A
SIXTH
BOOKE
TO
THE
COVNTESSE
OF
PEMBROKES
ARCADIA
.
What
changes
in
Fortune
the
Princes
of
Macedon
&
Thessaly
have
past
,
together
wit●
what
event
the
uncertaine
actions
of
so
blinde
a
Goddesse
,
have
beene
crowned
;
they
may
remember
,
whose
eares
have
beene
fedd
with
their
eloquent
Story
,
written
by
the
never-enough
renowned
Sir
Philip
Sidney
.
Basilius
therefore
having
beheld
with
the
eye
of
successe
,
the
accomplishment
of
his
misinterpreted
Oracle
,
hastened
(
together
with
Evarchus
)
to
his
Court
of
Mantinia
;
where
the
infinite
assembly
,
and
the
publique
Sacrifices
of
his
Subjects
,
did
well
witnesse
what
joy
did
possesse
their
hearts
,
whose
eyes
were
restored
to
the
sight
of
long-eclipsed
Soveraigntie
.
Fame
also
,
proud
●o
be
the
messenger
of
such
royall
newvs
,
had
soone
(
with
speedie
flight
)
past
the
limits
of
Arcadia
:
so
as
in
few
dayes
the
Court
was
sill'd
with
forraigne
Princes
,
whom
either
the
tye
of
a
long
observed
league
of
amitie
,
or
a
neerenesse
in
blood
to
Basilius
,
at
such
a
time
brought
thither
,
to
congratulate
with
him
;
or
were
such
whose
honour-thirstie
minds
hunted
after
occasions
to
make
knowne
their
skill
in
acts
of
Chivalrie
.
And
now
was
the
Marriage
day
come
,
when
Pamela
(
attyred
in
the
stately
ornament
of
beauteous
Majestie
,
ledd
by
the
constant
forwardnes
of
a
vertuous
minde
,
waited
on
by
the
manie
thoughts
of
the
forepassed
crosses
in
her
love
,
which
now
made
up
a
perfect
harmonie
in
the
pleasing
discord
of
indeer'd
affection
)
was
brought
to
Church
:
whom
soone
after
,
her
sister
Philochea
(
being
in
the
same
degree
of
happiness
,
clad
in
the
bashfull
innocencie
of
an
unspotted
soule
,
guided
by
the
shamefac't
desire
of
her
Pyrocles
satisfaction
,
attended
on
by
manie
Graces
of
a
milde
cheerefulnesse
)
followed
;
both
equally
admired
,
both
equally
lookt
upon
.
The
Temple
(
where-to
in
triumph
Beautie
and
Majestie
were
ledd
prisoners
by
the
famous
sisters
)
was
a
fit
dwelling
place
for
the
Arcadian
Deities
;
fenc'd
from
the
Sunne
and
Windes
too
free
accesse
,
by
manie
rankes
of
even
growne
even
set
trees
:
neere
which
,
in
divided
branches
,
ran
two
cleere
streames
,
whose
sweet
murmure
(
as
they
tumbled
over
their
bed
of
pibble
stones
)
did
much
adorne
the
religious
solitarinesse
of
that
place
.
And
,
that
nothing
should
be
wanting
that
might
set
forth
the
carefull
judgement
of
the
builder
,
it
was
seated
in
such
a
neere
distance
from
the
Palace
,
as
might
not
presently
burie
the
gloriousnesse
of
the
show
,
nor
cloy
the
beholders
with
the
tediousnesse
of
the
sight
.
In
the
way
,
on
both
hands
,
were
manie
altars
,
on
which
the
crowned
intralls
of
the
much-promising
sacrifices
were
laide
.
At
the
doore
the
two
sisters
were
received
by
as
manie
Virgins
,
attired
in
a
white
Lawn
liverie
,
with
●arlands
on
their
heads
of
Lillies
and
Roses
intermixt
,
holding
in
their
left
hands
a
paire
of
Pigeons
,
the
gratefull
offering
to
the
Queene
of
Love
.
Soone
after
,
the
accustomed
Rites
in
the
Arcadian
nuptials
being
ended
,
the
King
and
Evarchus
(
with
the
rest
of
the
Princes
)
returned
unto
a
stately
Palace
,
sumptuously
furnished
;
where
both
Art
and
Nature
seem'd
to
be
at
variance
,
whether
should
bestow
most
ornaments
to
enrich
so
rare
a
worke
:
seated
where
the
earth
did
rise
a
little
(
as
proud
to
be
the
supporter
of
so
curious
a
building
)
by
meane
whereof
,
the
sight
had
freedome
to
overlooke
a
large
territorie
;
where
the
greene
levell
of
the
Arcadian
Plaines
,
beautified
by
the
intercourse
of
manie
Forrests
,
represented
the
delightfull
mixture
of
a
civill
Wildernesse
.
The
building
of
Marble
,
where
,
whether
the
Art
in
carving
into
manie
formes
,
the
in-vaine-resisting
hardnesse
of
the
stone
,
the
cunning
in
knitting
these
dis-joynted
members
,
or
the
invention
in
contriving
their
severall
roomes
,
did
excell
;
was
hard
to
be
judged
of
.
The
inside
also
might
well
be
the
inner
part
of
●o
glorious
an
outside
:
for
,
besides
the
well-matcht
largenesse
of
the
roomes
,
and
lightsome
pleasantnesse
of
the
windowes
;
it
was
all
hung
with
the
choyce
rarenesse
of
farr-fetcht
Arras
,
in
which
the
ingenious
workeman
,
with
the
curious
pensill
of
his
little
Needle
,
had
limm'd
the
dumme
records
of
reviv'd
Antiquitie
.
Here
did
he
present
the
memorable
siege
of
Thebs
,
where
the
ruines
of
her
walls
seem'd
yet
to
hang
,
and
make
the
beholders
feare
the
downefall
of
the
lively
stones
.
There
you
might
see
how
cunningly
he
had
expres't
the
constrain'd
flight
of
the
Trojan
Prince
,
and
the
cruell
sacrifice
of
enraged
Dido's
love
:
Nor
was
the
story
of
Silla
forgotten
,
who
there
stood
before
Minos
with
the
present
of
her
fathers
fatall
hayre●
while
you
might
perceive
,
by
his
bent
browes
and
disdainfull
countenance
,
the
just
reward
of
her
unnaturall
attempt
.
With
these
and
others
,
wherein
cost
and
invention
strove
for
the
masterie
,
were
the
Hangings
adorned
:
yet
these
manie
Stories
did
so
stealingly
succeed
each
other
,
that
the
most
curious
observers
eye
(
though
his
admiration
might
dwell
on
each
peece
)
could
find
no
cause
of
stay
,
untill
he
had
overlookt
them
all
.
But
neither
these
,
nor
what
Art
or
Nature
could
have
added
,
did
set
forth
so
much
the
Palace
,
as
the
gracefull
presence
of
the
Arcadian
sisters
;
whose
beauties
,
till
now
,
of
long
time
had
borne
a
part
with
their
troubled
minds
,
in
a
sweet
pilgrimage
to
a
happie
event
:
And
therefore
at
this
present
so
far
disburdened
of
those
thoughts
,
as
't
was
to
be
setled
in
the
most
desir'd
enjoying
of
unspeakable
blisse
,
the
imagination
would
needs
perswade
,
if
it
were
possible
,
were
bettered
.
Dinner
being
set
&
ended
,
while
the
Knights
,
(
who
,
to
honour
that
day
with
Tilting
,
and
to
shew
what
they
dar'd
and
could
affect
in
the
service
,
as
they
thought
,
of
unresistable
beauties
)
were
putting
on
their
Armour
,
there
entred
the
Hall
a
Page
,
who
with
submissive
humblenesse
,
told
the
King
,
he
was
sent
from
his
Master
the
naked
Knight
,
who
desired
there
to
be
received
as
a
Challenger
,
to
eternize
,
as
the
justnesse
of
his
cause
required
,
the
famous
memorie
of
his
deceased
Mistris
Hellen
the
Queene
of
Corinth
.
Basilius
much
pittying
the
before
unheard
death
of
so
excellent
a
Queene
,
will'd
the
Page
to
relate
the
circumstance
;
which
being
strange
in
it selfe
,
and
of
so
great
a
subject
,
wrought
a
passionate
willingnesse
in
the
hearers
to
be
attentive
.
After
that
fortune
(
said
he
)
had
bestowed
by
the
conquest
of
Amphialus
,
at
Cecropia's
Castle
,
the
victorie
on
his
adversarie
the
black
Knight
:
this
Queene
(
having
long
time
,
by
the
command
of
Love
,
her
inward
Tyrant
,
made
all
Greece
a
Stage
for
her
wandring
passions
)
at
length
went
thither
;
where
the
end
of
her
search
was
the
beginning
of
her
sorrow●s
.
Finding
the
curtaines
of
eternall
night
,
readie
to
close
up
his
eyes
,
who
(
in
the
voyage
her
affection
made
)
had
alway
beene
the
Port
she
steered
too
:
yet
hoping
shee
knew
not
what
,
that
if
perhaps
Proserpine
should
meete
in
Elizium
his
departed
soule
,
she
would
in
meere
compassion
of
her
sorrow
,
send
it
back
to
reinhabite
her
ancient
seate
;
shee
carried
the
life-little-desiring
bodie
to
Corinth
,
where
at
that
time
liv'd
an
aged
man
,
by
name
Arteli●
,
one
whose
fortunate
experience
in
desperate
cures
,
had
made
famous
.
Him
,
by
the
powerfull
command
of
his
Queene
,
and
the
humble
teare●
of
a
still-mistrusting
lover
,
she
conjures
to
employ
the
uttermost
of
his
skill
,
in
preserving
him
in
whom
she
liv'd
.
Some
time
there
was
,
ere
his
vitall
spirits
,
almost
now
prov'd
strangers
to
their
wonted
mansion
,
would
accept
the
tye
of
hospitalitie
:
but
when
the
ha●d
of
Art
had
taught
them
courte●ie
,
and
that
each
sense
,
though
faintly
,
did
exer●ise
his
charge
,
Amphialus
returning
to
himselfe
,
from
that
sweet
ignorance
of
cares
,
wherein
he
liv'd
,
began
to
question
in
what
estate
the
Castle
was
against
the
besiegers
,
thinking
he
had
alwa●
been
there
,
when
Hellen
entred
the
room
,
with
a
countenance
where
beautie
appear'd
thorow
the
cloudes
of
care
and
feare
of
his
danger
:
Her
the
double
and
deepely
wounded
patient
,
(
bearing
still
about
him
the
inward
picture
of
Philoclea
,
whom
long
I
have
heard
,
in
vaine
,
hee
lov'd
)
thought
to
be
the
same
Saint
,
the
remembrance
of
whom
return'd
,
together
with
his
wandring
soule
,
from
which
it
was
inseparable
.
Now
therefore
with
a
laughing
looke
(
the
true
Herald
of
what
he
suffer'd
)
Ladie
,
said
he
,
though
the
welcome
harbinger
of
a
neere-following
death
hath
provided
this
body
(
while
it
was
mine
,
alway
devoted
to
your
service
)
as
a
lodging
for
his
Master
an
ever-certaine
guest
;
yet
when
I
passe
to
the
Elizian
Plaines
(
if
any
memorie
there
remaine
of
this
world
of
comfort
,
you
now
vouchsafe
,
heavens
knowes
,
your
faithfull
though
unfortunate
servant
)
I
shall
never
cease
to
pay
the
eternall
tribute
of
thankes
to
well-deserving
death
,
who
(
with
his
presence
)
brings
the
happinesse
in
life
denied
me
.
The
Queene
,
with
a
pensive
silence
,
sorrowing
she
stood
to
act
the
counterfeit
of
her
rivall
,
and
still
desirous
to
enjoy
the
sweet
speech
of
her
reviv'd
Amphialus
;
was
like
a
Passenger
,
whom
the
loud
command
of
the
rough
Windes
had
forc'd
●o
wander
through
the
unevennesse
of
the
deepe
furrowed
Seas
,
now
in
sight
of
land
,
equally
distracted
,
betweene
the
desire
to
leave
this
his
unnaturall
habitation
,
where
each
wave
seemes
to
be
the
proud
messenger
of
destruction
,
&
feare
to
approach
it
,
being
jelous
of
his
hard
entertainment
on
the
rockie
shore
.
Thus
did
she
continue
(
fixt
in
a
doubtfull
imagination
)
loath
to
interrupt
his
pleasing
speech
,
and
more
then
griev'd
he
meant
not
her
whom
he
spake
to
;
untill
Amphialus
(
strengthening
his
newly
recover'd
senses
with
the
conceited
presence
of
Philoclea
)
found
his
errour
,
and
then
with
a
looke
on
his
mistaken
object
(
which
he
could
not
make
disdainfull
,
because
his
happie
thoughts
had
once
ador'd
it
for
Philoclea
)
he
suddenly
fell
into
a
deadly
trance
:
whereat
Hellen
(
feelingly
suffering
in
his
danger
)
ran
to
him
,
and
bedewing
his
even
then
lovely
face
with
the
loving
oblation
of
her
many
teares
,
she
together
poured
forth
the
most
passionate
plaints
that
love
could
invent
,
or
griefe
utter●
so
as
a
while
,
this
accident
,
overthrowing
the
fabrick
of
her
halfe-built
comfort
with
the
suddennnesse
of
so
unlookt
for
an
assault
;
constrained
her
(
with
bemoning
his
case
)
to
forget
the
ca●e
of
his
safety
.
but
,
being
withdrawn
by
her
servants
,
the
indisposition
of
her
bodie
,
caus'd
her
a
while
to
entertain
in
bed
the
feaver
of
her
affectionate
sorrow
.
In
meane
time
Amphialus
,
by
the
skilfull
care
of
Artelio
,
was
againe
brought
to
enjoy
that
,
whose
losse
he
would
accompt
his
chiefest
happinesse
,
and
faintly
withdrawing
the
cover
that
obscur'd
his
weake
sight
,
and
setling
his
look
upon
Artelio
;
Father
,
said
he
,
if
you
felt
the
inward
agonies
of
my
tormented
soule
,
as
you
see
the
desperate
state
of
my
low-brought
bodie
,
I
assure
my selfe
you
would
not
be
so
inhumane
,
there
to
imploy
your
endevours
,
where
when
they
have
wrought
their
effect
,
they
serve
only
to
confirme
the
memory
of
forepassed
calamitie
,
with
the
growing
apprehension
of
future
misfortune
:
but
since
my
destinies
have
so
set
downe
,
that
the
whole
course
of
my
life
should
be
inevitably
disastrous
,
I
must
thinke
my
Tragedie
is
not
yet
acted
,
though
what
worse
than
hath
befalne
me
cannot
be
imagined
,
or
what
may
be
kept
in
store
(
more
than
I
have
pass'd
)
farre
exceeds
my
apprehension
,
though
not
my
expectation
.
Here
he
began
to
runne
over
his
unfortunate
love
to
Philoclea
,
the
killing
of
Parthenia
,
his
overthrow
in
the
encounter
with
the
black
knight
;
inserting
manie
more
disgraces
,
which
,
the
most
envious
of
his
glorie
,
would
not
have
cast
as
aspersions
on
his
well-knowne
fame
.
Thus
with
the
thought
that
Fate
(
whose
working
hee
could
not
limit
)
had
reserv'd
him
for
more
mischiefe
,
he
suffered
his
wounds
to
be
cured
:
And
soone
after
,
walking
one
evening
,
as
his
manner
was
,
in
the
Garden
,
he
chose
a
time
,
as
he
thought
,
unespied
by
anie
,
to
convey
himselfe
thorow
a
back
doore
;
and
there
finding
his
horse
(
which
his
Page
had
brought
by
his
appointment
)
he
rid
away
,
whither
he
knew
not
,
and
much
car'd
not
,
so
he
might
leave
her
whose
affection
deserv'd
a
more
courteous
farewel
.
But
alas
!
when
she
heard
of
his
going
,
what
tongue
is
able
to
expresse
her
sorrow
,
in
whom
the
equally
tormenting
passion●
of
griefe
and
despaire
were
lifted
to
their
uttermost
height
.
Two
daies
since
the
departure
of
Amphialus
posted
away
,
striving
in
vaine
to
overtake
their
irrecoverable
fellowes
;
and
now
the
third
was
come
,
to
be
a
prologue
to
the
following
Tragedie
,
when
Hellen
(
slaking
the
violent
course
of
her
incessant
plaints
)
gave
occasion
to
her
servants
to
be
lesse
mistrustfull
of
her
actions
,
thinking
that
time
began
to
weare
away
her
sorrowes
.
But
she
(
as
by
the
event
was
gathered
)
using
this
as
a
pollicie
to
rid
her selfe
of
the
cumber
of
carefull
attendance
,
when
(
now
her
truce
,
in
show
,
with
sorrow
,
and
the
restraint
of
her
plaints
had
wrought
the
effect
she
desired
)
taking
her
trustie
servant
Mylama
with
her
,
&
leaving
a
letter
with
Lada
(
whom
,
besides
Mylama
,
she
only
trusted
with
this
secret
)
which
upon
the
first
knowledge
of
her
flight
should
be
given
to
Drenus
the
chiefe
of
her
councell
;
wherein
she
excused
her
secret
stealing
away
by
a
vow
pass'd
to
Apollo
,
in
such
maner
to
go
a
pilgrimage
to
Delphos
.
She
put
her selfe
on
her
journey
,
having
an
armie
of
passions
for
her
convoy
,
led
by
Love
and
waited
on
by
Desire
,
in
hope
of
what
she
knew
was
hopelesse
,
yet
often
checking
her
despairing
foresight
,
with
such
unlikely
possibilities
,
as
affection
(
upon
these
occasions
)
is
wont
to
supply
.
Manie
dayes
she
had
not
wandred
(
changing
places
,
to
renue
her
companions
in
sorrow
)
when
comming
into
a
pleasant
valley
,
where
,
of
each
side
,
manie
trees
(
in
the
greene
leav'd
mantle
of
their
summer
liverie
)
did
apparell
two
neighbour
mountaines
,
where
some
Sun-burnt
sapless
pines
by
the
advantage
of
the
ground
(
like
little
in
themselves
deserving
birth
onely
enobled
men
)
over-topp'd
the
strait
up-raised
Cedar
,
the
stock
of
self-begun
honour
.
Through
this
flowrie
plain
ran
a
manie-headed
chrystall
current
,
that
did
indent
the
earth
as
it
smoothly
glyded
by
,
to
make
the
obligation
of
friendship
betweene
them
more
firm
:
&
where
it
fame-like
encreas'd
by
travell
,
there
(
as
it
was
the
naturall
,
so
)
it
seem'd
to
have
beene
the
politick
bodie
of
the
state
of
Springs
;
such
was
the
constant
care
of
the
fountaine
Magistrates
,
&
such
the
well-agreeing
union
of
the
watry
Commons
.
Heere
she
stay'd
(
invited
by
solitarines
,
the
best
repose
for
waried
sorrow
)
yet
giving
no
respit
to
her
mind
,
she
spake
nothing
but
Amphialus
,
or
of
Amphialus
.
O
Amphialus
,
did
she
say
:
and
to
this
invocation
the
flattering
Nimph
(
that
alwayes
seconds
what
is
spoken
)
did
joine
the
like
of
her
owne
;
and
Hellen
,
delighted
to
heare
the
sound
of
so
sweet
a
name
beaten
back
upon
her
,
for
a
time
seal'd
up
her
lipps
,
listening
(
with
attentive
silence
)
what
Eccho
would
have
further
said
.
but
shee
(
who
of
all
the
powers
of
a
reasonable
soule
,
only
had
a
memory
&
a
tongue
only
serviceable
to
that
use
)
together
gave
over
to
reflect
her
borrowed
language
,
expecting
(
with
like
stilness
)
her
further
speech
.
But
Hellen
,
not
able
longer
to
restraine
the
overflow
of
her
panting
heart
,
began
to
cry
out
,
Vnkinde
Amphialus
.
This
also
did
the
Eccho
repeate
.
But
shee
hearing
,
by
the
rebound
of
the
words
,
Amphialus
accus'd
;
Discourteous
Nymph
,
said
shee
,
&
how
is
Amphialus
unkinde
?
can
the
harmonie
of
such
excellence
admit
so
foule
a
fault
to
beare
a
part
with
his
vertues
?
Yet
,
wo
is
me
,
he
is
unkinde
:
could
his
hard
heart
else
suffer
this
love
of
his
,
(
which
I
onely
name
,
because
it
is
the
onely
part
worth
naming
in
me
)
thus
long
unregarded
?
Could
not
my
Crown
(
crown'd
in
being
a
foot-stoole
to
Amphialus
)
have
purchas'd
some
respect
?
Alas
no
:
how
could
unhappie
H●llen
expect
the
Fates
reserv'd
so
great
a
blessing
in
store
for
her
?
She
had
not
long
debated
the
reasons
of
her
misfortune
,
when
Rinatus
(
the
onely
brother
to
Timotheus
,
but
yonger
by
manie
years
)
chanc'd
to
passe
that
way
:
a
man
on
whom
Fame
had
bestow'd
,
&
deservingly
,
the
name
of
Valiant
;
yet
of
disposition
so
mischievously
cruell
,
&
ambitiously
proude
,
that
where
his
deeds
might
well
have
claim'd
so
great
an
honour
,
there
his
conditions
(
as
well
weighed
)
brought
a
reproachfull
burthen
to
the
ballance
of
his
reputation
.
Hee
,
(
his
father
dying
yong
,
&
unwilling
to
dismember
his
estate
,
and
unable
otherwise
to
satisfie
the
hopes
of
his
sonnes
ambition
)
hearing
of
the
warres
of
Laconia
,
went
thither
;
where
soone
he
purchased
the
opinion
of
a
man
resolute
to
undertake
,
&
fortunate
to
execute
what
he
had
undergone
:
and
serving
under
Eborbas
(
chiefe
commander
for
the
King
)
because
of
the
sympathie
of
humours
betweene
them
(
whereby
Nature
did
insinuate
for
Rinatus
,
and
taught
him
flatterie
without
dissimulation
)
he
grew
great
in
his
favour
.
Soone
after
,
this
Eborbas
,
in
a
conflict
between
him
&
the
Helots
,
being
mortally
wounded
;
yet
in
death
,
carefull
of
the
welfare
of
his
countrey
,
recommded
this
Rinatus
(
partly
for
his
good
liking
of
him
,
but
principally
for
his
experience
in
warres
,
and
well-seconded
judgement
)
to
the
King
:
who
,
though
with
some
opposition
,
the
countrey
men
repining
at
his
(
a
strangers
)
advancement
,
after
his
trustie
Eborba's
death
,
preferred
him
to
the
same
place
.
his
discharge
of
which
,
outwent
so
farre
the
envie
of
the
jealous
Noblemen
,
that
well
might
their
King
and
they
,
in
the
death
of
the
valiant
Eborbas
,
deplore
the
losse
of
a
private
man
,
but
must
confesse
,
that
his
watchfull
care
and
undanted
well-ordered
courage
did
survive
in
this
their
Generall
.
In
this
esteeme
he
had
scarce
lived
a
year
,
when
hearing
of
his
brother
and
nephewes
death
,
together
with
his
undoubted
right
to
the
large
territorie
which
his
brother
in
his
life
time
had
enjoied
,
he
notwithstanding
continued
in
the
charge
to
which
he
was
lately
advanc'd
;
framing
,
in
his
conceit
,
his
new-acquired
greatnesse
but
as
a
step
to
clime
the
soveraigntie
of
Laconia
,
which
being
elective
,
he
thought
the
easier
to
be
compas'd
,
having
,
by
his
bounteous
affability
,
gain'd
●he
hearts
of
the
souldiers
,
and
being
alreadie
possest
of
the
chiefe
Forts
(
the
best
strength
of
the
countrey
)
wherein
he
had
plac't
such
,
who
had
their
devotions
link't
to
his
will
,
because
they
ought
him
the
benefite
of
their
creation
.
But
finding
the
accomplishment
of
these
practises
to
depend
upon
the
death
of
the
King
,
which
his
youth
promised
was
unlikely
soone
to
happen
,
and
fearefull
to
draw
on
the
discovery
of
his
practises
,
by
seeking
any
secret
meanes
to
make
him
away
,
whom
the
watchful
eye
of
dutifull
observance
did
warrant
secure
from
anie
trayterous
plots
;
he
solicites
the
King
to
dispence
with
his
presence
,
who
(
seeing
the
ground
of
his
journey
to
be
the
just
cause
of
his
long-deferr'd
revenge
,
for
Timotheus
his
brother
,
and
Philoxenus
his
nephewes
death
.
Now
a
peace
was
lately
concluded
with
the
Helots
,
and
therefore
his
absence
the
more
excusable
)
upon
condition
of
a
speedy
returne
,
though
unwilling
,
yet
for
his
satisfaction
,
grants
his
request
:
who
now
on
his
journey
,
and
having
in
his
way
to
crosse
this
valley
,
met
the
unfortunate
Queene
,
whom
,
though
her
habi●e
might
disguise
,
her
words
(
overheard
)
did
assure
Rinatus
his
willingnesse
to
beleeve
,
that
she
was
the
same
she
so
often
spake
her selfe
to
be
,
the
unfortunate
Hellen.
A
while
hee
stood
doubtfull
of
the
person
,
a
while
amaz'd
at
so
fortunate
an
encounter
,
and
a
long
time
perplex'd
what
punishment
his
revenge
would
judge
fit
for
(
the
conceited
heinousnesse
of
)
his
brother
and
nephewes
death
.
At
length
the
Queen
(
now
first
withdrawing
her
thoughts
from
that
object
,
whereto
affection
in
sweetest
contemplation
had
bound
them
,
&
suffering
her
mind
,
before
retyr'd
within
it selfe
,
now
to
be
inform'd
by
her
servants
senses
)
seeing
this
stranger
neer
her
,
began
,
as
her
maner
was
,
to
finde
by
enquirie
what
he
knew
of
Amphialus
.
Wicked
woman
,
replyed
Rinatus
,
the
all-seeing
Iustice
hath
now
deliver'd
thee
to
receive
fit
punishment
for
Philoxenus
&
Timotheus
death
:
&
using
no
more
wordes
,
presently
caus'd
her
to
be
mounted
on
horseback
,
prolonging
her
life
to
make
her
death
the
more
miserable
.
Thus
farre
hath
Mylama
discover'd
,
who
,
poore
Lady
,
was
there
left
,
most
cruelly
beaten
,
to
be
the
reporter
of
Rinatus
revenge
,
and
her
Mistris
hard
hap
.
The
last
act
of
this
Tragedie
,
my
Master
had
the
fortune
to
know
,
by
one
of
trust
&
great
esteeme
in
the
Court
of
Laconia
,
to
which
Rinatus
had
conveyed
Hellen
,
where
,
for
a
time
,
she
was
honourably
entertain'd
,
finding
no
want
but
of
command
and
libertie
:
the
King
,
belike
,
fearing
the
power
of
the
wronged
CorinthianS
,
preser●ing
her
as
a
sure
Card
for
a
dead
lift
.
But
when
he
understood
that
one
Tenarus
(
a
man
apt
to
practise
innovations
,
and
at
th●s
time
able
,
when
the
many-headed
multitude
wanted
the
awfull
presence
of
their
soveraigne
)
tooke
upon
him
the
government
,
pretending
a
title
to
the
crown
as
descended
from
those
,
from
whom
Hellens
ancestors
(
as
he
alledged
)
had
trayterously
forc'd
it
.
Then
did
the
Tyrant
of
Laconia
,
finding
the
way
secure
for
his
mischievous
practise
,
vehemently
importuned
by
Rinatus
,
and
urg'd
forward
by
the
politick
wickednesse
of
his
owne
desire
to
pleasure
the
new
King
,
secretly
cause
Hellen
to
be
poysoned
.
Such
was
the
end
of
this
great
Queene
,
justly
belov'd
of
all
who
heard
the
fame
of
her
vertues
,
&
therefore
justly
to
be
deplor'd
of
all
,
who
heare
the
unredeemeable
losse
of
so
many
perfections
.
Basilius
&
the
rest
of
the
Princes
were
much
mov'd
with
so
tragicall
a
story
,
especially
Musidorus
,
who
(
in
search
of
Pyrocles
)
having
the
fortune
to
see
her
,
could
witnesse
,
that
though
fame
had
borrowed
all
mens
mouthes
to
proclaime
her
many
excellencies
,
yet
it
was
far
from
doing
right
to
her
desert
.
But
this
was
no
fit
lodging
for
pitty
to
dwel
in
,
where
joy
had
so
great
command
.
The
Messenger
therefore
being
permitted
to
part
,
with
free
leave
for
his
Master
to
enter
the
lists
,
Iudges
were
appointed
,
and
the
Challenge
proclaim'd
.
The
Challenger
understanding
of
the
Kings
liking
of
his
demand
,
came
forth
of
his
Pavillion
with
Armour
so
lively
representing
nakednesse
,
wounded
in
manie
places
,
(
where
the
staunchlesse
blood
,
in
the
course
the
workeman
had
allotted
it
,
seem'd
to
dropp
destruction
)
that
manie
thought
a
madness
had
possest
him
(
so
unarmed
,
so
wounded
)
to
present
himselfe
in
such
a
tryall
,
where
a
surer
defence
,
and
a
sounder
bodie
were
more
needfull
.
Before
him
went
six
,
as
Savages
,
bearing
the
Launces
for
his
first
courses
;
who
,
comming
within
distance
to
be
heard
,
did
sing
these
following
Verses
.
Too
soone
you
fled
from
hence
to
that
fayre
place
,
The
happy
period
of
a
well-run
Race
:
Too
late
I
stay
,
in
griefe
's
eternall
night
,
To
doe
this
penance
for
my
over
sight
.
Once
let
me
dye
,
let
not
my
dying
life
Prolong
my
woes
,
and
keepe
my
thoughts
at
strife
:
Let
him
that
did
offend
your
heavenly
eyes
,
Now
please
your
anger
with
selfe-sacrifice
.
Then
one
of
them
reaching
him
a
launce
,
he
began
his
course
against
Tyro
Prince
of
Andria
,
famous
for
his
constant
love
to
the
faire
Lydia
,
now
married
and
Queene
of
Epire
,
and
ever
fortunate
in
the
course
of
his
adventures
:
but
here
his
fortune
gave
place
to
vertue
,
or
rather
join'd
with
her
to
assist
the
naked
Knight
;
for
at
the
third
encounter
hee
was
put
beside
his
Saddle
,
much
bruised
in
bodie
,
and
no
lesse
afflicted
in
minde
.
The
next
that
supplyed
his
place
,
was
Pawsanias
,
a
Macedonian
,
one
who
in
his
late
warrs
had
done
Evarchus
faithfull
service
;
and
now
,
thinking
to
be
as
successefull
in
this
enterprise
,
had
put
on
Armour
to
do
honour
to
his
Mistris
:
but
his
first
course
compell'd
him
to
acknowledge
hee
was
deceiv'd
,
seeing
himselfe
fall
so
farre
short
of
his
expectation
.
To
him
succeeded
Nicanor
,
a
Corinthian
knight
,
advanc'd
by
the
new
King
:
one
extreamely
confident
of
himselfe
,
because
never
tryed
,
&
now
verie
forward
,
fearing
to
be
prevented
of
the
honour
,
for
which
already
,
in
conceit
,
he
had
triumphed
at
Corinth
,
with
the
great
applause
of
the
people
,
and
the
good
liking
of
the
King
.
But
the
naked
Knight
,
at
second
course
,
cut
off
both
his
life
and
imagined
trophee
:
for
,
couching
his
launce
,
and
allotting
it
in
his
course
a
just
descent
,
rightly
levell'd
by
his
well-judging
experience
,
it
met
with
Nicanors
sight
,
and
passing
thorow
that
weake
resistance
,
it
pearc't
his
right
eye
,
and
with
it
his
braine
;
so
as
Nicanor
fell
downe
,
forgetfull
both
of
his
forethought
fame
&
following
reproach
.
With
this
adventure
the
Tilting
that
day
ended
;
the
Sunne
,
with
loose
rayes
,
posting
to
his
Westerne
home
,
and
the
naked
Knight
retyr'd
himselfe
to
his
Pavillion
,
whence
he
sent
his
Page
,
who
humbly
,
for
his
Master
,
intreated
that
his
unwillingnesse
to
be
knowne
,
should
excuse
the
omission
of
his
dutie
to
the
King
.
Thus
that
night
drew
on
,
which
,
to
them
who
enjoy'd
de●ight
,
seem'd
to
have
put
on
all
her
sails
to
be
the
speedier
in
passing
over
.
But
farre
other
was
the
naked
knights
apprehension
:
he
(
who
made
her
ugly
darknesse
a
pattern
of
the
sorrow
his
afflicted
soule
endur'd
)
thought
she
was
becalm'd
in
the
Sea
of
his
misfortune
.
At
length
Phoebus
,
wearie
of
his
importunitie
,
made
hast
to
distribute
his
gratefull
light
,
to
his
care-tyr'd
senses
;
&
he
,
as
soone
imbracing
the
smallest
shew
of
comfort
,
put
on
his
Armour
.
About
two
hou●es
after
the
Iudges
being
set
,
and
Basilius
and
Evarchus
(
with
the
rest
of
the
Court
)
present
,
Leonatus
the
yong
King
of
Pontus
(
who
had
bin
there
to
acknowledge
his
beholdingnes
to
them
,
whom
he
was
deservingly
bound
to
)
tooke
the
field
.
His
Armor
was
of
a
darke
colour
,
thorow
which
manie
flames
seem'd
to
breake
out
,
as
when
the
clowdes
,
great
in
labour
with
exhalations
,
at
length
give
way
to
their
more
violent
power
:
His
three
first
Courses
promised
a
more
happie
event
,
than
Fortune
meant
he
should
enjoy
;
for
(
having
perform'd
them
with
a
well-order'd
firmenesse
in
his
seat
,
&
a
moving
constancie
in
the
carriage
of
his
launce
,
to
the
great
delight
of
the
beholders
)
the
fourth
time
hee
was
dismounted
:
whose
disgrace
Pyrocles
was
ready
to
revenge
,
but
hee
was
,
by
a
secret
looke
from
Philoclea
,
commanded
the
contrarie
.
Then
Telamon
,
Phelauceas
and
Diremus
felt
,
with
little
advantage
in
Fortune
,
the
like
successe
.
Thus
most
part
of
that
morning
the
naked
Knight
,
with
little
resistance
,
had
the
best
against
all
commers
,
which
most
of
the
lookers
on
,
with
publicke
acclamation
,
did
testifie
:
but
he
,
having
given
over
the
use
of
himselfe
to
sorrow
,
sometimes
by
the
carelesse
shaking
of
his
head
,
did
let
them
know
,
they
burdened
his
desert
with
the
unpleasing
waight
of
his
praise
;
and
staying
a
while
on
horseback
,
expecting
the
next
adventurer
,
with
such
a
demeanor
of
himselfe
as
(
though
it
did
accuse
him
of
much
griefe
)
could
not
conceale
the
grace
of
his
stately
presence
.
But
when
hee
saw
none
readie
to
take
the
field
,
with
an
humble
bend
taking
his
leave
of
the
king
,
he
softly
trotted
towards
his
Tent
,
not
so
much
to
repo●e
his
bodie
as
to
give
a
quiet
way
to
the
assaults
of
his
minde
.
At
length
,
when
all
the
beholders
expectation
were
almost
wearied
,
there
entred
the
Lists
a
Lady
,
attended
only
by
one
Page
,
who
having
lighted
,
presently
went
towards
the
place
where
Basilius
sate
;
where
first
kneeling
,
then
taking
away
a
black
Scarffe
(
which
griefe
had
hyr'd
to
joyne
with
her selfe
,
in
eclipsing
the
excellent
feature
of
a
most
faire
face
)
she
began
to
speake
:
but
Basilius
and
Genecia
hastily
ranne
to
imbrace
Hellen
the
Queene
of
Corinth
,
for
this
was
shee
.
Great
was
the
joy
for
her
reviv'd
presence
,
and
great
the
desire
to
know
the
meanes
of
her
sa●etie
:
But
shee
(
accounting
these
gratulations
cumbersome
,
and
the
relation
of
her
adventures
tedious
)
fixing
her
watry
eyes
on
Basilius
:
Great
King
,
I
am
(
said
she
)
that
unfortunate
Hellen
,
sometime
Queene
of
Corinth
,
now
both
depriv'd
of
crowne
and
kingdome
,
by
Tenarus
.
Yet
why
should
I
mention
this
,
as
fit
to
be
inserted
among
my
greatest
misfortunes
?
The
cause
why
now
I
come
,
is
my
care
of
Amphialus
his
safetie
,
in
whom
I
live
,
to
whose
disdaine
I
have
vowed
the
tribute
of
my
constant
love
:
Hee
(
alas
,
why
should
I
live
to
speake
it
?
)
not
long
since
,
following
the
course
of
his
adventures
,
came
to
Amasia
,
where
he
was
made
prisoner
,
and
carried
to
Dunalbus
Prince
of
that
countrey
;
whose
brother
it
was
Amphialus
his
fortune
to
kill
in
rescue
of
a
Lady
,
to
whom
he
would
have
offered
dishonourable
violence
.
These
newes
came
to
mine
eares
(
to
add
more
to
many
miseries
)
at
that
time
when
I
chanc'd
to
be
at
Delphos
,
pouring
forth
my
heartiest
devotions
for
my
most
beloved
,
my
most
unkinde
Amphialus
:
but
the
pittying
God
,
eyther
to
stay
my
hands
from
the
execution
they
intended
(
but
to
what
end
might
that
be
,
that
God
knows
;
no
time
can
unbend
my
affection
)
or
(
as
heaven
grant
it
may
be
)
in
commisseration
of
my
case
,
thus
comforted
me
;
Hellen
ret●rne
,
a
naked
Knight
shall
finde
Rest
for
thy
hopes
,
and
quiet
to
thy
minde
.
Thus
farre
have
I
wandred
,
ledd
by
that
divine
promise
,
in
pursuite
of
such
a
one
,
but
no
where
can
I
find
a
happie
event
to
confirm
that
Oracle
:
yet
dare
I
not
despaire
,
having
so
high
a
warrant
;
nor
hope
,
having
so
bad
successe
.
You
are
fortunately
come
,
said
the
King
.
This
Knight
,
whose
skill
in
Armes
hath
made
your
well-deserving
vertues
famous
,
may
be
that
man
,
pointed
out
by
the
finger
of
heaven
,
to
release
Amphialus
,
who
both
in
name
and
armour
represents
a
naked
Knight
.
O
no
,
said
the
Queene
,
it
cannot
be
expected
that
Apollo
would
leave
so
plaine
a
way
for
us
to
track
out
the
footsteps
of
his
obscure
misteries
.
Madam
,
replied
Basilius
,
(
having
first
plac't
her
in
a
Chayre
by
him
)
the
all-seeing
providence
,
with
whom
the
ends
of
all
things
are
present
,
is
somtimes
pleas'd
to
cast
forth
the
Emblem
of
our
destinies
,
so
strangely
hidden
in
the
covert
of
ambiguous
words
,
that
doubtless
it
serves
to
beget
nothing
but
matters
of
distrust
,
and
labyrinths
of
errors
,
where
the
imagination
a
thousand
wayes
may
be
led
astray
.
Of
this
you
have
a
present
proofe
,
confirm'd
by
my
experience
.
and
somtimes
the
same
Iustice
unfolds
the
secret
of
our
fate
,
and
plainely
lets
us
know
the
misterie
of
our
fortune
:
yet
even
that
plaineness
,
to
the
curious
search
of
our
stil-mistrusting
brain
,
becomes
a
reason
sufficient
to
enforce
us
to
a
contrarie
beleefe
.
This
last
I
thinke
(
if
in
the
interpretation
of
an
Oracle
my
opinion
may
be
receiv'd
)
is
that
meane
,
whereby
Apollo
both
reveales
&
hides
the
author
of
Amphialus
freedom
.
This
said
,
he
sends
presently
for
the
naked
knight
,
who
,
as
soone
obeying
the
Kings
command
(
as
he
was
completely
armed
)
came
before
him
;
to
whom
Basilius
cheerefully
told
(
as
glad
to
be
the
reporter
of
so
good
newes
to
him
,
whose
prowesse
in
armes
deservingly
gain'd
much
of
his
good
opinion
)
of
Hellens
being
there
,
together
with
her
desire
to
imploy
him
in
an
action
the
heavens
had
also
interested
him
.
What
is
it
,
replyed
the
naked
Knight
,
that
without
such
a
command
I
would
not
endevour
to
accomplish
for
my
most
deere
Hellen
?
and
then
with
excesse
of
comfort
and
astonishment
,
his
weake
limmes
were
readie
to
give
over
the
support
of
his
joy-burdened
bodie
;
but
,
being
upheld
by
Musidorus
who
stood
next
him
,
his
overcharg'd
spirits
had
time
to
recollect
themselves
.
The
Queene
gathering
comfort
from
his
promise
,
&
seeing
faire
likelyhood
o●
the
Oracles
accomplishment
;
with
the
oratorie
of
love
,
who
thinkes
no
words
but
his
owne
able
to
expresse
his
mind●
began
in
this
manner
.
Sir
,
ill
fortune
my
awfull
governesse
,
as
in
the
most
of
my
actions
shee
is
pleas'd
to
keepe
a
hard
hand
over
me
,
so
in
this
(
distrustfull
belike
of
my
willingnesse
)
she
forces
me
to
repeat
my
wonted
lesson
of
receiving
courtesies
without
power
of
requitall
;
making
one
undeserved
favor
from
you
,
become
a
cause
of
further
beholdingnesse
to
you
:
But
the
glorie
that
follows
your
good
successe
in
this
adventure
(
the
best
spur
to
set
forward
brave
spirits
to
noble
actions
)
hath
almost
assur'd
me
,
that
the
love
you
professe
,
and
a
distressed
Ladies
cause
,
need
not
joyne
petitioners
in
a
request
your
vertue
must
be
willing
to
grant
.
The
reward
of
your
victorie
,
is
the
releasing
of
Amphialus
;
of
whom
I
may
speake
,
and
the
world
with
me
,
all
prayse-worthy
things
.
Madam
,
replyed
the
naked
Knight
,
I
thought
the
Gods
could
not
have
favour'd
me
more
,
then
in
giving
you
respite
of
life
,
and
me
power
to
be
serviceable
to
you
:
but
when
I
consider
the
end
I
must
imploy
my
endevours
too
,
it
buries
my
conceited
happinesse
in
the
grave
of
a
certaine
misfortune
.
Shall
I
labour
to
preserve
that
monster
of
men
,
whose
storie
(
if
the
world
will
needs
reade
)
containes
nothing
but
a
volume
of
disasters
,
and
a
vaine
discourse
of
a
few
adventures
,
cast
upon
him
by
the
blindnesse
of
chance
?
Shall
I
hazzard
my
life
for
him
,
against
whom
,
had
I
lives
innumerable
,
I
would
venture
them
all
?
Shall
I
live
to
make
another
happie
in
your
favour
,
&
crosse
mine
owne
desires
?
No
Madam
,
I
wil
sooner
leave
my
bloud
here
before
you
,
as
a
testimony
that
feare
hath
no
interest
in
my
disobedience
to
your
command
,
then
I
will
make
my
after-life
truly
miserable
in
the
burden
of
a
hopelesse
affection
.
To
this
the
Queene
a
while
in
teares
,
as
if
her
eyes
strove
to
speake
for
her
,
made
a
silent
answer
:
but
when
her
sighes
had
breath'd
forth
the
overcharge
of
her
brest
,
first
she
kneeled
,
then
faintly
said
;
O
eternall
president
of
this
Court
of
cares
,
when
wil
thy
just
pittie
commiserate
my
distresse
!
Alas
Sir
,
what
new
way
have
the
Gods
found
to
vent
their
malice
on
me
!
have
I
made
disdaine
my
only
mishap
,
and
must
now
affection
to
me-wards
bee
another
undeserved
misfortune
?
Behold
Sir
,
and
if
you
can
,
with
pittie
,
a
Queene
,
borne
to
command
,
a
suppliant
at
your
feet
,
begging
what
goodnesse
sollicites
you
to
grant
;
Release
Amphialus
:
and
if
your
jealousie
thinkes
he
hath
too
much
interest
in
my
love
,
restore
him
to
the
world
that
wants
him
;
I
will
vow
a
Virgins
life
.
Stay
,
vertuous
Queene
,
replyed
the
naked
Knight
,
and
lifting
up
his
Beaver
,
Receive
,
said
he
,
thou
best
of
women
thy
over-joy'd
Amphialus
.
The
Queene
,
as
when
the
Ocean
swels
with
the
rage
of
a
tempest
,
if
on
a
sudden
these
blasts
be
appeas'd
,
yet
the
proude
waves
,
mindefull
of
their
forepast
injurie
,
and
indispos'd
to
so
speedie
a
reconcilement
,
some
while
retaine
the
rough
remembrance
of
the
windes
malice
:
so
were
her
thoughts
,
before
mov'd
by
the
storme
of
despair
,
though
now
she
had
cause
of
contented
quiet
,
on
a
sudden
,
incapable
of
so
unlook't
for
a
happines
;
first
doubt
,
then
amazement
,
lastly
excesse
of
joy
,
by
succession
were
admitted
to
the
Helme
of
her
distressed
heart
.
But
when
joy
had
once
got
to
be
the
Steers-man
,
his
want
of
practise
(
by
his
long
absence
from
that
imployment
)
soon
brought
a
confusion
:
here
the
warme
teares
of
sorrow
,
there
the
cold
dropps
of
a
present
comfort
,
did
strive
whether
would
shew
himselfe
most
officious
in
drowning
her
pale
blushing
cheekes
.
At
length
they
both
,
no
longer
able
to
resist
this
powerfull
invasion
of
their
mindes
(
as
by
mutuall
consent
)
fel
,
the
one
intwin'd
in
the
others
armes
,
&
made
the
earth
happie
in
bearing
such
matchlesse
lovers
:
But
their
senses
being
soone
restor'd
to
their
wonted
function
,
after
some
passionate
words
(
to
which
their
eies
&
touch
of
their
hands
gave
the
life
of
expression
)
Amphialus
,
divided
into
manie
minds
by
the
turbulent
working
of
his
thoughts
(
turning
towards
his
uncle
)
with
his
eyes
fixt
on
the
ground
,
stood
with
the
grace
of
a
man
condemned
,
who
,
having
led
a
loathsome
life
in
an
ugly
dungeon
,
is
now
brought
to
a
freedome
o●
looking
upon
the
open
ayre
,
yet
sees
the
day
is
but
a
Taper
to
light
him
to
his
execution
.
Of
the
one
side
he
was
brought
from
the
hell
of
despaire
,
wherein
he
liv'd
,
in
the
assurance
of
Hellens
death
,
to
the
certaintie
of
her
life
&
presence
:
of
the
other
,
what
was
his
treason
to
his
uncle
,
to
expect
but
an
infamous
death
,
&
a
divorce
from
his
new-borne
happinesse
.
The
shame
also
of
a
crime
so
foule
as
his
rebellion
,
was
not
the
least
torment
to
his
minde
,
unwillingly
beaten
from
a
setled
course
of
vertue
by
Cecropia's
practises
.
At
length
(
when
these
thoughts
,
that
almost
overcame
all
the
powers
of
life
in
him
,
were
themselves
overcome
by
his
resolution
)
casting
himselfe
at
Basilius
his
feet
,
he
thus
said
.
Great
Sir
,
if
treason
in
a
subject
,
and
unnaturalnesse
in
a
nephew
be
punishable
,
here
you
have
before
you
a
fit
exercise
for
your
justice
:
I
am
that
subject
,
whose
rebellion
interrupted
the
contented
quiet
of
my
Kings
solitarie
life
,
and
brought
him
to
behold
the
bloudie
tragedie
of
a
civill
discension
in
his
divided
State
:
I
am
that
nephew
,
whom
a
wilfull
disobedience
made
a
traytor
to
the
neernesse
of
his
bloud
.
Hither
did
I
come
(
Orestes-LIKE
tormented
by
the
inward
fright
of
my
guilty
conscience
)
with
my
bloud
to
wash
away
(
if
good
fortune
,
in
the
defence
of
the
cause
I
undertooke
,
would
draw
death
upon
me
)
the
staines
of
such
unpardonable
faults●
but
now
that
I
have
found
what
I
least
look't
for
(
and
then
he
cast
a
side
look
on
Hellen
)
for
her
,
I
confesse
,
I
should
desire
to
live
,
if
your
just
indignation
might
finde
mercie
for
so
hainous
offences
.
which
I
will
not
strive
to
mitigate
(
how
ever
justly
I
may
:
)
for
I
would
thinke
such
faults
ill
excus'd
,
with
which
(
to
ease
my selfe
)
I
must
have
burdened
my
neerest
friends
.
Basilius
first
graciously
lifting
him
from
the
ground
,
Nephew
,
replyed
he
,
did
I
retaine
the
memorie
of
your
youthfull
oversights
,
this
your
vertuous
acknowledgement
were
sufficient
to
beare
them
away
:
but
long
since
I
have
buried
in
oblivion
,
the
thought
of
your
rashnes
,
because
I
knew
(
by
what
after
happened
)
that
the
Gods
had
made
you
an
instrument
to
worke
their
ends
.
it
were
injurie
therefore
to
question
his
actions
,
whose
will
was
not
his
own
,
being
overrul'd
by
their
all-commanding
decree
.
No
,
nephew
,
I
do
not
only
pardon
these
transgressions
,
but
freely
also
do
resigne
all
such
possessions
as
your
father
held
in
Arcadia
,
taken
from
you
in
the
last
warre
,
and
now
in
the
hands
of
Philanax
.
Live
happie
in
your
choise
:
I
shal
be
proud
of
our
alliance
with
the
crowne
of
Corinth
,
and
shall
rejoyce
to
see
the
succession
continue
in
our
bloud
.
This
said
,
he
ledd
him
to
Genecia
,
then
to
Evarchus
:
but
when
he
came
to
Musidorus
,
This
,
nephew
,
is
that
black
knight
(
said
he
)
who
,
at
your
last
meeting
,
gave
such
evident
proof
of
his
unconquerable
valor
:
This
is
Musidorus
,
the
Prince
of
Thessaly
,
whom
the
Gods
have
bestow'd
as
a
blessing
on
my
daughter
Pamela
.
Amphialus
now
assured
by
the
kings
speech
,
unto
whose
hand
the
honour
of
his
conquest
had
fallen
(
for
doubt
had
long
tormented
him
,
that
some
baser
hand
had
reapt
the
glorie
of
his
victorie
;
)
Prince
Musidorus
,
said
he
,
my
hard
successe
in
our
last
encounter
much
perplext
me
:
not
that
my
confidence
of
my selfe
,
was
lifted
to
such
an
arrogant
presumption
,
to
think
my
strength
and
skill
in
Armes
matchlesse
;
but
that
it
griev'd
me
,
an
unknown
Knight
(
one
whom
the
world
might
thinke
had
conceal'd
his
name
,
lest
together
with
him
,
his
bad
fortune
in
tryalls
of
that
kinde
,
might
be
discovered
)
should
have
the
better
of
me
.
But
now
that
I
know
to
whose
lot
my
victorie
hath
falne
,
I
doe
not
onely
bring
an
excuse
,
but
an
honour
,
from
the
worthinesse
of
the
conqueror
.
Courteous
Amphialus
,
repli'd
the
Prince
,
whose
side
the
advantage
of
Fortune
did
then
incline
to
,
if
it
may
be
determined
;
with
greater
reason
,
and
more
desert
should
the
honour
be
given
you
,
than
bestowed
on
me
:
but
however
,
such
tryall
I
then
made
of
your
manhood
,
that
hereafter
I
shall
desire
to
be
of
your
part
.
Worthy
Prince
,
said
Amphialus
,
your
vertue
will
alway
chuse
to
be
of
the
weaker
side
:
and
so
turning
to
Philoclea
,
Divine
Lady
,
said
he
,
in
your
excellent
choyse
of
the
famous
Pyrocles
,
you
have
(
besides
the
happinesse
gain'd
to
your selfe
,
for
which
the
world
may
envie
you
)
shew'd
me
the
way
to
my
best
hopes
,
by
graffing
my
affection
in
the
stock
of
my
Helle●s
constancie
.
Deere
cousin
,
replyed
Philoclea
,
I
am
glad
it
was
in
my
power
,
and
your
good
fortune
so
much
to
better
your
choise
in
so
excellent
a
remove
.
And
so
casting
a
bashfull
looke
towards
Pyrocles●
Sir
,
said
she
,
we
may
joine
in
thankesgiving
:
this
is
my
cousin
,
whose
vertuous
disposition
during
our
imprisonment
,
was
our
safest
defence
against
my
aunt
Cecropia's
crueltie
.
I
doe
acknowledge
it
,
said
Pyrocles
,
and
besides
this
favour
(
in
which
we
have
a
common
interest
)
Sir
,
I
must
crave
pardon
for
a
wound
given
you
at
such
a
time
,
when
belike
you
made
Patience
your
only
defence
.
Amphialus
stood
●ith
his
eye
fixed
on
Pyrocles
:
for
his
memory
supply'd
him
with
a
confused
remembrance
of
such
a
face
.
Zelmane
he
could
not
take
him
to
be
;
her
sexe
and
this
change
,
at
their
first
birth
destroy'd
these
apprehensions
.
Pyrocles
,
his
heart
swore
he
was
not
,
whose
youth
and
beautie
God
wot
were
no
fit
live●ie
for
such
atchievements
as
the
world
fam'd
him
for
.
Thus
a
while
hee
continued
,
troubled
with
the
uncert●intie
of
conjectures
,
untill
Pyrocles
(
happily
conceiving
the
cause
of
his
amazement
)
stopt
his
further
admiration
,
by
letting
him
know
,
that
the
then
Zelmane
was
the
now
Pyrocles
.
Whereat
Amphialus
,
as
one
newly
wak't
out
of
a
dreame
,
cryed
out
,
Anaxius
:
Anaxius
,
said
he
,
'●
was
the
Prince
of
Macedon
(
not
a
woman
)
overcame
thee
.
Wheresoever
thy
soule
be
,
let
it
keepe
this
time
festivall
,
as
the
birth-day
of
thy
glorie
.
And
so
,
after
mutuall
embraces
,
together
with
the
rest
of
the
Princes
,
they
entred
the
Palace
:
where
,
when
they
were
seated
,
the
eyes
of
all
the
companie
were
set
on
the
Queene
of
Corinth
,
longing
to
know
the
storie
of
her
strange
fortune
,
now
a
Queene
,
then
a
prisoner
,
now
alive
,
then
dead
;
which
shee
,
at
Basilius
intreatie
,
with
a
majestie
(
which
her
fortune
could
not
change
,
because
't
was
innate
)
thus
declared
.
Great
Sir
;
that
I
was
made
prisoner
by
Rinatus
,
and
by
him
carried
to
Laconia
,
Fame
(
together
with
the
newes
of
my
supposed
death
)
belike
hath
brought
you
:
the
rest
,
since
you
esteem
worthy
your
hearing
,
I
shall
esteeme
worthie
my
relation
.
There
yet
governes
(
and
then
did
)
among
the
Nobilitie
of
Laconia
,
one
Creton
,
a
man
elected
to
the
crown
rather
to
recompence
the
desert
of
his
ancestors
than
for
his
owne
vertues
,
beloved
and
borne
with
for
the
same
reason
:
such
an
everlasting
monument
,
of
it selfe
,
can
goodnesse
leave
to
posteritie
.
To
him
when
I
was
brought
,
my
guilt
and
my
guiltie
selfe
,
with
the
best
oratorie
Rinatus
had
,
was
made
knowne
;
who
with
vehement
importunitie
desired
,
that
my
speedie
punishment
(
as
my
fault
)
should
be
terrible
.
The
King
answered
,
Though
he
found
his
demands
reasonable
,
and
such
to
which
he
was
sure
there
could
be
no
opposition
made
,
yet
he
thought
it
fit
the
Nobilitie
should
be
acquainted
with
so
waightie
a
cause●
before
he
proceeded
further
in
it
;
and
so
for
this
time
(
being
committed
to
the
charge
of
Partinax
,
Chamberlaine
to
the
King
)
I
was
dismist
.
The
next
day
,
the
Councell
being
sent
for
,
my
cause
ran
the
hazzard
of
manie
opinions
:
some
thought
it
fit
I
should
dye
;
and
though
Iustice
,
said
they
,
might
not
dispence
with
such
severitie
,
yet
it
was
fit
to
please
Rinatus
,
one
who
had
deserv'd
well
,
and
had
the
power
(
if
otherwise
he
were
dealt
with
)
to
revenge
his
injurie
.
Others
(
the
more
in
number
,
and
esteem'd
the
wiser
,
because
the
King
held
with
them
)
oppos'd
this
sentence
,
alledging
,
so
inconsiderate
an
act
might
call
the
safetie
of
Laconia
in
question
:
for
,
said
they
,
shall
wee
thinke
the
Corinthians
so
degenerate
,
that
being
justly
incenc't
against
us
,
they
will
not
endevour
to
revenge
the
death
of
their
Prince
,
in
shade
of
whose
raigne
they
enjoy
that
peace
&
plentie
their
neighbours
envie
them
for
?
and
if
they
stirre
in
it
,
what
people
is
so
barbarous
,
whom
the
justnesse
of
their
cause
will
not
procure
into
the
societie
of
this
warre
?
See
then
if
a
private
mans
satisfaction
,
be
to
be
compar'd
to
these
ensuing
dangers
:
no
,
let
her
live
,
&
when
the
Gods
doe
otherwise
dispos●
of
her
,
let
her
death
come
without
the
ruine
of
Laconia
.
This
determined
,
a
new
doubt
arose
,
how
I
should
be
dispos'd
of
:
They
that
before
thought
it
expedient
I
should
dye
(
now
that
opinion
was
put
by
)
concluded
that
it
was
best
to
send
me
to
Corinth
with
an
honourable
convoy
,
so
to
tye
them
,
by
a
perpetuall
bond
of
gratitude
,
to
be
their
friends
,
whom
they
so
much
fear'd
to
bee
their
enemies
.
the
rest
,
to
gratifie
the
king
,
whose
affection
they
perceiv'd
to
leane
that
way
(
and
well
assur'd
it
was
an
advice
too
profitable
to
be
rejected
that
gain'd
a
kingdome
)
though
his
promise
after
the
Q.
death
(
who
not
long
before
left
him
a
widower
)
had
bin
pas't
to
Lemnia
a
fair
&
vertuous
La:
daughter
to
my
keeper
Partinax
;
yet
they
wisht
,
if
so
he
pleas'd
,
my
crown
might
win
me
to
his
bed
,
little
doubting
but
I
had
thought
it
an
egregious
felicitie
to
be
so
grac't
.
The
King
after
manie
protractions
,
at
length
,
as
if
he
were
wrought
to
it
(
by
a
desire
to
satisfie
the
Nobility
rather
then
selfe-will
)
declares
his
mind
,
to
be
directed
by
them
:
which
once
known
,
behold
the
flatterie
of
Court
began
to
fawne
upon
me
;
who
more
observ'd
,
who
more
admir'd
?
onely
Rinatus
,
much
impatient
of
this
my
greatnes
(
in
Court
)
uttered
some
words
in
choler
,
which
made
known
(
by
further
enquirie
)
a
conspiracie
of
his
against
the
King
;
so
as
soone
after
(
the
rather
to
give
me
,
whom
they
studied
to
please
,
satisfaction
)
he
was
beheaded
.
But
long
it
was
not
before
Fortune
,
neither
constant
to
my
happie
adversitie
,
nor
adverse
felicitie
,
had
brought
thither
(
sent
by
the
usurper
Tenarus
)
a
wise
,
but
wicked
instrument
,
whom
he
call'd
his
Ambassador
,
who
laboured
by
the
policie
of
his
high
reaching
braine
,
and
the
secret
practises
of
his
undermining
gold
,
so
farre
for
his
Masters
ends
,
that
now
in
an
instant
the
stil-changing
face
of
Court-respect
began
to
frowne
upon
me
;
my
death
was
decreed
,
and
(
untill
the
time
were
appointed
for
it
)
my selfe
made
a
close
prisoner
in
my
accustomed
gaole
.
But
the
King
,
chiefly
mov'd
with
the
hope
of
my
crowne
,
and
drawn
by
a
selfe-conceit
of
liking
to
my
sorrow
,
(
which
perhaps
had
a
sympathie
with
his
melancholy
)
would
needs
continue
the
suit
of
his
affection
to
me
,
though
he
durst
not
interpose
his
overrul'd
authoritie
for
my
libertie
.
Thus
for
a
time
did
I
live
,
accompanied
by
some
few
whom
the
king
might
trust
with
his
intents
;
he
in
shew
courting
his
first
love
Lemnia
,
and
making
that
a
pretence
to
come
private
to
her
●athers
house
neer
adjoyning
to
Court
.
But
indeed
(
as
at
that
time
he
could
have
no
reason
to
dissemble
with
me
)
this
kindnesse
came
another
way
:
which
Lemnia
suspecting
,
and
being
as
farre
gone
in
affection
to
this
double-dealing
King
,
as
he
was
in
the
profession
of
a
little-regarded
love
to
me
,
her
watchfull
eye
soon
found
the
advantage
of
a
happie
opportunitie
to
heare
himselfe
speake
his
own
deceipt
;
with
such
a
heart-burning
vehemencie
,
that
Lemnia
(
who
had
plac't
her selfe
unknown
to
eyther
of
us
,
behinde
the
hangings
)
scarse
could
suppresse
her
entry
,
to
play
a
part
in
our
Comedie
of
affection
.
But
to
his
demands
truth
answered
for
me
plainly
,
that
death
,
in
whose
expectation
I
liv'd
,
would
be
farre
more
pleasing
,
then
the
marriage
he
thought
so
reasonable
:
adding
withall
to
my
speech
,
much
of
Lemnia's
praise
,
which
she
deserv'd
,
to
instruct
his
eyes
that
indeed
were
blinde
,
in
his
choyse
.
But
when
he
parted
,
vowing
to
be
severe
in
my
punishment
unless
I
resolved
better
at
his
next
comming
,
behold
Lemnia
(
with
teares
in
her
ei●s
)
fell
at
my
feet
:
and
when
she
saw
amazement
in
my
lookes
,
with
a
kinde
bashfulnesse
taking
my
hand
,
&
rising
with
that
helpe
;
Vertuous
Lady
,
said
she
,
if
ever
you
have
beene
acquainted
with
the
tyrannie
of
all-commanding
affection
,
to
that
Iudge
I
appeale
,
who
(
though
courtesie
and
good
maners
oppose
him
)
wil
find
my
fault
excusable
:
This
man
,
who
in
your
presence
hath
beene
the
trumpet
of
his
owne
inconstancie
,
first
with
the
vehement
protestation
of
his
sincere
affection
,
won
me
in
gratefulnes
to
meet
him
,
in
the
recompence
of
his
unknown
dissimulation
,
if
such
then
it
were
;
and
now
,
with
the
good
liking
of
the
State
,
were
the
solemnities
appointed
for
our
marriage
,
when
your
arrivall
croft
those
hopes
,
and
drew
his
thoughts
to
their
naturall
temper
of
unstayednes
.
But
since
I
have
found
by
this
fortunate
unmanerlinesse
,
your
answers
so
resolutely
oppos'd
to
his
demands
,
henceforth
I
vow
to
worke
your
freedome
,
or
bring
my selfe
to
perish
with
you
.
Her
fault
found
an
easie
pardon
at
the
tribunall
shee
appeal'd
too
:
I
thank't
her
(
as
there
was
good
cause
)
for
her
desire
of
my
good
,
onely
I
wisht
,
if
my
freedom
could
not
be
procur'd
without
danger
to
her
,
she
would
not
heape
miseries
upon
me
,
by
joining
her selfe
a
companion
in
my
disaster
.
She
comforts
me
with
the
hope
of
a
better
event
:
&
to
bring
her
intention
to
a
wished
successe
,
she
wins
my
unwillingnes
to
shew
som
favour
to
the
King
;
which
next
day
I
did
,
having
plac't
Lemnia
where
shee
had
plac't
her selfe
the
day
before
,
to
be
a
witnesse
to
our
conference●
for
otherwise
perhaps
her
love
this
second
time
might
have
egg'd
her
suspition
,
already
prone
that
way
,
to
the
distrust
of
a
practise
betwixt
us
.
And
happie
was
this
forc't
dissimulation
:
for
the
king
not
long
before
his
comming
to
me
,
had
receiv'd
advertisement
that
the
usurper
of
Corinth
had
levied
an
armie
,
&
set
forth
manie
ships
to
invade
Laconia
,
making
the
delay
of
my
promised
execution
the
pretence
of
this
warre●
which
being
also
knowne
to
the
Nobilitie
,
they
(
who
together
with
this
forreine
enemie
feared
the
rebellion
of
the
Helots
,
who
alway
lay
in
wait
for
an
opportunitie
of
such
advantage
)
now
,
more
then
ever
,
began
to
solicite
the
king
to
satisfie
so
potent
an
enemie
in
so
just
a
demand
.
The
king
wel
weighing
the
iminent
dangers
that
were
to
be
prevented
by
my
death
,
and
seeing
the
little
comfort
he
did
enjoy
by
prolonging
of
my
life
,
(
likely
everie
day
to
encrease
my
obstinacy
,
being
none
of
those
lovers
that
would
die
for
his
disdaining
Masters
)
was
ready
to
deliver
me
over
as
a
sacrifice
for
the
State
&
countrey
;
when
behold
,
his
sayles
were
fill'd
with
a
selfe-opinion
in
my
favour
.
Born
up
therefore
with
the
wings
of
hope
,
he
returnes
to
Court
,
where
love
(
or
some
indulgent
Fate
)
inspired
this
project
into
his
head
:
He
calls
the
Nobilitie
,
and
after
a
long
narration
of
the
mischiefes
that
hung
over
Laconia
,
he
desires
their
advice
for
prevention
.
They
glad
that
the
onely
opposer
,
as
they
thought
,
of
their
designes
,
would
have
recourse
to
their
directions
,
in
that
cause
wherein
they
were
jealous
of
his
partaking
,
after
a
flatte●ring
insinuation
(
the
common
Exordium
to
men
of
his
place
)
they
concluded
that
it
was
fit
Hellen
should
dye
.
I
doubt
it
not
,
said
he
;
nor
was
it
to
that
end
I
sought
your
counsaile
,
that
the
necessitie
of
the
times
,
the
welfare
of
our
person
,
&
the
preservation
of
our
state
required
her
death
:
but
it
much
perplext
me
,
that
our
fame
should
bleed
with
her
,
or
that
the
world
should
say
,
the
threats
of
the
king
of
Corinth
had
inforc't
us
to
behead
her
whom
lately
we
were
to
take
to
wife
.
'T
was
this
,
my
Lords
,
that
caus'd
my
misinterpreted
resolution
hang
in
suspence
:
for
this
I
have
turn'd
my
invention
into
all
formes
,
and
now
behold
I
have
found
an
even
way
to
lead
me
between
the
perrils
of
a
threatned
war
,
&
the
ill-bought
quiet
of
an
ignominious
peace
.
My
will
is
,
she
be
brought
to
Court
(
for
Partinax
his
house
I
think
not
convenient
for
this
project
)
and
plac't
here
,
with
such
about
her
as
I
know
most
trusty
in
such
a
secret
:
then
,
that
her
keepers
at
farthest
within
two
dayes
poyson
her
;
which
done
,
wee
le
give
it
out
she
dyed
of
a
disease
.
and
to
confirme
this
opinion
in
the
vulgar
,
wee
will
honour
her
death
with
such
funerall
pomp
as
the
state
of
her
life
required
.
Thus
shall
our
cause
of
dissention
with
Corinth
be
taken
away
,
and
we
freed
from
that
imputation
the
world
might
justly
lay
upon
us
.
The
Nobilitie
with
silent
admiration
,
began
to
applaud
what
he
had
determined
,
chiefly
Partinax
,
who
(
making
the
common
cause
his
pretence
)
labour'd
by
all
meanes
to
confirm
a
resolution
so
necessary
for
his
daughter
Lemnia's
happinesse
.
The
king
having
dismist
the
Councel
,
acquaints
me
with
these
his
proceedings
,
setting
forth
with
no
meane
pride
,
the
pregnancie
of
his
owne
wit
,
who
had
found
a
way
to
over-reach
such
gray-bearded
dotards
:
for
,
said
he
,
you
shall
that
night
when
you
are
thought
to
be
poisoned
,
be
conveyed
hence
(
by
two
of
chiefest
trust
about
me
)
unto
my
Castle
of
Nicos
.
then
will
I
cause
a
statue
,
form'd
to
your
proportion
,
to
be
coffin'd
up
,
on
which
(
forsooth
)
my
grave
Councell
shal
solemnly
wayte
,
and
performe
the
ob●equies
in
that
ceremonie
requisite
;
meane
time
you
shal
live
,
&
live
beloved
of
him
who
hath
undergone
this
dangerous
enterprise
,
and
will
do
many
more
to
indeer
his
affection
to
you
.
And
when
the
limms
of
this
dis-joynted
State
be
set
againe
,
you
shal
be
restor'd
to
be
your selfe
,
and
to
enjoy
this
Crowne
of
Laconia
so
much
envied
you
:
till
when
,
I
lock
these
projects
in
the
closet
of
your
secrecie
.
The
good
king
was
scarce
gone
from
me
,
when
I
made
Lemnia
of
counsaile
with
me
,
who
se●ing
the
fitnesse
of
the
time
,
being
my
journey
to
Nicos
was
to
be
perform'd
in
the
night
,
and
the
easie
execution
o●
so
dangerless
an
enterprise
,
my
guard
being
only
two
of
the
kings
servants
;
she
gives
in
charge
to
a
sufficient
number
of
such
whom
she
knew
faithfull
to
her
,
to
meet
them
midway
,
and
after
they
had
well
beaten
my
convoy
(
to
discharge
them
of
the
suspicion
of
their
consenting
to
the
fact
)
to
carry
me
to
the
next
sea
port
,
where
there
stay'd
a
ship
bound
for
Delphos
;
to
which
I
needs
would
bend
my
course
.
This
being
resolv'd
upon
,
the
Lady
(
equally
troubled
with
the
care
of
my
safetie
,
and
the
losse
of
my
presence
)
wept
manie
teares
,
which
I
confesse
had
beene
ingratitude
in
me
not
to
second
;
so
as
a
while
sorrow
seem'd
to
have
flowen
thither
to
bathe
her selfe
in
our
eyes
:
but
love
at
length
,
in
both
of
one
anothers
good
,
had
well
neere
calm'd
this
passion
,
when
the
guard
,
appointed
by
the
king
,
was
come
,
and
readie
to
carrie
me
to
Court
.
But
why
should
I
,
great
Sir
,
anie
longer
stay
you
in
a
storie
,
whose
tediousnes
I
am
well
assur'd
hath
tyr'd
you
?
know
therfore
,
that
this
meanes
of
my
safetie
was
as
fortunately
executed
,
as
happily
contriv'd
;
the
king
not
once
daring
to
send
to
seeke
me
,
lest
he
should
by
that
discover
his
own
craft
us'd
in
this
dangerous
deluding
of
the
Laconian
Noblemen
.
But
I
was
scarce
a
moneth
absent
,
when
hee
whose
eyes
held
the
raines
of
his
constancie
,
the
object
being
remov'd
,
married
(
as
it
was
before
determined
)
the
beauteous
Lemnia
;
who
now
in
possession
of
his
love
,
stick't
not
to
make
knowne
to
him
this
whole
matter
,
which
otherwise
in
her
behalfe
I
was
bound
to
keep
secret
.
Thus
sir
,
if
my
desire
to
obey
your
commands
hath
made
the
story
of
my
misfortunes
tedious
,
you
may
excuse
me
,
since
all
is
done
for
your
satisfaction
.
Faire
Queene
,
replied
Basilius
,
the
sweetly
delivered
strangenesse
of
the
storie
,
would
still
ravish
the
hearers
with
a
desire
of
a
further
cause
of
attentivenesse
,
did
not
a
greater
desire
in
us
who
know
your
vertues
,
hasten
to
heare
the
end
of
your
much
pittied
distresse
:
and
so
calling
Amphialus
to
him
,
having
agreed
on
the
day
of
marriage
betweene
the
Queen
&
him
,
they
all
arose
;
for
now
their
appetites
(
growing
jealous
of
the
satisfaction
their
minds
received
by
the
former
discourse
)
began
to
solicite
them
in
the
behalfe
of
their
stomacks
.
After
dinner
,
when
most
of
the
companie
began
to
impe
the
wings
of
time
with
the
feathers
of
severall
recreations
,
Amphialus
and
Hellen
privately
went
together
into
an
arbor
in
the
garden
,
where
first
with
teares
(
the
common
apologie
of
over-joy'd
affection
)
they
spake
their
mindes
in
silence
,
their
panting
hearts
(
as
they
imbrac't
)
with
mutuall
desire
beating
their
envious
garments
,
that
gave
them
not
l●ave
to
meet
.
At
length
Hellen
gracefully
shaking
her
head
,
as
if
shee
would
shake
away
the
drops
that
(
like
the
morning
dew
on
full-ripe
Cherries
)
hung
on
her
rosie
cheekes
:
O
Amphialus
,
said
she
,
&
then
kist
him
,
as
loath
to
leave
so
perfect
a
sentence
without
a
comma
;
I
wil
not
say
you
were
unkind
,
but
,
and
there
with
his
lips
(
loath
belike
to
accuse
him
)
she
clos'd
up
her
speech
.
My
sole
happinesse
,
replied
Amphialus
,
(
softly
wringing
her
hand
)
though
the
foulenes
of
my
fault
be
no
fit
subject
for
her
to
speake
of
,
who
breathes
nothing
but
goodnes
,
yet
I
want
not
an
accuser
,
my
soule
sets
forth
my
ingratitude
;
nor
can
I
yet
conceive
,
how
mercie
can
be
so
farre
remov'd
from
justice
,
as
to
finde
a
pardon
for
my
offence
:
but
you
have
given
it
,
and
(
if
it
be
any
requital
)
it
shal
be
my
after
lifes
studie
to
love
&
honor
your
vertues
,
as
it
was
hitherto
to
offend
you
.
It
is
fit
therefore
(
said
Hellen
,
with
the
counterfeit
setlednes
of
Matie
)
we
impose
a
penance
upon
you
for
your
oversight
;
and
this
it
shal
be
,
that
henceforth
you
neither
speake
nor
think
of
that
you
account
your
fault
:
and
to
helpe
you
in
obeying
my
commands
,
I
must
intreat
you
to
keep
your
mind
and
tongue
for
a
time
busied
in
telling
me
what
befel
you
in
your
travel
since
our
being
at
Corinth
.
and
do
it
not
so
niggardly
,
as
if
you
meant
to
conceale
what
fame
hath
so
largely
blowne
abroad
:
yet
if
you
were
expos'd
at
anie
time
to
much
danger
,
dwell
not
there
too
long
,
least
I
forget
I
have
you
heere
.
Most
deere
Ladie
,
said
Amphialus
,
to
conforme
my selfe
to
your
last
request
,
would
make
me
disobedient
to
your
first
command
.
Shall
I
begin
with
my
departure
from
you
?
alas
,
at
what
time
should
I
more
imploy
my
memorie
&
speech
in
discoverie
of
my
faultie
selfe
than
now
?
But
I
see
your
eies
begin
to
take
anger
into
them
,
I
will
no
longer
insist
on
mine
owne
accusation
.
Know
therefore
,
most
constant
Ladie
,
that
accompanied
onely
with
Fidutio
my
Page
,
when
I
had
past
the
limits
of
your
dominion
,
at
that
time
of
day
when
the
high
mounted
Sunne
makes
least
shadowes
,
wearied
with
travell
,
and
desirous
of
some
shelter
from
the
Sunnes
violent
rayes
;
I
laid
my selfe
under
the
protection
of
an
Olive
tree
,
thinking
to
set
my
mutinous
thoughts
at
peace
,
but
it
would
not
be●
these
outward
signes
could
not
appease
the
furie
of
an
inward
enemie
.
Thus
I
lay
,
deerly
purchasing
the
little
ease
of
my
bodie
with
the
affliction
of
my
minde
,
untill
mine
eares
like
faithfull
servants
,
desirous
to
end
this
dissension
between
their
Master
and
himselfe
,
caus'd
all
the
powers
of
my
mind
to
joine
in
attentivenes
:
and
mine
eies
,
loath
to
be
out-gone
in
such
good
offices
,
did
look
that
way
from
whence
the
noise
came
;
where
I
might
discerne
sixe
men
arm'd
,
on
horseback
,
carrie
a
faire
Ladie
with
them
,
whose
teares
&
out-cries
well
shew'd
her
indisposition
to
that
journey
.
This
sight
mov'd
compassion
in
me
,
&
pittie
brought
a
desire
to
help
her
distresse
:
but
my
horse
(
devining
belike
my
intent
,
&
unwilling
to
leave
his
food
)
could
by
no
meanes
be
taken
;
so
that
madd
with
anger
,
I
began
to
repeat
over
all
the
misfortunes
that
ever
had
befaln
me
,
to
let
this
know
it
wanted
no
fellowes
,
when
there
came
posting
that
way
,
one
whom
(
by
his
hast
)
●
I
ghest
to
have
been
of
the
companie
gone
before
.
Of
him
I
intreated
to
know
what
fault
could
be
so
heinous
that
might
take
away
the
name
of
injurie
from
so
unmanly
a
violence
as
they
offred
to
so
beauteous
a
Ladie
:
but
he
with
a
scornfull
silence
smil'd
,
&
would
be
gone●
and
so
perhaps
he
might
,
had
not
the
narrownes
of
the
way
,
&
his
courteous
horse
,
that
would
not
tread
upon
me
,
compel'd
him
to
stay
.
Whereat
his
anger
burst
forth
into
these
threats
:
Villain
,
thy
want
of
armour
shall
not
excuse
thee
from
a
death
wilfully
drawn
upon
thee
;
and
though
there
be
no
glorie
,
there
will
be
satisfaction
in
thy
overthrowe
.
Then
drawing
his
horse
a
little
backe
,
he
lighted
,
&
without
further
complement
runnes
towards
me
:
but
his
furie
broght
him
too
hastily
to
his
death
;
for
thinking
belike
his
threatning
mouth
was
able
to
defend
it selfe
,
he
forgot
to
put
by
my
sword
,
that
by
good
fortune
was
laid
in
his
way
,
&
so
justly
his
death
entred
at
his
mouth
,
whose
life
I
think
was
in
his
tongue
.
At
his
fall
Fidutio
came
in
,
who
helping
to
fit
on
the
armour
,
of
which
we
had
disfurnisht
this
unserviceable
knight
,
I
mounted
on
his
horse
,
that
seem'd
to
have
regarded
my
hast
more
than
mine
owne
:
and
riding
on
the
spurre
,
I
overtook
my
companie
;
for
so
they
would
needs
make
themselves
,
saluting
me
by
the
name
of
their
friend
Satibarsis
.
But
their
better
observance
soone
put
them
out
of
that
opinion
:
so
as
ghessing
(
indeed
rightly
)
that
I
had
kil'd
Satibarsis
,
&
by
that
mean
got
his
armour
;
without
desire
to
be
further
then
by
their
owne
conjecture
satisfied
,
they
join'd
all
hands
in
his
revenge
.
But
the
Ladies
cause
was
just
whose
rescue
I
came
too
,
&
the
all-seeing
providence
(
that
would
not
see
justice
overlai'd
)
fought
for
me
.
And
now
five
of
them
had
either
receiv'd
their
wel-deserved
paiment
of
death
,
or
were
kept
by
their
wounds
from
further
opposition
,
when
the
sixt
(
who
all
this
time
had
held
Ladie
and
lookt
on
)
seeing
my
hand
whose
weakenesse
had
left
such
presidents
of
the
effects
of
a
good
cause
,
now
set
against
him
alone
;
took
his
prisoner
by
the
hair
,
&
with
his
sword
gave
her
a
deep
wound
in
the
neck
.
That
inhumane
act
would
have
given
desire
to
the
most
barbarous
,
&
power
of
revenge
to
the
most
cowardly
:
but
he
(
as
if
he
meant
to
save
me
a
labour
)
making
hast
that
their
warme
bloud
should
meet
,
with
the
same
sword
runnes
himselfe
thorow
,
dying
as
just
a
Iudge
as
he
was
a
traiterous
offendor
.
Amazement
would
have
fixt
mine
eies
upon
him
,
but
the
La:
wound
brought
them
to
her
succour
.
Experience
on
my selfe
made
me
skilfull
,
and
my
faire
patient
,
officious
:
so
that
tying
up
the
wound
,
for
some
time
I
●tanch't
the
bloud
.
Shee
in
meane
time
,
with
her
watrie
eies
bent
to
heaven-ward
,
heartily
praying
for
my
good
fortune
,
&
manie
times
thanking
her
destinie
that
(
with
her
death
)
had
ended
the
miseries
of
her
ever-dying
life
.
When
I
had
done
comforting
her
(
as
I
thought
)
with
my
opinion
of
her
safetie
,
I
intreated
to
know
her
name
,
&
the
cause
of
this
injurie
done
to
her
.
No
,
no
,
replied
she
;
Courteous
stranger
,
the
comfort
of
my
neer-comming
death
(
in
spite
of
the
torment
the
memorie
of
my
most
wretched
life
puts
me
too
)
brings
this
cheerfulnesse
I
now
present
in
my
lookes
:
&
though
the
least
delay
of
my
end
is
accompanied
with
a
world
of
sorrowes
,
yet
I
am
glad
,
for
satisfaction
of
your
demand
,
my
breath
is
a
while
preserv'd
.
My
name
is
Leaucade
,
the
onely
daughter
to
Count
Brunio
,
a
man
of
large
possessions
in
this
countrie
;
whom
(
you
may
well
think
because
in
expectation
of
his
lands
)
manie
sued
for
,
&
those
not
of
the
meanest
esteeme
:
but
my
carelesnesse
of
love
had
taught
me
such
a
carriage
,
that
further
then
of
the
favour
of
my
courtesie
(
of
which
they
did
all
indifferently
partake
)
none
could
boast
.
And
this
,
till
about
a
yeare
since
,
was
my
daily
practise
,
disdaining
(
as
most
that
have
not
known
it
,
do
)
so
ridiculous
a
passion
as
I
then
esteem'd
love
.
At
which
time
this
Fluento
,
whose
happie
hand
hath
done
us
both
right
,
came
to
my
fathers
Court●
a
neighbour
Prince
,
with
whom
(
for
incroaching
upon
the
bounds
of
his
territorie
)
my
father
hath
had
much
dissention
.
But
a
reconcilement
being
made
betweene
them
,
and
both
alike
thinking
the
best
meanes
to
perse●er
in
amitie
,
were
to
have
us
two
join'd
in
marriage
;
without
my
knowledge
(
as
i●
it
were
fit
I
should
be
a
stranger
to
their
proceedings
)
determine
of
the
match
.
But
alas
sir
,
at
this
time
I
was
so
far
from
being
at
their
dispose
,
that
I
was
not
at
my
own
:
for
love
(
I
thinke
keeping
mischiefe
untill
it
were
ripe
for
me
)
had
presented
a
Gentleman
to
mine
eies
,
by
birth
noble
;
whose
ancestors
,
all
to
his
father
(
being
men
of
known
vertue
in
the
countrie
)
were
admitted
to
the
prime
offices
of
the
kingdome
.
but
he
,
taking
a
pride
to
be
unthriftie
,
and
little
esteeming
these
publick
imploiments
,
lavish't
exceedingly
both
his
fame
and
patrimonie
;
yet
it
seem'd
he
onely
made
away
his
estate
to
purchase
goodnesse
for
his
childe
:
such
a
sonne
he
was
father
too
,
so
rare
,
so
excellent
.
His
name
was
Persidas
;
and
at
that
word
the
teares
gusht
forth
in
such
aboundance
,
that
it
seem'd
her
bloud
had
chang'd
his
course
and
colour
,
to
run
forth
at
the
sluces
of
her
eies
:
Alas
sir
,
what
shall
I
say
of
him
,
or
who
from
Leaucade
will
beleeve
the
desert
of
Persidas
?
But
alas
,
if
they
deserve
no
credite
that
love
him
,
in
this
countrie
you
must
heare
nothing
of
him
;
the
knowledge
of
his
person
,
&
the
love
of
his
vertues
,
being
things
unseparable
.
In
him
begun
this
tragedie
,
in
me
it
ends
:
for
when
my
father
&
Fluento
had
drawne
their
agreements
to
a
head
,
then
,
and
not
before
,
he
thought
it
time
(
he
said
)
to
let
me
know
my
happines
.
And
thus
,
finding
me
alone
,
he
breakes
the
matter
to
me
:
Deere
childe
,
I
have
ever
sithence
the
death
of
your
vertuous
mother
(
though
much
importuned
by
manie
)
reserv'd
you
to
these
years
unmarried
,
because
your
content
should
be
of
counsaile
with
me
in
your
choise
.
and
happie
was
this
delay
for
the
honour
of
our
house
;
for
behold
Fluento
makes
his
fortunes
serviceable
to
your
will
:
Prince
Fluento
daughter
,
whose
powerfull
greatnesse
the
neighbour
Potentates
stand
in
awe
of
,
Him
I
have
won
for
you
;
and
so
forward
we
be
,
that
this
day
fortnight
he
is
to
take
you
to
wife
.
Father
,
said
I
,
that
your
wisdom
hath
deferr'd
my
marriage
hitherto
to
give
me
the
confort
of
election
,
my
obedience
(
my
only
requital
)
shal
be
the
same
it
ever
was
to
you
:
and
yet
I
wonder
,
that
having
attain'd
to
these
yeares
,
when
my
judgement
in
my
choise
may
be
received
,
you
will
exclude
me
from
the
end
for
which
I
was
so
long
reserved
.
Iust
like
a
Physitian
that
tells
his
patient
he
hath
brought
a
potion
to
cure
him
,
yet
saies
he
must
by
no
meanes
take
it
.
I
must
be
married
to
Prince
Fluento
,
&
yet
your
meaning
is
,
I
should
have
libertie
to
choose
;
as
if
this
enforcement
destroied
not
my
freedom
of
election
.
That
he
is
a
man
beyond
all
respects
(
as
you
praise
him
)
fit
for
your
estate
,
I
may
wel
grant
you
:
but
that
he
is
unfit
for
your
daughter
,
I
am
priviledg'd
to
say
.
At
this
his
severe
look
,
before
he
spoke
,
began
to
lay
before
me
my
obedience
:
&
when
he
had
first
walk't
two
or
three
turnes
in
the
roome
,
Daughter
,
daughter
,
said
he
,
I
never
thought
you
were
so
wilfull
;
Where
I
pray
you
in
this
countrey
is
there
a
match
fit
for
your
birth
,
if
not
Fluento
?
Beware
,
beware
you
doe
not
give
your
posteritie
just
cause
to
curse
you
,
that
denied
them
so
great
,
so
good
a
father
.
I
answered
,
that
I
thought
it
were
too
tender
a
respect
of
children
,
whom
perhaps
I
might
not
have
,
or
should
not
enjoy
,
to
chuse
a
father
for
them
,
and
not
a
husband
for
my selfe
;
and
too
senselesse
a
feeling
of
the
honour
of
my
house
,
to
wrong
my self
to
do
my
birth
right
.
Then
kneeling
on
my
knees
,
Sir
,
said
I
,
solicite
me
no
more
,
I
have
not
power
to
grant
.
He
hastily
,
when
it
was
scarce
delivered
,
snatcht
this
word
:
And
why
not
power
to
grant
,
said
he
?
Because
Persidas
is
the
anchor-hold
of
my
life
&
love
.
Persidas
,
cried
out
my
father
!
now
all
misfortune
fall
thick
upon
me
:
shal
my
meanes
help
to
make
up
a
Bankrout
in
his
estate
?
Accursed
be
my
Fate
,
that
gave
me
life
to
heare
it
.
Persidas
!
why
sure
it
cannot
be
.
Sir
,
said
I
,
if
my
love
were
not
farre
pass't
,
my
desperate
presumption
would
not
bring
a
truth
,
much
lesse
an
untruth
to
move
your
anger
.
And
if
those
after-hopes
have
not
cleane
compel'd
you
to
forget
you
are
my
father
,
have
pitty
on
me
;
if
so
,
I
crave
the
tryall
of
the
law
.
This
last
request
(
after
conference
with
Fluento
)
finding
my
obstinacie
,
he
condiscended
to
.
But
because
I
perceive
sir
,
you
are
a
stranger
heere
,
and
that
the
knowledge
of
this
law
doth
much
concern
the
storie
of
my
present
mishap
,
I
will
make
it
known
to
you
.
This
kingdom
of
Argos
,
wherein
you
are
,
was
govern'd
not
long
sin●e
by
Phenissa
,
a
woman
worthy
to
have
come
to
that
place
by
election
,
if
nature
had
not
bestow'd
it
upon
her
by
discent
from
her
famous
ancestors
.
This
Queene
(
that
you
may
see
we
want
not
the
president
of
greatnesse
to
excuse
affection
)
in
her
fathers
life
time
,
though
by
him
she
was
promised
to
Dioxippus
,
the
tyrant
of
Syracusa
;
was
enamoured
of
one
Eumenes
Governour
(
for
the
Lacedemonians
)
of
the
Island
and
citie
of
Delphos
.
And
when
it
well
might
be
thoght
the
kings
death
&
her
succession
had
taken
away
the
restraint
of
her
wil
,
yet
she
growing
lesse
willing
when
she
was
most
powerfull
;
like
a
horse
that
finding
the
raynes
hang
loose
upon
him
,
begins
to
stay
his
fury
:
so
she
,
though
by
this
change
she
had
not
receiv'd
anie
slacknesse
into
her
affection
,
began
to
tender
the
case
of
her
country
that
lay
open
to
the
invasion
of
her
proud
enemie
Deoxippus
,
if
so
she
would
have
made
him
.
Preferring
therefore
now
this
common
respect
,
before
her
private
satisfaction
,
as
she
had
done
her
obedience
in
her
fathers
life
time
before
her
love
;
she
buries
her selfe
in
the
grave
of
Deoxippus
loathsome
bed
.
When
the
unexpected
newes
of
Phenissa's
marriage
came
to
the
eares
of
her
faithfull
lover
Eumenes
,
his
passion
(
as
Agamemnons
at
the
death
of
Iphigenia
)
can
best
be
exprest
in
silence
:
all
the
wilde
furies
that
distracted
griefe
could
gather
,
being
summoned
to
the
siege
of
his
soon
overthrown
heart
.
hastily
thereupon
to
the
Temple
his
mad
passion
beares
him
;
where
casting
himselfe
at
the
feet
of
Apollo
,
Vnjust
God
(
said
he
)
have
I
for
this
given
up
thy
ungratefulnesse
,
the
offerings
of
my
daily
praiers
?
but
if
I
wrong
thy
name
,
shew
thy
justice
in
revenging
my
death
:
wherat
,
transported
with
violence
of
sorrow
,
running
his
head
against
the
Altar
,
his
bloudie
braines
flew
forth
of
their
battered
lodging
.
Soon
after
,
the
contagion
of
a
most
pestilent
ayre
brought
such
a
plague
among
the
Argians
,
that
many
daily
felt
the
furie
of
the
Gods
revenging
indignation
:
amongst
whom
,
the
king
and
Queene
(
reserved
belike
,
the
more
to
be
punished
in
their
subjects
calamitie
)
after
the
desolation
of
their
wel-peopled
country
,
both
in
one
day
,
by
the
same
infection
,
ended
their
lives
and
government
;
wherewith
this
mortalitie
ceafed
,
as
hitting
now
at
length
the
marke
it
aim'd
at
.
The
few
remanent
of
the
Nobilitie
sent
to
Delphos
to
know
what
fault
of
theirs
had
brought
these
miseries
upon
their
country
;
where
being
inform'd
of
what
was
past
,
Apollo
advis'd
them
to
provide
that
no
such
mischiefe
should
after
happen
.
They
well
weighing
whence
it
arose
,
being
fully
satisfied
by
the
Oracle
,
enact
this
law
:
That
neyther
private
nor
publick
respect
shall
detaine
a
virgin
from
revealing
her
love
.
&
if
her
friends
or
parents
thinks
another
then
she
hath
chosen
,
more
fit
for
her
,
the
combate
between
them
two
shall
determine
the
Gods
pleasure
.
How
unwilling
I
was
to
hazzard
my
Persidas
in
this
triall
,
love
that
bleeds
in
the
thought
of
a
danger
,
can
best
assure
you
:
but
his
earnestnesse
that
it
might
be
so
,
and
the
hard
constraint
that
it
could
not
be
otherwise
,
won
me
to
it
.
The
day
therefore
being
appointed
,
Fluento
(
upon
whom
Fame
,
the
flatterer
of
greatnesse
,
had
pin'd
the
opinion
of
valour
)
entred
the
lists
,
mounted
on
a
bay
Courser
,
whose
armour
all
over
represented
a
greene
Plaine
,
through
which
ran
little
rivelets
of
bloud
that
sprung
from
the
wounds
of
manie
Centaures
,
dispearc't
over
all
the
field
.
In
his
shield
he
bore
the
counterfeit
of
Hercules
&
Deianira
,
with
this
word
,
●ndeer'd
by
Conquest
.
From
him
my
Persidas
drew
the
eyes
&
hearts
of
all
the
company
:
his
horse
was
a
fierie
sorrell
:
his
armour
like
the
azure
skie
,
curiously
spotted
with
manie
starres
,
(
whose
glimpse
the
well
set
Diamonds
,
by
reflection
of
the
Sun
,
represented
)
shewed
as
if
night
had
flowen
thither
to
end
in
that
assembly
,
some
controversie
betweene
her
&
her
brother
.
In
his
shield
he
caus'd
Andromada
and
Perseus
to
be
ingraven
,
with
this
word
,
Never
too
deerly
bought
.
But
I
must
hasten
to
the
event
,
said
she
;
for
long
I
finde
you
may
not
enjoy
your
Historian
:
Know
therefore
that
my
Persidas
,
contenting
himself
only
with
the
victorie
,
when
he
might
have
taken
(
wo
is
me
that
he
was
so
mercifull
)
Fluento's
life
,
was
accepted
by
my
father
for
his
sonne
in
law
;
good
fortune
,
as
I
then
thought
,
changing
my
husband
,
&
not
my
day
of
marriage
.
In
meane
time
Fluento
,
repining
at
his
disgrace
,
and
desirous
even
upon
the
basest
tea●mes
to
be
revenged
,
plotted
a
treacherie
unheard
of
against
him
.
This
morning
,
having
before
heard
we
were
to
hunt
in
this
forrest
,
Fluento
(
with
that
companie
your
valor
hath
brought
to
their
deserved
ends
)
lay
in
wait
for
us
:
and
when
my selfe
&
my
Persidas
(
Count
Bruni●
my
father
and
the
rest
having
followed
the
chase
)
were
left
alone
,
behold
these
bloudie
villaines
,
comming
unawares
upon
him
,
with
manie
wounds
sent
hi●
soule
to
that
place
,
whither
mine
(
hoping
to
finde
a
more
lasting
union
in
that
life
,
then
our
loves
hath
found
in
this
)
doth
also
hasten
.
&
with
this
word
,
her
dull
languishing
eyes
began
to
roll
as
if
they
strove
to
reserve
motion
in
spite
of
death
;
yet
raising
her selfe
a
little
,
her
love
found
breath
to
say
this
,
Let
me
be
buried
by
my
Persidas
:
and
so
grasping
my
hand
,
as
it
were
to
put
me
in
mind
of
her
last
words
,
alas
she
dyes
.
But
manie
teares
I
could
not
have
bestowed
as
obsequies
upon
her
,
when
some
of
her
fathers
traine
,
who
by
chance
crossing
that
way
where
Persidas
lay
dead
,
guided
by
Fidutio
(
who
,
with
their
helps
had
now
taken
my
horse
)
came
to
this
place
;
to
whom
when
I
had
related
all
what
I
learn'd
from
Leaucade
of
Persidas
his
death
,
together
with
her
last
will
,
wee
all
join'd
hands
in
carrying
her
to
the
next
village
:
whither
also
certaine
of
their
fellowes
(
whom
they
had
left
behinde
to
that
end
)
conveyed
the
bodie
of
Persidas
;
from
whence
soone
after
,
Count
Brunio
(
having
begg'd
of
griefe
a
little
respite
of
life
to
fulfill
his
daughters
testament
)
brought
them
both
,
with
all
funerall
pomp
,
to
his
chiefe
citie
Coniga
,
where
he
●aus'd
a
stately
Tombe
to
be
built
for
them
,
on
which
this
Epitaph
was
ingraven
:
Love
,
Beauty
,
Valour
,
when
their
death
drew
nye
Consulted
long
,
where
they
should
buried
lye
:
At
length
with
one
consent
they
hastned
hither
,
And
chose
this
place
to
be
intomb'd
together
.
Leaving
the
wofull
kingdom
of
Argos
,
no
better
accompanied
then
with
Fidutio
,
yet
better
guarded
by
Satibarsis
armor
;
my
sorrow
I
think
that
bore
infection
with
it
,
made
all
places
where
I
came
fit
stages
for
tragedies
:
for
descending
unto
a
green
valley
,
where
of
each
side
the
rocky
mountains
threatned
the
humble
earth
with
the
frowns
of
their
downe-cast
browes
,
I
might
see
a
young
man
leaning
with
both
hands
on
his
sword
,
breathing
as
overtoyl'd
with
labour
,
and
round
about
him
foure
or
five
cast
prostrate
at
his
feete
,
who
were
dead
,
or
thoght
their
counterfeiting
so
to
be
would
prove
their
best
defence
against
this
young
mans
furie
.
But
the
clashing
of
my
armor
had
no
●ooner
made
known
my
approach
,
then
he
came
running
towards
me
,
uttering
words
whereby
I
might
gather
his
quarrell
to
me
brought
the
excuse
of
mistake
with
it
.
Not
to
draw
on
therfore
his
misconceived
opinion
,
that
his
breathlesse
companions
did
witnes
would
be
dangerous
for
me
;
Sir
,
replyed
I
,
I
am
so
farre
from
maintaining
their
cause
,
whose
revenge
upon
a
lone
man
,
being
so
manie
,
mine
owne
eyes
do
perswade
me
was
injurious
,
that
had
I
come
at
the
beginning
of
your
fight
(
though
this
event
shewes
I
should
but
have
rob'd
you
of
part
of
the
honour
of
this
action
)
I
would
have
joyn'd
my selfe
to
you
.
Alas
sir
,
said
he
,
to
oppose
your selfe
against
me
,
(
though
it
were
the
more
unjust
)
would
be
the
most
secure
way
:
for
what
you
see
,
is
but
a
fore-runner
of
a
certain
destruction
soon
at
hand
.
Leave
me
therfore
,
courteous
●ir
,
&
seek
for
safety
;
death
to
me
is
so
gratefull
,
that
I
envie
you
should
be
a
partner
in
so
great
a
gaine
.
But
it
were
a
fault
unpardonable
to
have
abandoned
the
most
accomplisht
man
,
that
ever
mine
eyes
,
before
that
time
,
beheld
:
my
resolution
therefore
,
though
hard
against
his
will
,
must
have
prevail'd
with
him
;
so
that
intreating
to
know
the
cause
of
his
former
fight
,
&
further
doubt
,
I
found
his
courtesie
as
forward
in
the
relation
of
his
own
danger
,
as
it
was
obstinate
in
the
care
of
my
safetie
.
Sir
,
said
he
,
seeing
my
storie
will
be
but
a
heape
of
misfortunes
,
I
shall
do
wel
to
lay
the
foundation
my selfe
,
then
whom
the
Sunne
looks
not
upon
a
more
miserable
creature
:
My
name
is
Cari●lio
,
nephew
(
by
his
brother
Castor
)
to
the
king
of
Natolia
,
brought
up
in
my
youth
in
the
good
opinion
of
my
uncle
,
and
the
great
expectation
of
manie
;
Fortune
then
belike
proroguing
my
miseries
until
a
more
serious
age
should
make
me
more
sensible
of
them●
which
time
had
no
sooner
brought
on
,
but
that
my
ill
fate
,
to
traine
me
up
for
the
burden
of
the
mischiefe
that
was
prepar'd
for
me
,
began
by
little
&
little
to
make
me
acquainted
with
the
course
I
was
to
run
;
first
taking
away
my
father
,
whose
vertuous
age
deserved
(
if
that
may
be
thought
a
recompence
for
desert
)
a
longer
time
in
this
life
:
when
he
was
dead
,
&
that
the
slipperie
steps
of
my
rash
youth
wanted
the
stay
of
his
fatherly
advice
,
presently
(
not
knowing
what
one
mans
hands
I
should
put
the
raynes
of
my
then
unbridled
youth
into
,
and
yet
well
seeing
I
might
not
trust
my
●elfe
with
mine
owne
government
)
I
chose
manie
friends
;
and
being
by
nature
given
to
hate
pride
,
to
eschue
a
vice
so
loath●ome
(
thinking
it
might
not
be
done
otherwise
)
I
began
to
affect
popularitie
.
But
I
had
scarce
liv'd
thus
a
twelue-month
,
when
my
cousin
the
kings
sonne
,
a
yong
man
,
who
(
besides
the
hope
of
succession
,
for
which
the
Courtiers
did
adore
him
)
had
nothing
more
then
ordinary
in
him
,
grew
suspicious
of
my
practises
,
as
he
term'd
them
:
to
which
humor
(
besides
the
mistrust
of
his
owne
little
desert
)
his
Sycophants
,
the
bellowes
of
this
fire
,
did
daily
add
further
causes
to
encrease
his
jealousie
.
But
seeing
the
discoverie
of
his
suspicion
would
little
please
the
king
,
who
ever
since
the
death
of
my
father
had
doubled
his
care
upon
me
;
he
was
compel'd
to
dissemble
a
good
liking
towards
me
.
In
meane
time
a
truce
,
made
for
some
few
yeares
with
the
Duke
of
Amasia
,
being
expir'd
,
the
war
grew
hote
on
both
sides
:
at
length
,
after
the
triall
of
manie
changes
in
fortune
,
necessitie
mediating
a
peace
betweene
them
,
my selfe
being
given
as
hostage
for
performance
of
certain
conditions
of
my
uncles
part
,
a
perpetuall
league
was
concluded
on●
't
was
now
,
and
not
before
,
mischiefe
began
to
unmaske
her selfe
,
and
take
a
pride
to
grow
terrible
.
There
was
at
Court
during
my
abode
there
,
attending
upon
the
Dutchesse
,
a
Lady
by
name
Alcida
,
whose
many
excellencies
won
as
many
hearts
as
she
had
beholders
,
nature
making
her
beautie
&
shape
but
the
most
faire
Cabinet
of
a
farre
fayrer
mind
.
To
her
mine
eyes
at
first
sight
gave
up
my
heart
,
with
so
fortunate
an
encounter
in
affection
,
that
this
surrender
was
but
a
mutuall
exchange
;
she
having
in
a
mercifull
gratefulnes
,
fixt
her
love
one
mine
.
But
her
parentage
,
though
not
base
,
was
so
meane
in
respect
of
my
birth
,
that
thence
whole
armies
of
afflictions
did
invade
my
mind
;
equally
distracted
betweene
my
desire
to
enjoy
this
my
best
of
happines
,
and
feare
of
my
uncles
displeasure
,
on
whom
this
match
(
for
his
care
and
love
of
me
)
I
was
sure
would
draw
on
an
untimely
death
.
But
before
I
could
determine
a
doubt
of
●o
great
consequence
,
the
conditions
of
the
league
being
faithfully
performed
;
I
was
safely
at
a
day
prefixt
,
sent
back
to
Natolia
,
desirous
(
even
in
my
soule
desirous
,
I
am
sure
)
rather
by
their
breach
of
covenant
to
have
hazzarded
my
life
,
then
thus
cruelly
to
be
taken
away
from
her
presence
,
who
(
far
beyond
my
life
)
was
most
deere
to
me
.
Soone
after
my
returne
,
the
king
(
as
if
the
Gods
had
stay'd
him
to
see
the
quiet
of
his
State
,
now
that
was
brought
to
passe
,
worne
with
age
,
and
much
broken
wi●h
travell
&
care
in
his
last
warrs
)
left
his
kingdome
to
his
degenerate
sonne
&
successor
;
who
had
no
sooner
seized
upon
the
government
,
but
meaning
to
begin
his
raigne
with
an
admirable
act
of
policie
,
now
his
power
was
unrestrain'd
,
limits
me
to
the
absence
from
my
countrey
,
declaring
my
bloud
for
ever
uncapable
of
succession
:
and
not
content
with
this
,
to
such
a
height
his
undeserved
malice
to
me
was
raised
,
that
he
dealt
with
some
bad
ministers
of
his
wickedness
,
secretly
to
make
me
away
.
To
prevent
therfore
what
was
plotted
against
me
(
disguising
my selfe
)
I
hastily
fled
away
,
&
making
use
of
necessity
to
further
my
affection
,
I
put
my self
into
the
service
of
a
Nobleman
here
in
the
Court
of
Amasia
;
easily
remaining
undiscovered
,
among
them
who
would
sooner
fall
out
with
their
eyes
,
then
beleeve
that
the
greatnesse
wherein
they
lately
had
seene
me
,
could
admit
so
great
a
change
:
By
meane
whereof
,
I
enjoyed
the
presence
of
my
Alcida
,
whose
constancie
neither
time
nor
absence
(
the
mothes
of
affection
)
nor
what
is
more
,
this
my
change
in
fortune
,
could
alter
.
Thus
while
I
liv'd
in
this
happinesse
of
servitude
,
Mermidon
(
brother
to
the
Duke
)
having
commanded
with
fortunate
successe
against
the
Dazians
,
returned
to
Court
;
where
seeing
this
Lady
,
he
became
enamoured
of
her
,
to
no
other
end
then
to
satisfie
his
lust
:
and
thinking
at
first
(
because
he
was
in
good
esteem●
with
himselfe
)
she
would
have
strain'd
her
modestie
to
sue
for
the
acceptance
of
a
present
so
gratefull
to
him
,
a
while
he
was
silent
;
but
when
he
perceived
the
vanitie
of
his
fruitlesse
expectation
,
&
found
that
this
delay
encreas'd
the
fury
of
his
passion
,
dispensing
with
the
Matie
he
had
taken
on
,
he
began
to
make
known
his
love
to
her
(
for
such
a
title
did
he
give
to
so
base
a
desire
)
forgetting
not
withal
to
tell
her
,
that
to
excuse
her
modestie
,
he
had
first
spoken
her
wishes
.
But
the
vertuous
Alcida
loathing
as
much
the
thought
of
such
a
sinne
,
as
shee
loved
the
memorie
of
me
,
(
together
with
a
●esolute
deniall
)
let
him
know
how
base
his
minde
was
that
made
so
injurious
a
request
.
Wherat
Mermidon
,
because
this
answer
came
unexpected
,
was
so
much
the
more
amazed
.
But
bringing
arguments
from
his
late
practise
in
the
warre
,
he
began
to
think
his
honor
would
be
the
greater
,
if
after
long
resistance
,
he
did
surprise
a
well
defended
for
t
:
&
therefore
daily
both
by
rich
gifts
,
the
base
enamell
of
affection
,
&
manie
promises
(
which
to
win
the
more
upon
her
,
were
sent
by
one
of
her
owne
sexe
,
who
,
if
example
might
move
her
,
could
tell
of
such
a
president
in
her
●elfe
)
did
he
seeke
to
undermine
her
resolution
.
Meane
time
my
constant
Alcida
seeing
the
intemperance
of
Mermidons
lust
to
bring
the
threats
of
force
with
it
,
not
daring
to
speake
with
me
,
because
our
conference
began
to
be
suspected
,
sent
me
a
letter
to
hasten
her
carrying
away
,
appointing
this
the
fatall
place
of
our
meeting
.
I
much
rejoyc'd
to
be
so
neere
my
happinesse
,
the
rather
,
that
since
our
last
conference
I
received
intelligence
,
that
my
young
cousin
of
Natolia
being
made
away
by
one
whom
he
had
rais'd
to
an
undeserved
height
in
his
favour
,
the
countrey
was
in
great
distresse
by
the
factious
ambition
of
the
Nobilitie
,
and
that
the
best
affected
to
the
State
,
much
desired
my
presence
.
But
these
meanes
,
how
well
soever
as
I
thought
,
conducing
to
my
happinesse
,
by
the
unmercifulnesse
of
my
hard
destinie
were
prevented
,
as
one
of
those
,
whom
't
was
my
fortune
to
kil
,
at
his
death
revealed
:
for
Mermido●
having
intercepted
the
messenger
,
mad
with
rage
to
finde
his
hopes
crost
by
so
meane
a
man
,
as
he
tooke
me
to
be
;
having
again
seal'd
up
the
letter
,
he
caus'd
it
to
be
delivered
,
and
determining
to
be
reveng'd
,
sent
these
men
to
apprehend
me
,
himself
intending
to
follow
presently
,
leading
with
him
my
deerest
Alcida
,
whom
in
my
presence
(
to
ad
a
glorie
to
the
execrablenes
of
the
offence
)
he
means
to
ravish
.
And
now
sir
,
you
have
heard
(
said
he
)
all
what
my selfe
knowes
of
my
birth
&
fortune
,
ever
till
this
time
(
when
I
am
well
assur'd
my
end
is
neere
at
hand
)
kept
secret
.
He
scarce
had
clos'd
up
this
lamentable
storie
with
a
heartie
sigh
,
the
compendious
abridgment
of
his
sufferings
,
when
we
might
discerne
Mermidon
with
twentie
more
(
so
distrustful
is
treachery
,
though
there
be
no
cause
to
feare
)
make
towards
us
:
but
that
sight
,
together
with
the
thought
of
Alcida's
distresse
,
was
a
signall
sufficient
for
Cariclio
to
begin
his
unequall
encounter
;
so
as
like
a
shee
Tygre
,
who
at
her
returne
to
her
cave
findes
her
little
ones
to
be
stoln
,
with
a
wilde
furie
,
breathing
nothing
but
destruction
,
he
runnes
amongst
them
,
making
way
for
my
willingnesse
to
second
his
attempt
.
A
while
the
justnes
of
the
cause
,
and
Cariclio's
valour
(
to
which
the
glorie
is
onely
due
)
with
the
death
of
manie
,
did
hold
the
victory
in
an
equall
ballance
:
at
length
the
multitude
of
our
assaylants
made
injurie
the
stronger
,
bringing
to
a
death
much
to
be
pittied
so
incomparable
a
man
at
Armes
as
was
Cariclio
;
yet
not
before
he
had
(
in
the
sight
of
Alcida
)
sent
Mermidon
to
be
his
harbinger
at
Carons
Ferry
.
And
when
by
his
death
,
the
onely
stay
&
support
of
the
fight
was
removed
,
if
sometimes
my
desire
of
revenge
made
good
the
ground
Cariclio
had
bequeath'd
me
,
alas
how
could
I
long
resist
without
him
?
Know
therfore
,
excellent
Lady
,
that
here
I
was
made
prisoner
,
&
together
with
Alcida
,
carried
back
to
Court
,
though
(
I
call
Cariclio's
ghost
to
witnes
)
I
sought
all
meane●
to
joine
my selfe
,
even
in
death
,
a
companion
to
his
vertues
.
The
solemnitie
intended
for
our
execution
,
&
the
preparation
of
new
formes
of
torment
,
for
us
that
had
beene
parties
in
the
murther
of
the
Dukes
brother
,
won
some
lingring
daies
of
life
to
the
inward
torture
of
our
expectation
.
in
meane
time
the
everlasting
providence
(
that
by
changing
the
intentions
and
doomes
of
men
,
will
let
them
know
,
there
is
a
power
beyond
theirs
)
sent
an
unexpected
meane
to
helpe
our
distresse
.
Plangus
the
famous
Prince
of
Iberia
,
at
this
time
making
hast
with
a
few
such
as
vertue
had
join'd
partners
in
his
cause
,
&
taking
into
his
Army
such
of
Evarcus
souldiers
as
in
a
tempest
at
Sea
were
driven
to
Byzantium
,
to
the
succour
of
Erona
,
(
whose
storie
you
cannot
be
ignorant
of
)
&
being
to
passe
thorow
Amasia
,
sent
to
the
Duke
to
demand
a
through-fare
for
his
souldiers
.
But
he
who
of
long
time
had
observed
an
unviolable
league
with
the
Armenians
,
knowing
the
pretence
of
this
warre
,
&
despising
the
weaknesse
of
those
few
Plangus
led
with
him
,
not
only
denied
his
request
,
but
gathering
a
great
power
of
souldiers
(
whom
since
his
last
warres
he
had
kept
in
garrison
in
his
frontier
townes
)
meant
,
with
the
overthrow
of
her
ungratefull
nephew
,
to
gratifie
Artaxia
and
her
ill
chosen
husband
Plexertus
.
But
the
excellent
Plangus
(
then
whom
this
age
shewes
not
,
for
conduct
in
warre
,
a
better
Generall
)
with
the
well
ordering
those
few
resolu●e
Troupes
,
&
skilfull
industrie
in
choise
of
advantages
;
in
two
●et
battailes
put
him
to
the
worst
:
After
which
the
Duke
,
not
able
to
reinforce
his
weakened
power
,
put
himselfe
(
with
the
relicks
of
his
late
overthrow
)
into
his
chiefe
citie
,
wherein
wee
were
prisoners
;
to
which
Plangus
,
finding
no
open
resistance
,
with
wondrous
celeritie
followed
him
.
And
though
the
town
by
Nature
&
Art
for
site
&
forti●ication
were
thought
impregnable
,
yet
being
defended
but
by
such
who
by
their
owne
losse
held
a
too
superstitious
opinion
of
the
enemies
,
it
was
soon
forc't
by
Plangus
his
victorious
Troupes
,
who
beleeved
the
successe
of
nothing
impossible
,
to
which
their
ever-fortunate
Captaine
would
lead
them
.
With
the
sack
of
this
citie
(
wherein
he
tooke
the
Duke
,
with
his
sonne
,
prisoners
)
Plangus
having
enrich't
his
souldiers
with
the
bootie
,
&
his
own
fame
by
the
speedinesse
of
the
conquest
,
not
able
to
assure
the
countrey
to
his
devotion
,
otherwise
then
by
dismembring
his
Armie
,
and
delaying
his
chiefe
ends
;
mov'd
with
a
necessarie
clemencie
,
having
first
received
six
moneths
pay
for
his
souldiers
,
and
the
Dukes
sonne
as
hostage
,
to
barre
his
desire
of
revenge
,
(
making
Alcida
and
my selfe
,
to
secure
our
freedomes
,
companions
in
his
travaile
)
he
leaves
the
Amasians
to
th●ir
former
government
.
Manie
dayes
journey
we
had
not
beene
in
our
way
to
Armenia
,
when
the
good
Alcida
,
by
the
inward
working
of
her
thoughts
,
began
to
find
●he
burden
of
her
griefe
too
heavy
for
her
;
which
when
the
dulness
of
her
ever-watry
eyes
,
&
the
paleness
of
her
cheekes
had
bewray'd
to
us
,
we
carried
her
to
a
Monasterie
neer
adjoyning
,
dedicated
to
Diana
,
&
much
fam'd
for
the
strictnesse
of
the
Virgins
orders
that
be
attendants
on
the
Goddesse
her
ceremonies
:
where
,
having
recommended
her
to
the
governesse
of
the
house
,
alas
I
left
her
,
bound
even
by
the
greatest
tye
of
gratefulnesse
to
follow
him
whom
I
ought
my
life
to
.
These
former
accidents
,
most
deare
Lady
,
together
with
the
excellent
Plangus
his
companie
,
in
whom
sorrow
was
drawne
to
the
life
,
made
me
reflect
upon
my
ungratefull
selfe
,
&
consider
how
●ruell
I
had
beene
to
you
,
whose
desert
pass'd
my
best
endeavours
of
requital
:
so
that
(
farre
ingag'd
to
the
memorie
of
your
vertues
)
thenceforth
the
thoght
of
my
most
deer
H●llen
,
won
my
heart
to
a
most
passionate
affection
.
The
Qu●●t
this
interrupted
his
speech
,
with
this
answer
:
My
A●phialus
,
they
who
●ollow
example●
in
their
actions
,
are
●o
match
rightly
what
they
are
to
do
,
&
what
they
see
done
.
Leaucade
,
Alcida
,
and
Fro●a
might
justly
claime
the
reward
of
love
but
Hellen
(
whose
desert
was
far●e
short
)
could
expect
but
disdaine
.
Disdaine
,
said
Amphialus
!
you
renue
a
punishment
.
your
mercie
did
once
forgive
.
And
here
,
with
teares
in
his
eyes
,
hee
would
have
kneel'd
to
begge
a
further
pardon
:
but
Hellen
,
kissing
away
the
burthen
his
eyes
went
with
,
made
as
much
hast
to
prevent
his
suit
with
the
like
of
her
own
.
so
that
a
●riendly
composition
being
made
(
as
it
wel
might
be
where
both
were
parties
,
&
both
Iudges
in
one
cause
)
the
Q
got
the
continuance
of
the
story
(
which
Amphi●lus
would
put
off
to
another
time
)
to
boot
And
then
,
willing
to
discharge
him●elf
of
the
debt
he
ought
for
so
good
a
bargain
,
he
thus
began
.
Madam
;
though
my
memorie
be
a
continued
record
of
much
sorrow
,
yet
among
the
manie
stories
griefe
hath
engraven
in
me
,
there
is
none
compar'd
with
the
disaster
of
Plangus
and
Erona
,
that
deserves
compassion
:
Know
therefore
,
my
onely
happinesse
,
that
Plangus
having
received
advertisement
how
the
Nobleman
,
unto
whose
faithfull
custodie
Erona
(
upon
the
accord
betweene
him
&
Artaxia
)
was
delivered
,
being
hardly
besieg'd
by
Plexer●us
,
&
brought
to
an
extremitie
by
famine
,
had
yeelded
to
a
composition
;
that
if
within
five
dayes
he
were
not
succour'd
he
must
deliver
the
Castle
.
Plangus
therefore
overrunning
the
fame
of
his
comming
with
his
presence
,
the
fif●
night
was
neere
Plexertus
Campe
,
where
(
by
one
of
the
enemies
,
whom
his
Scouts
had
taken
)
he
was
inform'd
that
late
that
evening
,
the
keyes
of
the
citie
&
Fort
were
given
up
to
Plexertus
,
but
that
he
deferr'd
his
entry
till
morning
,
leaving
the
next
gate
to
the
Campe
open
,
that
all
night
his
officers
might
prepare
a
magnificent
triumph
for
him●
as
for
Erona
,
he
would
determine
nothing
of
her
,
untill
he
had
received
the
honour
due
to
his
victorie
.
At
these
newes
Plangus
,
causing
the
reporter
to
be
safely
kept
,
&
giving
to
his
wearied
souldiers
som
time
to
refresh
themselves
,
af●er
the
toile
endur'd
in
their
last
daies
travell
,
an
houre
before
day
(
rightly
imagining
the
aire
was
then
apt
to
disperse
a
dull
●leepinesse
among
Plexertus
carelesse
souldiers
)
he
calls
his
Troupes
together
:
&
setting
before
them
the
easines
of
the
victorie
,
the
riches
of
the
Camp
,
and
the
necessitie
of
the
time
;
he
did
incourage
them
with
the
repetition
of
their
former
conquest
in
Amasia
,
the
justnesse
of
their
cause
,
&
the
fame
o●
their
enterprise
.
and
then
presently
disposing
of
them
for
his
most
advantage
,
he
sets
upon
his
enemie
,
who
dream'd
of
nothing
but
securitie
.
But
what
should
I
fright
you
,
most
deare
Ladie
,
with
the
particulars
of
this
fight
?
It
will
suffice
you
know
,
that
Plangus
(
doing
things
in
his
own
person
,
past
the
power
of
expression
)
made
a
bloudy
slaughter
among
them
.
Som
few
there
were
that
escaped
,
among
whom
Plexertus
(
fortune
being
alway
indulgent
to
mischiefe
)
found
,
in
the
speed
of
his
horse
,
a
dishonourable
safeguard
for
his
wretched
life
.
This
t●mult
being
soone
perceiv'd
by
the
citizens
(
whom
sorrow
made
watchfull
,
and
the
well-knowne
treacheries
of
Plexertus
,
suspicious
)
they
as
soon
imagined
this
was
a
practise
of
his
,
contrarie
to
his
faith
given
,
to
sack
the
town
.
This
once
conceited
,
it
seemed
by
the
hideous
cryes
and
confused
lamentations
,
that
,
as
sorrow
had
put
on
the
vizzard
of
night
to
make
griefe
ugly
;
so
black
night
had
borrowed
the
mouth
of
sorrow
to
implore
compassion
.
The
people
leaving
their
walls
and
houses
,
ran
to
their
Temples
and
Altars
,
offering
up
(
as
they
thought
)
their
last
devotions
to
their
Gods
.
Nor
did
this
mistake
bring
forth
the
effect
of
mistrust
onely
in
the
Citie
:
the
Campe
had
likewise
this
feare
added
to
their
present
misfortune
.
for
Plexertus
souldiers
(
like
Satyres
,
frighted
with
the
sound
of
the
horne
themselves
blow
)
thinking
the
Vantguard
of
the
enemie
had
entred
the
towne
,
and
caus'd
this
confusion
;
durst
not
venture
to
make
themselves
maisters
of
it
.
But
betweene
both
,
unable
to
determine
of
a
meane
of
safetie
,
stood
fixt
in
a
stupid
irresolution
.
Meane
time
Aurora
,
wearie
of
aged
Titons
bed
,
began
to
warne
Phebe
of
her
brothers
approach
;
when
Erona
,
who
had
set
downe
in
her
setled
judgement
,
a
death
worthie
the
greatnesse
of
her
birth
,
now
first
giving
eare
to
the
cryes
of
the
citizens
,
&
misdoubting
the
same
false
measure
they
expected
:
&
not
long
after
,
hearing
a
man
arm'd
comming
up
the
staires
to
her
lodging
,
she
took
a
poysoned
cuppe
(
long
before
for
that
end
prepar'd
)
and
making
hast
lest
she
should
be
made
a
present
to
the
proude
Conqueror
the
wicked
Plexertus
,
shee
dranke
more
then
halfe
when
her
eyes
met
with
the
eyes
of
Plangus
,
who
(
infortunate
Gentleman
)
desirous
to
be
the
messenger
to
Erona
of
Erona's
freedome
,
had
made
●his
hast
.
The
sight
of
Plangus
stay'd
her
full
draught
a
while
;
but
unable
to
satisfie
her selfe
how
he
might
come
thither
,
she
began
to
imagine
that
it
was
the
force
of
the
poyson
which
dimm'd
her
eyes
,
and
plac't
the
character
of
Plangus
(
ever
present
to
her
minde
)
upon
each
object
.
With
this
thought
she
was
readie
to
begin
againe
,
when
Plangus
,
falling
at
her
feet
,
let
her
know
the
event
of
so
manie
dangers
undergone
for
her
:
Whereat
Erona
being
much
astonished
,
lifting
him
up
from
the
ground
,
thus
said
;
Prince
Plangus
,
you
come
in
a
fit
time
to
receive
a
heartie
welcome
,
and
as
heartie
a
farewell
.
What
I
meane
by
this
leave-taking
,
alas
you
will
too
soone
know
:
now
suffer
me
,
only
at
such
a
time
,
when
the
end
will
assure
you
I
did
not
flatter
,
speake
a
few
words
.
I
would
have
you
beleeve
,
yet
I
am
sorrie
,
for
your
sake
,
I
have
practis'd
such
a
meane
to
worke
a
beleefe
in
you
:
True
it
is
,
most
excellent
Plangus
(
nor
let
that
truth
accuse
me
of
inconstancie
)
that
since
the
death
of
Antiphilus
,
whose
memorie
even
at
this
time
is
deere
to
me
,
though
at
first
the
excesse
of
sorrow
had
clos'd
up
my
mind
from
the
thought
of
a
second
choyse
;
yet
enforc't
by
your
desert
,
and
to
reward
mine
own
love
in
rewarding
your
desires
,
I
was
resolv'd
to
satisfie
you
,
and
make
my self
happie
.
but
my
envious
Fate
,
finding
the
times
fit
to
cause
me
to
despair
,
hath
made
your selfe
the
instrument
to
barre
our
hopes
for
ever
.
Deere
Erona
,
replyed
the
Prince
,
what
may
there
now
be
that
the
most
partiall
judgement
can
equall
to
the
excesse
of
content
Plangus
enjoyes
in
the
welfare
of
his
free
and
loving
Erona
?
For
this
I
have
pay'd
the
mercifull
heavens
the
tribute
of
my
vowes
&
teares
:
to
this
harbour
,
through
the
Sea
of
griefe
,
(
having
imbarqu't
my
carefull
love
in
the
ship
of
my
desire
)
I
have
alway
bent
my
course
;
&
shall
I
now
,
when
my
wishes
be
at
anchor
in
so
secure
a
haven
,
feare
fortune
?
No
,
no
,
most
deere
Ladie
;
you
are
the
life
and
being
of
what
I
only
esteeme
happie
.
Alas
Plangus
,
said
the
sweet
Erona
,
the
testimonies
of
your
love
have
beene
so
manie
,
that
I
feare
(
and
only
feare
)
they
who
have
heard
your
undeserved
affection
,
and
are
not
present
at
this
my
dying
protestation
,
will
for
ever
record
(
together
with
my
want
of
judgement
)
my
injurie
to
your
vertues
.
Your
dying
protestation
,
said
Plangus
!
affright
not
my
soule
with
such
h●avie
news
.
Long
may
you
live
:
the
Fates
must
be
indulgent
to
your
youth
and
beautie
.
And
perhaps
,
said
she
,
so
they
might
,
had
not
my selfe
hastened
Clotho
to
cut
in
two
the
halfe-spun
threed
of
my
life
.
And
then
she
let
him
know
how
(
to
prevent
the
tortu●es
and
disgraces
Artaxia's
indignation
had
prepar'd
for
her
,
seeing
the
citie
brought
to
that
desperate
state
in
which
he
found
it
,
and
thinking
himselfe
to
have
beene
an
officer
sent
by
Plexertus
to
bring
her
before
him
)
she
had
poysoned
her selfe
.
Plangus
at
these
last
words
(
with
a
fixt
look
upon
Erona
,
as
if
his
eyes
would
for
ever
dwel
there
)
indenting
his
hands
&
suffering
them
to
fall
down
,
or
rather
not
able
to
stay
them
,
sinkes
to
the
ground
;
and
was
a
while
happie
in
this
excesse
of
sorrow
,
that
made
him
senslesse
of
all
sorrow
.
Erona
would
have
forc't
her selfe
to
help
him
,
but
this
sight
(
join'd
with
the
inward
working
of
the
poyson
)
constrain'd
her
to
beare
him
companie
in
his
happie
forgetfulnesse
of
his
misfortunes
.
But
when
,
by
the
help
of
her
women
,
her
senses
were
restor'd
,
&
that
my
endevours
wrought
the
same
effect
on
Plangus
:
as
if
this
had
beene
but
griefes
dumb
show
;
Alas
excellent
Prince
,
said
she
,
what
unexpected
effects
hath
the
speech
of
my
death
brought
forth
!
and
yet
though
I
were
silent
,
I
beleeve
these
deadly
signes
in
mine
eie●
,
this
trembling
in
my
full-swolne
veynes
,
&
the
often
set
and
rise
of
the
blood
in
my
cheekes
,
would
expresse
it
.
But
my
Plangus
;
should
you
,
whom
the
world
is
proude
of
,
take
it
so
to
heart
?
Erona
loves
you
:
why
so
may
a
more
deserving
Ladie
.
yet
Plangus
remember
me
,
and
it
will
be
the
best
part
of
my
soules
li●e
to
live
in
your
memorie
.
Then
taking
his
hand
,
and
placing
it
on
her
heart
,
that
now
proudly
began
to
beate
the
loud
alarum
of
death
;
Feele
he●e
,
said
she
,
the
batterie
is
begun
,
and
this
Fort
is
abandoned
of
all
the
powers
of
life●
only
my
desire
to
be
with
you
,
desperately
a
while
keepes
the
breach
.
But
ô
my
Plangus
.
and
at
that
word
death
clos'd
up
(
in
eternall
silence
)
her
tongue
that
yet
stil
mov'd
,
as
loath
to
leave
her
speech
imperfect
.
It
was
a
desperate
griefe
,
&
wilde
passion
,
that
seiz'd
upon
the
heart
of
the
poore
Plangus
.
Accursed
earth
,
did
he
say
,
how
darest
thou
support
the
burthen
of
these
many
mischiefs
,
cast
by
the
spitefull
heavens
into
this
sinke
of
miserie
?
'T
was
I
,
Erona
,
brought
an
untimely
set
to
thy
sun
shine
of
goodnesse
.
and
doe
the
heavens
meane
I
should
breathe
,
that
have
so
much
wrong'd
them
?
What
do
they
do
?
will
they
heare
me
speake
that
kill'd
Erona
?
But
they
would
have
me
live
,
to
torture
me
with
the
memorie
of
my
guilt
.
No
no
;
I
will
prevent
their
project
:
that
were
a
punishment
fit
for
an
ill-meant
offence
,
not
an
infortunate
.
And
with
these
words
,
drawing
his
sword
,
&
lifting
up
his
Bases
,
he
would
have
run
himselfe
through
the
belly
:
but
I
stay'd
his
hand
from
so
unmanly
(
as
I
then
alleag'd
it
)
a
violence
,
forcing
(
wi●h
the
remembrance
of
our
friendship
,
&
my
much-prevayling
teares
)
the
sword
,
but
not
his
resolution
,
from
him
.
Then
did
I
begin
to
alleage
all
that
I
thought
in
reason
might
remove
him
from
his
purpose
:
for
well
I
might
see
in
the
unappal'd
stayednesse
of
his
countenance
,
the
greatnesse
of
some
determination
.
To
all
my
objections
,
for
a
time
his
eyes
gave
a
more
heedfull
attention
,
than
did
his
eares
:
But
when
I
came
to
call
his
valour
in
question
,
whose
unspotted
memorie
hitherto
,
I
said
,
this
last
inconsiderate
act
would
accuse
of
a
little
firme
constancie
,
in
bearing
the
changes
of
fortune
;
Alas
,
said
he
,
and
will
you
my
friend
be
cruell
to
me
?
Is
it
certaine
Amphialus
,
that
it
well
becomes
that
courage
you
would
have
in
your
friend
,
to
bear
an
equal
temper
both
in
the
frowns
and
smiles
of
fortune
?
and
is
it
not
as
certain
,
that
when
the
malice
of
heaven
hath
join'd
with
fortune
in
producing
a
monstrous
effect
,
there
cannot
be
left
in
man
so
infinit
a
power
of
suffering
,
which
he
dare
oppose
to
such
unlimitted
works
?
No
,
I
will
not
gyant-like
bandy
against
the
Gods
:
such
is
their
will
;
I
must
die
.
Then
leading
mee
softly
over
to
Erona
,
as
if
he
would
perswade
me
the
violence
of
passion
had
not
beene
his
guide
to
this
resolution
;
See
Amphialus
,
said
he
,
this
is
shee
whom
you
would
have
me
to
live
after●
what
can
mine
eyes
,
now
she
is
gone
,
desire
to
look
on
?
Erona
,
a
woman
,
could
dye
for
Plangus
;
&
would
you
have
me
wrong
mankind
with
a
greater
fear
of
death
,
or
my
love
with
a
lesse
desire
to
dye
?
This
said
(
but
with
a
countenance
that
promis'd
no
suddennesse
in
the
execution
,
especially
to
me
who
was
Master
of
his
sword
,
his
only
offensive
weapon
)
behold
with
a
downe-cast
look
(
which
sorrow
excus'd
,
though
deceit
had
then
,
I
am
sure
,
put
it
on
to
further
mischiefe
)
and
such
a
pace
as
used
slownesse
to
the
same
end
,
he
approach't
the
window
;
where
the
remain
of
Erona's
intercepted
draught
,
appointed
by
the
destinies
to
be
fatall
to
them
both
,
stood
in
a
gilt
cup
:
this
he
hastily
takes
,
&
as
hastily
drinkes
off
.
I
,
all
confus'd
,
pale
,
and
trembling
(
as
if
the
poyson
had
wrought
its
effect
in
me
)
made
,
alas
,
too
slow
speed
to
him
.
But
Plangus
,
(
now
first
presenting
an
unfayned
cheerefulnesse
in
his
lookes
,
as
if
this
draught
had
given
him
life
)
kneeling
neer
Erona
;
Divine
soule
,
said
he
,
if
confidence
in
thy
Plangus
constancie
makes
thee
hover
neere
this
sacred
mansion
of
thine
,
to
see
the
end
of
his
suffrings
,
ô
stay
a
while
and
beare
me
with
thee
:
thy
presence
,
when
I
appeare
before
Radamanth
,
will
be
a
countenance
to
my
cause
.
Then
turning
himselfe
to
me
;
Amphialus
,
Revenge
(
Amphialus
)
Erona's
death
upon
the
wicked
Plexertus
:
his
blood
will
be
the
best
sacrifice
to
my
ghost
.
Leade
the
Armie
to
Byzantium
,
and
restore
the
Amasian
hostage
.
Then
putting
his
trembling
lips
to
the
pale
lipps
of
Erona
,
he
coldly
kiss'd
away
his
life
.
What
my
sorrow
was
to
be
a
looker
on
these
tragedies
,
these
teares
,
even
at
the
remembrance
of
that
time
,
may
testifie
:
yet
leaving
the
bodies
to
be
imbalmed
(
with
the
Nobleman
,
who
in
her
life
time
had
been
faithfull
to
Erona
)
dissembling
the
death
of
Plangus
,
lest
it
should
work
an
innovation
among
the
souldiers
;
with
some
choyse
Troupes
of
light
horsemen
I
followed
Plexertus
,
who
posting
to
Court
,
had
received
advertisement
from
thence
,
how
Arguto
(
the
admirable
engine
by
whom
he
wrought
much
mischiefe
)
being
lately
falne
from
the
faith
vowed
to
his
practises
,
had
reveal'd
to
Artaxia
the
purpose
his
Master
had
to
dispatch
her
out
of
his
way
,
since
now
he
had
a
soone
by
her
to
whom
he
might
be
guardian
:
esteeming
it
more
content
to
be
great
alone
,
than
to
share
the
royalties
of
her
own
kingdom
with
Artaxia
.
These
newes
made
his
flight
as
dangerous
as
would
be
his
stay
:
but
when
he
understood
(
for
the
heavens
had
made
this
the
rendevow
where
his
misfortunes
should
meete
)
that
the
Princes
of
Thessaly
and
Macedon
(
of
whom
his
treacheries
were
to
expect
their
just
reward
)
did
live
,
and
should
be
happie
in
the
addition
of
Arcadia
to
their
greatnesse
:
that
Leonatus
had
seiz'd
upon
his
seigniories
in
Trebisond
for
his
treason
to
Pyrocles
and
Musidorus
,
of
which
not
long
before
he
had
gloriously
boasted
:
that
there
was
no
new
forme
of
dissimulation
left
,
to
which
in
this
extremitie
he
might
have
recourse
;
O
then
the
uglinesse
of
his
guiltie
conscience
,
that
untill
this
time
had
made
peace
with
his
wickednesse
,
presented
before
him
the
progresse
of
his
ill-spent
dayes
,
drawne
to
life
in
the
colours
of
despaire
:
now
his
father
,
now
his
friends
,
Tideus
and
Telenor
were
summon'd
by
his
soule
to
make
partie
against
him
.
In
this
affright
he
continued
all
that
day
,
which
scarce
was
time
sufficient
for
him
to
reade
over
his
misdeedes
:
and
when
the
silent
night
,
drawne
in
he●
Ebon
Chariot
,
had
spred
her
curtaines
to
hide
her
brothers
face
,
Plexertus
(
glad
to
see
her
flatter
his
mind
in
this
likenesse
of
darknesse
)
resolv'd
,
by
despaire
,
that
the
Godds
wanted
mercie
for
his
faults
,
&
well
assured
men
had
lesse
;
he
secretly
went
into
a
Garden
,
to
which
a
back
doore
from
his
chamber
led
him
:
where
,
loathing
as
much
to
die
,
as
wishing
he
were
dead
,
he
spent
some
time
in
execrations
on
himselfe
.
At
length
,
tying
a
cord
(
newly
taken
out
of
his
bed
)
to
the
stump
of
an
Elder
tree
(
that
stood
with
such
conveniencie
as
if
it
would
invite
him
to
that
exercise
)
he
slipt
into
his
death
,
easing
the
earth
untill
morning
of
the
burthen
of
so
detestable
a
wretch
.
But
when
the
day
appear'd
,
&
made
knowne
his
death
,
the
magistrates
of
the
towne
(
striving
who
could
be
best
sighted
in
the
discoverie
of
the
murther
,
hoping
to
have
the
reward
of
their
diligence
from
their
Queene
Artaxia
)
soone
found
out
,
as
a
man
to
be
most
suspected
,
the
messenger
come
from
Court
,
whom
Plexertus
had
(
till
late
in
the
night
)
kept
in
his
chamber
,
to
know
of
him
the
particulars
o●
Arguto's
revolt
.
This
fellow
,
because
none
more
likely
,
in
the
wilde
form
of
their
popular
justice
,
was
to
dye
a
thousand
manner
of
deathes
:
But
he
,
making
just
protestations
of
his
innocencie
,
being
questioned
what
occasion
he
had
so
long
to
stay
the
last
night
with
the
King
,
if
not
for
that
end
.
He
plainly
let
them
know
,
what
Arguto
discover'd
;
which
he
then
reported
to
Plexertus
.
The
many-headed
multitude
called
not
the
truth
much
in
question
of
what
they
heard
,
but
with
the
same
violence
as
before
(
every
one
in
this
also
thinking
to
gratifie
the
Queene
)
ran
to
as
uncertaine
a
forme
of
execution
on
the
dead
,
as
they
did
before
to
a
judgement
of
the
living
:
first
they
stript
the
bodie
naked
,
then
dragg'd
it
through
the
streets
;
now
they
open
his
belly
,
and
suffer
his
gutts
to
marke
forth
his
progresse
,
doing
many
mo
indignities
to
him
who
had
deserved
many
more
.
I
much
rejoyc'd
to
heare
Plexertus
had
beene
so
just
to
himselfe
:
yet
I
determined
to
join
Erona's
revenge
on
Artaxia
(
to
Plexertus
his
judgement
on
himselfe
)
but
her
an
untimely
death
had
freed
from
my
revenge
.
for
taking
to
the
heart
Plexertus
his
treacheries
,
&
her
brother
Teridates
unrevenged
death
,
she
calmely
gave
her selfe
over
to
a
life
oppressing
griefe
,
leaving
her
kingdome
&
young
sonne
to
the
care
of
Salindor
,
whom
she
appointed
Protector
during
the
minoritie
.
Returning
therefore
somewhat
grieved
that
both
Plangus
and
Er●na's
death
,
without
my
help
had
beene
revenged
,
I
conveyed
the
bodies
to
Lycia
,
where
the
sumptuousnesse
of
their
Tombes
shewes
their
estates
,
and
their
everlasting
fame
their
everliving
vertues
.
From
hence
I
would
have
parted
private
;
but
remembring
Plangus
his
last
will
,
I
pass'd
thorow
●masia
,
restoring
his
son
to
the
Duke
:
and
comming
to
Byzantium
,
I
gave
up
my
charge
into
the
hands
of
Lisantus
a
Macedonian
,
leaving
the
souldiers
full
of
heartie
sorrow
for
the
death
of
Plangus
their
Generall
.
Soone
after
,
hearing
of
your
death
,
and
resolv'd
to
sacrifice
my
blood
to
your
memorie
,
to
disingage
my selfe
of
some
part
of
my
faultinesse
;
leaving
Fidutio
in
Thrace
(
lest
by
him
I
should
be
discovered
)
disguising
my selfe
in
an
armour
,
fitly
(
as
I
thought
)
presenting
the
massacre
of
my
naked
heart
:
passing
the
Courts
of
Elis
&
Argos
,
&
lastly
comming
hither
,
I
met
(
what
should
I
more
say
?
)
with
thee
my
Hellen
,
reserv'd
to
be
a
blessing
beyond
what
most
I
could
desire
.
And
so
with
a
sincere
fervencie
kissing
her
hand
,
they
both
walk't
towards
the
Pallace
:
where
having
ended
Supper
,
while
Basilius
and
Evarcus
(
with
the
rest
)
expected
a
Maske
,
prepar'd
for
them
;
the
Queene
of
Corinth
let
them
know
what
she
had
heard
of
Plangus
&
Erona
,
together
with
Plexertus
deserved
end
,
and
the
death
of
Artaxia
.
The
audience
greatly
pittied
their
fortunes
,
especially
Pyrocles
,
who
much
griev'd
to
heare
of
Plangus
his
death
,
for
the
love
he
bore
his
vertues
;
&
was
no
lesse
troubled
at
Plexertus
his
mischance
,
for
his
deere
servant
Zelmanes
sake
.
But
the
entry
of
the
Maskers
caus'd
him
put
over
those
thoughts
to
more
solitarines
,
his
eye
being
fed
with
a
daintie
varietie
of
representations
,
and
his
eares
with
most
harmonious
well-agreeing
musick
:
to
which
the
footing
kept
so
good
time
,
that
doubtfull
it
was
whether
the
musick
conform'd
it selfe
to
the
life
of
their
motion
,
or
the
Maskers
their
motion
to
the
musicks
livelinesse
.
But
night
(
mask't
in
these
sports
)
crept
on
undiscover'd
:
and
though
Pyrocles
and
Musidorus
at
other
times
would
dispence
with
the
length
of
the
sports
,
yet
now
(
in
respect
of
the
armfulls
of
joy
they
were
to
expect
in
bed
)
they
thought
them
tedious
;
which
once
perceiv'd
,
their
dances
were
sooner
at
an
end
then
was
intended
.
Thus
dayes
&
nights
past
over
,
as
if
they
had
no
other
Spheare
then
delight
to
move
in
;
&
the
appointed
time
for
Amphialus
his
marriage
was
at
hand
:
to
which
Basilius
invited
the
Shepheards
,
both
to
change
their
daily
pleasures
,
as
also
to
shew
Evarcus
,
that
though
a
greater
cause
had
mov'd
him
to
the
solitarie
course
of
life
by
him
imbrac't
;
yet
the
witts
of
Arcadia
,
and
the
pleasantnesse
of
their
harmelesse
life
,
might
have
drawne
him
to
that
retirednesse
.
The
Eclogves
.
Kalydolus
now
minded
to
marrie
his
daughter
,
and
uncertain
whether
he
should
bestow
her
on
the
contented
young
Arcadian
Menaleas
,
or
the
much-having
,
much-wanting
Thessalian
Coridon
,
who
both
were
then
present
,
hearing
of
this
summons
;
puts
over
their
cause
to
be
determined
by
Basilius
:
And
Strephon
and
Klaius
,
no
lesse
desirous
to
bring
Vrania's
name
to
Court
,
joined
themselves
to
the
rest
.
Nor
was
Agelastus
wanting
,
who
not
for
a
Mistris
but
Heraclitus-LIKE
thinking
man
,
was
made
to
mourne
;
&
repining
at
the
vanitie
of
greatnesse
,
had
maintain'd
a
religious
sorrow
.
No
sooner
was
the
companie
set
,
and
that
their
silence
began
to
proclaime
their
expectation
,
but
Strephon
who
before
his
comming
had
prepar'd
an
Epithalanium
,
began
thus
to
sing
.
Str.
Sweet
linck
of
hearts
,
joyes
surest
anchor-hold
,
Loves
peacefull
Crowne
,
the
harbour
of
desires
.
Hymen
approach
,
but
think
not
Pan
too
bold
,
If
to
invoke
thy
name
our
love
aspires
.
Dwell
heere
for
ever
,
that
this
couple
may
Renew
the
blessings
of
their
marriage
day
.
Firme
be
their
roote
of
love
,
and
cause
a
blisse
From
forth
this
royall
happie
stock
to
spring
;
That
all
the
world
may
justly
say
he
is
Worthy
to
be
,
and
to
succeed
a
king
.
But
shorten
not
their
dayes
;
for
't
is
decreed
,
The
best
can
be
,
but
worthy
to
succeed
.
Amphialus
thankt
Strephon
,
for
his
heartie
wishes
:
but
he
had
scarce
ended
,
when
Klaius
looking
upon
him
with
as
sower
a
countenance
as
their
friendship
could
allow
;
thus
said
.
Kla.
I
pray
thee
Strephon
,
if
these
glorious
showes
,
Of
Courts
admired
greatn●sse
,
do
not
close
Thy
mind
,
from
former
thoughts
,
where
can
thy
layes
,
Finde
other
subject
then
Vrania's
prayse
?
Or
dost
thou
fondly
thinke
,
thou
wert
too
blame
,
To
breathe
among
these
Lords
Vrania's
name
?
Or
is
it
certaine
that
her
flames
in
thee
Are
quench't
,
that
lately
doubled
were
in
mee
?
Str.
Nor
so
,
nor
thus
;
that
verse
I
last
day
made
,
As
with
my
flock
I
sate
in
Hestars
shade
:
I
studied
it
;
yet
all
my
studie
was
I
vow
,
to
strive
to
let
Vrania
passe
.
For'twas
the
only
name
my
pen
would
write
,
My
thoughts
imagine
,
or
my
lipps
indite
.
Am
I
not
bold
,
when
nights
vast
stage
is
set
,
And
all
the
starres
and
heavenly
audience
met
,
To
speake
my
mind
,
while
their
bright
twinkling
flame
Seemes
to
rejoyce
to
heare
Vrania's
name
?
And
shall
I
feare
,
that
what
the
heavens
approv'd
,
By
men
(
though
great
men
)
should
be
disallow'd
?
But
where
you
thinke
that
I
have
check't
mine
eye
,
And
freed
your
Strephon
from
their
treacherie
:
O
no
,
mine
is
the
Gyant
Tithius
maw
That
doth
encrease
to
feele
a
Vulturs
paw
.
No
day
runnes
over
,
but
my
loves
deepe
sore
Renues
his
paine
,
and
festers
more
and
more
:
Kla.
No
day
runs
over
but
our
loves
deepe
sore
Renues
his
paine
,
and
festers
more
and
more
!
Alas
,
where
's
pittie
then
?
belike
it
flyes
The
place
we
come
too
,
frighted
with
our
cryes
.
Str.
Pittie
;
why
friend
't
is
certaine
that
their
eyes
Who
know
they
can
or
'
come
,
learne
to
despise
.
Yet
Klaius
why
should
we
repine
?
our
Saint
Is
pleas'd
sometime
to
heare
our
loves
complaint
.
And
if
mine
eyes
(
to
ease
my
inward
paine
)
Become
not
flatterers
,
she
doth
not
disdaine
.
Kla.
Disdaine
!
that
were
a
blisse
,
so
great
a
waight
Might
lift
our
sorrowes
to
their
utmost
haight
:
And
then
perhaps
our
owne
despaire
would
mend
Our
lingring
hopes
,
that
must
or
breake
,
or
bend
.
O
no
,
ours
is
a
worse
calamitie
,
A
heedlesse
care
,
and
carelesse
courtesie
.
Then
Klaius
pawsing
a
while
,
with
crost
armes
and
a
down-cast
look
,
began
againe
these
following
Verses
to
Strephon
,
whom
he
spake
to
as
representing
the
person
of
sorrow
.
Kla.
Foule
sorrow
,
wilt
thou
alway
build
thy
nest
In
the
wilde
mountaines
of
my
care-swolne
brest
?
Str.
O
yes
,
I
finde
it
happy
for
my
breed
,
And
neere
your
heart
whereon
I
use
to
feed
.
Kla.
But
gentle
griefe
,
if
not
for
pittie
,
spare
Me
,
for
Vrania's
sake
:
she
hath
a
share
In
these
my
wounds
,
and
she
must
feele
the
smart
Whose
image's
carv'd
so
lively
in
my
heart
.
Str.
O
no
,
she
shares
no
paine
,
from
whose
faire
eyes
The
wound
did
first
,
and
now
the
cure
must
rise
.
Kla.
Why
gentle
griefe
,
thou'
rt
witnesse
of
my
love
,
Then
alway
sigh
my
plaints
untill
you
move
.
Str.
O
no
,
there
's
too
much
rigour
in
such
lawes
,
They
binde
a
man
to
speake
against
his
cause
.
Suppose
I
move
,
this
is
my
recompence
;
Ioy
must
succeed
,
and
I
am
banisht
hence
.
Kla.
Then
must
I
dye
unpittied
,
no
help
's
found
Since
you
my
spoksman
do
conceale
my
wound
.
Str.
O
no
,
let
not
that
make
us
to
despaire
:
Shee
knows
we
love
her
,
but
she
knows
she
's
fayre
.
When
they
ended
,
Musidorus
(
in
whose
memorie
their
courtesie
to
him
,
had
ingraven
a
beholdnes
)
forgot
not
to
approve
what
they
had
said
.
But
the
audience
had
little
time
to
determine
whether
they
deserv'd
,
what
the
Prince
thoght
them
worthie
of
;
when
Coridon
,
who
long'd
to
hear
the
debate
between
him
&
Menalcas
(
for
Kalidolus
daughter
)
ended
,
clapping
him
on
the
shoulder
,
thus
said
.
Cor.
Fond
beardlesse
boy
,
now
shall
the
chastisement
,
(
Fit
for
thy
rash
youths
unweighed
attempt
)
Fall
heauie
on
thee
;
but
you
may
relent
,
I
'le
not
be
crnell
if
you
do
repent
.
O
no
you
will
not
,
you
'l
be
alway
blinde
:
That
gracelesse
smile
bewrayes
thy
scornfull
minde
.
Sing
then
,
and
show
these
goodly
dotes
in
thee
,
With
which
thy
brainlesse
youth
can
equall
mee
.
Menal
.
Gray
bearded
frenzie
,
what
canst
thou
alledge
To
shun
my
blowes
,
but
thy
age's
priviledge
?
Thy
tongue
may
safely
snarle
,
while
his
offence
Is
still
protected
by
that
reverence
.
The
dotes
,
old
Dotard
,
I
can
bring
to
prove
My selfe
deserves
that
choyce
,
are
only
love
.
A
prizelesse
Treasure
,
not
to
be
exprest
,
A
guest
too
great
,
for
thy
cough-breeding
brest
.
Corid
.
Yong
man
,
thou
speak'st
as
if
thy
braines
were
wood
,
Who
can
determine
of
that
inward
good
?
I
say
I
love
,
and
will
Menalcas
grieve
That
all
the
world
should
Coridon
beleeve
?
But
that
's
not
it
;
these
flames
will
soone
decay
If
they
be
not
maintayn'd
some
other
way
.
A
thousand
sheepe
I
have
,
whose
snow-white
fleece
Do
adde
a
lustre
to
these
parts
of
Greece
:
On
whom
as
many
lambes
doe
waite
hard
by
,
That
weare
their
damms
white
curled
livery
.
O
what
a
joy
wil't
be
to
her
I
love
,
Each
morne
and
even
,
to
see
her
sheep
remove
From
field
to
fold
,
while
she
may
freely
say
That
Lamb
is
fat
,
that
Lamb
I
'le
eate
to
day
?
Menal
.
Blinde
fortune
,
I
'le
confesse
,
hath
given
you
more
:
Yet
I
am
richer
;
my
content's
my
store
.
A
thousand
sheep
thou
hast
,
t
is
very
like
,
But
thy
diseas●s
want
arethmetick
.
Nature
between
our
yeares
a
marriage
made
:
We
bloome
together
,
and
at
once
may
fade
.
But
your
old
age
is
gone
too
farre
before
,
Time
beates
you
on
,
and
you
'l
returne
no
more
.
Cor.
Hasty
young
man
,
do
not
despise
the
end
To
which
your selfe
,
as
to
a
center
bend
.
What
if
I
want
your
bodies
active
toyes
?
My
setled
minde
a
greater
good
enjoyes
.
Menalc
.
Old
man
,
thou
speak'st
as
if
thy
braines
went
wood
,
Who
can
determine
of
that
inward
good
?
Thinkst
thou
will
that
sweet
beauty
take
delight
To
heare
thee
cough
a
proverb
in
the
night
?
O
no
,
there
are
some
other
joyes
in
bedd
,
They
must
partake
whom
you
desire
to
wedd
.
Coridon
inwardly
out
of
countenance
to
heare
his
owne
words
byte
so
sore
upon
him
,
would
have
shrunke
away
;
but
hoping
he
had
found
a
Iudge
whom
the
cause
concern'd
,
stood
a
while
to
attend
what
Basilius
would
have
said
.
But
the
king
put
it
over
to
Musidorus
,
who
(
glad
to
find
an
occasion
to
pleasure
Minalcas
,
his
first
Master
in
the
practise
of
a
Shepheards
life
)
thus
ended
it
.
Coridon
,
said
he
,
could
I
as
well
lop
away
some
of
your
overgrowne
yeares
,
to
make
your
ma●ch
with
Kalidolus
daughter
equall
,
as
I
can
adde
to
Minalcas
state
,
I
would
for
a
time
suspend
my
judgement
:
for
readily
I
know
not
whether
of
you
two
deserves
best
;
but
in
the
one
my
power
seconds
my
will
,
as
in
the
other
my
will
overgoes
my
power
.
Kalidolus
daughter
I
therefore
adjudge
to
Menalcas
;
and
I
will
make
him
worthie
of
her
,
the
rather
,
that
I
know
his
rash
youth
would
impatiently
beare
a
repulse
,
where
your
experience
(
when
it
reflects
upon
it selfe
)
with
more
discretion
may
consider
she
wa●
but
a
woman
.
Glad
was
Menalcas
to
speed
so
well
:
nor
v●as
Coridon
displeas'd
,
because
the
Prince
(
as
he
conceiv'd
)
had
entertain'd
a
good
opinion
of
his
wisedom
.
Thus
when
they
ended
,
Pyrocles
,
who
mark't
Agelastus
his
silent
pensivenesse
,
desir'd
to
heare
him
disburthen
his
mind
of
the
thoughts
that
brought
him
to
so
deep
a
studie
;
thinking
that
Agelastus
stood
fixt
,
with
the
eye
of
his
mind
cast
upon
the
beautie
of
some
faire
Mistris
:
but
he
,
who
thought
of
nothing
lesse
,
thus
answered
his
expectation
.
Agel
.
Nor
fate
,
nor
fortune
,
whose
inforcing
power
,
Man
still
complaines
,
upon
his
state
to
lower
;
Do
worke
these
changes
:
man
himselfe
's
the
cause
;
They
be
but
wheeles
that
keepe
their
movers
lawes
:
Yet
alway
when
he
sees
his
fault
too
late
,
He
turnes
it
over
upon
chance
or
fate
.
Each
man
is
borne
a
King
,
his
passions
be
The
practise
of
his
soveraignetie
:
Who
though
they
stil
their
soveraign's
good
pretend
●onspire
his
ruine
for
their
private
end
.
The
love
of
skin-thick
beautie
drawes
his
eye
To
yeeld
to
love
,
his
reasons
Majestie
.
His
feare
throwes
Bugbeares
in
his
way
,
his
state
Is
still
infested
by
revengefull
hate
.
His
idle
griefe
,
for
what
he
might
prevent
,
Or
might
not
,
doth
usurp
his
government
.
Thus
he
whom
God
ordain'd
a
King
to
be
,
Obeyes
his
subjects
,
and
is
never
free
.
Besides
,
whose
state
's
so
firme
,
into
whose
way
The
world
flings
not
his
joyes
injurious
stay
?
The
surges
of
the
deepe
,
whose
jawes
devoure
The
Merchants
far-fetcht
hopes
,
the
skies
that
poure
A
second
deluge
on
the
plow-mans
corne
,
When
now
his
fields
are
readie
to
be
shorne
;
The
souldiers
long
remat
,
the
doubtfull
chance
Of
bloudie
warre
,
the
new-found
ordinance
,
The
Citie
hornes
,
the
Courts
brave
flatterie
,
Doe
force
content
to
dwell
with
povertie
.
Then
looking
round
upon
the
Princes
,
as
if
by
their
survey
he
were
againe
enabled
to
speake
,
he
thus
said
:
Honor
,
thou
spongie
Idoll
of
mans
minde
,
That
sok'st
content
away
,
thou
hast
confinde
Ambitious
man
,
and
not
his
destinie
,
Within
the
bounds
of
forme
and
ceremonie
.
Oh
happie
life
of
shepheards
,
whose
content
Rests
in
a
soule
that
's
free
and
innocent
:
They
stay
their
lodging
,
and
remove
their
roofe
,
Not
for
their
owne
,
but
for
their
flocks
behoofe
;
While
some
(
to
fill
the
blanks
of
their
meane
story
)
Do
travell
in
their
cares
,
to
gaine
vaine
glory
.
They
never
leave
the
plaines
,
unlesse
sometime
To
looke
about
them
,
they
the
mountaines
clime
,
But
dwell
not
there
;
for
even
this
change
doth
show
What
choyser
sweets
they
doe
enjoy
below
.
Here
the
rough
windes
do
buzze
about
their
eares
,
The
rockie
steepnesse
adds
unto
their
feares
:
Here
they
are
readie
to
be
torne
assunder
,
By
malice's
hatefull
blasts
,
and
envie's
thunder
.
From
hence
they
may
descend
;
but
greatnesse
stay
,
If
you
come
downe
,
it
must
be
th'
other
way
:
For
't
is
a
blisse
,
in
which
your
honour
shares
,
That
though
you
would
,
you
cannot
leave
your
cares
.
When
Agelastus
ended
,
the
companie
might
see
a
man
,
who
seemed
to
be
misfortunes
herald
,
with
a
rope
about
his
neck
,
make
towards
the
Queene
of
Corinth
,
and
cast
himselfe
at
her
feete
.
They
,
thinking
it
had
beene
some
Shepheardish
invention
,
expected
a
while
the
conceit
of
it
:
but
approching
after
a
time
neerer
to
him
,
they
might
discerne
that
it
was
Tenarus
the
usurper
of
Corinth
;
who
hearing
of
the
Queens
welfare
,
and
her
happie
marriage
to
Amphialus
(
finding
in
his
owne
practise
for
the
Crowne
,
the
Corint●ians
aptnesse
to
embrace
change
,
and
considering
the
powerfulnesse
of
his
enemies
)
had
come
thi●●er
in
the
basest
forme
of
humblenesse
,
to
set
a
beleefe
upon
his
submission
.
Him
the
Queene
(
because
he
was
a
sutor
on
her
marriage
da●
)
pardoned
,
and
restored
to
his
possessions
,
forfeyted
by
his
treason
to
the
Crowne
;
onely
she
caused
his
libertie
to
be
restrained
,
untill
her
going
to
Corinth
:
whither
,
after
she
had
taken
leave
of
Basilius
&
the
rest
of
the
royall
companie
,
she
tooke
her
journey
;
making
Amphialus
,
within
a
yeare
after
her
departure
,
a
happie
father
of
a
much-promising
sonne
,
whom
the
named
Haleamphilus
.
Evarcus
also
soone
after
,
with
his
sonne
Pyrocles
,
and
Philoclea
,
and
his
nephew
Musidorus
,
together
with
Pamela
(
who
was
desirous
both
to
accompanie
her
sister
,
and
to
see
her
mother
of
Thessaly
)
parted
from
Mantinea
;
leaving
Basilius
and
Gynecia
,
when
they
had
accompanied
them
to
the
frontiers
of
Arcadia
,
to
the
happie
quiet
of
their
after
life
.
Stat.
THAEB
.
Tu
longe
sequere
&
vestigia
semper
adora●
Sidnei
—
Finis
.