reciprocally af|forded;
<PB N="29" REF="20"> Commerce amicably without di&s;turbance continued: with interchange of all civil offices: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd re&s;pects of love equally communicated. Be|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ides, <HI>Bellingeria</HI> might remain amply &s;atisfied <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ouching <HI>Mariana</HI>'s fidelitie: for though &s;he had <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">een advi&s;ed, nay &s;eriou&s;ly in&s;tanced to pur&s;ue the Que&s;t of her Title: and to ingratiate her&s;elf with &s;uch as &s;ate at the Stern: le&s;t her &s;trangene&s;&s;e to Per&s;ons of Command and Qualitie might impede her legal and lineal challenge to her Soveraigntie: yet would &s;he never give eare nor attention to all their per&s;wa&s;ive inducements: &s;aying, &s;he was neither &s;o jealous of the Prince of <HI>Candies</HI> good|ne&s;s: nor &s;o diffident of the validitie of her own Claim; but when opportunitie gave way to her ju&s;t demands, &s;he might without oppo&s;ition be ad|mitted to that Monarchical State, whereto both Law and Bloud had entituled her. And to leap into the &s;adle, before the right Owner were di&s;|mounted: or had di&s;ea&s;ed him&s;elf of it; argued im|pudence or manife&s;t inju&s;tice. <Q>No, &s;aid &s;he, I am none of tho&s;e Lapwings who flie to their Ne&s;ts with &s;hells on their heads. Preparation with mature Judgment &s;hall accompanie my Title be|fore I a&s;cend the Throne.</Q></P>
<P>The&s;e ju&s;t and pious Re&s;olvs of &s;o princely a Ladie; might have return'd a plenary and &s;ufficient <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;timonie of her loyal &amp; affectionate tender to her Royal Kin&s;woman, without di&s;pute. But Crowns and Nuptial Beds, as they admit no Competitors: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o their enjoyment begets, many times, &s;undry cau&s;ele&s;s fears; which by degrees u&s;ually break forth into Tragical Extreams.</P>
<PB N="30" REF="21">
<P>Yet in the di&s;coverie of all the&s;e heavy pa&s;&s;a|ges, trenching &s;o highly upon <HI>Bellingeria's</HI> honor; if we &s;hould take an impartial &s;urvey of &s;ome par|ticulars tending to her vindication; we &s;hall find &s;undry effectual motives, and tho&s;e &s;trongly endu|cing us to entertain a clearer con&s;truction of <HI>Bel|lingeria</HI>'s proceeding again&s;t <HI>Mariana.</HI> True it is, indeed, that upon &s;ome per&s;wa&s;ive &s;ugge&s;tions, hammered by Per&s;ons nearly intere&s;ted to the State; the Prince&s;s gave way to her Commit|ment; which might be taken rather for an ea&s;ie confinement, then any &s;trict re&s;traint. But in re|lation to the Judgment pronounced; or the Act of Ju&s;tice executed, &s;he was wholly ignorant: as might appear by &s;undrie pregnant circum&s;tances: which might be collected hence. Fir&s;t, this Prince&s;s af|ter &s;uch time as &s;he had received certain adver|ti&s;ement of the weight and rigour of tho&s;e procee|dings again&s;t her injured Kin&s;woman; &s;he could never endure to admit any of her Pro&s;ecutors to her pre&s;ence: di&s;placing &s;uch as were Gown|men and per&s;ons of Judicature: and e&s;tranging tho&s;e Favorites from her Court, who had any hand in the ha&s;tning of her di&s;patch. Nay, in her Prince|ly Progre&s;s, it was ever ob&s;erved; when at any time her Je&s;ts lay near that Place where <HI>Ma|riana</HI> &s;uffered; in re&s;entment of her death, &s;he would u&s;ually take her Evening Proce&s;&s;ion, one of her Ladies onely attending her, to the place of her Interment: where &s;he would &s;olemnize her Me|mory with pious tears: cau&s;ing a fair Monu|ment of Ebony to be erected, and with an elegant In&s;cription beautified. Though by her next Suc|ce&s;&s;our,
<PB N="31" REF="21"> her body became afterwards removed, and with much &s;olemnitie tran&s;lated, to a Fane or Temple of more honour: where it now remains regi&s;tred among the Eminen&s;t Princes of <HI>Candy.</HI></P>
<P>Thus have we, and no le&s;&s;e then de&s;ervingly, with an ea&s;ie Sponge wip'd off tho&s;e a&s;per&s;ions which licentious Calumny ari&s;ing from the Cor|ruption of time, had thrown upon the &s;ame of this unparallel'd Lady. Who&s;e renown has been the Subject of many ingenious Fancies; not one|ly to eternize her fame: but in improving their own judgement, in making choice of &s;o rare and ex|qui&s;ite a Subject.</P>
<P>But we are now to de&s;cend from the de&s;cription of this ab&s;olute Idea of all Princes in her time; to her farewell on earth. You are now to imagin this Orient Sun, after &s;he had attained to a ripe and full age, being already got to her Climactericall yeare inveloped in a Cloud, that fable Shroud of mortality.</P>
<P>Albeit, it was generally thought, that the Con|&s;titution of her body con&s;idered: and her excellent temper in her directions of diet ob&s;erved; She might, to the joy of her Subjects, have lived much longer: had not &s;ome occurrents violently incoun|tring with her pa&s;&s;ions, enfeebled her health and contracted the Cour&s;e of Nature. Neither was this pa&s;&s;ionate Conflict di&s;covered in any per&s;o|nall Object more, then in the lo&s;&s;e of her <HI>Claren|tio:</HI> which name with an a&s;&s;iduate Tribute of teares, all along during the time of her Sickne&s;s, &s;he u&s;ually repeated and reiterated: &s;uch deep im|pre&s;&s;ions of affection had the Opinion of his Loy|all
<PB N="32" REF="22"> Service imprinted in her heart. But forc'd at la&s;t to yield to Nature; &s;he &s;eem'd infinitely to rejoyce in her Remove, thanking Fate with a plea|&s;ing &s;mile, for winning her addre&s;&s;e to &s;o faithfull a Friend: and &s;erviceable an In&s;trument of State. But &s;ome there were who imputed the&s;e ravings and di&s;tempers to the extremity of her Sickne&s;s: which we &s;hall not here di&s;pute. It appeared that her memory continued perfect to her death: for &s;he gave expre&s;s Commands &s;ome daies before, that <HI>Lycorus</HI> and <HI>Merannes</HI> with all tho&s;e that adheared to <HI>Clarentio's</HI> faction &s;hould be inlarged and re&s;to|red to their E&s;tates.</P>
<P>After &s;uch time as <HI>Bellingeria's</HI> Funeralls had been with all Princely magnificence &s;olemnized. <HI>Candy</HI> became infinitely di&s;tracted, touching the Nomination of their next Prince. For though they were &s;atisfied in relation to his de&s;cent: being in|dubitable Heire to the decea&s;ed Prince&s;s: yet bore they a great di&s;gu&s;t to the <HI>Nation</HI> from whence he was to come: being <HI>Illiria;</HI> a People naturally &s;ervile, uncivile and pu&s;illanimous. Neither could it be &s;uppos'd as mo&s;t men thought, that the <HI>Illirian</HI> could challenge his own without great oppo&s;ition: or enjoy his Crown without much effu&s;ion of blood: and that &s;ome Electorate E&s;tate would be &s;peedily con&s;tituted to cro&s;s the <HI>Illirian</HI> de&s;cent. Which fared much otherwi&s;e; for <HI>Cicelio,</HI> a grave, &s;erious and prudent per&s;on; though naturally a|ver&s;e from Martiall affaires, had &s;o ingratiated the Peeres and principall Members of State (as what will not Gifts effect?) as he entred the I&s;le with generall approvement and acclamation. None to
<PB N="33" REF="22"> oppo&s;e him: all with alacrious &s;pirits ready to at|tend him: and to prepare away tahis Coronation; which within few dayes after was accompli&s;hed: and with &s;uch Solemnity as it drove the <HI>Illirian</HI> Prince, now <HI>Candies</HI> Soveraign, into an high a|mazement. Ju&s;ts, Tilts and Turnaments; Dra|matick Enterludes, Masks, and Pagentry of all &s;orts, pre&s;ented with incomparable &s;tate and infi|nite co&s;t by the Citizens of <HI>Thami&s;opolis;</HI> where the&s;e Coronation Shows were contrived, prepared &amp; perfected. Ce&s;terns ran abundantly with Claret, White and Rheni&s;h, as if they had &s;prung from the <HI>Celtick</HI> rivolets. Neither could this high pre&s;ent|ment of State beget le&s;s then amazement in the <HI>Illirian</HI> Prince; &s;eeing his own indigent, rude and illiterate Nation, never entertain'd his Eyes with any &s;uch rarities. His royal Con&s;ort, a Prince&s;s of a gallant compo&s;ure and &s;tately deportment, was with the choice&s;t voices and airs, wherewith &s;he was infinitely delighted, after the compleating of the&s;e Solemnities, gracefully receaved. Where the Lady <HI>Honetta</HI> and <HI>Devone&s;&s;a</HI> by their incom|parable voices and accompli&s;h'd demean wrought &s;o &s;trongly upon her affection: as no &s;ociety, treat, Ball nor Pre&s;entment could appear grateful to this Prince&s;s without their pre&s;ence. And in very deed the free and frolick humors of the&s;e two La|dies &s;uited nearly with the Prince&s;s di&s;po&s;ition. For her Husband, being naturally addicted to re|tirement: or &s;uch Contemplative &s;tudies as di&s;|reli&s;hed much her palat; being a Lady dedicated to plea&s;ure, by his privacy gave her way to all Courtly Liberty. Great was her content in Masks
<PB N="34" REF="23"> and Revels: wherein, if &s;he chanced to ob&s;erve any per&s;on more gracefully eminent, or actively performing then the re&s;t; to do him the honour and compleat the pre&s;entment in a more ab&s;olute manner, &s;he would with much cheerfulne&s;s and princely alacrity joyn with him in the Mea&s;ure: and te&s;tifie her grateful acceptance with an appro|priate favour.</P>
<P>This begot in her young Court-Dama&s;ella's an infinite affection:<NOTE PLACE="marg">An Idea or Modell of a New Court.</NOTE> joying much in the change of their condition: For <HI>Bellingeria</HI> in her raign could not enjoyn the Attendants of her Court more regular re&s;traint, then this Prince&s;s after her &s;hort re&s;ide in the Court, initiated them in prin|ciples of liberty. State-affairs were not &s;o much as thought on. New-fa&s;hion'd habits, melodious aires, amorous parlies, with a Mintage of quaint devi&s;ed complements, &s;uch as the ru&s;tick incivi|lities of the <HI>Illirian</HI> Nation had never made their Princes acquainted withall.</P>
<P>All this time, <HI>Honetta</HI> and <HI>Dione&s;&s;a,</HI> Ladies de|dedicated to plea&s;ure, and who had formerly to too much freedom expo&s;ed their honour, cea&s;ed not to pre&s;ent objects of Fancy to their frolick Sove|raigne&s;s; Which could not be &s;o privately &s;ugge&s;ted, but it was in the Ear of the Court clo&s;ely di&s;per&s;ed. Which her &s;low and &s;upine Prince either never heard of, or took no notice of: having the happi|ne&s;s not &s;o much as to unlock the well-ordered Cabinet of his heart to any thought of Jealou&s;ie. For the activene&s;s of his Spirit was wholly imploy|ed in Field-plea&s;ures: and &s;uch Sociable Com|plies, as reli&s;hed more the palat; then any other
<PB N="35" REF="23"> youthful or amorous addre&s;s. Which tho&s;e two wanton voluptuous Ladies nimbly and artfully wrought upon in their application to his Con|&s;ort.</P>
<P>One Evening in a free Career of Di&s;cour&s;e (in a clo&s;e Arbour delightfully impaled with Myrtles, Emblems to a love-parley) <HI>Honetta</HI> an Excellent Tutore&s;&s;e in loves Principles, told her Prince&s;&s;e, how in her Survey of a Court life, wherein &s;he had been vers'd from her Infancy, &s;he found nothing more con&s;entaneous to a free and inlarged &s;pirit then a rational and corre&s;ponding Favorite, to whom any Lady with re&s;ervancy to her honour, might impart the &s;ecre&s;ie of her affection: and receive a&s;&s;i&s;tance in the fair pur&s;uit of her De&s;ires.</P>
<P>What might the&s;e <HI>Favorites</HI> be, an&s;wer'd the Prince&s;s, on whom, my dear <HI>Honetta,</HI> you are plea&s;ed to be&s;tow &s;o fair a title, and &s;o clear a Cha|racter? Madam, quoth &s;he, my Expre&s;&s;es &s;hall be &s;hort and real. Though <HI>Plato</HI> be dead, his <HI>Plato|nicks</HI> &s;urvive. We have many here of that com|pleat Sect, that will labour by their fair deport|ment to merit your acceptance: who be tho&s;e, &s;aid the Prince&s;s, whom among&s;t thy Select ones, may receive &s;o free admittance to our relati|ons? None of all our Courtiers, an&s;wer'd <HI>Honetta,</HI> more corre&s;ponding then <HI>Lycorus,</HI> (a per&s;on formerly ingaged in an action of infinite con&s;equence and probable peril.) <HI>De|vone&s;&s;a</HI> hearing the name of <HI>Lycorus</HI> commended to the Prince&s;s for her <HI>Platonick;</HI> was not a little di&s;|reli&s;hed with <HI>Honettas</HI> choice; being a per&s;on whom &s;he had formerly entertain'd in her bo&s;om before
<PB N="36" REF="24"> all others: and to whom with much intimacy &s;he had devoted her affection. O by no means, Ma|dam, make <HI>Lycorus</HI> none of your <HI>Platonicks</HI> (replied <HI>Dione&s;&s;a</HI>) he cannot po&s;&s;ibly prove faithful in re|tention of your &s;ecrets, who has profe&s;t him&s;elf a Servant to many Mi&s;tre&s;&s;es. I could commend one to you, Madam, &s;aid <HI>Devone&s;&s;a,</HI> who&s;e per&s;o|nage, as it might beget in you a merited accep|tance, &s;o the approvement of his &s;ecre&s;ie, in what|&s;oever may highly concern your honour, de&s;er|vingly corre&s;pond with your admittance. And this is <HI>Merannes;</HI> a Per&s;on of a Courtly garb and amiable pre&s;ence. This choice tendred to the Prince&s;s (by way of revenge, for otherwi&s;e it could not be con&s;trued) did not a little nettle <HI>Honetta;</HI> for none more bo&s;omly dear then <HI>Merannes</HI> nor fa|miliarly affectionate: though with a plea&s;ant com|pliance &s;he wi&s;ely cover'd it: as if her thoughts were wholly e&s;tranged from any &s;uch Object. But <HI>Devone&s;&s;a</HI> knew well, that <HI>Honetta</HI> could not but hold her&s;elf fully requited for her propo&s;al of <HI>Ly|corus</HI> to the Prince&s;s.</P>
<P>Time thus run on rather in amorous di&s;cour&s;es and introductions to Love then any other actuall expre&s;&s;es. Wherein though the Prince&s;s <HI>I&s;menia</HI> &s;hew'd her &s;elf a <HI>Soveraigne&s;&s;e</HI> of <HI>Plea&s;ure;</HI> yet there appeared in her no di&s;covery of any Select Favorite; &s;o cautious &s;he was in her Choice: and &s;o ob&s;ervant in the points of honour. Albeit &s;ome light Cen&s;ors of the Court, who mea&s;ur'd the le|vity of others affections by their own &s;cantling; and who&s;e eyes were no le&s;s &s;u&s;picious, then tongues liberall; &s;pread a report of her intimacy
<PB N="37" REF="24"> with <HI>Lycorus;</HI> who&s;e di&s;creet compo&s;ure was ne|ver known to tran&s;gre&s;s the limits of honour: nor ingage his repute to an inhibited plea&s;ure. But &s;ome ground there was (and weake is that ground which cen&s;orious jealou&s;ie cannot build on) and it aro&s;e from hence: <HI>Ba&s;ilius,</HI> her retired Con|&s;ort, a Per&s;on wholly devoted to privacy and Comtemplative Studies, unle&s;s &s;ome other lighter Plea&s;ure for recreation-&s;ake, entertain'd him: walking one Evening in his Garden; and finding <HI>Lycorus</HI> in plea&s;ant private di&s;cour&s;e with his La|dy: <HI>I approve this highly (&s;aid</HI> Ba&s;ilius) <HI>I &s;ee we are all for Platonick Learning.</HI></P>
<P>This Speech, without ground, begot an opini|on in tho&s;e light jealous Courtiers, but e&s;pecially the Ladies, who variou&s;ly rendred tho&s;e words of <HI>Ba&s;ilius,</HI> and much different from his meaning: That this weak Prince more e&s;pou&s;ed to Learning then Love; being con&s;cious of his own deficien|cy, had di&s;-intere&s;&s;ed him&s;elf of his Prince&s;s: and freely recommended her to the Tutelage of a Pla|tonick Lord. Which traduce no &s;ooner came to <HI>I&s;menias</HI> eare, who&s;e innocent freedom might clearly vindicate it &s;elf from any &s;uch groundle&s;s imputation, &s;he could not be at re&s;t till &s;he ac|quitted this Charge of honour in this manner. The words are rendred according to their Origi|nall tenure.</P>
<P><HI>Ladies, wherein has my freedom &s;o highly offen|ded, that it &s;hould nur&s;e in you this opinion? Cannot di&s;cour&s;e be entertain'd without lightne&s;s: nor the admittance of a Courtier without &s;u&s;picion of wan|tonne&s;&s;e? I am as yet but a &s;tranger in your Court:
<PB N="38" REF="25"> and I wi&s;h with all mine heart, that I had never been initiated in it, if it &s;tand &s;o affected. A diadem is a precious Ornament, but inferiour to fame. &mdash; This I had before I came among you: and injoy'd my dig|nity with as much liberty, and more honour. Surely, I cannot think otherwi&s;e, but that there raigns much infection in that Court; where harmele&s;s af|fection appeares &s;o infectious. I &s;hould prove as cruell to each accent of my delivery, as the</HI> O&s;tridge <HI>to her eggs, if they &s;hould produce a di&s;covery of lightne&s;s in their i&s;&s;ue. I have heard from &s;ome of you Ladies, who&s;e long di&s;cipline hath &s;ufficiently &s;chool'd you in the mode and rarity of Courts, that Platonick &s;ociety might be admitted without the least touch or blemi&s;h of di&s;honour. And mu&s;t a Rule of Exception be in|joyned to a Prince&s;s which admits none to the freedom of her Ladies? Mu&s;t our re&s;traint inlarge your li|berty? How far better then is it to imbrace Sub|jection then Severaignty? If the felicity of Princes con&s;ist in dominion; why &s;hould it not di&s;cover it &s;elf mo&s;t in priority of affection? Are we to be lower in our love, becau&s;e higher in our line?</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ancient Records render us this te&s;timony of our glorious Predece&s;&s;or</HI> Athalia <HI>&s;ometimes Prince&s;s of</HI> Candy; <HI>that though her life was &s;ingle, expre&s;&s;ing in it &s;ingular Continence: her Parts exqui&s;ite, ac|compli&s;h'd withall Princely Excellence; her exploits admirable, manifesting her prowe&s;s and happine&s;s: yet did &s;he allow her &s;elf</HI> State-favorites, <HI>to inable her in Rules of Politick Government, without the lea&s;t Sentiment of Lightne&s;s. Her life was emi|nent: and her death to the quality of her life corre|&s;pondent. Let me obtaine this boone of you, faire La|dies;
<PB N="39" REF="25"> that I may freely injoy without Cen&s;ure, what my Progenitors did without lea&s;t diminution to their honour. But if this may not be admitted me, I will propo&s;e unto you Ladies a more regular Copy of au|&s;terity. Platonicks &s;hall be to us &s;trangers: and our Needles our con&s;tant Con&s;orts. A &s;traid look &s;hall incurre a Forfeiture. And for the</HI> Court, <HI>The Queens &s;ide &s;hall become a Cloi&s;ter; let my Liege u&s;e his at his plea&s;ure. This, I hope, will prevent all jealou&s;ie: and free us from all &s;candalous reports and immerited infamy. For dye had we rather with Fame, then live in di&s;honour.</HI></P>
<P>This drove &s;uch a cold qualme into tho&s;e young Ladies hearts; as they knew not by what meanes to bring their injuried and highly incen&s;ed Prin|ce&s;&s;e to her Former temper. The Court grew quite out a tune. A &s;ad and uncouth Melancho|ly, a &s;trange Gue&s;t to that Place, had &s;abled eve|ry Roome. The Queenes &s;ide appeared like a Tragicall Tyring hou&s;e. But long did not the&s;e Sudds of Sorrow nor dumps of di&s;content con|tinue. That <HI>Italian</HI> Proverb confirmed it &s;elf true in this Cata&s;trophe. <HI>Short is Sorrows &s;urfet, where Court-plea&s;ure makes her Palet.</HI> New Pre&s;ent|ments enlivened &s;pritely and active affections. The Platonick State, &s;o lately di&s;heartned by <HI>I&s;|menia's</HI> di&s;gu&s;t, in a more refined and compt garbe begun to re&s;ume its former beauty and liberty. Tilts and Turnaments with other Martiall Exerci|&s;es, wherein the Peerage were formerly imployed; became Addre&s;&s;es of too virile a quality.</P>
<P>Carpet-Knights were not for Campe-Service: nor Court-Couches convertible to Field-Bedds.
<PB N="40" REF="26"> Schools and Academies of Love &s;tored with choi|ce&s;t Lectures of pure and attractive Rhetorick, to make their dialect a more powerfull Sollicitor to Fancy, were erected: and Ma&s;ters of Revells ap|pointed and amply endowed; and the&s;e were im|ployed in contriving and inventing variety of Co|mick and Pa&s;torall delights: which were u&s;ually pre&s;ented in their private Court Theaters, purpo&s;e|ly erected for &s;uch Enterludes and Comicall In|ventions. And good opportunity had <HI>I&s;menia</HI> with her amorous Ladies to play the Platonick Courtiers: &s;eeing <HI>Ba&s;ilius</HI> made the Wild Forre&s;t the Place of his &s;olace and recreation. VVhence &s;ome virulent Spirits would not &s;tick to traduce <HI>I&s;menia:</HI> and make her honour &s;u&s;pected: &s;aying, that &s;o long as <HI>Actaeon</HI> pur&s;ued his Chace: his <HI>Al|cione</HI> might &s;ecurley make choice of her Game. But tho&s;e who were known to her Conjugall Condi|tion (though too much freedom might blemi&s;h her Fame) might witne&s;s for her, that her Princely thoughts mounted above the &s;pheare of &s;uch &s;er|vile affections. Being &s;uch an ab&s;olute Empre&s;s of her de&s;ires; as in tho&s;e Platonick Encounters; where the &s;trength of Continency was many times brought to a tryall: if her Pretending Pla|tonick tran&s;ported too much with confidence &s;hould divert from their addre&s;&s;ed di&s;cour&s;e, were it morall, hi&s;toricall or mixt: and a&s;&s;ume to him|&s;elf a freedom le&s;s becoming: though more amo|rou&s;ly glancing: &s;he would not forbear &s;harpely to reprove him <HI>&s;aying, that he had tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed</HI> Plato's <HI>Laws: For &s;ome of his Works &s;he had read lately rendred in her own Native dialect: but ne|ver
<PB N="41" REF="26"> found him act the part of a &s;en&s;uall Suiter.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Molidorus</HI> indeed, was holden her Eminent Favorite: and ever receiv'd, upon his appliance to her, with a gracefull Entertaine. But never more then mode&s;ty might admit: For in private vi&s;its, after that a&s;per&s;ion thrown on her, upon her reported intimacy with <HI>Lycorus,</HI> no Courtier, were he never &s;o accompli&s;h'd, could have acce&s;s or admittance to her, without the pre&s;ence of &s;ome of her Ladies of Honour. So as in this, &s;o in other Objects of Fancy, her unblemi&s;h'd Fame was injuriou&s;ly traduced. But her ma&s;culine re&s;o|lution from a noblene&s;s of Spirit, &s;leighted all &s;uch palpable a&s;per&s;ions.</P>
<P>Neither could the purity of her Fame be more really clear from Infamy, then <HI>Bazilius</HI> hone&s;t heart was of the lea&s;t thought of Jealou&s;y.</P>
<P>Neither did this indifferency to Feminine Ob|jects, nor his affection to the contrary Sex, pro|ceed (as &s;ome weakly conceipted) from frigidity of Nature: nor any inordinate degeneracy: but ra|ther from the gu&s;t of tho&s;e active recreations and exerci&s;es which he affected: and in their quality more &s;uitable to men then women. But we are not here to weave Apologies. Hi&s;torians with an integrious and impartial pen are to relate, but not to render an accompt of the actions of tho&s;e Per|&s;ons, wherof they treat. Tho&s;e import their own intere&s;t: and as they acted upon the Stage; &s;o mu&s;t they receive their applau&s;e and approvement by the vogue and voice of their Spectators. In a word, as to &s;ooth Princes in their pur&s;uit of an un|becoming liberty, is noxious: &s;o too curiou&s;ly to
<PB N="42" REF="27"> make in&s;pection into the &s;ecre&s;ie of their actions, is very dangerous. <HI>Domitian</HI> could not endure a di&s;covery of his delight in the pur&s;uit of <HI>Flies.</HI> Such toyes are held &s;erious imployments with trifling Commanders: who lay not the ground of their undertakings upon what be&s;eems them, but on what delights them.</P>
<P>But let us return to our Court, bathed in all plea&s;ures that either the height of Fancy or com|plement of State could contrive. Neither had <HI>Candy</HI> at that time, as you may collect by the Se|quel, much to imploy her&s;elf withall, &s;ave onely with &s;umptuous Entertains, delicious Treats, and gorgeous Dre&s;s. For &s;o happy was &s;he in the enjoy|ment of a peaceable Prince: as by bounteous gifts and other obliging waies, he had not onely made neighbouring Princes his Friends: but po&s;&s;e&s;t him&s;elf of that opinion of prudence and Princely policy: as no difference aro&s;e among them, which with unanimous con&s;ent they would not refer to his deci&s;ion. This graceful and long-continued habit of peace, as it enricht the State with plenty: &s;o it begot in the Inhabitants an incommodious &s;e|curitie. For tho&s;e virile &amp; ma&s;culine &s;pirits, which formerly proclaimed the~ Heirs of Honour, were be|come now &s;trangers to actions &amp; exploits of valor, being wholly unexercis'd to tho&s;e Martial affairs, wherewith their fir&s;t A&s;&s;aies of Youth had been in|ured. Neither would tho&s;e Stoical Cen&s;ors of the State who profe&s;t the~&s;elvs mortal Antagoni&s;ts to all Masks, Treats, Balls and reer-vi&s;its, &s;tick to enveigh again&s;t the &s;en&s;ual libertie of their Pu&s;illanimous Peerage: Saying that Crabtree-grafts inoculated
<PB N="43" REF="27"> in generous Stocks had quite &s;poil'd the Nur&s;erie of <HI>Candy.</HI> And indeed what by the effeminacy of that pre&s;ent State, who&s;e long peace and &s;ecu|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ity had brought mo&s;t of the Nobility to that deli|cacy; that as their Spirits were aver&s;e from the Exerci&s;es of Arms; &s;o were their intellectual parts and inward abilities &s;o weakned, or rather e&s;tran|ged from civil Con&s;ultations and affairs of State, as in their Election for Supply of &s;uch qualified Per&s;ons as might perform tho&s;e Offices of high Concern (and wherein their <HI>Top-branches</HI> and <HI>Ci|ens</HI> of the eminen&s;t Families had been formerly imployed) there was not one found of all that con|&s;picuous line capable of &s;uch high undertaking: be|ing better known to a Game at Tenis: then the performance of any State-&s;ervice.</P>
<P>Thus pa&s;t the&s;e times with many vici&s;&s;itudes and turns: while the Palms of Peace &s;o impaled the Frontiers of <HI>Candy,</HI> as it had no occa&s;ion to dream of an Enemy. Mean while, the Court had wars; but they were amorous Encounters: Foes, but they were Corrivals. Among&s;t which <HI>Meli|dorus,</HI> that con&s;tant Favorite, and <HI>I&s;menia's</HI> indivi|dual Platonick, continued his vi&s;its, being encou|raged by the Prince&s;s Connivence and her Ladies ea&s;ie admittance; who u&s;ually attended her, to pur&s;ue his que&s;t. Which could not be carried on with &s;uch &s;ecre&s;ie: but it became an Argument of private Di&s;cour&s;e among&s;t tho&s;e Court-Ladies: who could no way &s;hadow nor conceal the joy they apprehended upon their Prince&s;s reduction to her former Career of Plea&s;ure: the onely Object which their affectionate libertie aimed at. In this
<PB N="44" REF="28"> number, but much different from their nature, was one <HI>Aretina,</HI> a Per&s;on of vertuous and choice re|pute: and one nearly allyed to <HI>Melidorus:</HI> who hearing with what Freedom this private Cen&s;ure had di&s;pers'd it &s;elf among&s;t tho&s;e Ladies of Ho|nour: and how much it derogated from her kin&s;|mans Fame; which &s;he &s;o highly valued: as &s;he could not with patience, (being otherwi&s;e of a Compo&s;ed temper) heare them whi&s;per touching any &s;uch Platonick Encounter, if it reflected on <HI>Melidorus;</HI> but &s;he would &s;tand up in vindication of his honour, not without &s;harpe reproof of the greate&s;t Lady, who out of an a&s;&s;umed Confidence dur&s;t oppo&s;e her. Till at la&s;t convinc'd with preg|nant probabilities of u&s;uall Platonick vi&s;its: and tho&s;e at un&s;ea&s;onable times: which might beget Foments of jealou&s;ie to &s;u&s;picious Eyes: and of rumour enough to jealous Eares: as one exta&s;ed with a pious tender of her kin&s;mans honour; &s;he &s;et pen to paper, expre&s;&s;ing her di&s;contents in re|lation to his bleeding Fame, after this manner: tran&s;cribed from her own &s;tile and character.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<P>Sir; I am &s;orry to heare that the grandeur and burden of honour, under which you labour, &s;hould make you &s;o &s;ecure, nay remi&s;&s;e in pre&s;erving it: you profe&s;&s;e your &s;elf a <HI>Platonick;</HI> but &s;ure, though I was never much read in his Philo&s;ophy: nor &s;chool'd in his Principles of Morality; I cannot &s;uffer my &s;elf to have &s;o much Faith, as to believe that &s;o &s;age and prudent a Master could give his Schollars &s;uch light le&s;&s;ons, as to fix their affections on prohibited Ob|jects. Go to Sir; Is there none but your Prince&s;s to Court for your Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e? Look about you, and ob|&s;erve,
<PB N="45" REF="28"> (if your Fancy has not already begot in you a Phren&s;y) upon what two fatall &s;helves you run your crazy ve&s;&s;ell, by playing the ambitious pur&s;uer of &s;uch a precipitous Plea&s;ure; two inevitable rocks, danger, and di&s;honour. The nearer <HI>Jove,</HI> the more &s;ubject to the &s;troake of thunder. And nearly, &s;ure, you de&s;ire to be, when you would partake in his Right: and &s;hare in his Choice. You know well how Conjugall Bedds and Regall diadems admit no Com|petitors: affection being impatient of Competition. And if Common Beds challenge this Priviledge: what may we think of the Prerogative of Princes?</P>
<P>Give me leave, <HI>Melidorus,</HI> to come home to you: the lea&s;t drop of blood that takes its cour&s;e through your veines, cannot receive a &s;taine; but it mu&s;t ne|ce&s;&s;arily beget in me a glowing blu&s;h; from our near relations and propinquity of Families. Be not then &s;o cruell to your &s;elfe, as to neglect your own Fame. Pit|ty us who be your Allies, if you have no re&s;entment of your own Condition. The Eyes of Our whole Court, like &s;o many Stars in a Fro&s;ty Evening, &s;hoot out and be&s;tow their reflections on you.</P>
<P>It is not the privacy of your Arbours; though ne|ver &s;o retired: nor the vigilancy of your Agents, be they never &s;o circumspect; that can cleare a Cloud inveloped with &s;uch thickne&s;s of infamy: or with all their art &s;hadow the pro&s;titution of your honour. The Splendour of Fame retains a pure complexion: and &s;uch as will admit of no borrowed Colours. This lo&s;t, never regain'd: how tender then ought a Branch of Nobility to be of pre&s;erving that which &s;o highly conduceth not onely to the beautifying but accompli&s;h|ing of a Familie? And this I am &s;ure, you cannot
<PB N="46" REF="29"> chu&s;e but reflect<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">on. You cannot, if you look upon th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> many de&s;cents lineally derived from your Ance&s;try <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> but acknowledge your &s;elf infinitely obliged to the Su|periour Powers; who have thus far and thus long con|tinued the Succe&s;&s;ion of your Line, and pre&s;erv'd i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> without &s;taine. And mu&s;t a minute of u&s;urp'd plea|&s;ure impaire the repute of &s;o flouri&s;hing a de&s;cent? How many Eminent Families have we known &s;hrink|ing under this burden; and the&s;e, perchance, not &s;o con&s;cious of &s;uch apparent guilt, as your &s;uspected Conver&s;e has di&s;covered? But you will &s;ay, what can be held &s;uspicious, where the Per&s;on mo&s;t intere&s;ted will not &s;uffer his brea&s;t to entertaine &s;uch thoughts: nor give credit to any &s;uch report, were it with never &s;o much con&s;tancy disper&s;ed? If this be your onely Objection, it &s;eemes, <HI>Melidorus;</HI> you work much upon advantage. But an&s;wer me, mu&s;t your Prin|ce&s;s innocence authorize your lightne&s;s? Admit his thoughts retaine in them a Freedom: mu&s;t that gal|lant Soveraignty or dominion over his affections, be|get in you a &s;ecurity of tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing? &V;n&s;hrowde your &s;elf, Sir, and lay your actions open to an impar|tiall di&s;covery.</P>
<P>Though <HI>Ba&s;ilius</HI> acquit his noble and &s;erene Spirit from harbouring any Conceipt of his Ladies &s;tray'd thoughts: or of your un&s;ea&s;onable vi&s;its: His Court will not ca&s;t &s;o light a vaile over it. His clearne&s;s from jealou&s;ie mu&s;t not promi&s;e to your Errors an impunity. Nay, let me tell you, your Loyalty &s;hould produce in you Motives of more piety. When any Trea&s;ure is committed to our Care and Cu&s;tody; we might ju&s;tly hold it a violation or infringment of tru&s;t; to give up our Charge, or betray it to an Enemy. You
<PB N="47" REF="29"> are Elected the Prince&s;s Chamberlaine; let that trea&s;ure with you depo&s;ited, be never impaired nor im|peached.</P>
<P>De&s;i&s;t then, I be&s;eech you, (with a Sacrifice of teare-&s;wollen Eyes I beg it of you) from mini&s;tring any ju&s;t occa&s;ion of &s;uspicion to a Cen&s;orious State. Walke with a cleane foot neare the lyons den. For though he, with a conniving Eye pa&s;s by your Folly, and &s;mile at your levity; you cannot be ignorant of the Apothegme of the <HI>Lyons Jack;</HI> (and many &s;uch he has in his Court;) who by their Call will endea|vour to rou&s;e up their inraged Ma&s;ter: and expo&s;e your ambitious folly, a deplorable Object to his fury. We &s;hall u&s;ually find <HI>Revenge</HI> mo&s;t watchfull, when it &s;eemes mo&s;t a&s;leep. Be not then &s;o &s;ecure of your own &s;afety, as to ingage it for an imaginary felicity; which like a vading &s;hade, vani&s;heth quickly, and leaves the unhappy Pur&s;uer to the acknowledgment of his &s;hame. Such is your Ca&s;e, which a timely preven|tion may decline: and con&s;equently re&s;tore you to your pri&s;tine e&s;teem: which &s;hall incomparably &s;uite with the affectionate wi&s;hes of,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your highly indeered</HI> Aretina.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>This Letter, though it came from a Friendly hand and a Free heart; yet it wonderfully di&s;|gu&s;ted <HI>Melidorus:</HI> Fearing, as he rightly appre|hended, that the&s;e &s;u&s;picious reports, though they bare not the face of truth; might by the mi&s;-interpretation of &s;uch as were his Competitors; and maligners of his greatne&s;s, beget him an <HI>Odi|um</HI> with <HI>Ba&s;ilius:</HI> and by his incen&s;ement pro|cure him an heavy Cen&s;ure from the State. He wi&s;ely recall'd to mind the Apologue; If the
<PB N="48" REF="30"> <HI>Foxes</HI> Eares were held for horns; he were a &s;tout Orator that dur&s;t oppo&s;e it. Upon a &s;erious recollection therefore of his own waies: with a re&s;entment of his hazardous Condition, He fixt upon this re&s;ult: to make u&s;e of &s;uch In&s;truments in the Court; who&s;e Credit might beare him up, again&s;t all traducing reports; which, though pri|vately di&s;pers'd, had not then got admittance to <HI>Ba&s;ilius</HI> eare: which though <HI>Cher&s;ines,</HI> a &s;ecret E|nemy of his &s;ought to accelerate, purpo&s;ely to quicken his di&s;grace; yet this Incendiary either failed in his opportunity of acting what he had de|&s;igned: or rather found the noble thoughts of <HI>Ba|&s;ilius</HI> &s;o orderly compo&s;ed and fortified again&s;t all &s;uch groundle&s;s &s;urmizes, as he perceived all his Labour to be lo&s;t, though he omitted no time to expedite his injurious a&s;&s;aies. Meane time, tho&s;e Per&s;ons whom <HI>Melidorus</HI> had made u&s;e of to vin|dicate his honour, expre&s;t them&s;elves Faithfull Agents in performing that Office of love which they had profe&s;&s;ed. And in calming the rumor of tho&s;e reports, which had got too deep an impre&s;|&s;ion, to be razed or removed at the fir&s;t repul&s;e; <HI>Melidorus</HI> pretended him&s;elf &s;ick; to excu&s;e his ab&s;ence from the Court: and decline tho&s;e Eve|ning Vi&s;its which he had u&s;ually frequented. And to &s;atisfie <HI>Aretina's</HI> de&s;ires by way of Letter, in this his &s;eeming langui&s;hing Condition (being more &s;urpriz'd with feare of future cen&s;ure and ingagement of honour, then any other di&s;temper) He returned her an An&s;wer to her &s;evere reproof in this manner.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<P><HI>Aretina,</HI> I could not peru&s;e your ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> lines without
<PB N="49" REF="30"> remembring that ancient Proverbe: <Q>No jealou&s;ie comparable to that of a woman.</Q> Being apt to mint, where it can find no cau&s;e. You have known me long; but never lavi&s;h of my Fame. And I would be now infinitely &s;ory, to be held &s;o fooli&s;h, as to become &s;o weary of my head, as to de&s;ire the removall of it from my &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ulders. But my comfort is this, <HI>Aretina,</HI> that I cannot be more free of mine Honour, then you are of your Cen&s;ure. You object, that a di&s;per&s;t report has already proclaim'd my guilt. Light Eares be tho&s;e that will be &s;o deluded. If either privacy of place; or opportunity of time could have wrought the&s;e ef|fects on me; that pretious and unvaluable Gemme, which I incomparably prefer before all humane rela|tions, had been long &s;ince blemi&s;hed. But Honour, &s;ub&s;tance, nay &s;ub&s;i&s;tence where lowly verg'd in my E|&s;teem, where true Reputation, without any additio|nall title or tin&s;ell of adulterate Greatne&s;s, might, retaine its just po&s;ture, proportion and value. Nei|ther have I in the whole Progre&s;s of my Cour&s;e, act|ed ought that might beget in my unmanag'd thoughts an un&s;uitable Change. You taxe me highly, <HI>Aretina,</HI> in asking me, if I had no other Mi&s;tre&s;s, to pre&s;ent my Platonick &s;ervice to, but my Soveraigne&s;s! And I mu&s;t an&s;wer you in the &s;ame dialect: that there was none to whom I &s;tood more obliged in loyalty to &s;erve: nor who de&s;erv'd in the Puncto of honour, the a&s;&s;idu|ate attendence of a Subject more. Be&s;ides, if you complaine of my private and frequent vi&s;its; my <HI>Place,</HI> whereto I was de&s;igned, could exact no le&s;s from me. I was, indeed, upon my Soveraigns opinion of me, appointed her <HI>Chamberlaine;</HI> but with that mode&s;t limitation and Compo&s;ure; as I spit
<PB N="50" REF="31"> defiance in his face, that &s;hall dare to taxe my thoughts of the lea&s;t touch of di&s;honour. This I write from a &s;ick and langui&s;hing Bed, where our Prote&s;ts &s;hould be free from di&s;&s;embling; becau&s;e our weake Condition imports a probability of di&s;&s;olving. You tell me, that a Trea&s;ure was committed to my tru&s;t: and it were a violation of faith in me, to infringe that tru&s;t in me repo&s;ed: by &s;uffering &s;o precious a Trea&s;ure to be injuriou&s;ly impaired, imbezled or im|peached. I confe&s;s it, <HI>Aretina,</HI> that an ine&s;timable Trea&s;ure was in my Cu&s;tody depo&s;ited; and it has been my con&s;tant care to pre&s;erve it pure and invio|late: yea rather then it &s;hould any way &s;uffer in re|lation to honour; I &s;hould hold it an acceptable Taske to &s;acrifice my deere&s;t life, in vindication of it.</P>
<P>But to curdle my blood the more: or infu&s;e (for rather &s;o do I de&s;ire to expound it) a religious loyall Feare in your Kin&s;mans brea&s;t; you offer to my Con|&s;ideration the inviolable Priviledges of a Princes Bed. Sure, you retaine a better Opinion of me, then your lines &s;ignifie. Can your di&s;cretion &s;ugge&s;t this impo&s;ture to you; that my late lightne&s;&s;e &s;hould take away all thoughts of goodne&s;s? Or that I am be|come &s;uch a &s;en&s;uall Libertine; as for an inexpiable Act of levity, to ingage, nay, make forfeture of my Loyalty? Surely, if our <HI>blouds</HI> (as you write) &s;o nearly participate; you cannot in charity, nor pro|priety to your &s;elf, judge &s;o &s;everely of me; but you mu&s;t feare &s;ome Corruption springing from your own veins; &s;eeing, they &s;o nearly partake with mine, as they derive their Origen from One Fountaine. But I mu&s;t not chide you; Be it your goodne&s;s, <HI>Aretina,</HI>
<PB N="51" REF="31"> to de&s;i&s;t from Suspecting; as I &s;hall in this my retire|ment from giving occa&s;ion. And may I beget this belief in you; that a minute of perfunctory and peni|tentiary plea&s;ure &s;hall never make me forgetfull of the te&s;t nor tender of mine honour. Feare it not, I &s;hall ob&s;erve your advice; in walking with a <HI>cleane Foot</HI> neare the <HI>Lyons Cave:</HI> and a <HI>cleare heart</HI> to my <HI>Grave.</HI> For which provi&s;ion, the re&s;idue of his pilgrim-hours are &s;umm'd up by,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your mo&s;t affectionate,</HI> Melidorus.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>This An&s;wer, though it were interlaid with &s;ome &s;prinklings of a wormwood Lecture; infi|nitely reli&s;hed the palat of <HI>Aretina:</HI> who&s;e onely &s;erious Object was the Salving of <HI>Melidorus</HI> &s;u&s;|pected honour. Whereof &s;he appear'd the more tender, not onely in regard of their alliance: but of their joynt Education; the continued injoy|ment whereof had largely improved and highly inlarged this endeerment. This it was, that made his per&s;onal &s;afety dear unto her; but much more, the Con&s;ervation of his honour. Such lineal co|herence holds Fame in the de&s;cendent branches of a Family. But the&s;e lines coming from a &s;ick bed (as he pretended) became &s;uch Cordial Receipts to <HI>Aretina's</HI> jealous thoughts; as &s;he could not apprehend the lea&s;t conceipt of her Kin&s;mans mi&s;|carriage: appearing upon all occa&s;ions, a Confi|dent Champion in defence of his honour. But all &s;uch fears (as we formerly touched) had their ri|&s;ing from Sandy grounds. For neither did <HI>Meli|dorus</HI> frequent vi&s;its merit any &s;uch Con&s;truction, nor the free admittance of <HI>I&s;menia</HI> (a Prince&s;s of unque&s;tion'd fame) any &s;uch irregular traduce. Her
<PB N="52" REF="32"> too much freedom onely might de&s;ervingly incur Cen&s;ure. Seeing Princes and eminent Per&s;ons &s;hew their glory be&s;t at di&s;tance. Whereas too generall and familiar intercour&s;e begets either an apparent Contempt; or di&s;value to their Relati|ons. Neither, indeed, &s;hould Cen&s;ure rack it &s;elf to the highe&s;t pin, could it fall heavier upon <HI>I&s;|menia,</HI> then upon her too frequent repaire to Pla|ces of Concour&s;e, as Theatral Pre&s;entments with other Publick Solemnities: and that with &s;uch pri|vacy and nakedne&s;s of Reteiners; as &s;he appeared much below her &s;elf. Yet tho&s;e who were more intimately known to her di&s;po&s;ition, could more candidly &s;hadow this: and acquaint the World, how her &s;mallne&s;s of Retinue proceeded not from any narrow nor parcimonious humour: but rather from a de&s;ire of retirement from popular a&s;pect: coming more to &s;ee then to be &s;een: and fre|quenting the&s;e publick places of Re&s;ort, not to make choice (as &s;ome &s;ini&s;terly expounded it) of Servants or Favorites &s;uitable to her affection: but to heare the humours of the time wittily di&s;|covered, and to life acted: which might (as &s;he of times expre&s;t) highly de&s;erve the applau&s;e and approvement of the Eminente&s;t Per&s;ons. In her coming abroad &s;he retained no unu&s;uall port nor magnificence of State; le&s;t it might beget in her an opinion of pride, which was ever a &s;tranger to her thoughts: but in her princely demeane &s;o af|fable and debonaire, as &s;he ever returned a grace|full a&s;pect and plea&s;ing &s;alute to all Per&s;ons accor|ding to their quality and degree: which in every place gave her an addition to her demerited ho|nour:
<PB N="53" REF="32"> with arguments of popular affection where|&s;oever &s;he appeared. And to leave her a reall Character; before &s;he take her la&s;t farewell of her Court with all other Earthly injoyments: &s;he never made Choice of any Favorite as a light Pla|tonick, to le&s;&s;en her Spou&s;all affection; though the Corruption of time, and levity of &s;ome Per|&s;ons about her, were apt enough to be&s;tow their Cen&s;ure, upon reflection of their own vicious Condicion; (judging all to be like unto them|&s;elves,) on the ab&s;olute&s;t Objects of Honour. Her gallantry too, mixt with a princely compa&s;&s;ion, was in this remarkable: That She never pre&s;ented any Suit to the prejudice of the State: but for re|lief of &s;uch as were injured, a ready Supplicant. But <HI>Candy</HI> was not worthy of her; for &s;hortly af|ter, having her body much inflamed through im|moderate exerci&s;e (which &s;he purpo&s;ely u&s;ed to bring down her body, naturally inclining to Cor|pulency;) or through intemperate Bathing, as o|thers opinion'd: or through exce&s;s of Hydroptick humours daily increa&s;ing and &s;urprizing her; with a compo&s;ed and more then a Feminine &s;pirit &s;he paid her debt to nature. But before her departure, to leave a te&s;timony to the World of her untainted honour; She de&s;ired much that <HI>Ba|&s;ilius,</HI> her endeered Spou&s;e might be &s;ent for: in who&s;e pre&s;ence, and accompanied with &s;undry Ladies of Honour; She disburdned her &s;elf of what troubled her mo&s;t: expre&s;&s;ing her Sufferings in this manner.</P>
<P><HI>My Lord, I am now after a long and and trouble|&s;ome Sea-fare, drawing near my Haven. Much I
<PB N="54" REF="33"> &s;hall not speake, for my weakne&s;&s;e will not &s;uffer me. Onely let me obtaine this favour from you, that the&s;e la&s;t Expre&s;&s;es which I &s;hall ever upon Earth deliver unto you, may receive that credit and impre&s;&s;ion, which the words of a dying Prince&s;s may ju&s;tly exact.</HI></P>
<P><HI>My deare Lord, we have long time injoyed the rarities of a free and profu&s;e Court: where</HI> Honour, <HI>which &s;hould be the resplendent&s;t Star in that Orbe, has been much ob&s;cured. And what with grief I speake in this my approaching Period, the Innocent oftimes incurred the heavie&s;t Cen&s;ure: while others by a &s;mooth palliating of their lightne&s;&s;e; pre&s;erved their Fame, though not the E&s;&s;ence of their Honour. Amongst tho&s;e unhappy ones, I my &s;elf might be numbred; yet in this I accompt my &s;elf happy, that your pure and noble thoughts, my Lord, were forti|fied again&s;t all tho&s;e Criminall a&s;per&s;ions: for which I humbly thank you. And though they were not wor|thy your belief: yet might my freedom of admit|tance merit your reproofe. But farther, as I am neare to my la&s;t breathing, I never inclined to your di&s;honour. But Innocence is not &s;ufficient in &s;uch a Royall Courtly Continent.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Noble Ladies, of whom I am now to take my long adue; retaine this Memoriall; and value it as an ine&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mable Jewell. "Be not contented with the bare</HI> Title <HI>of</HI> Ladies of Honour; <HI>unle&s;s your Care be to pre&s;erve that Style from the reach of</HI> Cen&s;ure. <HI>No|bility is but guilded Clay, if Reputation hold at di|stance with it. You cannot grace your Soveraigne more, nor the&s;e precious Pledges which I have had by him, and now leave with him, then by apearing
<PB N="55" REF="33"> Pre&s;idents of Piety, and initiating their Infancy in the like Principles of Morall goodne&s;s and Civility.</HI></P>
<P>&mdash;<HI>My Liege and you honorable Ladies, farewell on Earth for ever: Nature injoynes me &s;ilence: be ten|der of your honour.</HI></P>
<P>But little needed this &s;erious prote&s;t of Conju|gal fidelity in this Excellent Lady; injoying &s;uch a <HI>Con&s;ort,</HI> who&s;e noble heart was indued with &s;uch re&s;olution, as it remain'd &s;teel'd again&s;t the &s;trength of Rumor and all groundle&s;s a&s;per&s;ions: which one day he was plea&s;ed more fully to expre&s;s in a poetical dimen&s;ion, whereto he was naturally af|fected, and for the Per&s;on of a Prince &s;ufficiently accompli&s;hed. His meaning with a Diamond he left ingraven in the window of his Bed-chamber in this manner: altering onely the name of his <HI>I&s;me|nia</HI> to <HI>Clara.</HI></P>
<Q><L><HI>Clara</HI> Platonicks loves, but the&s;e are &s;uch,</L>
<L>No man nor Woman likes them &s;ave her&s;elf;</L>
<L>At &s;uch Competitors I think not much,</L>
<L>But rather pity them; to run a-&s;helf</L>
<L>Both Fame and States at once: &mdash;Such fancies be</L>
<L>Acts tending more to <HI>Alms</HI> then <HI>Jealou&s;ie.</HI></L>
<L>Thus my Cha&s;te <HI>Clara</HI> her affection cloaths</L>
<L>With pure de&s;ires, which lighter fancy loaths.</L></Q>
<P>And to mini&s;ter a <HI>Loves Powder</HI> in this poetical humour, to reconcile two di&s;tanc'd Pairs divided one from the other, for Allowance or Alimony (as the Lady &s;eem'd to urge it, or &s;ome other di&s;con|tent, privately known to her&s;elf) in the very La|dies Chamber window, who appear'd mo&s;t
<PB N="56" REF="34"> aggriev'd, he writ the&s;e ver&s;es:
<Q><L>No worldly variance &s;hould divide</L>
<L>A prudent Con&s;ort from his Brid<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</L>
<L>Each &s;hould with other joyntly &s;hare</L>
<L>In mental joy and mutual care.</L>
<L>No <HI>Joynture</HI> mu&s;t this <HI>Juncto</HI> part,</L>
<L>One Home, one Helme, one Help, one Heart.</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Sound Oecono|mical Coun&s;el.</NOTE>This &s;ound advice did <HI>Plato</HI> give,</L>
<L>So may you like <HI>Platonicks</HI> live:</L>
<L>While every thought re&s;olvs to love,</L>
<L>"Dear Mates below, pure Saints above.</L>
<L>Your affectionate Philogamist.</L></Q></P>
<P>At vacant and retired hours; &s;uch Compo&s;ures as the&s;e were his u&s;ual Recreations: neither did he make them as a <HI>Labour,</HI> but a <HI>Play,</HI> to quicken and &s;et an edge upon his Fancy. Some intercur|&s;ive pa&s;&s;ages reli&s;hing more of Plea&s;ure then Pa&s;&s;i|on would many times fall betwixt <HI>I&s;menia</HI> and <HI>Him&s;elf:</HI> but ever temper'd and allay'd with that Candor, as they ended ever with a Comical Con|clu&s;ion: as may appear by tho&s;e lines of reconci|liation intended to <HI>I&s;menia,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Meaning &s;om State-d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;con|tents at that time perplex|ing him: but pru|dently carried &amp; peaceably compo&s;ed.</NOTE> though covertly &s;ha|dowed under the Name of <HI>Mariana.</HI></P>
<Q><L>What, once again di&s;traught!&mdash;Pray thee no more,</L>
<L>Thou know&s;t my <HI>Magazen</HI> has laid in &s;tore</L>
<L>Of <HI>Bo&s;om-griefs:</HI> who&s;e nightly pre&s;&s;ures keep</L>
<L>My Sen&s;es waking, when my Eyes would &s;leep.</L>
<L>Ha&s;t thou lo&s;t all th'good Nature that thou had</L>
<L>By adding Sorrows to a Soul &s;o &s;ad?</L>
<L>Share with thy <HI>Con&s;ort;</HI> 'twere too great a blow</L>
<L>To &s;uffer both in <HI>Wife</HI> and <HI>Subjects</HI> too,</L>
<PB N="57" REF="34">
<L>An unprepen&s;ed Pa&s;&s;ion is no Cur&s;e;</L>
<L>Recall that Clau&s;e, "<HI>For better and for wor&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>It will injoyn thee Patience: &mdash;di&s;creet wit</L>
<L>Will either still a Storm or temper it.</L>
<L>Meet me then with a Smile, to clear this we|ther,</L>
<L>It &s;hall unite us while we live together.</L>
<L>Decad's of years in Spou&s;al love be&s;tow'd</L>
<L>Should not admit acquaintance with a Cloud.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Affection being no|thing el&s;e then a Cordial Impre&s;|&s;ion.</HI> Fellis tui acrimoni|am non redarguo, quia tali omnem la|borare ho|minem &s;en|tio. <HI>Aphori&s;m. Antiq.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>If there be Itch in love as there's in skin,</L>
<L>It cannot chu&s;e but like impre&s;&s;ion win.</L>
<L>A pre&s;ent heat can ne're be &s;tyled hate,</L>
<L>"Minds free from the&s;e partake an Angels &s;tate.</L>
<L>When <HI>Mutius</HI> was tax'd of too much ire</L>
<L>By th'Roman Prefect; in his home-retire</L>
<L>He blam'd his wife, that &s;he would not condemn</L>
<L>That fault in him was tax'd by other Men:</L>
<L>"Excu&s;e me, Sir, &s;aid &s;he; I would not touch</L>
<L>"Your gall, becau&s;e I thought all had as much.</L>
<L>Which An&s;wer did his Patience &s;o revive,</L>
<L>As he became the milde&s;t man a-live.</L>
<L>Do &s;o; 'twill ground a perfect harmonie</L>
<L>Whether we <HI>Princes</HI> or <HI>Inferiours</HI> be.</L></Q>
<P>But to go on with the Continuation of our Sto|ry; we &s;hall not here much need to dilate upon tho&s;e Ritual Ceremonies ob&s;erved at the inter|ment of that incomparable Prince&s;s. Let it &s;uffice, that nothing was omitted, which might properly tend to the Solemnization of tho&s;e Royal Ob&s;e|quies, either for magnificence of State, then which no Ceremonial more &s;umptuous: nor confluence of Attendance, then which none ever more popu|lous. Neither were her Funerals accompanied
<PB N="58" REF="35"> with more &s;olemnity of &s;tate, nor affluence of charge, then an univer&s;al &s;orrow of the whole Court: &s;o generally was this Excellent Lady be|loved and bemoaned. The &s;ad Prince, her wid|dowed Con&s;ort, now deprived of &s;o ine&s;timable a Jewel; as became a careful Father, begun to re|collect him&s;elf: and lay a provi&s;ion, both for mat|ter of Education and future preferment of tho&s;e deer Pledges which were left him by his affectio|nate <HI>I&s;menia.</HI> By whom he had two Sons; of dif|ferent di&s;po&s;itions: For <HI>Cyrenius,</HI> the Elder was wholly addicted to the Campe: but <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> the younger to his Book, wherein he grew a &s;ingular Proficient. Now the fame of <HI>Cyrenius</HI> his youth|ful valour became &s;o di&s;per&s;ed and rumor'd a|broad; as many, and tho&s;e of approved Judgment, were of opinion, that it abridg'd his daies: and that &s;ome neighbouring Prince emulating, or ra|ther fearing his ri&s;ing &s;pirit and incomparable cou|rage; practi&s;ed by &s;ome inferiour In&s;truments (unworthy the &s;tile of &s;o eminent a Profe&s;&s;ion) his &s;peedy di&s;patch. Though &s;ome others, quite of another opinion, (to vindicate, perchance, the re|pute of their Country) and that he dyed upon a Surfet of grapes taken in <HI>Natolia.</HI> But the for|mer Opinion might appear more probable, in re|gard of a di&s;ta&s;tful me&s;&s;age which this hopeful Prince, no long time before his Sickne&s;s, had &s;ent to his Fathers Enemy: and nearly confining to his Native Country: <Q>That he was then bandying balls with his Racket: but it &s;hould not be long, till he had ca&s;ten tho&s;e Balls into another Mould: which the &s;tronge&s;t Forts and Fortre&s;&s;es in his
<PB N="59" REF="35"> Kingdom &s;hould &s;hortly hear of.</Q> But touching the manner of his death, it is the &s;afe&s;t way to &s;u&s;|pend our judgment, being &s;o variou&s;ly de&s;canted, and not as yet po&s;itively re&s;olved. Let us onely conclude, great was his Fame, and premature his Fate: being One, on whom all <HI>Candy</HI> trea&s;ured their hope. <HI>Ba&s;ilius</HI> being now re&s;t in his declin|ing years of &s;o &s;trong a &s;tay and &s;taffe to his age; took advice of the Council of his State, what Match might be held mo&s;t &s;uitable for the young Prince his Son <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> the onely remainder of his Line: and Supportance of his decrea&s;ing life.</P>
<P>Various and different were the Councils opini|ons in this grand Con&s;ult; but at la&s;t, like &s;o ma|ny lines clo&s;ing in one centre, they unanimou&s;ly concluded; that the young Prince&s;&s;e of <HI>Hetruria</HI> was the &s;uitable&s;t Match for &s;tate, &s;trength and corre&s;ponding alliance that could be made choice of: and to expedite this main concern (the &s;peedy progre&s;&s;ion whereof <HI>Ba&s;ilius</HI> infinitely importun'd) <HI>Silures</HI> a Court-Favorite; &amp; one of eminent e&s;teem with <HI>Ba&s;ilius,</HI> was de&s;igned to be his Attendant and Interpreter in his addre&s;s to the <HI>Hetrurian</HI> Court. And to return you a character of this <HI>Silures;</HI> He was of a graceful and winning deportment: of plea|&s;ing di&s;cour&s;e and Courtly pre&s;ence: though much affected to a native lightne&s;s: which he could art|fully &s;hadow (albeit the help of Moral Arts had not much enabled him) and delude the Eye of his Ob&s;erver with a formal colour of pretended mo|de&s;ty. Which he might ea&s;ily do; for though not in <HI>Books,</HI> yet &s;ufficiently had he by his long re&s;ide
<PB N="60" REF="36"> and conver&s;e in Court, read in <HI>Men,</HI> how he might be&s;t plea&s;e: and fall off too, with be&s;t advantage in palliating his unmanag'd affections. An ex|cellent artifice, which he u&s;ually practi&s;ed, in his Morning Sacrifice to his Gla&s;s and con&s;tant vi|&s;its of attractive beauties!</P>
<P>It is above belief with what general acceptance and princely entertain, <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> this vertuous Suit|er was received: nay admitted to the pre&s;ence of <HI>Parthenia</HI> (an unwonted freedom in that Court) and not onely &s;o, but to enter into free parliance of Spon&s;al love with this incomparable Lady. Who&s;e Princely appearance held ever &s;uch a comely di|&s;tance: as it did neither promi&s;e too much for|wardne&s;s, nor aver&s;ene&s;s in the Object of affe|ction. Many daies were not pa&s;t in the&s;e Love-pur&s;uing Treaties; till the inamour'd <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> might rai&s;e his living hopes to a probable fruition of his de&s;ires, if <HI>Lycanthes</HI> Father to his indeared choice, would an&s;wer the fair Propo&s;als of his aged Fa|ther with his clear a&s;&s;ent and approvement. Which was &s;o quickly and cheerfully &s;econded, as no|thing was wanting to con&s;ummate their happine&s;s (&s;o individually were their hearts united) but tho&s;e Sacred Rites, which admit all Loving Pairs a free enjoyment of what their longing thoughts &s;o eagerly pur&s;ued.</P>
<P>But alas; what &s;prinklings of bitterne&s;s inter|mixe them&s;elves amid&s;t the ab&s;olute&s;t &s;weetes! You &s;hall heare a Cata&s;trophe unexpectly accom|panying this amorous Comedy. A diver&s;ion be|yond Conceipt: and beneath Fear. Which (not to perplex your thoughts with unnece&s;&s;ary delaies,
<PB N="61" REF="36"> apt to tyre your Fancy: nor fruitle&s;s digre&s;&s;ions to &s;urcharge your memory) befell in this manner.</P>
<P><HI>Silures,</HI> a Per&s;on &s;ingularly accompli&s;h'd, as far as the Court of <HI>Candy</HI> could compleat him; being no le&s;s confident of his own abilities, then what Nature or the imbelli&s;hments of Art could confer upon him; became infinitely taken with <HI>Valeria,</HI> an incomparable beauty of the <HI>Hetruri|an</HI> Court. Whom onely (being as yet in the In|fancy of his affection) he attempted to make his, by amorous interbreaths, pa&s;&s;ionate &s;ighs, with o|ther &s;ignall arguments, legible enough to any judgment that had ever practis'd the &s;ervice of a Mi&s;tre&s;s: or had read a Lecture of Love. But <HI>Va|leria,</HI> a Lady no le&s;s wi&s;e then faire, knew well enough how to vye with him at that Game: and could be&s;tow a Look, where &s;he never ment to fixe her Love. Neither did it behove Her, to be too li|berall in the throwing forth of tho&s;e affectionate Lures: being married to a Gentleman of a noble Family: and beyond compare, gracious in the eye of the Court. Truth is, <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> could not be more hot in the pur&s;uit of his legall addre&s;&s;es: then <HI>Silures</HI> was in his prohibited delights. Never was more pa&s;&s;ion &s;hown in fewer words: nor more reall love, as it was &s;hadowed, with more &s;ilence. This the Lady ob&s;erv'd, joying much that her taking beauty, whereof her Morning-Gla&s;s had &s;ufficiently dictated to her, &s;hould pur|cha&s;e her &s;o &s;peedy and unexpected a victory. Neither is it to be que&s;tion'd, but that Eminent Ladies who know the value and attractive effects of beauty, triumph in nothing more then in this
<PB N="62" REF="37"> Soveraignty of love: taking u&s;ually more content in their Command, then Fruition of that Object whereto they pretend. Such was the humour of this gallant Lady; then whom none ever knew how to Court &s;tate with mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e becoming and unaf|fected Maje&s;ty: nor entertaine a Servant with more attractive re&s;ervancy. Meane time, <HI>Silures</HI> fearing that his long forbearing to deliver his devotionall affection to her; might beget in her either a Conceipt of weakne&s;s and timidity: or of coolne&s;s and indifferency in the pur&s;uit of his Fan|cy;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Which op|portunity was con|trived and de&s;igned by <HI>Tripen|&s;a,</HI> a no|table Court Coy-duck, not with|out pro|mi&s;e of a great re|ward.</NOTE> He re&s;olv'd one day (and better opportunity could not be po&s;&s;ibly pre&s;ented him) being in a clo&s;e Myrtle Arbour, where he addre&s;&s;ed his Fir&s;t Encounter: And where in the be&s;t dre&s;s and dia|lect of love (di&s;claiming all further acquaintance with dull &s;ilence) He di&s;covered the reality of a faithfull Servant in this &s;ort.</P>
<P>Madam, Excu&s;e my Former &s;ilence; whereto an unexpre&s;&s;ible affection and Zeal to your &s;elf did injoyne me: and now my boldne&s;s in this admit|tance of my pre&s;entment of his affectionate &s;er|vice, who remains wholly dedicated to your Ho|nours di&s;po&s;all: holding his life in this onely hap|py, that it may be&s;tow it &s;elfe on the accompli&s;h|ment of your Commands.</P>
<P>Noble Sir; &s;aid She, you highly oblige me in this immerited Character you are plea&s;ed to be|&s;tow: neither is it in me with any equivalent Fa|vour to regratiate you: onely know, that there is no re&s;pect confined to the limits of honour, which I &s;hall not with much promptne&s;s re-tender you. But tru&s;t me. dear Sir, the&s;e private Addre&s;&s;es and
<PB N="63" REF="37"> &s;hady Retirements &s;uit not well with our Habit. And be&s;hrow me, if I can conjecture how my Spou&s;all innocence &s;hould be betrayed to this un|expected intercour&s;e.</P>
<P>How, Madam, betrayed! I hope your affectio|nate thoughts are far from harbouring &s;uch a &s;ini|&s;ter Conceipt. We may prove Traitors to our own &s;urprized hearts, by too intentive fixing on &s;uch incomparable Subjects of fancy; but for you, <HI>Divine Souls,</HI> to be betray'd by your Servants, who make the pur&s;uit of your Commands their &s;upreme happine&s;s; were &s;uch a Ridle, as the wi&s;e&s;t Lover could never a&s;&s;oyle: nor who&s;e violation the de|voute&s;t Flamins ab&s;olve. Such reall Servants were rare attractive Adamants, quoth &s;he, in the&s;e im|purer times; where plau&s;ive pretences weave up the webbe of a deceiving Fancy: and &s;elf-intere&s;t, or to give its proper attribute, &s;en&s;uall delight, bear &s;way in Loves Regiment.</P>
<P>Surely Madam, it has been your unhappy For|tune to encounter with ungratefull or indi&s;creet Servants upon this relation. For he de&s;erves not the injoyment of a de&s;erving Mi&s;tre&s;s; who to ac|compli&s;h her content; would not hold the Sa|crifice of his life a competent gage for &s;uch a Pur|cha&s;e.</P>
<P>May you re&s;t ever happy, an&s;wer'd <HI>Valeria,</HI> in the enjoyment of &s;uch a Mi&s;tre&s;s; that may merit the con&s;tant attendance of &s;o de&s;erving a Servant. Love is ever be&s;t ballanc'd with love: neither can there be any Eclip&s;e in that <HI>Pa&s;&s;ion:</HI> where good|ne&s;s may challenge an influence over affection. Nor can I be &s;o indigent of Charity: nor hold &s;uch
<PB REF="38"> di&s;tance with Civility; as to hold a Stranger le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> in e&s;teem then a loyall Lover. But pray Sir, inge+nuou&s;ly tell me, whereto the&s;e Obliging Expre&s;&s;es which might work &s;trongly upon a Subject o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Frailty, may pretend!</P>
<P>Upon no other Object then the happy Enjoy|ment of your &s;elf. Wherein, Sir, your Choice an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> my Change might make us of all others mo&s;t un|happy, for I am injoy'd already.</P>
<P>For loves &s;ake, Madam, what Mortall &s;o &s;ove|raignizingly commanding, or by the de&s;tinies &s;o powerfully inabled, that has &s;uch Priviledg over your beauty, as to make of it a Monopoly? Mu&s;t the Splendor of that <HI>Sun</HI> which might diffu&s;e its beames upon the <HI>Univer&s;e,</HI> be confined to one An|gle? Is Nature &s;o prodigall to One; and &s;o parci|monious to Others? Reflect upon your incom|parable indowments, and that priority of Feature in relation to your exqui&s;ite Compo&s;ure (Excellent Lady) and &s;ure you cannot be &s;uch an Enemy to your &s;elf; as to encloi&s;ter tho&s;e accompli&s;hments, which even humane Society had ordain'd to be Communicable. What do you meane by <HI>Encloi|&s;tring?</HI> A Spou&s;all Condition &s;uits not with a Cloi&s;ter; an&s;wered <HI>Valeria.</HI> But give me leave to informe your judgement better, le&s;t you might &s;uffer by inclining to an irrevocable Error. In your overvaluing my low abilities, you highly derogate from his Perfections to whom I owe my &s;elf. Nei|ther can I otherwi&s;e think, but that the Clearne&s;s of your Intellect has already di&s;covered a flaw in my Judgment; to make there my Choice, where there might be a probable de&s;ire or admittance of
<PB N="65" REF="38"> Change. Pray Sir, acquaint me; be your Coun|try Ladies &s;o apt to receive Servants: or to enter|taine the pretended affection of a Forraigner with|out condigne Cen&s;ure? Reputation, Sir, I can a&s;|&s;ure you is here in <HI>Hetruria,</HI> held an Ornament of higher value. Neither &s;hall that word of <HI>Priority,</HI> which your rare dialect be&s;tows upon me, beget in me a Conceipt above merit: or too credulous an attention to a per&s;onall prai&s;e, taking breath rather from volubility of dialect and Facility of tongue; then grounded effects and &s;olidity of truth. For my part, Sir, &s;ince I fir&s;t breath'd Court aire, I have ever reap'd more profit by di&s;-e&s;teem then &s;elf-e&s;teem. The one lifts us up, and tran&s;ports us be|yond the bounds of Rea&s;on, by pre&s;enting to our deluded Fancies, imaginary &s;hadows of our own Conceipted Excellence; which always clo&s;eth with a dangerous Cata&s;trophe, by in&s;laving our &s;elvs to our own Fancy. Whereas a ju&s;t di&s;|e&s;teem of our own abilities may be properly com|pared to that exqui&s;ite Receipt which the wi&s;e <HI>U|ly&s;&s;es</HI> carefully u&s;ed to decline tho&s;e Siren-&s;ugred inchantments which had mi&s;erably inveagled and &s;urprized him, if he had not &s;ea&s;onably prevented tho&s;e perilous Charms by Cautious Fears.</P>
<P>Neither would I have you think, Noble Sir, but if there were in me any &s;uch priority as you plea|&s;ingly pretend, but that per&s;on who has all right and ju&s;t propriety in it, &s;hould without danger of Competition &s;olely enjoy it.</P>
<P>This re&s;olution of <HI>Valeria</HI> le&s;&s;ened the hopes of <HI>Silures</HI> in this amorous Suit: yet not &s;o wholly di&s;couraged him; as with this ea&s;ie repul&s;e wholly
<PB N="66" REF="39"> to rai&s;e his Siege: And the rather, for that he had formerly received &s;ome private Encourageme~ts fro~ &s;uch per&s;ons as had more intimate knowledge of <HI>Valeria's</HI> plyable di&s;po&s;ition: that her native levity &s;econded by the delicacy of her Education could a&s;&s;ure him of no le&s;s &s;ucce&s;s, then a graceful accep|tion and admittance to the fruition of what he &s;ued for: if &s;ome light skirmi&s;hes and &s;light repul&s;es did not amate his Spirit: nor tire his patience with delays. Neither, indeed, could <HI>Silures</HI> promi&s;e to his hopes le&s;s happine&s;s, upon his la&s;t encounter and their departure one from the other. For &s;he be&s;tow'd upon him &s;uch an affectionate &s;mile in her recede from the Arbour, as it could a&s;&s;ure no|thing le&s;s then an a&s;&s;urance of a further Favour: though her re&s;olution &s;eem'd to be of a more relu|ctant and unmalleable temper. Such &s;ingular art have &s;ome women attain'd in pre&s;enting &s;mooth Looks and &s;peaking Eyes; when their Expre&s;&s;es are with mo&s;t nicene&s;&s;e and &s;ubtiltie palliated. Mean time, her noble Con&s;ort, <HI>Ver&s;ivalo;</HI> though he had apparent grounds of &s;u&s;pecting much; yet his &s;trong opinion and long Experience of her Con&s;tancy, made his clear thoughts &s;trangers to Fear. For as &s;he was held for beauty and bravery in all the <HI>Hetrarian</HI> Court mo&s;t ab&s;olute: &s;o her u&s;ual rejection of &s;undry Per&s;ons of eminent e|&s;teem had confirm'd her a Counte&s;s of incompa|rable Continence. All this time, Prince <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> no le&s;s &s;olicitou&s;ly then &s;ucce&s;&s;ively pur&s;ued his Que&s;t. Neither was <HI>Parthenia's</HI> endeavours, to perfect their longing de&s;ires, &amp; ceremonially com|pleat what their mutual affections had already
<PB N="67" REF="39"> &s;igned. Nothing una&s;&s;ay'd not left unacted that might u&s;efully conduce to the final accompli&s;h|ment of this great Addre&s;s. For <HI>Lycanthes</HI> Father to <HI>Parthenia,</HI> had wholly conde&s;cended to all &s;uch Propo&s;als or Articles of Marriage as were return'd him by <HI>Silures:</HI> with other additional emolu|ments, manife&s;t expre&s;&s;ions of his entire affection to <HI>Ro&s;icles.</HI></P>
<P>But hone&s;t Nuptial love was not onely here in agitation: <HI>Silures</HI> had quite forgot his Office of an Intelligencer; through the pur&s;uit of an inconti|nent Lover. He prefers the purcha&s;e of <HI>Valeriae,</HI> if he might have the fortune to obtain it, before any other imployment, were it never &s;o con&s;ide|rable, whereto in loyalty he &s;tood obliged. To prepare then his amorous addre&s;s: and to bring his continued Motion to a fair period and conclu|&s;ion; being flanker'd with &s;undry officious Agents; who <HI>nibling</HI> at the <HI>Bait</HI> of <HI>Reward;</HI> the attracti|ve&s;t booty to &s;ervile Spirits; promi&s;ed not onely their be&s;t a&s;&s;i&s;tance, but a&s;&s;ur'd him of pre&s;ent &s;uc|ce&s;s, if his <HI>Honour</HI> would give way to their advice. Being then not onely put on but infinitely incou|raged by the&s;e officious In&s;truments to the re-a&s;|&s;ault of this Excellent Lady; and having pre&s;ented her fir&s;t with a rich Carknet (a Pre&s;ent intended for princely <HI>Partheniae,</HI> but deteined by <HI>Silures</HI> as a Re&s;erve for a depraved beauty;) He labours with far more Courtly art then moral hone&s;ty or real mode&s;ty, to delineate his Pa&s;&s;ions begot of ill Prin|ciples in this manner.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<P>Madam <HI>Valeria;</HI> I have purcha&s;ed, but from what hand I know not &s;ince our la&s;t inter cour&s;e, which
<PB N="68" REF="40"> &s;hew'd a &s;trange aver&s;ne&s;s in your affection; an hope enlivened above compare. Neither indeed could I expect ought le&s;&s;e from a Lady &s;o &s;ingularly accom|pli&s;h'd; and of &s;o &s;weet and re&s;enting a temper: A &s;tructure of that Compo&s;ure could not long hold out &s;iedge to an affectionate Stranger: who&s;e life was thrown wholly upon your Mercy: and who&s;e highe&s;t contentment depended on your acceptance. I mu&s;t freely and clearly, as becomes a devotionall Servant, informe your judgment in one particular, nearly re|lating to that impre&s;&s;ive Zeal my affectionate&s;t thoughts had tendered to your Honour. This it was that imbark'd <HI>Silures</HI> first for <HI>Hetruria;</HI> although that great Addre&s;&s;e of my Princes Marriage with your Lady <HI>Parthenia</HI> carried on the de&s;igne. And never was occa&s;ion with more plea&s;ure pre&s;ented: nor more cheerfully pur&s;ued. My Per&s;onall di&s;tance from you, render'd me &s;ufficient Experience of the infallible truth of that Maxim: "How Love divi|ded from its Object became more violent. But my happy voyage has brought on this Conclu&s;ion: that a glad repre&s;entation and fruition of &s;o long a de&s;ired Object Cancells the date of tho&s;e di&s;contents, which a nece&s;&s;itated di&s;tance had formerly procured. Your &s;ub&s;cription to time and place I &s;hall not here commit to paper: in both the&s;e propo&s;e what may appear mo&s;t &s;uitable to your de&s;ires and pre&s;ervation of honour. Meane time, accept this <HI>Token</HI> from his hand, who&s;e heart you are already &s;eaz'd on: and who&s;e &s;ole &s;ub|&s;i&s;tence relies on the incomparable <HI>Valeria,</HI> &s;o long as the de&s;tinies permit a Being to</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Silures.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>This Letter and Pre&s;ent were with all care and &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eed &s;ent to this Noble Lady: receiving them
<PB N="69" REF="40"> with more admiration then affection. For her pure innocent thoughts had never given harbour to the admittance of a light or licentious Suiter. Neither could &s;he imagine by who&s;e means or er|ring Sugge&s;tion this Credulous Stranger &s;hould become &s;o confident of a Conque&s;t; &s;eeing their la&s;t intercour&s;e promi&s;ed nothing le&s;s. Many waies did &s;he ca&s;t about to retreive this Secre&s;ie: and with much adoe &s;he came to a di&s;covery of this grand De&s;ign (a &s;eeming Project of undermi|ning or betraying honour) which, to avoid imper|tinent digre&s;&s;ions, had been thus contrived.</P>
<P>There was one <HI>Argiricidas,</HI> a profe&s;t Broaker in illegitimate Contracts: who under&s;tanding with what impetuous &s;ollicitancy <HI>Silures</HI> impor|tun'd the affection of <HI>Valeria;</HI> pretending his inti|macy with this Lady, offer'd him his &s;ervice: and how he doubted not but to become a prevalent A|gent in this Employment, if he plea&s;ed to tran&s;mit the Carriage of &s;o high a Concern to his manage|ment and di&s;po&s;ure.</P>
<P><HI>Argiricidas</HI> could not be more apt to ingratiate (in which art he was &s;ingular, being his Ma&s;ter-prize) then Love-tran&s;ported <HI>Silures</HI> to enter|tain: grounding his belief on this mercenary A|gents pretence of his known e&s;teem in the Court: and his ea&s;ie acce&s;&s;e and prevalency with this La|dy; on whom he &s;o infinitely doated. No Ear could be more credulou&s;ly attentive to this Impo|&s;tors plau&s;ive incouragements: promi&s;ing him an ample reward upon his &s;ucce&s;s; which with a frontle&s;s boldne&s;s he a&s;&s;ur'd him, &s;hould every way an&s;wer his de&s;ires. Many daies were not pa&s;t,
<PB N="70" REF="41"> till this deluding Sollicitor thir&s;ty of the reward promi&s;ed him; without ever imparting his Suit to the Lady: or remon&s;trance of <HI>Silures</HI> affe|ction continued to her; he frames a Letter and di|rects it to this pitiful perplexed Lover in this man|ner.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<P>Sir; you have heard how frequent drops will pierce the harde&s;t &s;tone; and I have found it true. That Breast which &s;eem'd lately as impenetrable as a Rock of Adamant; by much working (as what meanes una&s;&s;ay'd that might &s;ucce&s;&s;ively operate to the i&s;&s;ue of this de&s;igne:) becomes &s;en&s;ible of the Ef|fects of love: and the apprehen&s;ion of a de&s;erving and ob&s;equious Servant. The Conque&s;t is got; and your way laid to arrive at the Port of your de&s;ires. This Task, I must needs confe&s;s, had it not been pur|&s;ued &s;eriou&s;ly and &s;ea&s;onably, had irrecoverably pe|ri&s;h'd before it had attained its maturity. But your intere&s;t made my Morning Vi&s;its and Evening atten|dance equally plea&s;ing.</P>
<P>The very la&s;t day I had acce&s;s unto her, and upon this Theme took occa&s;ion to conver&s;e with her, was crowned with &s;o cheerfull an Evening; as her grace|full complyance and a&s;&s;ent infinitely &s;weetned and at|tempered my doubtfull endeavours: much like a wea|ried Traveller, who chafed with &s;ultry heat, allays the extremity of his toyle and heat with the &s;ea&s;ona|ble refre&s;hment of a &s;hady Arbour or coole Chri&s;t all Spring. I &s;hall not need to importune your pur&s;uit; I know well, how your affection cannot chu&s;e but be win|ged with speedy de&s;ires: having &s;o imcomparable an Obiect with all freedom ready to receive you: and with the choice&s;t delights that Fancy may contrive,
<PB N="71" REF="41"> or an ingenious Lady devi&s;e, to entertain you.</P>
<P>Take this, Sir, for &s;o I accompt it, for the happie&s;t imployment, that could be by your &s;elf commanded, or commended to the &s;ucce&s;&s;ive indeavours of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your mo&s;t obliged &s;ervant</HI> Argiricidas.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>A rare boldne&s;s! This Letter of Credence is re|ceived; his reward returned: and <HI>Silures</HI> with &s;uch aiery hopes &s;trangely tran&s;ported, as in&s;tead of brains, his head is wholly taken up with Chy|meras. And the&s;e were the grounds of <HI>Silures</HI> confidence: wherewith the wi&s;e&s;t man might have been deluded; much more a fanta&s;tick Lo|ver. This it was that caus'd him to play the part of a Conceipted Secretary: and like another <HI>Ixion</HI> to be couzen'd with a Cloud. For we &s;hall go on in a continued Maze of Errors: and in our extrication find them all highly reflecting on <HI>Silures</HI> honour.</P>
<P>When <HI>Valeria</HI> had received that &s;trange Letter from the hand of her Confident Lover; &s;he knew not well what to make of it: but having found out the Author; &s;he re&s;olv'd to continuate this Er|ror: and to bring <HI>Silures</HI> to the knowledge of the E&s;timate of a Ladies honour: and to contrive this Scene the better; &s;he pretends love, where &s;he meanes not to place it: and under a colourable profe&s;&s;ion, to pre&s;ent a Face of love, where &s;he ne|ver intends to be&s;tow it. Neither, indeed, could his a&s;&s;iduate vi&s;its and un&s;ea&s;onable Courtings do le&s;s then highly incen&s;e her: being a Lady of highe&s;t rank in Court: and the onely attractive Per&s;on for Maje&s;ty and Beauty. And con&s;equent|ly, One upon whom the Eyes of mo&s;t of the E|minente&s;t per&s;onages of honour were con&s;tantly
<PB N="72" REF="42"> fixed. Be&s;ides, her Husband de&s;cended from one of the flouri&s;hing&s;t Families in all <HI>Mantua;</HI> might ju&s;tly take it as a derogation to the quality of his Per&s;on, to have &s;o daring an intruder pre&s;&s;ing into his Intere&s;t. The&s;e Con&s;iderable Motives quickned her Revenge, and that in &s;uch Exqui|&s;ite a manner: as nothing could extend to an higher degree of &s;everity in her: nor of more ig|nominy to him.</P>
<P>And in this &s;ort &s;he moulds her Plot; not with|out her <HI>Con&s;orts</HI> a&s;&s;i&s;tance, as may be probably conjectur'd, holding him&s;elf equally concern'd in this in&s;olent attempt and in&s;upportable affront &s;hown them both. The Revenge, as the Sto<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y renders it, was no le&s;s expeditely acted then plot|ted: And to Po&s;terity a Surviving Memoriall. The Lady <HI>Valeria</HI> re&s;olv'd to feed him in his own humour, that his Cata&s;trophe in the unexpected Change of the Act might appeare more heavy; &s;uits her di&s;&s;embled love in the like dre&s;s, to bring him the &s;ooner to her Lure: and publi&s;h his &s;hame under the vizard of love. Quick and conci&s;e was her Character, implying the impatient de&s;ires of a pa&s;&s;ionate Lover.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<P>Tru&s;t me, Sir, &s;uch pretenders to love, as you ap|peare to be, (for your too prevalent lines have in|joyn'd me to a Belief that your undi&s;cerning Choice has made me the Mi&s;tre&s;s of your heart, and &s;ole Soveraigne&s;s of your affection) &s;uch, I &s;ay, are dan|gerous Pioners to conver&s;e with. For in truth, we cannot challenge any propriety in our &s;elves; &s;o long as it is in your hand to draw the latch of our affection; which by your per&s;wa&s;ion and over-working, becomes
<PB N="73" REF="42"> capable of any impre&s;&s;ion. We mu&s;t then with Pati|ence be ca&s;ten in your Mould: and appear fraile ve&s;|&s;els at the plea&s;ure of the Moulder.</P>
<P>I dare not &s;ay I love you; and yet, methinks, my Tongue begins to taxe me; nay, in expre&s;s words tell me, that my dialect is not true. My Bo&s;ome too, which has been ever a profe&s;t Stranger to unlawfull heats; &s;hould I whisper to it a Tale of Forraigne Love; it would turne Infidel and not believe me: having ever held &s;uch di&s;tance with Pa&s;&s;ions of that quality.&mdash; But ay me! I mu&s;t love, you &s;ay: and I mu&s;t ingenuou&s;ly confe&s;s, my Frailty, and your Fer|vor perplexe me a thou&s;and waies in returne of my An&s;wer. But the Suit is &s;oon obtain'd, where the Pe|titioner may play the Commander, by challenging an influence upon the Party to whom He pre&s;ents his Suit.&mdash;Go to Sir, you mu&s;t play the Conquerour; but let me conjure you, by all tho&s;e religious prote&s;ts which you have &s;o frequently and fervorou&s;ly brea|thed: and with &s;o many ceremonious atte&s;ts confirm|ed, that you triumph not too much in your Spoile; let it be &s;ufficient for your goodne&s;&s;e to have gained the Gole, whereto the in&s;tancy of your de|&s;ires a&s;pired. Do not blemi&s;h that which your Judgment has &s;o highly valued. That Lapidary might be ju&s;tly tax'd of indi&s;cretion or want of know|ledg; who will carele&s;ly &s;uffer a Foile to be laid on that Gemme or Pearle which he e&s;teemes of price: you have &s;ince your fir&s;t &s;ollicitancy &s;et your honour at an high rate. Be equally tender of both our Fames in this relation. Let not the fruition of your de&s;ires make you too lavi&s;h in your expre&s;s: nor too immoderate in your Exce&s;s of joy. The&s;e might prove two ha|zardous
<PB N="74" REF="43"> precipices to both our honours; which I am confident your di&s;creet love will &s;tudy to decline in this pur&s;uit and injoyment of &mdash; I know not how to render it, a mutuall acquie&s;cence of a dangerous prohibited plea&s;ure. As you tender then the <HI>Object,</HI> to whom you pretend &s;o high an honour, in this your affectionate Cariere, (which mu&s;t be a&s;&s;ented to, becau&s;e, &s;o preva|lent a Suiter commands it) let this be your prime En|deavour. You have obliged me many ways by votive Expre&s;&s;ions, powerfull lines and now in Tokens. To regratiate which tribute, I &s;hall a&s;&s;ure you Sir, by the word of honour; that SHE, whom by all likelihood you are to injoy, &s;eeing it cannot be otherwi&s;e preven|ted, &s;hall weare that Pledge of yours as an indeered Favour upon your acce&s;s and private admittance to her. This is enough; could lines blu&s;h, I had not writ &s;o much: yet if my Jealou&s;ie of intercepting the&s;e lines had not &s;uggested to my timerous &s;pirit fre&s;h Feares, I had inlarged my &s;elf more. Only this; your &s;afe conduct and arrivall to the acqui&s;ition of your de&s;ires, cannot be le&s;s then entirely wi&s;hed by</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your indeered</HI> Valeria.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>The glad&s;ome Receipt of this Letter &s;o &s;trangely &s;urpized the deluded thoughts of our inamoured <HI>Silures;</HI> as he found that ancient Adage true by his own Experience: <HI>Delay was bitter in the Que&s;t of love.</HI> With winged Speed He re&s;olves to pur&s;ue his tender'd Intere&s;t: and upon his acce&s;s to her, finds her ca&s;ten in a new Mould. Her deportment had made it &s;elf a &s;tranger to nicene&s;s. No look but it retein'd a relation to love. Nothing could be delivered by him, but it did infinitly plea&s;e. And to clo&s;e this intercour&s;e with a plea&s;ing Pe|riod;
<PB N="75" REF="43"> time, place with all conveniencies are de&s;ig|ned for the accompli&s;hment of his de&s;ires: from the Expediting whereof <HI>Valeria</HI> &s;hewed no aver&s;e|ne&s;s at all.</P>
<P>When the Phebean Charriot after a long dela|tory progre&s;s (for &s;o it appeared to <HI>Silures</HI>) had fini&s;hed his Cour&s;e: and given way to <HI>Latona</HI> with her Sable Curtains to ore-canopy the inferiour Orbe; it was no time for this longing Amori&s;t to fore&s;low his admittance to his imaginary <HI>Valeria:</HI> being made &s;o well acquainted with his Lodging: and with what privacy, without the Conduct of any Lights, He was directed to enter the Cham|ber, in relation to her honour, whom he did &s;o incomparably tender. Where He found a Bed|fellow, but of another hue, though he could not at fir&s;t di&s;cover it, then he expected. But feeling the Carknet about her neck, which <HI>Valeria</HI> had writ unto him, 'Even <HI>&s;he</HI> &s;hould weare, whom by all probability He was to enjoy; apprehending no Fallacy in it; as one &s;atisfied with his Choice; He lay clo&s;e inwreath'd in the armes of his uncouth Con&s;ort an Expo&s;ed Pro&s;titute; a Moori&s;h Wo|man, of an ob&s;cure quality, an infectious and di&s;|ea&s;ed body. So as, when the Sun had di&s;play'd his burni&s;h'd locks, his radiant &s;plendor over the Univer&s;e: and Morpheus cloyed with a long nights &s;lumber, had drawn a&s;ide his Curtains, that he might better di&s;cover the deformity of his In|mate; in a Furious and madding pa&s;&s;ion, as one quite di&s;tracted with that ugly Object of his loa|thed plea&s;ure; <HI>Silures</HI> leaps out of his Bed, vow|ing revenge for this his unexemplary di&s;honour,
<PB N="76" REF="44"> if either Force or Policy could po&s;&s;ibly contrive it. But for the pre&s;ent, he held no Practi&s;e more u&s;eful, not for effecting his revenge more behoov|full; then to make it his principall de&s;ign (a Pra|cti&s;e mo&s;t prejudiciall to the State of <HI>Candy</HI>) how to di&s;&s;olve that Treaty of Marriage; by cooling the affection of Prince <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> to his vertuous <HI>Parthenia,</HI> and to commence a difference betwixt the two States of <HI>Hetruria</HI> and <HI>Candy.</HI> This de&s;ign admitted no protraction: for though he could not with all his &s;ubtile and &s;erpentine per&s;wa&s;ions aliene the grounded affection of <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> to that in|comparable Lady: &s;o deeply were tho&s;e impre&s;&s;ions fixed: yet by incendiary Letters privately and &s;pee|dily tran&s;mitted to the old King; who through in|crea&s;e of years and decrea&s;e of con&s;tancy in adhea|ring to advice, became wholly led by the Councell of his Favorites: among&s;t whom, none more emi|nent, nor in higher tru&s;t then <HI>Silures.</HI> Such was the liberty of the time: and the infelicity of a State to derive their advice and a&s;&s;i&s;tance from tho&s;e <HI>Lap|wing Stati&s;ts,</HI> who either would not, or could not manage tho&s;e high con&s;iderable affaires &s;o main|ly conducing to the &s;afety, peace and &s;ecurity of their Countrey. Now <HI>Silures,</HI> this corrupt Intel|ligencer, highly inflam'd with the &s;welling Fury of an implacable revenge, among&s;t other pernici|ous Me&s;&s;ages meerly commenced without Colour of Truth; adverti&s;ed the Councell of State, (e|&s;pecially &s;uch as were Feathers of his wing) what derogation it would be to the Flouri&s;hing Sove|raignty of <HI>Candy</HI> to become &s;ubject to the Com|mands of an Inferiour State; which he had ex|pre&s;ly
<PB N="77" REF="44"> collected by &s;undry <HI>Hetrurian</HI> braves: and tho&s;e &s;econded by per&s;ons of the eminent&s;t quali|ty in all the Nation; that this alliance &s;hould make them &s;o happy, that though they were Sub|jects in <HI>Hetruria;</HI> They might by their prowe&s;s become Commanders over <HI>Candy.</HI> And to de|cline their joynt approvements from this Capitu|lation; He a&s;&s;ur'd them more (no le&s;s ementiti|ous then the former) how the <HI>Hetrurian</HI> Prince had <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ready made &s;o bold with their Prerogative Royall; nay, with the antient Cre&s;ts and Signals of their Princes Family: as they blu&s;hed not to quarter his Coat: and to boa&s;t publickly, how the Con&s;titution of our State of <HI>Candy,</HI> was rai&s;ed out of a&s;hes by the <HI>Hetrurian</HI> valour.</P>
<P>The&s;e Relations, raked up from the Cinders of Revenge, which <HI>Silures</HI> had &s;o lately imbo&s;om'd, &s;o highly incen&s;ed tho&s;e incon&s;iderate Stati&s;ts, to whom his Letters were directed, as with joint voice and vote they re&s;olv'd to make their addre&s;s to <HI>Ba&s;ilius</HI> the old King, and to importune the ne|ce&s;&s;ity of his a&s;&s;ent for di&s;&s;olving the Treaty with the <HI>Hetrurian</HI> Prince, and for calling back his Son <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> with expre&s;s Command of forbearing to proceed in any &s;uch intentional way of Alliance. This was no &s;ooner propo&s;ed by tho&s;e young Statesmen; then it was readily inclined to by <HI>Ba|&s;ilius.</HI> Who&s;e content re&s;ted principally in a free indulging of his aged appetite, rather then any management or addre&s;s of State.</P>
<P>It is not ea&s;ie to apprehend the grief nor per|plexed di&s;temper of <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> upon receipt of this &s;evere and unwelcom Me&s;&s;age. But <HI>Silures</HI> &s;o
<PB N="78" REF="45"> deeply blanched with di&s;honour, ha&s;tened his de|parture; but appeared as one wholly guiltle&s;s and unknown to the grounds of any &s;uch Command. But he could not &s;o artfully nor &s;ubtilely colour it; but mo&s;t of the eminen&s;t Per&s;ons conver&s;ant a|bout the Court, were acquainted with the Occa|&s;ion of it: and afterwards became a Comical Ar|gument (or a Satyrical &s;ubject rather) to the choi|ce&s;t and exqui&s;ite&s;t <HI>Ro&s;cio's</HI> about the Court, both to exerci&s;e their Fancies, and actively to pre&s;ent them. Though the <HI>Hetrurian</HI> Prince di&s;ta&s;ting &s;uch invective Pre&s;entments, out of a native mo|de&s;ty and princely clemency, prohibited all &s;uch detractive Scenes, darting per&s;onally upon any ones honour, to be publickly acted.</P>
<P>Now mu&s;t we leave <HI>Parthenia</HI> bemoaning her hard fate; to be thus de&s;erted without cau&s;e: and divided from the ab&s;olute Object of her pure af|fection without ground. So as &s;he remained over-re&s;olv'd to bid adue to the world: and to betake her&s;elf to a private Clau&s;tral life. Neither was it her purpo&s;e to alter that re&s;olve: had not more impre&s;&s;ive advice or a &s;uperiour Command diver|ted her retired cour&s;e: Being afterwards e&s;pou&s;ed to a Prince of high Extraction: and &s;ingular en|dowments: yet would &s;he never hear of any &s;uch motion; till &s;he received certain intelligence of <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> marriage: &s;o con&s;tantly and devotionally &s;tood &s;he affected.</P>
<P>It was high time now for <HI>Silures</HI> to pack away, ha|ving run his Fame on &s;o de&s;perate a Shelf: as tho&s;e very Foi&s;ts &amp; Buffoons, who in an inferiour offici|ating way reteined to the Court, would u&s;ually
<PB N="79" REF="45"> point at him; and in a di&s;graceful manner twit him; and &s;ay: <Q>There &s;trutts that brave Forreigne In|telligencer, who has lately got a &s;troake over &s;hinnes with a <HI>French Faggot:</HI> or a Snappe by a <HI>Neapolitan Ferret.</HI></Q> It is ea&s;ie then to imagin with what celerity he winged his Cour&s;e, to decline his &s;hame. No time was re&s;erv'd to take his long Farewell of his Grand Revenger <HI>Valeria</HI> nor his Moor <HI>Tripen&s;a:</HI> from whom He had received more then he could claw off in ha&s;te: For that profe&s;t Haxter was noted for &s;uch a Mercenary Pro&s;titute, as &s;he was held a dangerous Inhabi|tant under the <HI>Torrid Zone:</HI> One, apt to infect more then a Publick Pe&s;t.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e Ladies then and dainty doxes of the <HI>He|trurian</HI> Court, mu&s;t hold him excu&s;ed; for neg|lect of tho&s;e Care&s;&s;es and Civile adues; which, if all things had gone right, had been, doubtle&s;ly, return'd a with a gracefull and complementall di|men&s;ion.</P>
<P>Now, &s;uppo&s;e the&s;e two launching forth into the Maine Ocean; where Calme Seas and pro&s;perous gales accompanied them: being far more &s;ucce&s;|&s;ive in their Pa&s;&s;age by Sea, then Addre&s;&s;e by Land: lo&s;t in the One, but &s;afely arriv'd by the clear Convoy and propitiou&s;ne&s;s of the Other. And with &s;uch a&s;&s;i&s;tance had <HI>Silures</HI> fortified his approach and acce&s;s to the Court of <HI>Candy:</HI> as all his tran&s;|actions were highly approved: his breach of the Match generally received as an incomparable Ble&s;&s;ing to their State: in&s;tilling into vulgar Eares, who were apt to believe, what they had not the happine&s;s to conceive; that next to the Provi|dence
<PB N="80" REF="46"> of Heaven, They were to attribute the pru|dent and pro&s;perous management of that great Act of State, to the cautious and circum&s;pect Carriage of <HI>Silures,</HI> in preventing by a timely fore-&s;ight the Conclu&s;ive Heads of that high and mo&s;t Con&s;iderable Treaty. The production where|of, if once a&s;&s;ented to, might have accelerated the ruine of <HI>Candy.</HI> Wherein &s;ome particulars were in&s;tanced, and tho&s;e mainly in&s;i&s;ted on, to beget in their Commonalty the &s;tronger belief of the happy i&s;&s;ue of this prevention. As fir&s;t, how the Principles of Politick Government had not been onely much weakned, but quite di&s;&s;olved by this Alliance: For the Forme and Method of their Soveraignty, was ever much different to the <HI>He|trurian</HI> Po&s;ture: and &s;o ambitious was the Nature of tho&s;e People; (&s;o they pretended) as they would not be content with the free enjoyment of their own Priviledges and Nationall Con&s;titutions, but they mu&s;t invade others Liberties; by reducing their Laws to their &s;cantling. Neither was this all the inconvenience that might probably occur to their Flouri&s;hing State by this incommodious Al|liance: For the di&s;cipline of their Church held no Con&s;ent nor harmony with them. How warily then and wi&s;ely was this prevented, e're any thing were po&s;itively concluded?</P>
<P>The&s;e Rea&s;ons, though in an equall and judi|cious Skale, they might clearly appeare light and incon&s;iderable; they left &s;uch Impre&s;&s;ions in the hearts of the Citizens; as they accounted of <HI>Si|lures</HI> for a <HI>Semi-deity;</HI> but if they had peru&s;ed his Conditions rightly, they would have found him
<PB N="81" REF="46"> a <HI>Light one</HI> (&s;uch as the Poets feigned their Hea|then Gods to be:) but too much honour, as they thought, could not be conferred on a per&s;on of that quality; who&s;e timely care and vi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ilancy had pre&s;erved their Country: by freeing them from that Juncto or Alliance, the Con&s;equence where|of might have involv'd them in the mi&s;eries of a perpetual Slavery. The&s;e &s;ugred pretences were tho&s;e Motives, which caus'd them to receive him into the City with tho&s;e Applau&s;es and Acclama|tions, Bonefires, Conduits &s;treaming with wine; Theatral Shows and Pre&s;entments both by Land and Water: with &s;undry Encomia&s;tick Peans in magnifying his actions (&s;o ignorant was the pen of the quality of his merits;) whereby it appear'd, that the&s;e deluded Plebeians a&s;cribed more to <HI>Si|lures</HI> lightne&s;s: then they did to <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> compo&s;ed and temperate Carriage.</P>
<P>But the prevention of this in&s;ucce&s;&s;iue match mu&s;t make way to a new Addre&s;s: For the hopes of the Kingdom being wholly trea&s;ured in the Po|&s;terity of <HI>Ba&s;ilius:</HI> and <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> the onely top-branch of that Royall Stemme; the nece&s;&s;ity of his Election in the Choice of a Con&s;ort, might ad|mit no long debate. <HI>Ferrara</HI> was the Place where He was to &s;et up his re&s;t: and make his Choice. And this tractable Prince returns a faire and free Conde&s;cention to their definite re&s;olve: though the memory of <HI>Parthenia's</HI> perfections, then which none more accompli&s;h'd, retein'd in him that deep impre&s;&s;ion, as his affianc'd heart could hard|ly find harbour for any new affection. But on he mu&s;t to this re-addre&s;s, &s;econded by the atten|dance
<PB N="82" REF="47"> of his late Intelligencer. Who though he pretended an indi&s;po&s;ition to health (as he might well, for the <HI>Fire</HI> was not yet quite out of the <HI>Furnace,</HI> nor his <HI>Cornelian Tub</HI> wholly removed) and by his Night-Cap, which he &s;hadowed with the hand&s;om pretext of an Hectick Fever; though in|tended to cover the <HI>Scalpe</HI> of an <HI>Adamite,</HI> left as naked as a moulted Scaledrak: with his <HI>unarmed</HI> Fin|gers, for they had lo&s;t their nails by fa&s;tening too eagerly upon an infectious beauty: Though he might object the&s;e Infirmities (as never better vital parts were &s;eaz'd of more) on he mu&s;t to this new Adventure: wherein, no doubt, his late misfortune would make him more tender of pre&s;erving the Con&s;titution of his enfeebled Honour. Now to their Convoy and arrival.</P>
<P>Their acce&s;s to the Court of <HI>Hetruria</HI> was not with more &s;tate nor magnificence pre&s;ented to Prince <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> and his noble Retinue; then it was with a Maje&s;tick kind of di&s;tance at his fir&s;t coming to Court, accoutred by the Prince and his daughter <HI>Irina;</HI> with whom he was, as the State had debated it, upon his departure from <HI>Can|dy,</HI> to enter marriage. All the Court put on a &s;hie countenance: nor did the Lady her&s;elf appear with le&s;s nicene&s;s, if at any time (which was rare) &s;he took occa&s;ion to encounter <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> or be in his pre&s;ence. The grounds of which &s;trangene&s;s neither he nor his Intelligencer could at fir&s;t di&s;|cover; till one day an e&s;pecial Favorite, one who had been formerly educated in the Court of <HI>Can|dy,</HI> imparted his mind with much freedom unto <HI>Ro&s;icles;</HI> un&s;hadowing to him what had appeared
<PB N="83" REF="47"> before mo&s;t intricate: and withall, that his affecti|onate zeal might be a-wanting in no con&s;iderable re&s;pect conducing to &s;o fair an Addre&s;s, he chalks him forth away how he might alter the face of that &s;trangene&s;s in his Mi&s;tre&s;s: and po&s;&s;e&s;s the Court with a better opinion of him; then they had yet in their Entertaine demon&s;trated. His words, upon their &s;erious Conference in the Pallace Gar|den, were the&s;e.</P>
<P>Sir, I mu&s;t ingenuou&s;ly tell you, for I am none of the&s;e that would willingly delude you, having been formerly &s;o much obliged to your Fathers Court for my Education; that your <HI>Highne&s;s</HI> goes the wrong way to the wood in this pur&s;uit of your affection. The Prince&s;s of <HI>Ferrara</HI> bears a more &s;upercilious front then to be content with the <HI>Gleanings</HI> of the compleate&s;t Suiter in <HI>Europe.</HI></P>
<P>She has heard, and &s;o has the whole Council of State, with the eminen&s;t Per&s;ons in our Court, what a devotional Servant you have profe&s;t your|&s;elf to the Prince&s;s <HI>Parthenia</HI> in the Court of <HI>He|truria;</HI> where having received a di&s;honourable re|pul&s;e, like a rejected or de&s;erted Lover, you flie hither to &s;upply your lo&s;s with the choice of a new Mi&s;tre&s;s. But our Ladies here be of an higher temper: and more coy by nature, to &s;it down with the huske, when they may have the kernel: or re&s;t &s;atisfied with Leavings, where they may be pre|&s;ented with the very fir&s;t and be&s;t Fruits. Let me then advi&s;e from that intimacy of &s;ervice I owe you; to make it your fir&s;t Task to vindicate your honour; by making it appear to our Prince&s;s <HI>Iri|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a,</HI> how this di&s;per&s;t report erroneou&s;ly grounded,
<PB N="84" REF="48"> has highly injured you; in faming you to be re|jected by <HI>Parthenia,</HI> (nor have I heard ought le&s;s;) &s;eeing the Objects of your affection was el&s;ewhere &s;tated: and now in its proper Centre clo&s;ed: and in the acqui&s;ition of your de&s;ires hap|pily crowned. Beget once this belief in her: and you mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily go on in a &s;mooth track. Wherein the real wi&s;hes and actual offices of a Con&s;tant Servant &s;hall ever go along with you.</P>
<P>The&s;e incouragements highly enlivened the drooping hopes of perplexed <HI>Ro&s;icles:</HI> who with the&s;e unexpected oppo&s;itions had nearly razed out of his remembrance the late impre&s;&s;ive Idea of his de&s;erted Mi&s;tre&s;s. And to put this faithful Favo|rites Coun&s;el in practi&s;e; He call'd to mind a Let|ter formerly writ unto him by <HI>Parthenia:</HI> and amplified with various expre&s;&s;es of much endeer|ment; which he had firmly re&s;olv'd to carry ever about him: not to that end as he afterwards em|ployed it, but to ingrave in his memory a deeper character of her con&s;tancy. The lines were &s;hort but pithy: labouring to put Loves tongue to &s;i|lence with the virgin &s;tile of mode&s;ty.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<P>Sir, <HI>Parthenia</HI> could &s;ay &s;he loves you, but &s;he dares not; le&s;t it &s;hould put upon you that confidence that might betray her di&s;cretion, by giving way to your &s;trength to triumph over her weakne&s;s. And yet &s;he dares credit you: For though there be no <HI>faith</HI> to be repo&s;'d in the <HI>face;</HI> there is a <HI>line</HI> of <HI>Honour</HI> that cannot be crooked. Fame cannot be lyable to hazard in &s;uch a family. Your goodne&s;s has been plea&s;ed to delineate your love in &s;undry ample Expre&s;&s;es: and <HI>Parthenia</HI> can truly though blu&s;hingly tell you, that
<PB N="85" REF="48"> if you knew her heart, you could not but confe&s;s how &s;he thankfully a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;wers you. Her onely Injunction, derived from a cordiall affection clo&s;eth in this: Appeare the &s;ame you &s;eem, as you &s;hall ever find in</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your con&s;tant</HI> Parthenia.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>This letter by his appliance to <HI>Euriola,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Some have taxt <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> for &s;cattering this Let|ter: hold|ing it a betraying of the mo|de&s;ty of his Mi|&s;tre&s;s.</NOTE> one of her intimate Attendants, he caus'd to be &s;cattered at the bottom of the Lobby, where &s;he u&s;ually upon occa&s;ion repair'd to. And what influence wrought upon his di&s;dainfull Mi&s;tre&s;s, &s;hall ap|peare by the Sequel.</P>
<P>When his coy <HI>Irina</HI> had taken up this letter (&s;cattered at unawares, as &s;he imagined) and &s;e|riou&s;ly peru&s;ed it; as &s;he receiv'd from one part of it &s;atisfaction; &s;o from the other, a conceipt of his mutability and irre&s;olution. She remain'd &s;atisfied by the Contents of it, that <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> had rather de&s;erted <HI>Parthenia;</HI> then <HI>Parthenia Ro&s;i|cles.</HI> But &s;he found another Flaw in it; which perplext her as much as the other pleas'd her: and that was his apparent incon&s;tancy; in de&s;erting a Lady &s;o entirely his, and of de&s;ervings beyond exception; without the lea&s;t ground of di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ta&s;te, which brought her to this mature expo&s;tulation with her &s;elf.</P>
<P>How now <HI>Irina!</HI> Has time re&s;erv'd you for no imployment; but to be&s;tow your precious houres in peru&s;ing letters that concerne you not? Play not the wanton fly in &s;porting too much with the Flame of Fancy; le&s;t your &s;ing'd wings become a booty to Loves Fury. Ingage not your liberty to a Stranger, le&s;t the Forfeiture bring you off with di&s;honour. What is <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> to <HI>Irina,</HI> or <HI>Irina</HI> to
<PB N="86" REF="49"> <HI>Ro&s;icles?</HI> Have you none to be&s;tow your affecti|on on; but on &s;uch an One, as can &s;uit his Fancy to all Objects: and pretend Faith, when he intends to colour it with the cunning artifice of Fraud? what priviledge of Exemption may you challenge above his de&s;erted <HI>Parthenia?</HI> None could (as it well appears, and I commi&s;erate her injuried condition) Sacrifice to Loves Altar with more fer|vour, nor unveil her Conjugal de&s;ires with more innocent Candor; yet mu&s;t &s;he be rejected where her affection was mo&s;t individually fixed and un|extingui&s;hably fired. An excellent cautionary Le|cture for an incon&s;iderate Lover. De&s;i&s;t then, and keep thine eyes within their Lodges: thy Fancy communicable to none but thine own Bo&s;om. This will &s;ecure thee from the thraldom of a light Suiter: and return thee a freedom of enjoying thy &s;elf, incomparably more valuable then the&s;e ceremonious prote&s;ts of any Complemental Lo|ver. The whole world (if thou &s;hould&s;t take thy Survey) pre&s;ents but in a Land-skip, a continued counterfet <HI>Love-mask;</HI> wherein appears variety of Faces, but they are not native nor genuine; but borrowed vizards. And, &s;ure, if <HI>Paint</HI> be &s;o odious a tincture to real beauty; what may we think of the&s;e adulterate Colors of painted Fancy: when we &s;eem lea&s;t that we are: and are mo&s;t what we &s;eem lea&s;t?&mdash;But ay me! Tenderd love, which may be real and without any &s;uch flaw, merits no &s;uch hea|vy con&s;truction: nor any &s;uch Critici&s;m. Dige&s;t then thy thoughts better: and &s;u&s;pend thy Judg|ment, till truth, the daughter of time &s;hall di&s;co|ver his Carriage in that <HI>Hetrurian</HI> Suit: with all
<PB N="87" REF="49"> the Circum&s;tances nece&s;&s;arily accompanying &s;o main and important an addre&s;&s;e. Neither will this appear a Task of any &s;uch difficulty as not to be atcheived: being pur&s;ued with indu&s;try, and di&s;creet &s;ecre&s;ie. I am confident a politick head might (if all other wayes were ob&s;tructed) plough the ground with his own Heifers: and that I hold to be the cleare&s;t and expedite&s;t cour&s;e.</P>
<P>It were ea&s;ie to gather by this pretty amorous Expo&s;tulation, how <HI>Irina</HI> for all her pretended motion or aver&s;ion from the &s;uit of <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> &s;tood cordially affected: which &s;he more clearly di&s;co|vered by her diligent inquiry.</P>
<P>This by the a&s;&s;i&s;ting means of her Gentlewo|man <HI>Euriola,</HI> came in very &s;hort time to be ef|fected. For one <HI>Phila&s;ter</HI> a per&s;on of e&s;peciall account with <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> but no well wi&s;her to <HI>Si|lures,</HI> profe&s;&s;ing much love to<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">This <HI>Eu|riola</HI> was a native <HI>Cretan:</HI> though <HI>Ferrara</HI> gave her Educati|on.</NOTE> <HI>Euriola,</HI> and de&s;ir|ing nothing more then to become her intimate Servant: entring one day into a Familiar di&s;cour&s;e with this Mi&s;tre&s;s of his affection (for &s;o he &s;tyled her) touching the Carriage of that great bu&s;ine&s;s in <HI>Hetru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ia;</HI> and being very inqui&s;itive, according to her Ladies direction, of &s;undry particulars, both in relation to their proceedings, and unexpected breach in the Conclu&s;ion: He fully acquainted her with their whole Progre&s;s, and occa&s;ionall di|vi&s;ion in this &s;ort.</P>
<P>Madam <HI>Euriola,</HI> none can more punctually &s;a|tisfie your obliging Commands in this Relation then my &s;elf; which I &s;hall do more willingly; becau&s;e it may vindicate the honour of &s;ome who have the neare&s;t intere&s;t in it: and lay the blame
<PB N="88" REF="50"> on tho&s;e who by their irregular comportment ju&s;t|ly de&s;erve it. Mo&s;t injuriou&s;ly has our noble Prince been traduced: nay, privately tax'd, (&s;o far as the malignancy of their report would pa&s;s for current,) of levity and incon&s;tancy in the pur|&s;uit of his affection: And how ungratefully <HI>Par|thenia's</HI> loyall Expre&s;&s;es were requited. But the&s;e Criminations may be wiped off with an ea&s;ie Spunge: For his faire and well-compos'd demeane was royally affectionate; his Carriage mode&s;t and temperate, in no Cour&s;e di&s;-proportionate to the Greatne&s;s of him&s;elf: de&s;iring nothing more fer|vorou&s;ly (and herein clo&s;ed his de&s;ires mo&s;t Princely) then to have that bu&s;ine&s;s expedirely effected, which had been &s;o generally approved and advanced. But I mu&s;t tell you, my deere&s;t Mi&s;tre&s;s, that there was an <HI>uncleane Bea&s;t</HI> (I mu&s;t freely unbo&s;ome my &s;elf to your Commands) that troubled the &s;mooth pa&s;&s;age of this Chri&s;talline Current. One, who &s;hould have been a principall Agent in promoting it: but bemoane a <HI>Remora</HI> in our Proceedings. For that amiable thred of love, which the Prince my Ma&s;ter; had woven: and by a mutuall contexture brought nearly to per|fection; (for no difference nor di&s;parity appeared in their Choice:) his &s;en&s;uall de&s;ires untwi&s;ted: di&s;&s;olving in one day, what many weeks had con|tracted: and what two equally united hearts had &s;o freely entertained.</P>
<P><HI>Euriola</HI> here interrupting him; earne&s;tly be|&s;ought him to know who might be the unhappy Actor of &s;uch a mi&s;chief?</P>
<P>Excu&s;e your Servant, Madam, replyed <HI>Phila|&s;ter,</HI>
<PB N="89" REF="50"> I &s;hall not much need to di&s;play him any further: his di&s;honour has more then &s;ufficiently publi&s;h'd his di&s;order. He has been a Servant of &s;uch long continuance unto &s;en&s;e: as it has forti|fied him again&s;t all &s;hame. In one word, this <HI>Sy|barite,</HI> to give him according to his dimention a ju&s;t Character; is a profe&s;t violator of honour: and to the grief of a di&s;temper'd State be it &s;poken, an individuall Minion to Him who &s;its at the Sterne. This is the Portraiture unto life of a light Intelligencer.</P>
<P>So, &s;aid <HI>Euriola;</HI> now I have you. I have heard him, indeed, call'd the Catamite of our time. But Fame is apt to belie tho&s;e that are in place. How|&s;oever, in this He &s;hew'd him&s;elf an In&s;trument of unexemplary ba&s;ene&s;s.</P>
<P>Madam, you apprehend it rightly: and if with mode&s;ty I could di&s;cover every particular, how it was projected and acted, it might make up an Annal to Po&s;terity, and leave the Actor to a &s;tig|matiz'd memory. Lines cannot blu&s;h; I &s;hall in a Scedule leave to my Excellent Mi&s;tre&s;s, what I cannot returne with Freedom by way of di&s;cour&s;e. Penns be the be&s;t Pencils, where Pictures are to be &s;hadowed: Or the Subjects we treat of, &s;ha|dowingly couched.</P>
<P>Neither was <HI>Phila&s;ter</HI> unmindfull of his pro|mi&s;e, for within few daies after, he returned <HI>Eu|riola</HI> a lively Story of <HI>Silures</HI> Folly. Which with all convenient &s;peed &s;he pre&s;ented to her Lady. Upon peru&s;all whereof, as the Narrative of the deluded Sen&s;uali&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, being taken in his own Gin, did much delight her: &s;o the unexpected Over|tures
<PB N="90" REF="51"> of the two di&s;-appointed Lovers did much perplex her.</P>
<P>But above all others, that &s;trict Command of the Old King and his Councell; &s;o peremptorily injoyning Prince <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> to di&s;&s;olve the Treaty: and with all &s;peed to returne to <HI>Candy.</HI> Yet her Compa&s;&s;ion became counterpoiz'd by a late in|bred affection. For being now in every particular &s;atisfied of <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> gallant deportment: and that He was guiltle&s;s of what &s;he mo&s;t &s;u&s;pected; in|con&s;tancy in the dereliction of his Mi&s;tre&s;s, &s;he begun to feel a glowing warmth in her own bo|&s;ome, &s;o as, what &s;he commi&s;erated in another, &s;he became &s;en&s;ible of, in a repre&s;entative view of her own Condition.</P>
<P>The&s;e Impre&s;&s;ions grew &s;o firmly fixt in her virgin affections, as love, to who&s;e Name, Na|ture and definition &s;he was &s;o lately a Novice; was now entertain'd as her neare&s;t and deare&s;t Con&s;ort. She di&s;claim'd all di&s;tance now with <HI>Ro&s;icles;</HI> in who&s;e pre&s;ence though &s;he had in|joyn'd her tongue a Silence; &s;he had a&s;pired to that perfection in her Progre&s;s of Fancy, as &s;he had Speaking Eyes: which any Intelligible Lo|ver, had he been never &s;o weakly di&s;ciplin'd in the Service of a Mi&s;tre&s;s, might upon the very fir&s;t reflection have ea&s;ily apprehended. So as his &s;uit will admit no long demur: His Per&s;on and abilities being &s;o well approv'd: his Family every way corre&s;ponding to her Choice. Wi&s;ely then, le&s;t &s;ome &s;mi&s;ter occurrent, as &s;he had read of before, might ob&s;truct her intended choice; &s;he applied her&s;elf to her Mother-Queen (for her
<PB N="91" REF="51"> noble victorious Father had been not long before di&s;patcht by a de&s;perate A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ine) imparting freely to her, the affection &s;he bare to Prince <HI>Ro&s;icles.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">He was de&s;peratly &s;tab'd by <HI>Clariva</HI> in his Chari|ot.</NOTE> This di&s;creet choice of <HI>Irina's</HI> was no way di&s;ta&s;tful to her Mother; apprehending rightly how this in|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ended match might highly conduce to the a&s;&s;i|&s;tance of the State of <HI>Ferrara,</HI> then imbroiled in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">undry Divi&s;ions both at home &amp; abroad: the Furie whereof, as &s;he wi&s;ely thought, might be more &s;ea|&s;onably compo&s;ed and attempered by this u&s;eful al|liance. So as upon a very &s;hort debate, being much quickned by the Queen-Mother, who might gather her Daughters heat by her own youthfull temper: a marriage betwixt the&s;e two illu&s;trious Princes was by the Councel of State conde&s;cended to; though by a Contingency of high Con&s;equence, Prince <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> was call'd home, before the&s;e E&s;pou&s;als could be, as was intended, per&s;onally &s;olemni|zed. Which was within few weekes after So|lemnly performed by <HI>Proxie:</HI> and the Lady &s;afely tran&s;ported to <HI>Verdo:</HI> and there received with all &s;tate and royall magnificence: From whence &s;he was conducted by the Eminent&s;t Per&s;ons of the whole Nation to <HI>Thamopolis:</HI> where &s;he was with much joy and indeerment entertained by <HI>Ro|&s;icles.</HI> But very &s;oon after, tho&s;e Fe&s;tivall Solem|nities which were to accompany the&s;e Nuptialls, became upon this occa&s;ion unexpectedly abridg|ed.</P>
<P>The old King <HI>Ba&s;ilius</HI> keeping his Court then at <HI>Sibalt;</HI> fell &s;ick unto death: whereof diver&s;e re|ports were di&s;per&s;ed: and being &s;udden, begot more jealou&s;ies. Some were of opinion that his
<PB N="92" REF="52"> di&s;temper aro&s;e from his intemperate Feeding <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> and that his crazy and unhealthful body being not onely &s;ated but much inflamed with lu&s;cious Fare and &s;weet Wines, too &s;trong for his declining Con&s;titution, had begot in him &s;uch hydropick hu|mours, with other contingent infirmities, as they &s;hortned his daies. Though Others, and &s;ome of tho&s;e, Experienc'd Phy&s;itians and Philo&s;ophers, would not &s;tick to &s;ay expre&s;ly, that this good old King died of Poy&s;on. Which they con&s;tantly af|firm'd, &s;hould manife&s;tly appear by &s;undry im|pregnable arguments, if the State would give way to a di&s;cu&s;&s;ion and di&s;covery of it. And <HI>Silures,</HI> One who all his time had been an intimate Favo|rite to <HI>Ba&s;ilius;</HI> (and upon that &s;core more un|gratefull then Imagination may reach to,) became publickly accu&s;ed and impeached before a Con|vene of State, as a principall In&s;trument of this Regicide. Which accu&s;ations, though too full of pre&s;umption, were within few daies wholly &s;uppre&s;&s;ed by the e&s;peciall grace and Favour of Prince <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> (which was &s;trangly interpreted by many:) &s;uch was the temporary Felicity of <HI>Silu|res,</HI> as he became a &s;ucce&s;&s;ive Favorite to two Princes. But highly odious to all humanity, if an Agent in his death, who&s;e immerited affection rai&s;ed him to that height. But whether the grounds of his accu&s;ations were ju&s;t or no, we &s;hall not here determin. They are left to an higher &s;crutiny, who&s;e judiciall eyes cannot be deluded; nor by favour di&s;&s;waded; nor Feare deterred; nor re|ward corrupted; nor any by-re&s;pect diverted. To who&s;e doom we leave him, to &s;tand or fall.</P>
<PB N="93" REF="52">
<P>But to return you, by way of Digre&s;&s;ion, a &s;trait &amp; impartial &s;urvey of this <HI>Ba&s;ilius,</HI> as we &s;hould ac|count him a rare Lapidary, who&s;e Cabinet &s;tored with al variety, ca~not render one &s;tone that admits a di&s;cernible flaw in it: &s;o might we ju&s;tly conclude of Old <HI>Ba&s;ilius;</HI> who, though he were enricht with &s;undry excellent parts &s;uitable to his princely qua|lity: and which, no doubt, might merit imitation by his Po&s;terity: yet there might be di&s;covered &s;ome unbecoming blemi&s;hes highly derogating from the Splendor of tho&s;e Parts wherewith he was ador|ned: and Dignity of that Place whereto he was ad|vanced. And to omit the re&s;t, by in&s;tancing in one more remarkable then any of the re&s;t; you may collect by what has been formerly ob&s;erved of his infinite affection to Favorites, that it le&s;&s;ened that e&s;teem in the opinion of his People, e&s;pecially of tho&s;e who &s;ate near the Sternage of the State, which his endowments, embelli&s;hed with a native humility, otherwi&s;e de&s;erved.</P>
<P>Now, among&s;t others of his Bo&s;om-Minions, who partak't freely of his bounty (being a Per&s;on of a large heart, though a remi&s;s Spirit) there was one <HI>Tremo&s;es</HI> an <HI>Illirian</HI> born, and of an uncourtly demean; wholly moulded to the rude condition and Education of his Mountainous Countrey; yet of an amiable a&s;pect, and comely per&s;onage; whom the Prince was plea&s;ed to receive princi|pally into his favour: and to confer great honours and revenues upon him. But neither the height nor heat of his de&s;ires became &s;o bounded. For in that Royal Court where this eminent Favorite was highly graced, it happened that one <HI>Polygama,</HI> a
<PB N="94" REF="53"> Lady of incomparable beauty and brave pre&s;ence &s;et her love upon him. But there was a main impe|diment to thwart her de&s;ign: For her de&s;ires ai|med at nothing more then to be married to him: which &s;he could not lawfully do, being long be|fore e&s;pou&s;ed to a Per&s;on of noble Extraction: and &s;ome years after per&s;onally imployed in the Senats Service. But what may not affection, be it never &s;o illegally grounded, &s;peedily effect, being &s;econded by powerful a&s;&s;i&s;tance; which <HI>Tremo&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> could not want through his reliance on <HI>Ba&s;ilius.</HI> So as, though this great Favorite had been much di&s;&s;waded from a&s;&s;enting to any &s;uch Match; e&s;pe|cially, by <HI>Enthimio,</HI> his faithful Secretary; who out of his zeal and fidelitie told him expre&s;ly, that his acquie&s;ce to that Marriage would beget him a la&s;t|ing <HI>Odium</HI> with all the Peerage; be&s;ides, that it was &s;o highly piacular, as it would admit no Di&s;|pen&s;ation: which hone&s;t coun&s;el became fatal to the Coun&s;ellour, and no way prevalent over the wild affection of this unfortunate Lover. For no &s;ooner had <HI>Tremo&s;es</HI> imparted this to <HI>Polygama;</HI> then &s;he inflamed with the furie of Revenge, pro|cured his &s;peedy di&s;patch with a Spani&s;h fig, by means of her Para&s;ites and mercenarie Complices, fitting A&s;&s;acinats for her Service.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Arch-Flamin fir&s;t, with &s;ome o|thers of the re&s;t, jointly le|gitimat|ing this Divorce.</NOTE>Neither was this all; for when this amorous Ladie could not compa&s;s her purpo&s;e any other way: &s;he was advis'd to pre&s;s a <HI>Divorce,</HI> in regard of the de|bilitie of <HI>Vaxedor</HI> her Husband: which &s;he not only pro&s;ecuted eagerly, but effected &s;uccesfully; being encouraged by &s;ome <HI>Claw-back Flamins,</HI> who to gratifie <HI>Ba&s;ilius</HI> in favour to his endeered Minion,
<PB N="95" REF="53"> returned their po&s;itive Opinions,<NOTE PLACE="marg">So Injuri|ou&s;ly too were clear ingenuous &s;pirits delt withall; as an Excel|lent <HI>Par|na&s;&s;ian</HI> in tho&s;e dayes, ta|king the mode&s;t freedom of inveying again&s;t the illega|litie of tho&s;e Spou&s;als, was &s;harp|ly cen&s;u|red.</NOTE> that this Divorce was lawful and warrantable; in ca&s;e of his In&s;uffi|ciencie. Which was accompli&s;h'd by a cunning &s;mooth way, or &s;hrouded impo&s;ture; having her per&s;on changed, upon view, as was &s;uppo&s;ed, to make good the Te&s;timonie of her virgin unpene|trated Condition. All which, this <HI>Ba&s;ilius,</HI> (of &s;o ea&s;ie an inclination was he to his Favorite) with much connivence pa&s;&s;ed over: nay, not &s;o much, as adjudging to a demerited death, (though for|mally pretended and judicially &s;entenced) tho&s;e who were principal Actors in <HI>Enthimio</HI>'s mur|der.</P>
<P>Such was his ea&s;ine&s;s to tho&s;e whom he inti|mately affected; as his hand was ever readie to be&s;tow, and his over-wrought Clemencie to re|mit; more then either the revenues of his Exche|quer would well permit: or the Equitie of their Cau&s;e de&s;erve. Which <HI>Lenity</HI> was held by &s;ome for Pu&s;illanimitie; whereto in very truth he was naturally inclin'd; as his po&s;ture in the pre&s;ence of Strangers every where di&s;covered.</P>
<P>But the injuried <HI>Vaxedor</HI> became a Revenger of the wrong he had received from the Father; in ac|cepting the Title of a Commander by the Senats vote in manning and managing tho&s;e Civil Wars a|gain&s;t his Son.</P>
<P>The &s;ini&s;ter i&s;&s;ue whereof clo&s;ed unexemplarily fatal.</P>
<P>A &s;trange but true Divination occa&s;ionally en|&s;ued, as was credibly reported, upon this unlaw|full Marriage. A Per&s;on wholly unknown to <HI>Ba&s;ilius,</HI> took the confidence to pre&s;s into his Pre|&s;ence;
<PB N="96" REF="54"> u&s;ing the&s;e expre&s;&s;ions: <HI>O</HI> Ba&s;ilius <HI>as thou ha&s;t re&s;t an</HI> Ewe <HI>of her true Owner; So &s;hall thy</HI> Kingdom <HI>be rent from thee.</HI></P>
<P>This amu&s;ed <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> being there pre&s;ent, which his Father ob&s;erving; <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> &s;aid He, <HI>Let not the words of a Madman trouble thee: Hee's di&s;tract|ed, let him pa&s;s.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Ima|gination is apt to con|trive &s;ini|&s;ter con&s;e|quences from dan|gerous principles. A Per&s;on of &s;ingular native parts, rare indow|ments, per&s;wa&s;ive tongue, rich fancy, and grace|ful affabi|lity.</NOTE>Only thus much let me acquaint you withall, in relation to the declining Condition of <HI>Silures</HI> be|ing no more then what was ob&s;erved by the whole State of <HI>Candy;</HI> that after <HI>Ba&s;ilius</HI> death (where|in his hand was reported to be in&s;trumentall) <HI>Si|lures</HI> never pro&s;pered in any de&s;igne either by Land or Sea: appearing in every action fatall to his Friends; Fortunate to his Foes: and in the end, mo&s;t Tragicall to him&s;elf, being in the heat of his youth, and growth of his fame, by a Com|mon Souldier, under colour of a per&s;onall injury depriv'd of life: and bereft of all tho&s;e attractive Objects of &s;en&s;uall love. Yet let me tell you, though this Gent. were &s;ubject to many gro&s;s in|firmities, and humane frailties; &s;uch as eclips'd much from that eminence of place whereto he was advanced; and tho&s;e High Offices wherewith He was inve&s;ted; this Courtly Libertine was inriched with &s;ingular abilities; and &s;uch as did infinitely become him. And among&s;t others, give me leave to recount this as an e&s;peciall One; wherein he was ever ob&s;erv'd mo&s;t ab&s;olute.</P>
<P>It had been oftimes his Fortune (an unfortunate Condition in a Martiall Commander) to fall deep in arreers with his Souldiers, but mo&s;t of all with his Mariners; a dangerous Society to conte&s;t with:
<PB N="97" REF="54"> yet the&s;e, though in great Companies they would oftimes mutinou&s;ly and in a tumultuous manner not onely inclo&s;e, but violently and with impla|cable Fury ru&s;h into his Lodging: upon his ap|proch and conference with them; (&s;uch was his felicity in the Rhetoricall art of per&s;wading) as the&s;e inraged men never departed from him un&s;a|tisfied; albeit not one penny of their long arreeres were di&s;charged. This had been many times ob|&s;erved, and he infinitly admired for it.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Foils are mo&s;t di&s;|cernible in the pre|ciou'&s;t Pearles.</NOTE> he was of a &s;eemly complete deport|ment; an affable winning pre&s;ence, an amiable Countenance: and gracefull in all &s;uitable ha|biliments of honour: defective in nothing, but Command of his affections, which darkned the &s;plendor of all his actions.&mdash; But we mu&s;t now returne to our Court of <HI>Candy,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The tinc|ture of one predomi|nant vice darkneth the &s;plen|dor of ma|ny emi|nent ver|tues.</NOTE> where we left the Solemnitie of a Princely Nuptiall contracted by the unexpected intervene of a premature Fune|rall. <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> having now &s;ucceeded <HI>Ba&s;ilius:</HI> and enter'd marriage with <HI>Irina</HI> that gallant young Prince&s;s of <HI>Ferrara;</HI> the Court begun to put on an unaccu&s;tomed State; nothing more affected, nor with more freedom embraced then an unre|&s;trained liberty, which <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> ea&s;ily gave way to, becau&s;e he perceived his young amorous Queen to be a Per&s;on of plea&s;ure: and to imbit|ter the Current of her delights with an un&s;ea&s;ona|ble oppo&s;ition now in the Spring and initiation of them, as he thought, would &s;eem har&s;h and un|&s;avory. But Habits are dangerous, when groun|ded on faulty Principles. The&s;e boundle&s;s &s;trains of liberty broke forth into licencious i&s;&s;ues. The
<PB N="98" REF="55"> Prince became a Subject to his Queens Com|mand: and &s;he to the pur&s;uit of her own plea&s;ure. A conjugall love injoyned him to obey: and a native affection to Courtly delights begot in her an ea&s;ie Soveraignty to Command. Neither yet was this &s;o ab&s;olute in her as to glory in it: nor &s;o remi&s;s in him, as not to countermand it. How&s;o|ever, &s;o taking is the bait of plea&s;ure, as <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> one naturally much addicted to Learning, of an improv'd Schollar became a Compleat Courtier: not &s;o much out of a love that he bore to that Change, as the &s;atisfaction of his Choice: &s;eeing <HI>Irinae</HI> would have it &s;o. Neither were the&s;e injoy|ments &s;o free,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A vertu|ous Prin|ce&s;&s;e, and highly ac|com|pli&s;h'd, injuriou|&s;ly tradu|ced: and through popular hate &s;hameful|ly di&s;ho|noured.</NOTE> as they could be in the &s;tricte&s;t &s;en&s;e con&s;trued, Blemi&s;hes to mode&s;ty. Though the age, from what di&s;ta&s;te Heaven knows, began to grow more Cen&s;orious: and to tax their Prince&s;s <HI>Irina,</HI> of lightne&s;s, for her familiarity with a late enter|tained Favorite <HI>Claridamus:</HI> who&s;e per&s;on nor parts could not in any equal and unbias'd judge|ment merit the affection of &s;uch a Mi&s;tre&s;s. But &s;et Rumor abroad and it will find wings to flie. The groundle&s;s di&s;ta&s;ts the Ilanders conceived a|gain&s;t him and his Prince&s;s were artfully palliated, and with &s;uch &s;ubtile pretences &s;hadowed, as an older head then <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> had, could &s;carcely di&s;co|ver them.</P>
<P>The Origen or Source whereof &s;prung up fir&s;t in a <HI>State-diet;</HI> called at <HI>Strewmintes.</HI> Wherein upon their fir&s;t Convene, (to mould their unexpe|rienc'd Prince to their own ends) they promi&s;ed to advance him in dignity, and affluence of Trea&s;ure above all his Predece&s;&s;ors: nay, that never any
<PB N="99" REF="55"> preceeded him that could match him: (which fell out mo&s;t truely, as they afterwards u&s;ed him.)</P>
<P>With the&s;e guilded Pills, or golden pretences,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Likewi&s;e from that hatred, which was conceived again&s;t him by the Peo|ple, &s;undry Critick Prophe|cies were di&s;per&s;ed: divining "How <HI>Actaeon</HI> &s;hould be worried by his own Currs.</NOTE> meer Shadows of imaginary Greatne&s;s, &s;uffering him&s;elf to be deluded, They conclude many Arts derogatory to his Government: and infinitely prejudicial to his Commands. And to exa&s;perate his Subjects again&s;t his per&s;onal Soveraignty; Pa&s;|quills and Stationary Libells were every where diper&s;ed: and frontle&s;ly pa&s;ted on his own Gates. The Fuel of State-divi&s;ion being by the&s;e Incendi|aries thus fomented: Civil wars began: and with &s;uch fury, as <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> and <HI>Irina</HI> were brought into extream Straits. The one out of her own Frontiers expul&s;ed: the other to the hazard of an unnatural war expo&s;ed.</P>
<P>And to in&s;tance you in One Conjecturall ground of his continued mi&s;-fortune; then which none ever hung more heavy upon a Royall Fami|ly: Count <HI>Hadorf,</HI> a Per&s;on highly Serviceable to this di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Prince in all his undertakings; ob&s;erving his in&s;ucce&s;&s;ive Addre&s;&s;es all a-long; with what &s;trange and incredible Overtures his Maje&s;ty became con&s;tantly incountred, made bold one day to impart his mind to <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> with much freedom in this manner.</P>
<P><HI>Sir, &s;aid this</HI> Count, <HI>may I make bold to ask your Maje&s;ty one Que&s;tion <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Go on, &s;aid He, my pre|&s;ent Condition has arm'd me with that Patience (the onely Salve I find to allay the extremity of my unex|emplary &s;uffering) as there is nothing my Friend can speak, which I have not a &s;tomack to dige&s;t. Pray then, an&s;wer'd the</HI> Count; <HI>re&s;olve your Servant in
<PB N="100" REF="56"> this. Did your Maje&s;ty never ingage nor Sacri|mentally oblige your &s;elf to</HI> Parthenia, <HI>before your E&s;pou&s;alls with</HI> Irina? <HI>Ay me! replyed</HI> Ro&s;icles, <HI>herein you wound me above all my mi&s;-fortunes.</HI> And after a troubled and abrupt Pau&s;e, as if he Had more depo&s;ited in his Heart, then He could di&s;|burden him&s;elf of by expre&s;&s;ion of Tongue.</P>
<P><HI>I confe&s;s to you ingenuou&s;ly, &s;aid the Prince, that as none could be more indeer'd to the merits of a Re|ligious Lady in relation to love; So none could be more indispen&s;ably ingaged in my Vows to her &s;elf: I held nothing more incomparably dear then to injoy her: nor ought striking more desperately at the Root of mine Honour, then the violation of my Prote&s;ts unto her.</HI></P>
<P>Which Confe&s;&s;ion &s;o perplexed the <HI>Count,</HI> as it for&s;lowed his re&s;olution in proceeding any fur|ther in this Quarrell. For betaking him&s;elf to a private Retire; the onely a&s;&s;i&s;tance He all his time after contributed to his unfortunate Sove|raigne, were pious Prayers and loyall wi&s;hes: holding his breach in &s;o high an Intere&s;t to be a dangerous <HI>Omen</HI> to his future Succe&s;s.</P>
<P>Many Fields were fought; much Civile blood &s;hed; Families in them&s;elves divided: Father a|gain&s;t Son: and Sonne again&s;t Father ingaged. Nought but Fire and Fury: yet &s;uch was their Folly, as none knew well what they fought for.</P>
<P>For <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> being of a malleable and ea&s;ie temper, rather inclined to the height of their de|mands, to his great di&s;advantage; without any oppo&s;ition at all to the Proceedings of his Diet: concluding ever in this calme and compo&s;ed man|ner:
<PB N="101" REF="56"> <HI>That all &s;uch Proceedings whereto he addre&s;|&s;ed his cour&s;e, clo&s;ed in this peaceable period; and confined their pur&s;uit to this Point. The defence of the Law of the Land, Of the Liberty and Property of the Subject, regulated by that line and Rule of Ju&s;tice; by which tho&s;e Preceeding Princes of</HI> Can|dy <HI>for many Succe&s;&s;ions had mannaged and prudent|ly governed their affaires.</HI> Nay, to imprint the dee|per belief in his di&s;ta&s;ted Synod; who with light attention gave eare to his Prote&s;ts, freely and in a full A&s;&s;embly He invoked the Superiour Powers for witne&s;&s;es (a rare and unu&s;uall atte&s;t in <HI>Candy,</HI> a people no le&s;s nice in making their vows, then &s;e|rious in performing them;) <HI>How his onely Care and Indu&s;try was to defend and protect the Liberty of the Subject, the Law of the Kingdom, His Regall ju&s;t Rights, and his Honour, much more precious then life, as He affirmed. Neither was it, (as He in the pre&s;ence of tho&s;e Select Stati&s;ts declared) in the power of any per&s;ons to encline Him to take Arms again&s;t his native Subjects, nor mi&s;erably to imbroil the I&s;land in Civil wars: and that his Carriage all along had given &s;ufficient evidence to the world how much his Affections had abhorred, and his heart bled at the apprehen&s;ion of a Civil war.</HI></P>
<P>But whereto tended all this? Their previous re&s;olution had ob&s;tructed attention. They could not Find hearts to believe: where they could find none to love.</P>
<P>Loialty appeares ever an attentive hearer; where|as Sedition proves an indocile Scholar. Lectures of Morall di&s;cipline or legall obedience are of hard dige&s;tion to &s;uch fiery &s;pirits. It is true; The
<PB N="102" REF="57"> Law is the &s;afeguard; The Cu&s;tody of all private Intere&s;ts; Per&s;onall Honours, Lives, Liberties, and E&s;tates are all in the keeping of the Law; without this, no Soveraignty; no Propriety; every man hath a like right to any thing.</P>
<P>Yet this Law &s;o nece&s;&s;arily conducing to the Con&s;ervation of all E&s;tates is to be moulded after the <HI>Lesbian Rule:</HI> it is to be evenly &s;quared: apt|ly proportion'd in &s;o faire and equall a di&s;tance: as it neither undiametrically a&s;cend too high; nor de&s;cend too low. For His <HI>Maxim</HI> in this is true, though it came from a dangerous Head-piece: <HI>If the Prerogative of the King overwhelme the li|berty of the people, it will be turned to Tyranny; If Liberty undermine the Prerogative, it will grow in|to Anarchy.</HI> An even hand is ever fitte&s;t to guide the helme of a State. But it is <HI>affection</HI> that gives be&s;t Calking to the Ve&s;&s;el: which once lo&s;t, the Endevours of the wi&s;e&s;t Princes fall out in&s;ucce&s;|fully, becau&s;e not entertained with a corre&s;pon|dent loyalty. Many waies &s;ought unfortunate <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> to ingratiate him&s;elf with his own. As fir&s;t, by disburdening his Subjects of tho&s;e heavy Impo|&s;itions that had been Formerly laid upon them. As likewi&s;e, to incourage the adventures of the Marchant; and revive Commerce, which was then at a &s;tand; He &s;ent forth his expre&s;s Edict, That there &s;hould be a Su&s;pen&s;ion of the executi|on of the <HI>Pramatica's</HI> (or re&s;traint of Commerce) untill &s;uch a Sea&s;on; purpo&s;ely to improve traffick, and con&s;equently gain their affection. But Prin|ces are brought to a great &s;trait, when they mu&s;t beg acceptance from their Subjects: and at la&s;t,
<PB N="103" REF="57"> le&s;&s;en their Power by yielding too much. This di|&s;tre&s;&s;ed <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> by bitter Experience had &s;ufficient|ly ta&s;ted: being di&s;owned of his own: and de&s;er|ted by tho&s;e <HI>Heads</HI> (to that height was Faction grown) who by their prudent advice and loyall a&s;&s;i&s;tance &s;hould have &s;upported the State: and di|verted tho&s;e dangerous Con&s;equences, which &s;oon after brought mi&s;erable rents and divi&s;ions in their Government Politick. While &s;ome &s;tood for an Anarchical Independency; Others for a Platonick parity, One for a democratick, another for an Ari&s;tocratick: others, and tho&s;e of the Po|pular Leaders for an Oligarchick Power. Neither was it at all to be wondred, that the Members &s;hould become thus di&s;tracted, being from their Head divided. Truth is, the&s;e di&s;tempers were im|puted by the adver&s;e party to the levity of <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> Councill, who (as they ballanc'd them) were too light in the Skale, to debate of any con&s;iderable de&s;igne: far apter to corrupt their Prince, then to direct him in any action tending to his honour, or improvement of the Publick. Neither, indeed, to &s;peak ingenuou&s;ly, were all his Senatours <HI>Solons;</HI> being generally per&s;ons dedicated to plea&s;ure, or adhearing to <HI>&s;elf-intere&s;t,</HI> an infection that &s;ove|raignizeth too domineeringly over the world. Such were the&s;e; who&s;e &s;mall care for the Publick acce|lerated the ruine of that unfortunate Prince; as you &s;hal more fully hear by our en&s;uing Di&s;cour&s;e: being a Continuation of the calamitous Condition of a Princely declining Family.</P>
<P>Private and incon&s;iderable differences &s;et a|broach by fiery and di&s;contented Spirits oftimes
<PB N="104" REF="58"> breaks forth into fearful Combu&s;tions. <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> de|nounceth open war again&s;t the Plebeians: and the Plebeians abate him nothing: For being backt by the Synod of one &s;ide: and a&s;&s;i&s;ted by experienc'd Commanders on the other, they appear as ready to engage their E&s;tates and Per&s;ons in the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Civil Wars; as the Prince could be. He for his Prero|gative Royal: They in defence of the Liberty and propriety of Subjects. And to &s;trengthen them the more in the&s;e &s;ad undertakings (for now their Fu|ry grew implacable) they procured the A&s;&s;ociati|on of the <HI>Eliota,</HI> a &s;lavi&s;h mercenary People, natu|rally addicted more to plunder then to fight. By who&s;e confederacy &s;econded with forreign a&s;&s;i|&s;tance far more formidable; in &s;undry pitcht Fields they ever put <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> to the wor&s;e. The grounds whereof might probably ari&s;e from two Con&s;ide|rable Rea&s;ons. Fir&s;t in relation to them; who, up|on any defeat receiv'd a pre&s;ent Recruit by means of the Publick Trea&s;ury, which was ever ready to returne them Fre&s;h &s;upplies: and with tho&s;e <HI>&s;i|news</HI> of <HI>war,</HI> to re-furni&s;h them upon all Extrems. Whereas tho&s;e who took part with <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> had no other pay then their own Revenues to main|taine them; which exhau&s;ted, they remained wholly de&s;titute of any hope of future relief. Be|&s;ides, as the Plebeian Forces were infinitly vigi|lant and cautious in all their de&s;ignes: attemp|ting nothing without mature advice, policy and di&s;cretion. Nor more happy to get a victory, then ready to make u&s;e of it. So the Princes Party was in their undertakings more ra&s;h and precipitate. Far more apt to get a victory, then to u&s;e it wi&s;e|ly:
<PB N="105" REF="58"> Nay, rather contenting them&s;elves with a piece of a victory, without pur&s;uing it: which redounded to their great di&s;advantage, in all their Proceedings. For being tran&s;ported with a part of a Conque&s;t, like Libertines more then pru|dent Souldiers, they would not &s;tick to Carou&s;e the whole night to the honour of an halfe-got vi|ctory: which oftimes became a whole One to the other Party, before the next night approch'd. Nor could it be expected but <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> &s;ucce&s;s in &s;uch di&s;advantageous grounds mu&s;t be an&s;werable, &s;eeing what&s;oever he lo&s;t could no way be &s;upply|ed: but wherein&s;oever they &s;uffered, was quickly recruted. Be&s;ides the difference, which appeared in the quality of their Forces. For He hazarded Gold to Gravell.</P>
<P>The eminen&s;t Commander for the Plebeians, after the death of <HI>Ravedox,</HI> in the&s;e Tran&s;actions, was <HI>Bellonius;</HI> who&s;e di&s;cription we &s;hall here re|turn you, as the Original renders him.</P>
<P>He was a Per&s;on, who had more <HI>&s;trength</HI> in his <HI>hand,</HI> then <HI>&s;age</HI> in his <HI>pate.</HI> Far more <HI>active</HI> then <HI>&s;olid:</HI> having more of <HI>Ajax</HI> in him, then of <HI>&V;ly&s;|&s;es.</HI> His Lady <HI>Verona,</HI> de&s;cending from a Family &s;tored with valour and titles of honour; di&s;cove|red to the world a derivative &s;pirit from &s;o Heroick a linage: although in this particular &s;he might <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eem to decline from tho&s;e Principles of her Me|morable Ance&s;tors. Who, as they were lineally valiant, &s;o in their Fidelity they appeared ever mo&s;t con&s;tant. Whereas <HI>Verona</HI> excited her weak Con&s;ort both by Letters, with other a&s;&s;iduate per|&s;wa&s;ions, apt enough to work upon &s;uch an Head|piece;
<PB N="106" REF="59"> to the&s;e undertakings: and e&s;pecially in this private Curtain-Lecture which &s;he with much ve|hemency read unto him, a little before he &s;tood in|gaged upon this Service.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Verona's</HI> per&s;wa|&s;ive Speech to <HI>Bellonius.</HI></NOTE><HI>Sir; do you not, ob&s;erve how</HI> Ro&s;icles <HI>under the pretext of a Soveraigne pur&s;ues the Cour&s;e of a</HI> Sy|racu&s;an <HI>Tyrant? do not your Eares glow with the report of his indispo&s;ed and mi&s;-mannaged Govern|ment? Is not the Court become by the &s;en&s;uall liberty of a</HI> Ferrara <HI>Lady; who courts her endeered Favo|rite</HI> Claridamus, <HI>as if he were her espou&s;ed Con|&s;ort, a Roman Suburra? Do not o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r Publick Streets and Stages Eccho with Scens of their di&s;ho|nour? Mu&s;t the Priviledges and antient Liberties &s;uffer: and none interpo&s;e to wipe off this &s;candall and indelible &s;hame to our Nation? Sir, reflect upon your</HI> Education; <HI>you have been bred up in Arms. You cannot embrace a Fairer occa&s;ion of reviving your practi&s;e in Arms: nor improving your honour: nor of gaining an eminent opinion with good men: nor of redre&s;&s;ing the numerous injuries of tho&s;e who have in&s;upportably &s;uffered: nor of regulating an ef|feminate Court now wholly debaucht and di&s;ordered. Let Fame then, I be&s;eech you, and the bleeding Wounds of your Countrey awake you. The Senat and their Plebeians look upon you, as a marke of valour. On then, with the&s;e Embraces I beg it of you, and &s;e|cure your Countrey to your Fame and redemption of her honour. Never &s;hall any action appeare in more beauty, nor &s;hine with more &s;plendor.</HI></P>
<P>This per&s;wa&s;ive Lecture delivered by a tongue that had a commanding influence over him, be|came &s;o prevalent with <HI>Bellonius,</HI> as it quickly rai|&s;ed
<PB N="107" REF="59"> and rou&s;ed him from a &s;ecure &s;leep: enliven|ing his thoughts with actions of an higher temper. Ambition now begun &s;trongly to work upon him. And in the fir&s;t place he con&s;iders, and with the Conceipt of it apprehends no &s;mall joy; how the <HI>Synod</HI> of <HI>Candy,</HI> and the <HI>Plebeians</HI> had made choice of him, from the &s;ingular opinion they retein'd of his valour and martial experience: How he was likewi&s;e to receive the Title of <HI>General:</HI> a &s;tile of incomparable honour.</P>
<P>You may &s;uppo&s;e him then going on with all a|lacrity to his Charge. Where with far more Cou|rage he enters the Field, then with di&s;cipline to manage a Camp. Though infinitely pro&s;perous he became in all his Exploits: wonderfully hazardous in all, but inau&s;picious in none: as fortune u&s;ually favours (to make u&s;e of the Proverbe) tho&s;e men, to whom the gifts of Nature are mo&s;t &s;paringly im|parted. Nor, indeed, for per&s;onall action could the whole State of <HI>Candy</HI> make choice of a more re&s;olute Commander: nor one more eagerly pur|&s;uing the vading &s;hadow of honour: Being One (to returne him his true Character) wholly for <HI>acti|on,</HI> nothing for <HI>de&s;igne.</HI> Which prov'd well with &s;ome (and tho&s;e the Principalle&s;t In&s;truments in that Service) who &s;tood at di&s;tance with danger, making u&s;e of <HI>Bellonius</HI> Forwardne&s;&s;e, as the <HI>Fox</HI> did of the <HI>Cats</HI> paw in the Apothegme: making bold with the help of her Foot to pull out the Che&s;&s;enut from the Embers. An excellent poli|tick way, to &s;ecure their per&s;ons from peril: and yet to &s;hare with the active&s;t &s;pirit in the Fame of the Conque&s;t. On &s;till goes <HI>Bellonius</HI> &s;ucce&s;&s;ively
<PB N="108" REF="60"> in all his adventures: de&s;iring nothing more then to Cope with Actions of difficulty, which it was his happine&s;s to atchieve pro&s;perou&s;ly, with the generall applau&s;e of the Army.</P>
<P>And what may &s;eem more remarkable: Though it was his u&s;e, e&s;pecially in doubtfull occurrences, to appear ever in the Van: &s;uffering no Souldier under his Command, to be more per&s;onally ingag'd then him&s;elf, nor more expo&s;ed to apparent dan|ger: yet came He never off wounded, &s;aving Once, in all tho&s;e de&s;perate Encounters.</P>
<P>Having brought on this Great work of the Ple|beians to &s;uch unexpected &s;ucce&s;s: his Lady <HI>Vero|na,</HI> after a due and &s;erious di&s;cu&s;&s;ion of the&s;e un|fortunate Brawls; begun wi&s;ely to recollect her &s;elf, with the approching Mi&s;eries of her di&s;tract|ed and di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Countrey. And amid&s;t tho&s;e thoughts, falling upon a deep re&s;entment of the Princes &s;ad overtures, and the ju&s;tne&s;s of his Cau&s;e, which &s;he never before fully apprehended, &s;he highly repented, that her per&s;wa&s;ion &s;hould ever produce that injurious effect; by exciting her Husband to an undertaking &s;o unju&s;tifiable: and to her judgment, being now reclaim'd from her Former errour, mo&s;t irregular to the Cour&s;e of Ju&s;tice. Upon her due recollection of the&s;e, &s;he expo&s;tulated the Cau&s;e with her &s;elf in this &s;ort.</P>
<P>How now <HI>Verona!</HI> was it not &s;ufficient for thee to connive at tho&s;e grievous indignities done to thy Prince, unfortunate <HI>Ro&s;icles;</HI> but thou mu&s;t additionally inlarge them with thy injurious per|&s;wa&s;ions? Say <HI>Verona,</HI> did ever thy wronged Prince merit this at thine hand? Thou pretended
<PB N="109" REF="60"> the redre&s;s of a State: but what relief may this deluded People hope to derive from the&s;e di&s;a|&s;trous and Tragicall Events? Has our perplexed State (then which none more happy, if it could have conceipted its own happine&s;s) chang'd her Face for a better Complexion: or taken this &s;trong Phy&s;ick to purge her Body of crude and corrupt humours: and con&s;equently inable or enliven her Con&s;titution? No; it is rather to be feared; by &s;ending forth one &s;editious Legion, we have redoubled the number, and brought more in. <HI>Apol|lo's</HI> Temple is di&s;honoured, <HI>Diana's</HI> impiou&s;ly pro|phaned; their ancient Rites and Ceremonies ei|ther wholly contemned: or &s;hamefully abu&s;ed. And wereas we pretended to expul&s;e a Tyrant; heavens grant, that this preten&s;ive exclu&s;ion of One, introduce not a Multitude. Well, <HI>Verona;</HI> let not the occa&s;ionall Source of the&s;e menacing mi&s;chiefs ari&s;e from thy brea&s;t. Thou ha&s;t done more then enough already; redeem this injury by appea&s;ing the Storme. Thy tongue drew <HI>Bel|lonius</HI> into the Field; be it thy endeavour to call him back with thy pen.</P>
<P>Neither did &s;he fore&s;low her re&s;olution: For without more ado, de&s;irous to undo, what her too ra&s;h advice had induced him to undertake, with an ingenuous retraction of her former incou|ragement to &s;o unju&s;t a de&s;ign, &s;he addre&s;&s;ed her reque&s;t to <HI>Bellonius</HI> being then highly ingaged in the State-&s;ervice, in this manner.</P>
<P><HI>It must be my Taske now, Sir, to di&s;&s;wade you by my pen, to what I formerly per&s;waded you to by word of mouth. Second thoughts are ever held wi&s;e&s;t, be|cau&s;e
<PB N="110" REF="61"> grounded upon maturer advice. Your continu|ed &s;ucce&s;s, as I have collected from the Circum&s;tan|ces of this Cau&s;e for which you fight, may prejudict the declining Condition of a good Prince: but no wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> rectifie the Corruption of a di&s;temper'd State. You in+gage the &s;afety of your Per&s;on meerly for others In|tere&s;ts: who make you but a</HI> Stale <HI>for their indire<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ends: or a</HI> Staire <HI>to their immerited advancemen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Your atcheivements be they never &s;o pro&s;perous, canno<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> appear to any judicious Eye, really glorious, when their event in all probability must clo&s;e in Scens of blood, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the ruine of a flouri&s;hing State, and fearfull di&s;&s;olution of all Political Order. Withdrawe then I be&s;eech you; let not your hand beare record again&s;t you in this Fatall Cata&s;trophe. He who fights again&s;t his Fidelity; cannot purcha&s;e any Fame with the Pre&s;entment of the Eminent&s;t victory. Neither is it valour to fight, where Ju&s;tice accompanies not the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Cau&s;e.</HI></P>
<P><HI>My Eyes ince&s;&s;antly flowing, may be impartial<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Witne&s;&s;es, how much I have bemoaned my indi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+creet Councill. It will be &s;ome redemption to ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> retracted: and infinite content to your endeered</HI> Ve|rona <HI>for you to &s;econd it. Your prowe&s;&s;e has got you too much Fame, receiving breath from &s;o inglorious a Fight. Ha&s;ten then your departure from the Campe; you may believe me; I am not my &s;elf till I &s;ee you.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e lines winged his cour&s;e for the Country; taking fir&s;t a &s;olemn leave of the inferiour Officers and Commanders in his Army: pretending an in|di&s;po&s;ition to health: with a &s;eeming unwillingne&s;s of de&s;erting his Charge; if the infirmity of his bo|dy
<PB N="111" REF="61"> did not enjoyn him to a nece&s;&s;ary retire. But <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ruth is, he had &s;o expedited the work: and by his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">umerous victories, &s;o fle&s;h'd and animated his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ouldiers; as the remainder of the work might in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ort time be brought to perfection. For the un|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ortunate <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> though he had &s;ome Forces of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e Cavalry left him, and tho&s;e full of gallantry, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd &s;pritely re&s;olution; yet was he de&s;titute of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uch accommodations an nece&s;&s;ary Supplies as were requi&s;ite for &s;upport of an Army. Money, Magazin and Munition he was &s;tript of; and at that time tho&s;e loyal Adherents which &s;tuck clo&s;|e&s;t to him, had exhau&s;ted all their revenues in this tedious and in&s;ucce&s;&s;ive &s;ervice. But want of means could not beget in their brave minds a de|fection of &s;pirit: nor decrea&s;e of loyalty; &s;o devo|tionally were they dedicated to him, amid&s;t the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oughe&s;t and &s;harpe&s;t Encounters of ho&s;tility. Re|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">olving to &s;ell their lives at as dear a rate as they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ould: and by their Deaths to improve their Prin|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> quarrel as much as they might. But though <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ections and de&s;ires render much &s;trength to mi|litary Forces: yet tho&s;e Forces cannot appear &s;trong; that are accompanied onely by affecti|ons.</P>
<P>After <HI>Bellonius</HI> recede from the Army, and his private retire to the Country; (&s;uch influence had his commanding <HI>Verona</HI> over him;) he re&s;olv'd wholly to &s;urcea&s;e from Arms; apprehending &s;ome light re&s;entment of what his Forwardne&s;&s;e had acted in his a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the <HI>Synod</HI> and <HI>Plebei|ans</HI> again&s;t the ju&s;t Proceedings of di&s;tre&s;&s;ed <HI>Ro&s;i|cles.</HI> Who&s;e Condition by his continued &s;ucce&s;s,
<PB N="112" REF="62"> grew daily more de&s;perate. For though there ap|peared &s;ome hopes to this injuried Prince of repai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|ing his lo&s;s in his fir&s;t attempts and progre&s;&s;ion of this war; yet men, who generally ballance the goodne&s;s of the Cau&s;e by the event, ob&s;erving his &s;ucce&s;s, contrary to all probability of rea&s;on, to prove &s;o fini&s;ter; the greater number begun to fall off from his a&s;&s;i&s;tence no le&s;s &s;peedily, then he de|clined in his Fortune. True it is; though one Swallow make not Summer; yet one mans Sum|mer makes many Swallows: as might appear by the Plebeian Party. Which (and in this ob&s;erve the gratitude of vulgar &s;pirits) though they had nearly acquited the end of their de&s;ires by the pro|&s;perous atchievments of their late retired Gene|ral; yet upon dereliction of his Charge (nece&s;&s;ita|ted, as he pretended, by the indi&s;po&s;ition of his Body) they made no better account of him, then a Ca&s;hiered Souldier: all his exploits were quite for|gotten; the memory of his forepa&s;t actions razed; &s;o ju&s;tly was his valour in a Service of di&s;loyalty requited. We &s;hall here inlarge our di&s;cour&s;e in the relation of one In&s;tance, and &s;o proceed in our Story.</P>
<P>This <HI>Bellonius</HI> having one onely Daughter, and inve&s;ted in great po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions; de&s;ired much to match her with a Per&s;on of de&s;cent, merit and Fa|mily. <HI>Verona</HI> his imperious Lady, who&s;e affecti|ons &s;tood lately more for <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> then the <HI>Plebei|an Party;</HI> freely di&s;covered her thoughts to <HI>Bello|nius;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ambu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a</HI> &s;u&s;pected for private Intelli|gence.</NOTE> that no match could be propos'd more cor|re&s;ponding with <HI>Nigella</HI> their Daughters qualitie and fortune; then one <HI>Bambuca,</HI> de&s;cended from
<PB N="113" REF="62"> the Hou&s;e of <HI>Silures</HI> that eminent Favorite. Who, though He had all along &s;ided with <HI>Ro&s;icles:</HI> yet upon &s;ome private, and as was &s;uppo&s;ed, unworthy &s;ervice, by Intelligence or &s;ome other treache|rous Office done unto the Synod, purpo&s;ely to in|gratiate him&s;elf with the enemy, being then grown the far &s;tronger Party, as an In&s;trument to their &s;ide, though not much u&s;efull, He was by vote recall'd from Exile whereto his Fortunes had dri|ven him: and permitted to returne home, and for a &s;ea&s;on to enjoy his own. Now <HI>Bellonius,</HI> who oppo&s;ed his <HI>Verona</HI> in nothing, ea&s;ily inclined to her Propo&s;alls. And by private Agents, powerful enough as he thought, to accompli&s;h &s;o equall a reque&s;t, He &s;ollicited the <HI>Councill-Board</HI> for their a&s;&s;ent. Which he did by <HI>Verona's</HI> advice, to pre|vent all inconveniences. For <HI>Bambuca</HI> being re|puted an Enemy to the State (though privately re|conciled) it could not be held &s;afe to enter upon any &s;uch terms with him without their approve|ment. Which in all rea&s;on could not &s;eem other|wi&s;e then a fea&s;ible Condition. But &s;o &s;trangely was his &s;uit &s;leighted; as their late ingratiated Con|&s;ort, was by Command peremptorily injoyned, upon penalty of life, within &s;uch a time, to de|part the Territories of <HI>Candy:</HI> and to returne to the place of his Exile; with confi&s;cation of all his E&s;tate to be di&s;po&s;ed of by the Publick. So <HI>Ni|gella</HI> became deprived of the Object of her affe|ction: and He by this &s;uit expo&s;ed to a wor&s;e Condition. A faire Reward for &s;o long and ha|zardous a &s;ervice.</P>
<P>Albeit, when lea&s;t expected, the&s;e Articles of
<PB N="114" REF="63"> Marriage by <HI>Verona's</HI> in&s;tancy were not onely re|vived: but this Match privately &s;olemnized; to the great di&s;gu&s;t of the <HI>Councell</HI> of <HI>State:</HI> but e|&s;pecially to <HI>Climenes,</HI> who &s;itting at the <HI>Sterne,</HI> could not in policy reli&s;h &s;uch dangerous Allyan|ces.</P>
<P>But in very deed, the <HI>Plebeians</HI> little needed at that time the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of <HI>Bellonius;</HI> Fortune breath'd pro&s;perou&s;ly upon their Sails. Albeit their &s;leighted <HI>Generall</HI> importun'd much to know the g ounds of this repul&s;e: which was &s;oon re|turn'd to him in the&s;e words: <HI>That the State could not hold it &s;elf &s;ecure upon their a&s;&s;ent of &s;o &s;trong an allyance: especially in a time &s;o variou&s;ly fluctuant and un&s;etled.</HI> And this was all he could receive from them. <HI>Climenes, Lamachus,</HI> and <HI>Muratus</HI> were the onely men in e&s;teem: and &s;uch as &s;at at the Sterne of the State. All which, as by the long Continuance of tho&s;e Civile Wars, as they were grown eminent in the di&s;cipline of Arms, &s;o to give them their di&s;tinct Characters, they might be properly de&s;cribed thus.</P>
<P><HI>Climenes</HI> was a per&s;on of a piercing and &s;ubtile judgement. An exact Reader and di&s;coverer of men. Serious and &s;olid in his di&s;cour&s;e; familiar with few; &s;eemingly affable to all. Much af|fected to Intelligence, which highly improv'd his knowledg. No le&s;s happy then &s;peedy in di&s;patch. Confident in his de&s;ignes: and a Con&s;tant Secre|tary to his own Councells. He knew well by a Cunning way of pretending to make his mouth a &s;tranger to his heart: having ever an open em|brace to his profe&s;t Foe. He had got that <HI>Tiberian,</HI>
<PB N="115" REF="63"> art, or rather it was innate with him, to walk in the Clouds: and to &s;hrowd his dangerou&s;e&s;t Pro|jects with &s;moother appearances. A man hardly to be re-gain'd, being once lo&s;t: nor long to be en|joy'd, unle&s;s <HI>preciou&s;ly</HI> retain'd. An infinite Ob|liger, if his words would ingage him: &s;eeming bountifull, but naturally Clo&s;e-fi&s;ted: &s;o as never any pretended more by his liberality to merit a title of honour; who inlarged more the Revenues of his private Exchequer. He was ever jealous of a &s;trange Face, as he might well: for never had a|ny more Foes without, nor Feares within: none outwardly better arm'd again&s;t a&s;&s;aults: nor in|wardly more naked, nor affrightfully expos'd to alarms. A religious Profe&s;&s;or; yet no Sect where|to He would not adheere: and profe&s;s him&s;elf a Favourer. He was very &s;u&s;picious of the Car|riage of any Commanders, unle&s;s they were of his own Election; and to his own Family in relation. So as his own Allyes were generally de&s;ign'd to the Highe&s;t Commands. His Extraction was good; but Ambition deprav'd it. No Engineer on Earth more expeditely nor experimentally art|full for acquiring his own ends.</P>
<P>He was held in the opinion of men &s;tout e|nough: and wi&s;e enough too in the heat and height of the Battell; as to tender the &s;afety of his Honour, by a &s;ecure di&s;tancing of his Per&s;on from danger.</P>
<P>It was u&s;uall with him to counterfet an hum|ble dre&s;s and expre&s;s in the management of his affaires; a&s;cribing little to him&s;elf or the prudent Conduct of his Forces by his direction: yet might
<PB N="116" REF="64"> you ea&s;ily collect by the <HI>Series</HI> of his di&s;cour&s;e, that the period of the Action were it never &s;o glo|rious, pointed at him: Which he &s;hadowingly &s;ought to di&s;cover, by le&s;&s;ening the valour or in|con&s;i&s;tency of the advice of &s;uch as were his Col|leagues: or by &s;ome cur&s;ory digre&s;&s;ion, impe in his own per&s;onall adventure to clo&s;e the i&s;&s;ue with re|lation to his honour. It is to be confe&s;t by all that knew him, that none had ever more Art in delu|ding the apprehen&s;ions of men, by &s;eeming to be what he was lea&s;t. Yet &s;omethings he did which undi&s;guis'd him, by di&s;playing him to the World, to be an eager pur&s;uer after popular Fame: nay, that <HI>Ambition</HI> was his <HI>Minion</HI> amid&s;t all tho&s;e de|ceiving pretences or dazlings of humility, which he had ca&s;ten before the eyes of undi&s;cerning men. Wherein, to &s;peak truth, his vaine-glory pro|claim'd his Folly.</P>
<P>For even in Sacred Places, where the eminen&s;t Monuments of the ancien&s;t and reverend&s;t Stati&s;ts were erected; he cau&s;ed his own Statue to be reered: and from the very Materials of their memo|rable Mau&s;olea's irreverendly rai&s;ed. Which Art, as it di&s;covered his arrogance more then all his vi|&s;ible appearences of humility could repair: &s;o the erection of it tended more to his &s;corn, then it a|ny way redounded to his fame. So as &s;ome in con|tempt of him, in their pa&s;&s;ing by it, would not &s;tick to &s;ay, <HI>That it was great pity &s;uch a fair Lodging &s;hould want a Gue&s;t.</HI> After &s;uch time as by the &s;plendor of his &s;ucce&s;s he was grown to a more ab|&s;olute Command over the State; he practi&s;ed one device, which of all others was mo&s;t quaint and
<PB N="117" REF="64"> remarkable, and it was this:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Proditio|nem &s;aepi&s;|&s;im&egrave; finge|ret, quo ef|fictae cle|mentiae fuc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ubditum falleret. <HI>Sabel. in Decam.</HI></NOTE> He would u&s;ually mint trea&s;on, to beget an opinion of Clemency and Compa&s;&s;ion in the &s;uppo&s;ed Offender: and de|lude the Subject with a belief of a mild and relent|ing temper, by remitting or mitigating the Cen|&s;ure of an innocent Traitor. It was his fortune e|ver to get the Ma&s;tery &s;ooner over his <HI>Enemies,</HI> then over his <HI>Pa&s;&s;ions;</HI> e&s;pecially after &s;uch time as his <HI>Commands</HI> became <HI>Independent.</HI> VVhich might be in&s;tanced in this, to omit many others.</P>
<P>Being one day made acquainted with the &s;mall &s;tore of Trea&s;ure remaining in his Exchequer: he ut|ter'd the&s;e words in great pa&s;&s;ion, at his coming fro~ <HI>Samia. My Souldiers grow rich, and I poor. &mdash;Not Six pence in the Exchequer! &mdash;Zounds- I could wi&s;h with all my heart that I might meet</HI> Ro&s;icles, <HI>if his Waggons were well &s;upplied with ten thou&s;and men in the Field<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">: I &s;hould have hope either to get mony by booty; or dye bravely.</HI> From which in&s;ati|ate appetite and hydropick thir&s;t of avarice in this Commander, <HI>Candy</HI> could not then be compared to any Creature more properly then to a <HI>Cremona</HI> Goo&s;e in <HI>Italy;</HI> where they have a way to fatten only the Heart of the Goo&s;e; but in doing &s;o, they weaken, and make the re&s;t of the whole body grow lean and lank. Or to the <HI>Spleen,</HI> the growth and ful|ne&s;s whereof begets a decay or Con&s;umption to the whole body.</P>
<P>But in imitation of that <HI>Lacedemonian Agis,</HI> he took an excellent Cour&s;e for calming this di&s;tem|per: for to cure this fury, as if he had been &s;tung with the <HI>Tarantula,</HI> he would forthwith call for Mu&s;ick (to which Mu&s;ical aires he was affection at|ly
<PB N="118" REF="65"> devoted:) or el&s;e he would cau&s;e &s;ome little Children of his own relation; in who&s;e Company he would &s;o cheer him&s;elf; in riding on Cock-hor&s;e, or &s;uch like Childi&s;h Exerci&s;e: as in &s;hort time he could attemper his choler, and become his own man. Though at la&s;t his di&s;temper grew &s;o violent: as a Jealou&s;ie of his own &s;afety made him|&s;elf a perpetual Pri&s;oner to him&s;elf: Guards with|out could not &s;ecure him, when &s;uch Legions of Fears did inwardly accompany him. This it was to command others, and to be a &s;tranger to his own Commands. I &s;hall not enlarge this Character a|ny further: you may take dimen&s;ion of the <HI>Eagle</HI> by his <HI>talons;</HI> of <HI>Alcides</HI> by his <HI>Foot:</HI> and &s;o we leave him.</P>
<P>Now for <HI>Lamachus,</HI> he was more active then de&s;igning. One, on who&s;e ea&s;ine&s;s <HI>Climenes</HI> wrought much for his own advance: and after|wards as meanly required for his affectionate &s;er|vice. In the whole proce&s;s of tho&s;e Civile Im|broilments, <HI>Lamachus</HI> had ever a full &s;hare. No con&s;iderable Scene, wherein he acted not his part: and came not off with much Fame. He was of a generous winning nature: and much belov'd of the Souldery. Of who&s;e affection and profe&s;t zeal unto him, if he had &s;ea&s;onably made u&s;e; he might not onely have parallel'd <HI>Climenes;</HI> but per|form'd an incomparable Office of piety and loyall duty to his di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Soveraigne. Who&s;e heavy condition at that time, merited more pity then it could attract Envy.</P>
<P>And certainly his naturall di&s;po&s;ition, had it not been mi&s;-guided by irregular Principles, would
<PB N="119" REF="65"> never have fallen upon any &s;uch Extrems; being inclined to a ju&s;t and loyall genero&s;ity. And &s;ure|ly He had the happine&s;s to have &s;undry opportu|nities offered, if they had not been by his unhap|pine&s;s neglected, of appearing an u&s;efull In&s;tru|ment for <HI>his Re&s;tauration,</HI> whom intentionally he &s;eem'd to tender: and to commi&s;erate his Condi|tion, who&s;e &s;ad di&s;a&s;ters had brought his unfortu|nate Family to that pitch of mi&s;ery, as never were branches &s;prung from &s;o royall a Root &s;o di&s;-rent nor irreparably divided from their Originall Stemme. Which glorious action had it been timely pur&s;ued, as it was opportunely pre&s;ented; it had not onely advanced but &s;etled <HI>Lamachus</HI> in &s;uch a flowri&s;hing and &s;table Condition: as it had rai&s;ed its Foundation above the reach of a Corrival: or the Envy of any di&s;loyall Malignant; to who&s;e Cen&s;ure his cleane&s;t actions became afterwards ly|able. Neither is it to be doubted, but if his more apprehen&s;ive thoughts could have divined what hard mea&s;ure his meriting Service was to reape from <HI>Climenes,</HI> to whom he had been &s;o u&s;efull and &s;ucce&s;sfull a Colleague &s;ince the very fir&s;t grounds of tho&s;e unhappy di&s;tractions: He would have been &s;o &s;en&s;ible of his pre&s;ent Condition and future &s;afety: as to Crown the Evening of his actions with an Exploit of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iety. Which he might have done without much difficulty, being &s;o coun|tenanced by the Souldery, e&s;pecially at that time, when <HI>Climenes</HI> being then in pur&s;uit of a <HI>Title</HI> which di&s;-reli&s;hed the Army: and which all a|long during that tedious Tract of a Civile war He with all his Complices had &s;eriou&s;ly and &s;olemnly
<PB N="120" REF="66"> di&s;-avowed: had begot to him&s;elf and his Allies a general <HI>Odium.</HI> This was an excellent occa&s;ion, if it had been <HI>Lamachus</HI> fortune to make u&s;e of it: for him, after a loyal reconciliation, to have uni|ted his Forces with <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> and by that happy Juncto, &s;econded by <HI>Bellonius</HI> auxiliaries, who in a retired di&s;content, had a deep re&s;entment of his own indignities; might have accompli&s;h'd the work, redounding no le&s;s to his honour; then his reparation and re&s;titution to whom he ought him|&s;elf. But the Fates had otherwi&s;e decreed.</P>
<P>For nothing could <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> de&s;ign: nor in his cour&s;e of Warfare undertake, which ever promis'd &s;ucce&s;s; were it with never &s;uch care, vigilancy or circum&s;pection pur&s;ued. Which we mu&s;t leave to the &s;acred-&s;ecret Cabinet of a &s;uperiour Council; tran&s;cending far the inferiour light of our Intellect.</P>
<P>For the ambition of <HI>Climenes</HI> in his pur&s;uit of a <HI>Titular Regality</HI> had not onely di&s;gu&s;ted, but wholly aliened the affections of tho&s;e who were his <HI>Equals</HI> in the Field: be&s;ides other per&s;onal in|juries which his uncontrouled liberty had acted: &s;o as even <HI>Fania's</HI> honour, <HI>Lamachus</HI> his endeered Con&s;ort (a Lady of approved continence) by his too much freedom, became &s;u&s;pected: and by the a&s;per&s;ive pen of a Satyrizing Pamphleter ba&s;ely tra|duced: yet all the&s;e Con&s;equences (&s;o &s;ini&s;ter was his Fate) conduced not at all to <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> advantage.</P>
<P>This <HI>Lamachus,</HI> who&s;e Character we here ren|der you; was not onely addicted from his youth to all generous Exerci&s;es; as Hor&s;man&s;hip, Artilery, Mu&s;ick and the like: But by the help of <HI>Praten&s;is,</HI> he became an excellent Flori&s;t: in which &s;tudy he
<PB N="121" REF="66"> u&s;ed to be&s;tow many hours, till he had attained to an exact perfection of it. VVith <HI>Papillus</HI> too, a Country Limner he con&s;orted familiarly; by who&s;e direction he was initiated in the plea&s;ant Art of De|lineature: wherein after his coming to <HI>Thamipolis,</HI> upon acquaintance with <HI>Perocu,</HI> and his dextrous Fancy, he became exqui&s;ite. The Exerci&s;e of the&s;e Studies brought him to the true e&s;timate of time: holding nothing more precious, then the expence of tho&s;e hours which conduced to the improve|ment of his Knowledge. But to the&s;e Sedentary addre&s;&s;es he never &s;eriou&s;ly applied his endeavors, till the heat of tho&s;e wars begun to be more cool and temperate: unle&s;&s;e at &s;uch &s;pare and &s;uccida|neous Minutes, as he might be&s;tow him&s;elf in the&s;e without di&s;-advantage to his higher imploy|ments: which he ever pur&s;ued with much prompt|ne&s;s and alacrity. He was ever ob&s;erv'd to be &s;pare in the relation of his own adventures:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nulla un|quam ami|citia mino|re acqui|renda e&s;t &s;umptu, qu&agrave;m cle|menti&acirc;.</NOTE> and had the real way, without any adulterate art, of winning affection; which he procur'd by his native affabili|ty, and u&s;ual Clemency. The only <HI>Cement,</HI> which with lea&s;t Co&s;t both knitteth and dilateth the Si|news of Amity.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, for his Extraction it was good: but his actions inlarged his fame. Which had climb'd to an higher Story, had he not with <HI>Medaea</HI> taken the wor&s;er part.</P>
<P>Now for <HI>Muratus;</HI> to limne him to life, he was a Piece tact up in Shreads of vain glory. Yet to do the Puffin right, he did &s;uch good Service in tho&s;e Parts whereto he was de&s;igned, as he became in|finitely pro&s;perous in his undertakings. This di&s;|pers'd
<PB N="122" REF="67"> his Fame abroad; and in &s;hort time gave him the name of <HI>Conquerour</HI> in tho&s;e Places where he re&s;ided and governed.</P>
<P>The report of his valour and &s;ucce&s;&s;e, whether it came from the relation of his own pen, (as he was ever held for a &s;ingular <HI>Amanuen&s;is</HI> in the publi&s;hing of his own fame) or from the hand of o|thers, &s;o highly tran&s;ported his Lady <HI>Mazinella</HI> (a Creature of the &s;ame mould and temper in the pur&s;uit of honour) as &s;he grew madded with the daily report of his Victories: neither could &s;he contain her pa&s;&s;ion, without di&s;covery of her folly in directing her fanta&s;tick Letters to him: and venting &s;trange Imaginary whim&s;ies, &s;uch as her airy brain conceited of her <HI>Muratus,</HI> during his Employment in <HI>Umbria;</HI> where he and his victo|rious Forces at that time lodged. And to in&s;tance One for all; we have here in&s;erted the Copy of one; which may to life portray the fancy of this Lady.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>Mazinella's <HI>Letter to</HI> Muratus.</HEAD>
<P>O my <HI>Muratus,</HI> how thy daily victories over thy contemptible Foes enliven the spirits of thy <HI>Mazi|nella!</HI> Can thy fame fly higher then it has already? Is there any region in the univer&s;e that has not par|tak't of the report of thine actions? I &s;hall infinitly taxe the Poets, my invincible <HI>Muratus,</HI> for feigning <HI>Atlas</HI> to be the Worlds Supporter, when my imaginary eye repre&s;ents to my Fancy the Sinewey Shouldiers of my <HI>Herculean Muratus.</HI> Where &s;hall not thy Statue be erected; thy In&s;igns di&s;played; thy Trophies reered; that thy memory not only in <HI>Candy,</HI> but in every Countrey may be eternized? Ay me! The
<PB N="123" REF="67"> world is too &s;trait for the Circumference of thy fame. Time mu&s;t find out a &s;hriller <HI>Triton</HI> to publi&s;h the glory of thine actions. What was it to dig through <HI>Athos;</HI> or level <HI>I&s;thmus:</HI> or with populous Armies to drink up maine Rivers? The&s;e, were they con|ge&s;ted all in One, could not equall the lea&s;t Enter|prize of my <HI>Muratus.</HI> Be thine owne &s;till, for none can be like thee; nor for atchievements near thee. Thou can&s;t not conceipt with what indeered arms thy <HI>Mazinella</HI> doth inwreath thee, when &s;he is farthe&s;t di&s;tanc'd from thee. O what <HI>Hectors</HI> may we expect ari&s;ing from our Progeny; when &s;uch native valour appeares in our Family!</P>
<P>If thou wilt believe me, my <HI>Hannibal</HI> and I was lately taken up with <HI>Hecuba's</HI> dreame: for me|thought I was conceiv'd of a <HI>Flaming Torch:</HI> and our Augurs here told me, that it divined a gallant victorious Birth, that &s;hould make &s;uch a fire in <HI>Crete,</HI> as all her frontier A&s;&s;i&s;tants could not quench. Another night, and it was very lately, for it was &s;ince the report of thy incomparable conque&s;t in the We&s;t, I was infinitely troubled with <HI>Mandanes</HI> vi&s;i|on; pre&s;enting to my conceipt a <HI>Broad-&s;preading Vine</HI> ove-&s;hadowing the whole I&s;le of <HI>Candy</HI> with her di&s;tended branches. This I dur&s;t not impart to a|ny: nor receive the divination of it from any: lest it might trouble the State: and beget in <HI>Climenes,</HI> who acts for an ab&s;olute Soveraignty, a private jea|lou&s;ie of the ari&s;ing growth or a&s;piring of our Family. The&s;e be rare Pre&s;ages, which we are to leave to Su|periour Powers to ordinate.</P>
<P>I mu&s;t play the di&s;&s;embler with my affections: and forbeare from calling thee home, le&s;t my too much in|&s;tancy
<PB N="124" REF="68"> might clip the wings of thy Fame: though I could wi&s;h thee lodged here, as well as incamped there: that I might heare thy tongue the relator of thine own actions: and amid&s;t that rhetoricall fancy, really injoy</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Thy</HI> Mazinella.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>The peru&s;all of this Letter begot a thou&s;and ima|ginary Conceipts in <HI>Muratus.</HI> Nor could he po&s;|&s;ibly be &s;o &s;ucce&s;sful in the Progre&s;s of his affaires; as He was &s;wolne high with the opinion of his vi|ctories. So &s;trongly had vaine-glory po&s;&s;e&s;t him; &s;econded with the applau&s;e of people; who&s;e Eyes are u&s;ually &s;o fixt on the ri&s;ing Sun, as they can &s;carcely admit of a po&s;&s;ibility that it &s;hould ever &s;et. But, indeed, <HI>Muratus</HI> his native humour was &s;uch, as he affected nothing more then to be admir'd. So as, He had got a &s;uitable Con&s;ort to feed him with the Fuell of his own Fancy. Who&s;e plea&s;ing lines He re&s;olv'd to an&s;wer, not with|out an ample di&s;covery of his later actions, in this manner.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD><HI>Muratus</HI> An&s;wer to <HI>Mazinella's</HI> Letter.</HEAD>
<P>How well doe&s;t thou de&s;erve, <HI>Mazinella,</HI> to be a &s;harer in my acqui&s;ition of honour: with tho&s;e victo|rious Trophies which either Time has, or Po&s;terity may erect to my memory; who re&s;erve&s;t &s;uch a faith|full Annal of all mine actions? Neither is it to be doubted, but that my late exploits, if they have not already come to thine Eare, will returne thee more additionall lines to inlarge thy Kalendar. There is no day wherein I rai&s;e not one Story higher in this &s;tructure of fame, which I have on &s;o faire and firme a foundation reered.</P>
<PB N="125" REF="68">
<P><HI>Muratus</HI> name is now grown formidable: So as, I have now made that Cae&s;arian Impreze mine own: I <HI>come; I &s;ee; I overcome.</HI> I encounter with no <HI>Remora,</HI> where ere my adventures lead me, to fru|&s;trate my de&s;igne: or divert my Conque&s;t. And though <HI>Honour</HI> be mine highe&s;t Object; I meet with Materials to feather my Nest. I have been lately courted to forraigne undertakings: but the Intere&s;t of <HI>Candy</HI> hanging &s;o heavily on my &s;houlders (<HI>Atlan|tick</HI> as thou styles them) requires my per&s;onall atten|dance. Neither can my &s;ucce&s;sfull &s;ervice (then which none ever more prosperou&s;ly continued nor at|chieved) expect le&s;s then a gratefull remuneration: otherwi&s;e I &s;hall manife&s;t it to the Highe&s;t in Com|mand, that they have not to deal with a Per&s;on ei|ther unde&s;erving or undi&s;cerning. But this is the lea&s;t of my feare: they dare not lo&s;e <HI>Muratus,</HI> &s;o long as they have an Enemy in the Field.</P>
<P>Thy Dreams divine no more then I expect. The Branches of my Military Forces have already over|&s;hadowed the face of the&s;e Coa&s;ts. Under who&s;e um|brage they hold them&s;elves happy that may be re|ceived. The &s;tate mu&s;t find me new ground and more valiant Foes; or my prowe&s;s in the highe&s;t Carere of our actions, for want of oppo&s;ition mu&s;t &s;leep. Thou can&s;t not make u&s;e of that gallant Land-skip in thy Garden-Gallery, where tho&s;e Heroick Statues of our Antient Worthies are to life pre&s;ented, but thou mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily reflect on thy <HI>Muratus:</HI> and con|ceipt him ranked in the &s;ame file. <HI>Themi&s;tocles</HI> could not &s;leep for the emulation he bore to <HI>Miltiades.</HI> After-ages &s;hall find this verified in the Survey of our numerous Conque&s;ts. Which &s;ucceeding times
<PB N="126" REF="69"> may more ea&s;ily emulate then imitate. Sundry Peeces of our Field-fights have been of late artfully drawn; but as <HI>Aenaeas</HI> &s;aid to <HI>Dido,</HI> they want that <HI>life</HI> wherewith they were acted. <HI>Muratus</HI> could do more in an houre with his pike, then <HI>Apelles</HI> could in an age with his pencil.</P>
<P>For the management of a Family, it is the lea&s;t of my feares; &s;uch <HI>relations</HI> cannot chu&s;e but flow|ri&s;h, where the <HI>Ma&s;ter</HI> of the <HI>Meniey</HI> &s;o highly in|largeth his Fame. My de&s;ires lodge with thee; while this pur&s;uit of Honour divides me from thee. When we have vanqui&s;h'd all, and no le&s;s is nearly ef|fected: after the&s;e Iliads of &s;urprizes and myriads of prizes, expect the victorious returne of thy</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Muratus.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>Thus have we heard how &s;ociably the&s;e two Con&s;orts &s;uit in their humour: nothing but fla&s;hes of vaine-glory, as if <HI>Muratus</HI> had procur'd a Mo|nopoly from the hand of Fortune (of who&s;e mu|tability he was not &s;en&s;ible, being puff'd up with the opinion of a continued &s;ucce&s;s) of Conquering where&s;oever he came, and with whom&s;oever He was to encounter. But <HI>Mazinella,</HI> who held her Con&s;ort &s;uch a deity; nay &s;uch an indeered Mi|nion to Fortune, as the tide &s;hould never turne. Nor the Sun-beams of his &s;hady happine&s;s &s;uffer Eclip&s;e: found by &s;ad experience the weakne&s;s of humane Confidence: and how fooli&s;h it was, to &s;ing a Song of Triumph before the victory. For within few daies after, Prince <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> having ral|lied &s;ome few of his &s;cattered Forces, re-a&s;&s;aul|ted this invincible <HI>Muratus:</HI> and in a pitcht Field routed him (more by valour then number) with all
<PB N="127" REF="69"> his Forces. After which &s;hameful defeat, a Me&s;|&s;enger who had &s;ecur'd his Per&s;on by flight, wing|ing his cour&s;e for refuge towards <HI>Muratus</HI> his Man&s;ion-hou&s;e; his Lady out of her <HI>Belcone</HI> &s;ee|ing this &s;peedy Me&s;&s;enger, as one infinitly de&s;i|rous to partake more in the report of her Con|&s;orts victories;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eheu! <HI>Mu|ratus</HI> non vincit &s;ed vincitur: Ho&s;tis Eum &s;equitur, non Ille Ho&s;tem. Uno die fa|ma longae|vi temporis extingui|tur: Ho&s;tem in fugam non vertit, &s;ed verti|tur. <HI>Ammian.</HI></NOTE> could not with patience containe her &s;elf; but before he was well di&s;mounted, with much confidence and alacrity of &s;pirit, acco&s;ted him in this manner. <HI>Relate unto me, I be&s;eech you, (for my de&s;ires &s;oare with aiery wings) where is my victorious</HI> Muratus <HI>now cha&s;ing the Enemy?</HI> To whom this amated Me&s;&s;enger with a dejected Count'nance, returned this An&s;wer: <HI>No, in|deed, Madam, I am to acquaint your Lady-&s;hip much otherwi&s;e: For I can a&s;&s;ure you,</HI> Madam, <HI>that the Enemy is cha&s;ing him.</HI> The&s;e unexpected ty|dings could not chu&s;e but transforme this Lady to a teare &s;wolne <HI>Niobe:</HI> Seeing one houre had quite ob&s;cur'd the &s;plendor of all his preceding victo|ries. So incon&s;tantly had Fortune turn'd her wheele; and lay'd this great <HI>Hannibals</HI> honour in the du&s;t: cau&s;ing his Fame and Fidelity to pe|ri&s;h both together: a ju&s;t reward for his immeri|ting &s;ervice.</P>
<P>We &s;hall now take occa&s;ion to di&s;cour&s;e of &s;ome &s;mall reviving hopes in <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> of regaining what his misfortunes had made his compo&s;ed Spirit, apt to entertaine all adver&s;e occurrences with a &s;erene Countenance to beare: and the grounds of his recovery were derived from the&s;e con&s;equent Motives.</P>
<P>Prince <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> being at that time with tho&s;e few
<PB N="128" REF="70"> di&s;-united Forces he had, di&s;po&s;ed for his winter|quarter to remain at <HI>Bovado</HI> within the Confines of <HI>Maeonia:</HI> a Place for all conveniences &s;ingular|ly &s;eated: as likewi&s;e the mo&s;t eminent Seminary for all humane learning that the Univer&s;e could af|ford. Which flouri&s;hing Academy, though it had been long time begirt with a &s;trait and impetuous Siege, yet &s;o con&s;tantly it adhered to tho&s;e Princi|ples of Allegeance, wherein it had been ever edu|cated, as it came off bravely, and acquitted her walls of the Enemy with much re&s;olution and gal|lantry. <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> I &s;ay, here re&s;iding, there came an unexpected Me&s;&s;age from the <HI>Eliots</HI> (after they had joyned with the Ilanders again&s;t him) preten|ding them&s;elvs zealous of his welfare: and to pal|liate their counterfet po&s;ture (to that mercenary Nation an innate humor) alledging, how they commi&s;erated his declining Condition: and through a pre&s;ent re&s;entment of his pious Suffer|ings, how it repented them much of what they had done; being induc'd thereto (to give a better Co|lour to their hateful defection) through a con&s;tant de&s;ire and united vote (or perfidious <HI>Contract,</HI> for &s;o it might be more properly notion'd) for pre&s;er|ving of their known Liberties and Ceremonies of <HI>Hammon.</HI> And to publi&s;h to the world what they intended; they had with joynt con&s;ent re&s;olved, and to Articles &s;ub&s;cribed and &s;igned the very next Spring to enter the Field: and in his a&s;&s;i&s;tance to die or live.</P>
<P><HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> though he had &s;mall cau&s;e to confide; yet his pre&s;ent Condition injoyn'd him to con|nive: and to cancell the memory of his forepa&s;t
<PB N="129" REF="70"> in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uries with an Act of Oblivion. Fortune had taught him to bear an even Sail in the roughe&s;t &s;torms: and to receive a reconciled Enemy with a &s;eeming Complacency.</P>
<P>Men, be they ranked in what quality or conditi|on &s;oever being reduced to tho&s;e Extream, where|in <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> through his &s;ad mi&s;hap was im<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lunged, mu&s;t be glad to di&s;pen&s;e with time: and imbrace a|ny In&s;trumental means for repairing their own in|tere&s;ts.</P>
<P>This unexpected offer of a&s;&s;i&s;tance, how&s;oever he were cordially affected, &s;eemingly over-joy'd him. Better a weak allyance then none: though his affiance could be but very &s;mall, where his late Experience had pre&s;ented to his remembrance &s;uch apparent arguments of di&s;tru&s;t.</P>
<P>But the frequency of their interceedes, with the &s;eriou&s;ne&s;s of their prote&s;ts &s;o wonne in upon him, as his di&s;po&s;ition, being naturally flexible and plyable to any impre&s;&s;ion, begun to retaine a good Conceipt of them: and that they would by their valour (whereof they never appeared guil|ty redeem their di&s;loyalty: and &s;o by degrees through their a&s;&s;i&s;tance, which their prote&s;ts had confirm'd unto him, recover what he had lo&s;t by the Fortune of war. But feeble is that relyance which is grounded on deceiving Principles; as you may gather by the &s;equel of our Hi&s;tory: &s;o con&s;tantly &s;ini&s;ter appeared Fortune in her pur&s;uit of this Princes &s;ucceeding mi&s;eries.</P>
<P>The very next Spring, &s;o &s;oon as the &s;ea&s;on would afford Forraigne with other nece&s;&s;ary ac|commodations for a military &s;ervice: <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> re|moved
<PB N="130" REF="71"> in a private di&s;gui&s;e, fearing the intercep|tion of his Enemies; which were in tho&s;e parts plenteou&s;ly quartered, and too numerous for his weak Forces to oppo&s;e; from <HI>Bovado</HI> to <HI>Never|gon;</HI> where the <HI>Eliots,</HI> as they pretended, pur|po&s;ely waited for his &s;peedy repaire. And upon his approach, with a &s;eeming alacrity receiv'd him cheerfully: being prepar'd with men and muni|tion, as they made their credulous Prince believe, to go on in the work; and re-e&s;tate him in his own. But a Treaty was held fitting, in the fir&s;t place, to determine the quarrell by Faire Propo|&s;alls: and to decline that effu&s;ion of blood, which might nece&s;&s;arily be occa&s;ion'd by the &s;ad Con&s;e|quences of a New war. Which was without much &s;ollicitancy conde&s;cended to by the adver&s;e Par|ty: knowing well, as they had &s;ubtilely wrought it, that the i&s;&s;ue of this Treaty would conduce much to their advantage. For <HI>Climenes,</HI> who had the prime Oar in this adventure: and who&s;e time|ly intelligence had &s;ufficiently di&s;covered to him, how tho&s;e Per&s;ons with whom they were to deal, &s;tood affected; had got the art of ploughing with <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> Heyfers. His Cabinet Coun&s;el would ad|mit no lock. Nothing &s;o privately carried, which was not by <HI>Climenes</HI> artifice quickly di&s;covered. Such a &s;ingular Privy-Coun&s;ellor, was he grown to from a Private Souldier. Short was this Treaty, but &s;harp for <HI>Ro&s;icles.</HI> So far were the&s;e perfidious <HI>Eliots</HI> from contributing their a&s;&s;i&s;tance; as to their &s;urviving ignominy, they &s;et a price of their betrayed Prince: expo&s;ing him to the mercy of a profe&s;t Enemy. Thus became he not onely de|priv'd
<PB N="131" REF="71"> of his Soveraignty, but re&s;train'd by his own from humane liberty. Study his e&s;cape he might, but acquire it he could not: for his De&s;igns were as &s;oon di&s;clo&s;ed as they were thought on. In this pen&s;ive plight for &s;ome Moneths remain'd this Cap|tive Prince: none admitted him to con&s;ort with, to whom he might impart his griefs: or by whom he might receive the lea&s;t dimen&s;ion of Comfort a|mid&s;t the burden of &s;uch pre&s;&s;ures.</P>
<P>In the&s;e retired and re&s;enting hours; He of|times recollected him&s;elf: and as one unmindful of his own Fortunes, then which none more vi&s;i|bly calamitous, in a pious reflection on the heavy condition of his Exil'd Lady, he would u&s;ually vent his Pa&s;&s;ions; though he had none to commi|&s;erate them, nor with a di&s;creet reply to allay them.</P>
<P>O, would he often &s;ay, what an unhappy Con|&s;ort is he, who makes the Innocent a Con&s;ort with him in his unhappine&s;s! was it not enough for me to &s;uffer all the Extreams that Fortune by the fury of perfidious hands could inflict upon me: but I mu&s;t make her a Sharer in my mi&s;ery, who&s;e acti|ons were ever full of honor and princely maje&s;ty? was this the end I brought her from <HI>Ferrara,</HI> to in|&s;lave her; and of an illu&s;trious Prince&s;s to make her below a Subject? She might w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">h a Nup|tial had been converted to a Fun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> For what got &s;he by her acce&s;s to <HI>Candy,</HI> but an immerited hate, and a Name &s;teep'd in Calumny? This gives an addition to the weight of my mi&s;eries. Since her unfortunate Choice has brought her to a di&s;con&s;o|late Change. And how &s;hould I, poor I, apply
<PB N="132" REF="72"> to her unde&s;erving &s;ufferings a Cure: when I can|not allay the lea&s;t &s;ting of a Cordial Cure in my &s;elf? &mdash;O my dear heart; how I do &s;ympathize with thee; while others, who owe them&s;elves un|to me, take the boldne&s;s to &s;everaignize over me! How deplorable a thing it is to fall below ones &s;elf: and become &s;ubject to tho&s;e, who in rea&s;on ought to obey! If Princes have no preeminence on Earth: &s;ure I am, they have none in Earth: what a weak Structure then pre&s;ents this Pile of Princely honour? If Diadems be &s;tuck with thorns while we wear them; how do we feel our &s;elves eas'd, when we are re&s;t of them? O nothing! nothing! The ambition of Princes is &s;uch: that though the&s;e Thorns prick them, they do not feel them. But the continued progre&s;s of my misfortunes have made me more &s;en&s;ible of an humane condition. O, to what <HI>height</HI> had my <HI>De&s;cent</HI> rais'd me: and to what a low de&s;cen&s;ion has that deceiving height pre&s;t me! To &s;ee one <HI>Branch</HI> &s;hred or cut off from a fair flouri&s;hing <HI>Stock,</HI> is not to be wondred at nor much bemoaned, for it may give an additional increa&s;e or nutrition to the re&s;t. But to &s;ee the <HI>Stock</HI> it &s;elf and all tho&s;e hopeful <HI>Ciens</HI> that &s;pring from it to peri&s;h, might ju&s;tly exact Compa&s;&s;ion. Sometim<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s has my di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Family appear'd plenteou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">red both with fruit and flouri&s;h. Neither d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">y hard Fate hold it &s;ufficient to lay an heavy hand onely on me and my &s;ucceeding Progeny: but on Her innocence, who &s;uffers both in her Fame and Fortunes through my unhappi|ne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Upon this pen&s;ive Soliloquie and pa&s;&s;ionate Ex|po&s;tulation,
<PB N="133" REF="72"> there came in &s;uddainly a Retainer to that &s;urly Keeper, to who&s;e Cu&s;tody he was with a &s;trict charge committed: acquainting the Prince (then a di&s;con&s;olate Pri&s;oner) how there was a Me&s;&s;enger lately arriv'd from <HI>Ferrara</HI> with a Let|ter from his Queen, importing pre&s;ent di&s;patch; as he pretended. The Prince commanded him to be forthwith call'd in: from who&s;e hand having re|ceived the Letter, with intimation of her health (the very fir&s;t que&s;tion he demanded upon the Me&s;&s;engers Entry) with a fervorous de&s;ire by the permi&s;&s;ion and in the hearing of his Keepers, he perus'd his Lady <HI>Irina</HI>'s Letter; which he might do without exception or di&s;ta&s;te to his &s;trict Guard, being in Contents thus.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>Irina <HI>to</HI> Ro&s;icles.</HEAD>
<P>My deare&s;t heart; Subjects of Concerne are &s;tran|gers to me: the&s;e lines are onely made Inqui&s;itors af|ter thine health, the onely ab&s;olute hope now left me. I de&s;ire infinitly to know how the <HI>Eliots</HI> have borne them&s;elves towards thee. I am very jealous of their dealing: having appear'd &s;o perfidious from the be|ginning? O how often, when inveloped with the Sa|ble Curtains of Night, confin'd to a &s;ad Reclu&s;e of Si|lence and Sorrow, has thine Exil'd <HI>Irina</HI> bemoan'd the anxious Condition of thee, my deere&s;t <HI>Ro&s;icles;</HI> being driven to that inextricable &s;trait; as to relye on &s;uch weak and &s;u&s;picious Meanes!</P>
<P>I re&s;ide here, Sir, where upon my long dependence on a voluntary but nece&s;&s;itated <HI>Pen&s;ion,</HI> &s;uch is my feare, I &s;hall in &s;hort time grow an ungratefull Gue&s;t. Relations, be they never &s;o neare, become
<PB N="134" REF="73"> onerous; when their Sojourne becomes long, and their Attendance numerous. Obligations of this nature, have been from my youth up &s;uch &s;trangers to me; as they have appear'd to me more <HI>active</HI> then <HI>pa&s;|&s;ive:</HI> Being from that Family whence I de&s;cended, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ore accu&s;tamed to oblige then be obliged. Be thou, my deare Heart more princely dispos'd, and more charitably opinion'd of thine <HI>Irina;</HI> then Plebeian votes have delivered their temeracy reports. The&s;e hold, that a Prince&s;s cannot keep correspondence nor a formall Familiarity with a de&s;erving Favorite, without a touch, nay, an apparent taint of honour. <HI>Cha|ridamus</HI> I can either keep or leave without any &s;uch irregular love. I &s;hall never look &s;o far below my &s;elf; as to make my Servant, my Cope&s;mate. They who think otherwi&s;e of me, I &s;hall with much patience &s;uffer them to be deceiv'd, and &s;mile at their Folly, &s;eeing them &s;o palpably deluded, yet I &s;hall hardly &s;toop to &s;o much lowne&s;&s;e, as to labour the art of unde|ceiving them, by removing <HI>Charidamus,</HI> whom they terme my intimate Favourite, from my attendance. Their groundle&s;&s;e jealou&s;ies &s;hall not work to my in|convenience. I know <HI>Claridamus</HI> to be ju&s;t and Faith|full: and He that conceipts him to be otherwi&s;e, knows not <HI>Claridamus.</HI></P>
<P>We are &s;tated here in a <HI>Nation,</HI> from whence we derive our <HI>Pen&s;ion:</HI> which, though <HI>native</HI> to me, my thoughts &s;ugge&s;t to me, it retains no Cordiall affe|ction to you. Tho&s;e numerous injuries your Predece&s;|&s;ors have done to <HI>Ferrara;</HI> will as yet, entertaine no Act of Oblivion. Though for the pre&s;ent they con|tribute to the maintenance of yours; their inte&s;tine hate is implacable to you. I &s;hall not aggravate it,
<PB N="135" REF="73"> Time to your greate&s;t diadvantage will di&s;cover it. Be cautious, deare &s;oul, of thine <HI>Intelligence.</HI> The faire&s;t pretending Face is aptest to infringe the Solemne&s;t Juncto of Faith. This Caution highly concerns thee. Intelligencers are become State-Pioners, they digge deep, where they look for rich Ore.</P>
<P>Seeing, my deare, thine own appeare thy Mor|tallst Malignants; do nothing beneath thy &s;elf. No outward Occurrent, be it never &s;o con&s;equent, can po&s;&s;ibly make Man inwardly unhappy; unle&s;s the &s;er|vile dejection of his mind hale him to that unfortu|nate Condition. It is the gloriou&s;est Character of a|ny Prince to entertaine the braves of Fortune with a &s;mile: and her flatteries with a &s;corn. This have our Eminent&s;t Heroes in Former times practi&s;ed: and by their excellent temper become inwardly hap|py through their outward infelicity. But I &s;hall little need to in&s;i&s;t on this Subject; thy Con&s;tancy has ap|prov'd thee, truly Princely in all thy deportment.</P>
<P>Thou mai&s;t believe me, my bo&s;om does nightly find a Lodging for thee, when thine own <HI>Irina</HI> is mo&s;t di&s;tanc'd from thee. If more Calme Halcyon daies &s;hine upon us, we &s;hall appeare equall &s;harers: and if otherwi&s;e, let our re&s;olution teach us to be patient Bearers.</P>
<P><HI>Let me have the happine&s;s to injoy thy pen, till opportunity make me happy in the Fruition of thy Per&s;on. Lines may unite us, when at mo&s;t di|&s;tance. This Comfort, in her &s;eperation from all others, is yet remaining to</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thine own <HI>Irina.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>It is not ea&s;ily to be expre&s;t what deep re&s;ent|ment
<PB N="136" REF="74"> the&s;e lines upon their peru&s;all wrought on the troubled affections of di&s;tre&s;&s;ed <HI>Ro&s;icles.</HI> Though his Condition were heavy, and in relati|on to his Family, mo&s;t unexemplary; yet he could have wi&s;h'd that it might have been &s;hrowded and concealed from the Eyes of the World: e&s;pecial|ly from tho&s;e, to whom He &s;tood &s;o much indeer'd as to <HI>Irina;</HI> who upon report of his Sufferings, could not chu&s;e but infinitly compa&s;&s;ionate his mi&s;eries: yet upon a more &s;erious recollection, He held it not &s;o fitting to keep &s;ecret from her what all neighbouring Coa&s;ts had not onely taken no|tice of: but would &s;hortly, if not done already, by way of Commerce be communicated to other For|reigne Countreys: e&s;pecially to <HI>Ferrara,</HI> a State, whereto the <HI>Candiots</HI> both by allyance and other nece&s;&s;ary corre&s;pondences held free and frequent recour&s;e. He chus'd rather then to become his own <HI>Amanuen&s;is</HI> in the relation of his late di&s;a|&s;ters, then to have the Continuation of his per|plexed Condition di&s;played by the <HI>Gazetta's</HI> of the time; which u&s;ually delude their Hearers ei|ther by abridging or exceeding truth in their Nar|rations. To prevent which obvious Errors, and to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ender his <HI>Irina</HI> all &s;peedy &s;atisfaction during his immerited durance, of his Condition and quality of his &s;ufferings; He returned her the&s;e Lines in a brief but effectuall Summary; as none for facility nor felicity of pen, accounted more ab&s;olute, in this contracted manner.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD><HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> an&s;wer to <HI>Irina's</HI> Letter.</HEAD>
<P>I &s;hall &s;econd thy de&s;ires, my deare <HI>Irina;</HI> but
<PB N="137" REF="74"> let me conjure thee, by that inviolable pledge of Spon&s;all love which fir&s;t united us; that this reall di&s;covery of my pre&s;ent condition, whereto my hard Fates by tho&s;e ungratefull In&s;truments de&s;igning my totall ruine have forc'd me, ope|rate not too pa&s;&s;ionately on thy tender affection. Thy <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> is betray'd in his tru&s;t: and remains now re&s;train'd by them, who were legally to de|rive from <HI>Him,</HI> their Previledges, Sub&s;i&s;tence and Liberty. I &s;hould be infinitly amated with the grandeur of the&s;e pre&s;&s;ures; if my innocence fortified me not again&s;t all Oppo&s;itions. Never was Family pretending to Greatne&s;&s;e, and without colour of <HI>u&s;urpation</HI> &s;o ju&s;tly planted; by injurious hands &s;o violently &s;urprized, nor im|petuou&s;ly &s;eazed. My <HI>Natives</HI> they were who have made their Marchandize on me. And if prote&s;ts or vows even to the Altar could have re|tain'd an influence upon their undertakings, or brought them to a &s;en&s;e of humanity; my lineall right and ju&s;t a&s;&s;umed State had not clo&s;ed in this Cata&s;trophe. Thou advi&s;e&s;t me, and I thank thee, for it is an advice that ari&s;eth from a Spirit that breaths nothing but Maje&s;ty; <HI>to do nothing beneath my &s;elf:</HI> And I &s;hall re&s;olve thee, (to cleare thy Feares from any Act that may dart the lea&s;t opinion of unworthine&s;s in me) that my thoughts &s;hall never &s;toop &s;o low, as to purcha&s;e my liberty, or regaine a Soveraignty by a&s;per&s;ing the lea&s;t blemi&s;h or di&s;honour on my Family. No (my Heart) though they have brought me as low as Earth can make me: my mind &s;hall hold a diametrall proportion with my
<PB N="138" REF="75"> pri&s;tine State, though my Body cannot. It is not a <HI>Grate</HI> that can immure the Spirit of a Prince; unle&s;s he has lo&s;t him&s;elf as well as his Seat. My <HI>hopes</HI> are not yet confin'd, though my <HI>Per&s;on</HI> be. There be &s;ome good men yet breathing, who can and will di&s;tingui&s;h the ju&s;tne&s;s of a Cau&s;e: and indew'd with a generous pity, or native pie|ty, commi&s;erate my Condition: and from a re|flection of my wrongs, derive an apprehen&s;ion and &s;erious impre&s;&s;ion of what may befall them|&s;elves. And though it be true, that it imports more happine&s;s to be <HI>envied</HI> then <HI>pitied;</HI> yet pity wel a&s;&s;i&s;ted &amp; amicably &s;econded; may bring tho&s;e who were lately pitied, to be afterwards envyed by tho&s;e by whom they were di&s;tre&s;&s;ed. In the heavie&s;t of my Extrems am I thus &s;up|po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ted. Lower I may be in the accompt of For|tune: but nothing lighter in the Scale of Re&s;olu|tion.</P>
<P>For tho&s;e injurious a&s;per&s;ions thrown on thy ver|tuous name; let the &s;tings of &s;uch traducing tongues never move thee; thy innocence retains a clear and integ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ious opinion in my bre&s;t: thou needes not atte&s;t it with vows: Tho&s;e make it their endea|vour (which is but wa&s;hing of the <HI>Aethiop</HI>) to defame thy Spou&s;all honour, who beg attendance on the <HI>Time:</HI> and looking on the <HI>Ri&s;ing-Sun,</HI> ne|ver deigne to ca&s;t an Eye upon that <HI>Great Light</HI> which the opacous &s;hadow of their <HI>Moon</HI> has eclip&s;ed. Thy pure brea&s;t may entertaine the&s;e <HI>Time-traduces</HI> with a <HI>Smile</HI> or a <HI>Scorne;</HI> as thou were't plea&s;ed in thine to teach me how to re|ceive Fortune. That were an unparallel'd beau|ty
<PB N="139" REF="75"> that could exempt its attractive quality from the reach of Cen&s;ure: or a Per&s;on, who had in|curr'd a Plebeian hate, for &s;uch an One to free him&s;elf from a touch of di&s;honour, were a Pro|digy, as Time makes it, in the Cour&s;e of Na|ture.</P>
<P>I know wel (for &s;o much has Morality taught me) that all Ju&s;tice is comprehended in Innocence: and that Innocence reprehends all Inju&s;tice: thy purity then may plead thine Apology. Being pure in the E&s;timate of thine own, Thou art &s;e|cur'd from the <HI>meldew</HI> of vulgar Fame. For what Archers be the&s;e who &s;hoot at thine honour, but <HI>Plebeian Timi&s;ts</HI> or <HI>State-&s;hadows:</HI> injurious Pur|cha&s;ers of Others rights; Profe&s;t doers of wrong and impudent detracters from others Fame. And can the&s;e impeach thy repute?</P>
<P>Truth will never maintaine tho&s;e who are a|&s;ham'd of her. And &s;ome there be to my know|ledge, and tho&s;e, &s;uch as ne&s;tle under the bran|ches of <HI>Cedars,</HI> who have palpably declin'd from the reall profe&s;&s;ion of Truth to their &s;hame.</P>
<P>As for <HI>Ferrara,</HI> my dear, though a <HI>Sacred Tye</HI> has allied me to it; yet &s;hall I never cordially relie upon it. It is to be ingenuou&s;ly confe&s;t by all, that it has receiv'd too many indignities from <HI>Candy</HI> to raze out the prints or impre&s;&s;ures of them: But none of the&s;e were ever acted by thy <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> but his Predece&s;&s;ors: which might attemper the quarrell in my particular: but in re|lation to thy Per&s;on e&s;pecially, my indeered <HI>Iri|na;</HI> who art enforc'd there to make thy Re&s;ide, or rather thine Exile, where thou breath'd thy
<PB N="140" REF="76"> fir&s;t native aire: deriving thy extraction from that Heroick line, who&s;e unequall'd prowe&s;&s;e highly improv'd the honour of that Nation; though they &s;leep now in the bed of du&s;t. Here to partake (being nece&s;&s;itated thereto by thy <HI>Con|&s;orts</HI> misfortune) of u&s;efull accommodations cor|re&s;ponding with thy Condition; were but a Ci|vile ho&s;pitality in them: and no le&s;s then with princely mode&s;ty and without the notion of <HI>be|holdingne&s;s</HI> (a word of too hard dige&s;tion to a gal|lant and di&s;-ingaged Spirit) thy lineall de&s;cent, to omit other relations, might ju&s;tly exact. But our Fortunes will not permit us to conte&s;t either with Fate or Foe.</P>
<P>If any Balm will cure us, or allay this Alloes Potion of affliction that &s;o imbitters us; it mu&s;t be a patient compo&s;ure of our minds: this it is that mu&s;t calm our di&s;tempers.</P>
<P>I have inlarg'd my &s;elf more then I intended; but excu&s;e it, my dear One; for methinks, every line here addre&s;&s;ed to thee, enliveneth me in this un&s;ociable Cell of my Re&s;traint. Mean time, let us anchor our hopes in this, that the Superiour Powers, who re&s;erve an influence over all our Actions, and under who&s;e hand it is for us either to ri&s;e or fall, will afford us more chearful beams of reviving Comfort; by crowning our Cloudy day with a Clear Evening: and &s;o re-unite us, or by a glad&s;ome Tran&s;lation impo&s;e a period to our &s;uffering: and joyntly eternize us.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thine own <HI>Ro&s;icles.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>The&s;e were the la&s;t lines which the Prince&s;s ever receiv'd from her Captiv'd <HI>Ro&s;icles:</HI> being &s;o
<PB N="141" REF="76"> &s;trictly guarded by Speciall Command from the <HI>Senat,</HI> as all intercour&s;e was ob&s;tructed either by Letter or addre&s;s of Friends during his re&s;traint; &s;o irreconcilable was this divi&s;ion grown betwixt this di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Prince and his People.</P>
<P>Yet amid&s;t the&s;e di&s;tempers, He had ever &s;ome well-wi&s;hers left, who to their power &s;o far as their Forces would extend to, de&s;i&s;ted not from contributing their be&s;t a&s;&s;i&s;tance to his defence, with an integrious demon&s;trance of their loyalty. Among&s;t which, one<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">An <HI>Illiri|an</HI> of high Ex|traction.</NOTE> <HI>Lycanthes</HI> pretending infi|nite zeal to this injuried Prince; but how he &s;tood inwardly affected, his Cloudy and immasked thoughts knew be&s;t; levied a &s;trong and Formida|ble Army; and with the&s;e pui&s;&s;ant Forces (far more numerous then orderly managed) He in|vades the Territories of <HI>Candy:</HI> where with more confidence then valour or martiall prowe&s;s, He marched along, but in a po&s;ture much un&s;uitable to an experienc'd Souldier. For he appeared in his ga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;h and pompous Colours (like a vaine <HI>Popinjay</HI>) as if he had been going rather to a Mo|rice or May-game, then any Martiall adventure; vanting all along in this his undi&s;ciplin'd <HI>Progre&s;s</HI> (for &s;o might his <HI>march</HI> be truly &s;tyled) of an a&s;|&s;ured victory, before he faced the Enemy. Nei|ther &s;urely could any thing le&s;s have been ex|pected; if &s;uch Con&s;iderable Forces had been un|der the conduct of a &s;erious and &s;ucce&s;sfull Lea|der: but as that wi&s;e Polititian well ob&s;erved: <HI>Better it is to have an Army of Harts, with a Lyon to their Leader: then an Army of Lyons with an Hart to their Conducter:</HI> Such influence has a di&s;|creet
<PB N="142" REF="77"> and re&s;olute Commander in the &s;ucce&s;s of his Army. Which <HI>Lycanthes</HI> found true to his bit|ter experience. For though his Forces were &s;in|gularly well prepared; yet his indi&s;creet confi|dence &s;uffered them to be &s;o di&s;-joynted and in their March &s;o &s;trangely di&s;tanced, as they appea|red more like Forragers then Souldiers: more apt for booty then to attempt a victory: and in pillage they feathered their Ne&s;ts &s;ufficiently: making every Coa&s;t, where they &s;o freely exer|cis'd their rapine and injurious plunder, their Mor|tall Enemie. But the Event of this Battell re|turn'd them a demerited guerdon. For having met their Foe, whom <HI>Lycanthes</HI> &s;o little feared; and over whom he &s;o bravingly triumphed, before He became ingaged, They wholly di&s;comfited him; without much re&s;i&s;tence; to <HI>Lycanthes</HI> great di&s;honour, and his defeated Forces unex|emplary &s;laughter. So as that very Place where this Victory with &s;o &s;mall difficulty was acquired, became &s;o purpled and with di&s;laughter'd Corp|&s;es &s;o numerou&s;ly and confu&s;edly covered; as there &s;carce appeared &s;ufficient purprize of ground to afford them Graves. That &s;mall remainder of them who&s;e Fortune it was to be pre&s;erved from the edge of the Sword: were made &s;ubject to as heavy a Fate: being generally &s;old for Bond|&s;laves, and at &s;o ea&s;ie and contemptible a rate: as their value might appeare conformable to their valour: their de&s;picable price, to the e&s;timate of their pufillanimous prowe&s;s.</P>
<P>As for the re&s;t of his di&s;cattered Forces, by the &s;low Conduct of their March, and their di&s;tance
<PB N="143" REF="77"> from the Battell, (having never approch'd the Face of the Enemy) they retreited back both with &s;afety and Spoile: impoveri&s;hing the Countrey whereever they marched: returning to their pe|nurious Homes, no le&s;s full-handed then faint-hearted.</P>
<P>Now to give you the true Character of this <HI>Lycan|thes;</HI> though he were of eminent extraction; He was ever held to partake more of a di&s;&s;olute then re&s;olute di&s;po&s;ition; One, who could ea&s;ily di&s;pence with his faith; infringe his promi&s;e; violate his vow: and a cunning de&s;igner, and di&s;gui&s;er too of his intendments for his own Intere&s;t. Yet was he never known in tho&s;e de&s;ignes, (were they ne|ver &s;o &s;ubtilely couched nor carried) to appeare pro&s;perous. Neither was it thought by Tho&s;e, who held neare&s;t corre&s;pondence with him: and ey'd his actions with the prudent&s;t in&s;pection, that his intention in this Expedition was clear or candid: but that he looked more upon him&s;elf, and how he might advance his own intere&s;t; then how to vin|dicate the injuries of his di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Prince: who remained &s;till a re&s;trained per&s;on; de&s;titute of all humane &s;uccour or a&s;&s;i&s;tance. But tho&s;e high and in&s;crutable Judgments of the Superiour Power, which &s;tartleth tho&s;e who are mo&s;t &s;ecure and in|&s;en&s;ible of their irregular Condition, though they &s;eem for a while to &s;leep, they &s;eldom &s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">pe: as might be in&s;tanced to life in the Tragicall Period of this unfortunate Polititian: who cut off in the height of his ambition, was enforc'd (without the attendance of many reall or cordiall Mourners) to become a Spectacle to the World, and to perform
<PB N="144" REF="78"> his la&s;t act upon the Scaffold: and &s;acrifice his pro|jecting head on the Block. Which, though he &s;ought by all &s;ubmi&s;&s;ive wayes and mercenary means to prevent: yet all his Contrivements could not operate to his &s;afety.</P>
<P>Two others of remarkable quality there were be&s;ides him&s;elf, who having received the irrevo|cable Sentence of death, were to die with him: which three were u&s;ually in <HI>Candy</HI> thus di&s;tingui|&s;hed. One a Courtier, and no Souldier. The Se|cond a Souldier, and no profe&s;t Courtier. The Third neither Souldier nor Courtier. Which was meant by <HI>Lycanthes;</HI> being a per&s;on naturally &s;ur|ly and uncivil: and in Martiall affaires igno|rant.</P>
<P>After this great di&s;comfiture; from whence &s;o much was expected, and &s;o little accompli&s;hed: the Senatual and Plebeian State continued in a flouri&s;hing peace; having no A&s;&s;ailants either pri|vately to oppo&s;e them, or publickly to invade them. For the Captive Prince was &s;ecur'd; and his weak Allies deterr'd from de&s;igning, much more from acting any thing con&s;iderable to a De|mocratick di&s;advantage. During which Calm, or peaceable Ce&s;&s;ation, the <HI>Candiots</HI> became infinitly pro&s;perous (as their valour well merited) in &s;undry con&s;equent adventures.</P>
<P>For their Generali&s;&s;imo <HI>Moccenigo</HI> burnt ten Turki&s;h &s;hips and fourteen Saiques; and took the Tribute of <HI>Rhodes</HI> amounting to 200000 Crowns; with the lo&s;s of 100 of his men, and 300 wound|ed. After which gallant exploit, he joyned with the <HI>Roman</HI> Galleys and tho&s;e of <HI>Malt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">:</HI> and with
<PB N="145" REF="78"> their united Forces, invincible for their re&s;olution, they went jointly again to the <HI>Dardanelles,</HI> to ob|&s;truct all &s;uch Ve&s;&s;els which carried provi&s;ion to <HI>Con&s;tantinople:</HI> and were re&s;olved (&s;o highly were they inflam'd with the heat and pur&s;uit of their vi|ctories) to fight the great Turki&s;h Fleet, inten|ding at that time to keep their Rendevous at <HI>Scio.</HI> Such noble a&s;&s;ayes with an&s;werable &s;ucce&s;&s;e did the&s;e victorious Ilanders not onely attempt, but bravely to their &s;urviving memory perform: du|ring tho&s;e &s;hort interbreaths and intermi&s;&s;ive re|&s;pirations of Civil war. Whence it may be ea&s;ily collected, what memorable actions and Conque&s;ts might have been atchieved and to the &s;ucceeding glory of <HI>Candy</HI> continued; by tho&s;e Heroick Spi|rits, who&s;e viril veins had their blood wholly ex|hau&s;ted in tho&s;e Civil wars.</P>
<P>Yet during this &s;eeming Calme and Ce&s;&s;ation from Arms, the Synodical and Plebeian Faction were not wholly acquitted of Foes nor Fears. All &s;tood not well-affected to that mixt and con|fu&s;ed &s;tate of Government. For there were ever Some (and tho&s;e not of the meane&s;t quality, though their Feveri&s;h Spirits were not elevated to any publick action) who confidently expected and ea|gerly de&s;ired, that their new-introduced Anarchy might be &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, and <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> to his own re|&s;tored.</P>
<P>Others there were who &s;tood aloof, giving aim to the Events of tho&s;e times: and having their Hutches well &s;tored: and their Ne&s;ts well feathred at home, would not lo&s;e a plume to pre&s;erve their fidelity. Whereas others were ca&s;ten in a purer
<PB N="146" REF="79"> and more refined Mould: &s;ticking not at all pub|lickly to manife&s;t their Loyalty. Some whereof (and tho&s;e of the eminen&s;t, and be&s;t di&s;ciplin'd) were be&s;tow'd in Gari&s;ons; upon neighbouring Ca&s;tles, Cittadels, Forts and Fortre&s;&s;es, mo&s;t de|fen&s;ive, offen&s;ive and tenable. From whence they u&s;ually made their excur&s;ions for &s;uppliance or ac|commodation; when&s;oever any opportunity pre|&s;ented it &s;elf to their advantage. And I &s;hall here take occa&s;ion to relate &s;ome plea&s;ant Pa&s;&s;ages, varied and interwoven with much delight (as an <HI>Alloy</HI> to our more &s;erious di&s;cour&s;e:) which we &s;hall return to you in a mode&s;t dre&s;s; without the lea&s;t touch of levity or petulant &s;currility: for &s;uch light trimming &s;hould be out of reque&s;t and quite e&s;trang'd from the native body or Contexture of an Hi&s;tory.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Plea&s;ant Pa&s;&s;ages of <HI>Panthalia,</HI> the <HI>Pretty Pedler.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IN the Continuation of the&s;e divi&s;ions; there were many young Gentlemen, e&s;pecially &s;uch as were younger Brothers, and had no other For|tunes but the re&s;olution of their Spirits to rely on, who ingag'd them&s;elvs freely in this Service. But all Pitcht Fields being now determined; they were enforced to a&s;&s;ociate and unite them&s;elves to &s;uch as had di&s;po&s;ed their per&s;ons, and repo&s;ed their la&s;t hopes, and fortunes with what&s;oever &s;eem'd dear unto them in Gari&s;ons.</P>
<PB N="147" REF="79">
<P>Among&s;t which, there was one <HI>Acolasto</HI> (nei|ther had he his Name given him for nothing, for he was of a prodigal and profu&s;e humour:) and could find way to &s;pend it, if his Revenues had been rais'd to an Empire. This free-bred Spark, having now ran &s;o far on &s;core, as Chalk would give him no more credit; nor his Acquaintance afford him &s;upplies or fuel to his boundle&s;&s;e Ex|pen&s;e; he takes upon him this re&s;olution to take Sanctuary in one of tho&s;e Gari&s;ons: the only Sub|terfuge to his exhau&s;ted Fortunes. But finding one Ob&s;tacle of maine and irremovable Con&s;e|quence to his nece&s;&s;itated de&s;ign; it was his en|deavour, but all in vain, to remove it.</P>
<P>This <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> had been privately contracted to an hand&s;om young Dam&s;el; one for beauty ac|counted the Pearl of her Country. Her this Pro|digal youth acquaints with his intendment: and how his pre&s;ent impoveri&s;h'd e&s;tate, being reduc'd to a forlorn Condition, would not permit him any longer repo&s;e nor re&s;ide in tho&s;e parts. But all the&s;e Objections, though per&s;wa&s;ive enough, would not work any impre&s;&s;ion upon her youth: expre&s;ly telling him that if he fixt upon any &s;uch re&s;olution, he &s;hould not want a Companion, for &s;he would follow him. Though at la&s;t, on his &s;erious prote&s;t that he would &s;ojourn no longer then &s;uch a time as he propo&s;ed and limited to her, after much &s;olicitancy with the &s;hady hopes of his preferment, &s;he con&s;ented to his reque&s;t.</P>
<P>Streight to a Gari&s;on doth <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> addre&s;s his cour&s;e; where by &s;ome a&s;&s;i&s;ting means he was not onely received, but admitted to an inferiour place,
<PB N="148" REF="80"> convenient enough for his &s;ub&s;i&s;tence, and confor|mable to the quality of his Commands. But the onely benefit he extracted from thence, was a Le|cture of Temperance: for the Gari&s;on was not guilty of too much exce&s;s: in which form of di&s;ci|pline had this young Souldier been &s;ea&s;onably in|doctrinated, he might have remain'd with his <HI>Pan|thalia,</HI> in a &s;ecure plenty, without ingagement or defiance of an unknown Enemy.</P>
<P>The prefixt time of his returne being now ar|riv'd and pa&s;t; and this amorous Dama&s;ella hear|ing nothing of him; &s;aving onely of the Place of his aboad, but whether remov'd or no &s;he had not heard: and becoming infinitly impatient of his delay; re&s;olv'd to direct her cour&s;e towards the Garri&s;on, where &s;he was inform'd <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> was not onely receiv'd but preferr'd. Many pregnant rea&s;ons were given her, to di&s;&s;wade her, from an A&s;&s;ay &s;o full of danger, and prejudicial to her ho|nour: but none of the&s;e could evince her: nor with all the pretended Feares they could object, decline her. Her re&s;olution was pitcht; and the day of her perillous Progre&s;s immutably fixt: and that &s;he might without di&s;covery go on in her Journey, &s;he took upon her a di&s;gui&s;e much below her extraction; the habit of a <HI>Pedler;</HI> with points and Laces about her neck: and all other accom|modations &s;uitable to &s;o indigent a Calling.</P>
<P>But meane had that Commodity been, which &s;uch a beauty could not put off. Along &s;he goes thus attired; taking with her <HI>Pandione</HI> an Alliance of hers (a Maid of &s;ingular mode&s;ty and gracefull demeane) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or her Attendant. With much cheer|full
<PB N="149" REF="80"> di&s;cour&s;e and plea&s;ant parlyance did the&s;e two amiable way-mates entertaine the time, and allay the difficulty of their Journey.</P>
<P>O would <HI>Panthalia</HI> &s;ay; what, do&s;t thou think, <HI>Pandione,</HI> that <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> will &s;ay, when he &s;ees me thus habited: how doe&s;t imagin, will he receive his Pedler? I cannot, replyed <HI>Pandione</HI> conceipt the Care&s;&s;es of Fancy: nor what the&s;e imaginary Conceptions of love may a&s;pire to, being &s;uch &s;trange Gue&s;ts to my virgin bo&s;om, as to this hour they were never there admitted.</P>
<P>But &s;urely the tediou&s;ne&s;s of the way, and dan|gers that accompanied it might to any unbya&s;&s;'d judgment merit well a free and gracefull accep|tance. I gather well by your alacrity, the &s;trength and vigour of your Fancy. Labours become Plea|&s;ures, when the Object we aime at deligts us. What Obligations ha&s;t thou laid on me, an&s;wered <HI>Panthalia;</HI> who art &s;o willing to &s;hare with me in this Journey, without hope of partaking with me in the like Joy? You might ea&s;ily injoyne me to a Taske of more difficulty, might my Service facilitate your content in any mea&s;ure. But I am much afraid, &s;aid <HI>Pandione,</HI> that we have not yet pa&s;t the Pikes; we have more emergent, if not imminent perills to encounter with: for we may heare how Souldiers are di&s;per&s;t every where; who&s;e incivilities how might our weakne&s;s avoid, or by what meanes evade, if their unbounded and licencious Fury a&s;&s;ault us? I have re&s;olv'd of a Cure for that Sore, replyed <HI>Panthalia.</HI> I know well, the Habit nor Profe&s;&s;ion of <HI>Pedlers</HI> will not &s;ecure us; though it has thus far di&s;guis'd us from
<PB N="150" REF="81"> our Natives. We will therefore change the&s;e Feminine Habits, to pre&s;erve our Honours: and take more virile habiliments upon us. Heavens grant, &s;aid <HI>Pandione,</HI> that I &s;hame not my &s;elf in that &s;hape: for I am confident, I &s;hall never re|gu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">arly nor without &s;u&s;picion conforme my po|&s;ture to a paire of Breeches: but I &s;hall follow your direction: and mould my pace to your gate as well as I can. Their New-form'd Habits being accordingly provided; they went on in their ad|dre&s;s. But they had &s;carcely drill'd on a league or two further; till they were adverti&s;ed for certaine by a Countrey Bore, that the <HI>Garri&s;on</HI> whereto they &s;hap'd their Cour&s;e was &s;o &s;traitly blockt up, and on each &s;ide &s;o beleagured, as no pa&s;&s;age could be admitted to it, nor Egre&s;s from it.</P>
<P>The&s;e unexpected News infinitly perplexed <HI>Panthalia:</HI> fearing much, as &s;he might very proba|bly conjecture, that in this pur&s;uit after her be|leagured <HI>Acola&s;to,</HI> &s;he had wholly lo&s;t her labour. But being now near Night, they ha&s;tned on to|wards an adjoyning Village, where they were in|formed, they might receive convenient accommo|dation for their Lodging. And pa&s;&s;ing along hea|vily; for all their merry parliance was now con|verted to &s;ad Scens; not far di&s;tant from thence; They happily incountred with an ancient Gentle|man taking his Evening walk in a Field adjacent to his Hou&s;e. Who &s;eeing the&s;e two late tran|&s;hap'd Pilgrims; and de&s;iring to know what way they addre&s;t their cour&s;e, <HI>Panthalia</HI> told him, that their occa&s;ion lay for the next Garri&s;on; purpo&s;ely to vi&s;it a dear and intimate Ally of theirs, and
<PB N="151" REF="81"> to accommodate him in tho&s;e nece&s;&s;itous times with &s;ome competent &s;upplies.</P>
<P>Alas, an&s;wered the Gentleman! I am much af|fraid le&s;t your Journey prove as fruitle&s;s as it has been tedious, if your Addre&s;s did extend it &s;elf to any con&s;iderable di&s;tance. No le&s;s remote then <HI>Landek,</HI> being neare the utmo&s;t Confines of <HI>Can|dy,</HI> replyed <HI>Panthalia.</HI> Too long a tract to appear effectle&s;s. And I &s;hall freely communicate the the grounds of my Feare unto you: for the pro|bability of the i&s;&s;ue I &s;hall leave to your own Judgments, being of &s;uch neare concern to your &s;elves. You &s;hall know Gentlemen, that this Fort, or place of Garri&s;on, known commonly by the name of <HI>Pontisk,</HI> were impregnable, I mu&s;t con|fe&s;s, if the be&s;ieged had provi&s;ion, but nece&s;&s;ity mu&s;t enforce them, were their Spirits never &s;o re|&s;olute, to a &s;peedy reddition. For it is beleagured round and with &s;uch a&s;&s;iduate violence a&s;&s;aulted, as it cannot be tenable long. Meane time, neither ingre&s;s nor regre&s;s is admitted: where if any one chance to be incon&s;iderately &s;uprized; all ho&s;tility without mercy is inflicted on him.</P>
<P>Be then advi&s;ed, young Gentlemen, by One who has been &s;ometimes reduced to the like Straits that you are brought to; decline your ingagement upon the&s;e de&s;perate Extreams. No long time will be admitted, as the Ca&s;e &s;tands, for complea|ting this Siege. The exigent Condition of the Party beleagured is &s;uch, that they mu&s;t either yield, and timely too, or they expo&s;e them&s;elves to the Fury of an implacable Enemie: &s;o &s;mall re|liance or hope of mercy is to be expected from the hand of Crueltie.</P>
<PB N="152" REF="82">
<P>This pa&s;&s;ionate relation wrought &s;o &s;trongly on the endeered affection of <HI>Panthaliae,</HI> as her eyes were re&s;olv'd into rivolets of tears. Though &s;he &s;hadowed her re&s;entment with as much art as her pre&s;ent condition, impal'd in the purprize or &s;uch affliction, could po&s;&s;ibly permit. But &s;he could not &s;o artfully di&s;&s;emble it, but this grave Gentleman quickly apprehended it, and in a generous Com|pa&s;&s;ion &s;eemingly partakt with her in it. But to mini&s;ter a Cordial to the&s;e di&s;pa&s;&s;ionate qualmes: and allay their Sufferings, which appeared to him above expre&s;&s;ion, he proceeded in the affectionate tender of his ho&s;pitable Entertain in this manner. Young Gentlemen, &s;aid he, for your names I know not. With a mode&s;t interruption, replied <HI>Panthalia,</HI> my Name is <HI>Melicertes:</HI> and my Kin&s;mans <HI>Dul|cippus.</HI> May you long flouri&s;h in the Splendor of your names and relations, &s;aid he; but you mu&s;t excu&s;e me, if in this commi&s;eration of your adven|tures (for never could a more inopportunate time nor hazardous a&s;&s;ay call you forth of your own Country) I return you my advice, di&s;gu&s;tful, it may be, at the fir&s;t view; becau&s;e the alacrity of your youthful Spirits may be &s;uch as it will admit no impedes, but rather pur&s;ue then prevent dan|ger.</P>
<P>No, an&s;wer'd <HI>Panthalia;</HI> though our de&s;ires breath into an infinite fervour of vi&s;iting &s;o en|deered a Friend: yet mu&s;t we with patience give way to the extremitie of time: and with much thankfulne&s;s &s;ubmit our &s;elves and our perplext af|fairs to your prudent advice and direction. For our Condition re&s;ts now, as tho&s;e who &s;ail in a Pin|nace,
<PB N="153" REF="82"> ballac'd with an heavy burden, but without anchor; expos'd to &s;torms, &s;helvs and every ap|proaching danger. Let me then play your Pilot; I &s;hall find you Sea-room at lea&s;t, to &s;ecure you from an imminent peril. With all &s;erious attenti|on they gave ear unto him: advi&s;ing them with much prudence and affability in this &s;ort, for their pre&s;ent Security. It has been your fortune, Gentle|men, to come to this Grange; where you may re&s;t confident of a free and Friendly welcom; and though not &s;o accurate, as it may be, your qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lities merit, yet not altogether unworthy your accep|tance, as your Pilgrim Condition, accompanied with &s;o many inevitable ob&s;tructions, nece&s;&s;itates it. I &s;hall then injoyn you, out of a pious care to your welfare, and ho&s;pitable re&s;pect to the ingag|ment of your Per&s;ons, to take your Repo&s;e here with me and my Familie: till the&s;e violent and impetuous &s;torms be over-blown. Long they can|not continue in relation to this Siege. For the be|leagured Party, mu&s;t either yield, and that &s;hort|ly, or &s;uffer without mercy; as hath been lately with extreme menaces imparted to them by the Enemy.</P>
<P>With a cheerfull gratitude They entertain'd his generous Offer. In variety of di&s;cour&s;es a part of the night was be&s;towed: and after a Free and li|berall repa&s;t, the old Gentleman &s;en&s;ible of the wearine&s;s of their Journey; gave direction to his daughter<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">In an Ab&s;tract of this Romance called <HI>Ly|&s;ippe.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Aretina</HI> to accommodate them with all conveniences: and to lodge them in one of the be&s;t Rooms, &s;uitable, as he imagin'd, to their condition; though in mode&s;ty they appear'd &s;i|lent
<PB N="154" REF="83"> in di&s;covery of it. By this it grew Bed-time for this ancient Gentleman; who&s;e due ob&s;er|vance of &s;ea&s;onable hours had inlarg'd his yeares with much health and fre&s;h vigour. And having now taken his leave of the&s;e two late tran&s;hap'd Gentlewomen, with wi&s;hes to their good re&s;t; He departed the room, recommending them to the &s;erious care, dipo&s;ure and accommodation of his daughter.</P>
<P>Now this <HI>Aretina</HI> was his onely Child; One who had been often in the way of Marriage but e|ver mi&s;t it. One <HI>Remora</HI> or other &s;till interpo&s;ed the Object of her preferment. Neither were her de&s;ires cold in the pur&s;uance of her affection. But either her Suiters Fortunes were below or above her Condition: or the freedom of her di&s;po&s;ition &s;prinkled their Suit with a di&s;-reli&s;h: So as, &s;he was grown now as ancient in yeares, as Fervent in her de&s;ires: and commonly di&s;tingui&s;hed in tho&s;e parts by the title of the <HI>Mother of the Maids,</HI> or the <HI>Maiden-Matron;</HI> the <HI>Ve&s;tall Virgin,</HI> or the <HI>Virgin Votare&s;s;</HI> or more commonly by the <HI>Prio|re&s;s of Cardel.</HI> But no &s;uch religious nor ab&s;temi|ous a votare&s;s, as to reject the affection of a pre|tending Servant: or di&s;courage the amorous A&s;|&s;ayes of any &s;pritely or alacrious Gallant: being as flexible and apt to receive an impre&s;&s;ion of love: as any youthfull Lover (were his prote&s;ts never &s;uch &s;trangers to his brea&s;t) was addre&s;t to tender it. You may ea&s;ily &s;uppo&s;e then, what a plea&s;ing and acceptable charge this Taske was, being &s;o &s;eriou&s;ly recommended to her by her Father. Beau|ty is a dangerous bait; as apt to take, if it be nib|led
<PB N="155" REF="83"> at, as to be taken. This prov'd an attractive Object to <HI>Aretina.</HI> Who might di&s;cover in her two affectionate Gue&s;ts &s;o much native beauty; as it could not po&s;&s;ibly actuate le&s;s then irre&s;i&s;tible flames in the bo&s;om of Fancy: nor become le&s;s, if not timely oppos'd, then a dangerous Incendiary to young blood. Time, we know, is precious; and <HI>Aretina</HI> weighs the e&s;timate of every graine or minute at the highe&s;t rate, during her Cu&s;tody of the&s;e two amiable Sojourners. And <HI>Panthalia,</HI> ac|compli&s;h'd with no le&s;s quickne&s;s of Fancy in ap|prehending; then excellence of Beauty in &s;ur|prizing; to delude her inamour'd Guardian, and &s;hadow her own di&s;gui&s;e; expre&s;t &s;o much art, as &s;he an&s;wer'd look with look: and with that amo|rous kind of reflection, as her &s;miles pre&s;ented language enough; to operate this coneipt in <HI>Are|tina;</HI> that &s;he was no le&s;s taken then her &s;elf: di|recting their affections mutually on one Object: &s;o &s;trongly did this imaginary influence act upon the enlivened thoughts of that ancient amori&s;t. The&s;e apprehen&s;ions interwoven with other &s;uita|ble di&s;cour&s;e &s;pinned out the night longer then the&s;e two wearied Pilgrims well de&s;ired; but the&s;e Civilities of <HI>Aretina's</HI> attendance with other obli|ging Treats could not mannerly permit them to di&s;cover their wearine&s;s, nor importune her depar|ture. At la&s;t with a plea&s;ant &s;mile (an intelligible regret of what &s;he meant) &s;he took her leave, lea|ving them to their re&s;t: whereof, no doubt, they partak't more fully then <HI>Aretina</HI> did: who&s;e active thoughts had made &s;leep a &s;tranger to her eyes.</P>
<P>The&s;e two being in bed, <HI>Pandione</HI> was very in|qui&s;itive
<PB N="156" REF="84"> of <HI>Panthalia,</HI> what an opinion &s;he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ad o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Aretina;</HI> Sleep, Girle, quoth &s;he; Thou need'&s;t not doubt but &s;he would prove kind enough, if we were Con&s;orts to corre&s;pond with her de&s;ires: neither do I think, but if &s;he knew our Sex, which I would by no means have yet di&s;covered, but our accommodation might appear le&s;s, and her care in relation to us, more remi&s;s.</P>
<P>The &s;able Curtains of Night were no &s;ooner di&s;|play'd: and <HI>Latona</HI> re&s;igned her &s;hady govern|ment; but <HI>Aurora</HI> di&s;heviling her golden tre&s;&s;es awakned love-&s;ick <HI>Aretina;</HI> who&s;e care &s;olely fixt upon her Charge (the delightfull'&s;t Task th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t ever her aged Father injoyned her) winged her &s;peed to the&s;e two &s;carce-awakt Pilgrims; Morning Cordi|als, with what&s;oever might mo&s;t indulge the &s;en&s;e, could not be wanting, for <HI>Panthalia</HI> was the <HI>Idea</HI> whereon &s;he affectionately fixt; the onely Earthly Deity to whom &s;he offer'd, &amp; for whom &s;he re&s;er|ved her entire&s;t Ori&s;ons. Never was Creature upon the fir&s;t interview more deluded, nor &s;trangely &s;ur|pri&s;ed. All the next day, after their u&s;ual repa&s;ts, which were with far more curio&s;itie prepared and di&s;hed then had been formerly; they be&s;tow'd in Arbour-di&s;cour&s;es, with other time-beguiling Re|creations: and with that varietie as if &s;he had &s;et her whole Family a-work to entertain the&s;e Stran, gers with raritie of Inventions. For her aged Fa|ther, an ancient ho&s;pitable Hou&s;e-keeper had im|po&s;ed a period to all &s;ecular cares, and recommen|ded all the charge and provi&s;ion of Oeconomick affairs to his Daughter, who knew well how to re|tain an hanke, and abridge that profu&s;ene&s;s of
<PB N="157" REF="84"> bounty, if her providence had not been over-ma|&s;ter'd by Fancy. Neither in very truth, did <HI>Pantha|lia,</HI> who&s;e education had been inured to delicacy, di&s;gu&s;t this freedom of Entertain: who, though &s;he were ingag'd in pur&s;uit of another Allay; yet had &s;he ever a re&s;erve for <HI>Sen&s;e;</HI> which with much complacencie her de&s;ires were ever &s;trongly bent to &s;atisfie.</P>
<P>When night came, they be&s;tow'd it no le&s;s de|lightfully in other trifling plea&s;ures; as in making <HI>Goo&s;lings</HI> i'th a&s;hes; <HI>draw gloves, Purpo&s;es, Ridles</HI> and the like: wherein <HI>Panthalia</HI> had been much vers'd: and appear'd, e&s;pecially to <HI>Aretina,</HI> in|finitely ingenious. Neither in the&s;e onely, but in Exerci&s;es of Poe&s;ie, to &s;hrowd their Sexes effe|minacy; they would frequently endeavour to ex|pre&s;s their pregnancy: but their Subjects were e|ver drawn from love in the Choice of a Mi&s;tre&s;s, of &s;uch like Fancy, which &s;uited hand&s;omely with <HI>Aretina's</HI> humour: and left deeper impre&s;&s;ions in her affection.</P>
<P>One day, (upon a prepared re&s;olution betwixt them) <HI>Panthalia</HI> with her diamond wrote in a window of her Lodging, being directly oppo&s;ite to <HI>Aretina's</HI> Entry: and from whence &s;he u&s;ually made her Pro&s;pect to a delightfull Garden, neare adjoyning, the&s;e lines:
<Q><L>That wench for me, and none but &s;hee,</L>
<L>That's neither froward nor too free.</L></Q></P>
<P>And <HI>Pandione,</HI> to cover her &s;elf with the like vaile; being in her Election for the &s;ame Sexe, an|&s;wer'd her in this &s;ort:
<Q><PB N="158" REF="85">
<L>That wench, I vow, Shall be my Joy,</L>
<L>That's neither forward nor too coy.</L></Q></P>
<P><HI>Aretina</HI> chancing next morning to read the&s;e ver&s;es, laugh'd heartily, Alas, poor Fools, quoth &s;he! How pittifully are we weak women tax'd, to be forward, froward, coy, and what not? whereas you &s;ubtile men be tho&s;e <HI>Coy-ducks</HI> that lure us to your <HI>Nouze,</HI> and then unhappily leave us. For when you have got your de&s;ires, they beget &s;atie|ty, and by degrees prepare fre&s;h fuell for new Fires. Yet, tru&s;t me, methinks Love is a pretty thing: and I could find with all my heart to love; &s;o I might find One that would do the like. <HI>Pan|thalia</HI> &s;tanding at her back, pre&s;ently interrupted her, &s;aying: Why, Lady, retaine you that har&s;h opinion of us; as if all mankinde were adulterate mettall; and no pure bulloigne among&s;t us? No, replyed <HI>Aretina,</HI> I am not infected with any &s;uch Critici&s;me. I am confident, <HI>Melicertes,</HI> you could love, and con&s;tantly; if your Curious eye could once fixe on an Object that might like you. And the Object I could really fixe on, an&s;wer'd <HI>Pan|thalia,</HI> (de&s;iring nothing more then to inwreath her &s;till in this Labyrinth of love) is very near me. Speak cordially, Sir, have your thoughts a reall in|clination to love? Do not hold me, &s;weet Mi|&s;tre&s;s, all <HI>Cucumber:</HI> your Servant (if I may a&s;|&s;ume &s;o meriting a title) has native vitall heat; affectionate de&s;ires inabled with active Facul|ties as other Creatures have.</P>
<P>Tru&s;t me you make me put on complexion; no
<PB N="159" REF="85"> doubt, Sir, your Con&s;titution retains no Sym|ptoms of a Con&s;umption; but promi&s;eth more ala|crity in action, then reality of affection. And yet I will not judge ra&s;hly, methinks &s;uch a Feature &s;hould partake as well of Con&s;tancy as Fancy: yes, Madam, if the Expre&s;&s;ions of a Stranger were not accompted of as aery motions, you might find &s;omething in <HI>Melicertes</HI> to merit your good affe|ction: &s;eeing, as he may &s;afely prote&s;t, your in|deering Entertaine and obliging Favours have won &s;o much ground of him; and acquir'd &s;uch Command over him; as incomparable feminine beauty was the very fir&s;t that He idoliz'd, or courted for a Mi&s;tre&s;s; and that &s;he &s;hould be the &s;ole and ab&s;olute Object of his Choice, if it might be his happine&s;s to de&s;erve that acceptance, that ever he ment to e&s;pou&s;e of her Sexe.</P>
<P>This infinitely tran&s;ported <HI>Aretina;</HI> &s;o as &s;he could &s;carcely containe her &s;elf from &s;ealing her free a&s;&s;ent and acquie&s;cence with the gage of her lips: but <HI>Pandiones</HI> ha&s;ty coming in prevented the Seal: &s;o as no more of any amorous di&s;cour&s;e was admitted at that time: onely muttering with her lips, (and that with much privacy, le&s;t her fellow-traveller &s;hould partake of this &s;ecre&s;ie, and con|&s;equently impede the hopes of her approching fe|licity) that &s;uch a faire face Could not po&s;&s;ibly harbour a fal&s;e heart. So ea&s;ily &s;he &s;uffered her &s;elf to be deluded with a meer Chymera of Fan|cy.</P>
<P>When night came, &s;he de&s;igned another way not onely to initiate but accompli&s;h the pitch of her de&s;ires; which &s;he projected in this manner,
<PB N="160" REF="86"> away to pro&s;titute her honour for the &s;peedier in|joyment of her plea&s;ure. To expedite this, &s;he gave e&s;pecial direction that the&s;e two Gue&s;ts &s;hould belodged in &s;everal rooms: and <HI>Panthalia</HI> next her own. Which done, <HI>Aretina</HI> opportunatly &s;uited with the darkne&s;s of Night to vail the im|mode&s;ty of her addre&s;s; laid hold upon that &s;ea&s;o|nable occa&s;ion, with much &s;ilence to leave her own Bed: and as one fearful to lie alone, made bold to acquaint her&s;elf with an unexpecting Bed-fellow. <HI>Panthalia</HI> betwixt &s;leeping and waking, imagi|ning her to be <HI>Pandione,</HI> you keep un&s;ea&s;onable hours, Girle. Which words <HI>Aretina</HI> took to her &s;elf; little thinking that <HI>Pandione</HI> could pa&s;s un|der that notion. Meane time, <HI>Panthalia</HI> unmind|full of her new Con&s;ort, either &s;eemingly or real|ly appear'd, as if &s;he had recommended her &s;elf, in a &s;weet repo&s;e, to <HI>Endimions</HI> lap. Thunder could &s;carce awake her; much le&s;s the fruitle&s;s imbra|ces of an intru&s;ive Gue&s;t. Nearer and nearer did <HI>Aretina,</HI> (&s;o much &s;overaignty had unbounded &s;ence got over Rea&s;on) creep towards <HI>Panthalia;</HI> who at la&s;t as one halfe awake us'd the&s;e words: "Pray thee <HI>Pandione</HI> lye not &s;o neare me. Alas, &s;weet Soul, &s;aid <HI>Aretina;</HI> what a &s;trong Conceipt has the remembrance of his beleagured Friend be|got in him! This <HI>Pandione,</HI> doubtle&s;s, is the &s;ame Gentleman whom they de&s;ire &s;o much to vi&s;it. He mu&s;t needs prove con&s;tant to his Mi&s;tre&s;s, appea|ring &s;o faithfull to his ab&s;ent Friend. Then with a low feigned voice, as one fearfull either to di|&s;turbe her quiet: or con&s;cious of her own bold|ne&s;s, whi&s;pering clo&s;ely, She told Her, &s;he was
<PB N="161" REF="86"> not <HI>Pandione</HI> but <HI>Aretina:</HI> and that her devotional affection to him, had caus'd her to di&s;pence with prudence and virgin continence: and that his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i|ety would not cen&s;ure this act, as an apparent ar|gument of impudence, but intire zeal and ob&s;e|quious &s;ervice. Neither was it the Satisfaction of a &s;en&s;ual de&s;ire, but the happy fruition of his So|ciety, that had e&s;trang'd her from her re&s;t. This was &s;trange di&s;&s;embling Rhetorick, de&s;erving ra|ther to be admir'd then believ'd: yet it might pa&s;s for current, being in&s;till'd into her ear, who <HI>Dulcina</HI>-like, either &s;eem'd to &s;leep or was a&s;leep: while <HI>Aretina</HI> more watchful then an <HI>Hesperian</HI> Si&s;ter, continued her repo&s;e, hourly expecting a grateful requital from an hand that had no power to give it. Thus was this inamor'd Lady in all her A&s;&s;ay<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> deluded; expecting more then &s;he injoy'd: by fixing the Eye of her mi&s;-guided fancy on an incompetible Object.</P>
<P>By this time had <HI>Latona</HI> rendred up his Co~mands to the Government of <HI>Phoebus.</HI> Tho&s;e to ack and re&s;plendent beams, &s;o long di&s;tanced from diffu&s;ing their glory on this inferiour Orbe; as if they had infinitly de&s;ir'd to partake of the view of &s;o in|comparable beauty as <HI>Panthalia's:</HI> (for <HI>Aretina's</HI> &s;he could not be a~bitious of it) peer'd &s;ecretly through the <HI>Cranies</HI> of her Lodging: which this vigilant <HI>A|retina</HI> ob&s;erving lept pre&s;ently out of Bed; fearing (as &s;uch light A&s;&s;aies mu&s;t needs foment feares) le&s;t <HI>Pandione</HI> or &s;ome of the dome&s;ticks might come in, and di&s;cover her unexcu&s;able boldne&s;s. Meane time, <HI>Panthalia</HI> awaking (and whether awake be|fore or no, it were not ea&s;ie to be determined) and
<PB N="162" REF="87"> &s;eeing <HI>Aretina;</HI> &s;he rais'd her &s;elf a little upon her pillow, u&s;ing the&s;e words: <HI>You are an early Hu&s;|wife,</HI> Aretina. <HI>It &s;eemes you cannot keep your Bed for want of a Bed-fellow. It is as good, &s;aid &s;he, for</HI> A|retina <HI>to have none, as to have a cold One. Parthe|nia</HI> knew well enough her meaning, but would neither di&s;cu&s;&s;e it nor di&s;cover it: no, nor dive too inqui&s;itively into it, le&s;t her temperance might be cen&s;ur'd ba&s;hfullne&s;s: her mode&s;ty a naturall frigidity or imbecillity. This therefore &s;he di&s;|creetly &s;hadowed: &s;o as, though &s;he well per|ceived that <HI>Aretina</HI> &s;hewed a Countenance more aver&s;e from her, then &s;he had formerly done; yet this abated nothing of her cheerfulne&s;s; preten|ding infinite affection to her: and upon occa&s;ion wantonly di&s;porting with her: as if more virile heat appeared in her; then her approvement could apprehend.</P>
<P>Yet it pleas'd her not a little; to ob&s;erve with what a &s;eemly and amorous dalliance <HI>Panthalia</HI> expre&s;t her affectionate Zeal to <HI>Aretina;</HI> which made her confident of a future contentment with more freedom: &s;o irre&s;i&s;tibly had the&s;e aery influ|ences wrought upon her: ingaging her to &s;undry di&s;pa&s;&s;ionate encounters, and permitting no op|portunity to pa&s;s by her, that might &s;uitably cor|re&s;pond with her de&s;ires, or more clearly accele|rate them. And no doubt,, &s;ome new dialogue of love had been really mov'd by the One, and no le&s;s faignedly approved by the Other; had not <HI>Pan|dione</HI> come &s;uddenly in and prevented this re-en|counter. At who&s;e entrance, <HI>Aretina</HI> ha&s;tned down from <HI>Pathalia's</HI> Chamber; letting a paper
<PB N="163" REF="87"> drop from her as &s;he left the Room, but &s;o appa|rently as <HI>Panthalia,</HI> to whom it was &s;hadowingly addre&s;&s;ed, could not chu&s;e but take notice of it: the lines were the&s;e.</P>
<Q><L>The pure&s;t Ornament of Continence,</L>
<L>If opportunity give way to &s;ence</L>
<L>By entring Combat may receive a foi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>Yet &s;uch a Staine is but a native &s;oile:</L>
<L>You know my meaning: &mdash; let the clo&s;ing Night</L>
<L>Combine two Lovers in a joynt delight.</L>
<L>Be &s;ame you &s;eem, SIR; Nature will admire</L>
<L>That th' Weaker &s;hould be &s;tronger in de&s;ire.</L></Q>
<P><HI>Panthalia</HI> taking up the Paper <HI>Pandione</HI> de&s;ir'd much to partake of the Content of it; being per|&s;waded, by &s;undry Symptoms which &s;he di&s;cove|red, and by which &s;he gathered, that <HI>Aretina's</HI> infirmity &s;tood in need of &s;ome &s;overaigne Love|potion: and that no Phy&s;itian, were his art never &s;o exact, could perfect the Cure, but that eye which gave the wound: and that the onely <HI>Wea|pon-&s;alve</HI> to allay her di&s;temper was in <HI>Panthalia's</HI> power, though her mode&s;ty would make no di&s;|covery of it.</P>
<P>But though <HI>Pandione</HI> was very importunate for peru&s;ing tho&s;e lines; yet <HI>Panthalia</HI> would by no meanes communicate them unto her. Onely &s;he told her, that one day, if their Journey pro|duc'd a cheerfull i&s;&s;ue; tho&s;e very lines which &s;he &s;o much de&s;ir'd to peru&s;e, would afford them an excellent Scene of mirth; but as then &s;he would not di&s;clo&s;e it.</P>
<PB N="164" REF="88">
<P>But your Countenance, an&s;wer'd <HI>Pandione,</HI> is &s;uch a legible <HI>Index,</HI> as one may apprehend it it without an Interpreter. Go to, Madam; I pit|ty the poor deluded Girle; that &s;he can find no other Object to &s;uit her affection; but &s;uch an one as mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily deceive her &s;traid hopes in their Fruition.</P>
<P>How &s;trangely thou talk&s;t, &s;aid <HI>Panthalia!</HI> Mu&s;t her free and ho&s;pitable Entertaine be interpreted Love? Much Civility, I mu&s;t confe&s;s, there is in it: and a generous re&s;entment of our Condition: but this is not to bear the Notion of &s;en&s;uall love, or any other indi&s;pos'd affection. Not only <HI>Are|tina,</HI> but her whole Family has laid many Obliga|tions on us both, for their numerous Favours &s;o amply contributed in our greate&s;t Extreams. Whereof I &s;hall ever reteine a gratefull record: as for any other obligements or relations, they de|rive their &s;uppo&s;itious grounds onely from the help of your Invention, <HI>Pandione.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;hall not demeane my &s;elf &s;o unmannerly as to become a bu&s;ie Inqui&s;itor, where I may not with|out di&s;gu&s;t appeare a partaker. But give me leave to enjoy my own confidence: and make my thoughts their own Secretaries: Such light and merry-conceipted Loves as the&s;e, if &s;uch there be; may be entertain'd with indifference, and conti|nued without prejudice. Such I&s;&s;ues will not lay a Charge on the Pari&s;h where they are nurs'd: nor cau&s;e the Parents to bemoane their hard Fate, in bringing forth an untimely birth.</P>
<P>Tru&s;t me, thou art a &s;hrewd Girle, an&s;wered <HI>Panhalia:</HI> but le&s;t my wench &s;hould long for
<PB N="165" REF="88"> what &s;he cannot partake: and con&s;equently incur a malady through my too much &s;ecrecy; e&s;pecial|ly, &s;eeing the&s;e innocent Love-&s;allies (as thou term&s;t them) are not onely to be entertain'd but di&s;cour&s;ed of with &s;uch indifferency, as their re|lation can infer no prejudice; lend me thine atten|tion; or if thou love&s;t to be an Interpreter of thine own Jealou&s;ies, peru&s;e the&s;e &s;cattered lines, &amp; from them draw the line of her di&s;tempers. <HI>Pan|dione</HI> laughing heartily at the peru&s;all of the paper; Tru&s;t me, &s;aid &s;he, I perceive feminine beauty be|comes very dangerous in a Ma&s;culine &s;hape. It &s;eemes, Madam, if you either want Fortunes or a Mi&s;tre&s;s, you might be &s;ufficiently &s;upplied with both.</P>
<P>But pray you re&s;olve me, what receipt hold you convenient to apply to this inamour'd Creature to recover her inthralled &s;en&s;es (for I conceipt her to be infinitly di&s;tracted:) for tru&s;t me, it is far above my Cure. Let that be the lea&s;t of thy care; an&s;wered <HI>Panthalia;</HI> &s;he is not &s;o deeply di&s;tempe|red, but &s;he may be timely recovered.</P>
<P>If the <HI>Tarantula</HI> or <HI>Calenture</HI> may be capable of cure; this di&s;compo&s;ure in <HI>Aretina</HI> cannot be without hope of recovery. It is but a deception of &s;en&s;e, the wor&s;t you can make of it: and &s;uch a de|luded Fancy (hold it if thou plea&s;e for a Phrency) cannot make Art a Fool, by de&s;pairing of a reme|dy. Well; &s;aid <HI>Pandione,</HI> I &s;hall wi&s;h your appli|cation may produce good effect. But I could not chu&s;e but &s;u&s;pect &s;omething more then ordinary, when our Lodgings were &s;o &s;trangely divided: and no apparent nece&s;&s;ity to induce it. But my com|fort
<PB N="166" REF="89"> was, the i&s;&s;ue of &s;uch blind love could not prove le&s;s then innocent, how&s;oever her intend|ments were de&s;igned. Bare hopes were the grea|te&s;t bi th &s;he could <HI>conceive</HI> with, or your affe|ctionate embraces procure. Well, replyed <HI>Pan|thalia,</HI> I am &s;orry that any &s;cattered looks &s;hould fall from me, to work this effect: but her pre&s;ent cure &s;hall be my con&s;tant care. At this very in|&s;tant came in the old Gentleman her Father, which occa&s;ionally broke off their further di&s;|cour&s;e: for doubtle&s;ly had he been made privy to it; the &s;tory would not have reli&s;hed well to his pallat: hearing his daughter &s;o pittifully deluded, and his civile Ho&s;pitality &s;o ungratefully requited. Now the News which this Gent. brought was of &s;uch con&s;equence, as the communicating of them might well produce a twofold effect, joy and fear; which may appeare by the&s;e Circum&s;tances grounded upon his own relation, which He no le&s;s &s;eriou&s;ly then di&s;creetly delivered in this man|ner.</P>
<P>Gentlemen, I am made acquainted this Mor|ning by infallible Intelligence; and such as you may relie on: That this Ca&s;tle, whereto you inten|ded to addre&s;s your Cour&s;e, is now upon Capitu|lation to be yielded up, after &s;o long Siege &s;toutly continued, and maintained: and now upon no le&s;s honourable terms rendred. Three days are onely a&s;&s;igned to the Party beleagured to acquit the Fort, and to depart, after that time limited, with Co|lours di&s;played and ordinary arms, and in their march to be &s;o conducted by the Enemy to the next Gari&s;on (which they have already made
<PB N="167" REF="89"> choice of) as no violence nor incivility &s;hall be done them, but &s;ecured, according to the Law of Arms, from all ho&s;tility.</P>
<P>The former part of this relation &s;ounded with a cheerfull accent in the Ear of <HI>Panthalia:</HI> but the latter was accompanied with jealou&s;ies and Fears. She delighted much to hear of the reddition of the Ca&s;tle; hoping by that means to come to the in|joyment of <HI>Acolasto:</HI> but hearing of their re|move to another Gari&s;on, &s;he rai&s;ed to her troub|led thoughts ju&s;t occa&s;ion of Fear: conjecturing, that he would march along in that remove: and out of his youthful heat, wherewith he had been infinitely tran&s;ported, become wholly forgetful of his former obligements; which to prevent, &s;he thought it fit to expedite her addre&s;s: rendring fir&s;t a fair acknowledgment to the Gentleman for his free and liberal entertainment during their re|po&s;e with him: re&s;olving withall, to go on with their adventure the next morning by time, if there intercurred no apparent Ob&s;tacle to impede it. And with much conveniency for this de&s;ign; up|on the Gentlemans departure from her Lodging, <HI>Aretina</HI> came opportunately in, fruitle&s;ly expect|ing what her de&s;ires pur&s;ued: upon who&s;e approch, <HI>Panthalia</HI> in a pen&s;ive and contri&s;tate manner (as one much perplexed with the late me&s;&s;age) ac|coa&s;ted her in this fort.</P>
<P>Madam, we have now received intelligence by your Fathers relation; that we &s;hall very &s;hortly acquit your noble Family of two trouble&s;ome Gue&s;ts. A grateful acknowledgment for your nu|merous Civilities is all the retribution that can be
<PB N="168" REF="90"> expected for the pre&s;ent from our e&s;trang'd condi|tion which &s;hall leave a deep impre&s;&s;ion, with a con&s;tant intendment of a future gratification, when&s;oever an happy o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">portunity of requital may pre&s;ent it &s;elf.</P>
<P>Upon this hint, giving a private hint to <HI>Pandi|one,</HI> to withdraw; &s;he proceeded in this manner: Your many immerited Favours contributed to me, Lady, have obliged me perpetually to be your Servant: but to undeceave you in one particular, I hold it a civil duty, for otherwi&s;e I &s;hould fall into deep arreers upon the &s;core of your approved affection. The Paper which you lately &s;catte|red, dictated to my thoughts an unexpected Conceipt of your favour, nay fervour of love to|wards me. But whence derived I could not ea&s;ily di&s;cover: For if from beauty (as I was never <HI>Nar|ci&s;&s;us</HI>-like opinion'd of it) I &s;hould with <HI>Sputimius,</HI> have rather disfigured it, then &s;uffer it to be an oc|ca&s;ion of &s;uch dangerous and di&s;compo&s;ed effects. But your di&s;cretion will, no doubt, quickly order the&s;e di&s;tempers by recollecting your &s;elf, and rectifying tho&s;e mi&s;takes which begot the&s;e ea&s;ie errors. In reply to your lines, I made bold, Ma|dam to return a paper, and to fix it in your Cham|ber window: which if you have not already par|tak't, you may be plea&s;ed to peru&s;e. It will amply render you my condition, portraiture and con&s;titu|tion. What I am, and in what capacity I may be yours: The Draught will di&s;cover, what my hand cannot &s;o mannerly deliver.</P>
<P><HI>Aretina</HI> with pace no le&s;s accelerate, then heart affectionate ha&s;tened towards the paper,
<PB N="169" REF="90"> promi&s;ing, as &s;he conceipted, &s;uch &s;atisfaction, as her de&s;ires could inlarge them&s;elves no higher: which &s;he found expre&s;t in the&s;e lines:
<Q><L><HI>Ixion</HI> was deluded by a Cloud,</L>
<L>So laure at <HI>Daphne</HI> from <HI>Apollo</HI> &s;lipt,</L>
<L>So <HI>Danae,</HI> &s;o <HI>Semele</HI> &s;ought to &s;hroud</L>
<L>Their Virgin beauties: &mdash;If our fancies dipt</L>
<L>Deep into &s;uch <HI>Chymera's;</HI> let's remove</L>
<L>Such aery phanta&s;ies, and leave to love.</L>
<L>You love me well, and &s;o I wi&s;h you &s;hould,</L>
<L>Although I cannot an&s;wer your de&s;ire,</L>
<L>For &s;he you love is of another mould</L>
<L>Then to effect what your affects require.</L>
<L>Where if your erring fancy run a &s;helf,</L>
<L>Blame not <HI>Panthalia's</HI> beauty but your &s;elf.</L>
<L>I am not &s;ame I &s;eem; for if I were,</L>
<L>I &s;hould not <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> thus pur&s;ue;</L>
<L>Fix then your fancy in a proper Sphear;</L>
<L>Since I partake no more of Man then you.</L>
<L>For this di&s;gui&s;ed Habit was put on</L>
<L>To &s;hield mine honour, which I stand upon.</L>
<L>'Leave then this Love, which having once given o're,</L>
<L>'That Maiden lives not, who &s;hall love you more.</L></Q></P>
<P>The Contents of the&s;e lines begot in <HI>Aretina</HI> more admiration then di&s;-affection. She, who be|fore pur&s;ued <HI>Panthalia,</HI> as a Conjugal Lover; be|gins now to imbrace her as a natural Si&s;ter. Her mi&s;takes &s;he onely labours to apologize: which is no &s;ooner mode&s;tly pre&s;&s;ed, then it is freely grant|ed. Though her Sex &s;eem to be changed: <HI>Are|tina</HI>
<PB N="170" REF="91"> reteins an affectionate bo&s;om for her; ready to contribute in any mea&s;ure wherein &s;he may gratifie her, whom &s;o lately in a virile habit &s;he did &s;o intimately tender. The&s;e friendly Offers, and unexpected Offices &s;uited fitly with <HI>Pantha|lia's</HI> occa&s;ions; which induced her to return this Civil regreet, as an ingenuous agnition of her continued re&s;pect; which &s;he infinitely fear'd, might receive a Check upon the Change of her Shape.</P>
<P>Madam, I &s;ee well, no habit nor &s;hape can alter the form nor impre&s;&s;ive figure of your love. Your free and ho&s;pitable entertain has already obliged us highly: and now at our farwell, it is your plea|&s;ure to inlarge your goodne&s;s higher: and to in|gage us to your Civilities deeper. I mu&s;t ingenu|ou&s;ly acquaint you with my re&s;olves: and in the&s;e relie upon your a&s;&s;i&s;tance.</P>
<P>I am now after a long and tedious Journey to complete my addre&s;s. I heare by your Fathers re|lation, how this Garri&s;on here adjoyning is to be di&s;&s;olved: the Ca&s;tle rendred: and <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> a|mong&s;t many others to be removed: and in other places of Fortification di&s;po&s;ed, as for convenien|cie they &s;hall make choice on. Now my jealou|&s;ie is great (from that intere&s;t I have in <HI>Acola&s;to</HI>) le&s;t the&s;e occurrencies &s;hould make him forget, what his former vows and &s;olemn prote&s;ts oblige him to perform. My re&s;olution then is to re&s;ume my own habit, and appeare the &s;ame <HI>Panthalia</HI> that I am: but a Place of retirement is my de&s;ire: and this &s;o near the Garri&s;on, as I may addre&s;s a me&s;|&s;age to <HI>Acolasto:</HI> wherein I purpo&s;e to inform him
<PB N="171" REF="91"> with the place of my re&s;ide: with my expectance of his returne. But the conveniencie and contiguity of this Place are equally requi&s;ite: wherein I &s;hall wholly relie upon your advice and direction.</P>
<P>Ladie <HI>Panthalia,</HI> &s;aid &s;he, for now I know your Name; there is no affectionate office wherein I &s;hall appeare defective, &s;o it may be u&s;efull or ac|commodate to your vertuous de&s;ignes: and &s;hall hold my &s;elf infinitly happy in expediting them. In the fir&s;t place then, I &s;hall be &s;erviceable to you both in preparing you habits according to your de&s;ire, And for your Place of retire, there is a Reclu&s;e not half a league di&s;tant from the Gari|&s;on, where you may &s;ecurely re&s;ide, till you have di&s;patcht your addre&s;s. Of what Condition is that Reclu&s;e, &s;aid <HI>Panthalia?</HI></P>
<P>It is a Mona&s;tery or Votary, replyed <HI>Aretina,</HI> dedicated to <HI>Delia.</HI> Where many of our Sexe are u&s;ually received: and after their time of Probati|on, united to their Society or Si&s;terhood. Nor need you to feare of a faire and friendly Enter|taine, for they are Per&s;ons infinitly Civile: e&s;pe|cially to all &s;uch as pretend honour to the Patro|ne&s;s of their Society.</P>
<P>Shortly after, the&s;e two being &s;ingularly well accommodated both for habit and other nece&s;&s;a|ries by the e&s;peciall care and provi&s;ion of <HI>Aretina;</HI> having fir&s;t taken a &s;olemn and gratefull leave of the Old Gentleman: and return'd &s;ome tokens as te&s;timonies of their thankfulne&s;s, to his Fami|ly; by <HI>Aretina's</HI> affectionate Conduct, they were brought on their way, till they came to a faire Pro&s;pective Hill, not far di&s;tant from the Hou&s;e
<PB N="172" REF="92"> where tho&s;e <HI>Delian</HI> Votare&s;&s;es were be&s;towed. And there <HI>Aretina</HI> left them; but not without teares, you may well &s;uppo&s;e, &s;o acceptable was their So|ciety; as to be deprived of it, appeared to her more bitter then death it &s;elf.</P>
<P>Having entred the Votary, they were enter|tain'd with all Civility by an antient Matron, the Governe&s;s of that Family, or rather Priore&s;s of that Society. by whom they were led into a beau|tifull Chappell; curiou&s;ly adorn'd with &s;undry exqui&s;ite Statues, emblematizing <HI>Diana</HI> and her <HI>Nimphs:</HI> which were &s;o to life portrayed, as no|thing could work more impre&s;&s;ively upon the ima|gination of the Spectator. The Pillers of the Tem|ple were of Porphyrite Marble. The Monuments erected within, were of Jacinth, Topaz, or Rock-Pearle; whereon were ingraven diver&s;e Epi|taphs, expre&s;&s;ing much elegancy of Conceipt, to perpetuate the memory of tho&s;e Si&s;ters of that So|ciety there interred.</P>
<P>After the Survey of the&s;e; <HI>Panthalia</HI> &s;eeming de&s;irous to know what Priviledges of Immunities were anciently conferred on their Society; the Governe&s;s related to her at large with what anti|quity in many &s;ucce&s;&s;ions they had been continu|ed; by whom conferred: and with what care pre|&s;erved. Which done, that it might appeare to the&s;e Strangers, that &s;he would not be a-wanting in any Civile Office, tending to the &s;atisfaction of their de&s;ires or improvement of their knowledge; She return'd her an exact Catalogue, in the na|ture of a Concordance, containing the Rites and Ceremonies &s;olemnly u&s;ed in their Society: As
<PB N="173" REF="92"> al&s;o after what manner the Si&s;ters of that Family, &amp; dedicated to <HI>Delia,</HI> were received into their Hou&s;e.</P>
<P>You do pa&s;&s;ing well, Reverend Votare&s;s, &s;aid <HI>Panthalia,</HI> in making me acquainted with the Cu|&s;toms, Orders and Ceremonies of your Society; who after &s;ome time of Probation, may probably become One of your Family.</P>
<P>Neither would it be any derogation to you, daughter, replyed the Governe&s;s, to incorporate your &s;elf in our Fellow&s;hip: &s;eeing &s;undry emi|nent per&s;ons; even &s;ome who de&s;cended lineally from the loyns of Princes, have di&s;-valued their &s;tiles of honour; laid their diadems a&s;ide: and confin'd them&s;elves within the&s;e walls.</P>
<P>May I, Si&s;ter, be &s;o happy as partake of the knowledge of your Nation and Extraction?</P>
<P>I am nationally a <HI>Candiot,</HI> an&s;wered <HI>Panthalia:</HI> and now on my addre&s;s to an affectionate Ally here remaining in your Gari&s;on. May you pro&s;per in your de&s;igns, replied the Governe&s;s. But the report of your Nation puts me in mind of a &s;ad relation, which I have oftimes heard &s;poke of in the&s;e parts: and it was of the heavy and cala|mitous Condition of a Prince of that Coun|try: how di&s;loyally he was de&s;erted by his own: and afterwards re&s;trained of his Liberty; which his di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Prince&s;s no &s;ooner received notice of, then &s;he relinqui&s;hed the world: encloi&s;ter'd her|&s;elf; making a &s;ingular vertue of nece&s;&s;ity; in parta|king more ab&s;olute felicity in her enjoyment of an inward then outward liberty. Whence I collect, how in the extreame&s;t Encounters of Fortune, this private retirement within a Cloi&s;ter, may afford
<PB REF="93"> that which the whole world cannot mini&s;ter.</P>
<P>It is true, Reverend Matron, &s;aid <HI>Panthalia;</HI> when her exiled Condition was mo&s;t imbittered with gu&s;ts of affliction; it was her u&s;e to be&s;tow her &s;eriou&s;e&s;t hours upon devotion: But for a Cloi|&s;ter'd life, which you are plea&s;ed to commend &s;o much, her affection never &s;tood for that long. Though in relation to her &s;afety, &s;he might &s;eem to pretend to that kind of privacy: For her di&s;po|&s;ition was naturally otherwi&s;e bia&s;&s;ed: having her Education &s;o much dedicated to youth: as her ma|turer years had ever a re&s;erve for the like freedom. Though this might be truely &s;aid of her, that no Prince&s;s injoy'd more plea&s;ure with a con&s;tant re|gard to her honour.</P>
<P>It has been much wondred at, replied the Go|verne&s;s, how her Husband, never de&s;ervingly cen|&s;ured for any predominant vice, &s;hould &s;o precipi|tou&s;ly fall from &s;uch an height of Command, in|to &s;o deep a gulph of mi&s;ery: &s;eeing his equal tem|per of Government was &s;uch; as his facility could neither accu&s;e him of too much remi&s;&s;ene&s;s: nor his &s;everity of too much roughne&s;s. It was an heavy Fate for him to &s;uffer, being endow'd with &s;o princely temper.</P>
<P>It has been ever the unhappy condition of mo&s;t Countries, and with grief I &s;peak it, particularly of mine own, &s;aid <HI>Panthalia;</HI> when fulne&s;s of For|tune, famed by a long continuance of peace, has begot in them a &s;urfet, never to be content when they were well. This have our Natives of <HI>Candy</HI> &s;ufficient experience of. For though they enjoyed plenty in a full mea&s;ure; yet grew they weary
<PB N="175" REF="93"> of their Condition. Either did their Soveraign di&s;|plea&s;e pretending that he did Lord it too much over them: or that his Council was corrupt or vici|ou&s;ly affected: or their Laws and Liberties too much abridged: or their Impo&s;itions &s;o heavy as not to be &s;upported: you have heard the Fable of the <HI>Froggs.</HI> They itched after a new Comman|der, which at la&s;t they got; but repented them of their Change. Secure we were from Foes with|out, and Foes within: but innovating our State, we became &s;ubject to both.</P>
<P>Never was Government &s;o di&s;tracted, being be|fore &s;o orderly &s;etled: and harmoniou&s;ly di&s;po&s;ed. For to enumerate tho&s;e three ble&s;&s;ings; which make every State in its Con&s;titution truly happy: and in others winters, to retein a fair complexion and flouri&s;hing beauty; to wit, <HI>Commodity, Liberty</HI> and <HI>Tranquillity:</HI> none could be more amply ble&s;t in the plenary po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion nor full fruition of all the&s;e. For the fir&s;t, none more rich within, nor more improv'd by Commodious traffick abroad. Our general peace, being in league with all, calm'd our Seas: making us lyable to the fear of none. Gladly did Forreign Nations commerce with us; ready to furni&s;h us with what we want|ed: as our Coa&s;t was in affording them Supplies of what they needed: yea, to repeat that elegant Ob|&s;ervation of our Native Bard.</P>
<Q><L><HI>Candy</HI> for rich Supplies was &s;uch an one,</L>
<L>All &s;tood in need of her, and &s;he of none.</L></Q>
<P>Secondly, for <HI>Liberty</HI> none more amply inlarg'd.
<PB N="176" REF="94"> Their Priviledges enjoy'd without re&s;traint. No Servitude nor Va&s;&s;alage permitted in &s;o free a Na|tion. The Subject had an ab&s;olute propriety in his own. No incroaching hand without due Cen&s;ure dur&s;t pretend to his intere&s;t. Men might &s;afely without feare of a mercenary Informer communi|cate their thoughts: and exhibite their Com|plaints if any indignities were done them in rela|tion to their Fame Fortunes or Per&s;ons. No tongue could admit a priviledge to traduce: nei|ther could Greatne&s;s become &s;uch a Subterfuge to Guiltine&s;s, as to give it an impunity to offend. Neither were our Laws &s;uch Spider-webbs, as to give way to great Ones to break out, and to Little Ones to keep in: Being &s;o equally ballanced, as neither price, prayer nor power could pervert them. Such was their free and impartiall di&s;pen&s;a|tion of Ju&s;tice. Which neighbouring Countreys (&s;o hard it was to ob&s;erve the&s;e rare Pre&s;idents) were more apt to admire then imitate: to approve, then improve their practi&s;e by them.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, for <HI>Tranquillity;</HI> neither publick nor pri|vate E&s;tate could po&s;&s;ibly flowri&s;h with more &s;ecu|rity. No Forraigne Powers to invade: no indi|gent Per&s;ons at home, to purloine. No Court-Para&s;ite, nor State-Minion was admitted to pre|fer an injurious &s;uit: if it imported an unju&s;t chal|lenge, or an illegal reque&s;t; the Solliciter was to undergo a Mulct: or recceive a per&s;onal Cen&s;ure. Neither could the fury of an Enemy ingage their &s;ecurity: for there was neither Guard nor Gari|&s;on, vnle&s;s there were one upon the Princes Per|&s;on: and that with &s;uch re&s;ervancy, as if the rega|lity
<PB N="177" REF="94"> of his Place had not exacted it; he could well have di&s;pen&s;t with it.</P>
<P>It &s;eems <HI>Candy,</HI> &s;aid the Governe&s;s, became &s;eaz'd of a violent Phrency. A con&s;titution &s;o di|&s;temper'd, requir'd a continued Purge. Bodies Politick being &s;o full of vicious humors cannot be long healthful. It is mo&s;t true, replied <HI>Panthalia:</HI> and you collect rightly the indi&s;po&s;ition of <HI>Candy.</HI> It was a deep <HI>Surfet</HI> that fir&s;t begot in my Country this infirmity. A Surfet of peace, which caus'd her to be more remi&s;s in the prudent managment of her State. For &s;o long as we had Foes abroad; we could be content to love our Friends at home: but when our Coa&s;t became clear of Foes, we be|gun to make Foes of our Friends. We thought the yoak of one Soveraign too heavy. And in &s;tead of one, we are now under the Subjection of many. Here <HI>One</HI> a&s;&s;umes to him&s;elf the Prerogative; while others in Competition, having equally born the heat of the day, repine at his ambition. The&s;e recollect with them&s;elvs the dangers they have pa&s;t: and how their valour and martial &s;ervice were of as high Concern in the accompli&s;hment of the work; as he who &s;its at the Stern, and attributes the honour of the day &s;olely to his own undertak|ing. Which would, no doubt, beget infinite number of fractions in a State &s;o weakly &s;etled; if the wi&s;e and cautious carriage of <HI>Climenes;</HI> who from a pri|vate Souldier had rais'd him&s;elf to an ab&s;olute Commander, had not made up tho&s;e breaches, which a di&s;tracted State had produc'd: wherein he declared him&s;elf a &s;ingular Artizan in the &s;ucce&s;s|ful pur&s;uit of his own a&s;piring intere&s;t, as he prov'd
<PB N="178" REF="95"> that Maxim infallibly good: <Q>A de&s;igning head was to be prefer'd before a number of active hands.</Q></P>
<P>For though the imployments of others, in this mutation of Government, had been no le&s;s di&s;tru|ctive to <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> Forces then <HI>Climenes:</HI> yet it was ever his good Fortune to make u&s;e of a victory, and to in&s;till this opinion into his Souldiers (who, indeed, became wholly his) that his di&s;creet Com|mands were the onely ground of their &s;ucce&s;&s;e: and the re&s;t, meer Ciphers or Shadows made to follow him, and con&s;equently directed by his Light. This he carried &s;o &s;moothly, as even tho&s;e who were his Complices could not with all their ingenuity di&s;cover it. For he had got into the art of in&s;inuating into their affections, and with a for|mality of hugging them, where&s;oever he encoun|tred them. Nor was this all; for there was no per|&s;on being of his relation, but he &s;ought privately to advance to one Place of Command or other: &s;o as in very &s;hort time, all con&s;iderable Offices were &s;olely conferred upon tho&s;e in whom he might confide, and become his powerful A&s;&s;i&s;tants, in ca&s;e of oppo&s;ition. Thus did his policy act for his future &s;ecurity.</P>
<P>Has your di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Prince, demanded the Go|verne&s;s, hope of no Forreign &s;uccours to relieve him? This, methinks, much concerns neighbour|ing States to reflect on. Such <HI>depo&s;ing</HI> Pre&s;idents dart fearfully on other Princes.</P>
<P>Much has been expected, but weakly &s;econ|ded; replied <HI>Panthalia;</HI> Such Princes as might probably contribute their a&s;&s;i&s;tance, are at odds
<PB N="179" REF="95"> among&s;t them&s;elvs: which di&s;tractions fall out &s;i|ni&s;terly to his advantage. Be&s;ides, Tho&s;e, on whom by affinity or alliance he might in rea&s;on mo&s;t depend on, in a joynt a&s;&s;ociation to the ad|ver&s;e Party; profe&s;&s;e them&s;elvs his mortal Foes: which &s;prung, indeed, from &s;ome unhappy <HI>Incen|diaries</HI> of his own: but the revenge falls heavy on his enfeebled Party. Onely &s;ome &s;cattered Forces there remain of his own; as may appear by their un&s;ucce&s;&s;ive Attempts: for their exploits conduce weakly to his intere&s;t: and no wonder, being &s;o de&s;titute of the &s;inews of war; as they want nece&s;|&s;ary Supplies for their own relief. But I &s;hall tire you with the continuation of the&s;e &s;ad occurren|ces, which few States can parallel.</P>
<P>I &s;hall now return to my own addre&s;s. Where|in, reverend Matron, though a &s;tranger to you and your vertuous Society, I mu&s;t pre&s;ume of your a&s;&s;i|&s;tance.</P>
<P>No Stranger, of what quality &s;oever, makes re|cour&s;e to our Cell, an&s;wered the Governe&s;s, whom by the Rules and Con&s;titutions of our Order, we are not bound to a&s;&s;i&s;t. Piety were u&s;ele&s;s, were it not communicative. Relate your occa&s;ions, and our be&s;t advice &s;hall not be awanting.</P>
<P><HI>Panthalia</HI> incouraged with the free tender of &s;uch obliging Courte&s;ies, imparted to her amply what her de&s;ires were; being onely in effect, to procure her a faithful Me&s;&s;enger for delivery of a Letter to an affectionate Ally of hers, called <HI>Aco|la&s;to:</HI> of who&s;e &s;afety &s;he de&s;ir'd much to be &s;atis|fied, with &s;ome other particulars of Concern, without the lea&s;t hint of any nearer intimacy or re|lation
<PB N="180" REF="96"> to him: which &s;he purpo&s;ely conceal'd for &s;ome private re&s;pects be&s;t known to her&s;elf.</P>
<P>The curteous Matron wi&s;h'd her to prepare her Letter, and according to her direction, it &s;hould be carefully delivered.</P>
<P>Taking hold upon this opportunity, &s;he wrote to <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> in this manner.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>Panthalia <HI>to</HI> Acola&s;to.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I verily believe that your Rules in martiall di&s;ci|pline have e&s;trang'd you from the Rules of loyall af|fection. Vows and Protests &s;ince you became a Soul|dier, have got a dispen&s;ation in the heart of a Lover. But know Sir, though women be of the weaker Sexe, which implies their imbecillity; they have &s;o much &s;en&s;e, as to be capable of an injury. You will &s;ay, perchance, this is but a &s;hadowing of Fancy: and that my long Journey argued an individuall retention of affection.</P>
<P>Pray; Sir, &s;uffer not your &s;elf to be deceived: I can with as much ea&s;e dispence with that &s;mall inte|re&s;t of love betwixt us, as I can put off my habit. Our Contract is not &s;o firm, but I may as freely dispence with it, as you with your Faith. A Field-Bed may &s;uit well with a Martiall mould: But &s;uch a repo&s;e would rot reli&s;h well with <HI>Panthalia's</HI> mind. Your Profe&s;&s;ion proclaims your valour: may it redound to your honour; &s;o as <HI>Panthalia,</HI> your unexemplarily wronged <HI>Panthalia,</HI> may be henceforth to you and your actions an everla&s;ting &s;tranger. I have &s;uffered enough; I meane not to be &s;o unpittifull to my &s;elf, as to inlarge &s;ufferings with fre&s;h feares or incon&s;tant
<PB N="181" REF="96"> Fancies. You may believe me, Sir, I have taken a long leave of love: it is my onely grief that ever I imbo&s;om'd it; but it is not my Fortune alone. It has been the fate of many kind hearts, to open their bo|&s;ome to a Viper before they knew its nature. If ever I give Entertaine to &s;uch an unquiet Gue&s;t; it &s;hall be upon &s;ecurer grounds, and better acquaintance then I have hitherto done. Unhappy is that woman in her Choice, who&s;e levity will admit of Change; or di|&s;pence with Faith.</P>
<P>As for this tedious addre&s;s which I lately under|took; have not the least thought, that it was any intentionall de&s;igne in me, to make this inquiry as a relative Object of Fancy: in conceipting otherwi&s;e, you infinitly delude your &s;elf. This taske was to di|vorce us, not unite us: wherein I remaine &s;o &s;atisfied, as no Argument, be it never &s;o evincing, may oppo&s;e it: or decline my re&s;olution from being confirmed in it.</P>
<P>Private Contracts being not accompanied with o|ther Ceremoniall Ob&s;ervances and Conjugall Offices (e&s;pecially where ju&s;t occa&s;ions of difference are &s;candalou&s;ly offered) may legally admit a dispen&s;a|tion. Now ca&s;t your Eyes, <HI>Acola&s;to,</HI> upon your own vagrant and debaucht Cour&s;e, and it will give you matter enough to approve my re&s;olution. Your cau&s;e|le&s;s de&s;ertion impos'd a period to my affection. Vows and Prote&s;ts had no power to tye you; the time of your prefixt returne neglected by you; the remainder of your Patrimony, which &s;hould rai&s;e a Sub&s;i&s;tence to a Family (if not timely prevented) aliened from you. And is your Per&s;on &s;o valuable, as to injoyne love, where there is no po&s;&s;ibility to &s;ub&s;i&s;t? But I &s;hall not pre&s;s your Fortunes, being depre&s;t enough already. I
<PB N="182" REF="97"> mu&s;t igenuou&s;ly tell you, they are held in the Skale of knowing men (walk you never &s;o ob&s;curely) to be &s;carcely competent for the Equipage of One, much le&s;&s;e for the &s;upportance of many. But if <HI>Panthalia</HI> might have confided in your con&s;tancy, and that She had not in a cleare contrary way, found in your un|m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nag'd Cour&s;e &s;o much levity: your Fortunes &s;hould have admitted no exception, had they been ranked in the lowe&s;t-condition.</P>
<P>I am informed, how after the yielding up of your Fort, and breaking up of your Siedge; you are for re|moving to another Garri&s;on: the Gods guide you; onely before your departure, let me acquaint you with my re&s;olve, which &s;hall manife&s;t my zeal more to devotion, then any humane affection: know that <HI>Pan|thalia</HI> &s;tands &s;o much affected to the&s;e Rites, Cere|monies and religious Rules of this Godde&s;s <HI>Delia,</HI> in who&s;e Society I here remaine, that her firm and im|mutable re&s;olution, is to be united to their Order. The day of my approbation, admi&s;&s;ion and initiation is de&s;igned, with the a&s;&s;ent of our Governe&s;&s;e, the &s;e|cond day after your receipt of the&s;e, and for the Place of my In&s;titution, it is ordered to be in the private Fane of <HI>Dioni&s;&s;a.</HI> Where, if you plea&s;e, you may by per|mi&s;&s;ion of our Society become a witne&s;s of <HI>Pan|thalia's</HI> de&s;ertion of the world, and all other &s;ecular intere&s;ts: which, as it &s;hall confirme my Election with|out Change, &s;o it may prepare your affection for a new Choice. How&s;oever, let not the&s;e lines divert your remove. Your de&s;ignes (as they have been ever) are maine and many. Mine reduc'd to One, the happy enjoyment of a divine Fancy.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your de&s;erted</HI> Panthalia.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<PB N="183" REF="97">
<P>This letter was more &s;peedily returned, then it was cheerfully received. Never came heavier ti|dings to <HI>Acolasto's</HI> eare, then this unexpected re|&s;olution of his highly-incen&s;ed Mi&s;tre&s;s. For after his long ab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ence from her; he had pitcht upon this determinate cour&s;e; pre&s;ently after their yielding up of the <HI>Fort Royall,</HI> to remove to no other Garri&s;on, as had been &s;ugge&s;ted to <HI>Pan|thalia;</HI> but to returne with winged &s;peed to his Native Countrey; and with a ju&s;t excu&s;e attem|per his Mi&s;tre&s;s prejudicate Conceipt touching his retardancy. How dee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ly then might He appeare exta&s;iz'd in the peru&s;all of the&s;e lines; being, by their intervene, as he conceiv'd, wholly preven|ted of his aimes. So as, his reflection upon the&s;e, drove him in the &s;ilence of the night, into the&s;e extreme and di&s;con&s;olate pa&s;&s;ions.</P>
<P><Q>Unhappy <HI>Acola&s;to,</HI> thou ha&s;t at la&s;t found how ju&s;tly the Superiour Powers have delt with thee for thy continued track of folly. Thou had&s;t but one ab&s;olute comfort left thee, to allay thy di|&s;tempers; di&s;-value the braves of Fortune; &s;leight the in&s;ults of Foes; or attone the di&s;ta&s;ts of Friends: and this ONE thy debaucht Cour&s;e has irrecoverably lo&s;t: whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eto wilt thou wan|der, de&s;erted Lover? Be thine intentions bent to remove to another Garri&s;on, to try the i&s;&s;ue of thy Fortune: or fir&s;t to be a per&s;onall witne&s;s of <HI>Panthalia's</HI> profe&s;&s;ion; who de&s;ervingly has left thee, becau&s;e thou ha&s;t left thy &s;elf? yes; take thy &s;olemn farwell of her, whom thou &s;halt never &s;ee hereafter.</Q></P>
<P><Q>Lines are effectle&s;s; be it thy re&s;olve to attend
<PB N="184" REF="98"> her aver&s;ion from thee, and conver&s;ion to that Sacred Deity, whereto &s;he hath &s;o religiou&s;ly de|dicated her Vi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ginity. This done (as thy la&s;t li|ving ob&s;equies to her indeered memory (com|mend thy &s;elf to tho&s;e de&s;ignes, for which the Fates, have re&s;erved thee. The utmo&s;t period of thy di&s;a&s;ters, thou ha&s;t already attained: wor&s;e cannot befal thee, then thou ha&s;t encountred. If any cheerful ray of future happine&s;s &s;mile on thee, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> it is beyond hope; &s;o if any adver&s;e occurrent ingage thee to an inevitable danger, it &s;hall be without the compa&s;s of fear. For what can be left to him either for hope or feare; whom nei|ther hope may po&s;&s;ibly rai&s;e higher: nor Fear bring down lower: but in the extreme&s;t degree of a forlorne condition; hopele&s;s of the one, and helple&s;s in the other? Re&s;t then in a re&s;tle&s;s re|tire, till this approaching day &s;hall &s;ummon thee to accompany her Change, on whom thy Fancy did once &s;o immutably (though carele&s;ly) fix thy Choice. And may my Change by a &s;peedy di&s;&s;olution terminate my mi&s;ery; &s;ince her vows, to whom I ow'd my &s;elf, has &s;hut up her bo|&s;om from a re&s;entment of my infelicity, or capa|city of mercy.</Q></P>
<P>In this &s;hort intervall of time; the Governe&s;s apprehending an inclinable affection in <HI>Panthalia</HI> to be received into their Order; as one infinitly de&s;irous to become a Patrone&s;s to &s;o accompli&s;h'd a Si&s;ter, made choice of one <HI>Saladine,</HI> one of her Society, and an excellent Oratre&s;s in the pur&s;uit of &s;uch religious de&s;ignes; injoyning her to be per&s;wa&s;ive in the effectuall contriving and accom|pli&s;hment
<PB N="185" REF="98"> of this work: intimating withall, how u&s;eful it would be to their Society, to have &s;uch an One initiated in their Order, who&s;e parts and Per&s;on might highly conduce to their Honour: and withall, how &s;he had upon private di&s;cour&s;e, found in her a plyablene&s;s that way; which &s;he would not at that time too eagerly pur&s;ue, but mode&s;tly &s;ilenc'd it, intending to make it <HI>Sala|dines</HI> work, being more familiarly to be tran&s;acted by a <HI>Si&s;ter</HI> in relation to their mutuall Society; then the Governe&s;&s;es more awfull Command. Neither could any thing occur more opportunely: for upon this very hint came in <HI>Panthalia;</HI> upon who&s;e approch, after a Civile and Matron-like Salute, &s;he withdrew, giving way to <HI>Saladine</HI> to pur&s;ue the de&s;igne; whereto with a compo|&s;ed alacrity She addre&s;&s;ed her &s;elf in this man|ner.</P>
<P><Q>Madam <HI>Panthalia</HI> (&ocirc; that it were my happi|ne&s;s to en&s;tile you Si&s;ter!) Your &s;weet and ami|able Society has &s;eaz'd &s;o &s;trongly on our <HI>Gover|ne&s;s,</HI> and on us who live herein all Obedience under her Commands, as nothing could be e|qually grateful nor corre&s;ponding to the general Vote and Suffrage of our Hou&s;e, as your recepti|on into our Society. Neither, Madam, &s;hould you find with us any &s;uch Stoical or un&s;ociable Condition; that it might beget in you a tedious or undelightful Communion. For though our incloi&s;ter'd Walls promi&s;e little or nothing &s;uit|able to a Secular Content: we can in this retire|ment inlarge our de&s;ires in the fulle&s;t mea&s;ure, to the free&s;t injoyment of them&s;elvs. We have here
<PB N="186" REF="99"> &s;patious and delightfull Walks; Odoriferous Gardens; &amp; O&s;ier Arbours for recreation: cheer|ful and ingenious Si&s;ters to conver&s;e with: Plea|&s;ures and Di&s;ports proper for every Sea&s;on. There is nothing that an innocent liberty can re|quire, which you may not here partake.</Q></P>
<P><Q>And though we have here no Courting nor Love-Sallies in reque&s;t; yet we can religiou&s;ly, with a di&s;creet Ceremony, imitate it: and per&s;o|nate a Si&s;ter for a Compleat Courtier, and a Courtly Suiter: and though Strangers to the Complexion of Art, yet Arti&s;ts to the Con&s;erva|tion of Nature. We can here Time it without af|fectation: and though Strangers to Api&s;h love, pretend a formal garb of affection. Our Ambi|tion is confin'd to the&s;e Walls; wherein we in|joy more in having little, then others have in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing much.</Q></P>
<P><Q>We have long &s;ince publi&s;h'd a divorce to a Conjugal State; though we never yet knew, what Husbands meant. Our greate&s;t Forreigners are mundane cares. Neither do we find any thing, in our Survey of Earth, worthy the enter|tainment of a tear or a Sigh. For how &s;hould we in di&s;cretion langui&s;h in our de&s;ires for injoyment of that which cannot fill us: or repine for the lo&s;s of that; from which the Cour&s;e of Time mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily divide us? Our con&s;tant Le|ctures of Mortality, have &s;ufficiently School'd us in all Principles of Morality. The recollection of the&s;e have made our day-tasks our delightfull'&s;t Con&s;orts: making our Evening the dayes Ephe|merides. Thus is our Society imployed: and our
<PB N="187" REF="99"> hours improved, by communicating our Know|ledge; reading and conferring our Ob&s;ervations one with another. This, unle&s;s blind Fancy have prepo&s;&s;e&s;t the Fortre&s;s of the heart; cannot chu&s;e but infinitly &s;urprize the affection of a Contem|plative Soul: which the &s;eriou&s;ne&s;s of your Con|ceipt, if I do not mi&s;take, &s;eemes to incline to.</Q></P>
<P><Q>Excu&s;e me, Madam, if the Fervour of my de|&s;ires have too amply inlarged my di&s;cour&s;e. Let my Cordial affection weave an Apology for this pre&s;umption. Onely let me truly tell you, if your di&s;po&s;ition bend that way, no Society &s;hall ever an&s;wer your Content with more &s;uitable Harmony.</Q></P>
<P>The&s;e polite and pa&s;&s;ionate Per&s;wa&s;ions of <HI>Sala|dine,</HI> &s;eem'd to work &s;o effectually upon <HI>Pan|thalia;</HI> as if her di&s;cour&s;e had wholly weaned her from any further Familiarity with the world, by a devotionall intendment to be initiated and inrow|led a Si&s;ter of the <HI>Delian</HI> Order. Neither did &s;he conceale her re&s;olves (how&s;oever inwardly di&s;|guis'd) but imparted her &s;elf freely to her in this &s;ort.</P>
<P><Q>How much a Stranger &s;tands obliged to your in|deerments, Si&s;ter <HI>Saladine</HI> (for I &s;hall highly re|joyce in the conferment of that Title) though I cannot in your manner, &s;o rhetorically expre&s;s it; yet &s;hall I with my be&s;t endeavours &s;tudy to de&s;erve it.</Q></P>
<P><Q>My coming hither I &s;hall ever hold the highe&s;t happine&s;s that ever befell me. For it has brought me to an injoyment of my &s;elf: and to di&s;-value that which formerly (nor can I remember it with|out
<PB N="188" REF="100"> teares) had an ab&s;olute Soveraignty over me.</Q></P>
<P>What &s;ingular Object might that be, replied <HI>Sa|ladine,</HI> that could make &s;o gallant a Spirit its Sub|ject?</P>
<P><Q>Oh, for loves &s;ake, do not aske me; it doth &s;o much di&s;ta&s;te me, as nothing now can be more oppo&s;ite to my thoughts, then what &s;ometimes &s;ported mo&s;t with my conceipt: inwreathing me in an inextricable Labyrinth of Folly.</Q></P>
<P>Come Si&s;ter (&s;ince you will have me call you &s;o) deal ingenuou&s;ly with me; was it not Fancy, that merry Folly, that &s;o intangled you?</P>
<P><Q>You divine rightly, &s;aid <HI>Panthalia;</HI> it was Fan|cy, that amorous Phrency, that mi&s;erably delu|ded me.</Q></P>
<P><Q>I mu&s;t confe&s;s really, that in the prime Flower of my youth, before I could di&s;tingui&s;h Faces, my wandring Eye begun to play the cunning Impo|&s;tor, and to lay Snares how to deceive my heart. Youthfull beauty became &s;uch an attractive bait, as my di&s;temper'd Fancy regulated onely by the appearence of an outward po&s;ture, drove my mi&s;|guided affection into many irregular extreams. For though &s;undry Fortunes were pre&s;ented me; and tho&s;e no way un&s;uitably accompanied: For the Owners of tho&s;e Fortunes were of eminent de&s;cent, and for Per&s;onage, gracefull enough to any competible or impartiall Eye; yet &s;uch cu|rio&s;ity attended my Choice, or &s;uch diver&s;ity of Features begot in me an a&s;&s;iduate de&s;ire of Change, as what I loved one day, produc'd a di|&s;ta&s;te in the next.</Q></P>
<PB N="189" REF="100">
<P><Q>It &s;uited much with mine humour to be cour|ted by a multitude of Servants. In <HI>generall</HI> to retaine many; but in <HI>Speciall</HI> to entertaine none. Self-opinion is a dangerous darling: a bo&s;om-Idol; no &s;ooner admir'd then ador'd.</Q></P>
<P><Q>I begun to have a Conceipt of my own parts, and ingeniou&s;ly to jeer tho&s;e, whom not long be|fore I &s;eemed to affect.</Q></P>
<P><Q>Thus plaid I with Fancy, as if I &s;hould never have been taken by it: Thus nibbled I at the bait, as one without fear to be intangled with it: but in the end I found the Proverbe experimen|tally true:</Q>
<Q><L>'So oft the frisking fly sports with the flame,</L>
<L>'Till her Seere wings are &s;inged in the &s;ame.</L></Q></P>
<P><Q>For at la&s;t my di&s;-compos'd Fancy fixt it &s;elf on an <HI>Object,</HI> who&s;e Per&s;on might be a Motive &s;ufficient enough to induce love: but it was in|ve&s;ted with other inward qualities; which in the eye of di&s;cretion, might have retarded my Choice. For to render him his ju&s;t Character; He was a youth wholly dedicated to plea&s;ure: a meer Stranger to his E&s;tate: making it his onely aime to fuell his unbounded expence with fre&s;h &s;upplies.</Q></P>
<P><Q>Many di&s;&s;wa&s;ions I receiv'd from entertaining the affection of &s;o profu&s;e a Suiter into my bo|&s;om; and Some of his own were the a&s;&s;iduate&s;t Agents in this bu&s;ine&s;s. But imagining this to be rather a de&s;igne for their own ends then my con|tent: and that the &s;mallne&s;s of my Portion in|duced
<PB N="190" REF="101"> them to practi&s;e the withdrawing of my Fancy from him, rather then any other E&s;&s;enti|all ground; Tho&s;e Allies of his could not be more in&s;tant in di&s;&s;wading, then I was con&s;tant in per&s;i&s;ting: preferring Him whom I formerly affected, before all others, who by my Friends approvement, were afterwards brought on and pre&s;ented.</Q></P>
<P><Q>Yet I mu&s;t tell you <HI>Saladine,</HI> though my youth|full fancy were in this manner &s;eated; our mar|riage to this houre was never ceremonially &s;o|lemnized. Which I &s;hall ever impute rather to my good Fortune then my Wit. For that was long before gone a wooll-gathering: though it was my de&s;ire, in this eager pur&s;uit of love, to protract time, purpo&s;ely to di&s;cover, whereto the youthfull Cariere of his licentious Fan|cy would arrive, and in what period it would clo&s;e.</Q></P>
<P>It &s;eemes &s;trange to me, replyed <HI>Saladine,</HI> how your affection &s;hould &s;o far e&s;trange it &s;elf from di&s;cretion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">What &s;en|&s;ible qualms &amp; undefina|ble Pa&s;|&s;ions di|&s;tre&s;&s;ed Lovers have felt, may be &s;een in <HI>Ario&s;t.</HI> E|legies. Ar|chiloch. Simonid. Pind.</NOTE> as to fixe your <HI>Choice,</HI> where your judgement found &s;uch probable arguments of <HI>Change.</HI> You &s;uffer'd your &s;elf, in my Opinion, to be too prematurely drench'd in Love where your Object was too apt to fly out, and out of his na|tive levity, to be taken with every Lure.</P>
<P><Q>O Si&s;ter <HI>Saladine,</HI> it &s;eems you never &s;hot yet in <HI>Cupids</HI> bow! El&s;e you would confe&s;s, what a|morous Girles generally know: and what by bit|ter experience they have &s;ufficiently felt: how a freedom and liberty even to profu&s;ene&s;s, acts more powerfully in the que&s;t of love; then any ba&s;hful or mode&s;t po&s;ture.</Q></P>
<PB N="191" REF="101">
<P><Q>Active Youth cannot chu&s;e but beget love: whereas a &s;ober and remi&s;s Civility dulls the edge of Fancy.</Q></P>
<P><Q>But thanks to the Superiour Powers for my arrival here; I am now wholly drawn off from all &s;uch light thoughts, as formerly ne&s;tled in my Virgin bo&s;om. For as the irregularity of his Cour&s;e gave me &s;mall hope of his recovery: &s;o the recollection of my Succeeding Fortune, poi|zed with the freedom of my pre&s;ent condition, has made mine heart an Alien to the indi&s;creet entertainment of any &s;uch youthful Fancy.</Q></P>
<P><Q>Though I mu&s;t tell you, Si&s;ter, &s;o fervorous were my de&s;ires in the pur&s;uit of his Happine&s;s; as I &s;hall ever wi&s;h him well, and hold it one of my prime earthly felicities, to hear him &s;ucceed pro&s;perou&s;ly in the world, with the improve|ment of his indangered reputation, and gallant deportment in military affairs: all which, the fu|ture management of his actions (being no le&s;s then his Per&s;on promi&s;eth) may hereafter de&s;erve.</Q></P>
<P>It were ea&s;ie to collect from hence, &s;aid <HI>Sala|dine,</HI> that there remain &s;till &s;ome &s;mall Sparks of Fancy raked up in the Embers; which would quickly take fire if they were fomented.</P>
<P><Q>No doubt, Si&s;ter <HI>Saladine,</HI> but you have read &s;o much Philo&s;ophy, as may &s;ufficiently informe your judgement, and revive your knowledge in the My&s;teries of Love: the Di&s;cipline whereof, (though the Devotional retirement of your Mo|na&s;tick life has made you a Stranger to the Pra|cti&s;e of it,) has long &s;ince di&s;covered to your Reading the nature and quality of that influence.
<PB N="192" REF="102"> It will tell you what powerful effects it produ|ceth: how it can tran&s;animate the Spirit of the Lover to the Bo&s;om of the Object beloved. It can unite two hearts in One, and by an indivi|dual juncture, incorporate two di&s;tinct Bodies in one Mind. Neither &s;hould I have &s;o ea&s;ily di&s;|penc'd with the&s;e imaginary Fancies; had not my happy admittance into your regular Society, brought me to a more &s;en&s;ible apprehen&s;ion of my former condition, by di&s;-reli&s;hing tho&s;e a|morous Potions or <HI>Circean</HI> Impo&s;tures, where|with the folly of my youth, had inthrall'd me.</Q></P>
<P>May we then, replied <HI>Saladine,</HI> derive the&s;e hopes from you; that you will become one of us: and inrowle your &s;elf in our Family?</P>
<P><Q>You &s;hall not need to doubt of it; my re&s;olvs are &s;o fixt, as the reality of my Profe&s;&s;ion &s;hall witne&s;s it: and atte&s;t your whole Society to &s;e|cond it. Neither will the relation to my own Condition, nor the devotion I cordially tender to your religious Order, &s;uffer me to play the Di&s;&s;embler. What I have here imparted to you in private; when the prefixt time of your admit|tance &s;hall call me to this Task of Obedience; &s;hall &s;incerely and without any guilded preten|ces (which make a gallery of Sanctity) manife&s;t it &s;elf. For I perceive clearly (&s;o &s;overaign is that <HI>Eye-&s;alve</HI> which I have not onely received, but u&s;efully applied, by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of your Com|pany) that if I &s;hould wanton any longer in the fruitle&s;s Delights of Sen&s;ual love; my reputation would &s;uffer a lo&s;s: and my Di&s;cretion (being &s;o well &s;chool'd both by Precept and Example) &s;uffer an irreparable foil.</Q></P>
<PB N="193" REF="102">
<P>This will be plea&s;ant news to our Governe&s;s, an|&s;wer'd <HI>Saladine;</HI> For none ever of late yeares came to our Foundation, to be admitted, who was more generally indeered, or by our Commandre&s;s more highly valued.</P>
<P><Q>Their immerited e&s;teem of me, my humble Ob&s;ervance of your Orders &s;hall make it th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> highe&s;t of my endeavours to requite: and as I am the younge&s;t in your Order, &s;o &s;hall the low|e&s;t of your Commands approve me your humbly-affectionate&s;t Si&s;ter and Servant.</Q></P>
<P>While the&s;e two lately adopted Si&s;ters were bandying Civilities in this manner One with the Other; Their Governe&s;s came unexpectedly in; de&s;irous, as it might be probably gathered, what good effect <HI>Saladines</HI> advice to <HI>Panthalia</HI> had pro|duc'd: or what hope &s;he might entertaine in the reception of &s;o promi&s;ing and acceptable a daugh|ter. But <HI>Saladine,</HI> rejoycing much in her &s;ucce&s;s; and quickning her addre&s;s unto her: told her, how &s;he had made way for inlarging her Foundation. What do you meane, &s;aid the Governe&s;s? Our Foundation holds corre&s;pondence with our Reve|nues. So we may pre&s;erve it to Po&s;terity: and in|rich it with a vertuous Family, we &s;hall hold it &s;ufficiently inlarged: the&s;e Cyens of piety are tho&s;e large-&s;preading branches that &s;hall be&s;t di|late it, and with their cheerfull umbrage &s;afelie&s;t &s;ecure it.</P>
<P>Madam, &s;aid <HI>Saladine,</HI> you have here one hope|full branch more to beautifie your Family: and we here pre&s;ent her to your di&s;creet government: and pointing to <HI>Panthalia;</HI> the Governe&s;s, as One
<PB N="194" REF="103"> &s;urprized with incredible joy, embraced her: Saying, none could be more welcome to their So|ciety: and propo&s;ing <HI>Saladine</HI> to be her Bed-fel|low; as one &s;uiting be&s;t with her di&s;po&s;ition; She reque&s;ted <HI>Panthalia</HI> to make choice of what day She plea&s;ed for her initiation and reception into their Order: which we intend, &s;aid &s;he, &s;hall be ob&s;erved with that &s;olemnity, as our due honor to a Stranger, &s;hall expre&s;s what content we appre|hend in the injoyment of &s;o ab&s;olute a Si&s;ter.</P>
<P><HI>Panthalia,</HI> &s;eemingly tran&s;ported with the joy of this Election; was not &s;o forgetfull of her Le&s;|&s;on, as not to remember the prefixt day mentio|ned in her Letter to <HI>Acola&s;to:</HI> which, though She could not be confident of the i&s;&s;ue, whereto her intendments were addre&s;&s;ed; her Care accompa|nied with much Secrecy, &s;o fitly prepared; as the grounds of her de&s;igne promi&s;ed faire, how&s;oever the event might &s;econd it.</P>
<P>The very &s;ame day therefore was appointed for performing the&s;e Ceremonies, which She had in her Letter formerly expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>Meane time, none could appear more Ob&s;er|vant nor morigerous to the Orders of the Hou&s;e, then <HI>Panthalia;</HI> but the Cour&s;e of her Probation was but &s;hort: for the day of <HI>Acola&s;to's</HI> remove from his Garri&s;on, and the approaching time of her dedication, would not permit the expence of many hours.</P>
<P>And much had She to think upon, before this pregnant birth, being but as yet in it's <HI>Embrio,</HI> could be brought to perfection. For &s;uch was the promptne&s;s of her Conceipt, as &s;he lov'd to &s;hew
<PB N="195" REF="103"> wit in the greate&s;t extrems: and to intangle the expectance with &s;mooth deceptions: as may ap|pear by the i&s;&s;ue of this Narration.</P>
<P>The mode&s;ty of <HI>Pandione</HI> her Fellow-traveller, declined her from intere&s;&s;ing her &s;elf in this Se|crecy: yet could not their private and a&s;&s;iduate Conference free her from jealou&s;ie. Some &s;trange thing, as &s;he &s;ugge&s;ted to her &s;elf, was in mould|ing, when She de&s;ired much to partake. Till now at la&s;t her opinion became confirm'd, by what &s;he had ca&s;ually over-heard: for by playing the Cun|ning Eve-dropper, &s;he came to a di&s;covery of <HI>Pan|thalia's</HI> re&s;olvs: and how her long and tedious Journey had diverted that aime, whereto it was addre&s;t, by taking a long farewell of love, and confining her Travaile, which &s;he had &s;o patient|ly indur'd, to the Walls of a Sanctuary. This though &s;he could hardly believe (for as yet &s;he had found no &s;uch mortified affections in <HI>Pantha|lia</HI>) yet reflecting upon her neare relation to <HI>A|cola&s;to,</HI> &s;he intended to try further. So as, having &s;o faire an opportunity offered her as <HI>Panthalia's</HI> privacy; with much mode&s;ty and winning &s;weet|ne&s;s, She acco&s;ted her after this manner.</P>
<P><HI>Madam, I perceive by your late and unexpected re&s;oves, though Civility, as well be&s;eem'd me, would not allow me &s;o much boldne&s;s as to in&s;inuate my &s;elf into the Knowledge of them, how your Mona&s;tick Zeal has turn'd love out a-doore. Your &s;ometimes in|deered Lover mu&s;t now &s;eek his Mi&s;tre&s;s in a Cloi|&s;ter, or el&s;e he mu&s;t never have the hope to finde her.</HI></P>
<P>What doe&s;t thou meane by this, <HI>Pandione,</HI> re|plied
<PB N="194" REF="104">
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
<PB N="195" REF="104">
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
<PB N="196" REF="105"> <HI>Panthalia;</HI> thy di&s;cour&s;e &s;eemes a Riddle to me: and my Fancy no &s;uch <HI>Oedipus</HI> as to a&s;&s;oile it.</P>
<P><HI>No, Lady, &s;aid She; I under&s;tand your Fancy is of no &s;uch circumference as it has been formerly. Love is now fallen off from the hinges. Your affection is be|come thawed, and re&s;olv'd into devotion: and your late zeal to a Cloi&s;ter, has quite e&s;trang'd your thoughts from the vi&s;it of a Garri&s;on.</HI> Ve&s;ta <HI>has put out the Tapers of</HI> Hymen. <HI>But pur&s;ue your Cour&s;e, Madam, I &s;hall not make it my Taske to di&s;&s;wade you from your de&s;igne. Onely, be it your goodne&s;s to excu&s;e</HI> Pandione, <HI>if her re&s;olvs be not dedicated to this Society. For She has profe&s;t her &s;elf &s;uch a Vo|tare&s;&s;e, as never to lead</HI> Apes <HI>in</HI> Hell: <HI>nor walk in the</HI> Ely&s;ian Fields <HI>without a Mate.</HI></P>
<P>Tell me <HI>Pandione,</HI> can any one injoy more feli|city in the world, then to Soveraignize over the Cares of the World? To what period have my numerous de&s;ires brought me? Have I not all this time &s;natch't at a &s;hadow, and lo&s;t the reality of Content? Have I not in pur&s;uit of a Con&s;ort, lo&s;t my &s;elf? Were not all the&s;e guilded promi&s;es, wherewith I mi&s;erably deluded my affection, and have not the&s;e clo&s;ed fairly (through an unexpect|ed Cata&s;trophe) by making their period in devo|tion?</P>
<P><HI>And might not that Period have been drawne be|fore we undertook this Journey? Had you not Re|clu&s;es dedicated to devotion in your own Country; wherein you might have been receiv'd in to a Ve&s;tall Society, if you had not been tran&s;ported with the heat Fancy?</HI></P>
<PB N="197" REF="105">
<P><HI>This Relation will &s;ound &s;trangely, when it comes to the Eares of your Friends, That</HI> Panthalia, <HI>the We|&s;terne beauty, &s;hould play the amorous Pilgrim: and in the end of her Journall,</HI> Sacrifice <HI>the reliques of her Fancy to a Mona&s;tery.</HI></P>
<P>An <HI>Incence</HI> better be&s;tow'd then on loo&s;e love.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pantha|lias</HI> re|ply.</NOTE> With an even hand I have &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;idered with my &s;elf: and in a competible Skale ballanc'd my pre&s;ent condition, with the bla&s;ted fruits of a doubtfull affection. And in One Skale, I pre&s;en|ted Him, whom I &s;ometimes valued: and in the Other, the perfection of that divine State whereto I addre&s;t my re&s;olvs.</P>
<P>In my recollection of the&s;e; and comparing One with the Other, I found an infinite diffe|rence. The one a&s;&s;uring me of an accompli&s;h'd content, without any probable incounters to di|&s;turbe it. The other objecting to my thoughts many Ob&s;tacles: being &s;uch, as they could not chu&s;e but &s;ugge&s;t &s;undry occa&s;ional di&s;gu&s;ts and di&s;tempers to the be&s;t compo&s;ed and regulated Spirit.</P>
<P>Then a Contemplative life (being what the Su|preme Powers affect) what more happy? Then an indi&s;po&s;ed Con&s;ort (whereto even the mo&s;t appro|ved patience cannot give acquie&s;cence) what more heavy?</P>
<P>I appeal to your &s;elf, <HI>Pandione,</HI> whether the me|mory of <HI>Acolasto's</HI> di&s;&s;olute Cour&s;e could reli&s;h with your Fancy! His continuance in the Coun|try, before his imployment became Military, pro|claim'd him &s;ufficiently; and can you think the Profe&s;&s;ion of a Souldier &s;hould make him better: or
<PB N="198" REF="106"> reduce him to a more Civil Order? It were a &s;trange cure for a youthful cour&s;e.</P>
<P>Give me leave, Lady, replied <HI>Pandione,</HI> to im|part my &s;elf freely, and in &s;uch manner as &s;hall neither tax your Servant of pre&s;umption, nor &s;uf|fer my thoughts, which have been ever dedicated with all ob&s;equious reality to your vertuous Commands, to fall &s;hort in any expre&s;s that may e&s;&s;entially conduce to your honour: or may divert Calumny, which traducing Spirits are no le&s;s apt to di&s;per&s;e then to harbour. The&s;e be A&s;&s;ays of different nature, neither &s;hall I hold it a Task of higher importance to advance the one, then to prevent the other.</P>
<P>It is not po&s;&s;ible that you &s;hould forget the grounds which fir&s;t induced you to this hazardous adventure: wherein my humble&s;t de&s;ires have con|&s;tantly addre&s;&s;ed their be&s;t endeavours to your &s;ervice, was not then <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> your &s;ole aim? How &s;hould it happen, that your Fancy, the onely A|ctua<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y in this tedious Journy, &s;hould become &s;o eclip&s;ed as to di&s;-value that Object mo&s;t, which your Conceipt had formerly ranked the highe&s;t in your Books? But your wi&s;dom now after a &s;mall revolution of time, has found out a new di&s;tincti|on betwixt affection and di&s;cretion. You lov'd the man, but not his levity; his per&s;on, but not his quality. Re&s;olve me, Madam, did you not know all this before we put on our di&s;guize? was not <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> the very &s;ame he is, in your opinion? No, you will &s;ay, his Martial di&s;cipline has unci|viliz'd him for the office of Love. Oh, do not op|po&s;e your own judgment in this debate! <HI>Mars,</HI>
<PB N="199" REF="106"> if we may give credit unto Poetry, who&s;e divine influence has ever de&s;canted the be&s;t upon Fancy; was every way as Compleat a Courtier as a War|rier. A Field-bed was not his onely Repo&s;e. That <HI>Lemnian Ram</HI> found him more amorou&s;ly lodg'd. When his Fury was re&s;olv'd to Fancy, he appear'd a Servant more &s;utable for Court then Camp. But to divert from this adventitious Di&s;|cour&s;e, and return to your &s;elf; did not the free|dom of your affection wing your &s;peed towards this Garri&s;on? were you not then re&s;olv'd of his military imploiment? what then &s;hould beget in you this alteration? If devotion be the ground, it be&s;tows on love the more grace: but if a pre|tence of devotion make the Fruits of love abor|tive, it will prove a di&s;guize rather to delude, then improve your profe&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>But certainly this Matrons advice has produc'd &s;ome &s;trange operation in your declining affecti|on! And what &s;ini&s;ter effects may probably ari&s;e from thence; you apprehend not. This may enli|ven your Fancie with an interiour Flame: and make you wholly forgetful of your errand: mean time you con&s;ider not the perplext condition of your de&s;erted Friend: who cannot chu&s;e but won|der at your incon&s;tancie; when &s;uch experimental tokens of your &s;etled and immutable love had con|firm'd you his. A decrea&s;e or ea&s;ie falling off from a pen-feathred affection, being weakly grounded and tenderly imp'd, may be without much diffi|culty di&s;penc'd withall. It never reteined &s;uch heat as to operate in the heart: nor act di&s;tempers in the brain. Whereas the continuance of your
<PB N="200" REF="107"> Fancy has a&s;pir'd to more maturity. You were pleas'd to relinqui&s;h many, and tho&s;e of eminent qualitie, to injoy him: and &s;hall a &s;hadow of late-pretended zeal imbelli&s;h'd with Ve&s;tal Ceremo|nies divide him from you? Tru&s;t me, Madam, if ever my youth attain to that felicitie, (and who knows what the De&s;tinies have decreed for me?) that I may ju&s;tly challenge an intere&s;t in a de&s;er|ving Con&s;ort; rather then I will di&s;-ingage him whom I love, I will freely ingage my life, and expo&s;e my humane Being to the wor&s;t of Ex|treams.</P>
<P>It were great pity, &s;aid <HI>Panthalia,</HI> that &s;uch a tender and kind-hearted Turtle &s;hould want her Mate. But who knows not that it is much ea|&s;ier to pre&s;cribe a Cure, then to &s;ubmit or give way to the Receipt. I was &s;ometimes as re&s;olute in the obliging re&s;pects of a Servant, as either you could be, or any Amori&s;t living. But when expe|rience informs my judgment to life; that if my in|di&s;creet Fancie tran&s;ported with the heat of un|bounded youth, had inclined to the advice of Friends: or with an unbia&s;s'd affection had evenly weighed tho&s;e &s;ad Con&s;equences which frequent|ly ari&s;e from incon&s;iderate love: I could no way have chus'd but blu&s;h at my ra&s;h Choice; and in|finitely repented in &s;uffering Sen&s;e, which periods its content in a moment of Delight, to retain &s;uch a predominant hand over Rea&s;on.</P>
<P>That approv'd Ob&s;ervation of wi&s;e Girles, who mea&s;ure love by di&s;cretion, cannot be unknown unto thee <HI>Pandione: No &s;ooner makes Poverty in|to any po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion a &s;eazure; then by that Forcible En|try
<PB N="201" REF="107"> it ejects love, and makes it a &s;tranger.</HI> And might not this have prov'd my Ca&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The be&s;t <HI>Choice</HI> that ad|mits no occa&s;ional grounds of <HI>Change.</HI></NOTE> if I had run on in my track of Follie, by expo&s;ing my &s;elf and my deplorable. Fortunes to a remedile&s;s mi&s;erie; in giving way to the Conduct of a blind and in|con&s;iderate Fancie? Reflect upon <HI>Acola&s;to's</HI> rio|tous and profu&s;e exce&s;s; and tell me if my unhappie Choice could have expected ought le&s;s. O <HI>Pan|dione,</HI> how wi&s;ely is that love planted, when it is di&s;creetly &s;ea&s;oned? It looks not &s;o much upon a Sprigg of Ro&s;emarie; nor the taking off a Nuptial Garter; as the mutual interchange of bo&s;om-re&s;|pects; the fruition of real and e&s;&s;ential Comforts: with a ju&s;t provi&s;ional care for a Po&s;teritie, when|&s;oever time &s;hall an&s;wer their hopes, and accom|pli&s;h their de&s;ires in the injoyment of &s;o incom|parable a Ble&s;&s;ing.</P>
<P>This is a Lecture, replied <HI>Pandione,</HI> which to this day I never heard you read. But it &s;eems, this Cloi&s;ter has put you into a <HI>Siege</HI> above the quality or capacity of an ordinary Lover. I have known &s;ometimes when the wind was in another door. Your mode&s;tie could once have vouch&s;af'd to be taken into a Ra&s;h-bearing: and to have broke a Cracknell or drunk a Sillibub with the youth of our Pari&s;h. A whole afternoons &s;tory of the joyes of a Marriage life would at that time have &s;eem'd &s;hort. Activity was in tho&s;e daies preferr'd before a Patrimonie, el&s;e had the Image of your de&s;erted <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> never retein'd &s;uch a deep im|pre&s;&s;ion: nor injoin'd you to &s;o long and hazar|dous a Journie; being an apparent argument of your immutable affection.</P>
<PB N="202" REF="108">
<P>It is never too &s;oon to prevent an en&s;uing mi&s;|hap (&s;aid <HI>Panthalia</HI>) e&s;pecially in an A&s;&s;ay of &s;uch high concerne; the &s;ucce&s;s whereof, if prudently entertain'd, provi&s;eth a continuall holy-day: but if wildly and indi&s;creetly tran&s;acted, may admit one Marriage-day, but the &s;equel a Tragick Scene without all hope of a Comicall Conclu&s;ion.</P>
<P>I mu&s;t confe&s;s, a timely di&s;cu&s;&s;ion of the&s;e pro|bable Events might to my greater advantage have been recollected, and more &s;ea&s;onably dige&s;ted: but &s;uch was the indi&s;putable fervour of my de|&s;ires, as it hurled me head-long upon this tedious and perillous Journey. The mo&s;t virile and Ma&s;|culine &s;pirits have not at all times their wits near them; well then may our re&s;olvs ari&s;ing from the weakne&s;s of our Sexe, receive excu&s;e. How&s;oever, my late alteration in the Cour&s;e of my affection may incur a popular Cen&s;ure, I cannot be le&s;s then confident, but my late hazardous Travell has &s;ufficiently gratified his coolne&s;s in the pur&s;uit of what he &s;o &s;eriou&s;ly profe&s;t. His Propo&s;all was definite; at &s;uch a prefixt time to returne back from this unnece&s;&s;ary Service: wherein he ingag'd his Per&s;on without con&s;traint, or probability of preferment: But the title of a Souldier cancell'd in him the thoughts of a Lover. <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> appear'd not the &s;ame he was. His eclips'd Fancy di&s;co|ver'd a dificience in the &s;lowne&s;s of his perfor|mance. And am I &s;o re&s;train'd in the &s;trict Rules of Love, as to be deprived of the like liberty? This were an injury to our Sexe. To have our affecti|ons managed by the &s;tronger hand: to make us their Mi&s;tre&s;&s;es no longer then at their plea&s;ure:
<PB N="203" REF="108"> and to Ca&s;hiere us as un&s;uitable Reformades in an humour.</P>
<P>The&s;e riotous Servants, who appear more prodi|gal in their Expre&s;&s;es, then reall in performance; can artfully pretend us love, &s;o long as we have the power to oppo&s;e our own wills; and in the unju&s;te&s;t Commands, &s;ubject our &s;elvs to their im|perious intere&s;ts. Whereas, if we &s;hould at any time, even in impertinences, cro&s;s them, how quickly would the edge of Fancy become reba|ted? were it not then far better to intertaine that Condition with much freedom and compo&s;ed|ne&s;s of Spirit; wherein we may remaine &s;ecure from the&s;e dome&s;tick Cla&s;hings, and injoy our Contents in a &s;weet and delightfull di&s;cour&s;e, then to ingage our liberty to a Conjugall tyranny?</P>
<P>Your late Clau&s;trall Re&s;olvs, an&s;wer'd <HI>Pandione,</HI> have brought you into a &s;trange point of Here&s;ie. It will repent you, er'e it be long, if you continue in this erroneous opinion, that this World had a Creation; For you oppo&s;e the meanes of Gene|ration: and no People, no Society; and no So|ciety, no World. Thus would your Mona&s;tick Conceipt make the World a wilderne&s;s: Humane Habitations De&s;erts.</P>
<P>But give me leave to tell you, that the&s;e religi|ous Anachorites who have divorc'd them&s;elves from the world, are un&s;ociable Con&s;orts for tho&s;e that have to do in the World. They partake too much of the nature of the <HI>Ostridge</HI> to be &s;uitable Friends, or amicable Companions. The di&s;|cour&s;e of a <HI>Grave:</HI> or a di&s;covery of the <HI>Ely&s;ian-Fields</HI> (extracted from the pregnancy of Poets
<PB N="204" REF="109"> brains) mu&s;t take up the whole houre. And are the&s;e Subjects for young yeares, or green thoughts? why &s;hould they not, replied <HI>Pan|thalia?</HI> What inferiour &s;ubjects can in weight of rea&s;on be held comparable to tho&s;e which operate in the inward affections of the mind a &s;etled peace? Are we not &s;o long as we are here &s;ojour|ning, properly re&s;embling light and un&s;teared Ve&s;&s;els floating on the Maine, and by means of cro&s;s and adver&s;e winds, driven from our de&s;igned Coa&s;t, or intended Harbour? Is it not then high time to prepare our &s;elves again&s;t the encounters of &s;o hazardous and tempe&s;tuous a voiage? Tho&s;e many &s;torms and menacing Shelvs which interpo&s;e us in this perilous Pa&s;&s;age, advi&s;e us &s;ea|&s;onably to provide for a Convenient place of Land|ing. The life of a wi&s;e man is to return to God: this was the po&s;itive opinion of divine <HI>Plato.</HI> But how &s;hould we retain in our &s;elves either a capa|city or po&s;&s;ibility of returning; if we take no con|tent in meditating of the Place, nor contemplating the delights which we are to injoy in the fruition of that Place whereto we addre&s;s our Cour&s;e? It is the Conceipt of the Object, that makes our Journy ea&s;ie: whereas our rarity in conver&s;ing with Heaven, begets a di&s;tance in our thoughts, and make them &s;trangers to their Country.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Epi&s;t.</HI> 90.</NOTE><HI>Seneca</HI> wi&s;ht for Philo&s;ophy; that as the face of the univer&s;al world comes into view, &s;o <HI>that</HI> might be pre&s;ented to us as a Spectacle mo&s;t unlike unto the World. And I &s;hall ever wi&s;h the like with that Divine Morali&s;t. For the influence of a better world can never animate &s;trongly on the Faculties
<PB N="205" REF="109"> of any dull or Sublunary Spirit, that &s;uffers it &s;elf to become Subject to the De&s;picable Soveraignty of Earth.</P>
<P>It &s;eems, Madam, &s;aid <HI>Pandione,</HI> that you are grown to be a Philo&s;opher, &s;ince you became a Mona&s;tick Profe&s;&s;or: and that you have been lately &s;o indoctrinated in <HI>Timons</HI> School, as you will in time publi&s;h to the whole world, that you are an <HI>Enemy</HI> to your own Sex: For in your con|tempt of love (a womans bo&s;om-con&s;ort) you can appear nothing le&s;s. Had your Progenitors re|tein'd this opinion: and expre&s;t it in their hate to generation, where then had been your Being?</P>
<P>You mi&s;take my meaning an&s;wer'd <HI>Panthalia.</HI> I profe&s;s my &s;elf a Satyr onely to light love. When Fancy grounds it &s;elf upon a phanta&s;tick habit, or an outlandi&s;h Cringe, or an affected tongue; wantonly de&s;canting on a Theam of love: I can|not more properly compare &s;uch a di&s;temper'd Amori&s;t, then to <HI>Pigmalions</HI> fond love and doating Complement to his marble Mi&s;tre&s;s. And what joy in &s;uch a formal Statue, which admits no &s;uch active motion, as may either procure or de&s;erve affection? This, though an <HI>Object</HI> to the <HI>eye,</HI> would prove an <HI>Abject</HI> to the <HI>heart.</HI></P>
<P>If in mutual and neighbourly relations &s;uch dif|ference of Countenances appeare, through the cro&s;s Occurrents of Fortune; where poverty of|times weakneth, if it wholly di&s;&s;olve not the band of amity; we may collect hence what the heavy effects of want may produce in the neare&s;t en|deerments. O <HI>Pandione,</HI> let Rea&s;on go before e|very Enterprize, and Coun&s;el before every Acti|on!
<PB N="206" REF="110"> Which Precept if I had &s;ea&s;onably ob&s;erved: my &s;traying &s;teps might have been better directed; my ra&s;h affections more di&s;creetly managed, and no occa&s;ional motive of di&s;content to thy &s;elf mi|ni&s;tred, in relation to thy long and weari&s;om Jour|nal: nor no ground of repentance to my glowing youth in admitting, and too credulou&s;ly inclining to the ea&s;ie prote&s;ts of &s;o light a Suiter. But thanks to my better Fates; the&s;e di&s;tractions are reduc'd to a calmer and clearer period. It is an happine&s;s &s;ometimes to have erred; e&s;pecially where the re|collection of our Error calls us home to a know|ledge of our &s;elvs, and an acknowledgment of our Failings: For by this means, we become not onely wi&s;er in the apprehen&s;ion, but much happier in de&s;ertion of that Error which we formerly affe|cted.</P>
<P>I &s;hall not argue with you, Madam, replied <HI>Pan|dione,</HI> touching the Subject of love; but leave you to your own Choice: But if the ripene&s;s of youth beget not in your devotion a Change, I &s;hall hold you to be of &s;trange mettal. For my own part, though I have ever really lov'd you, in your late Conver&s;ion I never mean to follow you. Age when it is in a decline fuits be&s;t with a Cloi&s;ter; but youthfull heat with the imbraces of a Lo|ver.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Secrecy &amp; Celerity be the two moving wheels of &s;uccesfull fancy.</NOTE>At the very in&s;tant while they were thus di&s;|cour&s;ing, there came unexpectedly a Me&s;&s;enger with a Letter from <HI>Acola&s;to;</HI> with much &s;ecre&s;ie directed, and by the Convoy of a Select Friend carefully pre&s;ented: after the Contents whereof <HI>Pandione</HI> out of her accu&s;tomed mode&s;ty, would
<PB N="207" REF="110"> not appear inqui&s;itive: but walking a&s;ide, left her to the peru&s;al of <HI>Acola&s;to's</HI> character; which ren|dred it &s;elf in this manner,
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>Acola&s;to <HI>to</HI> Panthalia.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Panthalia</HI> (if you will vouch&s;afe &s;o much favour to your de&s;erted Servant as to u&s;e your Name, whom you have &s;o cau&s;ele&s;ly e&s;tranged from your affection) be plea&s;ed to ca&s;t an eye upon his lines, though you have &s;hut your bo&s;om from the receipt of love: and heare him in his la&s;t Expre&s;&s;es; whereto your unex|pected re&s;olvs and his deplorable Condition have brought him. Compa&s;&s;ion in a well-dispo&s;ed Enemy may be ea&s;ily procur'd; when his dying Foe with his la&s;t breathing words beggs a pardon: craving no|thing more, with teare-thrilling Eyes and throb|bing heart then reconciliation in the clo&s;ing period of his approaching di&s;&s;olution. Hold your &s;ometimes in|deered <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> to be at this very in&s;tant in the &s;ame ca&s;e. Be plea&s;ed then to entertaine the&s;e funerall en|terbreaths with a pious pity, though your estranged thoughts dart upon their unfortunate Author a re|gardle&s;s &s;corne. Dying mens words ever reteine the deepe&s;t impre&s;&s;ion: especially when we con&s;ider how that very mouth which &s;o lately uttered tho&s;e words &s;hall be injoyned to a perpetuall &s;ilence, and never impart the lea&s;t accent or &s;yllable of a word (as a me&s;&s;age from his mind) to the world any more. Con|ceipt not this as a di&s;gui&s;e nor a preten&s;ive Colour to abu&s;e you: your rejected Lover &s;urprized with &s;uch a remedile&s;s di&s;temper, cannot po&s;&s;ibly at this time act the part of a di&s;&s;embler. I have already run over the difficulties of my di&s;con&s;olate Cour&s;e: and am
<PB N="208" REF="111"> now performing my la&s;t Act, if the be&s;t Arti&s;ts de|&s;igned for our Garri&s;on, do not deceive them&s;elves. Eye me then with a pious pity, paying my la&s;t debt to Nature. Whereto I &s;hould invite you, if &s;uch a Spe|ctacle of mortality might de&s;erve your vertuous pre|&s;ence. But alas, the illimited freedom of my actions merit no &s;uch favour. Yet, as you were plea&s;ed, upon your late re&s;olvs, to importune my atte&s;t to your new unexpected Profe&s;&s;ion; &s;o being no le&s;&s;e known to your approved piety then my own Folly; I might pre&s;ume to expect mo&s;t, where I de&s;erved lea&s;t.</P>
<P>Meane time, be it your goodne&s;s to commi&s;erate where you cannot Cure: and to ca&s;t your Eye of pity upon your expiring Servant; though it be within the Walls of your Cloi&s;ter; for to an higher honour my weak ambition dare not a&s;pire. Of &s;uch Modells by way of Landskip our Sea-men make excellent u&s;e when furthe&s;t divided from Land: And in a Com|pa&s;&s;ionate reflexe on his langui&s;hing Condition, who cordially honour'd you, wi&s;h him more re&s;t, by his peaceable Pa&s;&s;age from hence, then ever he could in|joy here.</P>
<P>And now give me leave to unrippe my bo&s;om in the di&s;covery of my youthfull levity; For which I &s;hall make bold to beg your pardon; not in relation to my immeriting affection, but the pre&s;ent weakne&s;s of my Condition.</P>
<P>I confe&s;s Madam; and I am a&s;hamed of my &s;elf, in the agnition of my Error: that you were plea&s;ed &s;ome|times to be&s;tow your Favour upon an unde&s;erving Ob|ject. One, who might have appear'd incomparably happy, if he had known what felicity re&s;ted in the fruition of a divine Fancy. But in his incon&s;tancy
<PB N="209" REF="111"> brought him to this brink of mi&s;ery. Yet let me not taxe my &s;elf of a Crime, whereof I was never guil|ty. That <HI>incon&s;tancy</HI> which I speak of, never to this houre wherein I ly dying, could be by the rigid&s;t Cen|&s;ure di&s;covered in my hope; for that was pure and un&s;tained; though the many di&s;compo&s;ures of my youth rendred me profu&s;ely di&s;-ordered, and unworthy the acceptance of &s;o incomparable a Choice. None ever more entirely lov'd, and more vainly deluded with Excur&s;ive delights. The&s;e I repent, though I cannot redeem. For you may believe me, &s;eeing my pre&s;ent di&s;temper will not &s;uffer me to deceive you; that I &s;hould imbrace death cheerfully, if it might be my happine&s;s to recall what I have lo&s;t by my Fol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y. It is now too la<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e for me to capitulate with Heaven: or promi&s;e the inexorable Fates upon hope of a Reprieve, a dereliction of what I formerly affected: with a &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|vorous de&s;ire of imbracing what my un&s;ea&s;oned youth formerly di&s;ta&s;ted.</P>
<P>Let it &s;uffice, that the&s;e la&s;t words and vows of your unfortunate Servant, ob&s;equiou&s;ly confirm, as in life &s;o now in death</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Solely</HI> Panthalia's.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER></P>
<P>What &s;trange and variou&s;ly di&s;pa&s;&s;ionate effect: the &s;ad peru&s;all of the&s;e lines wrought in the re|lenting heart of his perplexed Mi&s;tre&s;s, were no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ea&s;ie to di&s;cover. His &s;ad condition &s;he infinitely bemoans: His accompli&s;hments &s;he pre&s;ents to her thoughts; and finds in them many things wor+thy loving: as for his defects ari&s;ing from the frail|ty of youth, &s;he &s;o excu&s;eth or extenuates them, as they appeare not to her judgment lyable to re|proof. With numerous teares and affectionate
<PB N="210" REF="112">
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
<PB N="211" REF="112">
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
<PB N="210" REF="113"> Sighs, &s;he often repents her &s;elf of writing &s;o rough and di&s;con&s;olate a Letter: imputing the blame to her incon&s;iderate Character, and from thence the Source of his di&s;temper.</P>
<P>Her re&s;olution formerly entertain'd for a reli|gious Profe&s;&s;ion; became now more &s;trengthned then before. For that Onely Object which &s;he &s;eemed to &s;light, though her bo&s;om perhaps could have dictated otherwi&s;e, being as &s;he verily thought, removed from Earth: her Contemplati|on could not be better directed, nor her hours more affectionately dedicated; then where they might be with mo&s;t content and lea&s;t di&s;traction be&s;towed. Yet could not this intended &s;epara|tion from &s;ecular cares e&s;trange her &s;eque&s;tred thoughts wholly from tho&s;e amorous pa&s;&s;ages, which &s;he with a pa&s;&s;ionate content remembred during her free entertainment and affectionate en|joyment of her Servant.</P>
<P><HI>O how happy (would &s;he &s;ay) might we have been</HI> Acola&s;to, <HI>had not youthful Folly challeng'd too much influence over thy Fancy! Fate had not thus unhap|pily divided us: nor our Nuptiall hopes re&s;olv'd their joys into Funerall teares &mdash; Farewell forever; onely let me begge this of thee: to forgive the unkindne&s;&s;e of my lines; as I &s;hall entirely the Errors of thy love.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Pandione</HI> having been but a &s;mall &s;pace di&s;tanc'd from her, and ob&s;erving her thus &s;trangely per|plext or exta&s;i'd rather with grief, ha&s;tned to|wards her, compa&s;&s;ionately demanding of her the Cau&s;e of her di&s;content. Of di&s;content in me, <HI>Pandione!</HI> Can&s;t thou &s;ee any &s;uch alteration in
<PB N="211" REF="113"> my Count'nance, that it &s;hould pre&s;ent to thy thoughts any &s;uch vi&s;ible Symptom? But I &s;hall clear thy doubts. Thou can&s;t not but know <HI>Pan|dione,</HI> how my re&s;olvs are pitcht upon an high Concerne, an utter de&s;ertion of the world, and my e&s;pou&s;all to a Mona&s;tick life: Now, pray thee tell me; is it po&s;&s;ible that any Companion &s;hould bid a la&s;ting adue to his long continued acquain|tance without a tran&s;itive &s;igh, of &s;ome &s;mall ap|pearence of grief? I have had a Free injoyment of the world, and interlaced my Secular imploy|ments with Choice&s;t refre&s;hments and is it ea&s;ie to forgo all the&s;e in the prime of ones youth, with|out the Sacrifice of one teare? Though I mu&s;t confe&s;s that the Choice of this Profe&s;&s;ion was voluntary and without coercion and &s;undry maine inducements to di&s;&s;wade me from this re|&s;olution.</P>
<P>Some whereof no doubt, replied <HI>Pandione,</HI> re|teine a deep impre&s;&s;ion in you. None of tho&s;e, which thou conceive&s;t to have the &s;tronge&s;t in|fluence over me; &s;aid <HI>Panthalia.</HI> Neither can&s;t thou object any argument in relation to love, to fore&s;low my de&s;ires, nor divert my de&s;igns. For this Letter has cancell'd the thought of a Lover. Thy Kin&s;man <HI>Acola&s;to,</HI> who&s;e premature fare I &s;hall ever ob&s;equiou&s;ly bemoane, is, as this Letter renders him, paying his la&s;t debt to Nature.</P>
<P>Alas, poor wretch; the more is his happine&s;s. His death may merit your pity, though his life became e&s;tranged from the acceptance of your Fancy. In paying that debt, He has di&s;charg'd tho&s;e deep Obligations, which He &s;tood ingaged in, to your
<PB N="212" REF="114"> beauty. This Sacrifice, being the la&s;t Tribute of a dying Lover, may ju&s;tly expiate the Errors of his youth, and con&s;equently regaine your good opi|nion by the innocence of his death, which he could not reteine by the late progre&s;s of his indi&s;|po&s;ed life.</P>
<P>Teares prevented <HI>Panthalia's</HI> reply; the bur|den of her grief was &s;o heavy, as it injoyned her pen&s;ive tongue a nece&s;&s;itated Silence, Still a&s;cri|bing the prime grounds of his di&s;temper, to pro|ceed from the har&s;h dialect of her Letter.</P>
<P><HI>Pandione</HI> after this &s;ad relation of <HI>Acola&s;to's</HI> death, for better &s;he could not expect from the circum&s;tances of <HI>Panthalia's</HI> di&s;cour&s;e; &s;eemed very de&s;irous that Evening to depart from the Mona&s;tery, and leave this di&s;-con&s;olate Lady to her intended Profe&s;&s;ion; the next day being de|&s;igned for her initiation. But <HI>Panthalia's</HI> impor|tunity &s;o far wrought upon her, as &s;he con&s;ented to the attendance of tho&s;e Solemnities u&s;ually ob|&s;erved in &s;uch religious initiations; though for her &s;elf &s;he neither affected any of tho&s;e di&s;ciplinary Rites; being too regular for her youthfull temper: nor to be &s;o far divided from her native Countrey, being the choice&s;t re&s;ide, as &s;he accompted it, for the injoyment of her Fancy.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Solemn Ceremonies ordain'd for PANTHALIA'S Institution, and ACOLASTO'S unexpected prevention.</HEAD>
<P>Scarce h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d the Orient Sun diffu&s;ed his radiant Spangles on the Earth: or extracted his pearled
<PB N="213" REF="114"> Dews from the Diapred Meads; till the vigilant Governe&s;s joyful of the reception of &s;o hopeful a Daughter: call'd up the Votare&s;&s;es de&s;igned to her Charge: wi&s;hing them to take &s;pecial Care that nothing might be omitted &s;utable to the perfor|mance of tho&s;e accu&s;tomed Ceremonies ob&s;erved in the initiation and Election of Profe&s;&s;ants. Nei|ther could &s;he be more &s;erious in her Commands, then they in their obedience: which to <HI>Delia's</HI> ho|nour, and the approvement of a new Si&s;ter; was performed in this manner.</P>
<P>The Pavement being with much curio&s;ity and uniformity impav'd with Porphyrite Marble, was &s;trowed all along with fre&s;h and fragrant Flowers from the gate of the Mona&s;tery to the Temple Porch; from the prime Portal or Entrance of the Fane, the Pa&s;&s;age directing to the Main Quire was odoriferou&s;ly perfumed; the Altar, where their <HI>Delian</HI> Ceremonies were u&s;ually &s;olemni|xed, richly Syndoned; upon every Column were Lamps, wax Lights and Tapers in golden Candle|&s;ticks erected; Mu&s;ical In&s;truments enlivned with the choice&s;t and refined&s;t ayrs each where re&s;oun|ded: nothing was awanting that might properly conduce to the accompli&s;hment of tho&s;e Cere|monial Ob&s;ervances. But le&s;t we &s;hould hold your eyes too long fixt upon the Surface, and &s;o keep you from a more &s;erious and intentive reflection upon the beauty of this inward Structure, and by too ample a relation of the Ceremony, darken the Splendor of the Story; we are now to pre&s;ent to your view the pre&s;ence and deportment of the Governe&s;s, who&s;e care was not onely be&s;towed
<PB N="214" REF="115"> upon the decoring and beautifying of the&s;e ritual Solemnities: but how to expedite the main work, for which the&s;e decent accommodations were prepared. Taking therefore this initiated Profe&s;|&s;ant (<HI>Panthalia</HI> we mean) by the hand, with a graceful demean, the re&s;t of the <HI>Order</HI> likewi&s;e following her, &s;he mounted the &s;tayrs leading to the Altar, where the <HI>Habit,</HI> wherewith <HI>Panthalia</HI> was to be attired, was &s;hown her: which &s;he eyed with a plea&s;ing and graceful a&s;pect, as if no Pre|&s;ent could be more acceptable to her. Here the Governe&s;s took occa&s;ion to addre&s;s her di&s;cour&s;e to <HI>Panthalia</HI> with much cheerfulne&s;s; a&s;&s;uring her that &s;he could never di&s;bur&s;e honour with more alacrity to any <HI>Votare&s;s</HI> entring that Society; which expre&s;&s;ive favour coming from the mouth of &s;o Reverend a Guardine&s;s, <HI>Panthalia</HI> gratefully requited with all humble obey&s;ance; wi&s;hing no|thing more then that her due Obedience to her pious Commands might have the happine&s;s to me|rit her vertuous acceptance; which &s;hould be ever the highe&s;t pitch of her de&s;ires. Neither, indeed, how&s;oever her re&s;olvs were formerly fixed, did &s;he appear in this way of her Profe&s;&s;ion, to play the Di&s;&s;embler: For remaining now half per&s;waded that her de&s;erted Servant <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> had taken his long leave of Earth; She took upon her this re&s;o|lution never to returne into her Native Countrey, nor to receive into her bo&s;om the Conceipt of any new Fancy: but to bid adue to all youthfull Folly, by changing the world with a Mona&s;tery, and the affection of a tran&s;lated Friend, with the devotion of a &s;eque&s;tred lif<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</P>
<PB N="215" REF="115">
<P>By this time, had the Governe&s;s pre&s;ented <HI>Panthalia</HI> to One of the <HI>Sali,</HI> or Mini&s;ters of the Ceremonies; who had formerly been vers'd a|mong the <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> and held in high e&s;teem, bear|ing the Office of <HI>Mithras,</HI> or Chief Prie&s;t of the Sun: and afterwards ordained Prince Patriark to the <HI>Delian</HI> Order. Who&s;e function it was, a|mong&s;t other e&s;peciall priviledges of his Place, to offer up the Votare&s;&s;e, at her initiation, to the tui|tion or devotion of the Governe&s;s, and to com|plete the Ceremonies u&s;ually ob&s;erved by that So|ciety, at the time of her dedication.</P>
<P>And by what divine Fate, Heaven knows, even at the very in&s;tant when this Lady was to be pre|&s;ented, and into the Society received; came unex|pectedly in the late-&s;eeming langui&s;hing <HI>Acola&s;to,</HI> who by the &s;afe Conduct of an intimate Friend of the Patriarks, was with much &s;ecre&s;ie and &s;ecurity brought into the Temple; without the lea&s;t di&s;|covery of what he either intended, or de&s;igned.</P>
<P>It is not to be imagined what &s;trange perplexities this unexpected &s;ight begot in his amazed <HI>Pan|thalia.</HI> But her Face, the true&s;t <HI>Index</HI> of the heart, by her interchange and variety of Colours, grow|ing now pale and then red di&s;play'd what her en|forc'd compo&s;ure labour'd to conceale, &s;eeming to vye Colours with the Chamelion, though un|changeable in the ground colour of her affecti|on.</P>
<P>Long time &s;he mu&s;ed, and as one intran&s;ed with &s;ome attractive Object, gave little attention to what&s;oever that Ceremoniall Mini&s;ter delivered; which was generally ob&s;erved by all, but e&s;pecially
<PB N="216" REF="116"> by the Governe&s;s; who, as &s;he was a devout reve|rencer of tho&s;e Mona&s;ticall Rites and In&s;titutions of her &s;elf: So could &s;he not endure that any of her Order &s;hould appeare remi&s;&s;e in their honour to &s;uch ancient Solemnities: but with au<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">icular attention and Cordiall devotion to apply them|&s;elves to tho&s;e Mini&s;teriall Ob&s;ervations of her Temple.</P>
<P>But the Agent of the&s;e Ceremonies, being in|tentive to his Office, took &s;mall notice of &s;uch diverti&s;ements; &s;o as, receiving <HI>Panthalia</HI> upon the Governe&s;&s;es pre&s;entation, into his hand; ac|cording to their accu&s;tomed Rites in &s;uch Dedi|cations observed: with a reverend deportment he u&s;ed the&s;e words unto her. Daughter we are made known to your pious intention, and with what fervor you de&s;ire to be receiued into this religious Society: wherein there be three things which you are con&s;tantly to retein in memory, to inable you the better for your &s;erviceable imployments in this Family. The&s;e three which are &s;o nece&s;&s;arily to attend you, and who&s;e attendance may accom|pli&s;h you; are Humility, Indu&s;try and Continency. Huminity, in ob&s;erving the Commands of your Superiour. Indu&s;try, in be&s;towing your time con|&s;tantly upon &s;ome u&s;efull endeavour. And Conti|nenty, in admitting no di&s;cour&s;e nor &s;ociable in|tercour&s;e that may detract from your Honour. The&s;e three duely ob&s;erved, Daughter, will make a Compleat Profe&s;&s;or.</P>
<P>But now to the work of your Initiation; where|on all the Eyes of your religious Si&s;ters <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">refixed; as on &s;ome glorious or re&s;plendent light newly
<PB N="217" REF="116"> created to give an additament to their inferiour reflections. To you then Daughter, as a Mona|&s;tick <HI>Deo-dand,</HI> am I to addre&s;s my Speech: <HI>To whom are you plea&s;ed that I &s;hall give you?</HI></P>
<P><HI>To this Gentleman,</HI> an&s;wer'd &s;he, <HI>for He has the greate&s;t interest in me.</HI></P>
<P>This an&s;wer could not perplex the whole Soci|ety more, then it tran&s;ported <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> with joy. Who&s;e unexpected acceptance imparadis'd the exta&s;i'd thoughts of this de&s;erted Lover: who of an amorous Captive, was become a Princely Con|querour. For never did Prince triumph more in the injoyment of a Soveraignty, then this late &s;eeming-&s;ick <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> did in the &s;eazure of her beauty.</P>
<P>But &s;uch Nuptial meetings were not to be ad|mitted in this Family: wherefore being excluded from the Tutelage and Devotion of the Gover|ne&s;s, not without apparent tokens of indignation, the&s;e two loving Turtles with their over-joy'd Companion <HI>Pandione,</HI> were commanded to pack thence with all &s;peed, menacing them too, that if they &s;tay'd above their time limited in tho&s;e parts; their gro&s;s deluding of &s;o ancient and reve|rend a Society, &s;hould not pa&s;s uncen&s;ured nor e&s;|cape with impunity. But Delay was as tedious to the&s;e Lovers, as it could be to their Commanders: From thence they departed with all cheerfulne&s;s and alacrity: albeit <HI>Panthalia,</HI> to expre&s;s a grate|ful Civility to the Governe&s;s and all her Society, took a fair and friendly Farewell of them all; ex|cu&s;ing her &s;udden and unexpected alteration; with her former ingagement to <HI>Acola&s;to;</HI> which
<PB N="218" REF="117"> without apparent violation of Faith &s;he could no way di&s;pen&s;e with: a&s;&s;uring them withall, that if He had not taken hold of that opportunity; her re|&s;olution to religion had gone on, without enter|taining any &s;ucceeding Motives of Fancy.</P>
<P>This ingenuous acknowledgment might &s;eem to allay, but not wholly to cure this indignity. But their &s;peedy departure was the onely way to calm this di&s;temper. Homewards therefore are we to imagine the&s;e two reconciled Lovers returning: mutually relating tho&s;e &s;undry Occurrents, where|with, during their ab&s;ence one from the other, their &s;ini&s;ter Fortunes incountred withall. Which mini|&s;tred no le&s;s content in their way-faring relation, then Scenes of di&s;content in the pen&s;ive re-view of their former Condition. But &s;ub&s;equent joys play the office of &s;peedy Sextons in burying the memory of tho&s;e that were precedent. The &s;oci|ety of love interlaid with occurring &s;tories of de|light made their long Journy le&s;s tedious. Unex|pected Contents are ever cloathed with the clear|e&s;t habits, and put on the pure&s;t paint. The&s;e, as they are mo&s;t real, &s;o they appear ever mo&s;t vi|&s;ible. The Party cannot conceal them, for his very Countenance upon their fir&s;t appearance make a di&s;covery of them. It is a <HI>Recovery</HI> which gives the &s;weete&s;t <HI>&s;ent;</HI> the&s;e our Experte&s;t <HI>Hunters</HI> ob|&s;erve: and the very like effect do all cro&s;t Lovers apprehend in the eager Chace or Pur&s;uit of their affection.</P>
<P><HI>Panthalia</HI> rejoyceth in the recovery of her <HI>A|cola&s;to,</HI> who in her opinion was irreparably lo&s;t: which was no le&s;s argument of joy to <HI>Acola&s;to,</HI>
<PB N="219" REF="117"> in the re-&s;eazure of her &s;u&s;pected love: both which contents &s;o &s;weetly and mutually acting, equally reflected on <HI>Pandione</HI> as a main Sharer in the&s;e injoyments. Long it was not, till their affe|ctions thus grounded, were ceremonially confir|med, with the con&s;ent and approvement of their Friends. But tran&s;itory joys cannot po&s;&s;ibly ad|mit a perpetuity. The&s;e Nuptial hony Months are oftimes mixed with much aloes: as it fared with this unfortunate Couple. For <HI>Acola&s;to,</HI> ei|ther forth of a di&s;ta&s;te which he conceiv'd of <HI>Pan|thalia's</HI> Freedom; being &s;uch as a moderate or unprejudicate judgment would have a&s;cribed ra|ther to her affability then levity. Or out of his own incon&s;tancy (as if he had taken a Surfet of inclo&s;ed grounds) they begun to live apart. In which unhappy divi&s;ion, <HI>Acolasto</HI> became graci|ous in the Eye of an eminent Lady, called <HI>Mora|na;</HI> a Per&s;on of incomparable State and gallant pre&s;ence: but infinitely addicted to the Choice and acceptance of Compleat Favorites.</P>
<P>This Lady above the re&s;t of her relations held <HI>Trimelio</HI> and <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> in principal e&s;teem; the one being a &s;ingular Secretary and of an excellent Dialect: the other of a graceful and winning de|mean. Both conte&s;ting in their a&s;&s;iduate Service, which &s;hould appear neare&s;t in her thoughts. But Competitors in relation to Subjects of Love beget ever the dangerou&s;e&s;t quarrels. An infinite jealou&s;ie chanc'd to ari&s;e betwixt the&s;e two amo|rous Favorites, which broke forth into &s;uch an ir|reconcileable heat, as nothing but Fire and Fury breathed from them. Fancy in dependence to a
<PB N="220" REF="118"> Mi&s;tre&s;s, e&s;pecially where Beauty has &s;urprized the heart, will admit no Corrivals. <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> to re|venge him&s;elf for &s;ome private affronts done him by <HI>Trimelio;</HI> accu&s;ed him, and not without appa|rent Cau&s;e, as was generally &s;uppo&s;ed, of his pro|fu&s;e and too liberal report &s;pread abroad to <HI>Mora|na's</HI> di&s;honour. The Sub&s;tance of which report was this: <HI>That his intimacy with</HI> Morana, <HI>the great Mi&s;tre&s;s of his affection, had rai&s;ed it &s;elf to that pitch, as</HI> Acola&s;to <HI>was but u&s;ed for a &s;hadow to palli|ate her de&s;igns: but his familiar &s;ecre&s;ie onely re&s;er|ved for her private Cabinet: and that his acce&s;s with much freedom was made fea&s;ible to him, even to her lodging Chamber, at all hours.</HI> With &s;undry other vanting expre&s;&s;ions, derogating highly from <HI>Mo|rana's</HI> honour.</P>
<P>No &s;ooner came the report of the&s;e injurious and ungratefull a&s;per&s;ions to the eare of <HI>Morana,</HI> a woman of a ma&s;culine and vindicative nature, then &s;he became highly inraged, vowing revenge in the extreame&s;t mea&s;ure; if the words which <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> had atte&s;ted upon due examination pro|ved true. Neither would her impatience permit delay: for the very next morning &s;ending for <HI>Tri|melio,</HI> in the pre&s;ence of <HI>Acola&s;to</HI> his accu&s;er, &s;he acco&s;ted him in this manner.</P>
<P>Wherein have my Favours, <HI>Trimelio,</HI> been &s;o profu&s;ely &s;cattered, as the too liberall conferment of them might ju&s;tly redound to my di&s;honour?</P>
<P>Have I ever acted any thing &s;o indi&s;creetly, that might beget in me an opinion of levity: or &s;o free in my expre&s;s, as to make you confident of an un|be&s;eeming intere&s;t in my affection? was it a
<PB N="222" REF="118"> gratefull requitall in you, to an&s;wer my immeri|ted e&s;teem of your parts with a Calumnious re|port? Could your ea&s;ie acce&s;s promi&s;e to your deluded thoughts &s;uch &s;ucce&s;s; as your free ad|mittance to a Ladies chamber could not chu&s;e but make you Owner of her Bed? was our affability a Signall of immode&s;ty? In what a mi&s;erable Con|dition be poor women &s;tated, when their very Countenances mu&s;t be cen&s;ured; their plea&s;ing demeane traduced, and their &s;miles, if too freely or frequently be&s;towed, injuriou&s;ly taxed? Well, Sir, clear the poy&s;on of this traduce and vindi|cate mine honour, in ju&s;tifying your fidelity to the Conviction of your Accu&s;er: el&s;e expect an hea|vy and &s;peedy revenge from the hand of incen&s;ed <HI>Morana.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Trimelio,</HI> upon this unexpected regret, be|came infinitly perplexed; That excellent Forme of dialect wherein he u&s;ually flowed; was redu|ced to a calme, or rather an amaz'd Silence. Not one word could he utter either in defence of his own innocence: or excu&s;e of his ra&s;hne&s;s. At la&s;t recollecting him&s;elf with much timidity and weak|ne&s;s of &s;pirit He muttered forth inarticulately &s;ome di&s;-joynted words to this effect: that man breathed not who dur&s;t accu&s;e him of any &s;uch Crime. Yes, replied <HI>Acola&s;to,</HI> here he breaths who dares ju&s;tifie your di&s;honour done to this Lady, and will be ready upon your deniall to maintaine it with his blood. Are you my accu&s;er, &s;aid <HI>Trimelio?</HI> No Sir, I appeale to your own Letter: your own hand will impeach you without any other Accu&s;er. And taking a Paper out of his Pocket: Madam, &s;aid He
<PB N="222" REF="119"> be plea&s;ed to &s;hew him the&s;e lines: and whether he can or no remember his own Character? After She had received the Paper, and cur&s;orily peru&s;ed it; with a contracted countenane turning her &s;elf to <HI>Trimelio;</HI> Sir, &s;aid She, my que&s;tion &s;hall be &s;hort and effectuall either to cleare or impeach you; re&s;olve me in a word, is this your hand? I cannot deny it, an&s;wered <HI>Trimelio.</HI> Then mu&s;t <HI>Marana</HI> conclude, replied She, that thou art an egregious Villain. This Letter here produced, and to one of thy A&s;&s;ociats impudently addre&s;&s;ed, but by my Faithfull Servant <HI>Accola&s;to's</HI> care no le&s;s happily then ca&s;ually intercepted, di&s;plays thy guilt and injoyns my revenge.</P>
<P>All this while with a dejected Countenance <HI>Trimelio</HI> after the production of this Letter, fixing his Eyes upon the ground; remained mute, re|plying nothing either in defence of him&s;elf; nor oppo&s;ition to his Accu&s;er. Which unwonted Silence (for none u&s;ually of more volubility in Courtly Rhetorick, nor affectation of di&s;cour&s;e then <HI>Trimelio</HI>) induced <HI>Morana</HI> to conclude: that there was more mode&s;ty in his Face then his Heart; For the one deblazon'd an apparancy of guilt by an expre&s;&s;ion of &s;hame; which the other fruitle&s;ly &s;ought to di&s;gui&s;e: but the clearne&s;s of &s;uch odious Crimes, which morall hone&s;ty could not chu&s;e but blu&s;h at, might not po&s;&s;ibly frame for &s;uch a di&s;tained vi&s;age any vizard.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rana's</HI> Sentence on <HI>Trime|lie.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Prepare thy &s;elf then without delay for death: for a lower re|venge cannot expiate thy guilt.</HI> After which words, laying her Commands upon &s;ome &s;elect dome|&s;ticks of her own (A&s;&s;acinates &s;ufficiently fle&s;ht for
<PB N="223" REF="119"> &s;uch actions) forthwith to di&s;patch him: this Scene was with no le&s;s in&s;tancy then Cruelty executed. Which &s;he, arm'd with a remor&s;ele&s;s hand and a relentle&s;s heart, to di&s;cover her implacable Fury, redoubled with three mortall &s;tabs with a poniard: upon receipt whereof this unfortunate Favorite pre&s;ently expired.</P>
<P><HI>Acola&s;to,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Acola&s;to</HI> re&s;ents <HI>Morana's</HI> cruelty.</NOTE> though &s;eemingly plea&s;ed with this act; yet recollecting him&s;elf, He had &s;uch re|&s;entment of the truculency of his mercile&s;s Mi|&s;tre&s;s, as he apprehended the danger of his future &s;ecurity. He remembred well how formerly dear <HI>Trimelio</HI> had been to his Lady, and in how &s;hort a &s;pace he had clo&s;ed the freedom of his Comick delights with a fearfull Tragedy. This brought him to a Repre&s;entment of his own uncertaine Condition, thinking thus with him&s;elf: That &s;eeing <HI>Morana's</HI> favours were &s;o quickly re&s;olved to mortall hate in relation to <HI>Trimelio;</HI> what le&s;s could be expected by <HI>Acola&s;to,</HI> if any new Corri|vall &s;hould ari&s;e, and become an In&s;trument of his ruine, as he had been by his projectment to <HI>Trimelio:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Ori|ginall Copy ren|ders it: He impor|tun'd her reconci|liation.</NOTE> He re&s;olved therefore to decline his pur&s;uit after &s;trange mi&s;tre&s;&s;es, and his adoration of prohibited beauties, and &s;ea&s;onably to endea|vour his peace and reconciliation to his late-de|&s;erted <HI>Panthalia.</HI> Which within few daies was no &s;ooner de&s;ired, then accepted: no &s;ooner ten|dred, then admitted. An act of Oblivion was mutually &s;igned of all occa&s;ionall di&s;ta&s;ts formerly commenced: and an happy re-union, after &s;o cau&s;ele&s;s a divi&s;ion, cheerfully confirmed. This unexpected Juncto gladded <HI>Panthalia</HI> far above
<PB N="224" REF="120"> all the joy &s;he conceived in her amorous acce&s;s to <HI>Acola&s;to.</HI></P>
<P>Long did they live together in this Conjugall injoyment: no <HI>Remora's</HI> to impede the continued Current of their re-united affection. And to re|turn an higher inlargement to the renewal of their Comforts, by the Beque&s;ts of &s;ome near Friends; who&s;e indeerment and relation to Him, injoyned them to contribute at their deaths to the advance|ment of his Revenues, their means became much improved; which rai&s;ed their youthfull Spirits to that unaccu&s;tomed port, as it begot in them a pro|fu&s;e and exce&s;&s;ive Freedom: the blame whereof, as opinion &s;pread it &s;elf, was laid upon <HI>Panthalia's</HI> delicacy: For <HI>Acola&s;to,</HI> after &s;uch time as he had &s;owen his wild Oats in Forraigne Fields, grew &s;o <HI>uxorious,</HI> as his Cour&s;e was wholly managed by her Conduct. So &s;trangely became he reclaimed; as from a Favorite of other light Mi&s;tre&s;&s;es, he fell to be an ob&s;equious Servant to his own.</P>
<P>But to de&s;cend from the&s;e Diverti&s;ements; which, as they were &s;tored with variety and inter|change of unexpected Pa&s;&s;ages, cannot chu&s;e but afford much delight to any equal or well-ballanc'd Judgment; e&s;pecially con&s;idering what near de|pendence the&s;e incidences had to the Subject of our Di&s;cour&s;e now in hand: we are now to return to the <HI>Series</HI> of our Hi&s;tory; the various Con&s;e|quences whereof may ju&s;tly produce occa&s;ional Motives both of Compa&s;&s;ion and wonder.</P>
<P>We are now to pre&s;ent to your Eye upon a Sable Scaffold erected by an u&s;urping power, an Object of incomparable worth, though accompanied by
<PB N="225" REF="120"> di&s;a&s;trous Fate: rich in all Ornaments that either Art or Nature could imbelli&s;h him withall, and pur&s;ued with as much popular hate as ever any Per&s;on &s;o highly and de&s;ervingly intere&s;ted in the management of State-affaires to the&s;e times incur|red: From the infancy of his honour, to his fatall decline we &s;hall here render him, interveining this &s;ad and &s;erious di&s;cour&s;e with various pa&s;&s;ages, worthy the recollection and u&s;efull application of the cleare&s;t and mo&s;t refined Judgments. Who, if they have attained to the highe&s;t pitch of great|ne&s;s, may collect by this Great mans fall, how greatne&s;s is mo&s;t &s;ubject to a di&s;a&s;terous fate: this we have inlarged with &s;ome nece&s;&s;ary Cautions or directions how to prevent popular hate (the con|&s;tant&s;t pur&s;uer of honour) in their height and free|dom of Greatne&s;s.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Life and Death of <HI>Sophronio.</HI></HEAD>
<P>This <HI>Sophronio</HI> before the&s;e di&s;tractions in <HI>Can|dy,</HI> was a Per&s;on of great eminency; though after|wards popularly branded with Calumny. He was held both at home and abroad of &s;uch high abili|ties, as both for martiall di&s;cipline, wherein he retein'd an opinion of &s;ingular dexterity; as like|wi&s;e for State-policy; no man in his time, was ac|counted his Parallel. For many yeares together He was deputed the Provinciall Governour in <HI>Iberia;</HI> wherein he carried his Commands with that ju&s;tne&s;s and irreprovable equity, as none could taxe him, even in his neare&s;t relations, of partiality. In the Field he behav'd him&s;elf like an
<PB N="226" REF="121"> experienc'd Souldier; in the Court like a prudent Senatour. Prompt and acute in preventing danger, and of nothing more con&s;cienciou&s;ly tender, then in the whole manage of his actions, by ju&s;t waies to a prudent care in pre&s;erving the condigne title of honour. His Commands were evenly ballanced twixt Love and Feare. Wherein, as the Levity he expre&s;t to his Souldiers, did not e&s;trange them from an awfull Feare: no more did his well-tem|pered Severity le&s;&s;en their love. By an a&s;&s;iduate training and di&s;ciplining of his Men, which during his re&s;ide in <HI>Iberia,</HI> were numerou&s;ly rais'd, and drawn to a Con&s;iderable Army, All &s;uch as were enrowl'd and had con&s;tantly &s;erv'd under his Com|mand, there was not any private Souldier but he was grown &s;o expert in the u&s;e of his Arms,<NOTE PLACE="marg">There was no de&s;ign of difficul|ty which the&s;e Soul|diers from the affe|ction they bore to their Comman|der, would not en|counter. Being ready to teach <HI>Han|nibal</HI> to break Rocks with Vi|neger</NOTE> and military Conduct in the Field, as he might in re|lation to his judgement and experience, lead a Compleat Army.</P>
<P>In a word, &s;uch influence had this equall tem|perature of Love and Fear wrought upon all tho&s;e <HI>Iberian</HI> Forces li&s;ted under his Command; as He might confidently aver with that no le&s;s affectio|nate then re&s;olute <HI>African;</HI> That he was &s;o dearly intere&s;&s;ed and cordially po&s;&s;e&s;t of his Souldiers hearts; as no a&s;&s;ay were it of never &s;o imminent or apparent danger, which they would not at|tempt with all alacrity for his &s;ake. Were it to leap from a perpendicular Hill; or from any &s;teep or precipitious Cliffe into the maine Sea; there was none of them from the highe&s;t to the lowe&s;t, who would decline that inevitable danger, being grounded on his Commands or conducing to his honour.</P>
<PB N="227" REF="121">
<P>And to give one additament more to his pru|dence and prowe&s;s; though his Prince had depu|ted him to the government of &s;uch a Province; then which none more &s;ervile, &s;avage nor cruell; yet in very &s;hort time after his Plantation there, by his di&s;creet and awfull management, none be|came more faithfull, civil nor loyall.</P>
<P>Yet for all this bracks are found in the pure&s;t Cloaths. Though none in any age more loyall to his Prince, nor Faithfull to the publick State; yet was this Great Patriots Candor and Innocence &s;o eagerly pur&s;u'd by Con&s;ular hate and popular heat, as never was any one more &s;incere, and more tra|duced: more u&s;efull to the State, and more un|gratefully &s;leighted. Sundry Articles of High Trea&s;on were exhibited again&s;t him, which were &s;econded and &s;trongly pro&s;ecuted by &s;uch, who &s;at at the Sterne of the State, making it their one|ly de&s;igne to bring them into di&s;grace; who vyed with them in the management of State-affaires: or who by their abilities out-&s;tript them, and con|&s;equently more eminent in the Eye of the Pub|lick.</P>
<P>The Particulars of the Charge laid again&s;t him were the&s;e.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, that he had laboured to weaken the &s;trength and &s;inews of the <HI>Candian</HI> State by rai&s;ing Commotions, and fomenting divi&s;ions in the Frontires of their dominion.</P>
<P>Secondly, that he had infu&s;ed poy&s;onous Prin|ciples into the bo&s;om of the Prince, highly de|&s;tructive to the Government of a Politick State: Suppre&s;&s;ing by his Power (which they pretended
<PB N="228" REF="122"> to be &s;econded and irre&s;i&s;tably &s;trengthned by the influence he had over his Soveraigne) all munici|pall Laws; ancient Priviledges; liberty of Sub|jects: with what&s;oever nece&s;&s;arily conduced to the uniform Order or Con&s;titution of a State.</P>
<P>Thirdly, He was accu&s;ed of Extortion and Cor|ruption in his Cour&s;e of Judicature (a traduce of all others mo&s;t injurious:) for never was <HI>Ari&s;tides</HI> held more ju&s;t, then he approv'd him&s;elf in all his Proceedings.</P>
<P>Fourthly, of Tyranny and oppre&s;&s;ion; which his &s;mall increa&s;e of Revenue clear'd him of: For it appeared, that during all the continuation of his Provincial Government, he was much poorer than when he fir&s;t entred it: For his Heir, a Gentleman of hopefull parts, was inforc'd after his Fathers Death, to make &s;ale of a great quantity of his an|cient hereditary E&s;tate, to di&s;charge his Debts.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, He was tax'd of being profu&s;ely free in relation to his Honour; not only for admiring, but &s;en&s;ually pur&s;uing &s;trange beauties: and a|mong&s;t the re&s;t, of One e&s;pecially; who as &s;he was e&s;pou&s;ed to a Per&s;on of Honour, &s;o &s;he atte|&s;ted upon her death her innocence; not only in his vindication, touching whom that infamous re|port was di&s;per&s;ed: but likewi&s;e of her clearne&s;s and purity in defiance of all the world. To be brief, there was no Crime, that might &s;trike either at Fame, State or Life, which was not with much bitterne&s;s and pa&s;&s;ionate vehemence aggrava|ted.</P>
<P>His Pro&s;ecutors by way of Plea were <HI>Cambriano, Mardanes, Albanus,</HI> and <HI>Palmeriades.</HI> Whereof
<PB N="229" REF="122"> the <HI>La&s;t</HI> only &s;hew'd him&s;elf temperate, civil and of fair deportment. For the re&s;t, they breath'd no|thing but Fire and Faggot. Death was too ea&s;y a Sentence for &s;uch heavy (and as they term'd them) inexpiable Crimes.</P>
<P>But among&s;t all the&s;e, none of his Adver&s;aries more impudently violent than <HI>Menippus</HI> and <HI>Ne|vio;</HI> the one for exclaiming; the other for com|menting what he never either &s;pake or thought. Yea, rather than that malicious <HI>Nevio</HI> would give way for <HI>Sophronio's</HI> innocency to pa&s;s with impu|nity; to make good tho&s;e a&s;&s;ertions and ementiti|ous te&s;timonies, which were produced and vehe|mently pre&s;&s;ed again&s;t him, He &s;econded his In|formations with apparent Perjury. Whereof he was convinced by Circum&s;tance to his great di|&s;honour, if his &s;eared front had been &s;en&s;ible of any &s;uch blemi&s;h. But his inveterate hate to <HI>So|phronio's</HI> per&s;on &s;o &s;trangely tran&s;ported him with pa&s;&s;ion; as the <HI>Title,</HI> which he had de&s;ervingly &s;tript him of, caus'd him to tran&s;gre&s;s the bounds of Rea&s;on, and in his pur&s;uit of revenge to neglect the Cure of his wounded reputation. But to re|turn you the &s;ucce&s;s of the&s;e two malicious Pro|&s;ecutors, who &s;o furiou&s;ly run after their own quarrell; you &s;hall know that vengeance dogg'd them at the heeles: and that the Supreme Powers will not &s;uffer their Judgments to &s;lip, though for a &s;ea&s;on they &s;uffer them to &s;leep. For the One of the&s;e (<HI>Menippus</HI> I meane, a &s;en&s;uall Libertine even in his age) dyed a mi&s;erable and infamous death. And for <HI>Nevio,</HI> then whom none more hatefull, He became through his Contemptible
<PB N="230" REF="123"> life, by Tho&s;e e&s;teemed lea&s;t, for who&s;e &s;ervice he had been imployed mo&s;t. A ju&s;t Cen&s;ure for &s;uch actions of di&s;honour. Which Time &s;hall &s;ooner &s;urcea&s;e to be, then with the File of Oblivion <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aze out.</P>
<P>Suppo&s;e now <HI>Sophronio,</HI> that Mirror of his time for prudence and State-policy, attached, indited and arraigned at the Bar of High Ju&s;tice: where we are to pre&s;ent him, as his Pre&s;ence well de|&s;erved, bearing him&s;elf in a grave and di&s;creet po|&s;ture; &s;erious and &s;olid in his An&s;wer: and in eve|ry particular Article of his Charge &s;o Satisfactory, as none of that Great Auditory heard him, but in|finity &s;uffered with him: and out of a generous and generall compa&s;&s;ion, &s;o far as their equall o|pinions or powers could extend to, acquitted him: holding him &s;o clear of what&s;oever had been Ob|jected again&s;t him, as none could taxe him Cri|minally, nor ju&s;tly conclude him le&s;s then inno|cent; unle&s;s his Appellants were highly impu|dent.</P>
<P>But &s;uch was the joynt vote of the Patritian Or|der, &s;econded with the aery bla&s;t of the vulgar; as they proceeded to his Sentence and Cen&s;ure: imagining, as might be ea&s;ily gathered by con&s;e|quent grounds, that their new Con&s;titutions of State could not hold, if he &s;tood up. And that it was far better for One to peri&s;h then an Unity; though One in Him was of more worth then the whole A&s;&s;embly.</P>
<P>Truth is, had not <HI>Sophronio</HI> been prevented by a premature and un&s;u&s;pected Surprize; Tho&s;e who were the principall In&s;truments of his ruine, had
<PB N="231" REF="123"> fallen into his &s;nare: for the Traine was laid, but the cautelous prevention of the Guilty, became de&s;tructive to the Innocent.</P>
<P>It was high time then, as they thought, to take Him out of the way; and by his timely remove to lay an ea&s;ier way to their Foundation of a new Government: &s;o prompt is the braine in de&s;ignes of blood.</P>
<P>With a calm attention He gave eare to the Sen|tence of death pronounced upon him; without any Change of Countenance at all. Which con|&s;tancy of his, as &s;ome erroneou&s;ly thought, pro|ceeded not from his own re&s;olution; but from the Confidence He had in <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> his Princes af|fection. But tho&s;e hopes, if any &s;uch were, prov'd of all others mo&s;t failing. For though his loyall and devotionall Service had merited more from his Soveraigne, then any Subject within all his dominions: yea, though the Prince him&s;elf had been an Eare-witne&s;s of all the Articles preferred and pre&s;&s;ed again&s;t him: and in pre&s;ence like|wi&s;e, when this incomparable Statesman not one|ly made his Reply to what&s;oever was objected: but upon his ju&s;t defence came off with honour: yea, though <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> in relation to <HI>Sophronio's</HI> in|nocence; publickly prote&s;ted, that he could find nothing in the whole cour&s;e of their Proceedings again&s;t him, which might render him culpable ei|ther of death or defame; being &s;o di&s;creet and con&s;cientiou&s;ly politick in the Carriage of his af|faires during his Provinciall Government, as he might be far &s;ooner admir'd then imitated by tho&s;e that &s;hould follow him. Yet for all this, &s;uch in|fluence
<PB N="232" REF="124"> had &s;ome of tho&s;e State-Sycophants (even tho&s;e who&s;e religious profe&s;&s;ion might have exer|cis'd them in better Offices) over the facile and pliable nature of <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> as upon their di&s;covery of the nece&s;&s;ities of the time, the re&s;ults of the Hou&s;e, and clamours of the People, They wrought &s;o &s;trongly upon him (the be&s;t natures are the &s;oone&s;t deluded) as they per&s;waded Him to <HI>Sub&s;igne</HI> his death; who&s;e innocence he had &s;o lately atte&s;ted. An act of high ingratitude, you will &s;ay, it was: and He acknowledged no le&s;s; be|moaning this Offence, which He held piacular, in the extrems of Fortune with briny teares.</P>
<P>And now you may imagine, that this Fury of Hate, which had &s;o &s;trangely fired the hearts of the Senate, would admit no delay; it mu&s;t break forth with a violent torrent, to the ruine of the Inno|cent.</P>
<P>The <HI>Warrant</HI> was no &s;ooner &s;igned, then it was with all &s;peed tran&s;mitted and delivered to the <HI>Warder,</HI> in who&s;e cu&s;tody he remain'd then under re&s;traint: which came quickly (har&s;h news are ever impt with &s;wifte&s;t wings) to <HI>Sophronio's</HI> hand; who was at that very time ordering his affairs, and compo&s;ing his mind again&s;t all occurrents. For his better preparation wherein, he was even then read|ing <HI>Seneca</HI>'s Tract of the <HI>Tranquillity of the Mind,</HI> when this &s;ad Me&s;&s;age came. Which, &s;miling he entertain'd with this mild reply, after he had &s;een <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> Seal Manual, and &s;ub&s;cription to the Warrant: <HI>This it is to confide in the arme of fle&s;h, and to rely on humane levity.</HI></P>
<P>Having peru&s;ed the Paper, his De&s;ire was to be
<PB N="233" REF="124"> left alone; that his privacy might allow him what the world could not afford him. Being thus left to him&s;elf; after a &s;erious recollection of his pre|&s;ent and approaching condition; calling for pre|&s;ent and inke, he re&s;olved to direct his la&s;t addre&s;&s;es to his vertuous Lady, in a Funerall Letter to this ef|fect.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD><HI>Sophronio's</HI> Funerall Farewell to his di&s;|con&s;olate Lady.</HEAD>
<P>My Deare, thy <HI>Sophronio</HI> is Sentenc'd to dye; but as thou love&s;t me, let not this perplexe thee. My Crime is Loyalty; how ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rfull then and expiatory mu&s;t be that Sacrifice, which mu&s;t be offer'd up to the last Ob&s;equies of &s;uch a Service? Tho&s;e who dye with honour, though they dye to life, they live to fame. After a long Sea-faring Compa&s;s, I am now approaching Harbour: where if my ve&s;&s;ell come off with honour, what would&s;t thou crave more? I have a Con&s;cience within me, that will witne&s;&s;e for me, I have been no Servant to time, but to truth. My Prin|ciple which I have held from mine infancy, and which I meane to Seal with my blood, was <HI>Allege|ance:</HI> and to dye under that Notion; who can hold it le&s;s then a Subjects debt, and in the &s;ufferer a glo|rious re&s;olution? I have felt the oppo&s;ition of many furious A&s;&s;ailants; who both in language and private practi&s;e to make my actions appeare more odious to the eyes of God and man, have &s;truck highly but fruitle&s;ly at the ruine of mine honour; but their Splene fell far below my &s;pirit: their spite far be|neath my &s;corne. They may triumph in my fall, but never in my &s;hame.</P>
<PB N="234" REF="125">
<P>And though ingratitude in lieu of my faithfull &s;ervice, has been lately my guerdon; I &s;hall &s;igne Him to whom I owe my &s;elfe, a cleare and Con&s;cien|tious pardon. I will not revive it, le&s;t I &s;hould re|teine too deep an impre&s;&s;ion of it: and ca&s;t a &s;urviving di&s;honour on his Name who acted it. I am too well known to thy tenderne&s;s and goodne&s;s, to importune thy Care towards tho&s;e Living Pledges, &s;weet inno|cent Babes which I leave behind me, and mu&s;t re|commend unto thee. To thee I leave them, who doe&s;t &s;o entirely love them: and to whom now thou art to performe the Office of a <HI>double Parent</HI> in nur&s;ing and informing them. Farewell, Farewell on earth for ever; till we &s;hall be hap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">y re-united, and without feare of divi&s;ion live toge<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">her,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Thine to death,</HI> SOPHRONIO.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>With what a langui&s;hing and contri&s;tate Spirit this good Lady peru&s;ed the&s;e Funeral lines of her dying Lord; it is far ea&s;ier for the conceipt to ima|gin, then for any pen to de&s;cribe. Never was Sor|row more pa&s;&s;ionately retir'd, nor more cordially &s;ilenc'd.</P>
<P>But Mercies moulded in the bo&s;om of Tyran|ny revert into Cruelty. For neither could this La|dies pious tears, nor his approved innocence beget in his relentle&s;s Enemies the lea&s;t &s;en&s;e or appre|hen&s;ion of remor&s;e. Marble is not ea&s;ily pierc'd; nor the Tigers nature quickly civiliz'd. The Senats in&s;tancy backt with Plebeian in&s;olence and impla|cable Fury would prolong no time for <HI>Sophronio's</HI> execution: Fearing, as might be thought, le&s;t that hand which had &s;ign'd and &s;ub&s;crib'd his Death, might recall his Doom. So as, after the third day
<PB N="235" REF="125"> immediatly following the warrant had been de|livered to the Warder; a Scaffold, by the Con&s;uls expre&s;s Command, was erected upon <HI>Pharamount;</HI> to which, <HI>Sophronio</HI> with a &s;trong Guard of Soul|diers was conducted. Where mounting the &s;tayrs of the Scaffold with a cheerfull and plea&s;ant coun|tenance, as if he had addre&s;t him&s;elf rather for a Fe&s;tival Solace, than a Funeral Office: Upon his a&s;cent, looking about him with a graceful a&s;pect, he turned him&s;elf towards the Seats where &s;undry Per&s;ons of eminent quality had be&s;tow'd them|&s;elves: and eying a wonderful confluence of People crowding not only about the Scaffold, but clu&s;tring all about the Trees adjoyning to the Place of his Execution; with a &s;etled and compo|&s;ed Demean, he delivered him&s;elf in the&s;e words: or as near, as the brevity of an exact Character could render it.</P>
<Q><TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="speech">
<HEAD><HI>Sophronio's</HI> Speech upon the Scaffold.</HEAD>
<P>My Lords, and you Gentlemen who are come hi|ther to be spectators of my death. I am here to be pre|&s;ented for a &s;pectacle of wonder. Being made a Sa|crifice of loyalty in relation to my Prince: and an Eye-&s;ore to the State. So as, if Fidelity be a capitall Crime, which never before the&s;e &s;editious times was held one; I mu&s;t freely acknowledge my &s;elf culpable, and con&s;equently a de&s;erving Sufferer: if otherwi&s;e, I appeale to your apprroved judgments, if a loyall death be not a Signall action of honour.</P>
<P>I am &s;o confident of my reality in the whole car|riage of my affaires &s;ince my first imployment in the
<PB N="236" REF="126"> State of <HI>Candy;</HI> as I dare atte&s;t any Per&s;on in this great A&s;&s;embly, that can justly taxe me of any in|jurious proceedings again&s;t him or any one of his Fa|mily. Truth is, I have been per&s;onally accu&s;ed of many, but to this houre never found guilty of any. Sundry Articles, and of high quality objected, and with all Fury pur&s;ued; but nothing proved: appea|ring rather &s;candalous a&s;per&s;ions, to impeach my Fame, and &s;urprize my per&s;on; then grounded al|legations to weaken my repute or evince me of trea&s;on. I have clear'd my &s;elf in all; yet am I found pardo|nable in none. An inevitable nece&s;&s;ity is laid upon me; I mu&s;t dye: and I embrace my doome cheer|fully.</P>
<P>It is better for <HI>one</HI> to peri&s;h, then an <HI>unity.</HI> And I hold my &s;elf a light ran&s;ome, to redeem my Coun|treys liberty. But it is much to be feared for that Nation to be accompanied with &s;ucce&s;s, who&s;e Foun|dation is laid in blood.</P>
<P>I have been ever a Faithfull Servant to my Sove|raigne: wherein, if I have done too much; it will appeare to the whole world that my recompence in lieu of that &s;ervice, has been too &s;mall. But this fault I impute not to Him, but to them who deluded him. It is ea&s;ie for cunning men by their evil coun&s;ell to have strong influence over Princes Commands when their backs are at wall, and their hopes under Hatches. My wi&s;h is, He may rai&s;e him&s;elf &s;trength from my a&s;hes. I have ever ob&s;erv'd it, and now found it true by &s;ad Experience, that u&s;urping Po|wers have their Centre every where, but their Cir|cumference no where. Meer's that tran&s;gre&s;s their bounds, mu&s;t not be confin'd. It is the honour of
<PB N="237" REF="126"> Trea&s;on, to &s;leight the Order of &s;ubjection: and out of an audacious contempt to &s;purne at Command; by making it's own will an irrever&s;ible Law. I feare much, le&s;t &s;uch State-pioners in the&s;e times of di|&s;traction, by their lawle&s;s fury, &s;hould act much mi&s;|chiefe in the Frontiers of <HI>Candy.</HI> But I leave it to the Powers above to divert this Cata&s;trophe. This fear which I conceive and by all probable Circum|stances divine, proceedes from that entire zeal which my loyall heart beares to the State, for who&s;e preten|ded &s;afety and liberty I here dye.</P>
<P>But I mu&s;t not be long, le&s;t my delay might beget in you a prejudicate opinion of me touching that, which, I dare atte&s;t my frailty, I never had, <HI>a fear to dye.</HI> One word home-ward, and then to my la&s;t home. For my Civile affaires; they are already or|dered.</P>
<P>As for my di&s;-con&s;olate Con&s;ort, and tho&s;e tender Pledges of our Conjugall love, my &s;weet Infants; I Commit them to the protection and providence of Heaven; to comfort and &s;upport the One, and in mercy to speak for the other, who know not, poor Babes, to speak for them&s;elves.</P>
<P>And now my Good Lords and Gentlemen, hear the la&s;t words of a dying man, which in pitty &s;hould re|teine the deepe&s;t impre&s;&s;ion, becau&s;e the last Ex|pre&s;&s;es, that ever He &s;hall deliver upon Earth. Be plea&s;ed to acquaint the Senat, that the &s;en&s;es of <HI>So|phronio's</HI> innocence had &s;o compleatly arm'd him, as he dur&s;t look death <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ith face: and entertaine the &s;troak of the Axe with a &s;mile. Now do thy Office, Executioner.</P>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT></Q>
<P>After this, making him&s;elf ready, and putting off
<PB N="238" REF="127"> his doublet, He went towards the Block; where with a &s;tout and undaunted courage laying his hand upon the Edge of the Hatchet: <HI>This, &s;aid He, is a Cure for all di&s;ea&s;er; a receipt again&s;t all maladies.</HI></P>
<P>This done, by direction of the Executioner; a man of high name, though of vile condition; He cheerfully layd down his Head upon the Block, which was divided from his Body at one &s;troak</P>
<P>It was afterwards by permi&s;&s;ion, artfully feered to his neck, and conveyed to the Vault where all his Ance&s;tors lay; not far di&s;tant from his Man|nor-hou&s;e of <HI>Sylviana;</HI> where He was with no le&s;s honour &s;olemnly interred, then generally be|moaned.</P>
<P>Truth is, his Funerall Farewell &s;econded with his patient and compo&s;ed demeane at the time of his death, begot that re&s;entment in tho&s;e who had formerly been his Mortall Enemies; as his la&s;t adue breathed forth with &s;o graceful a pa&s;&s;ion, en|forced teares in their Eyes, who never before that time lodged remor&s;e in their hearts. Yea tho&s;e, who were the principal Agents and a&s;&s;iduate&s;t In&s;tru|ments of procuring his Head to be cut off; could with all their hearts have wi&s;h'd it on again, when they had duely con&s;idered, how the wi&s;dom of that Head, which the Hand of Faction had taken off, might have compo&s;ed and repaired many Fractures, which the Liberty or rather Anarchy of a di&s;tracted State had produc'd. But it was too late to recal what Fate and Plebeian Fury had &s;natcht away. Sundry papers were pa&s;ted and po&s;ted up in the eminent&s;t parts of <HI>Thamipolis</HI>
<PB N="239" REF="127"> e&s;pecially near the Marchants <HI>Trapeza,</HI> contain|ing &s;uch in&s;criptions as the&s;e and the like.</P>
<Q><L>"Vaga vulgi, vota vani,</L>
<L>"Clari clades <HI>Coriolani.</HI></L></Q>
<P>For in many places he retein'd the Name of <HI>Coriolanus;</HI> with whom he was parallel'd for his brave atchievments, clemency, and actions of honour.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L>"Saeva plebaei flamma furoris,</L>
<L>"Laeva patricii pe&s;tis honoris.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Peoples heat and Con&s;uls hate</L>
<L>Cru&s;ht a brave Patritians State.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P>The prudent Senat did not hold it fit that this <HI>Act</HI> &s;hould be exemplified, but upon <HI>Sophronio</HI> for Example &s;ake only executed: And that no Proceedings after that time &s;hould be admitted as legal again&s;t any other being pro&s;ecuted by Plea in the like manner.</P>
<P>And that their Saintly Clemency might to Po|&s;terity be commended, it was ordained, that no Action whereof <HI>Sophronio</HI> &s;tood accu&s;ed or im|peached, &s;hould after his death be recorded as Capital, but that the memory thereof &s;hould be to all intents and purpo&s;es utterly aboli&s;hed: and that no Per&s;on what&s;oever &s;hould be rendred Cri|minal or acce&s;&s;ory to Trea&s;on, being attached up|on the &s;ame grounds. But though this Law be|came revers'd, it re&s;tor'd not his life; who&s;e ran|&s;om might ballance with the E&s;timate of an Em|pire&punc;</P>
<PB N="240" REF="128">
<P>Thus far have we inlarged our Di&s;cour&s;e, as it was con&s;i&s;tent to our Story, touching the <HI>Life</HI> and <HI>Death</HI> of <HI>Sophronio;</HI> the only Mirror of that age for Prudence, Courage and Polity. Unthankfully &s;entenc'd, and &s;ub&s;crib'd to by <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> who&s;e faithful Servant and Creature he had been: and with no le&s;s Princely Compa&s;&s;ion bemoaned by unfortunate <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> after his Execution, for his ne|ce&s;&s;itated Sub&s;cription. Being induced by the Argu|ments of a timing Primat to do, what he in honor, neither could, nor would incline unto.</P>
<P>Howbeit this unprincely Act &s;o highly incen|&s;ed <HI>Irina,</HI> as &s;he withdrew her&s;elf from the Court for many days together;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Silence the prope|re&s;t po|&s;ture for Sorrow, and priva|cy the fit|e&s;t Cell to act it in.</NOTE> like a pious and compa&s;&s;i|onate Prince&s;s to vent her di&s;contents in pri|vate.</P>
<P>But we are now to climb up from the&s;e lower Stiars to higher Stories: and from dependent Ci|ens (though none of all the Con&s;ular Order more eminently qualified, than that Per&s;on, who&s;e life and death we have here de&s;cribed) to the Top|branch, even <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> him&s;elf. Who&s;e unexem|plary mis-fortunes, for Annals to all &s;ucceeding ages, we have here hi&s;torically compiled and me|thodically dige&s;ted.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>How <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> after his confinement, became arraigned, impeached and &s;entenc'd to death.</HEAD>
<P>Such was the implacable enmity of the Synod, and madding Fury of the Plebeian Family to|wards their unfortunate <HI>Ro&s;icles;</HI> as they held it
<PB N="241" REF="128"> not &s;ufficient to re&s;train him of his liberty, and &s;trip him of his regal dignity; but to deprive him of his poor life, being all that was left him, and &s;o compleat his mi&s;ery.</P>
<P>And that they might bring this to a more &s;peedy di&s;patch, they cau&s;ed an High Court of Ju&s;tice to be forthwith erected, and this &s;urrounded with Funeral Sables, importing &s;ome &s;ad de|&s;ign, which &s;hortly after en&s;ued. Thither was di&s;con&s;olate <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> brought, or uncivilly haled rather by the Con&s;uls command, and after a te|dious re&s;traint to ingage his calamitous life to their &s;evere judgement.</P>
<P>Active and nimble in&s;truments had the in|cen&s;ed State provided to bring this la&s;t work to effect: Among&s;t which, tho&s;e whom they prin|cipally relyed on, not onely for contriving and drawing the articles of charge intended again&s;t him, which were high and heavy: But &s;uch as could Rhetorically play the Orators, by withdraw|ing the affections of that &s;mall party which &s;i|ded with him; as likewi&s;e in aggravating the qua|lity of his crimes, which they pretended in the Survey of all Annals, to appear unexemplary: and by that means to make compa&s;&s;ion in his ca&s;e a &s;tranger to the a&s;&s;embly.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Alius</HI> too was repor|ted to be a clo&s;e a|ctive In|&s;trument of his ru|ine.</NOTE> The <HI>Agents</HI> they im|plyed were the&s;e: <HI>ROSELDIUS</HI> the con|triver of the in&s;trument; who was &s;hortly after unpreparedly &s;urprized, and according to his di&s;|loyal attempts, by an unknown hap, ju&s;tly di&s;|patcht. <HI>Sinonaintes,</HI> a &s;mooth Engineer, and of &s;ingular tru&s;t with <HI>Climenes, Chalibetes,</HI> an excel|lent Orator: One, who had Tongue enough, to
<PB N="242" REF="129"> fortifie an ill cau&s;e, and to cloath his pretences in any colour: but the indi&s; o&s;ition of his body cro&s;&s;ed the intention of his mind; being di&s;abled by &s;ickne&s;s, to per&s;ue per&s;onally the weight of his bu&s;ine&s;s, <HI>Leuco-Magiris,</HI> a contemptible Baudite; who had drunk of all waters, and by running too deep on &s;core, had a little before been inforced to run out of the Country, till Treach|ery brought him into reque&s;t and inabled him to pay his arreers. But of all others <HI>Rab&s;heda,</HI> was de&s;igned that <HI>Rhadamanth</HI> who was to &s;up|ply the Seat of Iu&s;tice; in whom, had impudence and in&s;olence lo&s;t their lodgings, they might have ea&s;ily found entertainment.</P>
<P>Suppo&s;e him then &s;ummoned by this mercile&s;s man: where &s;tanding before that Predominant Bench,<NOTE PLACE="marg">This Hall was built by the Ro|man <HI>Ruti|lius,</HI> where the <HI>Can|diots</HI> had hung up their En|&s;igns, with other O|val monu|ments, for &s;ignals of their nu|merous victories again&s;t the <HI>Illiri|ans.</HI></NOTE> and in the condition of &s;uch a pri&s;oner, who called to the bar of ju&s;tice, might a&s;&s;ure him|&s;elf to be encountered with many profe&s;t foes, but few firm friends. Suppo&s;e him (I &s;ay) though cru&s;hed with indignities, with a Princely and Ma|je&s;tick demean, pre&s;enting him&s;elf in this man|ner.</P>
<P>Looking fir&s;t about the Pretorian or Senat Hall a place no le&s;s &s;pacious then numerous: and eye|ing the great pre&s;s and multitude there a&s;&s;embled: What means, &s;aid he, this confluence of people? They be come (an&s;wered <HI>Rab&s;heda</HI>) to hear a Tyrants tryal, a Rebel I can &s;ee, replyed <HI>Ro&s;i|cles,</HI> but Tyrant I can di&s;cover none. Unbo&s;om your &s;elf, &s;aid <HI>Rab&s;heda,</HI> and you will &s;oon di|&s;cover him, for how &s;hould he be accounted le&s;s, who in the&s;e civil di&s;tempers has been the onely
<PB N="243" REF="129"> Author of the effu&s;ion of &s;o much blood, and that of his own people, within this crim&s;on I&s;le of Candy? What do you mean <HI>Rab&s;heda,</HI> &s;aid <HI>Ro&s;i|cles,</HI> by that Crim&s;on I&s;le; and by whom was that tincture laid? By your own hand, an&s;wered <HI>Rab&s;heda,</HI> deep died and embrued in your &s;ubjects blood. Upon which words, being with a braving in&s;olence uttered, the incen&s;ed Prince rai&s;ing him&s;elf a little upon his chair. <HI>Egregious Rebel, &s;aid he, has ignorance glazed thy forehead with that impudence, as neither thy Princes pre&s;ence, nor thy &s;worn allegeance, can imprint in thee an aw|full fear, nor civil reverence?</HI> The&s;e words brea|thed forth with &s;uch a graceful Maje&s;ty, &s;o &s;tart|led him; as for a good &s;pace, they calmed not onely his pa&s;&s;ion, but &s;ilenced his Elocution. Till at la&s;t, as might be probably gathered, recalling to mind that great reward which was by the Senat promi&s;ed him; and &s;eeing him&s;elf &s;o &s;trongly flan|ker'd, and by the &s;ouldiers acclamation &s;o high|ly encouraged; he recovered his &s;peech: and with great boldne&s;s calling him to the Bar; A &s;trange &s;ummons of a &s;ubject to his Soveraign; the Prince much exa&s;perated with this unexemplary in&s;olence told him expre&s;ly, that his Soveraignty had moun|ted a &s;tory higher then their commands, and that their new moulded Laws were to &s;toop to his Pre|rogative. But all this would not &s;tand him in a|ny &s;tead. Popular fury backt by the Con&s;ults Au|thority, and re&s;i&s;tle&s;s &s;inews of an army made an ea&s;ie breach through allegeance. A charge of high con&s;equence, being already drawn up, was publickly read, the particulars whereof were the&s;e.</P>
<P N="1"><PB N="244" REF="130">1. That his Government had been tyrannical, in laying in&s;upportable burdens by impo&s;itions, impo&s;ts, exactions, with other heavy pre&s;&s;ures upon his impoveri&s;hed &s;ubjects.</P>
<P N="2">2. That he be&s;towed be&s;t places on wor&s;t men.</P>
<P N="3">3. That his corrupt councel, had depraved the &s;tate, confounded their municipal laws; and con|&s;equently de&s;tructive to the ancient Rights and Priviledges of their Nation: the fatal i&s;&s;ues whereof were generally noxious to the liberty of his &s;ubjects, with &s;undry other Criminations of like nature, and of lower qualification in their mea&s;ure. All which, with a &s;cornful &s;mile, as ob|jections incon&s;i&s;tent to his pious condition, HE &s;eemingly &s;leighted, u&s;ing onely the&s;e words: <HI>That his Innocence was recorded above their Seat of Ju&s;tice.</HI></P>
<P>But the deci&s;ion of his cau&s;e hung upon the Se|nats prepen&s;ed re&s;olve and edge of the &s;ouldiers &s;word, being &s;entenced to die, and that before his own Court-gate of <HI>Candy-Port;</HI> within the ken of his great Citie <HI>Thamipolis:</HI> where within few days after, without a re&s;i&s;tence (a rare pre|&s;ident to all Ages) he was executed, according to his &s;entence formerly delivered.</P>
<P>The Senat onely had this kindne&s;s for him, in admitting two <HI>Flamins</HI> to prepare him before his death. <HI>Onixus</HI> and <HI>Re&s;hu.</HI> The latter whereof, though a &s;eeming Saint, nay, opinion'd for a re|verend Patriark of their profe&s;&s;ion, appeared an e|gregious timi&s;t: One who knew well how to clo&s;e with time, and hugge the &s;hadow of an eminent favorite, for his own intere&s;t. For the former, He
<PB N="245" REF="130"> was no formal, but a &s;erious and &s;incere profe&s;&s;or and on whom this &s;entenced Prince &s;o much re|lied; as he derived from his mild and &s;weet tem|pered advice much comfort. Among&s;t many we &s;hall in&s;tance this for all. The adjudged <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> remaining &s;ome few daies after his &s;entence pro|nounced in a hou&s;e of the <HI>Jacobins,</HI> where He was no le&s;s &s;trictly guarded then rigidly u&s;ed; He be|gan to feel &s;ome conte&s;ts or wra&s;tlings in him&s;elf, &s;ugge&s;ting to his magnaminous thoughts, how ill it would become him to &s;ubject his head to the Hatchet of a &s;lavi&s;h Baudit, and without re&s;i&s;t|ence to &s;ubmit him&s;elf to the execution of &s;o un|ju&s;t a Sentence. And &s;uch deep impre&s;&s;ion had this debate wrought upon him, as he became half re|&s;olved to divert the hand of Ju&s;tice by his per&s;on|all re&s;i&s;tance until the morning before he dyed, having acquainted <HI>Onixus</HI> with his purpo&s;e; He was by his grave and di&s;creet advice, with tears from his eyes plenteou&s;ly flowing, di&s;&s;waded from entertaining any &s;uch thought: For, &s;aid he, this act would drive you into fury, and con&s;equently di&s;compo&s;e your &s;oul for her prepa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ation to an higher &s;eat. De&s;i&s;t, &s;aid he, I be&s;eech you, from any &s;uch thought; but recommend your ca&s;e to the Providence of Heaven, whether it be to life or death. To which pious and prudent councel he cheerfully &s;ubmitted.</P>
<P>And in very truth, it had prov'd a vain a&s;&s;ay to have made re&s;i&s;tance, &s;eeing there were &s;undry engines, and tho&s;e invi&s;ibly contrived, purpo&s;ely prepared to hale him to the Block, if he had offer|ed the lea&s;t force or manner of oppo&s;ition.</P>
<PB N="246" REF="131">
<P>The time now approaching, a &s;trong Squadron of Stratiots were appointed to guard him along through the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">This <HI>The|riorophie</HI> was an im|park'd ground be longing to the frater|nity of <HI>Ja|cobins:</HI> through which <HI>Ro|&s;icles</HI> was conducted to the &s;ca|ffold.</NOTE> <HI>Theriotrophie,</HI> bearing a &s;pacious vale and the Court chace; and &s;o by a&s;cent to the Am|phitheatre; through which he was brought down to the Scaffold; where with a pale vi&s;age, but Princely pre&s;ence, ca&s;ting his eyes u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">on the mul|titude of People (then which a greater confluence had been &s;eldome at any time &s;een) He declared him&s;elf wi hout the lea&s;t diminution of &s;tate or courage, in this &s;ort.</P>
<Q><TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="speech">
<HEAD><HI>ROSICLES</HI> Speech at his Death.</HEAD>
<P>Good people, You are come hither to &s;ee your Prince become a Sacrifice to his Subjects. A per&s;on held unfitting to live, becau&s;e he &s;corned to purcha&s;e e|vil mens love. I am guilty of many crimes, if you believe my accu&s;ers; Tyranny especially. But a dy|ing man may for pity &s;ake find ears to receive his A|pology. Here I &s;tand before God and Man; where I appeal to the whole World, from whence I am go|ing; And to Heaven, whereto my hope is I am co|ming: That I never to this hour un&s;heathed my Sword to &s;hed the blood of any Subject from the high|e&s;t to the lowe&s;t. Impunity in neglect of my own &s;afe|ty has prov'd to my &s;elf a Tyranny: but my charity forgives them freely. I mu&s;t ever bemoan the Blood of ONE, who&s;e Death by inforcement, &s;econded with the per&s;wa&s;ions or impo&s;tures rather of Ti|ming Para&s;ites, my Hand unthankfully &s;ub&s;cribed. Never did &s;ubject merit more of <HI>Princes</HI> affection, and receive for his &s;ervice a more unde&s;erving guer|don.
<PB N="247" REF="131"> Oh, that my tears could rin&s;e or raze forth the memory of &s;o unhand&s;ome an action; or expiate the guilt of &s;uch a crim&s;on crime!</P>
<P>In this my la&s;t farewel and adieu to the World, I cannot but &s;tand amazed at the infelicity of our Fa|mily, &s;ince our fir&s;t plantation here in <HI>Candy:</HI> where we are become &s;trangers to our own, and bemoaned more by &s;trangers then our own. Long time has this &s;ad onmious Cloud hung over our hou&s;e: Be it Hea|vens plea&s;ure at la&s;t to disper&s;e it. Never did Royal Race &s;ince the foundation of <HI>Candy,</HI> fall into like mi&s;ery: But there is an in&s;trument <HI>(pointing at the Axe)</HI> that will &s;hortly ea&s;e me of my &s;uffer|ings.</P>
<P>If there be any Member of the Senat here pre&s;ent, I &s;alute him in the name of that whole Repre&s;enta|tive Body, a&s;&s;uring him in them, and them in him, that they could not be more ready in giving, then I in forgiving their &s;evere &s;entence. But Mercy is &s;eldom &s;hown, where pity tooke no place.</P>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT></Q>
<P>But I have been dealt withal too &s;hort, to con|tinue my di&s;cour&s;e long. Then taking his leave of the Gentlemen of his Chamber, and of his face|tious friend <HI>Parthenius;</HI> with eyes Elevated to Heaven, he &s;ubjected his Head to the trembling hand of the Executioner; who performed his Of|fice with more fear then skill.</P>
<P>His Body was &s;ome few days after (being fir&s;t made a Mercenary Spectacle to the people) with|out any &s;olemnity at all, privately interred. Such was the immerited fall of unfortunate <HI>Ro&s;icles.</HI></P>
<P>Then whom none ever more ju&s;tly governed, nor more de&s;ervingly to be beloved; who became
<PB N="248" REF="132"> more di&s;loyally treated, more &s;cornfully de&s;ert|ed.</P>
<P>Now it might be asked, how it could po&s;&s;ibly come to pa&s;s, that in &s;o populous and confluent a City no hand &s;hould be lifted up in defence of his innocence: And there is an apparancy of rea|&s;on for it. Tho&s;e who &s;tood well affected to the Royal Cau&s;e, were but few, and tho&s;e naked: Whereas the di&s;affected were many, and tho&s;e compleatly armed. So as tears and groans were the be&s;t &s;upplies their feeble forces could contri|bute to his relief. But indeed there was no impede greater to <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> &s;ucce&s;s, nor wrought more to his di&s;advantage, then his &s;ub&s;ignation to <HI>Sophro|nio</HI>'s death. This it was that begot a di&s;tru&s;t in &s;ome, who could with all their hearts, through the di&s;gu&s;t they received from their pre&s;ent inver|ted Government, to have changed faces, and wholly adhered to the Prince, had not this jea|lou&s;ie po&s;&s;e&s;t them:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Saepe ju&s;ti|tiae inju&s;ta redit Comes Sententia.</NOTE> imagining, that it could not be &s;afe for them to confide in him, who had &s;ub|&s;c ibed again&s;t his own re&s;olution and publike pro|te<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">, to the death of &s;o faithfull a &s;ervant. What might a Pro&s;elyte foe expect,<NOTE PLACE="marg">For &s;uffer|i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n un|j<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t judg|ment up|on a o|ther, him|&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f was brought to &s;uffer by an unju&s;t judge|ment.</NOTE> when a loyal &s;ub|ject fared &s;o ill? This it was which begot him the greate&s;t <HI>Odium;</HI> being in every mans mouth, and con&s;equently a precipice to his proceedings.</P>
<P>Sundry menacing pre&s;ages there were of his ap|proaching ruine, before his death; di&s;covered by &s;everal apparitions &s;een in the air: As terrible ar|mies skirmi&s;hing directly over the &s;eat of his chief city <HI>Thamipolis.</HI> Bloody Streamers with apparent models of Funeral Scutcheons, indented
<PB N="249" REF="132"> with Gules and Sanguine Characters, vi&s;ible and legible. Two Moons of different magnitude.</P>
<P><HI>Mixendes</HI> an eminent Peer of <HI>Candy,</HI> riding a|broad to take air in a &s;tately Chariot, drawn along with &s;ix gallant <HI>Flander Mares,</HI> having onely <HI>Aniel,</HI> a Groom of his Chamber oppo&s;ite to him in the end of his Chariot: The Mares &s;uddenly &s;taid and would go no further, though his Cha|rioter with the help of his Po&s;tillion, u&s;ed all the art and force he could to drive them forward: up|on which unexpected &s;tand, <HI>Aniel,</HI> as one won|derfully amazed, &s;uddenly cried out; <HI>My Lord, What Woman is that &s;its there be&s;ide you? Mixen|des,</HI> though at fir&s;t he di&s;covered nothing, became &s;uddenly &s;en&s;ible of the danger of this impo&s;ture: for his Heels were pre&s;ently &s;truck up and hoi&s;ted to the inner top of the Chariot, with his Head groveling below. Having with much difficulty re|covered and rai&s;ed him&s;elf, by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of his a&s;toni&s;hed Groom, they joyned both together to fa&s;ten upon that apparition, which &s;eemed to them a real woman, intending to pinch her; but this phanta&s;me, or what&s;oever it might import, with a terrible fla&s;h of fire and hideous voice &s;ud|denly vani&s;hed: But not without apparent hurt to the Charioter, having his Leg broken in the very Box where he &s;ate, from whence he had not remo|ved, nor u&s;ed any agitation nor motion at all.</P>
<P>The Po&s;tillion likewi&s;e became &s;trangely di&s;|tempered. The guider of the Chariot being piti|fully maimed, &s;hortly after dyed: Who&s;e body after his death, either by inchantment, or &s;ome o|ther occult malady, grew as black as pitch.</P>
<PB N="250" REF="133">
<P>This <HI>Mixendes,</HI> being one in the lower li&s;t of the late created con&s;uls, was accompted by &s;ome to be privately an active complice of <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> ruine, and that this accident befel him, purpo&s;ely to caution him of his tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion: though others have &s;ince that time vindicated his honour from that a&s;per&s;ion; and that it was an act of Witch|craft occa&s;ioned upon the dereliction of his La|dy.</P>
<P>The&s;e were rare occurrences, but no way com|parable to tho&s;e &s;trange prodigious birth: terrible to the eye of nature; which were produced at that time, and could pre&s;age nothing le&s;s then &s;ome fearful unaccu&s;tomed alteration; whereof this among&s;t many.</P>
<P>In the We&s;t part of <HI>Candy,</HI> as is reported to have hapned &s;ometimes upon the like occa&s;ional mutations in the Confines of <HI>Ga&s;coigne,</HI> a Female child was born, that from the Belly upward was a Twin, having two heads, two brea&s;ts, and four arms; and the one part did that which the other did not: So that while&s;t the one did eat, the other would not; and while&s;t the one &s;lept, the other waked. And having lived in this manner (as a Prodigy to Nature) for &s;ome certain time, the one died, the other &s;urviving; which afterwards through the &s;tench of the other died al&s;o. That which by this prodigious birth, had been formerly predicted, was by as fearful an i&s;&s;ue not long after &s;econded, in production of tho&s;e &s;tate combu&s;ti|ons whereto no age was ever exemplary.</P>
<P>After <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> death, the Cypre&s;s trees, Lau|rels, and Palmato's which in that Country wee
<PB N="251" REF="133"> of plenteous growth and &s;urpa&s;&s;ing height, whol lye withered.</P>
<P>Thus by the change of one, was the &s;tate of <HI>Candy</HI> quite changed; the face of the Court disfigured, and a flouri&s;hing government into an Anarchical condition reduced. For the ancient Peerage, who&s;e de&s;cent and de&s;ert might ju&s;tly record them in the catalogue of Honour, either through di&s;content or ripene&s;s of age were expi|red.</P>
<P>Among&s;t which <HI>Lycorus, Merannes, Arnoldo, Tutonus, Trevenco, Polidon;</HI> leaving tho&s;e to &s;teer the &s;tate, who preferred their own intere&s;t before the intere&s;t of the publick.</P>
<P>As for that new Mintage of Nobility, extracted from the creation of <HI>Climenes;</HI> tho&s;e that were the graver, and in their qualification accompted wi&s;er; imployed their time in incroaching, and inhancing their revenues, and inlarging the pri|viledges of their Mannors: Whereas the younger Fry were for undertaking Duells in defence of their Mi&s;tre&s;&s;es. Which light skirmi&s;hings, being neither much fatal nor fearful, were the onely &s;ig|nals of their valour, as Rings, Gloves, and Rib|bands, the riche&s;t Trophies of their Honour, which mu&s;h rump-gallantry ran all along in a blood for many ages together; making good that Philo&s;o|phic all Maxim: "That the <HI>Corruption</HI> of one was the <HI>Generation</HI> of another.</P>
<P>The nature of things, through the depravation or degeneration rather of times growing &s;uch, that whereas a good man is joyned with a bad, the bad is not bettered by the good, but the good cor|rupted
<PB N="252" REF="134"> by the bad. Thus fared it with this inno|vated &s;tate of <HI>Candy.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>Charicles</HI> pur&s;ues his own intere&s;t again&s;t the Senat.</HEAD>
<P>CHARICLES to revenge his fathers death, and in hope to re-inve&s;t him&s;elf in his lineal-regal e&s;tate, being &s;trengthned by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the <HI>Eluri</HI> and other frontier <HI>Scythians</HI> (a people that were ever held fa&s;t foes, but failing friends) but Princes in their di&s;tre&s;s mu&s;t be content to lean on weak Crutches, invaded <HI>Candy.</HI> In a fair Bat|talia were the two Armies martially di&s;po&s;ed, and their Tents orderly picht near to a &s;trong and well fortified City, called <HI>Reus Court,</HI> anciently <HI>Saly Ca&s;tro.</HI> Hopes equally breathing, half of the day was this Battalia in di&s;pute; wherein <HI>Charicles</HI> by the &s;ingular prowe&s;s and dexterity of his Pedean|try, being all of them excellent Archers, had long time the better, till overpowered by continual re|crutes, and the treachery of <HI>Leontius;</HI> who had the principal command and charge of the <HI>Scythian</HI> Caualry: and hovering remi&s;&s;ely upon an hill, above the Armies, behaving him&s;elf more like a <HI>Spectator</HI> then a <HI>Warrier,</HI> never &s;o much as inga|ging his per&s;on to the nece&s;&s;itous a&s;&s;i&s;tance of <HI>Cha|ricles:</HI> He with his Forces became wholly rou|ted.</P>
<P>Albeit the Prince, even in his greate&s;t di&s;tre&s;s, con&s;idering how his per&s;onal &s;ecurity and regal &s;o|veraignty were both at the &s;take, with an incom|parable
<PB REF="134"> &s;pirit charged twice or thrice quite through his Enemies Army, continuing in the field with|out the lea&s;t decline of courage, &s;o long as there appeared the lea&s;t hope of &s;ub&s;i&s;tance, or the Ca|valries a&s;&s;i&s;tance; who&s;e perfidious Commander had been too highly corrupted, to forget the re|ward of his &s;ervice.</P>
<P>Thus was the unfortunate <HI>Charicles,</HI> as if an o|minous Cloud had con&s;tantly hung over his fami|ly, inforced to leave the field, being &s;o de&s;erted of his own by this di&s;comfiture, as very few or none were left to accompany him in his flight.</P>
<P>The Enemy had his &s;cattered Forces long in chace, taking many pri&s;oners; and &s;uch as were of eminent quality, as might be probably conje|ctured, &s;eeing the mo&s;t of his patty, unle&s;s they were of the ruder &s;ort of <HI>Scythians,</HI> had been per|&s;ons qualified and of extraction, whereas the ad|ver&s;e party were generally Plebeian and Merce|nary.</P>
<P>But in their pur&s;uit, their eagere&s;t hunt was after <HI>Charicles,</HI> by who&s;e &s;urprize, the Senat concei|ved them to be &s;ecured from danger, and freed from the attempts of any inva&s;ive pretender. And that they might be more &s;peedily &s;eized of their prey, it was their prime care to have all the ports laid; their &s;tratagems with much &s;ecrecy con|trived, their Ambu&s;cado's &s;et, and &s;undry parties of Hor&s;e every where di&s;per&s;ed and di&s;po&s;ed for the taking of this de&s;erted Prince. But for all this they mi&s;t their aim, for the providence of heaven was &s;uch (an act which cannot be too much ad|mired) <HI>Charicles</HI> e&s;caped their politick de&s;igns;
<PB N="154" REF="135"> and whereas there appeared no vi&s;ible probability of refuge or receipt; He found for the time a con|venient harbour, to decline his inclo&s;ing danger, by &s;uch &s;trange means and in&s;truments as &s;hall be related hereafter.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>How <HI>Charicles</HI> after his di&s;comfiture at <HI>Reus-Court,</HI> being pur&s;ued by the Enemy; was in a Pilgrim habit, Ho&s;pitably received and &s;ea&s;onably &s;ecured, beyond all expectancy by <HI>Candiope.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT cannot &s;ufficiently be admired how &s;undry eminent per&s;onages de&s;titute of all hope or vi|&s;ible help, have e&s;caped in their imminency of dangers the implacable fury of the enemy, be|ing re&s;erved, no doubt, by Divine Providence for &s;ome future ends. This might be in&s;tanced to life in the pre&s;ent condition of di&s;tre&s;&s;ed <HI>Chari|cles;</HI> the i&s;&s;ue whereof clo&s;ed in this &s;ort.</P>
<P><HI>Candiope,</HI> a Lady lineally-loyally de&s;cended; being both by extraction from her family, and e|ducation from her infancy &s;o affected; Walking one morning early in a Grove; whereto for her private retirement &s;he u&s;uall frequented, and wi|&s;hing nothing more out of the loyal fervour of her de&s;ires, then to hear the event of that great Battail at <HI>Reus-Court,</HI> with the good &s;ucce&s;s of the Prince, who&s;e re&s;tauration &s;he unfeignedly be&s;ought.
<PB N="155" REF="135"> It was her fortune in the tract where &s;he walkt, being not far di&s;tant from the publick road, to meet with one in a Palmers weed, fixing his dejected eys on the ground, as if &s;ome &s;ad mi&s;chance had be|faln him: or as one weary of earth, re&s;olving to mea&s;ure out his Grave, and to play the Sextons part before he dyed.</P>
<P>Long was it ere &s;he could awake him out of this his melancholy dump, or pen&s;ive amaze, &s;o &s;trangely exta&s;ied &s;eemed he to be, as nothing appeared in him &s;aving motion that might argue him to be living, or for the pre&s;ent capable of re|&s;piration. At la&s;t drawing nearer unto him. Good &s;ir, &s;aid &s;he, what is it troubles you? What mi&s;|fortune has befaln you, that it &s;hould have &s;uch &s;trong influence over you, in writing your di&s;con|tents in &s;uch deep Characters of &s;orrow? Alas, Madam, replyed He, it were a fruitle&s;s di&s;cove|ry, to impart our griefs where there is no hope of remedy. My wounds, with many others, rankle too &s;ore to expect a pre&s;ent cure. <HI>Candiope</HI> col|lected by the&s;e words, that all things had not faln out well at <HI>Reus-Court,</HI> with much importunity therefore &s;he de&s;ired to know of him, whether he had been per&s;onally ingaged in the battail or no, and what the &s;ucce&s;s thereof might be? With a deep <HI>&s;calding &s;igh, we are all wholly lo&s;t, &s;aid he.</HI> Our Prince utterly routed, his hopes expired. The &s;oftne&s;s of your Sex, and affability of your nature may retain that temper, as it may afford compa&s;|&s;ion to our forlorn condition; for as yet we have hardly found it. Wo is me, an&s;wered <HI>Candiope,</HI> who might he be that was the Agent of this &s;ad
<PB N="256" REF="136"> &s;cene of his infilicity? The probable ground of his misfortune, replyed the Palmer, aro&s;e from the treachery of <HI>Leontius;</HI> a principal commander of the <HI>Scythian</HI> Cavalry, by whom, he with his a&s;|&s;ociates were wholly routed. And that this di&s;a&s;|ter proceeded from <HI>Leontius</HI> trea&s;on might be hence conjectured; for after the battel was end|ed, and he among&s;t others &s;urprized, his gentle u&s;age and ea&s;ie confinement by the Enemy, di&s;co|vered to all the world his &s;ecret treachery.</P>
<P>But what is become, &s;aid <HI>Candiope,</HI> of di&s;tre&s;&s;ed <HI>Charicles?</HI> Of a potent Prince, replyed he, he is now made a poor Pilgrim; a fugitive de&s;erted of his own, and nothing but a meer &s;hadow of hope to &s;upport him. A weak &s;upportance, Heaven knows, &s;aid the Lady: Oh that I might have the honour to give him harbour; with what promp|ne&s;s and fidelity &s;hould my be&s;t endeavours an|&s;wer it? You may perchance replyed he, have the occa&s;ion, and he the good fortune to pertake your a&s;&s;i&s;tance; for his haple&s;s condition mu&s;t pro|cure harbour in one place or other, or we mu&s;t conclude him lo&s;t for ever. Mean time, Madam, I mu&s;t ingeniou&s;ly acquaint you, &s;eeing your no|ble di&s;po&s;ition &s;teers your cour&s;e that way, how I am become His Highne&s;s Almoner or nece&s;&s;itous purveyor, while he in a di&s;gui&s;ed habit acts the &s;ad part of a di&s;con&s;olate wanderer. Thus has our condition, which formerly hath been a &s;tranger to &s;ervile ends; or to what mu&s;t now oblige us, beholdingne&s;s, injoyned us to &s;ubmit to the nece&s;|&s;ity of Fate; and to beg releif with &s;ilence, when our language cannot in mode&s;ty find a tongue to
<PB N="257" REF="136"> expre&s;s our nece&s;&s;ity. Wo is me for you, &s;aid the tear-&s;woln Lady, that ever your Prince &s;hould be brought to that exigence. But your pale vi&s;age with other apparent arguments of your infeebled condition, &s;tand in need, as I conceive, of more relief from a bountiful hand, then of verbal com|pa&s;&s;ion from a pitiful mouth. The&s;e words that come from us are but airy expre&s;&s;ions to wa&s;ted &s;pi|rits: Painted meat to a pen&s;ive Pilgrim: Be plea|&s;ed, Gentle &s;ir, for by what title to di&s;tingui&s;h you, I wholly know not, to take a repa&s;t at my fa|thers hou&s;e, in this next Grange here adjoyning, where I can promi&s;e you &s;ecurity; though it may be no &s;uch equipage as may any way &s;uit with a per&s;on of your quality.</P>
<P>This curti&s;ie could not otherwi&s;e chu&s;e but be received with infinite acception; to him e|&s;pecially and his di&s;tre&s;&s;ed con&s;orts, who had not onely found nece&s;&s;ary relief, but even humane pity a &s;tranger to their misfortunes,</P>
<P>As they were thus conver&s;ing, and <HI>Candiope</HI> re&s;olved to be&s;tow her care upon his accommoda|tion, by conducting him to her fathers hou&s;e, (a continent repo&s;e for a wearied Spirit) where &s;he might not onely receive further intelligence tou|ching <HI>Charicles</HI> condition, who&s;e &s;afety &s;he &s;o much tendred; but afford all competent &s;upplyes to this di&s;con&s;olate Palmer, as his pre&s;ent nece&s;&s;i|ty required.</P>
<P>As &s;he was, I &s;ay, be&s;towing her whole care and ingenuous indeavours upon this Office of Piety this &s;ignal freedom of Ho&s;pitality, &s;he might hear from the skirt of the Grove a pitiful voice (a voice
<PB N="258" REF="137"> well known to the Palmer, though it rendred a &s;trange accent to the ear of the Lady;) So full of pa&s;&s;ion appeared every expre&s;&s;ion from the lan|guage of that &s;orrowful per&s;on, as none could do le&s;s then commi&s;erate his &s;ad condition; upon the hearing of tho&s;e pre&s;&s;ing grounds of his complaint and per&s;onal re&s;entment. The words, as they were by him pa&s;&s;ionately delivered, and by her no le&s;s pitifully received, were the&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>O Heavens! When will the&s;e cloudy dayes clo&s;e with a clear evening? Mu&s;t this black cloud hang for ever over our unfortunate hou&s;e? Mu&s;t our di&s;|a&s;ters fall thus upon us in a continued torrent to all &s;ucceeding Ages? Mu&s;t Theatres be erected onely for acting our tragedies? Must the fame of our fa|mily be quite razed forth of the Annals of po&s;terity? Is there any &s;uch clo&s;e crime known onely to the eyes of Heaven, but &s;hut from the knowledge of men; whereof our Hou&s;e hath been highly con&s;cious, and as yet remains unexpiate, and con&s;equently the occa|&s;ional ground of our misfortunes? Oh, may the&s;e tears of an innocent Prince, rin&s;e the guilt of a no|cent Progenitor! for any part I appeal to the powers above whereon depend the Foundation and Muta|tion of States, if ever any act of folly &s;ince my infancie merited from the hand of Fortune &s;uch infelicity. Lay thy&s;elf open to the whole World, and make them thy judges, who mo&s;t hate thee, and lea&s;t value thee, or tho&s;e demerits in thee, and let them freely di&s;co|ver, if any act were ever by</HI> Charicles <HI>done, that &s;hould make him thus undone.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Candiope</HI> at the name of <HI>Charicles,</HI> being not a|ble to contain her &s;elf any longer, interrupted
<PB N="259" REF="137"> the&s;e pa&s;&s;ionate complaints, &s;aying: <HI>Wo is me for thee, Noble</HI> Charicles; <HI>then whom never any di&s;|tre&s;sed Prince di&s;erved better, and in his pur&s;uit of a ju&s;t claim &s;ucceeded wor&s;er. Let us draw nearer, &s;aid &s;he to the Palmer; Why &s;hould he be thus de|&s;erted, and pertake no &s;ociable comfort to allay his di&s;temper.</HI></P>
<P><HI>CHARICLES</HI> had no &s;ooner got a &s;ight of them, then rou&s;ing and rai&s;ing him&s;elf from the &s;hady covert where he repo&s;ed; as if he had not been the &s;ame man, whom his &s;ad complaints had &s;o lately di&s;covered of all men mo&s;t unfortu|nate; and with a cheerful countenance looking upon <HI>Molinutus</HI> (for &s;o was the Palmer called.) <HI>It was your Office, &s;aid he,</HI> Molinutus, <HI>to play the Purveyer and not a &s;uiter: Our mi&s;pent times will admit of no Mi&s;tre&s;&s;es.</HI> Afterwards looking a&s;ide upon the Lady, then whom none of a more beco|ming nature: <HI>Excu&s;e me, Madam, &s;aid he, if I &s;port with my misfortunes, My low repo&s;e, and leane repa&s;t require &s;ome expediences to repair the ruines of a late &s;haken fortune.</HI></P>
<P><HI>CANDIOPE</HI> fixing her eyes intentive|ly all this while upon his meagre countenance, vyed in tears with his words; and at la&s;t falling on her knees. Dread Leige, &s;aid &s;he, lately, but all too &s;oon, has your poor Handmaid heard of your great di&s;a&s;ter. But what is it that Time and Opportunity may not recover?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tempore &amp; Medi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, in omni Malo frui|mur reme|die.</NOTE> Fortune ows your Highne&s;s as much as &s;he has t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ken from you. Sir, it has been your hard and heavy &s;tate to &s;uffer by a di&s;loyal enemy; and from an ab&s;olute power to fall upon &s;uch a precipice of mi&s;ery,
<PB N="260" REF="138"> as no age can pre&s;ent a parallel, nor to a Prince &s;o well de&s;erving, a cata&s;trophe &s;o tragically fatal. But as it hath been your great unhappine&s;s to de|cline from &s;o high a pitch of regality (which de|cline &s;hall not be, I hope, of long continuance) &s;o &s;hall I ever hold it to be the happie&s;t occa&s;ion that hath been at any time pre&s;ented me, to become an unworthy in&s;trument to your &s;ecurity. The place, Sir, whereto you may with much &s;afety retire, is near adjoyning; and wherein you may injoy your own commands with all freedom. Your place of repo&s;e is my fathers hou&s;e; wherein you may be accommodated with all conveniences, though not &s;utable to your quality, yet with &s;uch a &s;ubjects welcome as his care of your &s;afety &s;hall demon|&s;trate his fidelity. Your Highne&s;s &s;hall need no o|ther purveyor then our own family; nor any other &s;ecurer then the pledge of our own lives, which &s;hall be devotionally imployed to do you &s;er|vice.</P>
<P>Is it po&s;&s;ible, &s;aid He, that Heaven can re&s;erve any Family &s;o faithfull to One &s;o unfortunate; and on whom &s;uch &s;ini&s;ter occurrents have acted their wor&s;t of Fury?</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Much &s;a|fer then a higher Protecti|on, who&s;e reliance had been his ruine.</NOTE>Go to, <HI>Molinutus,</HI> we will confidently commit our &s;elves to the Charge of this affable and com|pa&s;&s;ionate Lady, who openeth her brea&s;t &s;o affe|ctionately to the re&s;entment of our mi&s;ery. Such freedome of language, accompanied with &s;uch a fair &amp; debonair Carriage, cannot chu&s;e but promi&s;e us &s;afety, if we may be capable of it, after &s;o hot and ho&s;tile a pur&s;uit.</P>
<P>Along they re&s;olve to go with the Lady to her
<PB N="261" REF="138"> Fathers Grange, where they were with all ami|cable ho&s;pitality received, and with all &s;uch ac|commodations &s;uited as their private Family could afford them. For inlarge them further, they wi&s;e|ly would not, le&s;t their entertainment might be &s;u&s;pected.</P>
<P>After their &s;ome dayes re&s;ide in that affectio|nate Harbour, contriving what way were be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> to take for his &s;afe and &s;peedy Convoy to <HI>Ferrara,</HI> whereto he bent his cour&s;e: <HI>Candiope</HI> a faithfull Secretary in all his a&s;&s;ayes, be thought her &s;elf of an expert and tru&s;ty Pilot, one whom the Favours of her Family had formerly obliged, who had pitch'd his re&s;olution for that coa&s;t within few dayes af|ter, with whom &s;he dealt &s;o &s;eriou&s;ly and &s;ecretly, in relation of her intere&s;t and confidence in him; as &s;he contracted with him for their conduct to <HI>Ferrara:</HI> in which voyage &s;he intended (&s;o tender &s;he was of the Princes &s;afety) to become both an A&s;&s;i&s;tant and A&s;&s;ociate. The prefixt time was de|&s;igned, and all things prepared for their pa&s;&s;age. Into the &s;hip with much privacy, and &s;o di&s;gui&s;ed, as probably appearing without di&s;covery, were <HI>Caricles, Molinutus</HI> and <HI>Candiope</HI> received; but no &s;ooner imbarked and ready to hoi&s;e up &s;aile, then one <HI>Phereclus</HI> a Captain, de&s;igned by the Senate to guard that Port, and to take account of all &s;uch Pa&s;&s;engers as were to take &s;hipping there, with a &s;urly and imperious demean oppo&s;ed their admit|tance; acquainting <HI>Dio&s;curus,</HI> Ma&s;ter of the &s;hip, that he was per&s;onally authorized to make &s;earch, and due examination take of all &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;urreptitiou&s;ly (for &s;o he term'd it) made their way
<PB N="262" REF="139"> from that coa&s;t; e&s;pecially at that time, when &s;uch enemies to the State were known to be &s;tragling abroad. For who&s;e attach and apprehen&s;ion he him&s;elf with other prime Commanders were to tho&s;e Ports nominally a&s;&s;igned. But <HI>Dio&s;curus</HI> a per&s;on of a &s;tout and re&s;olute &s;pirit, wholly &s;ligh|ted his braves, telling him that his &s;hip was his hou&s;e, and tho&s;e whom he had received into it were his Family: who&s;e &s;afety he was bound in honour to defend: he wi&s;hed him therefore to de&s;i&s;t from making any attempt, le&s;t his re&s;i&s;tence might ca&s;ually ingage his per&s;on with all &s;uch as &s;hould a&s;&s;i&s;t him to inevitable hazards. Upon the&s;e words the Captain &s;hewed his Commi&s;&s;ion, ima|gining that the power and validity thereof would divert all oppo&s;ition, and give him ready way to execute his commands. But he found it much otherwi&s;e, for <HI>Phereclus</HI> could not be more &s;pee|dy in pulling out his Commi&s;&s;ion, then <HI>Dio&s;curus</HI> was for hoi&s;ting up Sail, and lanching forth into the Main, atte&s;ting his confidence with a volley of &s;hot, taking &s;o his leave with much alacrity of the coa&s;t of <HI>Candy.</HI></P>
<P>Within few weeks after, being favoured with pro&s;perous gales, they arrived &s;afely in <HI>Ferrara;</HI> where we will leave him a Pen&s;ioner to the State; and recounting his misfortunes to the incloi&s;tered Queen his di&s;con&s;olate Mother.</P>
<P>Thus have you heard how <HI>Charicles</HI> beyond all hope, by the private Conduct of <HI>Candiope,</HI> e&s;caped the pur&s;uit of the enemy.</P>
<P>And to return you an Ab&s;tract of the mi&s;eries of this Family, we may here in &s;able colours debla|zon
<PB N="263" REF="139"> the&s;e &s;ad accidents of Armory in the ruines of a royall-declining Family: then which none more highly de&s;erving, nor more unhappily decrea&s;ing; and all this in a very few years compleated.</P>
<P>For what mi&s;eries more lineally linked to one Hou&s;e, or more &s;ucce&s;&s;ively continued? you have heard how <HI>Ba&s;ilius,</HI> who &s;ucceeded <HI>Athalia,</HI> or as we have originally &s;tyled her, <HI>Bellingeria,</HI> was &s;trangely, and not without jealou&s;ie of his &s;ubjects, di&s;patched; his elde&s;t Son <HI>Cyrenius,</HI> a Prince of excellent hopes, not without &s;u&s;picion of poy&s;on, prematurely removed; his younger Brother <HI>Ro|&s;icles,</HI> as you have heard, before the eyes of his people, the face of his eminente&s;t City, and at his Court gate wofully &s;laughtered, his Son <HI>Charicles</HI> treacherou&s;ly de&s;erted, di&s;comfited, remaining exi|led; his Widow-mother incloi&s;tered, and the memory of that Royal Race by the Senates expre&s;s decree, to be quite extingui&s;hed and razed out of the Catalogue of Honour, as per&s;ons incapable of bearing any office in the Common-weal.</P>
<P>So as there remained no hope of a new being or breathing to the revivall of their Phaenix a&s;hes, unle&s;s &s;ome invi&s;ible hand far above all hu|mane expectance &s;hould interpo&s;e it &s;elfe, and in mercy rai&s;e it from the rubbi&s;h of divi&s;ion, and by degrees re&s;tore it,</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="264" REF="140">
<HEAD>Di&s;tractions in the State of <HI>Candy</HI> in their Ari&s;to|cracy; with the mi&s;eries of an innova|ted Government.</HEAD>
<P>All things now might &s;eem to be quiet at home. But it is a con&s;tant ob&s;ervation in all States, that they remain le&s;s &s;ecure, when they pro|mi&s;e to them&s;elves mo&s;t &s;ecurity. This might be manife&s;ted to all <HI>Governments;</HI> but e&s;pecially where U&s;urpation puts in for a Title. Wherein, admit there were no Heir Apparent to make his Claim, there would be a Latent Power to take revenge. So it appeared in this State-Theatre; though <HI>Candy</HI> had exiled her Foes, &s;he retained Fears. Ci|vil Wars betwixt <HI>Climenes, Bellonius,</HI> and <HI>Lama|chus</HI> reduce this di&s;tempered State to mi&s;erable di&s;tractions. For this confu&s;ed <HI>Ari&s;tocracy</HI> con&s;i|&s;ting neither wholly of <HI>Peers</HI> nor <HI>Plebeians,</HI> but of a promi&s;cuous Society; begun at la&s;t to have a re|&s;entment of their tran&s;lated Government: with what felicity accompanied the harmonious union of a well-temper'd Monarchy; with the di&s;a&s;ters that u&s;ually occurred where numerous Comman|ders burdened the State with di&s;temper'd humours by their plurality. Subjects ea&s;ily &s;hake off the yoak of Soveraignty, when their Commanders be many. One or none, &s;ayes <HI>Cae&s;ar.</HI> None but One, &s;ayes the <HI>U&s;urper.</HI> None rather then One, &s;ayes the <HI>Leveller.</HI> Thus Government deprived of one legal-Lineal Soveraign, became wholly irre|gular. The i&s;&s;ue whereof may be clearly in&s;tan|ced
<PB N="265" REF="140"> in this headle&s;s State of <HI>Candy.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Bellonius</HI> was a per&s;on (as hath been told you) of an active hand, but defective head-piece, a &s;tout &s;pirit, but &s;hallow intellect, fitter for action then de&s;ign: one who could do much, but &s;peak little, and of that little, &s;mall to purpo&s;e. Infinitely &s;er|viceable had he been to <HI>Climenes</HI> in all his under|takings, and incomparably pro&s;perous in his at|chievements, being in all tho&s;e Civil Wars com|menced again&s;t <HI>Ro&s;icles</HI> and his &s;ucce&s;&s;or <HI>Charicles</HI> made Generall over all the State-forces, and un|der whom <HI>Climenes,</HI> during all that time, acted onely as private Commander. But <HI>Climenes</HI> ta|king notice of his weakne&s;s, but never till the heat of the day was pa&s;t, apprehends a di&s;gu&s;t concern|ing his contracting a marriage or alliance, as he pretended, with an eminent per&s;on, who had held a corre&s;pondence formerly with <HI>Charicles.</HI> This was ea&s;ie for him to do, having by this time in&s;inuated him&s;elf into the e&s;teem and favour of the Army, by great rewards, full pay, and fair quarter. <HI>Bellonius</HI> recalling to mind what &s;ervice he had done for the Publick, &s;tood for a while in re&s;i&s;tence, as a Cham|pion in defence of his honour, armed with more Fury then Patience, Prowe&s;s then Prudence. <HI>Ve|rona</HI> his Lady extracted from a noble and coura|gious Family, incouraged him highly in the&s;e acti|ons, a&s;&s;uring him that the memory of his exploits could not but retain a deep impre&s;&s;ion in the State, and Souldiery too, with whom he had &s;o re|&s;olutely ingaged his per&s;on, and expo&s;ed his &s;afety to the de&s;perate&s;t attempts. And &s;o unmindfull was the State, Senate and Souldier of his former
<PB N="266" REF="141"> ingagements, and &s;o indifferent for his welfare, as they left him to him&s;elf to &s;ink or &s;wim.</P>
<P>But of &s;mall avail is Valour without A&s;&s;i&s;tence; Price and Reward had made him incapable of Re|venge,</P>
<P>Truth is, <HI>Bellonius</HI> had formerly good opportuni|ty for pre&s;erving his Fortunes, Freedome and Ho|nor, and of averting that ominous fate which hung over his Family; but by neglecting it, he threw him&s;elf with all the&s;e into an inevitable precipice. His onely hope, amid&s;t the&s;e extreams, which his declining greatne&s;s depended on, was a New Con|vene of the late adjourned Synod, &s;ummoned to a&s;|&s;emble the fir&s;t moneth of the year en&s;uing; the i&s;&s;ue whereof, after our relation of <HI>Lamachus</HI> con|dition, &s;hall appear in every circum&s;tance to life portrayed.<NOTE PLACE="marg">This Gen|tleman by his infi|nite indu|&s;try and &s;tudious privacy, rai&s;ed his improvement to a high proficience in political and wi&s;e knowledge; which he afterwards imploy'd to his great advantage.</NOTE> <HI>Lamachus</HI> was a Gentleman of good Extraction, great Indu&s;try, and &s;ingular Animo&s;ity, the very right hand to <HI>Climenes</HI> in all his atchieve|ments, but &s;ini&s;ter to <HI>Charicles</HI> in all his procee|dings.</P>
<P>After the brunt of the&s;e Wars, and much blood inhumanely &s;hed, he appeared the onely man of merit and e&s;teem in <HI>Climenes</HI> account. No honour nor reward held &s;ufficient to gratifie his &s;ervice: Nay it was very ob&s;ervable, that <HI>Climenes,</HI> after &s;uch time as his fortunes had rai&s;ed him to the ab&s;olute Soveraignty of an Arbitrary power: a &s;tep higher then ever di&s;tre&s;&s;ed <HI>Charicles</HI> could a&s;cend, and held to bear the face of a Tyrannick Govern|ment, during the unfortunate reign of tho&s;e line|ally
<PB N="167" REF="141"> de&s;cending Princes. After this height of his commands, I &s;ay, whereto his numerous victo|ries had perch'd him, and wherewith this &s;trong alliance had irre&s;i&s;tibly &s;etled him: <HI>Climenes,</HI> who partak'd no le&s;s of <HI>Fox</HI> then <HI>Lion,</HI> was never known to meet <HI>Lamachus</HI> without an indeered embrace, or veneration rather, as both his demean and expre&s;&s;es &s;ignified; &s;aluting him not onely by the name of fellow Souldier, but of Prince, Champion, and Chieftain of his Army: without who&s;e help, the whole fabrick of that State had &s;hrunk under its own Grandeur. For he had got the art of &s;ha|ping him&s;elf to any feature, having compa&s;&s;ionate eyes to vie in tears with the Crocodile, and decei|ving Fauns to gloze with the <HI>Hyene.</HI></P>
<P>Now the &s;trength of his alliance derived from the per&s;ons with whom he matched were the&s;e: <HI>Lucapius</HI> e&s;pou&s;ed the elde&s;t; a gallant jovial La|dy, who in her very po&s;ture knew how to per&s;o|nate her qualified honor, and how to ingratiate an ob&s;equious &s;ervant: though in the end &s;he be|came an incomparable Convert; being one, to whom the di&s;covery of her Fathers tyrannick actions appeared mo&s;t odious. <HI>Fotoweldus</HI> took the &s;econd; a young Fo&s;ter-mother of &s;trange o|pinions. <HI>Sebla&s;ius</HI> the third; a mode&s;t Maid, and of a compo&s;ed carriage. The fourth and la&s;t was matched to <HI>Chirus;</HI> one who&s;e accidental infir|mities had made u&s;ele&s;s for a Nuptial Bed. The&s;e became additaments to his &s;welling Power; but nothing in compari&s;on to the influence he had o|ver his numerous Army. Upon his confidence whereof he became tran&s;ported to &s;uch unboun|ded
<PB N="268" REF="142"> height (an humor commonly incident to tho&s;e who ri&s;e from lower grounds to mountanous for|tunes) as he grew infinitly apt to pick quarels at his be&s;t friends; being &s;uch, from whom he had recei|ved formerly his &s;tronge&s;t a&s;&s;i&s;tance; and to whom he had expre&s;&s;ed &s;eemingly his neare&s;t indear|ments. Among&s;t whom, how&s;oever he pretended, none appeared more odious to him then his &s;ome|time bo&s;om-friend faithfull <HI>Lamachus.</HI> Which di|&s;ta&s;t aro&s;e from <HI>Lamachus</HI> ju&s;t oppo&s;ition, and from this occa&s;ion. <HI>Climenes</HI> arched thus with &s;trong alliance, on whom he had conferred the eminente&s;t Offices and places of Command with|in the whole I&s;land; as likewi&s;e with other con|&s;iderable Forces, under&s;tood &s;ufficiently how no|thing now remained undone for compleating the ab&s;olute work of his Soveraignty, whereto his am|bitious thoughts with much politick &s;ecrecy a&s;pi|red, &s;aving onely the Title of Regality: which though he &s;eem'd outwardly to decline, there was nothing that he did more inwardly de&s;ire. He per|ceived upon vote how <HI>Lamachus</HI> was the onely man who oppo&s;ed the conferment of that Title; which he objected, <HI>Climenes</HI> could not with ho|nour accept: having before the face of his Army di&s;avowed the acception of any &s;uch &s;tyle: for otherwi&s;e the true lineal Regal Race had never been extirpated, nor their memory extingui&s;hed. 2. That an Ari&s;tocratical and no Monarchical Go|vernment was intended in all their proceedings; and this &s;worn to, if either Fidelity or Oaths could <HI>oblige</HI> them. 3. That he could not &s;ee but as many of them had been equal &s;harers in the hazard; &s;o they
<PB N="269" REF="142"> might by Law of Arms become equal &s;harers in the quality of Honour. The&s;e objections were with more boldne&s;s pre&s;&s;ed, then they could be po&s;&s;ibly by his weak &s;trength or a&s;&s;i&s;tance &s;econd|ed. For though &s;ometimes his fair u&s;age and &s;tout courage had &s;trongly po&s;&s;e&s;t him of the hearts of the Souldiery, his late retirement and privacy, by his affecting a rural life, had quite e&s;tranged their endeerments from him, being onely devoted mo&s;t to his &s;ervice, whereby they had mo&s;t hope of pay: which <HI>Climenes</HI> &s;pirit to his great advan|tage ever &s;trove to make good; for though his Exchecquer grew lean, being exhau&s;ted by &s;un|dry unfortunate attempts, pur&s;ued to his apparent di&s;honour, with the lo&s;s of his elde&s;t and experi|ente&s;t &s;ouldiers: yet &s;uch was his ambition, cloa|thed with an avaritious di&s;po&s;ition, which had &s;prung to that height, as he would digg <HI>Pluto</HI> out of Hell for gold, as exactions and onerous im|po&s;ts, unknown to the State of <HI>Candy,</HI> before his time, returned ever fre&s;h and free &s;upplies to the daring Souldier, on who&s;e &s;houlders he reer'd the &s;tructure of his u&s;urped honour. Neither did it much trouble him to impair the Subjects &s;tate, &s;o he might improve the Souldiers &s;trength, who&s;e &s;i|news were his &s;upportance.</P>
<P>Now, tho&s;e bold expre&s;&s;es of <HI>Lamachus</HI> could not be &s;o privately delivered, but they were as &s;oon di&s;covered. <HI>Climenes</HI> gathered from hence how the game went. This it was which broke the long continued League betwixt <HI>Climenes</HI> and his Chieftain <HI>Lamachus</HI> (for &s;o was he wont to call him:) and to expedite his revenge, he advi&s;eth
<PB N="270" REF="143"> with his Councel, depraved and active enough to put on his de&s;ign, though his own vindicative &s;pirit needed no &s;uch fiery In&s;truments, how and in what manner he might requite his kindne&s;s; which his incen&s;ed thoughts prompt him to an&s;wer with all violence, as appeared afterwards by &s;undry particu|lars of high con&s;equence.</P>
<P><HI>Climenes</HI> could not be readier to propo&s;e, then the&s;e vicious Councellors were to &s;ugge&s;t: It was revenge which he pur&s;ued, and they to time it, were as apt to excite him to it.</P>
<P><HI>Themi&s;tocles</HI> &s;aying plea&s;ed the&s;e corrupters of Ju&s;tice better then the impartial cen&s;ure of that ju&s;t Father, who being reque&s;ted to bear him&s;elf indifferently in his cen&s;ure, an&s;wered, <HI>Be it farre from me not to plea&s;ure my friends in all things.</HI></P>
<P>This fire bur&s;t out into that violent and impetu|ous heat, as his fir&s;t de&s;ign was, to clip <HI>Lamachus</HI> wings by abridging his power; which he execu|ted to purpo&s;e, by taking from him the Command which he had given him in reward of his hazardous &s;ervice over the <HI>Epirian</HI> Hor&s;e, a great addition to his &s;trength and annual revenues, which di&s;honour &s;o highly trenching upon <HI>Lamachus,</HI> this &s;ubtile <HI>Si|non, Climenes</HI> pretended to be the Act of his Coun|cel, and not of his, which he was plea&s;ed to &s;ignifie upon every occa&s;ion; never meeting <HI>Lamachus</HI> without a di&s;&s;embling hugge, and a treacherous imbrace. Neither could he, for all his &s;ubtilty, &s;o palliate the inward hate he bore him, but even in Table-di&s;cour&s;e he would make <HI>Lamachus</HI> u&s;ually the &s;ubject of his Story; inquiring how he be&s;tow|ed him&s;elf in his Country life, and what imploy|ments
<PB N="271" REF="143"> &s;o de&s;erving and active a Spirit could ad|dre&s;s it &s;elf to, being &s;o full of heroick thoughts and matchle&s;s gallant<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y.</P>
<P>And being then an&s;wered, <Q>That he had got in|to the e&s;teem of a rare Limner, and an excellent Flori&s;t: Go to, replied <HI>Climenes,</HI> let him ply his wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k, and fall to his &s;etting of Citrons, and Melons, and Pumpions; but I could wi&s;h that precious Wall-flower to beware, le&s;t his dainty Griffs, like ambitious Ciens, grow above their due &s;tature and proportion, le&s;t the cunning Gardi|ner cau&s;e me to play the Primer.</Q> Thus was this politick U&s;urper, who of a Plebeian Souldier was become an ab&s;olute Commander, apt to play the Impo&s;ter with his be&s;t Friends.</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding all this, though Intelligence abroad, and A&s;&s;i&s;tance at home, might &s;eem to &s;e|cure him again&s;t the policy of all private de&s;ignes, or power of publick attempts; yet what &s;ecurity, where there lodgeth a &s;ecret enemy? There was a Foe within him, though he had no vi&s;ible hand to a&s;&s;ail him. For all the happine&s;s he could promi&s;e him&s;elf in this a&s;&s;umed freedom of his infant So|ver<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ignty, con&s;i&s;ted in the injoyment of a confi|ned Liberty: His very Pallace became his Pri&s;on, and him&s;elf a Jaylor to him&s;elf. Rare were his vi&s;its into the City, for he knew well how the Ci|tizens did generally hate him, and that his own ears could not chu&s;e but be witne&s;s of their odious cen&s;ure. And for his Summer Progre&s;&s;es, they were accompanied with &s;uch fears &amp; jealou&s;ies, as every Bu&s;h repre&s;ented to his feavouri&s;h thoughts a Bug|bear. Thus were his Recreations made his Affli|ctions;
<PB N="272" REF="144"> this bulk of honour a burden to him&s;elf; though &s;ometimes among&s;t his Infantry he would pretend to mirth, purpo&s;ely to delude the conceit of a Court-vi&s;itant. As for his princely Port, (if penury might be held princely) the face of his Court pre&s;ented &s;o mean a garb, as it reli&s;hed no more of State, then his impo&s;thum'd heart of Grace.</P>
<P>But we are to return now to that grand Con|vene, whereof there was &s;uch great expectance; but what this Mountain brought forth, you &s;hall hear in order, as things occurred, duly re|lated.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Dies Mer|curialis maxim&egrave; fatalis, quia eo die gravi&s;&s;ima Incolis <HI>Candiae</HI> obtigi&s;&s;et clades. <HI>Annal. Cand.</HI></NOTE>The fir&s;t day of their Convene had been ever held fatal and ominous, from that great Ma&s;&s;acre acted under <HI>Leopaldus.</HI> But ob&s;ervation of dayes was by them accounted &s;uper&s;titious. <HI>Climenes,</HI> as became a profe&s;t Zelot, whereto none ever more publickly pretended, nor more covertly di&s;&s;em|bled; with farre more privacy then &s;tate entred the Praetorian or great Hall; and after him the body of the whole A&s;&s;embly, a gallant prudent Synod, di&s;tingui&s;hed into two eminent Societies, of Lords and Commons. Wherein you are to note, that tho&s;e were only Titular Lords, and nominally &s;o created by the hand of the Sword, but not by de|&s;cent, &s;ome few only excepted; who &s;tanding up|on their priviledge of Birth, held it a derogation to their honour, to be ranked among tho&s;e who were only Titular. For tho&s;e Mu&s;hrom &s;urreptitious Peers might be, for their denomination, properly compared to tho&s;e Flyes bred neer to the River <HI>Hymerus,</HI> that were but of one dayes continuance,
<PB N="273" REF="144"> nay no &s;ooner bred then dead:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Quorum Familia &s;i|cut ignota, ita Proge|nies corum an legiti|ma, a ple|ri&s;que fuit ambigen|dum. Alii enim in Coem|teriis impli|citi Cunis, alii in pub|licis viis &s;ine inte|gumentis reperti fu|erunt nudi, in Sacra|rum aedi|um limini|bus alii, in agris &amp; areolis Hortorum alii, Paro|chiali Curae traditi, ut nullius filii. O genero&s;ae Heroum Progeni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></NOTE> So as in very deed in their di&s;coverie of the Accedents of Armory, they might ju&s;tly acknowlegde them&s;elves more beholden to their Titles of Honour by Accident then Antiquity. Whereof one of that prime Hou&s;e &s;o highly prized him&s;elf in his late acquired purcha&s;e of Honour, as he &s;tick'd not to vie with the chiefe&s;t of the Peerage, yet was his extraction well known to all the City, being found in his In|fancy laid &s;wathled in a Church-yard, left wholly to the care and provi&s;ion of the Pari&s;h. Others likewi&s;e of this leaven there were, who in their childhood had been found without &s;uccour or har|bour in the publick &s;treets, fields, and garden al|leys, and afterwards highly advanced in the&s;e times of di&s;traction, for their &s;ervice, by <HI>Climenes</HI> grace and favour: And the&s;e would u&s;ually beard the eminente&s;t of their Nobility, and not &s;o only, but contend with them for Offices of high concern, and Places of command, magnifying their actions, and &s;aying; That their a&s;&s;ayes had de&s;ervingly rai&s;ed them from low extractions to degrees of Honour; Whereas the pu&s;illanimity of tho&s;e, who&s;e de&s;cents had made them low in the e&s;teem of Fame, had a&s;per&s;ed upon their names an indele|ble tincture, which the length of time would not raze out, not the &s;plendor of their Family repaire, and that their Hou&s;e, though built up only to the fir&s;t &s;tory, would appear more glorious to the eye of Po&s;terity, then ancient high Structures ground|ed on &s;hrinking foundations; and that theirs would &s;tand, when tho&s;e va&s;t piles of declining Nobility &s;hould &s;ink. With the&s;e and &s;uch like
<PB N="274" REF="145"> affronts would the&s;e Sprouts of adventitious Ho|nour &s;hamele&s;ly encounter their chiefe&s;t Peers; which tho&s;e tame Lords had more Patience to in|dure, then Prowe&s;s to oppo&s;e. And this redound|ed highly to <HI>Climenes</HI> content, who&s;e Honour was his Souldier, by who&s;e a&s;&s;i&s;tance, were it right or wrong, if the di&s;tracted Synod &s;hould fall in pie|ces, he promi&s;ed to him&s;elf &s;ecurity.</P>
<P>The&s;e Members being now, according to their di&s;tinct qualities, orderly &s;eated and di&s;po&s;ed; <HI>Climenes</HI> &s;tood up, and in a Preamble, for further he did not go; (&s;o as all might &s;afely conclude, that the porch was larger then the building) he expre&s;|&s;ed the nece&s;&s;ity of that Grand Meeting, with &s;ome Complements, apt enough to ingratiate the Mem|bers (in which Art he was &s;ingularly &s;chool'd;) which done, he inlarg'd him&s;elf no farther; tran&s;|mitting his &s;en&s;e, and what he held mo&s;t con&s;e|quent to be in&s;i&s;ted on for the benefit of the pub|lick, to a Worthy Per&s;on of the A&s;&s;embly (as he term'd him) to be more fully communicated unto them the next day, <HI>Siennefius</HI> was that Worthy Per|&s;on, on who&s;e weak &s;houlders <HI>Climenes</HI> had laid the burden of that day; who&s;e long-lung'd Speech breathing more Church then State, appeared le&s;&s;e curt and Laconick then his Commanders, but farre more intricate; for to this hour there was none of all that great Auditory, that could di&s;cover <HI>Clime|nes</HI> &s;en&s;e by that Speech without a <HI>Clavis;</HI> and it &s;eem'd the key was lo&s;t, &s;o as they might ju&s;tly de|&s;pair of the opening of it; the only word that gave way to the unlocking of one ward, was &s;up|plies; a term of &s;uch hard dige&s;tion, as it highly
<PB N="275" REF="145"> di&s;reli&s;hed &s;ome per&s;ons, and tho&s;e eminent Ones, of that A&s;&s;embly, who, it &s;eemed, ei|ther wholly &s;leighted, or lightly re&s;ented <HI>Clime|nes</HI> nece&s;&s;ity.</P>
<P>The very next day, to di&s;cover their di&s;gu&s;ts, and &s;atisfie their doubts, two grave and judicious Coun&s;ellors, by name <HI>Ventilano</HI> and <HI>Collino,</HI> were purpo&s;ely &s;ent from the Higher Order of tho&s;e Con&s;cript Senators, to pre&s;ent to <HI>Climenes</HI> two Reque&s;ts in the name of the whole Synod. The fir&s;t was, That he would declare his own &s;en&s;e by publication of his own Speech. The &s;econd was, That he would render an account of the ex|pence of all tho&s;e va&s;t &s;ums, by which the State had been &s;o impoveri&s;hed, and the Royall Exche|quer exhau&s;ted: Whereto <HI>Climenes</HI> with an haugh|ty and imperious deport, without any civility at all &s;hown to tho&s;e Coun&s;ellors of State, replyed; That they were in a great error, if they expected to re|ceive a Tran&s;cript from his hand of any Speech that he had delivered, for it had never been his u&s;e, either to imploy his own Pen, nor any other <HI>Amanuen&s;is</HI> in order to his Expre&s;&s;es, but that it was a divine Providence in&s;piring him, whereon he relyed, and the only Directory by which he regula|ted the &s;ubject of his Di&s;cour&s;e.</P>
<P>And in an&s;wer to their &s;econd reque&s;t, as their expectance of an Account from him, di&s;covered in them an unexemplary boldne&s;s, &s;o would his ac|quie&s;cence to their demand in that particular argue his weakne&s;s; with which irre&s;olute an&s;wer they returned le&s;&s;e &s;atisfied, but more exa&s;perated then before.</P>
<PB N="276" REF="146">
<P>But little cared <HI>Climenes</HI> for their incen&s;ement, his hand was upon his Sword, as <HI>Tideus</HI> layd his up|on his Shield; his highe&s;t de&s;ign was, his Souldi|ers pay, which procured, he hoped ere long to pay them home who oppo&s;ed him.</P>
<P><HI>Climenes</HI> had read, no doubt, that Story of <HI>Han|nibal,</HI> and knew well how to make &s;ingular u&s;e of it. Of whom it was ob&s;erved,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Strabo, Suidas, Stobaeus, Dion. Ro&s;ardus.</NOTE> that the neerer he ap|pro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ced in his march to the City of <HI>Rome,</HI> the Senatours grew le&s;&s;e prudent, their Orators le&s;&s;e eloquent, and the Citizens le&s;&s;e valiant. The me|mory of &s;o eminent an example, probably induced him to give command, that &s;undry parties of Hor&s;e, in good number, &s;hould march to and fro clo&s;e by the Senate gate with light matches, purpo&s;ely to beget a Feaver in the Hou&s;e, and con&s;equently in all their Votes to corre&s;pond with his de&s;ires and dangerous de&s;igns.</P>
<P>And &s;ome of the&s;e feaveri&s;h &s;pirits, like wi&s;e Politicians, were carried away with &s;uch imaginary fears of death, which they under&s;tood to be in the power of the Sword; and that it argued &s;mall di&s;|cretion to enter into di&s;pute with force and fury, as they cunningly acted the part of <HI>Metius Suffe|tius,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">In a&s;pe|ctum <HI>Atrae Virgae,</HI> ut prodigium Naturae, contremu|erunt.</NOTE> turning down right <HI>Succo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s Mera&s;hites,</HI> or Neutrals: The&s;e trembled at the &s;ight of the <HI>Black Rod;</HI> as a fatal Prodigy: They knew death to be the King of fears, and fear of Kings, much more of in|feriour Creatures, who&s;e happine&s;s was their liber|ty, and from others heavier cen&s;ure an impunity. Others there were of more fiery &s;pirits, who &s;pake home, and were as homely reward|ed.</P>
<PB N="277" REF="146">
<P><HI>Bellonius</HI> to his advantage was not addmitted to be a Member of the Synod; and if he had, it was generall thought, his pre&s;ence had been to &s;mall purpo&s;e; for though a profe&s;t enemy to <HI>Climenes</HI> proceedings, yet he was ever held a Per&s;on of more abilities for a pitcht Field, then a Council of State.</P>
<P>And for <HI>Lamachus,</HI> though much was expected, he had learn'd &s;o much Councel of <HI>Harpocrates,</HI> as to lay his finger on his mouth, and teach his tongue to keep &s;ilence.</P>
<P>Of all this great A&s;&s;embly, there appeared very few to acquie&s;ce to <HI>Climenes</HI> &s;upplies, though the occa&s;ions and nece&s;&s;ities of the Kingdom were ve|hemently pre&s;&s;ed, and that the con&s;titution of the State could no way &s;ub&s;i&s;t without them. Neither could it avail him to bend his Bow, wanting &s;i|news and &s;trings to expedite his &s;hot.</P>
<P>Highly incen&s;ed was <HI>Climenes</HI> with this unex|pected re&s;ult from the A&s;&s;embly, but principally from the City; wherein, though there were many Indian Merchants, who, as he &s;uppo&s;ed, had fea|thered their Ne&s;ts &s;ufficiently, yet would they find no Supplies to accommodate his urgent nece&s;&s;ity, which appeared not only in his publick imploy|ments, and con&s;tant disbur&s;ements, in the conti|nuance of a &s;tanding Army, and a &s;traying Navy, but likewi&s;e in relation to his private ingagements, by marrying his Daughters to eminent Per&s;ons, with fair promi&s;es, but &s;low performance.</P>
<P><HI>Climenes</HI> having taken notice of the di&s;affection of &s;uch, on whom he had relyed, with the preva|lent power and increa&s;ing &s;trength of tho&s;e, by
<PB N="278" REF="147"> whom he &s;tood oppo&s;ed; &s;o as it appeared wholly improbable to him, how any expediences &s;hould be for his accomodation procured, or ought conde&s;cended to as he de&s;ired, without more ado: As one tran&s;ported with an implacable pa&s;&s;ion, not without &s;ome menaces of revenge, he entred the Senate Hou&s;e, and with a rough furrowed counte|nance, di&s;&s;olv'd that great Councel; determining all tho&s;e weighty Re&s;olves and Re&s;ults of the Pretorian in one peremptory period; concluding, that the late di&s;orders of that A&s;&s;embly, had begot more di&s;tractions in the State of <HI>Candy,</HI> then ma|ny years before, during all their civil Warrs, had ever produced; and that tho&s;e dome&s;tick divi&s;ions fomented in the brea&s;t of a factious Hou&s;e, would breath a fre&s;h vein to the effu&s;ion of more new bloud then the late civil Warrs, by their fatal influ|ence, to the irreparable ruine of that State, had formerly occa&s;ioned: This &s;torm, &s;aid he, with a countenance no le&s;&s;e &s;tormy, appears yet in a cloud, but it would &s;hortly break forth into a vio|lent tempe&s;t, which the misfortunes of a di&s;tem|pered State might more ea&s;ily bemoan then pre|vent; incounter then divert.</P>
<P>It was the opinion of &s;ome judicious Mem|bers, that the di&s;&s;olving of this Grand Councel redounded highly to <HI>Climenes</HI> di&s;advantage; for if his pa&s;&s;ion would have given way to rea&s;on, it was verily thought, that the Senate would have ac|quie&s;ced to his Demands.</P>
<P>But truth is, it was high time for <HI>Climenes</HI> to provide for his own &s;afety, being &s;o dangerou&s;ly in|gaged, that if he had not &s;ea&s;onably di&s;&s;olv'd this
<PB N="279" REF="147"> Great Council, it would in few dayes have taken cour&s;e to di&s;&s;olve him, by forcing him to act his la&s;t Scene on the Scaffold, as he had done to many others, and to &s;ubmit his head to <HI>Bonnardus</HI> Hatch|et, by paying his life tribute to the funeral Ob&s;e|quies of a fatal Mortality; for his many in&s;olencies, heavy impo&s;itions, and in&s;ucce&s;&s;ive adventures, had quite razed out the memory of his former Victo|ries, and re&s;olv'd his imperious height into mortal hate.</P>
<P>Neither did his words only but his actions give his Adver&s;aries, occa&s;ion to fear the heat of his fu|ry; for the whole Ba&s;tile Royal became &s;tored with his di&s;-affected In&s;truments.</P>
<P>There was none, to his apprehen&s;ion, that bare him or his Adherents the lea&s;t hate, which he re|venged not with &s;emblable &s;pite.</P>
<P>Neither was his fury thus bounded, for remem|bring tho&s;e undige&s;ted affronts and indignities which he had received from the City, he devi&s;ed how to lay heavy burdens upon the Citizens, not only in relation to their trading or commerce, which by Pyracies, and other Marine Occurrents, became ob&s;tructed, but even to their buildings, which to the improvement of his own Coffers, or the advance of his Souldiers, were highly in|hanced.</P>
<P>Neither was the City &s;low in requiting the&s;e di&s;curte&s;ies, whereof as they were very &s;en&s;ible; &s;o in the&s;e times of their &s;ufferings there was an op|portunity offered them for acting what their thoughts had privately de&s;igned.</P>
<P>About this time there chanced to ari&s;e a great
<PB N="280" REF="148"> difference betwixt two eminent Families within the City, the <HI>Cervi&s;iarii</HI> and <HI>Di&s;pen&s;atorii.</HI> Now <HI>Climenes</HI> &s;tood wholly for the former, but the City, in oppo&s;ition of him, for the latter; &s;o as there fell no place nor office of command within the walls, wherein the <HI>Disp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n&s;atorii</HI> upon election were not preferred, and the <HI>Cervi&s;iarii</HI> rejected. This nettled <HI>Climenes</HI> heart above all others, being &s;o nearly concerned in his Relations to the Fami|ly of the <HI>Cervi&s;iarii,</HI> as he ever ingenuou&s;ly ac|knowledged even in the height of his fortunes, that his Extraction originally received breath from that Family. But this di&s;gu&s;t, were it never &s;o ju&s;t|ly grounded (as indeed they could not wound them, but it mu&s;t pa&s;&s;e through his &s;ides) tho&s;e that were the prime Commoners, holding the greate&s;t &s;troak and &s;way in the City, &s;lighted his threats, and di&s;e&s;teem'd his frowns: For though he ruled all by the power of the Sword, yet they knew how to oppo&s;e him by the &s;trength of their Char|ter, the priviledges whereof he had con&s;tantly prote&s;ted to maintain, even unto death. Now the expre&s;s words of their antient Charter, continued by many Centuries of years, in the Ordination of all Civil Offices, admitted a free Election, exclu|ding ever tho&s;e three fearful Precipices, Fear, Fa|vour and Reward.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides all this, &s;o inveterate was the Plebeian hate to <HI>Climenes,</HI> as his Lady <HI>Adipa,</HI> (a meer &s;tranger to a Princely po&s;ture) could never make her vi&s;its in the City, but the refu&s;e and off-&s;cum of tho&s;e &s;treets, where &s;he occa&s;ionally pa&s;&s;ed, would not &s;tick publickly to revile her, a&s;per&s;ing the fowle&s;t
<PB N="281" REF="148"> terms of infamy and di&s;grace upon her; yet when inquiry was made, the Authors could not be found. So hard it is to return a remedy, where Authority inclines to a partial connivence; cordially intend|ing, what&s;oever is pretended, to give way, be it never &s;o much pur&s;ued, for the Offenders impu|nity.</P>
<P>How&s;oever this ancient uncivilized Lad ap|peared as great a Stranger to <HI>Climenes</HI> crimes, as &s;he was in her own per&s;on to all courtly State, moulding her &s;elf neerer to her own rural Educati|on, then the maje&s;ty of that &s;uperlative condition, whereto &s;he was &s;o lately advanced; and indeed, neither was her Per&s;on nor Breeding &s;utable for courting.</P>
<P>By this time, <HI>Climenes</HI> growing jealous of the affection of his Souldiery, who &s;eemed much di&s;|contented with the unexpected di&s;&s;olution of the Senate, convened before him all the Major-Gene|rals and prime Officers of his Army, to whom; drawing a&s;ide the hangings of his lodging-cham|ber, he communicated his troubled thoughts in this manner:</P>
<P><Q>Fellow Souldiers,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Climenes</HI> Speech to the Prime Officers of his Army.</NOTE> it cannot be but I &s;hould know mo&s;t of your faces, nor is it po&s;&s;ible but mo&s;t of you &s;hould be known to me; neither can you be ignorant, how the Superiour Power, by which all our humane actions are directed, and to their proper period reduced, has from time to time gone along with us, owned us, and given us &s;uc|ce&s;s above hope in our highe&s;t a&s;&s;ayes, and mo&s;t hazardous adventures, The Sun &s;hone ever cheerfully, and the winds blew pro&s;perou&s;ly upon
<PB N="282" REF="149"> us: The Champaign accommodated our Army with all conveniencies &s;utable for our underta|kings: All the Elements fought for us, to make our Atchievements more glorious, our continued Victories more numerous. Neither &s;hall I blu&s;h, from a grateful recollection of my own conditi|on, to acknowledge the Providence of Heaven, in rai&s;ing me from a low ground to this gradual a&s;cent, whereto by &s;tep and &s;tep I have mounted; Gradually I may properly &s;ay; for without a&s;cri|bing any thing to my &s;elf, I &s;hall ingenuou&s;ly confe&s;s it, that in my fir&s;t initiation and exerci&s;e of Armes, I was as one of you, nay lower in ac|count then the lowe&s;t of you; and by what &s;taires did I a&s;cend to this height, or by who&s;e hands was I lifted up to this Seat? I call the Heavens to record, in who&s;e pre&s;ence I &s;tand, that it was not my ambition, but your unanimity and free Election, which farre above my thoughts, or hopes, rai&s;ed me to this condition. It was your joynt voice and vote that layd upon me the&s;e Commands; they were put upon me, and not &s;ought. And mu&s;t my actions now be que&s;tioned, that have been ever ca&s;t in that mould, and ac|quainted with no other end then pre&s;ervation of the Subjects ancient Liberties, Royal Priviledges, the life of the Laws, the ju&s;t maintenance of our Honour, with the &s;afety of our Per&s;on, the &s;ecuri|ty whereof I have many times neglected, as your &s;elves well know, for advancement of the Pub|lick? Now re&s;olve me, will it become you to en|tertain jealous thoughts touching your Com|mander, who&s;e highe&s;t endeavours have been
<PB N="283" REF="149"> ever &s;o con&s;tantly tender of your Honour? Tru&s;t me, fellow-Souldiers, <HI>Climenes</HI> de&s;ires thir&s;t after nothing &s;o much as the knowledge of your affe|ction. Deal clearly with me; unrivet your bo|&s;oms freely, and do not double with me. If you have a love for me, retain it, it &s;hall be my aim to de&s;erye it; if otherwi&s;e, di&s;cover it. Lay down your Commi&s;&s;ions, who&s;oever you be, that have no mind to &s;erve me. Upon my reputation I vow it, your di&s;-&s;ervice, and de&s;ertion of me, &s;hall not di&s;ta&s;te me: Nay, if you &s;hould imbody your &s;elves in an Army, I could do no le&s;&s;e then &s;mile at your folly, and cheerfully imbattle you, and make your own blood &s;atisfactory for my in|jury. Neither do I &s;peak this to incen&s;e them, who&s;e impoy&s;oned thoughts harbour &s;ome jea|lous opinions concerning me; but to declare to the world how lightly I weigh them, who vapour forth their undige&s;ted, griefs without grounds, de&s;iring nothing more then to imbroile the State, and involve our late reduced Nation in a new Warre. I &s;hall only tell the&s;e di&s;affected Ones, that I &s;hould rather have chu&s;ed to keep Sheep on an hill, then born Command over &s;uch Incen|diaries, who&s;e de&s;igns &s;ecretly act for &s;hedding more innocent bloud, then all their Sympathetick powders have power to &s;tanch. As for tho&s;e that will be intirely mine, they &s;hall have that intere&s;t in me, and influence over me, that though I be their Commander, they &s;hall be Commanders of my affection, and receive ample remon&s;trances of their alacrious &s;ervice and fidelity towards me.</Q></P>
<PB N="284" REF="150">
<P><Q>Go on then, fight for me, or again&s;t me; as the one may oblige me, &s;o the other &s;hall not affright me. Re&s;olution can no way &s;uffer, where true Valour gives Convoy to the Port of Honour.</Q></P>
<P>This Speech wrought attention on &s;ome with applau&s;e, which was manife&s;ted by their Hum; but the di&s;contented Party went away un&s;atisfied as they came. Which <HI>Climenes</HI> quickly ob&s;erving, re&s;olved to take another cour&s;e, and in &s;uch a way as might accommodate him in three main re&s;pects, both for &s;ecuring his Per&s;on, &s;trengthening his Com|mands, and rai&s;ing him to the highe&s;t pitch of his Ambition.</P>
<P>And to expedite his de&s;igns, &s;eeing him&s;elf in|clo&s;ed with &s;uch &s;traits at home, he &s;eeks how to purcha&s;e him&s;elf Friends abroad. <HI>Ferrara</HI> he finds to be no firm Friend to rely on; his aime therefore was to fall off from their a&s;&s;ociation, and ingratiate him&s;elf by Emba&s;&s;ies, with other indear|ing tenders of affection, into the Alliance of <HI>He|truria,</HI> a long continued Enemy to <HI>Ferrara;</HI> ima|gining, as he might well, that the <HI>Hetrurian</HI> might prove more u&s;eful for his intere&s;t then the uncer|tain Amity of <HI>Ferrara:</HI> But for all his &s;olicitancy, the <HI>Hetrurian</HI> was too wi&s;e to give ear to a recon|ciled Enemy (and &s;uch an one had <HI>Climenes</HI> pro|fe&s;t him&s;elf during all the&s;e Civil warrs) in adhee|ring and &s;trongly a&s;&s;i&s;ting <HI>Ferrara,</HI> their mortal Foe again&s;t them.</P>
<P><HI>Climenes</HI> being thus di&s;appointed of their Alli|ance, which had been of infinite con&s;equence to the &s;ettlement of his affairs, he determines to &s;et
<PB N="285" REF="150"> up his re&s;t upon one e&s;pecial de&s;ign, which he had been long in hatching, but now came to act|ing; for &s;o the nece&s;&s;ity of his condition, where|with he was &s;traitened, pre&s;ently required; and to make a tryal of his conclu&s;ion, knowing by long experience, that more advantage would accrue to his addre&s;&s;es by di&s;patch then delay, one morn|ing betimes, when they lea&s;t expected, he calls up his Cabinet Councel, communicating him&s;elf free|ly unto them in this &s;ort.</P>
<Q><TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="speech">
<HEAD><HI>Climenes</HI> Speech to his Cabinet Councel.</HEAD>
<P><Q>My prudent and faithful Coun&s;el, it were not po&s;&s;ible that I &s;hould appear either &s;o in&s;en&s;ible of mine own former condition, or &s;o unmindful of your vigilant care and approved affection, as not to retain in memory the &s;undry &s;traits, whereto the giddy wheel of Fate has in the&s;e agitations of State reduced me; with what promptne&s;s and alacrity your great Wi&s;doms have &s;ea&s;onably contributed in tho&s;e extreams to my relief. To whom then &s;hould I make my addre&s;s, but where I have found &s;uch opportunate redre&s;&s;es? And I mu&s;t freely acquaint you, that my condition is &s;uch, as your advice could never be more u&s;eful to me in the Receit, nor more grateful in the Ap|plication: But tho&s;e wounds have been ever held of a malignant quality, that expect cure without a di&s;covery. I intend therefore with much freedom and confidence to unbo&s;om my &s;elf before your Honors: You cannot but ob&s;erve how variou&s;ly di&s;po&s;ed their affections are to|wards
<PB N="286" REF="151"> me, who owe them&s;elves unto me: This di&s;&s;ent in Opinions has begot the&s;e divi&s;ions, and different di&s;tractions. This great City <HI>Thamipo|lis,</HI> the glory of Nations, <HI>Candies</HI> ancient <HI>Metro|polis,</HI> who&s;e &s;inews gave &s;upplies to our Forces in all the&s;e Civil Wars again&s;t <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> and his Suc|ce&s;&s;or <HI>Charicles,</HI> are lately fallen from us; &s;tand|ing wholly for a <HI>State-Government,</HI> others for a <HI>Democracy,</HI> others for a <HI>Platonick Community:</HI> Whereas your Prudence, who &s;it at the Sterne of the State, has ever &s;tood con&s;tantly to a <HI>Monar|chical Soveraignty;</HI> whereto I have been many times by your grave advice &s;eriou&s;ly invited, and &s;olicitou&s;ly courted; but through a native mo|de&s;ty being flat again&s;t tho&s;e Principles, which I had fought again&s;t and prote&s;ted, I &s;eemingly declined.</Q></P>
<P><Q>But, my good Lords, the urgent nece&s;&s;ities of the&s;e times, with tho&s;e threatening combu&s;tions and approaching &s;torms, which every where in|gage our care for a timely prevention, have &s;o &s;trongly wrought upon our thoughts, as we are re&s;olved for the acception of that <HI>Imperial Title,</HI> if your a&s;&s;ents, as you have ever formerly expre&s;|&s;ed, give way unto it.</Q></P>
<P><Q>Sundry Statizing Libels have been by malig|nant &s;pirits in &s;undry corners di&s;per&s;ed, highly tending to the derogation of our Honor, and Prerogative of State: All which, our pre&s;ent con|dition being re&s;t of a <HI>Titular Power,</HI> we were ne|ce&s;&s;itated to connive at, as if it had not concern'd us. The&s;e with many other State-maladies, may, as we conceive, become capable of a &s;peedy cure
<PB N="287" REF="151"> by your joynt a&s;&s;ent to our admittance of this Style.</Q></P>
<P><Q>Neither has Ambition, but the States pre&s;erva|tion, pitcht me upon the&s;e Re&s;olves; for HE, in who&s;e pre&s;ence I &s;tand, has ever dictated to me this good Coun&s;el; <HI>Let Rea&s;on go before every Enterpri&s;e, and Coun&s;el before every Action:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;. 37.16.</NOTE> Which Precept I have to my &s;eriou'&s;t thoughts oft propo&s;ed; and it &s;hall be my content to &s;ur|fer in the highe&s;t mea&s;ure, rather then decline from it.</Q></P>
<P><Q>I de&s;ire no more of you, nor can I expect le&s;&s;e from you, then to pur&s;ue what you did attempt; your foundations, have taken up a great deal of room. Do but accompli&s;h and make good what you have undertaken; and handle tho&s;e things which you have devi&s;ed and mu&s;ed of with your &s;elves.</Q></P>
<P><Q>My Lords, you have a great &s;hare in me,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sen. ad Lucil.</NOTE> under which notion I mu&s;t freely tell you, that I have been more wearied with Commanding then Con|quering: Yea, &s;o di&s;pa&s;&s;ionately has my patience been tran&s;ported with the guidance of this Peo|ple, as I &s;hould have holden my condition more happy in being a Shepherd, then leading &s;uch wild Cattle: And to inlarge my &s;elf more,<NOTE PLACE="marg">&lindx;</NOTE> had not the high intere&s;t and nece&s;&s;ity of this State recei|ved &s;uch commanding influence over me, and laid the&s;e &s;ervile Manacles (for le&s;&s;e I cannot hold them) upon me, I &s;hould have taken into my thoughts that opinion of <HI>Seleucus;</HI> That if any one &s;hould but con&s;ider what thorny cares were interwoven in a Crown, he would not hold
<PB N="288" REF="152"> it worthy taking up, if it lay in the &s;treet. But this care is exacted of me, and I mu&s;t become a principal &s;harer in it: this yoak is impo&s;ed on me, and I mu&s;t bear it.</Q></P>
<P><Q>Now, that I may be the fitter moulded for it, and better inabled to &s;upport it, be it your good|ne&s;s to lend me your heads, as I &s;hall upon all oc|ca&s;ions render you my hands. Action and Poli|cy mu&s;t make up the Diapa&s;on in this State-har|mony; for where the Gown and Gantlet are manag'd with di&s;cretion, and in a Symmetrial order, they cannot chu&s;e but come off with ho|nour, and by their fair deportment pre&s;ent acti|ons corre&s;ponding with the con&s;titution of a Se|nate, and the Title of an Emperour.</Q></P>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT></Q>
<P>His Cabinet Coun&s;el was &s;o fitly moulded to his bent, as they knew well how to &s;ooth his humour. So as, though &s;ome of them had highly di&s;gu&s;ted <HI>Climenes</HI> ra&s;h Act of di&s;&s;olving the Synod without the privity or approvement of his Councel; they not only with joynt vote a&s;&s;ented, but &s;trongly importuned him to expedite his Re&s;olve in this ac|ceptation of the Imperial Crown. This was the Lure which they applied, and whereon his attra|ctive appetite quickly baited. Neither did <HI>Climenes</HI> retard their de&s;ires: For though dayly &s;wounings ari&s;ing from an ill-limited &s;winge of pa&s;&s;ion, and fury of oppo&s;ition had much enfeebled him: nay, though nightly fears and jealou&s;ies, u&s;her'd in with terrible vi&s;ions had greiviou&s;ly &s;tartled him; yet &s;o &s;trongly had Ambition &s;eiz'd upon his thoughts, as nothing could be with more winged
<PB N="289" REF="152"> &s;peed accelerated, then the pur&s;uit of his Imperial Inve&s;titure; which within few dayes after, was with more privacy then publick &s;olemnity accom|pli&s;hed in this manner.</P>
<P>The Prince <HI>Ferrara</HI> by his <HI>Proxie</HI> was highly courted to be there pre&s;ent, but affairs of more ob|liging concern had ingaged him. The Dukes too of <HI>Florence</HI> and <HI>Millain</HI> were expected;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Climenes</HI> was a Per&s;on incompa|rably pa&s;|&s;ionate, and of a vindica|tive na|ture, which brought him to pay his debt to Nature the &s;oon|er.</NOTE> but upon a Provincial Diet being otherwi&s;e imployed, they excus'd their ab&s;ence. And well might Forraign States be di&s;penced with, when the ancient Peer|age of <HI>Candie</HI> were taken with &s;uch an Epidemi|cal di&s;temper, as none of all the&s;e could be &s;een at this great Solemnity, conceiving, as might be col|lected probably, that &s;uch an immerited honour was unfittingly conferred on a pretended Power, &s;hadowed with the Robe of an u&s;urped Maje&s;ty; which <HI>Climenes</HI> quickly ob&s;erving, he in great cho|ler pa&s;&s;ionately vowed, that he verily thought all the Nobility of that I&s;land was taken with the Ca|lenture, but he would find a way to cure their di|&s;temper.</P>
<P>All this fore-&s;lowed not his de&s;ign:<NOTE PLACE="marg">For his jealou&s;ie had cau|&s;ed many of his <HI>Life-guard</HI> to be &s;e|cured.</NOTE> All hands were imployed; all things with much &s;tate and magnificence prepared, though the Confluence appeared thin to accompany it. The Imperial <HI>Ebor</HI> or Chair of State was erected: An Arch-Flamin, by whom the&s;e Regal Ceremonies were to be performed, readily attended: An Imperial Diadem adorned with the pretiou&s;t Stones that the Ea&s;t afforded. Where <HI>Climenes,</HI> as if he had put on a new face, an&s;werable to the per&s;on w^c^h he was to repre&s;ent, a&s;ce~ded to his Throne with an unwonted
<PB N="290" REF="153"> &s;tate, upon the Corni&s;h whereof he found the&s;e words written in a little Scedule: <HI>In terram, Dia|dema &s;i tollas, a terra in terram tolleris, antequam geres. On earth, if thou take&s;t a Crown, thou may&s;t receive it, but from earth thou &s;halt return to earth before thou wear it.</HI> This upon his fir&s;t reading of it did not a little amaze him; but afterwards hold|ing it to be the device of &s;ome di&s;-affected per|&s;on, or rather &s;ome Magical Spell or Inchantment, he wholly &s;lighted it; though &s;hortly after this in|cantation prov'd a true divination. For &s;carcely had that Imperial Crown impaled his head, till (as if it held it &s;elf too worthy a Receit for &s;uch a Gue&s;t) he &s;unk down &s;uddenly, and &s;o expi|red.</P>
<P>The report of this unexpected change was pre|&s;ently bruted abroad through all the Garri&s;ons, de|&s;igned for the guard of his Per&s;on, and &s;afeguard of the Pallace, which were numerous, and in &s;everal places di&s;po&s;ed; &s;o many were the fears, jealou|&s;ies, and affrights, which u&s;ually encountred him; being, indeed to the judgement of all tho&s;e who knew him, a con&s;tant terror, or rather a pri&s;on to him&s;elf; wherein he exerci&s;ed his imperious Sove|raignty, and Syracu&s;an Tyranny, till this adventiti|ous Fate (which occa&s;ioned more grounds of joy then tears) cut him off from acting more cruel|ty, by impo&s;ing a period to his u&s;urped Power, and clo&s;ing it with a tragick and di&s;con&s;olate Ca|ta&s;trophe.</P>
<P>Neither had this report of his death only po&s;|&s;e&s;t the Guards, for by this time it had &s;ounded loudly in the ear of the Roman Regiment, who
<PB N="291" REF="153"> were ever held the &s;trength and &s;inews of his Ar|my. The&s;e, as they were Souldiers of Fortune, no &s;ooner heard of <HI>Climenes</HI> fall, then they &s;tood up for anothers ri&s;e. And the late unfortunate and pro&s;cribed <HI>Charicles</HI> mu&s;t be the man;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Charicles <HI>priu&s;quam</HI> Regale Solium <HI>a&s;cenderat mortem obiit, a cu|jus di&s;ce&s;|&s;u, illius frater</HI> Jagonius, <HI>Princeps egregiae indolis, ex miae mentis, invicti Spiritus, infatigabilis indu&s;triae, militibus perquam charus, com|muni omnium arbitrio,</HI> Imperiali Titulo <HI>cen&s;ebatur digni&s;&s;imus.</HI> Ficin. <HI>Sect.</HI> 2. <HI>parag.</HI> 7. Some vary in this Relation, &s;ay|ing, that <HI>Charicles</HI> dyed before he a&s;cended the <HI>Regal Throne;</HI> and that his B other <HI>Jagonius,</HI> a Prince of an undanted &s;pi|rit, and by all the Souldiery infinitely loved, lineally &s;ucceeded him; which is by the approved&s;t Centuri&s;ts oppo&s;ed.</NOTE> which they publickly atte&s;ted, and with joynt clamour eccho|ed forth in the&s;e words: <HI>REVOCETUR</HI> CHA|RICLES <HI>AB EXILIO, IN REGALI CONSTITUATUR SOLIO: Let</HI> Chari|cles <HI>be recalled from Exile, and re&s;tored to his Empire.</HI></P>
<P>This &s;tartled the Coun&s;el of State; but holding it no di&s;cretion to di&s;pute with Power, after a &s;hort Con&s;ult (for the heady Regiment would permit no long debate) it was by joynt vote concluded, and with the Signal Manual of the Senate con&s;ign|ed, that a Commi&s;&s;ion General &s;o &s;ealed &s;hould be recommended to the care and tran&s;action of an Eminent Per&s;on for that purpo&s;e elected and au|thorized, with qualified Ho&s;tages depo&s;ited: the purport of which In&s;trument bore this face; That it was the univer&s;al con&s;ent and de&s;ire of the State of <HI>Candie,</HI> that <HI>Charicles</HI> &s;hould be recalled from Bani&s;hment, and re-inve&s;ted in his hereditary Rights, and Imperial Throne; That Security was already given, by con&s;iderable Ho&s;tages, for his
<PB N="292" REF="154"> &s;afe arrival and acce&s;s to his Metropolitan City <HI>Thamipolis,</HI> and his Royal Pallace <HI>Leu|coma,</HI> a too accurate Seat for an u&s;urping State.</P>
<P>The&s;e plea&s;ant tidings came no le&s;s unexpect|edly then &s;ea&s;onably to the ear of <HI>Charicles,</HI> being at that time divided betwixt hope and fear; but over-ballanced were his hopes with feares, having &s;uch weak Forces vi&s;ibly appearing to advance his hopes.</P>
<P>Time would admit no delay in pur&s;uit of &s;o fair an opportunity; &s;o &s;oon therefore as he could pre|pare him&s;elf with conveniencies &s;utable for &s;o im|portant an Expedition, he re&s;olved to take his leave of the Court of <HI>Ferrara,</HI> and addre&s;s his cour&s;e for <HI>Candy.</HI></P>
<P>Many dayes were not pa&s;t, till all things were provided according to his de&s;ires, and every way corre&s;ponding with his occa&s;ions.</P>
<P>Along then, with his di&s;con&s;olate Mother, a La|dy of &s;ingular piety, with others of his Relation, he commits him&s;elf to the mercy of the Sea, where, by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of pro&s;perous winds, with|in &s;hort time after he landed in <HI>Meloces</HI> an Haven in <HI>Crete,</HI> anciently famous for confluence of Mer|chants and plenty of Traffick; from whence he was with all Princely &s;tate, and a gallant retinue of Peers, (&s;uch as had been &s;eldom &s;een in the pre|&s;ence of <HI>Climenes</HI>) with all cheerfulne&s;s and ala|crity conducted towards <HI>Thamipolis.</HI> Some half a league before he came to his Pallace of <HI>Leucoma;</HI> where he fir&s;t intended to &s;hew him&s;elf to his Court and People, he alighted from his Chariot,
<PB N="293" REF="154"> and taking the Queen-Mother by the hand; Ma|dam, &s;aid he, will your Highne&s;s be plea&s;ed to take Hor&s;e? It will give &s;atisfaction to the longing ex|pectance of our affectionate Subjects. She in|clin'd to his motion; and drawing neer to the &s;ight of the <HI>Ace&s;chein</HI> or <HI>Refectory,</HI> mounted pro&s;pe|ctively above the Court gate: <HI>Charicles</HI> ca&s;ting his eye a&s;ide, &s;ent forth a deep &s;igh. What may occa&s;ion that, &s;aid <HI>Iri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a,</HI> arriving &s;o near your own? <HI>Madam,</HI> re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lyed he, <HI>this wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> fetcht from the &s;ad memory of mine own; the crim&s;on circle of that unhallowed place made your Grace a Widdow, and us Orphans; this was that Perfidious plat, where in the &s;ight of his own, he was de&s;erted of his own, and weakly bemoaned by his own, the &s;able Stage where he performed that la&s;t Act, which reft you of an Husband, us of a pious Father.</HI></P>
<P>This relation <HI>Irina</HI> plenteou&s;ly imbathed in tears; but high and con&s;equent affairs injoyn'd their diverti&s;ement from a pur&s;uit of pa&s;&s;ion, to &s;uch a compo&s;ure or moderation, as might &s;uit better with the nece&s;&s;ity of their addre&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>The very next day after <HI>Charicles</HI> repaire to <HI>Leu|coma,</HI> his inauguration was with all Princely mag|nificence and &s;olemnity performed; wherein it was a wonderful thing to ob&s;erve, with what promptne&s;s (to omit the incomparable care and &s;edulity of his Courtiers) that Neutral City, which &s;o lately before had di&s;-obliged their ab&s;o|lute Soveraign, by impoveri&s;hing them&s;elves to &s;trengthen the &s;inews of an U&s;urper; with what alacrity, I &s;ay, the&s;e Protean Pro&s;elytes or State-Chamelions, having changed their hearts as well
<PB N="294" REF="155"> as habits, manife&s;ted their Zeal to this late inau|gur'd Prince, not only in acclamations, publick &s;hows, pre&s;entments, and Bone-fires, with Conduits running freely with all &s;orts of Wines, but in pre|cious and rich pre&s;ents; implying demon&s;trative|ly, that though their Trea&s;uries had been long time &s;hut from the &s;eizure of an U&s;urper, they could readily find keyes to open them to their Heredi|tary Prince and lineal Emperour.</P>
<P>This incomparably ingratiated him, and advan|taged them in the confirming their Charter, which by their mi&s;carriage had run it &s;elf upon a &s;helf of irreparable danger, had not the Princes indulency pa&s;t over the highne&s;s of their delinquency: which in the judgment of that time appeared to be a &s;in|gular argument of clemency in <HI>Charicles,</HI> who had far greater cau&s;e to revenge then remit, not only the private de&s;igns, but publick attempts of many &s;elf-intere&s;ted Citizens of <HI>Thamipolis,</HI> who profe&s;t them&s;elves con&s;tant Favorites to <HI>Climenes,</HI> during the pur&s;uit of all tho&s;e Civil Wars; which affe|ctionate adherency they were ever ready to mani|fe&s;t in their ample and voluntary contributions up|on all occa&s;ions, as likewi&s;e in their promptne&s;s of Recruits, affording fre&s;h &s;upplies to the Re|bels a&s;&s;i&s;tance with more quickne&s;s then it was re|quired.</P>
<P>Yet the memory of all the&s;e in&s;upportable in|juries by the Princes piety became buried; &s;o highly was he taken with tho&s;e vi&s;ible te&s;timonies of their &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion and humble de&s;ires of recon|ciliation, as his benign di&s;po&s;ition made revenge a a &s;tranger to his thoughts, receiving them into his
<PB N="295" REF="155"> Favour, who&s;e actions had merited the heavie&s;t weight of his di&s;plea&s;ure.</P>
<P>Truth is, it was not po&s;&s;ible that any occa&s;ional di&s;gu&s;t could be &s;o implacable, as not to be in &s;ome mea&s;ure attempered or mollified by their &s;ea&s;ona|ble application, and free agnition of their di&s;|allegiance towards him, and by what per&s;on princi|pally tho&s;e di&s;repects had been fomented: And this was one <HI>Salino,</HI> who had been the only di&s;ci|plinary Martiali&s;t for the City. A man &s;eemingly appearing of a clear and &s;erene temper, but cordi|ally factious, and of a turbulent nature; which be|ing aggravated by &s;undry in&s;tances, brought him to a &s;horter period then his Complices de&s;ired, though nothing &s;ooner then his actions de&s;erved; being executed on the Artillery Round, where his perfidious Head-piece had moulded the platforms of many dangerous divi&s;ions: So ea&s;ie it was for one contagious Member to infect a whole Society, and by poy&s;onous ingredients di&s;temper the con|&s;titution of a Loyally-affected City. For had not the &s;ini&s;ter influence of &s;uch as the&s;e operated &s;trongly upon the principles of <HI>Thamipolis,</HI> it had never fallen into &s;uch dangerous conclu&s;ions, nor profe&s;t it &s;elf either ho&s;tile or neutral to a lineal So|veraignty.</P>
<P>After this unexpected juncture by the Prince his gratious acceptance of the Citizens into his favour and protection, there pa&s;t not one day with|out &s;ome Pre&s;entment or other &s;et forth to the be&s;t beauty and advantage that either Art or Invention could devi&s;e. Among&s;t which there was one only Satyrical Conceit, which took infinitely above the
<PB N="296" REF="156"> re&s;t; and this was pre&s;ented in a dance of Syl|vans, wherein the chiefe&s;t Sylvan, attired in Prince|ly habit, after the end of the Antick, bearing the vivid Effigies, both in countenance and per&s;onage, of <HI>Climenes,</HI> &s;at mounted in a Chair of State, to whom was pre&s;ented a Coronet of pure gold; and having his head ready to be impaled with it, there appeared an hand out of a Cloud &s;natching at the Coronet &s;o pre&s;ented, and in a Chry&s;tal Ovally form'd, containing this Impre&s;&s;e, DETUR DIG|NIORI. This was no &s;ooner &s;hown, then the Syl|van was with much di&s;grace forc'd out of that Chair, wherein he was formerly placed, and ano|ther more Princely or Maje&s;tick Sylvan, holding a neer re&s;emblance both in favour and feature to <HI>Charicles,</HI> was &s;et in that Chair of State, and digni|fied with the Coronet. This Invention infinitely contented the well-affected, which was generally &s;o, or pretending to be &s;o. Though <HI>Charicles</HI> forth of a native mode&s;ty, either &s;eem'd not to ob&s;erve it, or would take no cogni&s;ance of it, being much below his &s;corn to impe his wings with &s;cattered feathers, or to triumph in the di&s;honour of a de|cea&s;ed Foe, who&s;e ignominy, though it de&s;erv'd no pity, yet he held it ignoble to rub over the wounds of a bla&s;ted memory.</P>
<P>Neither did this his gallant compa&s;&s;ion, extend it &s;elf only &s;o his decea&s;ed Enemy, but even to his Po&s;terity, to as there were none of his Relations, who did not amply ta&s;te of it; only it was his plea&s;ure with much mildne&s;s to tax his Daughter <HI>Salacia,</HI> a Lady infinitely &s;pritely, and a compleat Curtezan, of her too much liberty, wi&s;hing her to
<PB N="297" REF="156"> be more tender of her honour; wherein he expre&s;t rather the office of a Father then a &s;tranger. So as <HI>Alexander,</HI> that univer&s;al Monarch, could never &s;hew more Princely clemency nor affability to <HI>Darius</HI> Wife and his Children, after his Conque&s;t, then <HI>Charicles</HI> did to the Relations of <HI>Climenes</HI> af|ter his death.</P>
<P>True it is, that though <HI>Climenes</HI> layd great taxes; a&s;&s;e&s;&s;es, and impo&s;itions upon the <HI>Candiots,</HI> pretend|ing, that the con&s;titution of the State could not otherwi&s;e &s;ub&s;i&s;t, which pre&s;&s;ures begot him a ge|neral Odium among&s;t the Natives, who&s;e necks had been formerly free of &s;uch &s;ervile yoaks;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Neither, indeed, could <HI>Cha|ricles,</HI> in re&s;pect of his ab&s;o|lute Com|mand, and <HI>Climenes</HI> numerous oppre&s;&s;i|ons, in|curre the cen&s;ure of in ju&s;tice, if he had converted his Ene|mies rich Coffers to the fur|ni&s;hing of his poor Exche|quer.</NOTE> yet the&s;e allegations of his appear'd to be, after his death, meer pretences; for his Coffers were full of trea&s;ure, be&s;ides the Banks he had &s;tored up in other Nations; which by report of &s;ome Merchants im|ployed in tho&s;e parts, and neerly intere&s;ted in his Commands, were of high con&s;equence.</P>
<P>Now collect hence the rare temperance and moderation of <HI>Charicles</HI> amid&s;t the&s;e attractive Baits. Power enough he had to &s;eize on them, and to convert them to his own Trea&s;ury; yet neither could the memory of an Enemy, nor his own re|&s;i&s;tle&s;s Authority, induce him to act ought that might detract from the &s;plendor of Ju&s;tice, or ap|pear light in the &s;cale of Equity. What&s;oever tho&s;e, who had relation to <HI>Climenes,</HI> impropriate to them&s;elves, he not only left untoucht, but publi&s;h'd it as his expre&s;s Command, that none, under what colour or pretence &s;oever, &s;hould &s;eize upon any &s;uch trea&s;ure, &s;ub&s;tance, or uten&s;ils, but leave them to the injoyment of his Succe&s;&s;ors without di&s;tur|bance:
<PB N="298" REF="157"> Which Princely compa&s;&s;ion not only gave wings to his Fame, but won tho&s;e to his affection, who&s;e hearts had been before Aliens to his devoti|on, and private ob&s;tructers (for further they dur&s;t not go) to his late inve&s;titure and inaugura|tion.</P>
<P>But to the end he might declare him&s;elf in a more &s;atisfactory manner to his Peerage and Com|mons, he propos'd a &s;ixt day, wherin he intended to communicate his thoughts and de&s;igns relating to the State in general; as likewi&s;e touching &s;ome eminent Per&s;ons, of who&s;e different opinions and affections towards him, he had received both by intelligence, and per&s;onal intere&s;ts, ample demon|&s;trations, which in a Princely demean and well-be|&s;eeming po&s;ture (as none could deliver his mind with a more maje&s;tick pre&s;ence, nor propriety of expre&s;s) he returned in this &s;ort.</P>
<Q><TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="speech">
<HEAD><HI>Charicles</HI> Speech to the Peers and Commons of <HI>Candie.</HI></HEAD>
<P>My Lords and Commons; and to you fir&s;t, who hold the fir&s;t place in my thoughts, nay, to whom I owe my &s;elf, in recollection of my late condition, and your approved zeal; which your loyal de&s;ires no le&s;&s;e opportunely then compa&s;|&s;ionately expre&s;t, when my nece&s;&s;ities required them mo&s;t, being in the depth of my extremes, and the lowe&s;t ebbe of my fortunes; yet as in the pure&s;t Minerals there is to be found &s;ome ground-&s;oyle, and impurer metal; &s;o there were &s;ome among you, whom I &s;hall leave to the &s;cru|tiny
<PB N="299" REF="157"> of their own brea&s;ts) who, though their Extractions were antiently good, yet the corrupti|on of the&s;e times had depraved them, and by de|generating principles made them evil. The&s;e were &s;uch, as neither the apprehen&s;ion of my calami|tous condition could reclaim them, nor their own &s;ufferings, being &s;laved to a tyrannick Govern|ment, reduce them. The&s;e were no refined metal, no gold of <HI>Peru,</HI> for they would not abide the touch, but adulterate; Neutrals at the be&s;t, if not profe&s;t Enemies to the equity of my Cau&s;e.</P>
<P>I &s;hould be loth to dart a glowing blu&s;h on a|ny of their faces by my di&s;covery; I leave them to a &s;en&s;ible remor&s;e of their obliquities, and a bo&s;om-agnition of their own di&s;loyalty. By the word of a Prince, &s;o they redeem the time they have lo&s;t, and teach their thoughts to be regulated by his Commands, who&s;e ju&s;t Soveraignty they &s;tand obliged to obey, their former failings &s;hall be pa&s;t over with all impunity: To have it in ones power to puni&s;h, and not to inflict it, I have ever held it Princely.</P>
<P>But let not this Clemency be abu&s;ed, le&s;t it re|turn with the heavier &s;troke; injoy your own, &s;o long as with fidelity you own him whom you ought to &s;erve, and from who&s;e allegiance in the lea&s;t iota to decline, is to lo&s;e your &s;elves.</P>
<P>But it will not hold with rea&s;on, that all &s;hould be admitted to this Indulgence: Some have had their hands deeply imbrewed in the innocent blood of a pious Prince, our indeered Father, and to remit the&s;e, were to forget the memory of a Father.</P>
<PB N="300" REF="158">
<P>Yet in relation to that Fact, the unexemplary cruelty whereof no Age may parallel, we are not wholly ignorant, how tho&s;e A&s;&s;acinates (for o|therwi&s;e we cannot po&s;&s;ibly brand them) were of a &s;everal and di&s;tinct qualification in that tragick and tyrannick Scene; &s;ome being only A&s;&s;ent|ing, and tho&s;e traduced by error; others Active, and tho&s;e po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with rankor, who&s;e irregular fury de&s;erves an higher cen&s;ure.</P>
<P>For the former, we have a bo&s;om opening to mercy; but for the latter, as they had active hands in depriving their Native Prince of life, and us of a Father; it cannot be otherwi&s;e holden then a mild &s;everity, and a temperate act of Ju&s;tice, if we abridge their liberty, by confining them to a perpetual re&s;traint: Our well-affected Party has been confined for their con&s;cientious obedience, well may the&s;e &s;uffer in the &s;ame manner for their di&s;-allegiance.</P>
<P>As for that prime Moulder and Fomenter of the&s;e mi&s;chiefs, more exqui&s;ite tortures had been inflicted on him, if his &s;udden death had not pre|vented our revenge.</P>
<P>Others there be, who, though our too much in|timacy and bounty oblig'd them to us, yet were they made Intelligencers again&s;t us. No pa&s;&s;age in our Cabinet-Coun&s;el, were it never &s;o impor|tant, could promi&s;e &s;ecre&s;ie, nor to our Per&s;on &s;e|curity, through their intere&s;ts and intercour&s;e of Letters with our mortal Enemy: Some of the&s;e State-timi&s;ts we have formerly di&s;covered, and laid it open unto them, &s;hadowing their excu&s;e with &s;ilence; for no other defence could they
<PB N="301" REF="158"> pretend for their di&s;-&s;ervice; only &s;ome formal arguments of remor&s;e were afterwards &s;hown by them which allay'd our heat, injoyning them no other pennance then their ab&s;ence for our &s;atisfa|ction. Our Re&s;olves &s;tand fixt; they mu&s;t hold them&s;elves &s;trangers to our Court. Fruits being once corrupted at heart, appear they never &s;o &s;pe|cious, cannot prove &s;ound.</P>
<P>For you, my Commons, we impute your neg|lect of obedience to that common error of Ple|beian ignorance; we are confident that your di&s;|loyalty clos'd in that low degree, as it &s;carcely de&s;erv'd to fall under the notion of Trea&s;on; you were carried along with the &s;trong current of the time; applying your weak intere&s;ts to the pe|remptory commands of your Superiours. It was your &s;ole de&s;ire to &s;it quietly under your own Vine, and to partake of the fruit of your own O|lives; whereof, by this injoyment of peace, you may amply receive the benefit.</P>
<P>Rely on the reputation of his word, under who&s;e Soveraignty you live, that you cannot be more dear to your &s;elves then you &s;hall be unto us, &s;o popular Faction divide you not from us. Not do we doubt it, for we &s;ee that cheerfulne&s;s in your faces, as it a&s;&s;ures us, that nothing but Cha|racters of loyalty can be writ in your hearts: From which a&s;&s;urance, we have &s;igned your pardon with the Signet Manual of our pity.</P>
<P>Now for you the Citizens of our great <HI>Thami|polis,</HI> we cannot be ignorant of your free contri|butions to our di&s;advantage, your pur&s;es were ne|ver &s;traitened, nor your hands contracted, &s;o you
<PB N="302" REF="159"> might by the emptying of your Coffers &s;trengthen the &s;inews of the publick Enemy, in the defiance of your Princes &s;overaignty. Notwith&s;tanding all this, you &s;hall know that our re&s;olves are &s;teered rather by Rea&s;on then Pa&s;&s;ion; and that the reli&s;h of Remor&s;e has &s;tronger influence over us then the &s;pirit of revenge: nay, that it &s;hall be ever the lowe&s;t of our &s;corn, to lift up our hand to &s;trike, where Princely Clemency invites us to &s;pare; nor to u&s;e Corra&s;ives, where we hope that Cordials may cure; we appear here in this Pre|torian, where we have been lately re-inve&s;ted in our lineal right, ready to receive you with an in|dulgent bo&s;om, and lodge you in the armes of mercy. In a word, our compa&s;&s;ion &s;hall acquaint you, that as our feet be &s;low in attempting, &s;o we are none of tho&s;e <HI>Syracu&s;an</HI> Furies, who&s;e hands were heavy in inflicting. And to cement your hearts more individually to us, our reque&s;t &s;hall be this unto you all, that you would u&s;e your Swords for us, &s;o long as we govern ju&s;tly, and to un&s;heath them again&s;t us, when we act ought deviou&s;ly, or contrary to the rule of Equity.</P>
<P>Mean time we give way, that your Charter, Liberties, Priviledges, and Immunities be con|firmed in as large and ample manner, to all in|tents and purpo&s;es, as they were fir&s;t granted; for it is not our meaning, that you &s;hould lo&s;e any thing by your late oppo&s;ition, &s;o you redeem the time, and repair your fame by &s;ub&s;equent Eviden|ces of your loyalty and affection.</P>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT></Q>
<P>The Citizens, with the re&s;t of the people there
<PB N="303" REF="159"> a&s;&s;embled, being able to contain them&s;elves no longer, expre&s;t their univer&s;al joy with this joynt Applau&s;e and Acclamation: <HI>Long may CHA|RICLES rule over us; long and pro&s;perou&s;ly may He and his Royal Po&s;terity flouri&s;h, and peaceably reign over CANDIE.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>An additional Ob&s;ervation extracted from the hi&s;torical &s;equel of this <HI>ROYAL ROMANCE</HI></HEAD>
<P>FRom a narrower and nearer &s;crutiny into this Author (a &s;ingular Surveyor and Ob&s;erver of the Revolutions of tho&s;e fatal times) we find how one <HI>Darchirus</HI> &s;ucceeded <HI>Climenes;</HI> a Per&s;on of plea&s;ure, naturally addicted to Hunting, Hawking, and other generous Recreations: So as be|ing either wearied with the un&s;uteable burden of State-affairs, or the apparent di&s;gu&s;t of &s;ome neer|allying Competitors, or out of a con&s;cientious re|&s;entment of the unju&s;t u&s;urpation of his Father, and injurious deprivation of <HI>Ro&s;icles,</HI> he begun to ca&s;t his eye upon the true Line, &s;urrendring his Crown, and betaking him&s;elf to the innocent free|dom of a Country life.</P>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="errata">
<PB REF="160">
<HEAD>ERRATA.</HEAD>
<P>FOl. 6. lin. <HI>penult.</HI> for <HI>required</HI> read <HI>acquired:</HI> f. 7. l. 15. for <HI>Pavedone</HI> r. <HI>Panedone:</HI> f. 32. l. 4. for <HI>winning</HI> r. <HI>winging:</HI> f. 81. l. 4. for <HI>&s;tated</HI> r. <HI>&s;eated:</HI> f. 88. l. 21. for <HI>bemone</HI> r. <HI>become:</HI> f. 94. l. 14. for <HI>Enthimio</HI> r. <HI>Euthimio:</HI> f. 109. l. 27. for <HI>retraction</HI> r. <HI>retractation:</HI> f. 119. l. 18. for <HI>cleane&s;t</HI> r. <HI>cleare&s;t:</HI> fol. 129. l. <HI>penult.</HI> for <HI>forraigne</HI> r. <HI>forrage:</HI> f. 132. l. 2. for <HI>cure</HI> r. <HI>care:</HI> f. 161. l. 20. for <HI>his</HI> r. <HI>her:</HI> l. 21. r. <HI>ro&s;eack:</HI> f. 192. l. 26. for <HI>Gallery</HI> r. <HI>gullery:</HI> f: 195. l. 9. for <HI>when</HI> r. <HI>what:</HI> f. 196. l. <HI>ult.</HI> r. <HI>of fancy:</HI> f. 202. l. 4. for <HI>provi|vi&s;eth</HI> r. <HI>promi&s;eth:</HI> f. 215. l. 6. for <HI>Prince</HI> r. <HI>prime:</HI> f. 226. l. 7. for <HI>levity</HI> r. <HI>lenity:</HI> f. 240. l. 18. for <HI>&s;tiars</HI> r. <HI>&s;tairs:</HI> f. 241 l. 27. for <HI>implyed</HI> r. <HI>imployed:</HI> Marg. ib. fot <HI>Alius</HI> r. <HI>ALBUS:</HI> f. 243. l. 29. for <HI>Con&s;ults</HI> r. <HI>Con&s;uls:</HI> f. 244. l. 23. for <HI>a</HI> r. <HI>all:</HI> f. 246. l. l. for <HI>bearing</HI> r. <HI>being:</HI> f. 257. l. 24. for <HI>continent</HI> r. <HI>convenient;</HI> f. 259. l. 13. for <HI>nature</HI> r. <HI>feature:</HI> fol. 266. for <HI>wi&s;e</HI> r. <HI>moral:</HI> Marg. f. 271. l. 12. for <HI>Primer</HI> r. <HI>Pruner.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
</BACK>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
</ETS>
