Licensed
,
Octob.
1.
1677.
Roger
L'estrange
.
A
COLLECTION
OF
Select
Discourses
Out
of
the
most
Eminent
WITS
of
FRANCE
AND
ITALY
.
A
Preface
to
Monsieur
Sarasin's
Works
by
Monsieur
Pelisson
.
A
Dialogue
of
Love
,
by
Mr
Sarasin
.
Wallenstein's
Conspiracy
,
by
Mr
Sarasin
.
Alcidalis
,
a
Romance
,
by
Mr
Voiture
.
Fieskie's
Conspiracy
,
by
Signor
Mascardi
.
LONDON
,
Printed
by
S.
R.
for
Henry
Brome
at
the
Gun
in
St.
Paul's
Churchyard
.
1678.
A
PREFACE
TO
THE
WORKS
OF
M.
Sarasin
.
MY
Friends
,
who
have
sometimes
heard
me
speak
against
Prefaces
,
will
wonder
perhaps
to
see
me
undertake
for
the
Works
of
Monsieur
Sarasin
,
what
I
never
advis'd
any
to
do
for
his
own
:
But
let
me
apply
to
these
things
what
a
famous
man
once
said
of
Funeral
Pomps
and
the
Rights
of
Sepulchre
,
'T
is
honest
to
be
careful
for
other
mens
,
but
not
to
trouble
our selves
about
our
own
.
And
certainly
if
there
be
nothing
less
praise-worthy
than
to
go
in
quest
of
that
praise
we
have
deserv'd
,
who
sees
not
that
these
great
number
of
Prefaces
wherewith
Authors
do
swell
their
Books
,
excepting
some
wherein
Discretion
and
Judgment
shines
throughout
,
and
which
are
either
very
necessary
or
very
useful
,
all
the
rest
,
though
strow'd
with
the
Flowers
of
Eloquence
,
and
highly
pompous
,
deserve
more
blame
than
praise
.
For
to
what
purpose
is
it
to
entertain
the
Reader
at
the
Entrance
with
the
excellencie
of
that
which
they
present
him
,
with
the
difficulties
they
met
withal
,
and
the
qualifications
necessary
to
surmount
them
;
to
intreat
,
to
flatter
him
in
some
places
;
to
scorn
and
defie
him
in
others
,
to
speak
sometimes
with
submission
,
and
sometimes
with
empire
,
as
if
we
would
force
their
liking
;
or
else
,
as
a
Spaniard
pleasantly
says
,
ask
it
with
tears
in
our
eyes
;
discovering
to
the
World
a
weakness
by
so
much
the
greater
as
we
are
not
able
to
dissemble
it
?
If
our
Works
are
good
,
let
us
be
assur'd
upon
the
Faith
of
all
Ages
,
and
all
that
ever
was
wrote
handsomly
,
that
sooner
or
later
the
World
will
do
us
right
,
tho
we
free
our selves
from
the
shame
of
solliciting
it
:
If
they
are
bad
or
imperfect
,
let
us
think
rather
of
suppressing
then
defending
them
;
of
correcting
our
Faults
rather
then
excusing
them
:
And
let
us
not
expect
from
our
Eloquence
what
was
spoken
but
in
jest
concerning
that
of
the
famous
Pirocles
,
who
,
when
he
was
worsted
in
Wrestling
,
perswaded
the
Spectators
he
had
no
fall
,
and
constrain'd
them
to
give
more
credit
to
his
Speeches
than
to
their
own
eyes
.
If
it
be
so
hard
to
know
our selves
aright
,
how
much
more
difficult
is
it
to
speak
of
our selves
as
we
ought
?
In
which
case
,
tho
we
think
as
we
ought
,
we
ought
not
always
to
speak
of
our selves
as
we
think
,
Where
open
and
declar'd
Vanity
is
insupportable
,
excessive
Humility
always
suspected
of
conceal'd
Vanity
,
and
the
way
between
these
so
narrow
and
so
hard
to
keep
,
that
I
know
not
for
what
reason
,
or
rather
through
what
error
,
so
many
without
any
necessity
imbark
upon
a
Sea
so
full
of
Rocks
,
and
famous
for
so
many
Shipwracks
,
But
we
fear
nothing
of
this
,
when
we
labour
for
a
Friend
that
is
no
more
.
It
becomes
us
to
defend
with
heat
the
Fame
and
Praises
which
concern
us
not
,
to
excuse
Faults
we
have
not
committed
,
and
to
speak
for
him
who
cannot
defend
himself
.
Passion
and
transport
show
handsome
here
;
and
though
we
stretch
the
Truth
a
little
,
and
of
a
great
make
an
extraordinary
man
,
those
who
condem
our
Jugement
will
esteem
our
Affection
,
and
wish
to
have
Friends
like
us
.
Let
us
add
one
voice
then
to
the
noise
of
his
Praises
,
yea
begin
amongst
the
People
,
and
in
the
crow'd
of
his
Admirers
these
first
Applauses
,
which
in
all
likelyhood
will
be
seconded
by
those
of
all
France
.
His
Works
have
not
been
collected
without
much
pains
,
and
doubtless
would
have
appear'd
handsomer
,
if
he
had
had
the
advantage
to
publish
them
himself
:
And
we
must
acknowledge
that
there
is
I
know
not
what
of
a
last
hand
,
which
cannot
be
given
to
the
Works
of
the
mind
but
by
those
that
made
them
.
We
dare
not
handle
the
Writings
of
a
dead
Friend
as
we
would
our
own
;
either
through
a
respect
we
bear
the
Genius
of
another
,
or
a
distrust
of
our
own
,
or
fear
by
confounding
two
different
ways
of
producing
a
bad
one
;
and
the
more
Judgment
we
have
,
the
less
Boldness
.
I
assure
my self
notwithstanding
,
that
these
Orphans
,
unfortunate
as
they
are
in
the
untimely
loss
of
their
Father
,
will
have
the
good
Fortune
to
please
their
Country
,
that
a
small
number
of
Defects
shall
be
hid
under
the
brightness
and
light
of
a
great
number
of
Beauties
;
that
if
any
one
will
attain
them
,
he
shall
labour
only
for
their
glory
;
and
if
they
must
fight
,
it
will
be
only
in
order
to
triumph
.
Amongst
the
divers
Pieces
whereof
this
Volume
is
composed
,
the
History
of
the
Siege
of
Dunkirk
presents
it self
first
,
which
having
already
seen
the
Light
,
and
gain'd
the
publique
Approbation
,
seems
to
refuse
my
Praises
,
and
send
them
to
some
of
its
Fellows
;
however
let
me
say
to
those
that
knew
Monsieur
Sarasin
but
by
halves
,
and
only
by
his
Poems
,
That
't
is
the
Work
of
a
Masterly
hand
that
never
abandoned
Judgment
to
run
after
Wit
,
and
sought
not
Flowers
when
't
was
the
Season
of
Fruits
:
So
that
writing
the
History
of
a
particular
Action
,
which
held
much
of
bare
Relation
,
he
hath
contain'd
his
style
within
a
just
mediocrity
,
not
suffering
it
to
raise
it self
too
ambitiously
above
its
subject
,
and
hath
deserv'd
extream
praise
in
that
way
wherein
he
seem'd
not
to
have
sought
it
.
But
Walstenis's
Conspiracy
which
follows
,
as
it
surpass'd
this
History
for
the
richness
of
the
matter
,
had
infinitely
surpass'd
it
for
the
beauty
of
the
workmanship
,
if
the
Destiny
of
human
things
,
which
seems
every
where
to
deny
perfection
,
had
permitted
Monsieur
Sarasin
to
finish
so
excellent
a
Piece
.
However
,
if
Antiquity
thought
fit
to
rank
with
Master-pieces
some
Pictures
left
imperfect
,
yea
some
Lines
drawn
upon
an
empty
Cloth
;
why
should
not
we
render
the
same
Justice
to
this
Fragment
and
its
Author
?
He
hath
not
done
enough
for
us
;
but
be
hath
done
enough
for
himself
,
and
to
let
us
see
that
if
he
had
lived
a
little
longer
he
had
got
the
Reputation
of
an
Excellent
Historian
.
In
these
two
words
I
pretend
to
have
included
a
thousand
praises
,
and
represented
a
thousand
great
and
rare
qualities
.
Not
to
speak
of
that
which
depends
in
some
sort
on
our
Will
or
on
Fortune
,
to
be
well
instructed
and
to
be
faithful
;
not
to
imploy
our
Pains
and
Industry
,
whether
innocently
or
on
design
,
to
abuse
Posterity
;
a
good
Historian
besides
this
ought
to
have
an
Universal
Knowledge
of
the
World
,
and
of
Affairs
;
a
mind
subtil
and
penetrating
,
capable
of
unraveling
the
true
Causes
of
human
Actions
from
their
pretexts
and
colours
;
an
Imagination
lively
and
judicious
together
,
apprehending
things
as
they
are
,
and
afterwards
delivering
them
so
as
he
hath
conceived
them
:
he
doth
not
recount
,
he
paints
;
and
if
he
speaks
of
a
Battel
,
a
Negotiation
,
the
Passions
of
Princes
or
their
Ministers
,
his
Readers
think
they
fight
or
negotiate
,
are
agitated
with
the
same
Desires
,
the
same
Inquietudes
.
He
hath
besides
an
exquisite
taste
in
all
that
may
please
or
displease
,
weary
or
entertain
;
and
though
he
omits
nothing
necessary
,
he
knows
to
extend
or
shut
up
his
several
subjects
according
as
the
beauty
of
his
Work
requires
.
He
doth
not
show
his
Wit
,
but
lets
it
be
seen
every
where
;
he
lies
not
in
ambush
on
all
passages
to
speak
fine
things
,
and
apply
Sentences
of
Seneca
;
he
expresses
sometimes
a
weighty
matter
in
a
word
,
or
causes
it
to
be
understood
without
speaking
it
,
as
those
that
with
the
sole
motion
of
their
eye
tacitly
approve
or
condemn
what
is
said
or
done
in
their
presence
.
His
style
is
clear
,
simple
,
familiar
,
but
without
lowness
,
and
accompanied
every
where
with
dignity
;
for
he
still
remembers
that
he
entertains
all
Nations
and
all
Ages
,
that
all
the
Earth
hears
him
,
that
he
speaks
,
as
we
may
say
,
in
the
publique
Assembly
of
Mankind
,
where
nothing
ought
to
scape
him
which
is
not
mingled
with
a
Character
of
shamefac'dness
,
respect
,
and
good
manners
.
But
that
I
be
not
accused
to
extend
my self
too
far
on
this
Subject
,
all
these
great
things
whereof
I
have
spoken
,
are
found
in
this
Fragment
:
I
have
drawn
the
true
Genius
of
an
Historian
,
but
have
done
it
only
by
copying
it
from
this
Work
.
After
these
two
Histories
we
have
put
the
Dialogue
upon
the
Question
,
If
a
young
man
ought
to
be
Amorous
.
Those
who
are
not
favourable
to
our
Author
will
,
I
confess
,
find
here
something
to
object
,
and
so
oblige
me
to
imploy
the
more
pains
to
defend
it
.
This
kind
of
writing
hath
been
hitherto
little
us'd
by
the
French
;
Whether
they
have
thought
it
hard
to
attain
its
perfection
;
or
whether
a
Nation
quick
and
impatient
,
as
ours
,
cannot
intirely
relish
Works
,
where
much
time
is
lost
before
we
can
arrive
at
the
Subject
,
or
find
what
we
seek
:
Whence
perhaps
it
is
,
that
Dialogues
have
no
where
been
in
so
much
esteem
as
with
Greeks
and
Italians
,
men
of
great
wits
and
great
leasure
.
For
my
part
,
to
speak
my
mind
,
I
think
the
less
Dialogues
are
in
use
with
us
,
the
more
honour
't
would
be
to
bring
them
into
publique
liking
,
even
against
the
inclination
of
the
Age
;
which
would
infallibly
come
to
pass
,
if
we
us'd
all
that
Art
and
Wit
they
require
.
There
seems
to
be
three
kinds
of
them
,
the
character
and
use
of
each
is
different
.
The
first
are
those
we
may
properly
call
Didacticks
,
whose
only
end
it
is
to
instruct
,
and
are
contented
with
adding
to
solidity
of
Doctrine
clearness
and
elegancie
of
Expression
;
they
are
chiefly
useful
in
this
,
That
representing
to
the
life
the
doubts
of
an
ingenious
Scholar
and
the
decisions
of
a
learned
Master
,
they
show
by
the
order
of
Questions
and
Answers
,
the
order
of
Knowledges
and
the
progress
of
Reason
;
and
that
more
neatly
,
and
in
a
way
more
lively
and
animated
than
a
bare
discourse
could
do
.
The
second
kind
is
oppos'd
to
this
,
and
we
may
rank
here
Dialogues
of
raillery
,
which
take
only
the
flower
of
things
,
instruct
by
laughing
,
and
go
not
to
profit
but
by
pleasure
:
They
have
their
value
too
;
and
their
ingenious
,
subtil
,
fine
and
delicate
strokes
descend
sometimes
deeper
into
our
minds
than
the
most
grave
and
serious
Precepts
.
But
between
these
two
there
is
a
third
kind
,
and
may
be
esteem'd
the
perfectest
,
which
not
having
all
the
austerities
of
the
first
,
nor
all
the
sportiveness
of
the
second
,
holds
something
of
each
of
them
;
for
it
handles
solid
matters
,
and
handles
them
solidly
,
but
brings
a
thousand
kinds
of
Ornament
to
render
them
more
acceptable
.
The
Dialogue
of
Monsieur
Sarasin
is
of
this
last
kind
,
in
which
three
things
are
necessary
to
its
perfection
;
the
choice
of
the
Matter
,
knowledge
and
profound
meditation
of
this
Matter
,
and
the
Art
of
reducing
it
to
Dialogue
.
The
Matter
ought
to
be
some
Science
or
some
Art
,
but
those
Sciences
and
Arts
which
fall
oftnest
into
Conversation
,
and
do
not
wound
the
mind
by
their
thornyness
:
Law
matters
,
for
Example
,
cannot
be
proper
,
less
Geometry
or
Algebra
;
the
great
Waters
we
ought
to
drink
of
are
,
Morality
,
Politiques
,
Rhetorick
and
Poesie
.
Next
follows
a
profound
meditation
of
the
Subject
,
either
discovering
something
in
it
which
hath
not
been
by
others
touch'd
at
,
or
something
new
upon
the
common
places
of
others
;
which
(
in
my
Opinion
)
is
the
greatest
and
most
noble
proof
of
human
Wit
:
For
what
can
be
more
excellent
than
to
teach
men
by
new
ways
those
general
Maxims
whence
springs
their
happiness
;
to
add
,
as
I
may
say
,
new
rays
,
new
brightness
to
those
great
and
eternal
Lights
which
guide
the
whole
course
of
our
life
.
In
the
last
place
,
he
must
have
the
Art
of
Dialogue
,
that
this
Conversation
he
represents
,
though
more
learned
and
serious
than
ordinary
ones
be
,
yet
a
conversation
,
that
is
,
a
free
,
familiar
,
and
natural
entertainment
strow'd
every
where
with
mirth
and
gaiety
,
and
the
civilities
of
honest
men
.
The
Dialogues
of
Plato
and
Zenophon
do
not
only
instruct
us
by
the
Discourse
of
their
Socrates
,
but
make
us
wish
we
had
liv'd
with
him
,
and
had
seen
with
our
eyes
,
I
say
not
this
Philosopher
,
but
this
living
and
animated
Philosophy
,
so
sublime
and
so
humble
,
so
divine
and
so
human
at
once
.
And
that
inimitable
Dialogue
which
Cicero
hath
left
us
,
does
not
only
teach
us
the
Rhetorick
of
the
World
and
of
Affairs
,
different
from
that
of
the
Colledge
;
but
also
shows
us
all
the
graces
of
Roman
Conversation
,
and
that
Urbanity
which
our
words
of
civility
,
gallantry
,
and
politeness
explain
imperfectly
,
and
which
our
Language
hath
not
found
a
proper
name
for
.
To
come
now
to
our
Author
,
of
those
three
parts
,
which
make
up
the
perfection
of
a
Dialogue
,
there
are
two
wherein
,
if
I
do
not
deceive
my self
,
we
cannot
reproach
him
:
his
Matter
is
a
question
of
Morality
not
only
handled
,
but
cannot
choose
but
be
handled
in
ordinary
Conversations
:
and
for
that
Art
of
speaking
things
with
the
familiarity
and
liberty
of
a
true
conversation
,
it
appears
throughout
;
he
hath
followed
the
track
of
the
Antients
,
and
happily
profited
himself
of
their
great
Examples
.
There
rests
only
to
examine
the
things
he
hath
us'd
with
this
Art
;
and
here
all
that
is
oppos'd
is
,
that
there
is
too
little
his
own
;
that
there
is
less
Wit
than
Reading
;
more
Memory
than
Invention
.
And
certainly
he
himself
knew
,
that
having
had
divers
occasions
to
show
his
Wit
,
this
of
introducing
learned
men
seem'd
favourable
for
him
to
display
and
pour
out
those
rich
Harvests
he
had
made
in
the
best
Books
of
several
Languages
,
and
acknowledg'd
he
was
carried
to
a
desire
of
doing
it
with
some
excess
,
and
was
not
the
master
of
it
.
But
his
Dialogue
,
according
to
his
project
,
should
have
had
two
parts
;
and
as
in
this
he
had
given
less
to
Reasonings
than
to
Authorities
and
Examples
,
so
he
propos'd
the
contrary
in
the
other
.
Besides
,
if
we
consider
well
,
when
a
man
is
acknowledg'd
Master
of
a
Wit
,
great
,
noble
,
and
fertil
,
and
reproach'd
to
have
taken
from
others
what
he
might
have
found
in
himself
,
preferring
the
riches
of
strangers
to
his
own
:
This
Reproach
,
I
say
,
carries
with
it
praise
as
well
as
blame
.
I
would
he
had
done
better
:
But
shall
it
stand
for
nothing
that
he
hath
done
well
?
Because
he
hath
not
deserv'd
all
our
praises
,
shall
we
refuse
him
those
he
hath
deserv'd
?
Should
we
not
imitate
Virgil's
Hero
,
who
at
the
Sports
he
celebrated
in
honour
of
his
Father
,
after
he
had
given
the
first
prize
to
the
Vanquisher
,
gave
two
others
,
sometimes
three
,
to
those
that
came
nearest
to
Victory
?
That
we
may
the
better
comprehend
what
glory
our
Author
merits
by
his
Poems
,
let
us
make
here
a
general
reflection
,
which
perhaps
will
be
neither
unpleasant
nor
unprofitable
.
Amongst
those
Reasons
which
cause
us
attribute
to
Poetry
I
know
not
what
of
Divinity
,
methinks
I
see
two
which
are
not
the
least
important
.
First
,
which
indeed
carries
with
it
something
great
and
marvellous
,
that
in
a
Langunge
so
constrain'd
as
this
,
they
can
express
thoughts
the
most
subtil
and
the
most
delicate
,
high
and
sublime
,
with
so
much
liberty
.
What
Prodigy
is
this
?
when
we
speak
in
Prose
,
and
all
terms
and
all
expressions
of
a
Language
are
abandon'd
to
us
,
if
some
thought
comes
into
our
mind
which
is
not
common
,
we
have
difficulty
to
make
it
be
understood
,
and
often
our
words
remain
below
our
matter
:
whilst
these
men
who
seem
truly
inspir'd
,
after
they
have
impos'd
on
themselves
a
necessity
of
using
only
certain
fashions
of
speaking
,
and
despising
all
the
rest
as
too
vulgar
;
to
shut
up
their
words
in
a
certain
measure
,
always
like
it self
;
add
,
if
you
please
,
to
end
always
by
Ryme
;
after
,
I
say
,
they
have
submitted
to
so
many
hard
Laws
,
and
difficult
to
be
observ'd
,
in
spite
of
all
these
obstacles
they
make
us
understand
all
that
they
please
,
in
a
way
more
noble
and
more
easie
,
than
't
is
possible
to
do
in
common
Discourse
.
One
would
think
they
could
not
say
what
they
say
otherways
,
though
they
would
,
so
easie
are
their
expressions
;
their
words
drop
from
their
Pen
without
design
,
and
each
naturally
takes
it
place
:
The
Harp
of
Amphion
did
no
greater
miracle
,
when
the
Stones
drawn
by
its
harmony
rank't
themselves
one
by
another
to
build
the
famous
Walls
of
Thebes
.
But
in
the
second
place
,
Poetry
may
be
esteem'd
Divine
in
regard
of
its
Subject
,
which
she
draws
from
her self
;
whereas
Prose
borrows
it
elsewhere
,
and
doth
only
beautifie
and
polish
it
.
When
we
consider
a
House
of
Pleasure
in
the
hands
of
powerful
and
cutious
Master
,
and
see
Mountains
level'd
to
please
him
;
Precipices
fil'd
up
;
Rivers
turn'd
out
of
their
way
;
Springs
,
before
hid
under
ground
,
sport
it
in
the
air
;
we
admire
mans
industry
,
and
cannot
enough
wonder
that
a
Creature
so
weak
in
appearance
should
be
capable
of
so
great
Designs
:
But
if
it
should
happen
that
in
this
vast
extent
of
Air
,
where
before
was
nothing
to
arrest
our
sight
,
we
should
discover
in
an
instant
a
proud
and
magnificent
Palace
,
spatious
Fields
,
Mountains
,
Forests
,
Rivers
and
Seas
,
we
should
instantly
cry
out
,
That
't
was
not
the
effect
of
any
Human
power
,
but
something
above
our
Nature
.
'T
is
much
the
same
in
Poesie
and
Prose
;
the
one
,
as
I
said
,
takes
its
Subject
elsewhere
,
changes
it
,
embellishes
it
,
't
is
true
,
beyond
all
we
could
expect
;
but
the
other
asks
nothing
of
any
body
,
is
content
with
it self
,
draws
all
its
Matter
from
its
own
bosome
,
making
of
nothing
something
,
by
a
kind
of
creation
which
seems
to
surpass
Human
power
.
Thus
we
may
say
that
two
things
render
Poetry
admirable
,
the
Invention
,
whence
it
hath
its
name
;
and
the
Facility
,
which
is
very
necessary
to
it
.
I
do
not
speak
of
the
Facility
of
composing
,
which
may
sometimes
be
happy
,
but
ought
always
to
be
suspected
;
I
mean
the
Facility
that
the
Reader
finds
in
the
Composition
,
which
is
often
to
the
Writer
one
of
the
most
difficult
things
in
the
World
,
and
may
be
compar'd
to
Terrass
Gardens
,
whereof
the
expence
is
hid
,
and
after
they
have
cost
thousands
,
seem
only
the
work
of
Chance
or
Nature
.
He
that
doth
not
find
in
himself
nor
richness
of
Invention
,
nor
this
happy
Easiness
,
let
him
not
knock
at
the
Muses
Gate
,
for
it
is
not
necessary
we
make
Verses
.
Now
we
should
be
unjust
,
not
to
acknowledge
that
they
both
meet
in
Monsieur
Sarasin
.
As
for
Invention
,
he
hath
always
something
ingenious
,
new
,
and
particular
,
which
he
hath
not
taken
elsewhere
,
and
which
he
owes
only
to
himself
:
And
for
Facility
,
where
is
it
to
be
found
if
not
in
his
Works
?
never
any
thing
was
wrote
more
free
,
more
easie
,
and
more
sliding
:
Nature
not
only
appears
every
where
,
but
,
as
a
famous
man
said
,
appears
every
where
at
her
ease
.
I
perceive
I
am
gone
farr
,
but
how
can
I
but
say
something
of
those
several
sorts
of
things
of
different
nature
,
wherein
this
great
man
took
pleasure
to
exercise
himself
?
To
excel
in
one
kind
of
writing
is
much
;
to
excel
in
many
,
and
almost
oppos'd
,
as
Monsieur
Sarasin
did
,
is
a
certain
mark
of
the
greatness
and
beauty
of
a
Genius
.
I
will
go
further
;
't
was
once
said
,
That
an
eloquent
man
had
the
same
advantage
over
other
men
,
that
other
men
had
over
beasts
.
We
can
make
without
injustice
almost
the
same
comparison
between
him
that
is
not
able
but
for
one
sort
of
writing
,
and
he
that
is
excellent
in
many
.
For
certainly
,
by
what
name
soever
we
ought
to
call
that
Light
which
conducts
Beasts
,
it
produces
so
admirable
effects
,
that
our
Reason
,
as
proud
as
she
is
,
is
forc'd
into
wonder
and
acknowledgment
that
she
knows
not
how
to
attain
the
like
:
But
notwithstanding
,
because
this
Light
which
directs
them
so
divinely
in
some
things
,
wholly
leaves
them
in
others
,
and
there
remains
not
one
ray
,
one
spark
of
it
,
we
admire
what
they
so
marvellously
operate
,
but
we
esteem
them
much
below
our selves
;
judging
that
this
principle
,
which
often
makes
them
act
so
well
,
hath
something
of
the
stranger
in
it
;
greater
,
't
is
true
,
than
our
Reason
,
but
is
not
to
them
what
our
Reason
is
to
us
;
that
't
is
rather
lent
than
given
them
;
that
it
makes
them
go
to
their
end
without
their
knowledge
,
as
an
Arrow
that
flies
to
the
Mark
which
it
sees
not
,
guided
by
the
eye
,
and
forc'd
by
the
hand
of
the
Archer
:
Whereas
Man
,
as
he
hath
for
the
things
of
the
body
an
universal
Instrument
,
which
is
the
Hand
,
hath
also
for
the
things
of
the
mind
an
universal
Instrument
,
that
is
,
Reason
,
which
he
imploys
continually
in
all
sorts
of
occasions
and
to
all
purposes
;
whose
extent
,
rather
than
force
,
distinguishes
it
from
that
other
and
inferiour
kind
.
By
a
like
consequence
when
we
see
one
excel
in
one
kind
of
work
,
and
not
fit
for
any
other
,
if
we
speak
the
truth
,
in
what
he
doth
so
well
,
we
admire
rather
Nature
in
him
than
admire
him
:
For
we
conclude
,
That
if
he
doth
not
act
by
chance
,
at
least
he
acts
by
a
blind
Faculty
,
and
only
by
Imagination
,
which
is
that
part
in
us
,
we
have
common
with
beasts
.
But
that
which
ravishes
all
our
esteem
and
all
our
admiration
is
,
to
see
one
that
acting
by
this
general
and
universal
principle
,
and
possessing
the
Idea
of
several
kinds
of
writing
,
passes
from
one
to
another
with
extream
facility
:
As
an
able
Printer
,
who
having
all
his
Characters
before
him
,
distinguish'd
in
their
several
Cells
,
chooses
without
hesitation
and
without
mistake
,
the
great
,
the
small
,
the
least
,
according
as
the
beauty
of
his
own
Work
demands
.
Whatever
a
Wit
of
this
make
goes
about
,
he
seems
to
have
apply'd
himself
always
and
altogether
to
that
thing
;
the
Proteus
of
the
Fables
,
nor
the
conclusion
of
the
Naturalists
,
change
not
more
easily
than
he
.
He
will
be
like
that
Philosophy
expressed
in
Boetius
,
sometimes
of
the
ordinary
stature
of
a
man
,
sometimes
his
head
rais'd
to
the
Clouds
.
He
will
imitate
the
suppleness
of
Alcibiades
,
who
was
at
Sparta
more
laborious
and
more
austere
than
a
Lacedemonian
;
in
Ionica
more
voluptuous
than
the
Ionians
;
in
Persia
more
pompous
and
magnificent
than
the
Persians
,
changing
manners
as
Climates
and
abode
.
His
light
will
be
as
that
of
the
Sun
,
which
Philosophers
say
is
of
no
colour
,
nor
in
it self
a
colour
,
but
becomes
any
colour
according
to
the
object
that
receives
it
.
He
will
accord
things
serious
and
witty
;
Verse
shall
not
hinder
him
to
write
well
in
Prose
.
Such
are
the
Wits
of
the
first
Magnitude
,
and
such
will
appear
the
Genius
of
Monsieur
Sarasin
in
this
Volume
.
But
now
having
given
him
these
Praises
,
let
us
answer
to
what
may
be
said
in
general
against
his
Works
.
It
is
not
my
design
here
to
reply
to
all
that
Envy
or
Ignorance
can
oppose
:
Now
adaies
,
that
men
boldly
tear
in
piceces
the
most
famous
Authors
living
,
who
will
wonder
,
if
they
treat
the
Dead
after
the
same
manner
?
There
is
not
a
more
agreeable
Consort
,
saith
a
Greek
Poet
,
than
that
of
two
men
,
whereof
one
speaks
all
manner
of
Ill
,
and
the
other
hears
him
without
Answering
;
let
our
Age
have
the
pleasure
of
this
sweet
musick
without
interruption
,
either
in
behalf
of
the
Living
,
or
the
Dead
.
I
shall
only
speak
to
three
sorts
of
persons
,
that
act
on
a
better
score
,
and
whose
Objections
are
most
important
.
The
First
are
they
,
who
would
pass
their
Melancholy
for
Solidity
and
Vertue
;
and
knowing
that
our
Author
hath
been
chiefly
celebrated
for
his
Works
that
are
purely
divertising
,
they
refuse
his
Writings
even
without
reading
them
,
and
accuse
him
for
employing
his
Pen
about
things
unprofitable
.
These
severe
Judges
,
more
wise
than
God
and
Nature
,
who
have
made
an
infinite
number
of
things
for
the
meer
pleasure
of
Mankind
,
would
have
men
labour
continually
in
Law
,
Physick
and
Divinity
;
telling
us
,
That
nothing
deserves
esteem
,
but
what
tends
to
publick
benefit
.
In
this
last
particular
I
am
near
to
their
opinion
;
but
I
cannot
believe
we
labour
unprofitably
,
when
we
labour
agreeably
for
the
greatest
part
of
the
World
,
and
when
without
corrupting
mens
minds
,
we
can
divert
and
please
them
.
Shall
we
call
those
unprofitable
Works
,
whereby
the
Master
of
a
Family
eases
himself
of
his
Domestick
toils
;
the
Prince
and
Minister
of
their
cares
of
State
,
a
Magistrate
of
the
tumult
and
noise
of
Courts
;
a
Souldier
of
his
pains
,
and
the
Artizan
of
his
labour
?
that
make
one
forget
for
a
time
,
his
poverty
;
another
his
disease
;
a
third
his
cruel
passions
,
and
all
in
general
their
misfortunes
?
Those
that
judge
so
are
grossly
deceived
,
and
take
the
means
for
the
end
,
for
want
of
going
far
enough
,
and
penetrating
to
the
bottom
of
things
.
Let
us
open
our
eyes
,
and
let
us
not
imagine
that
either
the
Exchange
,
destin'd
to
Commerce
;
or
the
Schools
,
where
they
teach
and
dispute
eternally
;
or
the
Barr
,
where
they
plead
particular
Causes
;
or
Councels
,
where
they
deliberate
of
publick
affairs
;
or
these
Armies
,
or
these
Canons
,
or
in
a
word
,
these
great
number
of
Engines
,
which
move
the
vast
body
of
the
State
,
are
things
made
for
themselves
,
or
have
every
one
a
particular
end
:
they
have
all
one
general
end
,
which
is
,
that
the
Citizens
may
live
together
vertuously
,
peaceably
,
and
pleasantly
.
These
three
things
have
,
or
ought
to
have
met
in
the
intention
of
Law-makers
,
and
those
that
have
founded
Republiques
:
All
that
which
contributes
to
the
last
without
hurting
the
other
two
,
far
from
being
out
of
the
way
to
publick
good
,
as
it
may
seem
,
take
a
more
direct
and
shorter
way
thither
:
For
example
,
The
Writings
of
one
well
skill'd
in
the
Law
are
profitable
,
who
denies
it
?
they
instruct
the
Lawyer
to
defend
his
Cause
;
and
the
Lawyer
well
instructed
,
the
Judge
pronounces
Sentence
aright
;
the
Judge
doing
Justice
,
the
Citizens
live
in
peace
:
but
we
often
see
,
that
the
several
hands
of
so
many
divers
Artizans
turn
the
Art
from
its
natural
intention
;
and
it
happens
here
as
in
those
Machines
,
fair
and
of
good
invention
in
appearance
;
but
being
compos'd
of
many
pieces
,
whereof
some
one
is
alwaies
out
of
order
,
they
are
often
useless
,
and
sometimes
overturn
what
they
should
bear
.
On
the
contrary
,
these
other
Writings
,
which
treat
commonly
of
Trifles
,
if
they
do
not
serve
to
regulate
the
manners
,
or
to
enlighten
the
mind
,
as
they
may
,
as
they
ought
and
as
ordinarily
they
do
,
directly
or
indirectly
;
at
least
without
having
need
of
any
thing
,
but
themselves
,
they
please
,
they
divert
,
they
sow
and
scatter
every
where
chearfulness
,
which
is
after
vertue
the
chiefest
good
.
The
man
you
blame
finds
perhaps
,
that
to
re-establish
his
ruin'd
health
,
to
defend
himself
from
evil
fortune
,
for
the
good
of
the
Family
whereof
he
is
the
stay
,
it
is
more
profitable
for
him
to
make
Songs
,
than
to
write
of
Morality
and
Politicks
;
if
so
,
we
may
boldly
affirm
,
that
Morality
and
Politicks
bid
him
make
Songs
;
and
't
is
an
injustice
without
example
to
condemn
what
another
does
,
without
knowing
the
motives
or
the
circumstances
.
But
I
go
too
far
,
and
M.
Sarasin
hath
no
need
of
this
defence
;
for
we
see
by
the
different
pieces
of
this
Volume
,
that
he
reach'd
at
Fame
by
different
waies
,
that
he
thought
of
great
things
as
well
as
small
,
if
any
part
of
learning
can
be
call'd
small
.
'T
is
better
that
I
now
turn
my self
to
those
that
are
reconciled
to
the
truth
I
apply
to
this
kind
of
composition
,
but
will
not
pardon
the
least
fault
in
it
;
believing
perhaps
by
their
severe
Criticisms
to
gain
the
reputation
of
men
more
quick-fighted
than
others
.
They
are
deceiv'd
;
and
if
there
be
no
malignity
in
what
they
think
,
deserve
to
be
disabus'd
merrily
,
which
I
shall
essay
to
do
.
I
knew
an
an
ancient
Gentleman
,
a
great
Wit
and
a
great
Courtier
;
Age
seem'd
to
have
reverenc'd
these
two
rare
qualities
in
him
,
and
only
to
have
attempted
on
his
body
;
his
sight
began
to
weaken
in
such
a
manner
,
that
he
saw
nothing
but
with
difficulty
;
yet
still
he
us'd
an
extraordinary
diligence
,
not
to
cure
this
imperfection
which
he
knew
incurable
,
but
to
hide
it
even
from
his
most
intimate
acquaintance
:
and
if
at
any
time
he
chanc'd
to
be
at
liberty
with
them
,
he
would
strive
by
all
means
to
discover
either
some
inconsiderable
spot
upon
their
Clothes
,
or
a
Ribband
out
of
its
place
,
or
something
of
this
nature
;
and
when
he
had
given
them
this
proof
of
his
sight
,
return'd
with
less
regret
to
his
first
obscurity
,
and
contented
himself
with
that
troubled
and
confused
light
which
Age
had
left
him
.
Is
it
not
by
a
like
Artifice
,
that
so
many
,
little
or
meanly
Learned
,
excuse
nothing
in
productions
of
the
Brain
,
and
pretend
that
they
are
not
able
to
support
the
least
negligences
?
for
,
in
a
word
,
those
that
pardon
these
small
defects
in
an
excellent
work
,
see
them
it
may
be
better
than
those
that
will
not
.
If
there
be
any
difference
,
't
is
,
that
they
perceive
the
beauties
much
better
,
which
are
more
sensible
.
A
good
Wit
embraces
them
,
as
we
may
say
,
with
his
Love
;
all
that
is
in
them
please
,
because
they
find
a
great
number
of
things
worthy
to
please
.
If
it
be
told
us
,
that
this
is
a
disease
of
the
mind
,
't
is
at
worst
one
of
those
diseases
which
are
the
signs
of
health
,
whereof
Hippocrates
makes
mention
,
and
amongst
them
reckons
Hunger
and
Thirst
,
though
they
are
two
things
purely
Natural
.
It
may
be
I
am
preoccupied
with
a
like
passion
for
the
Works
of
my
Friend
;
however
,
in
the
last
place
,
I
cannot
be
friends
with
an
Opinion
which
some
others
have
taken
up
,
and
which
I
should
have
conceal'd
,
if
their
Discourses
had
not
made
it
publick
.
But
I
must
say
,
that
I
approach
this
point
with
trembling
,
for
I
see
,
or
fear
I
see
amongst
those
I
am
to
combat
,
some
whom
I
reverence
,
and
whose
Opinions
are
any
where
else
so
many
Laws
to
me
.
For
all
this
let
us
boldly
venture
either
to
defend
the
Truth
,
if
we
are
happy
enough
to
know
it
,
or
let
the
World
see
that
we
are
deceiv'd
,
as
it
often
happens
to
men
from
the
least
to
the
greatest
.
In
one
word
,
I
would
defend
our
Author
,
not
from
the
Admirers
of
the
deceased
Voiture
,
for
I
am
one
of
them
;
but
from
those
that
will
admire
none
but
him
;
who
hold
him
for
the
only
Original
of
brave
things
;
and
fear
not
to
say
,
or
suffer
it
to
be
understood
,
that
all
the
rest
,
and
in
particular
M.
Sarasin
,
are
but
bad
Imitators
or
mean
Copiests
.
I
say
again
,
none
admires
Voiture
more
than
my self
;
not
excepting
this
excellent
man
,
who
being
too
unjustly
condemn'd
to
an
eternal
silence
,
when
he
heard
some
attack
the
Memory
of
his
Friend
,
burst
like
the
Son
of
Croesus
,
all
the
strings
of
his
Tongue
,
and
cried
out
(
but
,
good
God
,
with
what
a
grace
,
and
with
what
force
?
)
It
is
the
King
.
Only
that
I
may
be
the
Echo
of
this
voice
,
I
willingly
repeat
It
is
the
King
,
and
dispute
not
to
Voiture
the
first
place
in
many
things
,
without
examining
whether
he
deserves
it
in
all
.
But
certainly
the
field
of
Fame
is
wide
enough
for
all
the
World
;
there
is
more
than
one
Lawrel
and
one
Crown
upon
Parnassus
.
Can
we
not
enough
esteem
Voiture
without
despising
those
that
he
himself
esteem'd
?
let
him
ever
enjoy
the
advantage
to
have
been
of
the
best
and
most
gallant
Society
that
ever
was
,
from
which
he
receiv'd
much
,
and
to
which
he
contributed
much
;
let
him
charm
eternally
all
the
choice
Spirits
of
the
World
;
let
him
be
eternally
inimitable
;
but
let
them
not
eternally
accuse
us
for
imitating
him
,
and
for
being
of
the
number
of
those
men
,
or
to
speak
with
Horace
,
those
Beasts
given
to
servitude
,
who
have
,
or
so
little
Courage
,
that
they
dare
not
undertake
any
thing
of
themselves
,
or
so
much
Rashness
,
that
they
pretend
alwaies
to
do
better
than
those
that
went
before
them
.
For
my
part
I
am
of
opinion
,
that
a
man
who
hath
a
Genius
high
and
noble
,
as
M.
Sarasin
,
will
endeavour
to
equal
all
the
Writers
of
his
Age
,
but
will
not
imitate
one
of
them
.
However
,
let
us
see
in
what
part
of
his
Works
he
could
be
an
Imitator
of
those
of
other
mens
.
Is
it
in
the
History
of
the
siege
of
Dunkirk
,
in
Walstein's
Conspiracy
?
this
I
think
is
not
that
they
would
say
.
Is
it
in
his
Dialogue
,
in
his
Funeral
pomp
,
&
c
?
there
is
little
likelyhood
here
neither
.
Courage
then
,
we
have
sav'd
half
this
Volume
.
Voiture
wrote
a
great
number
of
excellent
Letters
,
and
if
we
may
judge
by
the
pleasure
they
give
,
't
is
this
part
of
his
Works
he
lov'd
and
esteem'd
most
.
M.
Sarasin
on
the
contrary
hath
scarce
wrote
any
thing
of
this
kind
with
care
;
and
when
he
was
oblig'd
by
some
reason
of
necessity
or
good
manners
,
he
apply'd
himself
to
it
with
regret
and
discontent
,
for
he
could
not
endure
that
,
when
a
man
had
got
the
reputation
of
Writing
well
,
he
should
lose
the
liberty
of
writing
as
other
men
do
;
I
have
seen
one
of
his
Letters
wherein
he
complains
very
pleasantly
of
it
,
and
these
words
remain
with
my
memory
,
I
envy
the
happiness
of
my
Lawyer
,
who
begins
all
his
Letters
with
,
I
have
received
yours
,
and
no
body
finds
fault
with
him
.
Not
but
that
sometimes
some
Letters
scap'd
him
of
an
excellent
and
particular
Character
;
but
he
keeping
no
Copy
of
them
,
the
most
are
lost
by
the
regligence
of
his
Friends
,
and
we
have
found
only
four
or
five
,
which
we
have
not
been
willing
to
publish
,
lest
it
should
be
thought
that
they
were
the
best
of
a
great
many
,
and
that
by
choosing
them
we
condemn'd
the
rest
.
I
can
pronounce
then
,
that
in
all
these
two
wrote
in
Prose
there
is
so
little
resemblance
,
that
one
of
them
doth
not
give
us
the
least
occasion
to
think
of
the
other
.
Let
us
come
then
to
the
Poetry
,
where
I
confess
we
shall
have
a
task
of
it
:
And
yet
here
we
have
a
great
advantage
,
for
they
cannot
reproach
us
with
the
imitation
of
any
particular
Poem
.
But
,
say
they
,
you
have
imitated
the
chief
,
that
is
,
the
Style
and
Character
;
and
that
kind
of
Poetry
Voiture
had
introduc'd
,
which
renouncing
Gravity
without
stooping
to
Buffonry
,
is
most
proper
to
entertain
the
ingenious
part
of
the
World
.
To
answer
this
Objection
't
is
necessary
to
begin
a
little
further
off
.
It
hath
been
said
,
that
Sciences
travel
through
the
World
;
and
as
they
owe
their
light
to
all
the
Earth
,
after
they
have
a
long
time
shin'd
on
one
Climate
,
they
leave
it
in
its
first
darkness
to
go
and
dissipate
that
of
another
.
To
this
we
may
add
,
That
in
all
Climates
,
and
amongst
every
Nation
,
every
Art
and
Science
takes
it
turn
,
as
we
may
say
,
to
lose
its
ball
upon
this
great
Theater
,
and
then
retires
to
give
place
to
another
.
Whether
this
variety
proceeds
only
from
the
destiny
of
humane
things
,
alwaies
subject
to
change
;
or
whether
't
is
bred
from
the
diversity
of
times
,
or
the
different
genius
of
those
who
govern
,
whose
Inclinations
serve
for
Laws
.
Now
these
revolutions
,
as
those
of
Commonwealths
,
are
made
by
means
of
some
reigning
Wit
,
elevated
above
the
rest
,
who
not
contented
with
the
present
state
of
things
,
finds
out
a
new
way
to
greatness
and
glory
:
But
as
soon
as
one
of
these
extraordinary
Wits
appear
,
we
see
two
other
sorts
which
set
out
also
;
the
first
,
who
have
nothing
good
,
but
a
Wit
to
do
well
,
follow
the
track
,
but
afar
off
,
and
are
only
shadows
and
vain
images
,
imitating
him
to
little
purpose
;
forgetting
that
there
is
no
vertue
,
but
hath
two
vices
attending
it
,
nor
elevation
,
which
is
not
environ'd
with
precipices
.
The
other
doth
not
't
is
true
take
a
contrary
way
,
for
then
they
should
oppose
the
gust
of
the
Age
,
which
greedily
embraces
the
novelty
,
and
perhaps
they
should
oppose
their
own
Inclination
,
which
had
carried
them
to
the
same
thing
,
if
they
had
not
been
prevented
;
but
going
the
same
way
they
open
different
paths
,
make
new
discoveries
,
sometimes
they
overtake
,
sometimes
they
pass
him
that
was
before
them
;
and
if
they
do
nor
the
one
nor
the
other
,
they
make
a
different
Character
that
hath
its
price
and
its
proper
value
.
'T
would
be
easie
for
me
to
justifie
what
I
have
said
by
Examples
of
most
Nations
,
if
that
tediousness
,
which
without
doubt
hath
wearied
my
Reader
,
had
not
wearied
me
too
.
To
come
then
to
our
particular
Subject
,
French
Poetry
was
gay
and
fooling
in
the
time
of
Marot
and
Melin
;
and
though
since
it
hath
sometimes
appear'd
with
the
same
face
,
yet
Ronsard
,
Bellay
,
Perron
,
more
grave
and
serious
,
had
refin'd
it
,
and
our
Muses
began
to
be
as
severe
as
the
Philosopher
of
Antiquity
,
who
never
was
seen
to
laugh
.
Voiture
,
who
can
refuse
him
this
praise
?
comes
next
with
a
Wit
gallant
and
delicate
,
a
Melancholy
sweet
and
ingenious
;
he
call'd
to
mind
the
liberty
of
our
Ancient
Poetry
,
and
had
before
his
eyes
that
of
the
Italians
,
and
the
most
polite
Roman
and
Greek
Authors
;
of
all
these
together
,
not
following
any
,
he
compos'd
a
kind
of
Writing
,
which
charms
no
less
by
its
graces
,
than
by
its
novelty
.
What
should
M.
Sarasin
do
,
who
came
into
the
World
a
little
after
him
?
if
his
inclination
had
led
him
from
this
kind
of
writing
,
I
assure
my self
he
would
have
forc'd
it
to
accommodate
with
the
time
;
but
I
think
the
contrary
,
and
that
he
gave
thanks
to
Fortune
for
being
born
in
an
Age
whose
taste
was
so
conform
to
his
own
,
and
which
't
was
so
easie
for
him
to
satisfie
.
He
began
then
to
write
in
this
free
style
,
and
finding
himself
rich
in
his
own
Inventions
,
no
more
imitated
Voiture
,
than
Voiture
did
Marott
.
Now
it
these
ingenious
and
learned
persons
will
confound
these
two
so
different
manners
of
Writing
,
they
wrong
themselves
;
and
should
leave
it
to
weak
and
obscure
sights
,
to
make
no
distinction
between
things
that
only
have
some
resemblance
.
Take
a
man
altogether
ignorant
,
he
will
put
all
the
Poets
in
the
World
in
one
rank
,
from
Virgil
to
the
makers
of
Acrosticks
.
Give
him
a
little
light
,
and
he
will
distinguish
between
Heroick-Poem
,
Satyre
,
Epigram
and
Elegy
;
but
will
not
be
able
to
make
any
difference
between
Statius
and
Virgil
;
Plautus
and
Terence
;
Juvenel
and
Horace
;
Martial
and
Catullus
:
and
for
Ovid
,
Tibullus
and
Propertius
,
he
will
not
suspect
't
is
possible
to
distinguish
their
Genius
and
Character
.
On
the
contrary
,
he
that
hath
an
exquisite
taste
,
and
an
exact
knowledge
of
good
Authors
,
will
not
only
distinguish
the
Characters
of
these
several
Writers
,
but
,
as
all
things
have
their
abuse
and
excess
,
he
will
sin
on
the
other
hand
,
and
mistrust
the
testimony
of
Books
and
Manuscripts
;
and
finding
in
Works
of
the
same
Author
some
light
difference
of
Style
,
he
will
attribute
them
to
divers
Authors
;
without
considering
that
a
man
is
sometimes
as
different
from
himself
,
as
he
is
from
another
man
.
If
our
Nation
and
our
Age
cannot
produce
in
every
kind
,
more
than
one
man
for
our
admiration
;
if
Voiture
hath
left
nothing
for
others
to
do
,
unhappy
they
that
follow
him
,
let
them
renounce
Poetry
;
why
should
they
engage
in
a
business
wherein
there
is
no
more
Honour
to
pretend
to
?
but
let
us
not
so
cruelly
discourage
so
many
brave
persons
that
run
the
same
career
.
I
know
some
(
and
how
many
are
there
which
I
know
not
?
)
whose
Writings
,
though
in
the
same
kind
,
will
pass
one
day
,
I
believe
,
for
Originals
and
not
for
Copies
.
One
,
with
the
Spirit
of
the
World
and
of
the
Court
,
will
have
something
of
fine
,
subtle
,
labour'd
,
turn'd
,
united
;
another
will
inspire
his
works
with
the
Spirit
of
Love
,
and
some
tender
and
delicate
passion
not
to
be
found
elsewhere
;
a
third
tho
Sportingly
,
will
have
the
art
to
strow
his
Writings
with
the
most
excellent
Morality
;
and
who
can
recount
the
several
Characters
which
are
now
to
be
found
,
or
may
appear
hereafter
in
these
things
,
seeing
that
from
the
divers
mixture
of
these
qualities
,
as
from
so
many
Elements
,
an
infinity
of
forms
and
different
species
may
arise
?
Let
us
try
if
we
can
clear
this
by
a
Comparison
.
There
is
something
happens
like
this
in
all
good
Arts
;
there
is
no
one
of
them
which
hath
not
been
cultivated
by
a
certain
number
of
excellent
men
;
some
have
gone
before
,
others
have
followed
,
and
every
one
hath
contributed
something
of
his
own
to
the
perfection
of
the
Art
,
so
that
we
do
not
find
the
entire
Art
in
one
,
but
in
all
taken
together
.
Let
us
consider
the
progress
of
Painting
,
which
hath
so
much
affinity
with
Poetry
.
Amongst
the
Illustrious
Painters
of
Greece
Apollodorus
was
the
most
ancient
;
but
they
said
of
him
,
that
he
only
open'd
the
Doors
of
the
Art
,
whereas
Zeuxes
was
the
first
that
enter'd
by
a
more
exact
imitation
of
Nature
.
After
him
follows
that
crowd
of
famous
Painters
,
Parasius
,
Protogenes
,
Pamphilus
,
Aristedes
,
Nichomachus
,
and
several
others
,
every
one
happy
in
certain
things
,
which
Pliny
hath
so
exactly
and
pleasantly
describ'd
,
one
excell'd
in
Symmetry
,
another
in
the
Invention
and
design
;
this
was
esteem'd
for
well
representing
the
Hair
and
extremities
of
the
body
,
that
for
hitting
the
Passions
and
Inclinations
of
men
;
another
for
admirably
finishing
his
works
;
and
some
for
ending
in
a
short
time
.
Appelles
surpass'd
every
one
for
a
certain
inimitable
grace
,
which
he
bestow'd
on
all
that
past
his
hands
;
but
this
Appelles
,
this
Great
Appelles
,
as
eminent
for
his
Wit
as
for
his
Pensil
,
freely
gave
way
to
Amphion
for
order
,
and
to
Asclepiodorus
for
heightnings
and
due
observance
of
distances
.
Let
us
on
in
this
path
,
for
't
is
all
strow'd
with
flowers
;
and
we
cannot
go
amiss
though
we
are
out
of
the
way
;
for
we
now
discourse
of
those
Painters
whose
Fame
is
fixt
in
books
,
and
whose
Names
had
been
efac'd
as
their
Colours
,
if
the
Works
of
Learned
Pens
did
not
last
longer
than
those
of
the
best
Pencils
.
Raphael
being
the
Disciple
of
Pietro
Perugino
,
at
first
followed
his
Master
by
an
imitation
exact
,
and
labour'd
,
as
they
say
,
but
dry
,
and
imitated
his
manner
so
precisely
,
that
what
the
one
and
the
other
did
could
not
be
distinguish'd
:
but
his
Genius
beyond
compare
greater
than
that
of
his
Master
,
could
not
long
be
contain'd
in
the
same
bounds
;
he
fortified
it
by
the
imitation
of
Leonard
and
Michael
Angelo
,
and
added
Graces
that
these
two
excellent
men
,
though
consummate
in
the
Art
,
never
knew
,
he
compos'd
a
new
and
charming
way
,
infinitely
beyond
those
he
had
followed
.
Julius
Romain
,
the
Scholar
of
Raphael
,
had
a
great
Spirit
,
and
was
capable
of
the
greatest
designs
and
most
noble
capriccios
of
the
Art
,
but
wanted
the
sweetness
and
graces
of
his
Master
,
though
he
had
labour'd
all
his
life
to
profit
himself
of
his
Precepts
and
Examples
;
all
his
Figures
were
fierce
and
bold
,
and
he
discover'd
how
our
resolution
in
vain
carries
us
one
way
,
when
Nature
draws
or
leads
us
another
.
Jitian
on
the
contrary
had
an
ordinary
Painter
for
his
Master
,
yet
notwithstanding
he
surpasses
all
his
Profession
in
the
sweet
mixture
of
his
Colours
,
and
in
that
love
which
reigns
in
all
his
pieces
.
Correggio
ow'd
less
to
others
instructions
,
Nature
form'd
him
her self
,
he
was
born
and
bred
in
Solitude
,
never
imitated
any
,
and
yet
by
an
admirable
effect
of
his
great
Genius
,
his
pieces
have
an
universal
way
.
which
holds
something
of
all
the
rest
.
Let
us
admire
this
diversity
:
One
by
far
surpasses
all
those
he
imitates
;
another
,
though
eminent
in
several
things
of
his
own
,
us'd
all
his
skill
to
resemble
others
,
and
could
not
attain
it
;
this
,
though
he
perfectly
knew
what
all
their
several
waies
had
in
them
of
excellent
,
yet
could
not
form
a
better
;
that
knew
it
not
,
nor
imitated
any
one
,
and
one
would
say
he
had
taken
them
all
together
.
They
followed
one
another
,
and
instructed
one
another
,
and
yet
are
all
great
Masters
and
not
Copiests
.
But
why
do
we
stay
upon
Comparisons
,
perhaps
too
far
from
our
Subject
,
when
we
have
such
as
are
near
at
hand
?
Every
one
knows
how
much
our
Language
owes
to
the
admirable
Wit
of
the
deceased
Balsac
;
nor
can
we
dissemble
it
without
too
much
ingratitude
,
it
was
not
the
same
after
he
began
to
Write
,
but
changed
face
and
came
about
.
All
those
that
wrote
after
him
are
his
Debters
for
part
of
their
Style
:
even
those
honest
abused
people
,
who
when
they
say
,
to
speak
Balsac
mean
,
to
speak
ill
,
if
ever
they
speak
handsomly
,
are
oblig'd
without
knowing
it
,
to
him
whom
they
outrage
and
abuse
.
The
Fame
of
this
excellant
man
will
be
without
doubt
great
and
immortal
;
yet
not
such
as
to
obscure
that
of
many
illustrious
Writers
,
who
appeared
after
him
;
nor
in
particular
that
of
Voiture
,
who
yet
is
as
much
his
Debtor
for
expression
,
as
M.
Sarasin
is
to
Voiture
for
the
Character
of
his
Verse
.
To
end
this
;
Voiture
,
if
we
will
believe
his
intimate
Friends
,
was
of
very
delightful
Conversation
,
so
was
M.
Sarasin
;
but
't
was
,
as
all
agree
,
in
a
different
way
;
if
Discourse
and
Writings
are
equally
the
images
of
the
mind
,
why
might
not
the
like
different
Graces
,
which
appear'd
in
their
Converse
,
be
found
also
in
their
Works
?
After
having
bestow'd
so
many
Praises
on
M.
Sarasin's
Works
,
let
us
a
while
speak
of
M.
Sarasin
himself
.
I
know
not
by
what
ill
fortune
,
the
genius
of
Letters
,
and
the
genius
for
the
World
,
are
almost
incompatible
;
those
who
consecrate
themselves
to
study
,
are
capable
of
little
else
but
studying
;
the
most
part
of
them
seem
not
to
live
but
in
their
Works
;
to
be
Authors
they
cease
almost
to
be
men
;
they
have
their
minds
full
of
great
knowledges
,
but
when
they
would
draw
some
present
profit
from
them
,
they
let
us
see
how
great
a
distance
there
is
between
the
beauty
of
contemplation
,
and
the
vigour
of
action
and
practice
;
like
that
famous
Gally
of
one
of
the
Ptolomies
,
which
had
sourty
ranks
of
Oars
,
and
could
carry
Three
thousand
Souldiers
,
besides
Four
hundred
Saylers
,
and
Four
thousand
slaves
;
but
so
vast
and
unweildy
,
that
't
was
impossible
to
set
it
to
Sea
,
and
it
serv'd
only
to
look
upon
.
Let
us
not
accuse
Arts
and
Sciences
for
this
,
't
is
not
their
fault
;
't
is
the
imperfection
of
humane
Wit
,
not
strong
enough
to
bear
them
,
or
able
enough
to
manage
them
;
but
as
a
sick
or
weak
Souldier
,
is
oppress'd
or
hinder'd
with
his
own
Arms.
Our
excellent
Friend
was
none
of
these
,
and
if
there
be
need
of
an
illustrious
Witness
,
we
will
produce
no
other
but
that
Prince
,
great
by
Birth
,
great
for
his
Mind
and
Courage
;
a
Prince
who
judg'd
not
by
others
Eyes
or
Opinions
,
but
by
his
own
,
and
who
a
thousand
times
,
when
inviron'd
with
a
croud
of
persons
of
quality
and
merit
,
found
an
entire
Court
in
M.
Sarasin
;
whether
he
was
to
deliberate
,
or
execute
;
to
negotiate
important
and
publick
Affairs
;
to
rely
upon
him
for
the
conduct
of
his
private
;
or
sought
a
Conversation
solid
and
learned
,
or
would
relieve
himself
by
a
pleasant
one
.
Could
I
but
represent
by
some
great
and
bold
stroke
of
my
Pencil
the
charms
of
his
Conversation
,
as
they
are
impress'd
in
my
memory
;
but
it
happens
here
as
in
all
other
excellent
things
,
it
is
easie
to
say
what
they
are
not
,
and
hard
to
describe
what
they
are
.
If
it
be
asked
me
,
What
had
Monsieur
Sarasin
in
him
so
universally
to
please
?
He
had
nothing
of
that
which
displeases
in
most
Learned
men
,
and
in
such
as
make
profession
of
Letters
.
Some
,
either
by
a
vertue
too
austere
,
or
by
a
Scorn
which
renders
them
scorn'd
,
hold
no
commerce
but
with
the
Learned
,
and
voluntarily
renounce
the
Society
of
the
greatest
part
of
the
World
:
they
do
wrong
to
Philosophy
,
for
men
instead
of
conceiving
under
this
name
,
good
sense
and
love
of
reason
,
which
naturally
hath
a
thousand
charms
,
fancy
something
strange
and
barbarous
,
which
renders
men
of
bad
humors
,
and
will
not
let
them
be
Sociable
;
they
forget
that
Socrates
their
Founder
and
Father
(
if
they
are
his
legitimate
Off-spring
)
would
laugh
,
and
dance
as
other
men
,
and
thought
nothing
unworthy
of
him
,
but
Vice
.
There
are
others
who
have
not
this
peevishness
nor
fierceness
,
but
by
a
too
strong
application
to
their
designs
,
are
alwaies
divided
,
and
carry
but
half
themselves
to
any
place
,
still
looking
aside
,
as
a
Lover
far
from
his
Mistress
.
Others
,
that
have
but
little
experience
of
the
World
,
though
a
great
Judgment
,
stir
not
but
with
fear
,
as
in
a
strange
Countrey
;
they
say
nothing
through
a
too
curious
choice
what
they
should
say
,
and
we
may
divine
their
minds
sooner
than
see
them
.
On
the
contrary
,
others
abuse
the
Reputation
they
have
got
;
they
speak
well
,
but
they
speak
alwaies
;
they
speak
continually
excellent
things
,
but
they
will
not
let
others
do
it
;
whereas
they
should
do
in
Conversation
,
what
that
Ancient
did
in
the
Commonwealth
,
when
he
retir'd
sometimes
to
let
Vertues
less
bright
than
his
own
appear
.
What
shall
I
say
of
those
that
can
talk
of
nothing
,
but
of
their
Works
?
of
those
that
please
at
hand
,
but
having
still
the
same
thing
to
say
,
grow
as
tedious
the
second
time
,
as
they
were
delightful
the
first
?
of
those
,
who
to
shew
their
Wit
are
continually
contradicting
?
those
Opinionative
men
,
who
,
whether
it
be
through
a
foolish
Pride
,
dispute
against
the
Truth
they
know
,
which
is
a
vice
unworthy
of
an
honest
man
;
or
whether
it
be
that
they
can
never
know
it
,
being
once
prepossest
,
which
is
alwaies
a
great
fault
;
or
whether
they
sustain
trifling
matters
unseasonably
,
or
with
too
much
heat
,
without
complacency
,
without
discretion
,
which
is
a
great
weakness
.
But
this
is
a
matter
without
bounds
wherein
I
am
engaged
.
I
stop
here
,
and
it
shall
be
enough
to
say
,
None
of
these
weaknesses
were
discoverable
in
our
Friend
,
and
whether
by
this
or
by
a
thousand
rare
qualities
,
he
pleas'd
all
different
sorts
of
Spirits
,
as
if
he
never
thought
of
pleasing
but
one
of
them
.
The
Ladies
,
the
Learned
,
the
Courtiers
;
in
Affairs
,
in
Pleasures
;
whether
he
held
a
place
in
a
regulated
and
serious
Conversation
,
or
whether
amongst
his
Friends
and
Acquaintance
he
was
carried
to
those
innocent
debauches
of
mind
,
those
sage
Follies
,
wherein
serious
Discourses
give
way
to
the
capriccio's
and
ends
of
Poetry
,
where
every
thing
is
in
season
,
except
cold
and
severe
reason
.
But
it
is
time
to
put
an
end
to
this
long
Discourse
,
wherein
I
fear
to
have
taken
pains
for
my
own
shame
rather
than
for
Monsieur
Sarasin's
honour
;
however
,
I
have
done
what
I
chiefly
desir'd
to
do
,
for
I
have
given
publick
marks
of
the
Esteem
I
had
for
him
;
may
they
be
as
immortal
as
his
Works
.
I
may
be
accus'd
for
having
said
too
much
,
but
when
I
consult
the
passion
I
have
for
his
glory
,
I
reproach
my self
for
not
having
said
enough
;
and
I
know
well
,
that
if
I
had
not
rejected
several
things
that
came
into
my
mind
upon
this
rich
and
abundant
Subject
,
I
had
said
much
more
.
A
DIALOGUE
OF
LOVE
,
Out
of
French
.
BEing
come
to
Paris
to
justifie
my
Innocence
and
oppose
the
Calumnies
of
mine
Enemies
,
whilst
I
expected
answer
of
Letters
written
to
the
Court
in
my
favour
,
and
was
in
the
mean
time
retir'd
with
my
intimate
Friend
M.
P.
one
day
after
dinner
M.
Chappelein
,
Trilport
and
Menage
came
to
visit
me
.
These
Gentlemen
concern'd
themselves
infinitely
in
my
disgrace
,
and
acted
in
my
behalf
with
a
noble
heart
,
not
to
be
found
in
the
Histories
of
Orestes
and
Pilades
,
and
other
Friends
of
antiquity
.
They
sound
me
in
the
Hall
,
where
I
was
hearkning
to
an
excellent
Musician
:
I
believed
,
said
Mons.
Chappelein
addressing
himself
to
me
,
that
in
this
your
Retirement
I
should
rather
have
found
you
fasten'd
to
Seneca's
Treatise
,
which
proves
,
that
a
wise
man
is
not
subject
to
the
Injuries
of
Fortune
,
than
pleasing
your self
with
Musick
,
which
ordinarily
does
not
delight
any
,
but
unperplexed
minds
.
This
ought
not
to
surprize
you
,
answer'd
I
;
for
first
you
do
me
wrong
to
esteem
me
of
a
perplexed
mind
,
seeing
you
know
that
my
Conscience
is
very
clear
:
and
though
this
seem
strange
to
you
,
you
that
have
been
accustom'd
to
regulate
your
vertue
by
that
of
the
Stoicks
,
and
would
have
us
,
as
they
,
encounter
Misfortunes
with
a
stubborn
brow
,
and
not
take
off
our
thoughts
from
the
Evil
we
are
to
combat
,
till
we
have
made
a
perfect
conquest
of
it
;
yet
it
is
convenient
for
us
who
follow
another
Sect
,
and
by
another
biass
defend
our selves
from
Grief
,
not
to
wrestle
with
it
,
and
to
endeavour
rather
to
forget
,
than
to
vanquish
it
.
This
is
,
said
M.
Menage
,
the
Opinion
of
Epicurus
,
who
will
have
us
dream
of
Pleasures
to
take
us
off
from
the
thought
of
Pains
,
and
ordains
,
that
we
master
it
by
Diversion
.
Truly
we
must
acknowledge
,
pursu'd
he
,
that
this
mans
Philosophy
does
marvellously
assist
Nature
,
and
that
his
Opinions
are
very
well
accommodated
to
our
weakness
;
and
I
cannot
enough
praise
our
excellent
Gassend
,
whom
we
may
call
,
as
they
did
Epicurus
,
the
Father
of
Truth
,
or
ar
they
called
Socrates
,
the
Father
of
Philosophy
;
we
cannot
,
I
say
,
praise
him
enough
for
having
employ'd
that
profound
crudition
,
and
long
experience
,
which
hath
got
him
so
many
Admirers
to
clear
up
what
remains
of
the
Doctrine
of
this
Philosopher
,
and
anew
to
found
a
School
,
whose
Disciples
once
fill'd
whole
Towns
in
Greece
.
I
am
very
glad
,
reply'd
I
,
that
you
have
not
insulted
over
this
Author
of
Pleasure
,
with
the
most
part
of
the
World
,
who
are
deceived
by
this
last
word
,
and
who
do
not
dream
that
the
true
Epicureans
lead
a
life
as
regular
as
our
reform'd
Monks
;
and
that
you
may
the
better
see
I
combat
Grief
by
flying
it
,
see
but
the
Books
I
read
in
my
idle
hours
,
you
will
not
find
Boetius
or
Epictetus
among
them
.
Hereupon
M.
Trilport
coming
to
the
Table
found
a
Lucretius
,
a
Salust
and
the
Romance
of
Perceforets
,
and
turning
towards
me
;
The
first
of
these
Books
,
saith
he
,
is
proper
for
you
,
the
other
is
one
of
our
old
Tales
;
but
as
for
Salust
,
who
can
make
an
Historian
one
of
the
Disciples
of
Epicurus
,
who
forbids
his
to
meddle
with
the
Commonwealth
?
I
am
not
sworn
,
reply'd
I
,
to
observe
all
the
Rules
of
this
Philosopher
,
and
I
only
follow
those
Opinions
of
his
,
to
which
my
Reason
and
Nature
carry
me
.
But
,
saith
he
,
again
opening
Lucretius
,
I
find
you
very
bold
to
read
Verse
,
you
that
know
't
is
Verse
hath
done
you
so
many
bad
offices
.
'T
is
true
,
answer'd
I
,
that
I
owe
a
great
deal
of
ill-will
to
the
Muses
,
but
't
is
to
my
own
:
for
I
might
have
read
all
the
Verses
in
the
World
,
if
I
had
not
made
Verses
.
It
was
time
for
me
to
retire
,
for
having
wrot
Qu'Eve
ayma
mieux
pour
s'en
faire
conter
,
Prester
l'oreille
aux
fleurettes
du
Diable
,
Que
d'estre
femme
,
&
ne
pas
coquetter
.
I
was
so
embroil'd
with
the
Sex
,
that
I
know
no
Elegies
so
lamentable
,
nor
Stanza's
so
flattering
,
that
could
charm
the
wrath
of
our
Ladies
.
Perhaps
then
,
replied
M.
Chappelein
,
you
have
not
only
bid
adieu
to
Phoebus
and
the
nine
Sisters
,
but
also
to
Cupid
and
his
Mother
;
and
do
not
you
remember
,
adds
M.
Trilport
,
the
Verse
of
our
Country
man
Bertaut
?
Que
s'empescher
d'aymer
est
dur
aux
belles
ames
.
I
remember
nothing
but
what
follows
,
answer'd
I
;
Qu'aymer
fidellement
apporte
de
soucy
.
And
to
speak
freely
,
retiring
from
the
Service
of
Ladies
,
I
rather
think
I
have
cur'd
my self
of
a
small
Disease
,
than
deprived
my self
of
a
great
pleasure
.
For
this
time
,
says
M.
Menage
,
you
shall
not
be
alone
;
and
you
see
one
that
hath
long
since
hung
up
his
Chains
in
the
Temple
of
Liberty
.
Away
,
away
,
says
,
M.
Chappelein
,
you
are
ingrateful
Fellows
;
for
not
to
mind
you
of
your
good
Fortunes
,
do
you
not
remember
,
that
what
you
have
of
Civility
and
Politeness
,
you
have
learnt
it
of
Ladies
,
who
have
suffer'd
you
and
been
belov'd
by
you
?
Truly
,
replied
I
,
I
could
answer
you
,
that
I
never
was
happy
enough
to
obtain
that
which
you
call
Good
fortune
,
and
protest
to
you
with
the
Spaniard
,
that
Amador
fui
mas
,
nunca
fui
amado
.
However
,
that
you
may
not
contest
on
this
point
,
I
am
content
to
tell
you
,
that
for
the
Civility
and
Politeness
which
you
pretend
we
owe
to
Ladies
,
methinks
there
needs
nothing
but
my
Example
to
satisfie
you
,
that
a
man
may
spend
much
time
with
them
,
yet
not
acquire
these
Two
qualities
;
but
because
I
impute
it
to
my
inability
,
that
I
come
forth
rude
and
unpolish'd
from
their
Conversation
,
I
leave
it
to
M.
Menage
,
against
whom
you
have
addrest
your
Reproaches
as
well
as
against
me
,
and
in
whom
you
may
justly
admire
all
those
good
qualities
which
I
want
,
to
explain
if
it
hath
been
the
company
of
Ladies
that
hath
render'd
him
so
accomplish'd
.
Truce
,
if
you
please
,
with
your
Complements
,
says
M.
Menage
,
let
it
suffice
you
that
I
do
not
aspire
so
high
,
and
that
I
pretend
not
to
pass
for
Baldassars
Courtier
,
who
never
liv'd
but
in
Cicero's
Oratory
,
in
Plato's
and
Sr.
Tho.
More's
Common-wealth
:
But
whether
it
be
that
I
am
not
of
Mr.
Chappelein's
opinion
,
I
,
that
am
accus'd
not
to
accustome
my self
to
be
of
other
mens
,
or
whether
I
please
my
self
to
oppose
them
,
as
you
often
say
I
do
;
seeing
there
are
no
Women
here
,
I
cannot
dissemble
,
that
whatever
advantage
we
may
expect
from
their
Conversation
,
we
meet
on
the
contrary
with
so
many
things
in
it
that
may
hinder
us
from
becoming
gallant
men
,
that
I
am
ready
to
dispute
against
the
old
Thesis
,
which
exposes
it
as
a
thing
impossible
for
a
man
to
be
very
proper
for
the
World
,
if
he
hath
not
been
amorous
in
his
youth
.
And
I
,
says
M.
Cha.
am
ready
to
maintain
it
against
you
.
For
my
part
,
says
M.
Trilport
turning
himself
to
M.
Ch.
I
declare
my self
your
Second
,
if
M.
M.
can
find
one
in
so
unjust
a
cause
,
as
he
is
about
to
defend
.
If
the
matter
were
not
gone
so
far
,
added
I
,
and
that
he
had
been
content
to
sustain
,
that
Ladies
were
good
Friends
,
but
very
dangerous
Mistresses
,
I
think
I
had
serv'd
him
against
you
;
but
seeing
he
carries
things
to
extremity
,
I
cannot
be
of
his
side
.
'T
is
not
the
first
time
,
replies
M.
M.
that
you
have
come
with
odds
against
me
,
yet
for
all
that
,
not
only
I
have
not
fled
for
it
,
but
I
have
not
been
vanquish'd
.
Wherefore
I
once
more
resolve
,
having
proposed
any
thing
to
imitate
Ariosto's
Rodomont
,
who
call'd
forth
the
Knights
to
combat
two
and
two
,
or
three
and
three
,
and
to
take
for
my
Motto
Horatio
Sol
contra
Tuscana
tutta
.
What
you
say
,
answer'd
M.
Trilport
,
obliges
us
also
,
notwithstanding
your
Rodomontado
,
to
imitate
those
Knights
,
who
never
went
two
against
one
;
and
seeing
M.
Ch.
is
he
that
took
up
the
gage
of
defiance
,
which
you
had
thrown
down
,
we
will
let
him
enter
first
into
the
Lists
,
and
I
doubt
not
to
see
him
come
out
Victorious
.
If
this
happens
to
mee
,
replies
M.
Ch.
't
will
be
doubtless
more
by
the
force
of
truth
,
than
by
mine
:
for
if
his
cause
were
just
,
I
should
esteem
my self
lost
,
knowing
him
a
long-winded
Knight
of
great
force
;
or
,
to
speak
more
familiarly
and
quit
the
Romantick
Metaphor
,
knowing
no
man
more
apt
than
he
to
maintain
Paradoxes
,
no
not
amongst
us
Stoicks
,
who
make
a
particular
study
of
it
.
But
,
says
M.
M.
I
do
not
hold
what
I
defend
so
Paradoxical
as
you
imagine
;
and
to
let
you
understand
so
much
,
seeing
we
have
time
enough
,
consider
the
Reasons
on
which
I
ground
my
Opinion
.
After
these
words
being
silent
a
while
,
and
seeing
we
prepared
to
hearken
to
what
he
had
to
say
,
he
began
again
thus
;
I
have
lov'd
,
and
often
Sans
faire
levain
,
mon
avanture
a
esté
telle
Que
de
la
mesme
ardeur
,
que
j'ay
bruslé
pour
elle
,
elle
a
bruslé
pour
moy
.
I
am
forc'd
in
spite
of
my
modesty
to
speak
to
you
at
this
rate
,
to
the
end
that
being
to
declare
much
ill
of
Love
,
this
may
take
from
you
all
imagination
,
that
I
go
about
to
revenge
my self
for
bad
usage
:
and
also
,
that
you
may
give
me
an
entire
belief
,
seeing
that
I
know
the
good
and
the
ill
by
my
own
experience
;
for
,
in
my
opinion
,
Hannibal
had
reason
to
mock
the
Greek
Oratour
that
gave
him
Military
Lessons
,
and
the
Oratour
had
had
no
less
occasion
to
laugh
,
if
Hanibal
had
undertaken
afterwards
to
shew
him
the
precepts
of
Rhetorick
.
We
cannot
discourse
well
of
things
which
we
have
not
practis'd
,
and
often
the
use
does
not
agree
with
the
speculation
;
but
I
who
have
Couru
les
mers
d'amour
di
rivage
en
rivage
,
and
know
all
that
is
done
in
the
Cloyster
of
this
God
,
to
speak
with
Petrarch
;
I
may
well
methinks
be
believed
in
what
I
shall
say
.
So
much
the
more
also
as
I
find
my self
at
present
in
a
condition
to
speak
of
it
with
an
intire
indifferency
;
but
because
to
judge
of
the
effects
of
a
thing
't
is
necessary
we
know
the
nature
,
we
shall
not
do
amiss
to
inform
our selves
who
this
Love
is
,
that
you
would
have
the
Author
of
so
much
good
to
Mankind
,
and
of
whom
you
sustain
,
that
young
people
have
as
much
need
as
of
Academies
and
Colledges
.
I
will
also
do
you
this
favour
,
not
to
enquire
News
of
him
any
where
,
but
in
your
Books
,
and
as
I
speak
to
the
chief
Poet
of
our
Age
and
Nation
,
I
will
serve
my self
of
the
Opinions
of
those
Great
men
of
Antiquity
to
whom
you
have
succeeded
.
They
say
then
,
that
Love
is
a
Child
;
they
put
a
Ribband
over
his
eyes
;
they
clap
wings
to
his
shoulders
;
they
hang
a
quiver
of
Arrows
by
his
side
;
they
arm
his
two
hands
with
a
Bow
and
a
Torch
:
Thus
far
this
Figure
does
not
make
for
you
,
and
to
consider
the
outside
of
this
Picture
,
Cupid
appears
only
a
piece
of
Grotesque
,
or
a
Chimera
.
But
you
will
tell
me
that
Poetry
hath
its
mysteries
,
and
we
must
not
do
that
wrong
to
the
men
you
esteem
,
and
who
had
the
honour
to
be
the
first
Philosophers
of
the
World
,
to
think
,
that
without
reason
they
design'd
Love
under
so
strange
a
Figure
.
I
know
that
the
extraordinary
things
which
Poetry
presents
have
all
of
them
a
hidden
sense
,
and
that
she
serves
her self
of
strange
and
surprizing
Pictures
to
draw
the
vulgar
to
the
search
of
truth
.
The
Modern
Italians
,
who
have
out-done
the
Invention
of
the
Greeks
(
for
the
Latins
did
but
copy
them
)
expose
nothing
so
fantastical
,
to
which
they
have
not
fixt
an
Allegory
,
and
tell
us
,
that
their
Enchantments
,
their
Furies
,
their
Gyants
,
their
Monsters
,
and
other
pieces
of
Knight-errantry
are
only
to
allure
the
People
,
and
to
instruct
them
whilst
they
seem
also
to
please
them
:
But
I
go
further
and
say
,
that
amongst
all
the
Images
,
which
Poetry
hath
represented
to
us
,
there
is
none
more
ingenious
than
this
of
Love
;
so
naturally
it
expresses
this
passion
.
Wherefore
let
us
examine
it
,
if
you
please
,
and
we
will
consider
first
this
Child
Love
.
Here
I
demand
of
you
,
if
you
were
to
represent
Fortitude
,
Prudence
,
or
any
of
the
Vertues
,
should
it
be
under
this
Figure
?
I
am
confident
you
will
answer
me
,
that
you
should
like
better
to
draw
an
armed
Pallas
,
or
shew
a
Hercules
overcoming
a
Lion
;
but
on
the
contrary
,
if
you
were
to
describe
Weakness
,
Imprudence
,
Softness
,
Incontinency
,
and
many
other
of
our
bad
qualities
,
what
could
serve
better
to
this
design
than
the
Picture
of
a
Child
?
What
think
you
Poetry
would
teach
us
by
this
?
nothing
doubtless
,
but
that
a
man
is
subjected
to
all
the
imperfections
of
Childhood
,
when
he
becomes
amorous
.
So
the
Comicks
introduce
Love
upon
their
Theaters
,
without
counsel
,
without
guide
;
accompanied
with
Suspitions
,
Injuries
,
Enmities
;
sometimes
in
Truce
,
sometimes
in
Peace
,
sometimes
in
War
;
and
find
that
these
disorders
and
inequalities
are
so
natural
to
him
,
that
they
conclude
,
't
would
be
the
utmost
of
Follies
to
believe
we
can
love
wisely
.
And
't
is
no
wonder
a
Poet
in
love
found
out
,
that
he
who
first
painted
Love
a
Child
had
an
admirable
hand
,
because
he
first
discover'd
how
Lovers
pass
their
life
,
that
they
are
depriv'd
of
good
sense
,
that
they
lose
solid
goods
to
run
after
toys
;
but
the
worst
is
,
that
these
Toys
and
these
light
Cares
do
often
consume
our
whole
life
,
and
remain
with
us
to
decrepitude
.
Imagine
then
,
what
a
sight
it
is
to
find
an
Old
man
making
Love
,
and
who
,
like
an
Ape
to
run
after
Nuts
,
tears
the
Robe
of
Philosophy
wherewith
he
was
clad
;
to
see
an
Old
woman
every
morning
put
on
a
forein
Face
,
dress
her self
up
like
a
Puppet
,
and
buy
the
Cajolleries
of
a
Younger
brother
with
the
best
of
her
Fortunes
.
'T
is
for
this
some
body
says
Venus
is
angry
with
Old
people
,
that
Marriage
does
not
become
them
,
and
as
a
Poet
in
Plutarch
sings
Qu'autant
vieillard
à
la
barbe
fleurie
,
Pour
ses
voisins
que
pour
sey
se
marie
.
And
you
may
remember
,
that
in
Old
times
they
publickly
hooted
at
these
Gallants
of
Proserpine
,
and
that
against
their
approach
they
armed
themselves
with
the
same
preservatives
that
Pagan
Superstition
had
ordain'd
for
the
worst
things
.
In
fine
,
to
continue
Love
when
we
begin
to
cease
to
live
is
a
dotage
most
deplorable
,
and
there
is
nothing
more
shameful
than
Les
ridicules
aventures
D'un
amoreux
en
cheueux
gris
.
I
know
not
how
to
let
you
proceed
,
said
I
,
interrupting
him
,
without
praying
you
to
spare
M.
G.
and
that
you
may
not
refuse
me
,
do
but
call
to
mind
the
pleasure
you
once
took
to
see
him
cherish
his
yellow
Ribband
which
his
Mistress
gave
him
,
and
how
wittily
he
discours'd
of
this
Favour
of
hers
,
so
that
you
wanted
little
of
wishing
an
Old
age
like
his
;
at
least
,
reflecting
upon
his
Nymph
,
his
Musick
and
his
good
Cheer
you
told
us
,
he
past
this
age
as
Horace
had
wish'd
.
Truly
,
added
M.
Trilport
,
the
Romance
of
his
life
is
so
pleasant
a
thing
,
that
I
think
't
would
be
spoil'd
should
it
be
reduc'd
to
a
serious
History
,
and
as
I
have
the
reputation
of
soliciting
the
affairs
of
my
Friends
,
I
also
recommend
him
to
your
favour
.
M.
Menage
calling
to
mind
the
Verse
of
Tasso
,
Habbia
vita
(
rispose
)
é
libertade
:
E
nulla
a
tanto
intercessor
si
negbi
.
for
there
is
no
fear
that
this
one
Swallow
should
lead
back
the
Spring
to
Old
men
,
which
is
the
season
of
Courtship
,
nor
that
a
general
defect
can
be
excused
by
by
one
mans
merit
.
But
to
return
to
our
Discourse
,
this
Child
is
Naked
;
in
this
without
doubt
appears
his
Imprudence
,
at
least
if
we
will
believe
the
old
Maxime
,
That
there
is
nothing
more
shameful
,
than
to
strip
our
selves
before
all
the
Worid
,
and
if
he
will
believe
Eustatius
,
who
calls
Love
the
Father
of
Impudence
:
unless
we
may
say
,
that
he
is
painted
Naked
to
let
us
understand
,
that
he
ruins
his
Followers
even
to
the
despoiling
them
of
every
thing
.
Let
us
now
pass
on
to
the
equipage
they
give
him
:
They
say
then
he
has
a
Ribband
before
his
eyes
;
what
do
you
think
this
Blindness
signifies
;
but
that
the
Soul
of
a
Lover
is
in
an
eternal
darkness
,
and
that
Reason
knows
not
which
way
to
turn
her self
,
having
Passion
for
her
Guide
?
There
is
an
Italian
who
will
not
let
reason
scape
so
,
but
says
she
is
dead
,
whereas
we
only
say
,
she
goes
astray
.
Now
without
divining
,
and
to
speak
only
according
to
our
Love-Writers
,
do
you
know
what
excuse
they
betake
themselves
to
,
when
they
would
defend
the
Irregularities
of
their
thoughts
,
or
action
?
they
think
that
whatever
extravagancy
they
commit
they
apologize
enough
,
when
they
protest
that
,
thanks
to
Love
,
they
cannot
see
what
they
do
;
and
that
you
may
not
appeal
from
these
hearken
to
Ovid
,
who
hath
made
an
art
of
a
Passion
,
and
given
rules
for
a
Folly
;
he
does
not
only
grant
,
that
Lovers
do
not
see
what
is
reason
,
but
he
carries
their
Blindness
even
to
a
want
of
good
manners
,
and
exempts
none
from
this
defect
.
In
the
mean
time
,
that
this
Ribband
may
not
be
taken
off
,
that
is
,
that
Reason
may
not
return
to
Lovers
,
such
as
are
not
willing
this
madness
should
have
its
lucid
intervals
,
are
not
content
to
cover
Loves
eyes
,
but
they
wholly
take
away
the
use
of
his
sight
.
In
this
condition
,
methinks
they
should
rather
furnish
him
with
a
Dog
and
a
Staff
to
conduct
him
,
than
fasten
Wings
to
his
shoulders
;
and
as
often
as
I
fancy
him
blind
and
flying
,
I
am
fearful
he
should
maim
himself
against
some
Tree
,
some
Tower
,
or
some
Mountain
.
I
doubt
not
but
those
who
have
thus
made
a
Bird
of
him
,
would
have
left
him
a
plain
humane
Figure
,
rather
than
thus
have
shap'd
a
Monster
,
if
they
could
have
imagined
any
other
way
to
send
him
about
the
World
,
which
they
pretend
is
necessary
for
its
conservation
:
but
considering
he
could
not
do
so
many
things
at
once
,
nor
,
for
Example
,
in
one
day
wound
a
Negro
and
scorch
a
Greenlander
benum'd
with
cold
,
those
which
drink
of
the
Seine
and
those
which
enrich
themselves
with
the
Sands
of
Plata
,
if
they
had
not
furnish'd
him
with
an
invention
to
make
these
long
Journies
;
they
found
nothing
so
proper
as
to
apply
Wings
to
him
,
but
Wings
not
only
more
fit
for
a
flight
than
those
of
Falcons
,
but
more
light
than
the
Winds
,
or
than
thought
it self
.
I
remember
one
day
in
discourse
with
M.
C.
M.
R.
and
A.
the
first
very
pleasantly
maintain'd
,
that
considering
all
these
great
labours
,
Love
was
no
better
handled
by
Poets
than
their
Sisiphus
,
seeing
they
employed
him
continually
in
a
work
that
seem'd
more
intolerable
,
than
the
rolling
of
his
Stone
;
the
second
added
freely
,
that
it
seem'd
to
him
he
was
the
more
tormented
,
seeing
they
had
to
double
his
drudgery
,
chosen
the
Night
for
him
,
which
Nature
appoints
for
the
Rest
of
all
Creatures
;
but
the
conceit
of
the
third
,
that
excellent
Translator
,
who
gives
to
his
Copies
the
liveliness
of
their
Originals
,
was
yet
more
malicious
,
for
concerning
Loves
Feathers
he
explained
Petrarchs
Verses
,
In
cosi
tenebros
a
estretta
gabbia
Rinchiusi
fummo
,
oue
le
penne
usato
Mutui
per
tempo
.
He
pretended
this
strait
and
dark
Cage
,
and
this
mewing
of
Feathers
respected
rather
the
Health
than
the
Manners
.
But
to
return
to
the
Allegorical
sense
of
these
Wings
;
they
signifie
nothing
but
the
Inconstancy
,
the
instability
of
our
Loves
;
nothing
but
an
uncertain
and
shameful
agitation
in
the
actions
of
Lovers
.
Propertius
calls
these
wings
Winds
,
and
marvellously
strengthens
our
explication
,
for
they
are
to
turn
Lovers
about
as
so
many
uncertain
Weathercocks
.
It
remains
only
that
we
examine
Cupid's
Arms
,
his
Arrows
,
whereof
some
are
of
Lead
,
some
of
Gold
;
and
his
Torch
,
which
penetrates
even
to
the
marrow
,
and
which
burnt
Troy
the
Great
.
Certainly
't
is
in
the
use
of
these
Arms
that
he
shews
himself
stark
blind
,
for
he
strikes
any where
and
on
all
sides
.
Sometimes
he
makes
a
Monarch
adore
the
daughter
of
a
Dunghil
:
but
let
that
pass
;
Merit
is
to
be
found
every
where
.
But
what
will
you
say
to
see
Old
men
make
love
to
young
Wenches
,
and
Old
women
fond
of
ill-featur'd
Boys
;
Wise
men
sigh
for
a
foolish
Gossip
;
to
see
this
irregularity
pass
even
to
different
species
?
Do
not
you
wonder
to
find
in
the
list
of
your
Lovers
a
Dragon
,
an
Elephant
,
a
Peacock
;
and
,
to
serve
you
in
Fish
and
Flesh
,
a
number
of
Dolphins
?
You
know
the
story
,
how
this
Dragon
lay
every
night
with
a
young
Maid
of
Etolia
,
and
beat
her
when
he
thought
he
had
occasion
to
be
Jealous
;
you
know
how
an
Elephant
in
love
with
an
Herb-wise
brought
her
Nosegays
,
whilst
the
Grammarian
Aristophanes
enamour'd
of
the
same
Wench
,
was
jealously
enrag'd
at
the
Caresses
of
his
mighty
Rival
,
whom
he
durst
not
provoke
:
to
repeat
here
the
History
of
Dolphins
were
to
lose
time
.
If
we
will
turn
the
Medal
,
we
shall
find
on
the
other
side
our
Nature
intreagu'd
with
strange
Passions
;
and
Plutarch
will
tell
us
,
that
the
Minotaurs
,
Sphinxes
and
Centaurs
,
were
the
products
of
these
little
Loves
,
and
we
shall
praise
Thales
for
advising
Periander
to
marry
his
Sheapherds
betimes
;
but
we
can
never
call
to
mind
the
Adventure
of
the
Golden
Ass
and
that
honest
Lady
,
without
Laughing
a
little
;
and
when
we
consider
't
was
Love
did
it
,
how
can
we
forbear
to
cry
out
with
the
Italians
,
bella
botta
?
You
see
then
,
by
this
unreasonable
employment
of
his
Arrows
to
how
many
poor
affections
our
minds
are
betrayed
when
Love
governs
them
;
to
what
transports
we
abandon
our selves
against
the
Laws
of
Honour
and
Society
;
to
how
many
foolish
passions
we
expose
our
lives
.
I
think
,
for
my
part
,
't
were
better
to
be
wounded
with
a
poysoned
Arrow
,
than
with
these
dangerous
Shafts
whereof
we
speak
;
and
that
the
Torches
of
the
Furies
would
not
torment
us
with
so
much
rage
,
as
that
does
which
Love
wields
:
at
least
the
effects
are
not
more
dangerous
;
and
those
Lovers
which
this
flame
devours
,
dream
no
less
of
Poyson
and
Poignards
,
nor
are
less
tormented
with
Fears
and
Jealousies
,
and
the
rest
of
such
disorders
,
than
Criminals
with
their
eternal
pains
,
and
the
remorse
of
their
Consciences
.
I
had
forgot
this
Gold
and
this
Lead
which
tips
his
Arrows
,
whereof
the
first
give
us
love
,
the
other
cause
aversion
.
To
explain
this
difference
,
you
must
remember
that
Poverty
,
which
Petronius
calls
the
Sister
of
Wit
,
having
often
hindred
Poets
from
being
happy
in
their
loves
,
for
Old
men
and
Fools
with
their
Gold
are
wont
to
drive
them
from
Families
,
to
which
they
promised
no
less
than
Immortality
,
they
have
invented
these
Golden
shafts
which
find
nothing
impenetrable
;
and
those
Leaden
ones
,
which
't
is
true
belong
to
the
same
Quiver
,
but
are
alwaies
blunt
,
though
Love
lets
them
flie
with
never
so
much
force
.
The
Master
of
Lovers
writes
,
that
he
does
not
compose
his
Precepts
for
the
Rich.
And
Homer
the
Dean
and
Founder
of
poesie
tells
them
,
if
they
have
nothing
but
Verse
,
they
shall
be
chased
from
Lais
Street
as
well
as
from
Plato's
Commonwealth
:
by
all
which
we
may
easily
judge
,
that
these
Golden
Arrows
signifie
't
is
Money
drives
the
trade
of
Love
,
and
that
Covetousness
over-rules
Merit
and
Beauty
.
There
is
no
Law
which
does
not
stoop
to
his
Shafts
,
according
to
the
saying
of
Count
Villa
Mediana
,
who
might
well
know
them
:
After
many
disorders
,
which
they
had
caused
in
his
Fortune
and
in
his
Life
,
he
became
their
Victim
;
for
you
know
very
well
what
Jupiter
thunder'd
on
this
Ixion
,
seeing
't
is
a
Story
of
our
times
:
and
it
seem'd
he
was
better
contented
with
Deaths
Arrow
,
than
with
all
those
we
speak
of
;
at
least
he
that
was
in
the
Coach
with
him
when
he
was
kill'd
reports
,
that
when
he
received
the
wound
whereof
he
immediately
died
,
he
said
no
more
,
but
C'en
est
fait
,
as
if
he
had
freed
himself
of
a
troublesome
business
.
This
Count
then
,
who
was
the
Honour
of
Courtship
,
and
the
Wit
of
the
Court
of
Spain
,
who
had
a
fair
Estate
,
was
of
a
great
hope
and
a
great
Merit
,
and
whose
Purse
was
never
tied
,
but
with
an
Onion-peel
,
as
an
Ancient
would
have
those
of
Lovers
to
be
,
amongst
his
Works
hath
left
us
these
Verses
,
De
tus
flechas
por
ser
d'oro
Ninguna
leise
deffiende
.
He
would
say
,
after
those
experiences
which
his
Liberality
had
given
him
,
that
Presents
are
strange
Corrupters
.
Let
us
confess
the
Infamy
of
this
traffick
,
seeing
nothing
can
be
so
sordid
as
to
sell
Friendship
,
nothing
more
base
than
to
love
for
Money
.
And
truly
,
having
considered
so
many
defects
,
we
may
well
subscribe
to
what
one
writes
of
Love
,
That
by
a
just
Sentence
of
the
great
Gods
he
was
banished
from
their
assembly
,
because
he
disturb'd
it
and
fill'd
Heaven
with
Seditions
:
and
further
,
That
these
Gods
when
they
cast
him
down
to
Earth
cut
off
his
Wings
to
bestow
them
upon
Victory
,
and
to
hinder
him
from
ever
mounting
to
Heaven
again
;
and
they
might
well
have
added
,
That
when
Love
left
Olympus
for
Earth
,
Peace
abandoned
men
to
fly
up
to
Heaven
.
In
the
mean
time
,
there
's
your
Cupid
in
a
pitiful
predicament
,
and
all
his
mysteries
discovered
little
to
his
advantage
.
This
is
his
true
portraict
,
wherein
I
have
laboured
according
to
Nature
,
and
I
dare
say
with
much
success
:
for
,
though
my
Way
is
not
good
,
yet
the
piece
is
perfectly
like
him
,
and
in
one
word
I
can
excuse
my
bad
Rhetorick
by
the
ordinary
Quodlibet
and
say
,
that
my
Picture
wants
nothing
but
words
.
O
Painter
Apelles
,
Painter
Zeuxes
,
cries
out
M.
Chapp
.
why
are
not
you
now
alive
?
you
had
learnt
much
by
copying
this
piece
,
which
exceeds
all
yours
;
and
profited
strangely
under
this
new
Master
,
whose
works
pass
Nature
,
whereas
yours
only
went
even
with
Nature
.
I
know
not
how
you
understand
it
,
said
I
,
but
methinks
you
do
not
praise
our
Friends
Picture
by
saying
it
surpasses
Nature
,
whereas
this
Art
is
consummate
when
it
arrives
to
equal
her
.
Truly
,
replies
he
,
I
did
not
design
to
make
a
Panegyrick
,
looking
upon
it
as
a
piece
meant
to
please
,
whereof
the
invention
seems
handsom
,
and
the
order
and
colours
may
flatter
our
Judgment
and
Eyes
;
but
I
do
not
hold
it
for
the
true
picture
of
Love
,
as
I
pretend
to
let
you
understand
.
In
the
mean
time
,
saith
M.
Menage
,
I
have
advanced
nothing
,
which
I
have
not
taken
from
some
of
your
Fraternity
;
but
because
you
may
reply
,
that
Passion
made
them
write
against
their
Consciences
,
and
that
I
have
only
quoted
them
where
they
complain
;
to
act
sincerely
with
you
,
I
must
tell
you
,
that
I
have
display'd
none
of
Loves
defects
,
whereof
I
am
not
ready
to
give
you
Examples
;
and
now
I
have
represented
this
folly
,
I
will
let
you
see
some
illustrious
Fools
.
So
having
taken
breath
he
began
again
thus
:
I
will
not
entertain
you
with
the
story
of
Iphis
,
whose
Love
forc'd
her
to
hang
her self
for
the
cruel
Anaxarches
;
nor
with
the
disorders
of
a
great
many
others
.
The
Examples
of
these
particulars
profit
little
,
because
no
man
esteems
enough
the
Loves
of
the
Vulgar
to
regulate
his
own
by
them
;
and
all
blame
the
Errors
of
the
Common
People
instead
of
correcting
their
own
by
them
.
Let
us
cast
our
eyes
then
upon
the
great
Atrides
,
whom
the
whole
Greek
Nation
,
the
wisest
and
most
ingenious
of
the
World
,
chose
for
their
Chief
:
He
perhaps
was
elected
by
the
Greeks
,
because
they
were
of
your
opinion
;
they
knew
him
of
an
Amarous
complexion
,
and
judg'd
that
this
temperament
would
enable
him
for
great
matters
.
Let
us
look
a
little
nearer
,
and
see
if
it
were
so
:
The
first
and
most
notable
Action
of
his
Generalship
was
to
present
his
Daughter
Iphigenia
to
be
Sacrificed
when
the
gods
stopp'd
his
Fleet
at
the
Port
of
Aulide
,
and
would
be
appeased
by
this
victim
.
This
action
seems
at
first
blush
above
the
common
Vertue
;
but
if
I
should
tell
you
that
he
corrupted
the
Mariners
to
give
out
,
that
the
Winds
were
contrary
,
and
Neptune
wroth
;
that
he
spent
some
daies
in
the
preparation
of
this
execrable
Sacrifice
,
to
give
time
to
his
Emissaries
to
find
out
a
certain
Boy
of
whom
he
was
desperately
enamour'd
;
you
would
cry
out
,
Is
this
the
man
whose
Magnanimities
ennobled
him
above
all
others
,
and
upon
whom
all
Greece
had
turn'd
its
eye
?
I
pass
with
silence
so
many
wretches
which
he
suffered
to
die
of
the
Plague
in
the
Camp
of
Troy
,
because
he
would
not
deliver
the
Daughter
of
the
Priestess
Chrysis
.
I
insist
not
on
the
quarrel
he
had
with
Achilles
,
when
he
carried
away
Briseide
,
by
which
Rape
he
not
only
retarded
the
taking
of
Ilium
,
but
endangered
the
Greek
Vessels
to
be
fn'd
.
I
only
let
you
know
,
that
when
he
carried
away
Cassansandra
from
her
house
al
dispetto
di
Madonna
Clitemnestra
,
he
provoked
the
vengeance
of
his
Wife
,
and
arm'd
for
his
execution
the
weak
and
effeminate
hand
of
Egistus
.
But
his
Rival
,
the
man
that
was
nourish'd
with
the
marrow
of
Lions
;
brought
up
under
the
discipline
of
Chiron
;
so
robust
that
no
man
could
use
his
Launce
;
Achilles
,
for
whom
the
death
of
Hector
was
reserv'd
;
what
does
he
when
Agamemnon
stole
his
Mistress
?
doubtless
something
high
and
noble
,
for
he
was
a
Hero
and
a
Lover
;
first
he
rayl'd
at
the
King
with
the
scoldings
of
an
Oister-wife
,
calling
him
Cuckold
and
dirty
Dog
,
whereby
he
disparag'd
the
Gentaur
which
should
have
brought
him
up
better
.
When
that
would
not
do
,
the
pitiful
fellow
went
crying
to
his
Mother
,
and
stay'd
in
his
Ship
far
from
the
Army
,
and
at
the
expence
of
his
Reputation
.
But
what
will
you
say
to
Hercules
,
that
mighty
tame
of
Monsters
,
when
you
shall
find
him
sitting
by
Omphale
,
having
chang'd
his
Lions-skin
for
a
Peticoat
,
and
when
you
see
him
—
de
la
clava
noderosa
in
vece
Trattar
il
fuso
,
e
la
conocchia
imbelle
?
Can
you
like
the
condition
to
which
Love
had
reduc'd
this
gentle
Spinster
?
rather
would
you
not
wish
,
as
the
Captain
in
Terence
,
that
the
Wenches
had
clap'd
his
Cheeks
with
their
Pattins
.
But
not
to
spend
time
in
reckoning
up
the
Follies
of
the
amorous
Hero's
of
Antiquity
,
let
us
go
directly
to
the
Fountain
,
and
consider
the
Father
of
gods
and
men
,
Jupiter
that
darts
the
Thunderbolt
,
who
makes
Olympus
tremble
with
one
wink
of
his
eye
,
who
brags
,
that
with
a
Chain
tied
to
his
Toe
he
will
toss
the
rest
of
the
gods
out
of
Earth
into
Heaven
:
We
shall
find
him
,
saving
the
respect
I
owe
to
to
Poetical
Divinities
,
as
very
a
fool
as
the
rest
.
Nay
,
he
is
worse
handled
by
Love
;
and
Petrarch
,
who
had
seen
the
Triumph
,
sings
,
that
amongst
all
the
gods
which
past
before
the
Chariot
of
Love
,
he
was
most
opprest
with
the
number
and
weight
of
his
Chains
.
'T
would
be
tedious
to
repeat
here
all
his
Metamorphoses
,
or
to
consider
this
Governour
of
the
World
sometimes
like
a
Goose
,
sometimes
in
some
other
Figure
as
ridiculous
;
't
is
better
let
Ovid
conclude
upon
this
Subject
,
and
to
believe
him
when
he
says
,
that
Jupiter
by
his
Loves
dishonoured
himself
and
all
his
House
.
O
Love
,
how
excellent
are
thy
inspirations
!
and
how
necessary
are
thou
to
humane
Vertue
!
I
see
by
M.
Ch.
looks
,
that
he
is
vext
to
hear
me
thus
scoff
at
the
Children
of
Homer
,
and
that
he
is
in
a
great
deal
of
impatience
to
answer
me
;
I
will
give
way
to
you
presently
.
In
the
mean
time
,
if
you
are
not
contented
with
Examples
out
of
the
Fable
and
the
old
History
;
if
you
will
tell
me
,
that
the
Inhabitants
of
Parnassus
sing
nothing
that
is
not
subject
to
Caution
;
that
honest
Homer
slept
sometimes
,
and
that
a
good
Poet
is
but
a
bad
Witness
;
I
will
leave
your
Hero's
and
your
Gods
at
rest
,
and
will
shut
my
eyes
,
that
I
may
not
observe
in
them
the
Imperfections
of
Lovers
.
I
know
you
have
your
answers
ready
,
and
that
some
Mythologist
is
at
hand
to
relieve
you
;
but
I
am
sure
they
have
nothing
to
say
to
Plato
,
nor
to
Aristotle
,
and
these
are
Men
of
such
weight
,
that
if
you
will
lay
them
by
,
I
know
not
upon
whom
we
may
cast
our
eyes
to
examine
humane
Actions
.
But
I
imagine
,
you
have
a
secret
content
to
sce
these
two
marvellous
Wits
number'd
with
the
Lovers
,
and
indeed
,
if
amidst
their
Loves
they
had
preserv'd
those
great
lights
with
which
they
penetrated
the
most
obscure
Science
,
and
so
prudently
establish'd
Rules
of
Manners
,
Conduct
of
Families
,
Polity
of
Cities
,
and
Government
of
States
,
you
had
reason
to
be
proud
.
But
on
the
contrary
,
if
Love
hath
no
less
darken'd
these
all-seeing
eyes
than
those
of
the
Vulgar
,
and
that
this
Passion
hath
made
these
great
minds
descend
to
Fooleries
,
dare
you
still
maintain
,
that
Love
is
necessary
to
Mankind
?
See
how
the
thing
goes
:
Plato
being
yet
young
became
amorous
of
Aster
,
and
immediately
suffer'd
in
his
understanding
.
He
never
lay
down
,
but
he
call'd
[
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*
Aster
was
a
Boy
.
her
Lucifer
and
Hesper
;
and
according
to
the
ordinary
gibberish
of
Lovers
,
plac'd
her
above
the
Stars
.
If
he
were
to
bid
her
farewel
,
he
presently
complain'd
he
had
lost
his
North-Star
,
and
that
his
Reason
was
benighted
.
But
the
Epigram
he
composed
for
Archianassa
shews
us
more
plainly
,
that
Wisdom
goes
out
of
the
Head
when
Love
gets
in
.
This
Woman
approach'd
Old
age
,
so
that
he
could
not
say
she
was
the
Aurora
or
the
Sun
,
but
he
must
write
high
Lines
and
make
Phoebus
speak
in
her
praise
;
but
see
an
Impudence
that
never
any
Poet
durst
be
guilty
of
,
whatever
Hyperboles
they
have
invented
in
favour
of
their
Ladies
:
Plato
seeing
that
in
this
surrow'd-face
there
was
no
room
for
Beauty
,
thought
fit
to
say
,
that
Love
hid
himself
in
those
wrinckles
as
in
an
Ambuscade
;
whereas
,
if
he
had
had
his
Reason
about
him
,
he
would
have
said
,
that
he
lay
there
interr'd
as
in
a
ruinous
Sepulchre
.
I
know
not
,
says
M.
Trilport
,
how
you
understand
it
,
but
if
you
pretend
to
censure
Plato
for
his
Epigram
,
you
pronounce
your
own
Sentence
.
How
so
?
demands
M.
Menage
.
See
,
replies
M.
Trilport
,
how
your
memory
,
that
furnishes
you
upon
the
place
with
so
many
handsom
things
,
is
wanting
to
you
at
your
need
,
and
in
your
own
case
:
Do
not
you
remember
that
you
have
made
a
Sonnet
of
this
Epigram
?
and
that
you
as
well
as
Plato
have
had
wrinckled
Mistresses
.
Truly
,
answer'd
M.
M.
I
had
forgot
that
Sonnet
and
those
Mistresses
,
and
I
do
not
care
for
remembring
the
Follics
of
my
youth
.
For
your
Mistresses
,
replies
M.
Trilport
,
let
them
be
drown'd
in
Lethe
,
it
shall
not
trouble
us
;
but
the
Sonnet
would
serve
to
excuse
this
Action
of
the
Philosopher
.
One
Folly
,
says
M.
M.
cannot
be
the
apology
of
another
;
and
if
my
Sonnet
forbids
me
urging
the
Epigram
of
Plato
,
I
cannot
see
how
you
will
defend
the
Verse
he
compos'd
,
when
he
was
in
love
with
the
fair
Agathon
,
which
says
,
he
never
kissed
this
.
Beauty
but
he
shut
his
Lips
,
for
fear
his
slippery
Soul
should
sally
out
.
Now
,
what
think
you
of
this
Kiss
?
is
it
according
to
good
Manners
?
is
it
not
too
wanton
for
a
Philosopher
?
is
this
handsom
discourse
for
a
man
they
call
Divine
,
as
if
it
were
too
little
to
style
him
Wise
?
Besides
,
this
Plato
in
the
rest
of
his
life
was
as
very
a
Vagabond
,
and
as
inconstant
as
Hylas
in
our
Astrea
,
and
like
him
went
di
ramo
in
ramo
,
di
fior
in
fior
:
besides
the
gallantries
recited
,
he
lov'd
Phaedra
,
he
lov'd
Zantippe
;
perhaps
it
was
Socrates
Wife
,
and
that
he
made
a
Cuckold
of
him
the
Oracle
had
pronounc'd
the
Wisest
man
in
the
World
.
Cuckolds
are
very
happy
said
I
,
that
have
Socrates
for
their
Patron
.
Let
us
not
Jest
,
says
M.
M.
upon
so
shameful
an
Action
.
This
Gent.
replies
M.
Ch.
does
here
what
Socrates
would
have
done
,
who
believ'd
men
ought
not
to
lay
matters
of
this
nature
so
to
heart
,
and
would
have
been
Scandal'd
at
it
less
than
you
are
.
I
see
how
things
go
,
continues
M.
M.
you
would
support
vanquish'd
Reason
with
a
Jest
,
and
I
see
you
in
so
merry
a
humour
upon
this
Subject
,
that
I
can
expect
nothing
serious
from
you
.
Perhaps
you
will
excuse
the
Scholar
as
well
as
the
Master
,
and
find
some
pretence
for
the
worst
of
Irregularities
into
which
Aristotle
sell
,
when
he
Sacrificed
to
the
Eunuch
Hermia's
Concubine
;
but
he
Sacrificed
not
his
Heart
or
his
Liberty
,
which
are
the
Imaginary
offerings
of
our
Lovers
;
he
Sacrificed
to
her
solemnly
,
and
to
say
all
,
in
the
same
manner
as
the
Athenians
Sacrificed
to
Ceres
.
I
should
be
too
tedious
to
stop
upon
the
Examples
of
other
Philosophers
,
and
I
have
chosen
only
these
two
;
first
,
because
publick
Opinion
hath
placed
them
above
the
rest
:
and
further
,
because
it
would
have
been
only
a
repetition
of
the
best
part
of
Diogenes
Laertius
History
,
which
is
full
of
the
Love-tricks
of
those
which
the
World
has
worshipped
as
the
Lawgivers
of
Wisdom
.
However
,
because
you
may
chance
to
suspect
the
Grecian
Faith
,
and
despise
beyond-Sea
Manners
,
and
because
our
discourse
seems
principally
to
regard
our
Nation
:
We
cannot
abstain
from
considering
some
one
of
our
own
,
who
have
been
slave
to
the
Son
of
Venus
;
but
they
shall
be
Knights
without
reproach
,
whose
Famous
Acts
raised
them
above
others
;
Lovers
of
that
age
,
when
nothing
in
the
World
was
so
great
as
our
Court
,
when
Charlemain
counted
almost
the
daies
of
his
Reign
by
the
number
of
his
Victories
;
when
they
preserv'd
Justice
,
protected
Widows
,
defended
Orphans
,
exterminated
Tyrants
,
and
with
their
Swords
did
more
good
to
Mankind
,
than
the
Pens
of
Plato
and
Aristotle
wrote
.
And
now
enter
Orlando
.
Love
made
him
an
enraged
Fool
;
but
his
folly
was
incurable
,
at
least
as
to
the
remedies
of
Hippocrates
and
Galen
,
and
of
so
strange
a
nature
,
that
Astolpho
mounts
Elias
Chariot
and
goes
to
fetch
a
little
phial
of
common
Sense
for
him
;
and
that
out
of
St.
John's
Shop
,
which
the
Poet
makes
a
Chymick
.
I
could
produce
Hannibal
,
who
fail'd
to
Triumph
over
the
Romans
,
and
ruin'd
the
Reputation
of
his
Countrey
by
giving
himself
up
to
the
Caresses
of
the
Capuan
Dames
;
and
Antony
,
who
lost
more
by
the
love
of
Cleopatra
,
than
by
the
genius
of
Augustus
.
I
could
mix
Sacred
story
with
Prophane
,
and
shew
you
David
without
Conscience
,
Solonton
without
Wisdom
,
Sampson
without
Strength
;
not
to
say
any
thing
of
our
Father
Adam
,
whose
Love
cost
us
so
dear
.
But
not
to
weary
you
with
Examples
,
and
yet
to
confirm
my
opinion
,
which
I
wish
were
yours
,
let
us
,
if
you
please
,
imagine
with
Petrarch
a
delicious
Island
cover'd
with
Rose-bushes
,
Jalsomine
and
Orange-trees
;
where
the
gentle
Zephyrs
temper
and
heat
;
where
the
Flowers
perfume
the
Air
;
where
Hills
and
Woods
give
shade
;
where
the
Winters
are
moderate
,
and
where
they
pass
their
time
in
Sports
,
Feasts
and
Idleness
;
and
now
let
us
imagine
,
that
Love
has
chosen
this
place
to
triumph
in
,
and
that
here
he
has
assembled
all
the
Lovers
between
the
Poles
:
and
in
the
last
place
let
us
imagine
,
that
a
Tempest
hath
cast
us
upon
this
shoar
;
for
I
will
never
consent
that
we
go
thither
in
quality
of
Lovers
;
't
were
better
we
got
thither
upon
a
broken
Plank
,
the
remains
of
a
Shipwrack
,
as
to
an
Enemies
Countrey
,
than
to
go
before
the
wind
in
the
Egyptian
Queens
Vessel
,
if
we
went
to
pay
our
homage
.
Let
us
walk
up
and
down
a
little
,
to
refresh
our selves
after
the
Voyage
amongst
these
troops
of
Lovers
,
upon
these
Flowers
and
in
these
Meadows
;
but
on
condition
that
we
hearken
to
their
words
,
that
we
mark
their
actions
,
and
that
we
judge
then
if
it
be
good
to
imitate
them
.
These
that
first
present
themselves
seem
very
melancholy
;
at
least
they
have
pale
faces
and
heavy
eyes
,
as
if
they
had
past
the
Night
without
sleep
.
But
O
Jupiter
,
what
discourse
!
the
first
,
who
is
clothed
Pastorally
and
resembles
the
Myrtillus
of
Guarini
,
would
have
Fountains
weep
for
him
,
and
the
Winds
sigh
out
his
Martyrdom
.
See
one
there
,
that
consults
the
Echo
,
and
is
foolishly
afflicted
or
joyed
at
what
he
says
to
himself
.
Another
recounts
his
misery
to
the
Sun
,
to
the
Moon
,
to
the
Day
,
to
the
Night
.
He
there
says
,
he
should
die
contentedly
,
provided
't
were
embracing
her
he
loves
,
and
that
he
might
have
it
in
an
Epitaph
.
But
mark
him
on
the
left
hand
quite
despairing
,
for
he
curses
the
day
in
which
he
began
to
love
.
His
Neighbour
seems
more
mad
,
and
threatens
no
less
than
to
break
Loves
Bow
.
But
let
us
leave
him
for
fear
of
mischief
,
and
let
us
approach
the
merry
Troop
.
Some
you
may
perceive
dancing
under
the
Green
Trees
:
let
's
hear
the
burthen
of
their
Song
,
La
joūissance
est
pleine
De
peur
d'un
changement
.
See
how
imperfect
their
Joy
is
,
they
do
not
find
their
affairs
well
assured
,
though
they
are
in
the
best
condition
they
can
wish
.
Now
those
that
stand
by
and
look
on
are
crown'd
with
Myrtle
too
,
but
for
all
that
in
an
eternal
inquietude
.
One
torments
himself
to
explain
a
word
his
Mistress
said
to
him
,
because
he
doubts
't
is
not
advantagious
for
him
:
Another
complains
,
that
his
Lady
look'd
upon
his
Rival
too
long
and
too
pleasantly
.
This
laments
,
because
he
believes
he
did
surprize
upon
his
Ladies
Cheeks
the
remains
of
a
Smile
,
wherewith
she
favour'd
another
.
Do
you
understand
this
,
do
you
not
think
you
are
in
Bedlam
?
were
it
not
better
for
these
poor
Lovers
freely
to
confess
the
debt
,
and
instead
of
these
Fooleries
,
wherewith
every
one
amazes
us
in
his
turn
,
they
should
joyn
in
one
Chorus
and
ingeniously
sing
.
Tutti
habbiamo
di
pazzia
colma
la
testa
?
Now
to
see
if
they
act
as
they
speak
;
look
upon
those
there
,
that
kiss
the
Threshold
,
crown
it
with
Flowers
,
rub
it
with
Perfumes
;
See
those
that
engrave
a
thousand
insipid
stories
upon
the
Trees
;
those
,
that
read
worse
in
their
Table-books
.
One
,
his
arms
crost
with
grief
,
another
skipping
.
But
see
that
Wretch
who
poysons
himself
,
those
Rivals
who
kill
one
another
.
See
Leandro
in
Mare
,
e
Hero
a
la
finestra
.
See
those
who
have
ruin'd
their
Health
by
a
disease
detested
in
ours
,
and
unknown
to
past
Ages
.
In
one
word
,
they
are
for
the
most
part
without
Wealth
,
without
Reputation
.
In
the
mean
time
,
see
how
they
flatter
their
Tyrants
,
how
they
disguise
their
Deformities
,
and
though
their
Mistresses
be
never
so
ugly
,
they
make
them
Angels
and
Divinities
.
Let
us
reimbark
,
said
I
't
is
not
safe
to
remain
long
in
an
Island
thus
inhabited
.
Then
you
acknowledge
,
said
M.
M.
that
't
is
dangerous
to
be
amongst
Lovers
,
and
that
the
habit
is
dangerous
.
I
have
heard
say
,
that
ordinarily
we
resemble
those
we
frequent
,
and
that
we
are
equally
born
good
,
but
bad
Company
ruines
us
.
But
saith
M.
Ch.
to
me
,
do
you
think
the
matter
goes
,
as
our
Friend
says
it
does
?
What
can
I
do
,
said
I
,
against
so
many
Examples
and
Authorities
?
truly
,
if
any
thing
keeps
me
yet
on
your
side
't
is
,
that
I
have
found
you
so
Judicions
in
all
you
hold
,
and
you
are
so
litte
accustom'd
to
choose
Opinions
that
are
not
good
,
that
I
am
as
yet
wavering
,
and
as
the
Italian
says
,
Ne
sì
ne
nò
nel
cuor
mi
suona
intero
.
But
in
the
mean
time
,
pursued
I
,
methinks
M.
Trilport
is
a
little
Melancholy
,
as
if
he
mistrusted
his
cause
.
You
ill
explain
my
Seriousness
,
replied
M.
Tr.
and
esteem
me
a
man
of
small
Courage
;
the
truth
is
,
if
any
thing
startles
me
,
't
is
to
see
M.
M.
treating
us
like
Children
,
to
whom
they
shew
painted
Devils
with
Tails
and
Claws
,
and
terrifying
Faces
,
to
make
them
afraid
;
for
I
do
not
believe
,
continued
he
,
that
you
think
Devils
are
so
made
,
nor
that
you
would
go
about
with
the
Poet
Bernia
,
to
take
the
just
length
of
their
Horns
and
Tails
.
So
M.
M.
with
his
Islands
,
his
Imaginary
pictures
,
his
Fabulous
examples
endeavours
to
fright
us
,
and
take
us
off
from
solid
Reason
.
To
what
purpose
is
it
to
speak
of
Agamemnon
or
of
Aristotle
,
to
know
if
a
Young
man
ought
to
court
Ladies
?
We
shall
see
,
says
M.
M.
a
little
heated
,
what
this
solid
Reason
will
amount
to
in
the
case
;
but
to
let
you
see
,
if
I
ought
to
alledge
Agamemnon
or
Aristotle
,
whose
Examples
you
believe
such
strangers
to
the
question
,
I
demand
of
you
,
if
this
Induction
is
not
reasonable
?
If
Love
assembles
in
himself
all
the
Defaults
of
Kings
,
of
Hero's
,
of
the
gods
of
Fable
;
if
Philosophers
,
who
I
place
above
these
Gods
;
if
Men
,
who
have
excelled
in
Policy
,
in
War
,
and
pass
the
rest
of
Mankind
,
have
fallen
into
these
shameful
Errours
,
when
they
became
Amorous
;
if
generally
all
Lovers
are
mad
,
may
we
not
conclude
,
that
a
Young
man
who
Loves
will
become
imperfect
and
vicious
,
as
other
Lovers
;
nay
,
is
more
subject
to
these
defects
,
than
Kings
,
or
Hero's
,
or
Gods
,
or
Philosophers
,
or
Law-makers
,
or
Conquerours
,
whose
Examples
we
have
been
obliged
to
produce
?
though
we
have
besides
strengthned
our
Position
with
Authorities
and
Reasons
,
the
Image
of
Cupid
,
the
Isle
of
his
Triumph
,
and
the
rest
which
we
have
advanced
.
We
should
do
you
wrong
,
said
I
,
in
this
matter
to
reproach
you
for
having
alledg'd
any
thing
without
proof
;
your
discourse
in
my
opinion
hath
been
much
to
the
purpose
:
But
to
handle
the
Question
more
fully
,
and
to
act
entirely
according
to
the
taste
of
your
Adversaries
;
will
you
not
think
it
necessary
to
speak
something
of
our
Young
Gentlemen
and
our
Ladies
,
the
Lovers
and
Mistresses
of
our
Times
and
Nation
;
of
their
Conversation
and
of
their
Courtship
?
for
from
things
that
are
so
familiar
,
and
which
we
have
every
day
before
our
eyes
,
't
will
be
easie
to
see
with
which
of
the
Opinions
contested
between
you
we
ought
to
close
,
and
we
may
judge
by
the
manners
of
our
Lovers
,
whether
we
ought
to
fly
or
follow
them
.
For
my
part
,
answers
M.
M.
coldly
,
I
should
think
you
might
spare
me
this
pains
,
which
seems
altogether
needless
;
and
after
I
have
shew'd
you
,
that
generally
all
Lovers
are
extravagant
,
you
cannot
think
our
Nation
more
exempt
than
others
.
And
I
am
vext
,
continued
He
,
that
you
did
not
acquaint
me
with
your
desires
before
we
weigh'd
Anchor
to
come
from
the
Amorous
Island
;
for
there
I
could
have
shew'd
you
a
great
many
of
those
people
you
enquire
after
,
which
yet
are
not
difficult
to
be
met
with
elsewhere
.
But
now
we
will
undertake
no
more
Voyages
,
nor
will
we
quit
Paris
.
To
proceed
orderly
,
let
us
take
our
young
Cavaliers
,
who
a
few
Months
since
left
the
Academy
;
and
Sons
of
the
City
,
Officers
newly
come
to
their
charge
.
Let
us
imagine
them
Amorous
,
and
by
their
Actions
examine
the
qualities
Love
endows
them
with
.
Let
the
Gentlemen
march
first
,
that
we
may
muster
up
the
good
parts
they
have
acquir'd
with
their
Mistresses
:
And
first
,
to
study
their
Conversation
,
we
shall
find
it
nor
wise
,
nor
solid
,
nor
polish'd
,
nor
gallant
:
What
then
?
would
you
know
?
Let
us
draw
near
them
,
you
shall
hear
nothing
but
a
gibberish
eternally
repeated
,
composed
of
fifteen
or
twenty
extraordinary
words
,
which
have
a
vogue
in
their
Cabal
,
which
they
speak
improperly
,
and
only
to
speak
them
,
without
considering
how
they
may
cultivate
their
understandings
;
they
spend
in
a
quarter
of
an
hour
a
number
of
Fooleries
,
which
yet
they
pronounce
with
a
Jesting
Authority
,
as
if
there
were
Salt
in
them
;
or
some
conceal'd
mystery
.
The
Ladies
in
the
mean
time
they
laugh
upon
the
publick
Faith
,
as
if
they
understood
the
subtleties
;
if
they
meet
with
any
man
,
that
will
not
quit
Reasons
side
to
comply
with
them
,
God
knows
with
what
scorn
they
use
him
,
and
how
he
shall
be
handled
in
all
places
where
these
Starlins
assemble
to
whistle
.
They
believe
nothing
such
an
enemy
to
wit
as
Silence
;
they
infinitely
esteem
their
Judgment
,
which
furnishes
them
with
decisions
for
every
thing
upon
the
place
:
In
fine
,
by
force
of
admiring
one
another
,
they
are
brought
to
think
they
are
at
the
top
of
an
agreeable
conversation
.
And
now
we
have
examin'd
their
Wit
,
which
we
find
in
pitiful
plight
,
let
us
consider
their
bravery
.
We
shall
quickly
discover
,
that
their
highest
design
is
to
guild
a
Coach
,
or
to
vary
a
Livery
,
or
as
Malherbe
says
,
Le
perfum
d'un
colet
,
Le
point
couppé
d'un
chemise
,
Et
la
figure
d'un
balet
.
We
find
them
busied
,
as
Women
,
to
dress
and
trick
up
themselves
,
and
with
such
indecent
Effiminacy
,
that
't
is
left
to
us
to
divine
not
only
,
if
they
are
Men
,
but
whether
they
seek
not
other
men
.
In
the
mean
time
the
presumption
of
being
Sparks
gets
up
into
their
pates
,
they
esteem
themselves
worth
the
Courtship
of
an
Amazon
Queen
,
and
all
run
the
same
danger
for
their
Beauty
,
which
the
Narcissus
of
the
Fable
did
.
In
this
condition
,
they
choose
rather
the
Fortune
of
Paris
,
who
was
Fair
as
they
,
and
possest
Helen
,
than
that
of
Ajax
.
But
they
merit
the
Reproach
,
which
in
Homer
is
given
to
this
Original
of
Effeminateness
,
Lasche
Paris
au
visage
tres-beau
.
and
deserve
to
be
treated
as
this
Divine
Poet
handles
this
little
Wanton
,
when
amidst
so
many
thousand
Combatants
he
brings
him
in
flying
the
Battel
,
to
go
lie
with
his
Wife
.
From
their
Conversation
and
their
Persons
let
us
pass
to
their
Manners
.
Amongst
other
faults
Libertinism
offers
it self
first
:
for
,
as
their
end
is
not
to
stop
at
a
union
of
Wills
and
Hearts
,
but
to
proceed
on
,
as
they
say
,
to
something
more
solid
,
they
employ
the
utmost
force
of
their
Wits
to
debauch
the
Consciences
of
Ladies
by
a
pure
malignity
of
Nature
.
Without
having
any
occasion
to
doubt
,
as
learned
Libertines
have
,
they
jest
with
Religion
,
they
commit
a
hundred
indecent
actions
in
the
Church
.
With
five
or
six
passages
out
of
Charon
and
Montague
,
which
the
ablest
among
them
preach
to
the
rest
,
they
pretend
to
overthrow
all
Divinity
.
The
rest
of
their
Sentiments
are
nor
noble
nor
high
;
they
think
nothing
worthy
the
Vertue
of
their
Ancestors
;
the
wings
of
Love
cannot
raise
them
to
any
generous
thoughts
;
every
day
passes
alike
;
the
flower
of
their
Lite
slides
away
in
a
shameful
and
unquiet
Idleness
,
whilst
they
are
seated
in
their
Chairs
,
extended
in
their
Coaches
,
or
bring
disorder
into
Families
that
receive
them
.
But
't
is
not
in
these
times
only
,
that
such
kind
of
People
make
a
trade
of
imbroiling
Families
;
for
you
know
,
the
Centaurs
,
the
first
Cavaliers
of
the
World
,
came
to
the
wedding
of
Perithous
only
to
make
Love
,
and
by
consequence
they
disturb'd
the
Feast
.
I
should
be
too
long
,
if
after
the
Gentleman
I
should
examine
the
Town-Child
:
I
will
content
my self
to
say
by
the
by
,
he
is
one
that
believes
himself
an
able
man
;
that
will
talk
Latin
amongst
his
Kinswomen
,
and
before
his
Mistresses
;
that
will
judge
of
the
Merit
of
his
Rivals
by
their
Money
;
that
wanting
Experience
in
the
World
,
will
want
Politeness
and
Agreement
.
In
the
mean
time
the
Citizen
and
the
Gentleman
,
governed
by
their
Passions
,
neglect
all
the
duties
of
Life
,
ruine
their
Domestick
affairs
,
abandon
,
together
with
their
Friends
,
the
thoughts
of
their
Fortune
,
Honour
,
and
Reputation
,
and
render
themselves
wholly
despisable
;
and
all
this
for
the
Love
of
Ladies
.
According
to
this
sense
,
the
Greeian
Sculptors
,
whose
Works
often
taught
Morality
,
carv'd
a
Venus
upon
a
Hee-Goat
,
thereby
comparing
a
man
subjected
to
the
power
of
Women
to
this
Animal
,
which
is
blindly
led
to
all
the
unruliness
of
Love
:
but
chiefly
they
were
admirable
for
the
invention
of
a
Figure
,
which
they
erected
over
the
Tomb
of
that
famous
Courtizan
,
who
had
seen
all
Greece
on
their
knees
before
her
Gate
,
and
to
whom
they
built
a
Sepulchre
at
Corinth
,
near
to
the
Temple
of
Venus
the
Brown
;
these
Masters
placed
a
Lioness
emboss'd
,
which
tore
in
pieces
a
Ram.
I
should
never
have
done
,
should
I
recount
all
the
Errours
of
this
Sex
when
they
once
fall
in
Love
;
and
yet
,
if
I
would
take
the
pains
,
't
would
amount
to
a
great
Argument
against
the
contrary
Opinion
.
For
how
can
we
conclude
young
men
should
learn
any
thing
that
is
good
of
persons
that
are
accompanied
with
nothing
but
Vanity
,
Weakness
,
Inequality
,
Treachery
;
that
have
nothing
sincere
,
nothing
great
;
who
have
double
Hearts
,
counterfeit
Faces
and
Actions
?
Would
it
not
rather
draw
to
a
consequence
,
that
these
Young
men
by
conversing
with
Women
,
should
lose
all
seeds
of
Goodness
,
and
all
inclination
which
their
Souls
might
have
to
Vertue
?
Nor
is
it
this
Vertue
Women
seek
for
;
they
still
choose
the
worst
;
Venus
leaves
Mars
for
Adonis
;
Helena
Menelaus
for
Paris
;
—
You
are
in
a
fair
way
,
cries
M.
Ch.
and
if
we
let
you
go
on
,
't
is
very
likely
you
will
not
stop
in
haste
:
for
you
take
a
marvellous
pleasure
in
this
Story
,
and
I
foresee
something
very
odd
like
to
scape
you
,
if
I
do
not
prevent
the
Storm
.
You
have
reason
,
pursued
M.
M.
and
to
tell
you
true
,
if
you
had
not
hindred
me
,
I
was
strangely
tempted
to
tell
you
the
Story
of
Giocondo
,
and
the
Matron
of
Ephesus
,
with
others
of
that
nature
.
Reserve
those
to
another
time
,
replies
M.
Ch.
and
I
am
not
of
opinion
,
you
ought
any
longer
to
give
way
to
your
Choler
;
and
to
spare
you
an
unprofitable
pains
,
you
may
remember
,
if
you
please
,
that
when
we
enquir'd
of
you
concerning
those
pretended
Maximes
you
attributed
to
Ladies
,
we
did
not
ask
for
the
Dialogues
of
Lucian's
Courtizans
,
nor
Juvenal's
sixteenth
Satyr
,
nor
the
life
of
Celestina
:
we
would
have
you
tell
us
of
Artemisia
,
Penelope
,
Lucretia
.
I
take
you
at
your
word
,
says
M.
M.
on
condition
you
will
not
except
against
these
Test
monies
you
have
demanded
,
and
that
you
will
judge
of
Women
upon
the
depositions
of
Artemisia
,
Penelope
,
and
Lucretia
;
and
that
after
this
you
will
be
content
I
end
a
Discourse
,
which
in
my
opinion
hath
no
need
of
further
proof
.
For
Artemisia
,
continued
he
,
I
know
no
declar'd
Gossip
that
would
not
be
ashamed
of
the
transports
of
this
Queen
:
I
do
not
speak
of
those
which
her
affection
caused
;
they
were
just
,
they
were
honest
;
and
if
her
grief
had
stifled
her
,
whilst
she
complains
of
fortune
,
when
she
drown'd
her
face
in
tears
,
and
said
against
the
stars
,
what
could
be
said
:
Tout
ce
que
fait
dire
la
rage
,
Quand
elle
est
Maistresse
des
Sens.
I
say
,
if
she
had
expir'd
then
,
it
may
be
that
to
this
time
her
Friendship
would
be
as
much
a
marvel
as
her
Mausoleum
.
But
by
misfortune
she
buried
her
Grief
,
for
the
loss
of
her
Husband
,
with
his
Ashes
;
and
this
vain
and
pompous
ostentation
of
Conjugal
union
quickly
gave
place
to
a
second
Passion
,
which
transported
her
to
kill
her self
.
Scaliger
,
upon
the
fame
of
an
ancient
Author
,
informs
us
,
that
this
Queen
fell
in
love
with
a
young
man
of
Abidas
,
call'd
Dardanus
,
and
to
revenge
her self
of
his
coldness
,
she
surpriz'd
him
sleeping
,
and
did
tear
out
his
eyes
;
but
that
her
Revenge
did
not
diminish
her
Passion
,
its
violence
forcing
her
to
throw
her self
from
the
Rocks
of
Leucadia
,
she
dy'd
of
the
fall
.
As
for
Penelope
,
Seneca
avows
,
that
he
found
so
much
concerning
her
affection
,
pro
and
con
,
that
he
durst
not
conclude
,
whether
she
were
a
sinner
or
an
honest
Woman
.
Another
Author
less
solid
,
but
very
witty
,
hath
an
unlucky
conceit
about
the
continual
Feastings
in
her
House
amidst
a
crowd
of
Gallants
,
and
interprets
maliciously
the
trial
of
her
Husbands
Bow
.
And
to
take
away
all
doubt
,
Pausanias
assures
us
,
that
in
his
time
there
past
an
ancient
Poem
,
which
recounted
how
Vlysses
,
when
he
return'd
from
the
Siege
of
Troy
,
beat
her
out
of
doors
;
and
that
there
was
a
Tradition
then
currant
amongst
the
Mantineans
,
that
Penelope
fled
to
their
Town
and
died
there
.
Lastly
,
What
can
we
judge
of
Lucretia
,
but
with
M.
L.
that
she
kill'd
her self
after
the
fact
?
Thus
by
searching
things
to
the
bottom
,
we
see
that
the
most
part
of
these
Beauties
,
who
appear
fierce
and
cold
,
as
the
ancient
Sabines
,
have
often
no
advantage
over
the
rest
,
but
that
of
dissembling
well
;
and
all
these
Heroin's
,
which
in
Ausonius
threatned
to
crucifie
Cupid
,
at
the
instance
of
Venus
reduc'd
his
punishment
to
a
whipping
with
Roses
.
Let
us
not
then
abuse
our selves
in
a
belief
,
that
Women
can
inspire
generous
thoughts
;
but
rather
think
their
Beauty
corrupts
our
Judgments
,
making
us
believe
,
their
Conversation
is
as
profitable
as
we
find
it
pleasant
.
Let
us
still
remember
,
that
this
Beauty
,
whereupon
the
most
of
them
would
raise
a
legitimate
domination
,
is
no
other
,
according
to
Socrates
,
but
a
short
Tyranny
;
and
that
Sophocles
often
repeated
in
his
Old
age
,
that
he
esteem'd
himself
very
happy
in
that
he
had
shaken
off
the
yoak
of
this
Amorous
tyranny
.
But
we
will
end
with
the
Advice
of
Thales
,
and
admire
the
Counsel
he
gave
a
miserable
wretch
,
asking
what
he
should
do
to
free
himself
from
Love
;
he
first
advised
him
to
fast
;
and
when
a
Diet
would
not
serve
,
he
perswaded
him
to
expect
his
health
from
Time
and
Absence
;
but
after
many
months
and
a
long
perigrination
,
seeing
that
Hunger
,
Distance
,
and
Time
were
too
weak
Remedies
,
he
ordain'd
him
to
Hang
himself
.
I
have
said
.
Seeing
M.
Menage
had
done
,
you
have
,
said
I
,
handled
Lovers
,
as
one
advised
a
maker
of
Romances
to
handle
his
principal
person
,
when
he
would
needs
perswade
him
,
that
he
could
not
find
out
an
event
,
nor
more
new
nor
more
surprizing
,
than
to
cause
him
be
publickly
hang'd
.
In
this
at
least
I
am
excusable
,
answered
M.
M.
which
is
,
That
I
have
been
content
to
open
the
cause
,
and
to
let
the
Sentence
be
pronounc'd
by
another
.
On
the
contrary
,
replied
I
,
't
is
to
be
feared
you
have
acted
with
malice
,
and
have
brought
in
this
Philosopher
,
that
his
Sentence
might
be
as
authentick
as
that
of
a
Judge
.
That
may
be
,
added
M.
Trilport
,
but
there
is
a
remedy
for
it
,
and
I
declare
to
you
,
says
he
,
addressing
himself
to
M.
M.
that
I
appeal
from
your
Sage
to
ours
.
And
from
Thales
to
M.
Chappelein
is
à
minori
,
says
M.
M.
Stop
there
,
replies
M.
Ch.
I
must
interrupt
you
,
lest
you
should
think
I
agree
and
confess
my self
a
Sage
,
which
God
forbid
.
But
,
continued
he
,
addressing
himself
to
M.
M.
though
I
am
to
plead
the
Cause
of
Lovers
,
your self
shall
be
the
Judge
.
You
hold
your
Cause
very
good
then
,
says
M.
M.
seeing
you
are
content
to
be
Judg'd
by
your
Adversary
.
As
good
as
your
Conscience
,
continued
M.
Ch.
and
I
believe
you
so
just
,
and
find
my
Cause
so
grounded
in
equity
,
that
I
declare
,
I
shall
be
content
with
what
you
shall
pronounce
,
after
you
have
heard
me
.
We
here
were
silent
,
and
after
some
moments
M.
Ch.
begun
:
If
I
do
not
lend
to
your
Opinion
that
full
consent
you
could
wish
,
you
ought
not
to
complain
't
is
for
want
of
attention
.
I
have
hearkned
to
your
discourse
with
an
intire
application
,
and
truly
,
you
have
so
ingeniously
spoken
against
Love
,
that
if
I
had
not
been
bound
with
the
Cords
of
Truth
,
you
had
perverted
me
:
but
at
last
I
am
,
as
a
seeond
Vlysses
,
escap'd
from
the
danger
of
the
Sirenes
,
after
having
been
charm'd
with
their
Songs
.
Whatever
enchantments
,
for
all
that
,
you
have
practised
to
prove
the
opinion
sustained
by
you
;
I
am
about
to
let
you
see
,
that
,
if
I
am
not
deceiv'd
,
the
contrary
is
the
better
;
wishing
passionately
,
that
in
this
cause
you
would
act
better
than
the
Medea
of
Euripides
and
Ovid
,
and
that
after
you
have
seen
and
approved
the
Truth
,
I
shall
declare
,
you
do
not
remain
the
Author
of
a
heresie
,
that
cannot
appear
fair
,
but
because
you
paint
it
.
I
shall
act
clearly
with
you
,
answering
what
you
have
advanc'd
point
by
point
;
shewing
,
if
I
can
,
the
falseness
or
the
weakness
of
them
.
I
will
also
accommodate
my self
to
your
way
of
Philosophizing
,
which
is
without
doubt
the
most
proper
for
a
Conversation
,
and
of
which
I
shall
willingly
serve
my self
,
because
it
is
not
so
severe
as
that
which
is
commonly
practised
;
but
is
not
less
strong
for
being
more
delicate
:
and
gently
to
draw
out
a
confession
is
better
,
than
to
do
it
by
putting
a
knife
to
the
throat
.
So
that
I
shall
continue
to
banish
from
our
discourse
these
Syllogisms
of
the
Schools
,
which
make
their
heads
giddy
that
study
to
comprehend
and
resolve
them
.
We
will
not
take
Love
from
amidst
the
Graces
,
to
put
him
into
the
hands
of
Disputants
:
and
I
will
take
care
,
that
our
Conversation
,
which
hath
hitherto
been
sweet
and
easie
,
does
not
degenerate
into
the
querulous
noise
of
two
Masters
of
Art
.
You
began
your
accusation
with
explaining
a
Figure
,
whereby
you
would
scare
us
,
as
M.
Tr.
well
noted
;
and
if
we
should
believe
you
,
you
have
placed
Love
,
which
is
the
sweetest
bond
of
Humane
Society
,
in
the
number
of
Harpies
and
other
Monsters
of
Antiquity
:
I
will
presently
examine
,
if
this
Picture
be
as
good
as
it
is
common
;
I
will
content
my self
in
the
mean
time
to
let
you
know
,
that
't
is
capable
of
receiving
quite
another
sense
to
that
you
have
given
it
;
and
that
there
is
nothing
but
vertuous
in
this
piece
,
which
you
set
out
as
if
all
the
defects
,
which
Humane
frailty
can
suffer
,
were
assembled
in
it
.
To
proceed
orderly
,
you
pretend
,
that
this
Child
notes
the
weakness
and
other
imperfections
of
that
age
.
But
,
if
it
were
so
,
the
most
Learned
Painters
are
much
in
the
wrong
to
represent
him
as
they
do
,
holding
Lions
under
his
subjection
:
and
Poets
were
no
less
to
blame
for
shewing
him
in
their
works
,
snatching
the
Thunderbolt
from
the
hand
of
Jove
,
and
exercising
his
power
on
his
Mother
.
And
those
of
Cytherea
believed
,
that
this
Venus
,
who
drew
all
her
power
from
Love
,
presided
in
War
;
and
the
Cypriots
figur'd
her
with
a
Launce
;
others
represented
her
Statue
arm'd
;
yea
,
the
Romans
built
a
Temple
to
Venus
the
Victorious
.
The
Prudence
of
Love
is
as
easily
justified
as
his
Force
:
and
we
cannot
doubt
of
it
,
if
we
will
remember
,
that
he
unravell'd
the
first
confusion
of
the
Universe
,
and
that
we
may
attribute
to
him
with
the
Italian
Poet
,
Pensier
canuti
in
giovenit
etade
.
We
must
not
then
accuse
Old
people
for
being
in
Love
,
provided
their
thoughts
resemble
those
of
this
Boy
.
But
we
must
agree
on
the
point
,
that
Love
is
painted
Young
only
to
let
us
see
what
we
are
about
to
conclude
,
That
Love
is
necessary
to
Youth
.
And
't
is
almost
the
same
reason
,
which
Agathon
in
the
Divine
Philosopher
urges
to
prove
that
Love
is
young
;
because
,
saith
he
,
he
is
alwaies
sound
amongst
Young
people
.
But
this
Boy
,
say
you
,
is
impudent
to
go
alwaies
naked
.
'T
is
true
what
you
say
,
that
't
were
a
foul
action
to
strip
ones
self
in
the
open
Market
,
but
you
advance
little
by
this
;
for
not
only
this
is
not
alwaies
true
,
for
the
Dacedemonian
Boys
and
Girles
were
naked
together
in
the
place
of
their
Exercises
,
and
that
under
a
discipline
the
most
austere
in
the
World
;
but
further
,
though
your
Rule
should
be
general
,
't
would
not
follow
,
that
Impudency
were
a
vice
of
Childhood
,
none
ever
said
so
:
nor
that
Shamelessness
,
which
is
a
sign
of
this
defect
,
and
which
proceeds
alwaies
from
a
long
custome
of
filthy
and
bold
actions
,
is
figur'd
by
Childhood
.
Far
from
this
,
we
are
pleas'd
with
those
Pictures
of
the
people
wherewith
we
adorn
our
Temples
,
and
wherewith
we
represent
Angels
.
And
you
would
be
more
scrupulous
than
our
devout
Matrons
,
who
are
not
yet
aware
of
being
scandaliz'd
at
these
nudities
.
As
to
the
Testimony
of
Eustatius
,
which
you
alledge
,
if
I
remember
right
,
it
means
nothing
but
the
first
boldness
of
Lovers
,
and
ought
rather
to
be
taken
for
a
piece
of
Courtship
,
than
an
injury
.
Nay
,
this
Bishop
so
little
thought
of
charging
Love
with
Impudence
for
his
Nakedness
,
that
he
writes
this
God
is
naked
only
,
that
he
may
dive
into
the
water
to
preserve
the
species
of
Fish
.
And
in
one
place
of
his
Romance
,
Ismenias
seeing
his
Mistress
throw
her self
into
the
Sea
,
prays
Cupid
to
dive
after
her
,
and
bring
her
up
again
.
By
this
we
may
easily
judge
,
that
the
Nakedness
of
Love
ought
not
to
be
explain'd
in
a
bad
sense
,
as
you
do
,
and
that
it
signifies
nothing
less
than
his
Impudence
;
and
those
who
have
spoken
of
it
without
Passion
,
have
given
it
a
sense
different
from
yours
.
Whether
they
have
concluded
with
Antiphanes
,
Que
l'on
ne
peut
cacher
l'amout
,
qui
va
tout
nud
.
or
whether
,
according
to
the
Opinion
of
others
,
this
Love
thus
exposes
his
Beauty
to
shew
,
that
he
disallows
of
all
artifices
wherewith
Beauty
is
set
off
.
And
,
according
to
this
sense
,
the
Jupiter
of
Homer
sharply
chides
Juno
for
stealing
the
Girdle
of
Venus
,
to
the
end
that
she
might
augment
his
flames
:
or
whether
this
Nakedness
signifies
,
that
the
thoughts
of
Lovers
ought
to
be
so
noble
,
that
they
may
expose
them
without
a
Veil
to
the
sight
of
all
the
World
:
or
lastly
,
whether
this
god
is
minded
to
shew
his
exceeding
force
in
this
weak
estate
.
You
will
come
off
no
better
,
I
believe
,
in
your
interpretation
of
his
Ribband
.
You
take
it
for
a
hoodwink'd
reason
,
whereby
our
minds
are
cast
into
darkness
worse
than
Cymerian
,
and
which
hinders
us
even
from
discerning
what
is
good
Manners
.
I
could
here
object
to
you
,
that
you
had
forgot
they
call
the
Eyes
the
Guides
of
Love
:
but
I
will
not
serve
my self
of
this
Opinion
,
because
I
disapprove
it
,
and
am
of
that
of
the
Queen
Olympias
,
who
accused
a
Young
man
for
want
of
Wit
,
because
he
married
only
by
the
counsel
of
his
Eyes
;
I
will
only
say
then
,
that
our
Understanding
never
is
more
awake
nor
more
active
,
than
when
we
love
and
have
ambition
to
please
.
And
in
this
matter
I
send
you
to
Ovid
,
who
compares
the
vigilancy
of
Lovers
to
that
of
Captains
.
But
in
my
opinion
,
the
true
explication
of
this
Ribband
,
which
we
might
call
a
Diadem
,
if
we
would
defend
our selves
with
as
much
passion
as
you
accuse
us
with
;
the
best
explication
,
I
say
,
is
to
imagine
,
that
Venus
is
willing
his
Thests
should
be
conceal'd
,
as
one
of
the
Ancients
pleasantly
said
;
and
that
Discretion
is
the
best
quality
,
not
only
of
Lovers
,
but
of
men
the
most
debauch'd
.
You
are
not
ignorant
,
that
the
Italians
fay
,
Discretion
staben
sin
al
—
pardon
me
the
rest
,
and
permit
me
to
pass
on
to
the
Wings
,
Arrows
,
and
Torch
.
For
his
Wings
,
I
confess
in
this
Article
your
railleries
are
very
pleasant
,
and
there
is
much
wit
in
the
Conceits
of
our
Friends
,
but
we
will
take
them
,
if
you
please
,
only
for
Jests
,
and
not
accept
of
their
Testimonies
in
other
manner
,
than
as
you
intended
to
spend
them
,
and
let
you
know
in
the
mean
time
,
that
they
who
first
invented
these
Wings
would
teach
us
,
that
ous
Desires
and
Thoughts
ought
to
raise
themselves
up
to
Heaven
,
and
not
alwaies
grovel
upon
the
Earth
.
For
his
Arrows
,
I
can
easily
approve
of
those
reflexions
you
made
;
but
,
to
judge
wholsomly
,
your
Invective
only
strikes
at
the
ill
use
of
Love
:
and
these
two
sorts
of
Arrows
do
only
note
the
secret
motions
to
inclination
or
hatred
,
which
we
find
in
our selves
,
but
not
the
Causes
which
give
those
motions
,
and
least
of
all
any
thing
of
Avarice
or
Presents
.
For
in
all
the
Children
,
which
ever
proceeded
from
the
marriage
of
Theagines
and
Chariclea
,
that
is
,
in
all
the
Romances
that
ever
were
,
from
the
Ethiopick
History
to
the
Grand
Cyrus
,
is
there
any
thing
so
handsom
or
so
frequent
,
as
that
scorn
wherein
Lovers
hold
Greatness
,
Crowns
,
Treasures
,
only
to
preserve
their
Fidelity
to
miserable
and
exil'd
persons
,
who
groan
under
Irons
,
and
have
no
other
advantage
,
besides
their
Merit
and
their
Passion
?
Nothing
therefore
can
better
set
out
these
noble
,
elevated
,
and
generous
Sentiments
than
to
say
,
that
their
Souls
are
really
wounded
with
a
Golden
shaft
;
and
that
to
destroy
these
illustrious
Prerogatives
of
Heaven
,
all
the
Treasures
of
the
Earth
are
leaden
arms
,
which
bend
and
cannot
penetrate
.
Merlins
Fountains
,
whereof
Aristo
makes
his
Knights
to
drink
,
and
whose
scurce
Claudian
found
before
him
,
confirm
what
we
fay
.
They
were
both
of
a
like
Water
,
and
without
the
advantage
to
murmur
over
Golden
dust
,
as
Pactolus
and
Tagus
,
they
did
glide
peaceably
over
the
same
Sand
,
and
one
gave
a
violent
aversion
,
the
other
a
violent
passion
.
Ovid
,
who
for
the
most
part
explains
ingenuously
the
nature
of
these
Arrows
,
when
he
speaks
of
the
Golden
ones
,
does
not
give
us
the
least
suspicion
,
that
he
thought
of
Presents
,
no
not
those
of
his
age
,
which
were
Fruits
,
Nosegays
,
and
Persumes
.
It
only
rests
,
that
we
speak
of
his
Torch
,
which
you
compare
to
that
of
the
Furies
,
for
which
I
am
much
tempted
to
accuse
you
of
Impiety
;
and
,
I
think
,
I
could
not
say
too
much
against
a
man
,
who
so
ill
handles
a
fire
,
that
we
may
call
the
Soul
of
the
World
,
which
actuates
and
conserves
all
that
has
any
sense
in
the
Universe
,
and
without
which
the
face
of
Nature
would
appear
wild
and
desolate
.
But
because
I
would
not
quarrel
you
,
and
that
I
endeavour
to
perswade
you
without
displeasing
you
;
I
conjure
you
,
that
we
may
understand
this
matter
aright
,
to
cast
your
eyes
upon
the
effects
of
this
Torch
,
and
do
not
sear
it
will
trouble
your
fight
,
as
those
dismal
Torches
of
Nights
three
Daughters
,
Mira
d'intorno
,
Sylvio
,
Quanto
il
mondo
ba
di
vago
,
&
di
gentile
,
Opra
è
d'amore
.
Amante
è
il
cielo
;
amante
La
terra
;
amante
il
mare
.
You
know
what
follows
in
the
Pastor
fido
of
Guarini
,
and
how
he
carries
it
even
to
Animals
and
Trees
,
which
feel
the
sweet
warmth
of
this
fire
:
believe
me
,
this
fire
hath
in
it
something
Divine
;
and
the
Egyptians
,
who
(
compar'd
with
their
Wisdom
)
esteem'd
that
of
the
Greeks
but
Boys
play
,
when
they
would
express
Love
,
did
it
only
by
Fire
,
as
the
purest
and
noblest
Element
.
Now
,
as
you
,
after
your
malicious
explication
of
Loves
Figure
,
conclude
with
him
in
Atheneus
,
that
the
gods
did
well
to
banish
him
Heaven
:
I
also
,
having
given
the
true
sense
of
it
am
bold
to
say
,
that
Hesiod
,
Solon
and
Plato
,
never
shew'd
more
Wisdom
,
than
when
they
took
Love
from
the
Mountain
of
Helicon
,
to
lead
him
into
the
Academy
adorn'd
and
crown'd
with
Flowers
;
in
the
midst
of
Musick
and
Sacrifices
,
to
constitute
him
Director
and
Master
.
From
what
I
have
said
you
may
conclude
,
that
my
Praises
make
a
more
reasonable
Picture
of
Love
,
than
your
Invectives
;
and
that
the
same
matter
,
which
hath
serv'd
you
for
his
Accusation
,
is
very
proper
to
make
his
Panegyrick
.
But
because
the
sense
of
this
Picture
may
yet
remain
a
Problem
to
obstinate
Wits
,
we
will
not
abide
by
it
;
besides
,
't
is
much
contested
,
and
divers
Learned
men
are
not
of
accord
with
the
Vulgar
opinion
.
Theodorus
,
in
Plato's
Banquet
,
mocks
at
those
who
make
a
Child
of
this
god
;
which
he
esteems
the
most
Ancient
of
all
the
gods
,
not
excepting
Saturn
.
Another
Greek
in
his
Hue
and
Cry
for
the
sugitive
Love
,
far
from
thinking
him
blind
,
says
,
he
has
most
penetrating
Eyes
,
and
takes
this
mark
for
so
true
a
one
,
that
he
gives
it
to
know
him
by
,
that
,
if
they
met
him
,
they
should
bring
him
home
.
Eustatius
fastens
those
Wings
to
his
Heels
,
which
the
common
Opinion
puts
upon
his
Shoulders
:
Eubulus
in
Atheneus
goes
further
,
and
will
allow
him
no
Wings
,
but
says
,
that
the
Painters
,
who
invented
them
,
were
ignorant
Fellows
,
and
fit
only
to
paint
Swallows
:
Another
,
in
the
same
Author
,
gives
him
two
Bows
:
In
fine
,
Propertius
saith
,
Love
was
born
in
the
Fields
,
and
that
his
Bow
and
Arrows
were
only
for
the
chafe
of
Wild
Beasts
.
These
,
as
you
see
,
contradict
the
common
Image
of
Love
:
Mosebus
adds
,
that
his
Body
is
of
Flame-colour
,
his
Hair
frizeld
,
his
Look
malicious
,
his
Hands
small
,
and
concludes
with
the
rest
,
that
he
is
a
right
dangerous
Archer
.
If
we
should
add
the
fantastical
Conceits
of
some
Modern
Spaniards
to
the
Inventions
of
the
Ancient
Greeks
,
I
could
furnish
you
with
one
Cristova
,
who
in
his
Verses
strives
to
demonstrate
,
that
Love
is
perfectly
like
the
Great
Turk
.
This
resemblance
,
says
M.
Menage
,
is
very
extraordinary
;
but
I
know
one
that
will
no
less
surprize
you
,
and
yet
it
is
of
the
Old
Rock
:
for
what
say
you
when
you
read
in
Macrobius
,
that
the
Cypriots
,
who
ought
to
know
Venus
,
erected
a
Statue
,
which
represented
her
with
a
Beard
?
After
we
had
laugh'd
a
little
,
leaving
,
continued
M.
Ch.
these
Representations
,
which
make
little
to
the
Question
,
I
will
come
to
Plutarchs
Opinion
,
who
assures
us
,
that
Love
is
not
visible
;
and
will
fay
,
with
one
of
the
Ancient
Comicks
,
that
Painters
and
Sculptors
did
not
know
what
Love
was
;
for
,
as
he
ingeniously
adds
,
Love
is
neither
Male
nor
Female
;
God
nor
Man
;
Wise
nor
Foolish
;
but
he
is
made
up
of
all
these
,
and
assembles
many
different
species
under
one
Figure
,
which
hath
the
boldness
of
a
Man
,
the
fearfulness
of
Women
;
is
serious
in
his
Folly
,
circumspect
in
his
Rage
;
which
suffers
the
transports
of
Wild
Beasts
,
and
labour
cannot
tame
him
;
of
a
wild
Ambition
,
bringing
no
less
Discord
along
with
him
,
than
we
imagine
in
Hell
;
who
is
capable
of
things
Serious
,
of
things
Peacable
,
of
things
Violent
.
You
say
more
than
I
could
desire
,
said
M.
Menage
,
and
to
save
you
trouble
in
examining
the
rest
of
my
Discourse
,
I
will
joyn
issue
with
you
here
.
Your
Cause
w'ont
be
the
better
for
it
,
answers
M.
Ch.
and
I
shall
not
fail
to
reply
to
the
rest
.
But
that
we
may
see
to
the
utmost
,
what
we
ought
to
conclude
concerning
Love
,
and
rigorously
to
examine
the
Good
and
the
Evil
that
may
be
alledged
,
I
will
add
Plato's
Testimony
,
who
calls
Love
a
cruel
Monster
,
that
has
as
many
Heads
as
Hydra
.
I
will
add
that
of
Sophocles
,
who
says
,
Venus
is
not
only
Venus
,
but
Pluto
,
Necessity
,
Rage
,
Covetousness
,
Grief
.
I
will
add
that
of
Plutarch
,
who
considering
that
Love
does
Cherish
and
Hate
,
Follow
and
Fly
,
Threaten
and
Pray
,
is
Angry
and
feels
Compassion
,
is
Sad
and
Rejoyces
,
Will
and
Will
not
;
and
all
this
at
one
time
and
for
the
same
person
,
concludes
,
't
is
not
a
thing
very
Judicious
,
but
an
imbroil'd
Enigma
,
and
of
difficult
Interpretation
.
If
this
is
not
enough
,
we
will
continue
the
description
of
Moschus
,
which
we
began
,
and
say
,
that
Loves
Thoughts
are
malicious
,
his
Words
flattering
,
his
Discourse
contrary
to
his
meaning
;
that
he
hath
a
sweet
Voice
,
is
mad
in
his
Anger
,
a
Deceiver
and
a
Fool
;
and
in
all
his
sportings
hath
some
Black
design
.
And
this
is
enough
fully
to
perswade
you
,
that
I
have
betray'd
my
Cause
,
and
that
you
have
gained
yours
;
or
at
least
,
that
I
act
too
sincerely
with
you
,
producing
Testimonies
which
you
know
well
,
but
had
forgot
,
and
which
alone
seem
capable
to
convince
me
.
But
,
as
you
very
well
remark'd
at
the
entrance
of
your
Discourse
,
that
the
first
Poets
did
Philosophize
,
and
then
you
plac'd
me
upon
Parnassus
;
from
a
place
so
eminent
,
which
my
Modesty
durst
not
pretend
to
,
suffer
me
to
reason
with
you
in
a
few
words
,
and
till
then
suspend
,
if
you
please
,
your
Judgment
of
what
good
or
ill
you
and
I
have
delivered
concerning
Love
.
I
say
then
,
that
all
things
which
we
possess
,
let
them
be
never
so
good
,
or
whatever
praises
they
deserve
,
become
evil
when
they
pass
the
bounds
of
their
perfection
;
whether
it
be
excess
or
defect
that
draws
them
.
For
Example
,
Prudence
,
which
is
that
that
Mankind
ought
most
passionately
to
covet
,
and
which
indeed
is
the
greatest
gist
that
God
doth
bestow
upon
Man
,
becomes
visionary
and
fanatical
when
it
is
too
much
refin'd
,
and
in
this
condition
is
no
less
dangerous
,
than
Folly
.
'T
is
the
same
in
other
Vertues
,
whose
extreams
are
never
wholsom
;
good
Sense
only
is
that
which
moderates
them
;
and
all
the
advantage
which
persons
have
we
call
Vertuous
,
is
,
the
knowledge
of
the
true
measure
to
which
they
ought
to
reduce
their
good
qualities
.
'T
is
the
same
in
Love
;
and
therefore
Plutarch
writes
,
that
Erato
,
one
of
the
Muses
,
did
preside
over
it
for
its
regulation
.
When
it
is
at
the
top
of
its
perfection
,
there
are
no
praises
which
it
does
not
merit
:
When
it
passes
its
limits
,
it
is
worthy
of
all
the
blame
you
and
I
have
alledg'd
.
Greece
,
as
amorous
as
it
was
of
Lais
,
mock'd
at
those
who
brought
a
Talent
to
this
Courtizan
to
pass
a
Night
with
her
;
but
the
insensibility
of
Zenocrates
was
no
better
handled
by
them
,
when
he
compar'd
her
to
a
piece
of
Wood.
Hence
you
may
collect
,
't
is
not
that
regulated
Love
about
which
we
contend
,
that
Authors
have
said
so
much
ill
of
,
but
that
Love
which
our
excess
depraves
,
and
which
we
are
ready
to
blame
as
well
as
you
.
The
better
to
comprehend
the
difference
between
these
Loves
,
learned
Antiquity
acknowledg'd
two
Venus's
;
one
Celestial
,
the
other
Vulgar
:
The
first
they
call'd
Vrania
,
the
other
Pandeme
,
or
the
Venus
of
the
Common
people
.
And
they
had
each
of
them
their
Love
,
whereof
one
was
govern'd
by
the
Muses
,
the
other
,
according
to
the
testimony
of
a
Greek
Poet
,
durst
not
approach
them
;
the
first
was
free
from
all
violent
Troubles
,
the
other
was
the
Father
of
Disorder
:
that
was
for
Wise
men
;
this
,
for
Fools
.
According
to
this
sense
one
Judiciously
said
,
Wise
men
Love
,
but
others
desire
;
whereby
he
would
signifie
,
that
the
advantage
of
knowing
how
to
love
was
reserv'd
for
the
Vertuous
,
leaving
to
the
Multitude
all
the
Misfortunes
that
follow
irregular
Passions
.
But
what
defect
is
it
,
you
will
here
say
to
me
,
that
makes
the
most
part
of
Mankind
stray
from
this
happy
Love
,
and
which
casts
them
upon
the
furies
and
griefs
of
the
bad
Venus
?
'T
is
not
one
Error
,
I
must
answer
,
but
all
those
which
carry
them
from
the
possession
of
other
good
qualities
.
Yet
in
my
opinion
a
principal
cause
of
the
Disorders
of
those
who
love
is
,
they
imbark
themselves
in
this
Passion
before
they
have
chosen
,
whence
finding
humors
contrary
to
their
own
,
or
unruly
minds
,
their
life
must
pass
in
disquiets
,
or
they
must
abandon
themselves
to
that
disorder
,
which
they
pursu'd
without
any
foresight
.
Doubtless
here
some
one
cannot
forbear
to
alledge
the
half
Loadstone
,
which
Plato
says
we
have
at
our
first
Creation
,
which
is
not
without
trouble
till
't
is
joyn'd
to
the
other
moiety
from
whence
't
was
broken
off
;
for
my
part
,
I
pretend
to
pay
you
with
currant
Money
,
and
to
discourse
more
roundly
than
those
that
nourish
themselves
with
Idea's
.
I
say
then
,
that
when
Esteem
precedes
Love
,
and
that
we
judge
of
the
object
before
we
engage
our
Passion
,
Love
becomes
one
of
the
greatest
advantages
we
have
.
Bertaut
,
according
to
this
sense
,
of
all
the
Errors
we
commit
in
Love
condemns
chiefly
that
of
failing
in
the
election
,
as
the
source
of
all
the
rest
,
when
he
says
,
Car
enfin
la
faute
,
qui
naist
D'aymer
ce
,
qui
n'est
point
aymable
:
Et
de
n'aymer
point
ce
qui
l'est
,
Est
seul
in
amour
condamnable
.
You
see
,
that
to
this
he
adds
another
in
favour
of
the
good
Love
,
and
which
he
thinks
no
less
an
Error
,
it
is
,
not
to
love
that
which
deserves
Love
.
Accommodating
himself
in
this
to
Ovids
Opinion
,
who
in
his
Remedies
,
exhorts
those
who
have
chosen
well
to
continue
with
constancy
,
and
,
finding
their
happiness
consists
in
their
Passion
,
he
advises
them
to
make
good
use
of
their
Joy
,
and
to
spread
all
their
Sails
,
and
says
,
he
looks
upon
them
as
upon
those
,
who
enter'd
victorious
into
the
Capitol
.
Now
you
will
confess
with
me
,
that
the
Common
people
,
for
the
most
part
subject
to
their
first
motions
,
and
almost
incapable
of
reflection
,
have
not
this
good
discerning
,
especially
in
a
thing
where
they
trust
their
Eyes
and
Sense
of
the
matter
,
whence
we
conclude
,
that
't
is
no
wonder
they
fall
into
disasters
,
which
themselves
procure
,
and
that
what
is
said
against
Love
does
not
respect
that
of
Wise
men
,
but
of
the
Vulgar
,
who
corrupt
it
by
their
bad
use
of
it
;
I
cannot
better
conclude
this
discourse
;
nor
leave
with
you
a
more
pleasant
Idea
,
than
the
Opinion
which
the
Spartans
had
,
they
who
profest
a
Vertue
so
rigid
,
which
is
,
That
when
Venus
pass'd
the
River
Eurotas
to
present
her self
to
Licurgus
their
Lawgiver
,
she
left
upon
the
the
Banks
her
Girdle
full
of
Charms
,
her
Glass
,
and
all
her
wanton
Robes
,
which
drew
in
part
the
adoration
of
the
rest
of
the
World
,
and
appear'd
before
this
severe
Man
with
a
Helmet
upon
her
head
,
her
hand
is
charg'd
with
a
Launce
and
Buckler
.
Let
us
apply
this
,
and
we
shall
find
that
Love
,
which
represents
it self
to
Common
men
with
all
those
salse
Beauties
that
deceive
and
ruine
them
,
lays
by
these
pernicious
Inchantments
when
he
approaches
the
Wise
;
or
rather
,
that
't
is
the
Vulgar
who
dress
up
Love
in
this
attire
,
Idolizing
him
because
they
do
not
know
him
,
and
following
him
down
Precipices
;
whereas
Gallant
men
strip
him
to
re-cloath
him
with
Ornaments
proper
for
him
,
and
give
him
that
perfection
,
which
is
the
happiness
of
those
who
know
how
to
love
:
Now
as
those
who
write
to
reform
the
Manners
of
men
,
do
not
aim
at
these
Wise
men
we
speak
of
,
because
they
have
no
need
of
Remonstrances
,
and
make
up
the
least
part
of
Mankind
;
we
need
not
wonder
,
if
those
who
discourse
of
Love
,
consider
it
in
that
deplorable
condition
to
which
't
is
reduc'd
in
the
hands
of
the
People
,
and
if
to
divert
or
cure
this
multitude
,
lost
in
its
own
Folly
,
they
have
studied
to
describe
it
hideous
,
and
capable
of
making
men
miserable
:
and
yet
as
monstrous
a
thing
as
they
have
represented
it
to
be
,
you
shall
see
that
they
still
mixt
some
good
,
yea
,
in
such
a
degree
,
that
often
its
excellent
qualities
surmount
the
bad
.
Whence
we
may
be
bold
to
determine
,
that
Love
is
alwaies
good
in
it self
,
that
we
can
accuse
nothing
but
the
disorders
that
happen
in
it
,
and
that
they
are
these
vulgar
Lovers
who
have
thus
disfigur'd
it
.
And
I
shall
by
and
by
let
you
see
,
that
they
have
handled
that
of
Wise
men
better
.
In
the
mean
time
,
upon
this
foundation
,
which
I
assure
my self
you
will
find
solid
and
reasonable
,
it
will
be
easie
for
me
to
build
the
Answers
I
am
to
make
,
and
to
defend
my self
from
all
those
Examples
wherewith
you
are
arm'd
.
I
will
add
only
two
things
to
this
Discourse
,
whereof
you
shall
grant
me
one
,
unless
you
would
have
me
convince
you
by
your self
,
which
are
,
That
all
the
exaggerations
in
the
discourse
of
Lovers
serve
as
well
to
shew
the
quickness
of
their
wit
,
as
the
force
of
their
passion
:
and
that
there
are
certain
things
in
use
,
which
have
a
good
grace
in
certain
places
,
which
we
should
be
unjust
to
condemn
,
though
they
are
not
currant
amongst
us
,
otherwise
we
must
expect
the
like
;
and
we
should
draw
towards
the
excess
of
presumption
,
if
we
esteem
our selves
enough
to
believe
,
that
our
Laws
and
Customes
ought
to
be
the
rule
of
those
of
Mankind
.
I
come
now
to
a
particular
examination
of
the
rest
of
your
discourse
,
after
you
have
aggravated
Loves
faults
,
the
better
to
make
it
good
,
you
pass
to
Examples
.
Which
at
first
sight
seem
to
have
somewhat
of
weight
in
them
;
for
you
bring
upon
the
Stage
the
great
Atrides
,
the
valiant
Achilles
,
the
stout
Hercules
,
and
at
last
Jupiter
himself
,
which
is
all
that
Fable
hath
of
Noble
.
For
the
first
,
which
are
the
People
of
the
Iliads
,
I
would
joyn
issue
with
you
,
if
instead
of
Agamemnon
and
Achilles
you
would
produce
Vlysses
.
But
I
will
take
these
three
,
the
better
to
confirm
by
them
what
I
have
advanc'd
,
That
there
is
a
great
difference
between
the
Love
of
Common
people
,
and
the
Love
of
Sages
,
that
we
as
much
blame
the
first
,
as
we
approve
the
other
,
and
that
almost
all
your
Examples
lie
against
that
which
we
find
fault
with
.
Horace
,
whose
Censures
are
very
regular
,
when
he
writes
his
opinion
of
Homers
two
Poems
,
notes
well
,
that
the
War
of
the
Greeks
and
Barbarians
contain'd
only
the
Passions
of
mad
Princes
and
foolish
People
.
That
in
the
Camp
and
in
the
Town
all
was
full
of
Sedition
,
Deceit
,
Cruelty
,
Rage
,
and
bruitish
Sensuality
;
and
that
the
Souldiers
suffer'd
through
the
Folly
of
their
Princes
.
Coming
afterwards
to
consider
the
Odysses
,
he
saith
,
that
the
Poet
hath
propos'd
Vlysses
for
a
perfect
and
profitable
Example
of
all
,
that
Prudence
,
Wisdom
,
and
Vertue
can
do
.
So
that
you
need
not
wonder
,
if
Agamemnon
and
his
Rival
had
their
transports
in
Love
;
they
whose
whole
life
was
irregular
,
and
who
,
in
all
they
did
,
never
consulted
their
Reason
,
nor
took
counsel
,
but
of
their
Will
and
their
Power
.
After
this
discourse
of
Horace
,
we
may
rank
their
Examples
among
the
Vulgar
,
and
ought
to
judge
of
them
according
to
Seneca's
Opinion
,
That
Merit
and
not
Dignity
,
separates
us
from
the
crowd
.
If
we
return
to
Vlysses
,
we
may
consider
,
that
in
his
greatest
Misfortunes
he
hath
had
some
little
Loves
,
by
which
the
Poet
seems
to
insinuate
,
that
a
Wise
man
ought
alwaies
to
make
Love
.
But
in
all
his
Loves
we
find
nothing
disorderly
,
nothing
defective
,
nothing
which
does
not
set
him
off
with
some
advantage
,
nothing
in
fine
,
which
were
not
to
be
wish'd
.
And
now
let
us
come
to
Hercules
,
and
without
seeking
to
excuse
him
,
as
we
might
,
let
us
place
him
amongst
this
crowd
,
that
goes
astray
.
And
indeed
all
those
who
have
exalted
his
Strength
,
have
had
but
a
bad
opinion
of
his
mind
;
and
such
as
have
reported
the
great
Services
he
did
the
World
,
have
defam'd
him
as
a
Mad
man
,
and
one
who
fill'd
his
own
House
with
horrible
Spectacles
.
There
remains
only
Jupiter
to
be
considered
by
us
,
and
with
him
,
if
you
please
,
all
the
gods
of
Antiquity
;
if
we
look
upon
them
as
men
,
we
must
say
,
that
they
have
preferr'd
Violence
to
Equity
,
and
abus'd
their
Power
in
their
Passions
.
Or
if
you
will
,
that
we
treat
them
as
Immortal
gods
,
it
must
be
on
condition
,
that
we
remember
Antiquity
,
which
has
learnt
us
their
Loves
,
far
from
blaming
them
,
have
had
them
in
veneration
,
and
that
she
has
made
her
greatest
Mysteries
out
of
the
most
ridiculous
Adventures
;
that
she
hath
rais'd
upon
Altars
and
peopled
Heaven
with
these
Generations
,
and
that
among
the
Egyptians
we
find
stately
rooms
of
Jupiters
Mistresses
.
Thus
,
you
cannot
draw
consequences
disadvantagious
to
us
from
the
Examples
of
these
Men-gods
,
seeing
that
as
Men
we
hold
,
that
in
their
Loves
they
are
capable
of
all
the
weaknesses
of
the
Common
people
;
and
that
as
Gods
,
we
ought
not
to
reduce
the
Religion
of
Pagans
to
our
Reason
,
who
invented
these
Fooleries
to
consecrate
them
.
You
see
now
,
that
you
have
got
little
by
these
Examples
,
that
we
blame
the
Faults
of
the
people
as
well
as
you
,
but
that
they
have
nothing
proportionable
to
that
Love
which
we
preferr
.
And
now
you
lead
in
Plato
and
Aristotle
;
great
Names
,
and
worthy
of
a
great
Respect
;
and
we
are
so
far
from
presuming
to
censure
their
Actions
,
that
on
the
contrary
we
are
ready
to
take
them
for
the
Model
of
our
own
.
They
have
Lov'd
,
say
you
;
we
believe
a
Wise
man
ought
to
do
it
.
But
during
their
Gallantry
they
wrote
Verses
,
and
did
things
unbeseeming
their
Gravity
.
Let
us
see
,
if
in
this
they
did
not
allow
something
to
the
Mode
of
their
Countrey
,
and
if
upon
a
matter
indifferent
in
their
Customes
they
have
not
suffer'd
their
Genius
to
sport
it self
.
You
know
how
far
Greece
once
countenanc'd
Love
:
And
you
know
that
Socrates
,
who
taught
Morality
to
other
men
,
taught
Love
to
Alcibiades
;
and
that
amongst
the
Works
of
Philosophers
in
those
Ages
there
was
still
some
strain
of
Love
.
Now
,
Love
then
was
accompanied
with
Poesie
,
and
the
Muses
were
alwaies
present
at
Greek
Feasts
.
Plutarch
says
,
That
in
his
time
men
did
not
cease
to
Love
,
though
they
made
no
Verses
;
as
if
before
,
these
two
had
been
inseparable
.
But
these
Nine
Sisters
did
not
accompany
Lovers
with
that
severity
,
which
they
assum'd
for
the
Hymns
of
the
gods
;
they
came
attended
by
Bacchus
and
Ceres
,
drest
,
perfum'd
,
and
merry
;
they
came
,
as
we
find
them
in
the
Poetry
of
Sappho
,
Anacreon
,
and
other
Lyricks
,
celebrating
,
amidst
Wine
and
garlands
of
Roses
,
the
Beauty
and
Wit
of
those
they
Lov'd
.
And
this
being
so
,
can
you
think
it
strange
that
these
Philosophers
follow'd
the
fashion
of
their
Countrey
in
Actions
,
which
the
Manners
of
their
Nation
and
Age
not
only
made
lawful
,
but
which
were
so
esteem'd
,
that
the
wise
Solon
,
who
also
made
Love-Verses
,
forbids
Slaves
to
make
Love
,
reserving
this
honour
for
Free
men
?
Are
you
offended
,
that
in
making
Verses
they
serv'd
themselves
of
the
same
Praises
,
and
us'd
the
same
Language
with
other
Poets
,
that
they
employ'd
the
Sun
,
the
Stars
,
and
the
rest
of
the
comparisons
of
Beauty
?
If
you
are
not
yet
satisfied
,
but
will
continue
to
blame
those
transports
of
Love
,
which
Plato
shew'd
for
Dion
,
I
will
answer
,
that
't
was
Rapture
carried
him
to
the
expression
,
but
that
he
did
not
feel
in
himself
all
that
he
said
,
nor
did
think
his
Verse
should
one
day
be
examin'd
by
so
severe
a
Judge
as
your self
.
And
for
the
Kiss
of
Agathon
,
without
examining
Grecian
Manners
,
let
it
satisfie
us
that
the
World
then
found
no
fault
with
it
;
nor
will
we
insist
upon
the
reason
he
had
to
love
Archianassa
,
the
Wisdom
of
that
Woman
charm'd
him
,
and
his
conceit
of
Love
hid
under
wrinckles
,
ought
rather
to
please
than
offend
you
.
For
what
concerns
Zantippe
,
she
it
may
be
you
us'd
lets
us
know
,
you
did
not
believe
't
was
Socrates's
wife
,
and
I
think
you
only
play'd
upon
the
Names
,
or
tempted
the
goodness
of
your
Memory
;
for
,
you
know
,
the
Time
and
other
circumstances
destroy
this
fancy
.
For
the
Sacrifice
of
Aristotlé
,
if
he
held
the
Divinity
of
Ceres
as
veritable
,
I
would
blame
him
exceedingly
for
having
prophan'd
it
;
but
if
he
was
undeceiv'd
,
ought
you
to
wonder
,
if
to
honour
what
he
lov'd
,
he
paid
to
his
Mistress
the
respects
which
the
Vulgar
render'd
to
Idols
,
and
perform'd
a
Ceremony
,
which
not
only
was
indifferent
to
him
,
but
which
he
laugh'd
at
?
You
know
that
he
fled
from
Athens
,
for
fear
lest
the
Magistrates
,
through
the
politick
necessity
of
Government
,
should
use
him
for
matters
of
Religion
,
as
they
did
Socrates
,
and
,
as
he
said
,
lest
he
should
be
forc'd
to
sin
against
Philosophy
.
Having
examin'd
the
Actions
of
these
two
Great
men
,
we
will
not
meddle
with
the
rest
particularly
,
because
you
propose
them
but
in
gross
,
and
our
general
Reasons
may
serve
to
your
general
Accusation
.
Now
,
as
if
you
had
foreseen
,
that
these
Greek
Examples
were
weak
and
could
not
decide
the
affair
,
you
descend
to
our
Knights
errant
,
and
bring
in
Orlando
Furioso
;
but
if
you
will
have
Romances
,
and
consent
we
should
draw
consequences
from
them
,
we
have
absolutely
gain'd
our
Cause
.
But
you
pass
him
and
come
to
Antony
,
Hannibal
,
Sampson
,
David
and
Solomon
;
see
a
troup
of
Enemies
muster'd
against
me
,
but
a
little
patience
will
lay
this
Storm
,
and
in
a
few
words
I
shall
be
able
to
rid
my self
of
these
famous
Names
wherewith
M.
Menage
thinks
to
oppress
me
.
Let
us
begin
with
Antony
;
this
Roman
having
only
judg'd
of
Cleopatra
by
his
eyes
,
and
suffering
himself
to
be
seduc'd
by
those
Flatterers
,
which
ruin'd
him
by
upbraiding
him
with
the
kindnesses
of
this
Queen
,
still
crying
out
to
him
O
homme
ingrat
de
tant
de
doux
baisers
.
This
Roman
,
I
say
,
deserves
to
be
put
amongst
the
Lovers
we
have
blam'd
.
To
make
Love
the
Author
of
Hannibals
losses
,
is
it
not
to
be
ignorant
that
the
Feasts
,
and
Bannia's
and
Delights
of
Capua
ruin'd
him
?
and
if
Love
had
any
part
in
it
,
't
was
that
debauch'd
Love
which
we
condemn
,
and
which
ordinarily
follows
Wine
and
Idleness
.
The
same
may
be
said
to
the
rest
of
your
Examples
.
Now
after
you
have
ended
their
retail
,
you
pass
on
to
a
general
Maxim
,
that
all
Lovers
are
Fools
;
which
you
pretend
to
prove
by
their
Actions
,
and
by
their
Discourse
;
and
to
this
purpose
you
leave
the
firm
Land
to
go
to
an
Island
where
you
assemble
Lovers
.
And
here
your
Learning
furnishes
you
with
a
long
train
of
passages
which
you
cite
from
the
Greeks
,
Latins
,
Spaniards
,
Italian
;
but
truly
you
take
all
these
things
in
the
worst
sense
,
and
't
is
not
fit
we
explain
them
thus
literally
as
you
do
.
They
are
things
,
as
I
said
,
that
Wit
has
invented
,
but
does
not
believe
,
and
a
peculiar
Language
,
which
long
Custome
hath
past
from
hand
to
hand
,
amongst
all
those
who
have
wrote
of
Love
.
Believe
me
,
we
ought
not
to
banish
figures
of
discourse
:
let
us
not
imbroil
our selves
with
Lovers
that
make
Verse
;
let
us
leave
them
their
Pearls
,
Scarlet
,
Roses
,
Lillies
,
the
Aurora
and
the
Sun
,
which
they
have
possest
time
out
of
mind
.
But
whatever
they
say
,
let
us
not
think
they
take
Hair
for
Chains
,
nor
Eyes
for
Archers
.
If
we
find
one
of
the
Ancients
commanding
his
Torch
be
put
out
,
for
the
fire
of
his
Passion
makes
it
light
enough
,
let
us
not
imagine
he
is
perswaded
't
is
so
:
and
if
we
meet
with
one
of
the
Moderns
singing
to
his
Guitarr
,
that
the
Passing-bell
should
be
toll'd
as
often
as
his
Mistress
arms
her self
with
her
two
Suns
,
let
us
for
all
that
believe
,
that
this
Spaniard
fear'd
a
Feaver
or
the
Small
Pox
,
more
than
the
encounter
of
this
Basilisk
.
If
I
should
now
combat
your
Citations
with
others
,
and
seek
Loves
Praises
in
Books
,
the
day
would
fail
before
I
could
finish
half
of
them
.
As
for
those
Lovers
which
you
make
to
act
worse
than
they
speak
,
which
Stab
,
Hang
,
and
Drown
themselves
;
I
can
tell
you
,
that
't
is
out
of
fashion
now
:
But
if
any
of
these
desperate
persons
remain
any where
,
but
upon
our
Theaters
,
I
consent
that
such
depravers
of
honest
Love
be
chain'd
up
,
not
only
in
your
Isle
of
Petrarch
,
but
in
the
inaccessible
Isle
of
Polexander
,
lest
the
mode
should
return
again
.
But
to
answer
what
you
find
more
to
say
against
the
Humors
and
Actions
of
Lovers
;
you
do
ill
to
make
Crimes
of
indifferent
Gallantries
,
of
these
garlands
of
Flowers
with
which
they
crown'd
the
Doors
,
or
those
little
Courtships
which
like
Garments
fall
into
the
modes
of
the
Age
wherein
we
live
,
or
places
where
we
dwell
.
I
could
send
you
again
to
Plutarch
,
who
says
,
That
what
young
Lovers
ordinarily
do
,
as
to
go
in
Masquerade
,
to
Dance
,
to
Sing
,
to
present
Nosegays
,
brings
some
handsom
and
honest
relief
to
their
Passion
:
and
in
one
word
,
for
what
concerns
these
little
things
which
you
disallow
,
Nature
hath
as
great
a
share
in
them
,
as
Love
,
and
we
must
not
lay
to
its
charge
the
defects
of
Humanity
.
Now
there
nothing
remains
but
to
answer
the
description
you
give
of
our
Youth
of
both
Sexes
.
In
which
particular
I
cannot
do
better
than
to
proceed
with
you
as
Homers
Jupiter
,
who
of
two
things
Agamemnon
ask'd
,
granted
him
one
,
and
refus'd
him
one
;
so
I
will
confess
,
there
are
some
of
our
Young
Gentlemen
such
as
you
paint
them
,
and
who
doubtless
are
worthy
of
your
Scorn
:
but
I
not
only
deny
that
't
is
Love
which
betrays
them
to
this
condition
,
but
on
the
contrary
,
I
know
nothing
which
can
redeem
them
from
it
,
but
an
honest
applying
themselves
to
some
Lady
of
Merit
.
The
best
is
,
that
the
number
of
them
is
but
small
,
and
your
Satyr
hits
but
few
.
It
is
true
for
the
Citizen
,
that
the
foolish
Pride
which
descends
to
them
with
their
Inheritance
,
and
those
false
Idea's
which
they
form
of
a
Voluptuous
life
,
corrupt
in
them
the
sense
of
Vertue
.
But
this
disorder
is
not
general
.
In
the
mean
time
you
accuse
Love
for
this
Artificial
handsomness
,
which
you
pretend
effeminates
our
Youth
,
and
alledge
that
such
men
seem
to
seek
other
men
;
to
which
I
reply
nothing
,
but
that
it
were
to
be
wish'd
they
resembled
him
who
was
first
reproach'd
with
it
,
which
you
know
was
Pompey
,
and
you
know
also
,
that
if
it
had
not
been
for
one
man
,
Pompey
had
been
the
first
man
of
the
World
.
As
for
Paris
,
what
he
did
was
without
doubt
of
bad
Example
,
but
I
cannot
think
you
will
impute
his
want
of
Courage
to
his
Beauty
,
for
then
Hector
should
have
been
as
very
a
Poltron
as
he
,
seeing
Homer
calls
him
Hector
ayant
le
visage
tres-beau
.
And
Achilles
should
have
been
the
veriest
Coward
amongst
the
Greeks
,
seeing
,
according
to
the
report
of
the
same
Homer
,
he
was
the
fairest
.
Let
us
add
,
to
reconcile
you
to
mens
Beauty
,
the
request
that
Thales
made
to
the
young
Eumetis
,
that
Thaeles
,
which
you
esteem
wiser
than
all
his
six
Companions
together
,
finding
this
Maid
accommodating
the
Hair
of
Anacharsis
,
whom
the
Barbarians
oppos'd
alone
to
all
the
Sages
of
Greece
,
he
kiss'd
her
and
pray'd
her
to
dress
up
the
Scythian
in
such
a
manner
,
that
he
might
appear
handsom
to
the
Company
that
were
to
Sup
with
Periander
.
You
see
then
,
that
Beauty
is
not
a
fault
in
men
,
and
that
what
Faults
they
have
cannot
be
imputed
to
Love
.
And
are
you
not
of
this
opinion
,
when
in
that
part
of
your
discourse
wherein
you
imploy
our
Gallants
to
debauch
and
pervert
the
Consciences
of
our
Ladies
,
you
blame
them
for
not
being
content
with
a
union
of
hearts
and
wills
?
whereby
you
seem
to
acknowledge
,
as
well
as
I
,
an
honest
Love
which
may
there
be
terminable
,
and
that
those
who
pass
those
bounds
by
Excess
,
corrupt
Love
,
and
are
not
corrupted
by
it
.
'T
is
true
,
answer'd
M.
Menage
,
I
did
merrily
tell
you
that
these
Gentlemen
would
not
stop
there
,
but
I
did
not
say
they
ought
to
do
so
:
and
to
examine
the
matter
better
,
if
you
reduce
your
honest
Love
to
these
Spiritual
affections
,
I
fear
your
defence
is
but
ill
grounded
.
Not
but
that
I
know
,
how
Philosophers
in
all
times
have
boasted
of
this
Union
of
hearts
;
but
I
know
also
,
what
Cicero
observes
,
that
these
People
wrote
magnificently
concerning
things
,
which
they
practis'd
no
better
than
the
Common
people
;
and
the
conceit
of
a
Greek
Poet
pleases
me
well
,
who
saith
,
he
can
no
more
be
perswaded
,
that
a
Lover
does
adore
without
hoping
any
thing
,
than
that
a
Beggar
does
importune
a
Rich
man
,
without
pretending
to
draw
an
Alms
from
him
.
After
all
,
you
know
how
those
Stoick
Philosophers
were
laugh'd
at
in
Atheneus
,
who
said
,
they
had
no
design
but
upon
the
Soul
.
Here
you
will
alledge
what
Plutarch
writes
,
that
the
love
of
the
Body
cannot
be
call'd
Love
;
and
that
Euripides
contends
for
a
Love
that
only
pursues
the
mind
,
and
that
in
fine
,
an
Italian
calls
the
Union
of
hearts
Vltima
speme
di
cortesi
amanti
.
But
after
all
we
must
return
to
Nature
,
which
hath
an
end
more
noble
and
more
necessary
,
that
is
,
the
continuation
of
the
Species
,
and
which
draws
us
to
it
by
the
charms
of
Beauty
;
and
conclude
,
that
in
despite
of
all
these
refin'd
Reasonings
,
that
these
Spiritual
Lovers
dwell
only
in
the
imagination
of
those
who
feign
them
.
In
this
particular
,
says
M.
Trilport
,
I
fall
in
with
the
Opinion
of
M.
Menage
;
and
for
my
part
I
believe
that
it
was
the
opinion
of
the
Ancients
,
but
those
who
have
descanted
upon
their
Love
Treatises
,
have
a
little
too
much
subtiliz'd
their
thoughts
.
For
instance
,
What
would
you
have
us
judge
of
the
Discourse
which
Socrates
holds
in
the
Banquet
of
Zenophon
,
but
that
he
approves
the
Love
where
the
Body
hath
its
part
as
well
as
the
Mind
?
seeing
't
is
said
,
that
the
whole
Company
were
so
touch'd
with
this
Discourse
,
that
those
who
were
Married
hastned
home
to
make
much
of
their
Wives
,
and
all
the
Young
people
swore
to
Marry
forthwith
.
Truly
,
added
I
,
seeing
one
of
the
Ancients
said
,
Beauty
was
the
flower
of
Vertue
,
I
cannot
think
M.
Ch.
will
be
so
unjust
to
forbid
honest
people
loving
this
Flower
;
on
the
contrary
,
I
assure
my self
he
will
judge
of
Loves
as
of
Orange-trees
,
which
are
the
fairer
for
bearing
Flower
and
Fruit
together
;
and
that
he
will
also
believe
,
that
Love
must
be
so
much
the
more
satisfactory
,
by
how
much
the
Lady
we
serve
is
Fair.
I
will
not
meddle
with
you
two
,
replies
M.
Ch.
having
enough
to
do
to
save
a
wholsom
Proposition
from
the
art
and
force
of
M.
Menage
.
Besies
,
I
am
not
at
such
distance
from
your
last
opinion
.
And
if
you
mark'd
my
words
,
I
said
,
Love
might
cofine
it self
to
a
Union
of
hearts
,
not
that
it
ought
;
and
in
my
opinion
it
may
pass
further
,
provided
it
does
not
lead
us
into
disorder
.
That
which
further
keeps
me
from
blaming
your
Opinion
is
,
that
I
hold
the
nature
of
perfect
Love
to
be
such
,
that
it
grows
in
the
possession
of
what
we
love
;
for
a
generous
mind
cannot
receive
new
favours
without
augmenting
its
Passion
.
Thus
when
I
have
granted
you
,
that
Love
tends
to
enjoyment
;
I
must
add
at
the
same
time
,
that
the
Good
tend
to
it
by
good
ways
of
Honour
,
Vertue
and
fair
qualities
,
which
render
a
man
lovely
;
and
that
we
endeavour
to
acquire
them
when
we
love
after
this
manner
.
On
the
contrary
,
those
who
manage
their
passion
ill
,
and
who
love
without
choice
,
imploy
evil
means
;
whence
it
happens
,
that
their
intreagues
being
ill
conceiv'd
and
ill
conducted
,
are
not
lasting
,
end
with
Scandal
,
and
during
their
course
are
travers'd
with
continual
disorders
.
Confess
now
,
that
in
this
Chapter
you
find
me
less
severe
than
you
expected
.
We
find
you
,
says
M.
Trilport
,
in
this
,
as
in
all
the
rest
of
your
Sentiments
,
very
reasonable
.
And
I
,
adds
M.
M.
am
content
to
agree
with
you
here
;
and
in
the
mean
time
,
replies
M.
Ch.
this
will
not
favour
your
Opinion
;
for
though
I
confess
to
you
,
that
the
Body
makes
up
part
of
the
Object
which
Love
propounds
to
it self
,
this
will
not
say
that
Love
is
irregular
,
as
you
think
,
but
on
the
contrary
renders
it
more
accomplish'd
,
and
the
possession
of
Beauty
is
a
Cord
that
binds
it
more
strongly
and
more
sweetly
;
but
this
is
when
we
use
it
well
,
and
that
we
choose
before
we
love
.
Let
us
come
now
to
an
apology
for
the
Ladies
,
which
you
handle
after
a
strange
rate
.
You
will
tell
me
,
you
mean
only
the
Gossips
;
if
so
,
we
are
agreed
,
for
your
discourse
does
not
touch
me
;
but
this
Invective
was
too
general
,
and
't
is
not
to
be
thought
,
that
a
man
who
hath
attack'd
the
reputation
of
Penelope
and
Lucrece
,
aims
only
at
those
who
make
profession
of
being
fair
,
and
lay
out
for
a
great
many
Servants
.
However
,
I
am
willing
to
believe
,
that
in
this
you
have
imitated
Euripides
,
who
blam'd
upon
the
Theater
the
Sex
he
ador'd
in
private
,
and
that
you
have
not
spoken
ill
of
them
because
you
believ'd
it
,
or
because
you
have
been
wronged
by
them
,
and
the
design
of
well
defending
your
Paradox
hath
made
you
betray
your
Conscience
;
for
I
know
no
man
respects
or
esteems
Ladies
more
than
you
,
to
say
nothing
of
your
Loves
,
in
which
you
pass
for
the
true
pastor
fido
.
But
this
Consideration
shall
not
stop
me
from
assaulting
your
discourse
;
and
as
you
have
appear'd
to
us
a
great
Enemy
of
Ladies
,
I
find
my self
obliged
to
defend
them
from
your
accusation
;
which
I
will
make
appear
to
you
is
more
ingenious
than
true
.
In
effect
,
't
is
easie
to
sustain
their
Cause
;
if
't
were
unjust
,
their
Beauty
only
would
suffice
to
plead
it
.
You
must
remember
the
Judges
of
Greece
,
and
the
Courtizan
Phrine
;
this
Woman
was
accus'd
;
Hyperides
defended
her
;
he
was
a
famous
Oratour
,
and
one
from
whom
might
be
expected
all
the
succours
of
Eloquence
;
but
the
cause
being
very
foul
,
and
the
Judges
severe
,
his
Rhetorick
was
too
weak
,
and
the
matter
inclin'd
towards
a
hard
Sentence
:
Now
to
what
had
this
Advocate
recourse
in
this
desperate
case
?
to
an
infallible
remedy
,
to
the
Beauty
of
Phrine
;
he
tears
the
Robe
of
this
Criminal
,
and
lets
them
see
so
fair
a
person
,
that
making
Conscience
of
condemning
her
,
they
sent
her
away
discharged
of
her
Accusation
;
whence
Horace
learn'd
,
Segnius
irritant
animos
demissa
per
aures
,
Quàm
quae
sunt
oculis
subjecia
sidelibus
.
I
assure
my self
,
if
I
should
do
so
,
I
should
not
find
you
more
difficult
than
these
Reverend
Judges
;
but
as
I
do
not
speak
of
Courtizans
or
Gossips
,
so
I
have
no
need
of
using
violent
Remedies
,
and
't
will
be
enough
for
me
to
perswade
your
Reason
,
and
not
drag
it
along
by
force
.
I
speak
for
Ladies
which
we
call
solid
,
whose
Sentiments
are
elevate
and
noble
;
in
a
word
,
for
Ladies
which
are
not
of
your
fashion
.
But
yet
,
Ladies
that
can
suffer
Courtship
;
and
we
believe
't
is
not
misbecoming
them
to
make
illustrious
Slaves
:
and
we
dare
not
be
more
severe
than
Plutarch
,
who
advises
honest
Women
to
sacrifice
to
Love
.
It
rests
we
enquire
,
whether
there
are
many
such
to
be
found
,
or
only
those
which
you
have
mention'd
.
But
this
Sex
hath
not
been
so
unhappy
as
you
pretend
.
All
Ages
have
had
illustrious
Women
as
well
as
Men
,
and
they
have
shar'd
with
us
in
all
good
qualities
.
I
will
not
prove
their
Vertues
to
you
by
Examples
,
which
you
may
doubt
of
;
I
will
not
tell
you
,
that
during
the
course
of
Seven
hundred
years
there
was
not
one
married
in
the
Isle
of
Chio
,
which
was
not
found
a
Virgin
;
I
will
not
cite
the
Amazons
which
fought
against
Hercules
:
in
the
humor
you
are
in
you
will
hold
the
first
for
Apocryphal
,
and
will
say
,
the
last
is
not
very
certain
.
I
only
say
,
that
in
all
Nations
Women
have
perform'd
in
the
general
,
and
in
the
particular
,
quantity
of
remarkable
Actions
both
for
Policy
and
War
.
History
hath
plac'd
a
great
many
Queens
at
the
head
of
Empires
and
Monarchies
:
if
we
would
have
marks
of
their
Courage
,
Wit
,
and
Vertue
,
without
seeking
amongst
the
Modern
Indians
,
or
our
Ancient
Gauls
,
the
glorious
paleness
which
we
see
in
the
face
of
Seneca's
Wife
,
tells
us
,
she
will
die
with
her
Husband
.
Arria
,
by
giving
her self
a
deadly
wound
,
teaches
us
better
than
Petus
to
despise
this
life
.
Portia
will
perish
generously
after
Brutus
.
And
when
we
see
Sophronia
and
Olindo
inviron'd
with
flames
,
we
cry
out
O
spectacolo
grande
oue
à
tenzone
,
Sono
amore
e
magnanimo
virtute
.
But
we
shall
be
surpriz'd
with
a
profound
astonishment
,
seeing
Laena
dumb-in
the
midst
of
Torments
,
and
as
little
apt
to
reveal
the
Complices
in
the
Conspiracy
of
Harmodius
and
Aristogiton
(
who
,
as
Plutarch
speaks
,
had
drank
in
the
same
Cup
of
Love
with
her
)
as
that
Lioness
of
Brass
could
have
been
,
which
the
Athenians
would
have
erected
without
a
Tongue
,
in
favour
of
the
silence
of
this
woman
.
If
we
would
have
qualities
more
peaceable
,
Greece
,
which
vaunts
of
Nine
Lyrick
Poets
,
boasts
also
of
Nine
Ladies
excellent
in
this
kind
of
Poetry
:
and
Pindar
,
the
Prince
of
these
Nine
famous
Poets
,
was
the
Scholar
of
Myrtis
,
one
of
those
Ladies
,
and
was
not
asham'd
to
be
corrected
by
Corinna
,
who
was
another
of
them
;
nor
five
times
to
be
solemnly
overcome
by
her
.
If
we
go
amongst
the
Philosophers
,
Aspatia
can
boast
she
did
share
with
Alcibiades
the
Cares
and
the
Love
of
Socrates
,
and
we
shall
find
Leontia
in
the
Gardens
of
Epicurus
.
But
if
we
descend
to
our
Age
and
our
Court
,
we
shall
find
as
in
a
crowd
these
wonders
,
which
were
but
thinly
scatter'd
in
the
past
;
and
we
shall
confess
with
reason
,
that
these
illustrious
persons
are
the
honour
of
our
Nation
,
and
have
their
minds
no
less
perfect
than
their
faces
.
You
know
the
Ladies
I
speak
of
as
well
as
I
,
and
what
honour
I
owe
to
this
great
Princess
;
you
often
enter
her
Palaces
,
which
are
fam'd
for
celebrious
Schools
,
where
utmost
Politeness
is
learnt
:
and
I
appeal
from
you
to
your self
,
whether
there
men
are
judg'd
of
by
their
outsides
or
the
advantages
of
Fortune
.
Believe
me
,
these
are
the
Examples
you
ought
to
have
produc'd
,
and
not
have
troubled
your self
to
shake
the
Reputation
of
Penelope
and
Lucrece
,
too
well
establish'd
by
the
general
opinion
and
consent
of
so
many
Ages
,
to
depend
upon
a
Jest
,
a
Tradition
,
or
a
Manuscript
.
That
which
remains
to
be
prov'd
is
,
that
there
does
redound
very
great
advantages
to
those
who
are
happy
enough
to
be
of
the
number
of
our
Lovers
,
and
who
have
their
Souls
rais'd
to
that
point
,
that
they
dare
aspire
to
please
excellent
persons
of
the
other
Sex
;
but
the
heat
being
over
,
and
it
being
almost
time
to
walk
abroad
,
I
must
end
,
for
I
make
conscience
of
hindring
you
from
a
walk
in
an
Evening
that
prepares
it self
to
be
very
fresh
and
fair
.
M.
Trilport
and
my self
,
and
M.
Menage
,
who
took
a
singular
pleasure
in
hearkning
to
M.
Gh.
and
to
whom
the
matter
was
not
so
material
,
that
he
should
care
much
though
he
chang'd
an
opinion
,
which
he
had
taken
up
only
for
Discourse
fake
;
when
,
I
say
,
we
had
all
conjur'd
him
not
to
make
such
haste
,
I
have
been
too
long
,
replied
M.
Chappelein
,
and
I
was
not
resolv'd
to
spend
any
more
time
in
teaching
you
a
Doctrine
which
you
know
as
well
as
I
;
however
,
seeing
I
am
engag'd
,
I
will
add
a
few
words
.
No
body
replying
,
he
continued
in
this
manner
:
I
have
always
esteem'd
the
Opinion
of
Empedocles
,
who
calls
Love
the
principle
of
all
good
;
and
indeed
,
when
we
exactly
examine
mens
lives
,
it
does
seem
to
be
the
source
and
original
of
whatever
passes
well
.
For
whether
we
consider
the
policies
of
Towns
and
business
of
Peace
,
or
whether
we
regard
the
Wars
of
Nations
,
which
have
been
the
Theaters
of
Heroick
Vertue
,
both
publick
employments
and
private
retreats
owe
to
Love
what
they
have
of
fair
,
sweet
,
and
honest
.
To
begin
with
War
;
Plutarch
takes
notice
of
divers
Nations
,
who
were
subject
to
Love
and
extreamly
Warlike
:
he
reckons
up
several
Great
men
addicted
to
Love
.
We
may
say
,
that
this
divinity
presides
no
less
in
Combats
than
in
the
calms
of
Peace
;
at
least
,
the
Lacedemonians
Sacrificed
to
him
in
the
head
of
their
Troops
,
when
they
were
ready
to
begin
a
fight
.
The
Candiots
did
the
same
,
only
with
this
difference
,
that
they
drew
out
the
fairest
men
from
among
their
ranks
to
offer
this
Sacrifice
.
There
have
been
Nations
who
to
assure
themselves
of
Victory
,
would
have
the
persons
lov'd
Spectators
of
the
actions
of
their
Lovers
in
sight
.
But
to
say
all
,
Did
Antiquity
ever
see
any
thing
more
gallant
than
that
Cohort
of
Thebaus
,
which
they
call'd
Sacred
,
and
which
was
compos'd
of
Lovers
?
And
do
not
you
fancy
the
criticism
of
Pamenes
,
who
censures
the
Sage
Nestor
for
having
in
Homer
put
the
Greeks
in
Battel
by
Nations
,
whereas
he
ought
to
have
put
all
the
Lovers
by
themselves
?
I
willingly
pick
out
Greek
Examples
,
because
we
must
confess
,
that
this
Nation
knew
and
esteem'd
Love
better
than
any
other
;
but
yet
I
know
not
any
which
has
not
had
its
brave
Lovers
,
or
where
Valour
does
not
owe
much
to
Love
.
To
this
purpose
,
I
remember
that
amongst
other
Romances
which
were
brought
me
once
from
Spain
,
one
of
the
Songs
began
Muy
rebuelto
anda
Jaen
;
this
Romance
speaks
of
a
sally
the
Christians
made
upon
the
Moors
:
the
Christians
might
be
twelve
or
fifteen
hundred
,
all
Gentlemen
of
Honour
and
Lovers
in
earnest
,
these
are
the
words
of
the
Song
,
or
rather
of
the
History
,
for
these
Songs
serv'd
then
for
Chronicles
.
Now
the
Poet
,
forgetting
Religion
and
Countrey
,
for
which
the
most
fearful
become
valiant
,
attributes
the
Victory
the
Spaniards
got
only
to
Love
.
They
sallied
out
,
says
he
,
when
they
had
first
solemnly
sworn
upon
their
Mistresses
hands
,
not
to
return
to
Jaen
without
a
Captive
Moor
,
and
those
who
had
Mistresses
exceeding
fair
,
engag'd
for
four
Prisoners
.
If
from
these
general
Actions
we
should
pass
to
particular
ones
,
we
might
judge
that
Plato
had
good
reason
to
call
Love
the
General
undertaker
,
and
that
he
believed
Love
gave
Courage
,
seeing
the
only
recompence
he
appoints
for
the
Conquerours
after
a
fight
,
is
the
pleasure
of
choosing
amongst
the
fairest
persons
her
he
best
likes
,
and
to
kiss
her
.
In
this
your
Perceforests
hath
imitated
him
,
and
the
prize
in
one
of
his
famons
Tournaments
is
to
kiss
the
fairest
Woman
in
Great
Britain
.
Now
these
Tournaments
,
which
during
the
time
of
Peace
were
little
Images
of
War
,
never
had
other
object
but
the
Love
of
Ladies
;
and
as
they
past
into
Europe
with
the
Moors
,
so
among
the
Moors
't
was
Love
invented
them
:
I
will
end
this
after
I
have
let
you
know
,
that
Ferdinand
and
Isabel
could
not
conquer
the
Kingdom
of
Granada
till
the
King
Chico
had
banish'd
the
Abencerages
,
that
is
to
say
,
Love
;
the
Knights
of
this
Race
being
the
greatest
Courtiers
,
and
the
most
amorous
of
all
the
Africans
.
Yea
,
Fame
had
rais'd
them
to
such
a
high
esteem
for
gallantry
,
that
't
was
said
,
never
any
Abencerage
had
serv'd
Lady
of
Granada
without
being
favour'd
by
her
,
and
that
never
Lady
was
thought
worthy
of
the
Name
,
if
she
had
not
an
Abencerage
to
be
her
Servant
.
Thus
much
is
said
by
the
Moor
Abinderass
in
the
Diana
of
Montmajor
;
where
the
History
of
this
Lover
seems
to
me
so
lively
handled
,
that
if
it
were
separate
from
the
body
of
the
Romance
,
what
Greece
hath
best
in
this
kind
would
have
no
other
advantage
over
this
small
Adventure
,
than
that
of
Antiquity
.
And
now
having
seen
Love
cover'd
in
the
arms
of
Mars
,
valiant
and
victorious
;
let
us
place
him
in
a
condition
a
little
more
tranquill
,
in
calms
and
peace
.
Zeno
the
Stoick
teacheth
us
,
that
in
this
estate
he
hath
care
of
things
which
concern
the
welfare
of
the
Common-wealth
,
and
that
he
is
the
god
of
Liberty
,
Friendship
and
Concord
:
And
we
read
in
Atheneus
,
that
he
was
much
honoured
in
the
Alliances
of
Nations
.
After
this
,
if
we
consider
the
good
manners
of
a
City
,
the
Athenians
,
the
most
polish'd
men
in
the
World
,
will
shew
us
in
the
Academy
dedicated
to
Minerva
,
the
Statue
of
Love
with
that
of
this
goddess
.
If
we
seek
Opinions
more
regular
than
the
Common
one
and
will
not
be
satisfied
but
with
those
of
Philosophers
,
Atheneus
will
inform
us
,
that
in
the
place
where
they
did
their
Exercises
was
rais'd
the
Statues
of
Mercury
,
Hercules
and
Cupid
;
to
shew
that
Eloquence
and
Strength
are
unprofitable
,
unless
Love
guides
them
.
If
we
have
a
mind
to
pass
a
little
amidst
honest
divertisments
,
Euripides
will
tell
us
,
that
't
is
Love
which
hath
bestow'd
Verse
and
Musick
upon
us
.
And
an
Italian
will
confirm
you
in
this
opinion
,
Amor
primo
truovò
le
rime
e
versi
,
E
suoni
e
canti
,
e
ogni
melodia
.
But
not
to
do
all
by
Authority
,
but
after
these
convincing
Testimonies
to
give
some
place
to
Reason
,
I
ask
of
you
if
it
be
not
true
,
that
Man
being
an
animal
born
to
live
in
Society
,
amidst
this
great
diversity
of
humors
which
we
behold
the
most
accommodating
are
the
best
?
You
will
grant
me
this
without
doubt
;
but
this
Complacency
is
nothing
else
but
a
design
to
please
,
and
that
we
have
not
this
design
without
some
object
,
I
do
not
suspect
you
will
deny
me
.
In
the
mean
time
,
usually
Young
people
do
not
take
up
this
design
to
please
,
but
in
order
to
render
themselves
agreeable
to
Women
,
that
they
may
return
them
their
Love
;
for
,
that
neither
Ambition
nor
Avarice
can
carry
them
to
this
,
I
believe
you
will
also
confess
.
Then
at
the
same
time
grant
me
,
that
by
this
Love
is
bred
in
mens
minds
the
quality
which
is
most
necessary
to
Civil
life
,
which
is
,
to
know
perfectly
,
and
without
trouble
to
accommodate
ones
self
to
the
Manners
and
Sentiments
of
others
.
And
without
doubt
,
this
sweetness
of
Spirit
is
so
much
an
effect
of
Love
,
that
the
Thebans
did
not
ordain
that
Love
should
be
practis'd
publickly
amongst
them
,
but
with
design
to
adulce
and
bend
their
Manners
,
which
were
too
gross
and
rude
.
But
Love
not
only
renders
us
capable
of
acting
civilly
,
and
of
being
esteem'd
,
it
not
only
gives
us
good
qualities
,
but
corrects
our
bad
;
and
Plutarch
compares
it
divinely
to
the
Dictator
,
whose
power
suspended
the
functions
of
all
the
Magistrates
of
the
Roman
Common-wealth
,
whereby
he
would
signifie
,
that
all
our
other
Passions
do
not
appear
when
this
possesses
us
.
The
Polyphemus
of
the
Poets
,
not
only
forgot
his
barbarism
and
cruelty
when
he
fell
in
Love
,
but
,
as
one
of
the
Ancient
says
,
he
went
so
far
as
to
turn
gallant
,
and
comforted
himself
in
his
love
with
singing
.
Pluto
himself
,
this
inexorable
God
Et
ces
barbares
coeurs
que
jamais
l'amitiè
,
Ni
les
pleurs
des
humains
n'esmeurment
à
pitiè
.
gave
up
Euridice
to
the
love
of
Orpheus
;
Circes
left
her
Wichcrasts
for
Vlysses
,
with
whom
she
treated
sincerely
and
faithfully
.
Did
not
Love
make
an
able
man
of
an
Ideot
in
Baccace
,
who
represents
his
Cimon
in
his
nature
so
much
a
Block
,
that
to
increase
the
number
of
them
he
voluntarily
left
the
City
to
dwell
in
Woods
;
And
because
likeness
breeds
love
,
he
resolv'd
to
seek
no
Friendship
but
that
of
Animals
;
and
as
a
good
Politian
he
imitated
them
so
well
,
that
he
forgot
humane
Speech
,
retaining
only
a
confused
and
indistinct
sound
,
which
signified
nothing
but
the
bestiality
of
Cimon
.
One
day
,
whether
by
chance
or
destiny
,
he
found
a
beauteous
young
Lady
sleeping
under
the
Trees
;
he
thought
he
saw
the
Sun
lying
in
the
shade
;
she
wrought
in
him
a
Miracle
contrary
to
that
of
Medusa's
Head
,
and
of
a
Stone
he
became
a
man
.
He
began
to
use
that
Reason
which
at
first
he
did
not
know
,
and
to
himself
discours'd
excellently
well
of
Beauty
:
it
seem'd
that
Cupid
by
the
wound
in
his
heart
let
in
vertue
into
his
Soul
;
he
beheld
that
face
as
an
excellent
book
,
and
in
an
instant
became
a
Master
in
Loves
School
;
the
brightness
of
those
eyes
though
shut
,
did
shoot
light
into
his
eclipsed
understanding
,
and
in
a
short
time
he
prov'd
an
excellent
Philosopher
,
and
a
gallant
Courtier
.
Does
not
this
bring
us
to
the
Italian
Proverb
?
Amor
puo
far
gentil
un
cuor
villano
.
If
these
Allegorical
instructions
are
not
enough
,
History
will
teach
us
,
that
the
Courtizan
Lais
became
staid
and
constant
when
she
fell
in
love
with
Hippolochus
.
We
say
further
,
that
Love
can
make
Prodigies
in
Arts
and
Sciences
;
and
we
may
call
to
mind
,
that
at
Antwerp
they
admire
to
this
day
the
famous
Picture
of
Quintin
,
whom
this
god
in
one
year
,
of
a
Smith
which
he
was
before
,
made
the
best
Painter
of
his
Age.
If
the
noblest
Sentiments
are
inspir'd
by
Love
;
if
't
is
he
that
corrects
our
defects
;
if
whatever
is
handsom
in
Civil
life
and
in
Military
actions
proceeds
from
this
noble
Passion
,
ought
we
not
with
Euripides
,
pray
the
gods
to
preserve
us
from
having
to
do
with
those
who
are
not
initiated
into
these
Holy
Mysteries
,
who
this
Poet
calls
fierce
and
rustick
Spirits
;
and
have
we
not
good
reason
to
advise
Young
people
not
to
shun
Love
,
but
to
use
it
well
?
and
this
I
think
is
enough
to
establish
what
the
Italian
lays
down
as
an
assured
Maxim
,
Tutto
e
perduto
il
tempo
che
ci
accanza
,
Se
in
amar
non
si
spende
.
He
had
scarce
ended
these
words
,
when
,
&c.
WALSTEINS
Conspiracy
.
THE
Conspiracy
of
Walstein
was
certainly
one
of
the
most
famous
Enterprizes
of
the
last
Age
;
and
therefore
such
as
are
pleas'd
with
the
recital
of
great
Actions
,
and
who
would
profit
themselves
of
the
Vices
or
Vertues
of
Famous
men
,
will
like
the
History
.
'T
is
this
perhaps
hath
engag'd
many
Learned
men
to
give
us
divers
relations
,
which
I
should
esteem
perfect
,
if
they
were
not
interessed
.
But
certainly
the
Animosities
of
contrary
sides
in
which
most
Authors
are
found
,
slides
insensibly
into
their
Writings
,
and
Invectives
or
Flatteries
fill
up
the
room
of
Truth
.
Some
have
accus'd
the
Emperour
of
Cruelty
;
many
prais'd
his
Prudence
and
Justice
.
These
have
render'd
Walstein
a
Monster
;
those
,
a
Hero
:
whilst
love
to
the
Court
of
Vienna
,
hatred
to
the
House
of
Austria
;
a
design
to
please
or
to
offend
,
hath
depriv'd
them
of
the
freedom
of
speaking
.
I
,
not
being
preoccupied
with
any
of
these
Considerations
,
and
finding
my self
at
equal
distance
from
hope
and
fear
,
esteem
it
no
offence
against
modesty
,
if
,
after
so
many
Famous
men
,
I
also
write
a
Relation
of
this
Conspiracy
.
But
we
must
first
speak
of
the
manners
and
power
of
this
Man
.
Albert
Walstein
was
of
a
great
and
bold
Spirit
,
but
unquiet
and
enemy
of
Repose
;
tall
and
strong
of
Body
;
his
Face
rather
majestick
than
pleasant
;
he
was
naturally
very
Temperate
,
sleeping
little
,
alwaies
in
action
;
supporting
easily
Cold
and
Hunger
;
flying
Pleasures
,
and
surmounting
the
incommodities
of
the
Gout
and
Age
,
by
temperance
and
exercise
;
speaking
little
,
thinking
much
;
writing
all
his
Affairs
himself
;
valiant
and
judicious
in
War
;
dextrous
in
raising
and
sustaining
Armies
;
severe
in
punishing
,
prodigal
in
recompensing
,
but
with
choice
and
design
;
always
firm
against
evil
Fortune
;
civil
in
occasion
,
otherwise
proud
and
fierce
;
immeasurably
ambitious
;
envious
of
others
Fame
,
jealous
of
his
own
;
implacable
in
his
hatred
,
cruel
in
his
revenge
;
apt
to
kindle
;
a
friend
of
Magnificence
,
Ostentation
,
and
Novelty
;
extravagant
in
appearance
,
but
doing
nothing
without
design
;
never
wanting
the
Publick
good
for
pretext
,
though
he
made
all
serve
to
the
growth
of
his
Fortune
;
despising
Religion
,
which
he
kept
in
service
of
his
Policy
.
Extreamly
artificial
,
chiefly
in
appearing
disinteress'd
,
curious
and
clear-sighted
in
the
designs
of
others
,
most
advised
in
the
conduct
of
his
own
;
above
all
,
dextrous
in
hiding
them
;
and
was
by
so
much
the
more
impenetrable
,
as
he
affected
in
publick
candour
and
liberty
,
blaming
in
others
that
dissimulation
whereof
he
serv'd
himself
on
all
occasions
.
This
Man
,
having
studied
carefully
the
Maxims
and
Conduct
of
such
,
who
from
a
private
condition
had
arriv'd
at
Sovereignty
,
was
always
fill'd
with
thoughts
and
elevated
hopes
,
despising
such
as
contented
themselves
with
a
Mediocrity
.
In
what
estate
soever
Fortune
placed
him
,
he
dreamt
always
of
mending
it
:
and
at
last
being
come
to
that
point
of
Greatness
,
that
there
was
nothing
but
Crowns
above
him
,
he
had
the
courage
to
think
of
usurping
that
of
Behemia
.
And
though
he
knew
the
design
full
of
peril
and
perfidiousness
,
he
despis'd
the
danger
which
he
had
always
surmounted
,
and
thought
all
actions
honest
which
tended
to
Empire
.
'T
is
true
,
that
Ambition
,
conjuncture
of
Affairs
,
and
the
accidents
of
his
Fortune
,
representing
the
Enterprize
just
and
facile
,
push'd
him
upon
the
execution
.
But
it
is
necessary
,
before
we
begin
the
Recital
,
to
reflect
upon
his
Life
to
the
time
of
his
Revolt
,
that
we
may
be
the
better
inform'd
,
what
it
was
that
intic'd
him
to
this
Conspiracy
,
and
the
means
that
he
used
.
They
who
have
said
Fortune
rais'd
Walstein
from
the
Plough
,
and
that
his
Birth
was
obscure
,
err'd
through
Malice
or
Ignorance
:
for
his
Father
was
a
Baron
of
Bohemia
;
that
is
,
one
of
the
greatest
Lords
of
that
Kingdom
,
in
which
there
are
neither
Dukes
nor
Marquesses
.
The
Barons
being
so
jealous
of
their
Dignity
,
that
if
a
stranger
Duke
would
be
naturaliz'd
Bohemian
,
they
would
oblige
him
to
quit
his
Title
,
and
to
content
himself
with
theirs
.
Besides
,
they
measuring
the
greatness
of
Families
by
their
Antiquity
,
some
Authors
have
reckon'd
that
of
Walstein
among
the
chief
,
though
not
the
richest
.
His
Father
brought
him
up
in
the
Protestant
Religion
,
and
would
have
had
him
apply
himself
to
Letters
;
but
his
turbulent
Spirit
not
being
proper
for
the
repose
of
the
Muses
,
his
Masters
drove
him
from
their
Schools
,
where
,
instead
of
studying
,
he
made
leagues
and
parties
,
and
took
off
his
Companions
from
their
obedience
and
discipline
.
Such
force
hath
Nature
in
that
age
,
when
it
can
neither
be
hid
by
dissimulation
,
nor
corrected
by
prudence
.
By
this
his
Parents
saw
themselves
constrain'd
to
send
him
to
Court
sooner
than
they
intended
;
so
they
present
him
Page
to
the
Marquess
of
Burgh
,
Son
to
the
Arch-Duke
Ferdinand
of
Inspurch
.
Whilst
he
remained
there
,
falling
from
a
high
Window
without
hurting
himself
,
he
turn'd
Catholick
:
and
fancying
,
that
after
this
happy
scape
he
was
reserv'd
for
something
extraordinary
,
he
quits
his
Master
with
intent
to
Travel
;
thereby
to
render
himself
worthy
of
that
,
which
his
destiny
seem'd
to
promise
him
.
He
sees
Germany
,
England
and
France
,
accommodating
himself
to
the
manners
and
habits
of
those
Countries
;
noting
their
Scituations
,
Laws
and
Forces
,
taking
from
each
what
he
liked
best
,
and
at
last
sits
down
at
Padua
,
having
curiously
visited
the
rest
of
Italy
.
Here
it
was
that
he
repented
his
neglect
of
Learning
(
absolutely
necessary
to
a
Great
man
)
and
render'd
himself
capable
of
Arts
,
if
not
knowing
in
them
.
Particularly
he
falls
upon
the
study
of
Politicks
and
Astrology
,
which
suited
his
genius
and
his
designs
:
pleasing
himself
infinitely
with
those
Maxims
which
are
distasted
in
publick
by
those
who
practice
them
in
private
;
fancying
for
himself
immoderate
Grandeurs
,
lodg'd
in
the
Stars
,
which
he
did
not
forbear
to
hope
for
,
though
his
Reason
seem'd
to
set
them
at
an
infinite
distance
.
But
partly
awaking
from
this
dream
,
his
mind
stuff'd
with
vast
pretentions
,
perceiving
that
with
his
small
Forces
't
was
not
possible
for
him
to
compass
his
designs
,
resolves
to
accommodate
his
means
to
his
ends
by
seeking
in
Marriage
a
rich
and
noble
Lady
;
and
gain'd
,
by
his
excellent
address
,
so
much
on
her
affections
,
that
she
preferr'd
him
to
several
Great
persons
,
who
were
ingaged
before
him
.
And
after
she
was
married
,
continued
so
desperately
amorous
and
jealous
,
that
she
had
almost
kill'd
him
by
mixing
with
his
drink
one
of
those
Philters
,
which
instead
of
winning
the
mind
wounds
it
;
making
strange
havock
in
the
body
that
suffers
its
violences
.
A
Poyson
by
so
much
the
more
inevitable
,
as
it
stands
for
a
mark
of
affection
with
those
that
give
it
.
He
was
scarce
recovered
when
his
Wife
dies
without
Children
,
leaving
him
her
Heir
and
Master
of
a
great
Estate
.
Soon
after
,
the
War
of
the
Arch-Duke
Ferdinand
with
the
Venetians
breaking
out
in
Friol
,
he
imbrac'd
the
occasion
he
had
so
often
wish'd
,
and
thought
so
necessary
for
him
:
believing
,
that
to
able
men
,
the
way
of
Arms
was
the
most
certain
and
shortest
to
arrive
at
Greatness
;
whereas
Peace
might
enrich
many
,
but
rais'd
few
:
so
levying
at
his
own
charge
three
hundred
Horse
well
appointed
,
he
offer'd
his
own
and
their
Service
to
the
Duke
at
the
Siege
of
Gradisk
:
where
,
by
his
liberality
to
his
Officers
,
and
readiness
to
succour
his
Souldiers
in
their
necessities
;
by
his
conduct
in
War
;
often
fortunate
,
alwaies
remarkable
,
doing
actions
extraordinary
;
praising
other
mens
,
silent
in
his
own
;
acting
with
vigilance
and
care
;
keeping
his
Troops
in
abundance
,
when
the
whole
Army
wanted
;
he
put
himself
in
the
reputation
of
one
,
that
amongst
many
good
qualities
had
some
extraordinary
,
and
gain'd
,
together
with
the
friendship
of
Ferdinand
,
the
charge
of
Colonel
over
the
Moravia
Forces
.
The
Troubles
of
Bohemia
following
,
and
the
Nobility
of
that
Kingdom
conspiring
against
the
Emperour
,
Walstein
continued
faithful
,
though
the
Rebels
solicited
him
by
offers
of
chief
employment
,
and
by
the
hopes
and
recompences
of
the
War
.
But
he
pretending
no
less
from
the
Emperour
,
and
as
yet
preferring
things
certain
and
honest
to
things
doubtful
and
tumultuary
,
after
having
endeavour'd
in
vain
to
repress
the
Sedition
of
Prague
,
when
he
saw
that
he
could
not
keep
his
Moldavian
Troops
in
their
obedience
,
and
that
his
Countreymen
had
confiscated
his
Estate
,
he
got
as
much
of
the
Publick
Treasure
as
he
could
,
and
retir'd
to
Vienna
,
where
all
was
squeez'd
from
him
except
twelve
Thousand
Crowns
,
which
he
had
conveyed
away
,
and
with
which
he
rais'd
a
Thousand
light
Horse
.
But
here
I
must
not
omit
one
passage
,
which
shew'd
the
particular
care
that
Fortune
took
of
this
man
;
which
is
,
that
at
the
first
of
these
Troubles
,
and
before
the
Rebels
had
begun
the
War
,
the
chief
of
the
party
enter'd
in
Arms
,
and
without
leave
into
the
privy
Chamber
of
the
Emperour
;
where
they
made
their
propositions
with
such
insolence
,
that
one
of
them
,
his
hand
on
his
Sword
,
durst
say
,
't
was
that
should
satisfie
their
demands
,
if
denied
.
In
this
fear
and
surprize
of
Ferdinand
Walstein
arriv'd
by
chance
with
a
new
rais'd
Troop
,
which
he
meant
to
shew
the
Emperour
,
which
oblig'd
these
bold
Rebels
,
who
thought
themselves
betray'd
and
lost
,
to
throw
down
their
Arms
and
to
cast
themselves
at
the
Princes
foot
,
whose
favour
Walstein
possess'd
from
this
time
to
that
of
his
revolt
.
Whilst
what
he
did
in
this
War
,
particularly
his
defeating
six
Thousand
Hungarians
with
fifteen
Troops
of
Horse
,
purchas'd
him
an
extream
Fame
and
an
extream
Envy
,
(
for
never
any
could
separate
these
two
)
the
Prince
of
Leistaine
constituted
Judge
of
the
Bohemian
Rebels
and
Governour
of
the
Kingdom
,
accused
him
at
Vienna
.
But
he
,
that
well
knew
the
nature
of
the
Court
,
where
Absence
is
criminal
,
if
it
be
not
defended
,
and
where
Safety
is
alwaies
found
,
if
we
will
buy
it
,
hastned
thither
with
sixty
Thousand
Crowns
,
and
not
only
purchas'd
an
esteem
for
his
Innocence
,
but
minding
to
acquire
some
of
the
Great
ones
,
that
might
protect
and
sustain
his
Fortunes
;
besides
that
Artifice
and
Interest
gain'd
him
divers
,
he
marries
the
Daughter
of
Charles
of
Arach
,
chief
Counsellor
and
Favourite
to
Ferdinand
and
by
the
credit
of
his
Father
in
Law
,
and
the
succours
of
Money
,
which
he
lent
the
Emperour
in
his
pressing
necessities
,
he
obtain'd
,
besides
his
light
Horse
,
two
Regiments
of
Foot
,
and
the
charge
of
Serjeant
Major
General
.
The
victories
of
this
party
and
the
weakness
of
the
Revolted
having
in
appearance
ended
the
War
,
Walstein
,
who
perceived
how
things
went
,
and
knew
that
the
Rebellion
was
rather
dissembled
than
extinct
,
and
that
the
Leagues
made
all
over
Europe
against
the
House
of
Austria
might
surprize
it
unprovided
;
undertook
a
thing
as
memorable
as
extraordinary
,
and
whereof
the
execution
might
seem
impossible
for
any
Private
man
,
who
had
not
that
credit
with
the
Souldier
which
his
good
conduct
had
gain'd
him
.
He
offer'd
the
Emperour
to
raise
an
Army
of
thirty
Thousand
men
at
his
own
charge
,
on
condition
he
might
be
General
:
and
so
wrought
by
his
Industry
,
his
Friends
,
and
by
ingaging
his
whole
Estate
,
that
he
in
a
short
time
accomplish'd
it
,
and
succeeding
to
the
charge
of
the
Marquess
of
Montnegro
,
who
was
depos'd
for
having
unfortunately
serv'd
the
Emperour
in
Transylvania
,
he
ow'd
his
Dignity
to
nothing
but
his
Ambition
and
his
Vertue
.
In
this
high
employment
he
added
much
to
his
Reputation
.
He
took
the
Town
and
Diocess
of
Alberstad
.
Conquer'd
Hall
and
its
Bishoprick
;
wasted
the
Territories
of
Magdeburgh
;
enter'd
into
those
of
Anhalt
;
fortified
Dessau
;
defy'd
Mansfield
,
and
with
him
four
Thousand
Flemings
,
the
chief
Force
of
the
Danish
Army
.
After
that
,
having
taken
Debst
,
and
perceiving
that
Mansfield
and
Weimar
with
their
Forces
bent
towards
Hungary
by
way
of
Silesia
,
to
give
life
to
the
Rebellion
and
joyn
with
Bethlem
Gabor
,
he
pursu'd
Bethlem
and
Mansfield
,
and
finding
them
at
the
Siege
of
Novegrade
,
vanquish'd
them
;
cut
in
pieces
the
Janizaries
that
were
come
to
the
succour
of
Transylvania
,
and
drove
Mansfield
out
of
Germany
,
who
had
been
its
Terrour
for
so
many
years
.
Returning
into
Silesia
,
where
he
found
Weimar
dead
,
he
oblig'd
half
his
Troops
to
surrender
themselves
,
and
overcame
the
rest
,
took
in
all
the
revolted
Towns
,
and
after
he
had
pacified
the
hereditary
Provinces
,
led
his
victorious
Army
,
strengthen'd
by
that
of
Tilly
,
against
the
King
of
Denmark
.
With
these
great
Forces
he
defies
the
Marquis
of
Vrlach
,
conquers
the
Archbishoprick
of
Breme
and
Holsace
,
fill'd
his
Troops
out
of
the
new
Levies
that
Charles
of
Lauemburgh
had
rais'd
for
the
Enemy
;
render'd
himself
Master
of
all
that
lies
between
the
Ocean
and
the
Baltick
Sea
;
leaving
the
King
of
Denmark
nothing
but
Glucstad
,
and
that
little
corner
of
Land
which
is
separated
from
the
rest
of
his
Dominions
.
And
though
the
King
had
tempted
his
Fortunes
,
he
was
still
worsted
;
Walstein
driving
him
out
of
Pomerania
,
into
which
Province
he
had
made
a
descent
and
progress
;
forcing
him
to
remount
his
Ships
,
where
yet
perhaps
he
had
not
found
his
safety
,
if
Walstein
had
had
Sea
Forces
:
insomuch
as
from
that
time
to
the
Peace
of
Lubeck
,
the
Dane
never
enterpriz'd
any
thing
,
contenting
himself
to
succour
those
of
the
Sound
,
who
only
were
able
to
stop
the
torrent
of
the
Imperial
Arms
,
which
so
many
Nations
had
in
vain
opposed
.
In
this
flourishing
estate
of
the
Empire
,
Walstein
willing
that
his
Master
should
profit
himself
of
his
victories
,
and
build
the
greatness
of
his
House
upon
the
weakness
of
his
Enemies
,
leaves
Tilly
in
Frise
,
under
pretext
that
something
of
the
Rebellion
remain'd
,
and
that
there
he
should
take
up
his
Winter
quarters
:
but
in
effect
it
was
,
that
the
Emperour
might
not
have
any
longer
the
Duke
of
Bavaria
for
Companion
,
and
that
himself
might
remain
,
without
Competitor
,
sole
Director
of
all
things
.
After
this
,
knowing
well
that
the
poverty
of
the
Common
people
and
the
depression
of
the
Great
ones
,
were
the
ways
that
lead
to
the
servitude
of
Nations
,
free
and
little
affected
to
the
Emperour
;
instead
of
disbanding
this
multitude
of
Souldiers
,
who
,
having
conquer'd
all
,
seem'd
now
useless
,
he
rais'd
several
new
Troops
,
and
augmented
the
number
of
his
Officers
,
to
increase
by
their
charge
the
poverty
of
those
who
were
to
defray
it
.
His
own
Example
taught
his
Commanders
sumptuousness
and
profusion
;
and
,
to
furnish
that
,
Rapine
and
Violence
.
All
Germany
was
overflown
with
these
Troops
:
they
could
no
longer
distinguish
Friend
and
Allies
,
from
Enemies
and
Neuters
.
The
Insolence
of
the
Souldier
being
unpunish'd
was
boundless
;
as
was
the
Oppression
of
the
people
and
their
hatred
against
Walstein
,
who
they
believed
the
Author
of
these
Evils
.
Besides
,
from
the
Imperial
Court
was
issued
a
severe
Edict
,
declaring
all
those
Traytors
that
were
found
to
have
any
way
participated
in
the
Counsels
of
the
Rebels
:
by
which
they
had
the
means
to
secure
themselves
of
the
Great
ones
,
and
got
money
to
satisfie
the
Souldiers
and
Courtiers
.
It
being
not
only
easie
,
but
honest
in
appearance
,
to
calumniate
those
they
meant
to
ruine
.
And
that
the
King
of
Sweden
,
who
so
many
miserable
wretches
look'd
upon
as
the
last
refuge
of
their
Liberty
,
should
not
when
he
would
,
or
foment
a
Rebellion
,
which
without
him
could
have
no
force
,
or
oppose
himself
to
that
absolute
dominion
of
Austria
,
which
Walstein
labour'd
to
establish
;
after
having
condemn'd
the
Duke
of
Mekelburgh
for
holding
Intelligence
with
the
Enemy
;
and
being
by
the
gift
of
Ferdinand
,
Master
of
his
Estate
and
Titles
;
Walstein
secures
himself
of
all
the
Ports
in
the
Baltick
Sea
,
except
the
Sound
,
to
which
he
laies
violent
Siege
,
and
put
all
his
care
to
the
equipping
of
a
Fleet
,
that
might
render
him
Master
of
these
Seas
,
as
he
was
of
Germany
.
And
now
,
in
spight
of
hatred
or
envy
,
he
might
quietly
have
enjoy'd
the
glory
of
his
great
and
faithful
Services
,
if
his
Pride
,
that
was
always
above
his
Fortune
,
had
not
transported
him
.
But
being
born
away
with
a
blind
presumption
of
himself
,
and
an
insupportable
despising
of
others
;
made
Prince
of
the
Empire
and
Duke
of
Meckleburgh
;
styl'd
Highness
;
eating
alone
;
stamping
Money
;
and
in
his
Equipage
,
Expences
,
and
solicited
Audiences
affecting
to
resemble
Kings
,
he
corrupted
the
solidity
of
his
Vertue
,
and
gave
the
World
aversions
for
his
injurious
and
irregular
Vanities
.
The
Peace
with
the
Danes
being
concluded
at
Lubeck
,
the
Emperour
,
extraordinarily
press'd
by
the
Clergy
,
on
whom
he
depended
in
all
things
,
precipitates
himself
after
their
passions
,
and
resolves
to
give
the
last
blow
to
the
liberty
of
Germany
before
it
was
weak
enough
to
receive
it
.
He
publishes
an
Edict
,
commanding
the
restitution
of
all
the
Ecclesiastical
goods
,
which
the
Protestants
had
usurp'd
from
the
first
Troubles
of
Lutheranism
;
believing
,
there
could
not
happen
to
him
any
sinister
accident
:
Not
from
abroad
,
whilst
the
King
of
Sweden
and
Bohemia
were
in
War
;
he
of
Denmark
weary
of
his
Losses
,
and
the
Transylvanians
divided
into
Factions
;
the
French
busied
among
themselves
and
in
Italy
.
And
at
home
he
had
Walstein
;
ever
terrible
to
the
Factious
,
and
Armies
ready
to
stifle
any
Sedition
before
its
growth
.
But
the
Protestants
,
despoil'd
of
Lands
which
they
had
inherited
;
and
apprehensive
,
that
in
sequence
of
that
,
their
liberty
of
Conscience
might
be
taken
from
them
too
:
finding
themselves
in
despair
on
these
considerations
of
Religion
and
Interest
;
and
the
Princes
of
that
party
perceiving
well
,
that
't
was
they
were
aim'd
at
;
amongst
others
,
the
Elector
of
Saxony
seeing
the
command
of
Magdeburgh
taken
from
his
Son
,
which
the
Town
had
bestowed
upon
him
;
the
Pope
having
nominated
for
their
Archbishop
Leopold
the
Son
of
Ferdinand
;
endeavour'd
to
find
remedies
for
these
utmost
extremities
,
and
,
by
the
help
of
the
French
,
to
oblige
Gustavus
Adolphus
King
of
Sweden
,
alarm'd
by
what
was
done
on
the
Baltick-Sea
and
ambition
of
Honour
,
to
come
to
their
assistance
under
other
pretences
.
On
the
other
side
,
the
Catholick
Princes
,
to
whom
the
Greatness
of
the
House
of
Austria
render'd
it
terrible
;
and
generally
all
people
opprest
with
that
Poverty
to
which
they
were
reduc'd
y
Contributions
and
Winter
quarters
(
the
invention
of
Walstein
,
and
not
any
thing
of
publick
calamity
)
demanded
of
the
Emperour
a
General
Assembly
for
the
good
and
quiet
of
his
Empire
.
Chiefly
the
Duke
of
Bavaria
solicited
this
Diet
;
together
with
the
Elector
of
Majence
,
who
he
had
put
into
his
opinion
.
The
Bavarois
mortally
hated
Walstein
:
whether
it
was
,
that
he
thought
him
an
enemy
to
the
Peace
of
Germany
;
or
whether
he
had
ambition
to
pretend
himself
to
the
Electorate
,
which
't
was
said
the
Emperour
had
promis'd
him
,
and
Walstein
oppos'd
.
He
saw
also
that
his
General
Tilly
was
remov'd
,
and
found
that
absolute
power
lessen'd
,
which
he
had
merited
by
his
fidelity
in
the
greatest
peril
of
the
Empire
,
and
by
his
Services
in
sustaining
the
declining
Fortunes
of
Ferdinand
:
and
,
that
which
touch'd
him
nearest
was
,
that
the
fruit
of
all
his
Labours
remain'd
in
the
hands
of
Walstein
;
apprehending
,
that
this
prodigious
Power
,
to
the
establishing
whereof
he
had
contributed
with
the
hazard
of
his
life
and
Fortunes
,
might
be
the
ruine
of
both
,
if
his
Enemy
,
who
never
pardon'd
any
,
continu'd
any
longer
the
Arbiter
.
These
Considerations
having
cast
him
into
fear
and
anger
,
which
ordinarily
increase
proportionably
as
their
Subjects
are
just
;
he
was
the
man
that
most
earnestly
solicited
the
Assembly
,
and
the
deposing
of
Walstein
.
Push'd
on
also
by
Monsieur
de
Lem
the
French
Embassadour
,
and
the
Capuchin
Joseph
,
a
man
of
Intrigues
.
It
was
he
also
,
that
to
obtain
this
Diet
,
and
to
hinder
the
Emperour
from
discovering
,
they
meant
to
diminish
that
Authority
which
he
had
usurped
,
gave
him
hopes
,
that
his
Son
should
be
elected
King
of
the
Romans
;
an
insensible
introduction
to
succession
in
the
Empire
.
His
Arts
took
place
in
a
mind
that
wish'd
nothing
more
;
for
we
believe
easily
what
we
desire
earnestly
.
The
Emperour
with
his
Son
came
to
Ratisbone
the
end
of
June
1630
,
where
all
the
Electors
were
met
,
except
those
of
Saxony
and
Brandenburgh
;
who
excus'd
themselves
by
their
Deputies
,
as
not
able
to
defray
the
charges
of
the
Journey
,
the
great
expence
of
Walsteins
Garrisons
having
impoverish'd
them
:
and
't
was
true
,
that
fourteen
compleat
Regiments
had
Winter'd
in
the
Territories
of
Brandenburgh
only
.
The
present
necessity
,
and
the
fear
of
the
future
,
augmented
the
boldness
of
the
Electors
.
And
,
besides
their
dependance
on
the
King
of
Sweden
,
who
had
begun
the
War
in
Germany
,
they
were
imbolden'd
by
the
absence
of
Forty
thousand
men
,
who
,
contrary
to
the
advice
of
Walstein
,
were
employed
in
the
War
of
Mantoua
,
or
lost
in
that
of
Polonia
.
They
were
further
encourag'd
by
the
French
Embassadour
:
for
upon
complaint
made
in
the
Diet
by
the
Duke
of
Lorain
,
that
a
powerful
French
Army
was
upon
the
Frontier
,
the
Embassadour
assur'd
the
Electors
,
they
were
there
only
to
sustain
their
Propositions
in
case
they
should
be
refused
.
They
first
treated
the
Peace
with
the
King
of
France
;
it
being
of
the
Protestants
interest
not
to
be
ingaged
with
him
,
that
he
might
the
more
freely
assist
them
.
Next
,
they
resolv'd
upon
an
Assembly
at
Frankfort
the
year
following
,
touching
the
Edict
of
the
restitution
,
several
difficulties
impeding
the
determination
now
:
the
Protestants
expecting
,
that
before
that
time
the
King
of
Sweden
should
render
it
null
;
and
the
Catholicks
believing
,
that
their
right
would
be
fortified
by
the
possession
which
they
had
.
But
when
they
came
to
speak
of
the
affairs
of
the
War
,
all
these
parties
with
one
common
Voice
demanded
the
deposing
of
Walstein
,
and
it
seemed
as
if
they
had
assembled
for
nothing
else
.
The
hatred
born
him
was
general
;
and
the
weakness
of
the
Emperour
,
astonish'd
by
this
unthought
of
blow
,
was
enough
to
draw
a
consent
to
lay
him
aside
,
and
so
to
strip
himself
of
his
Power
and
his
Fortunes
,
and
to
abandon
a
man
whose
ruines
had
never
been
so
much
their
study
,
if
he
had
been
less
faithful
to
him
,
or
had
render'd
him
less
powerful
.
The
Spaniards
,
who
often
were
the
Arbiters
of
his
Councils
,
desiring
one
less
proud
,
and
more
obedient
in
his
place
,
seeing
that
the
King
of
Sweden
was
descended
into
Pomerania
,
were
content
with
Tilly
,
who
the
Duke
of
Bavaria
,
willing
to
reassume
his
Authority
,
offer'd
them
to
oppose
him
.
The
Emperour
saw
himself
constrain'd
to
disband
his
Troops
of
the
upper
Germany
,
and
to
consent
to
a
reformation
of
the
rest
,
which
lost
him
the
greatest
part
:
the
Souldier
accustom'd
to
pillage
,
could
not
or
render
that
which
they
had
taken
,
or
resolve
to
take
no
more
.
Nor
did
the
Disorders
stop
here
:
the
Generals
Anheim
and
Hoftchen
sought
entertainment
elsewhere
,
and
a
great
number
of
Officers
left
his
Service
.
So
that
from
that
absolute
estate
,
which
made
Germany
tremble
under
Walstein
,
the
Emperour
by
his
weakness
,
the
artifice
of
the
Protestants
,
and
the
passions
of
his
own
,
was
reduc'd
in
an
instant
to
dread
the
Swedish
Forces
,
which
Walstein
would
have
slighted
,
if
in
his
Authority
he
had
retain'd
the
chief
strength
of
the
Empire
.
His
Ministers
perceived
as
well
as
he
,
but
too
late
,
that
they
were
deceived
;
seeing
,
that
after
he
had
forsaken
all
the
interests
of
the
Empire
,
on
the
hopes
of
making
his
Son
King
of
the
Romans
,
the
Electours
wav'd
his
nomination
by
proroguing
it
;
which
in
such
matters
,
holds
the
place
of
a
civil
Refusal
.
In
the
mean
time
Walstein
having
heard
of
his
being
depos'd
,
though
the
suddeness
of
the
blow
surprized
him
,
seem'd
rather
to
regret
the
Misfortune
of
Ferdinand
,
than
his
own
:
Without
speaking
of
himself
,
he
only
said
,
that
the
Emperour
was
betray'd
,
and
his
Council
corrupted
.
That
same
Vertue
which
had
gain'd
him
the
Generals
Staff
,
serv'd
him
to
resign
it
in
appearance
without
disorder
or
grief
.
His
displeasure
for
all
that
was
very
great
,
but
very
secret
,
and
only
known
of
his
Confidents
.
Divers
Colonels
repair'd
to
him
:
some
he
kept
with
him
;
assign'd
others
upon
his
Lands
(
whither
he
sent
them
)
to
live
honourably
;
being
in
this
careful
of
his
Friendship
and
Reputation
.
Resolving
to
keep
such
men
as
he
guess'd
by
this
voluntary
proof
could
never
abandon
him
,
whatever
the
dangers
were
which
he
might
be
cast
into
by
his
ambition
and
resentments
.
For
certainly
,
under
this
profound
simulation
of
a
moderate
Spirit
,
which
he
affected
in
his
Misfortunes
,
he
hid
an
extream
desire
of
Revenge
,
and
cast
projects
to
put
himself
into
such
a
condition
,
that
they
should
not
again
take
away
his
employment
,
if
the
necessity
of
affairs
would
that
they
recall'd
him
to
it
;
whereof
John
Baptista
Seni
his
Astrologer
shews
him
approaching
hopes
,
and
whereof
he
assur'd
himself
by
the
Judgment
he
made
upon
the
disorder
of
the
Empire
:
confirming
thus
by
his
own
solid
reasoning
,
the
conjectures
of
an
uncertain
Art
.
And
thus
he
fills
his
mind
with
high
and
bold
designs
,
even
then
,
when
he
seems
to
think
of
nothing
but
a
private
life
.
And
now
it
may
be
seasonable
to
say
somewhat
of
his
Customes
,
and
of
his
Domestick
life
;
that
you
may
see
better
how
all
his
actions
tended
to
raise
him
above
other
men
,
and
with
more
certainty
judge
of
what
we
write
;
to
which
these
Remarks
seem
not
altogether
impertinent
:
but
truly
I
fear
,
that
in
reading
them
there
will
want
belief
for
the
History
,
and
that
the
Truths
I
shall
deliver
,
will
pass
for
the
descriptions
of
a
Romance
.
This
notwithstanding
shall
not
forbid
me
to
speak
of
them
,
without
exaggeration
,
without
envy
.
To
begin
with
his
Houses
:
That
he
liv'd
in
seem'd
rather
the
Palace
of
a
Monarch
,
than
the
dwelling
of
a
particular
man
:
for
he
shar'd
in
this
weakness
with
other
men
,
who
leave
piles
of
Stone
for
the
Monuments
of
their
Greatness
;
not
dreaming
of
those
importunate
accidents
of
Nature
or
Fortune
,
which
may
destroy
them
in
a
moment
;
and
at
the
best
,
whatever
care
is
taken
to
preserve
them
,
they
ruine
of
themselves
.
His
House
at
Prague
received
those
that
came
by
six
great
Gates
;
and
in
a
mighty
space
of
ground
,
cast
its
foundation
over
the
ruines
of
an
hundred
Houses
,
that
were
pull'd
down
to
make
way
for
it
.
The
apartments
were
beautiful
,
magnificent
and
commodious
;
the
ornaments
and
movables
represented
Luxury
and
Abundance
,
and
his
Lodgings
shew'd
them
in
Excess
.
I
would
willingly
describe
the
retail
:
the
Gardens
,
beautified
with
a
great
number
of
Statues
;
the
Fountains
,
Grots
,
Fish-ponds
,
Volaries
;
rare
for
their
extent
,
planted
with
Trees
,
fill'd
with
Birds
of
all
sorts
;
if
the
History
would
suffer
unprofitable
,
though
pleasing
digressions
.
The
Model
of
this
Palace
was
different
from
all
others
:
whether
it
was
,
that
he
believed
his
fashion
of
Building
the
best
;
or
whether
by
this
particular
affection
,
he
would
also
in
these
things
stand
at
distance
from
vulgar
Customes
.
Near
his
House
at
Gidzin
he
built
a
Wall
about
a
fair
Park
,
where
he
kept
above
three
hundred
choice
Horses
.
For
his
Stables
,
of
choice
Architecture
;
Marble
Mangers
and
Fountains
to
fall
into
them
:
I
forbear
to
make
any
particular
remark
on
them
,
for
almost
all
the
German
Princes
are
curious
in
these
.
If
Death
had
not
constrain'd
him
to
leave
his
Castle
of
Segan
unfinish'd
,
possibly
he
had
surpass'd
in
that
Edifice
all
those
of
the
Ancient
Romans
,
as
he
equall'd
them
by
inlarging
the
Town
of
Gidzin
,
building
a
Charter-house
,
founding
a
Colledge
of
Jesuites
,
and
a
Church
of
the
Protestants
.
Admirable
in
this
particular
,
that
all
this
was
done
in
those
few
years
that
he
was
Master
of
his
Fortune
;
whereas
often
,
the
lives
of
two
Kings
do
not
suffice
to
finish
a
Palace
.
For
his
Expence
,
't
was
an
unheard
of
profusion
.
A
hundred
Dishes
always
serv'd
up
to
his
Table
:
and
the
neatness
added
much
to
the
good
Chear
.
Fifty
Halbardeers
were
the
constant
guard
of
his
Anti-Chamber
;
Men
chosen
by
their
Faces
,
and
known
by
their
Actions
.
Without
were
Centinels
,
and
every
where
Lacquies
.
Twelve
men
march'd
continually
about
his
Palace
to
hinder
Noise
,
which
he
could
not
suffer
:
in
this
,
delicate
even
to
weakness
.
He
entertain'd
sixty
Pages
,
Sons
of
the
best
Houses
;
who
learnt
their
Exercises
under
famous
Masters
,
which
he
kept
on
purpose
.
His
Liveries
were
gorgeous
and
rich
.
He
had
an
infinite
number
of
Gentlemen
attending
him
:
four
of
his
Chamber
inform'd
him
of
those
would
speak
with
him
,
and
brought
them
to
audience
.
Six
Barons
and
six
Knights
were
always
near
him
to
receive
his
Commands
.
The
Steward
of
his
House
was
a
Lord
of
great
Note
.
When
he
took
the
field
,
he
had
for
his
Baggage
and
for
his
Table
fifty
Wagons
drawn
with
six
Horses
,
and
fifty
drawn
with
four
,
and
six
Coaches
for
Gentlemen
of
Condition
,
that
follow'd
his
Court.
He
always
carried
with
him
fifty
Leer
Horse
,
beautiful
to
wonder
,
and
cover'd
with
the
most
precious
Harness
,
and
these
led
by
fifty
men
,
each
mounted
on
a
Horse
of
price
.
Such
as
love
frugal
and
modest
Vertue
will
blame
this
Pomp
,
whilst
such
as
adore
outward
Vanity
will
like
it
,
and
all
will
judge
it
easie
for
Walstein
,
living
more
splendidly
than
Kings
,
to
aim
at
their
rank
and
dignity
.
I
have
not
mention'd
the
Palace
of
his
Wife
;
the
Pensions
he
gave
,
or
the
Recompences
:
nor
of
the
vast
sums
he
spent
throughout
Europe
to
be
inform'd
of
all
;
I
have
said
enough
,
methinks
,
for
my
design
and
for
my
leasure
:
Besides
,
that
things
of
this
nature
please
in
passing
,
but
tire
us
when
we
dwell
upon
them
.
Let
us
then
betake
our selves
to
the
History
.
After
Walstein
had
given
up
his
Command
,
those
who
in
his
stead
they
opposed
to
the
King
of
Sweden
,
having
little
experience
in
Military
Affairs
;
some
wanting
Courage
,
others
Foresight
;
all
,
good
Fortune
;
their
Party
was
weakned
by
several
losses
.
The
Electors
of
Saxony
and
Brandenburgh
left
it
openly
,
joyning
with
Gustavus
;
and
't
was
only
Tilly
,
that
sustain'd
for
a
time
the
burthen
of
the
War
.
He
,
who
possest
the
Vertues
of
a
good
Captain
,
Fortune
,
Prudence
,
Valour
,
Care
;
and
,
what
is
rare
,
Piety
,
endeavour'd
to
arrest
the
Victories
of
the
Enemy
,
and
to
maintain
the
Reputation
of
his
own
.
But
whether
it
were
,
that
he
alone
was
not
sufficient
for
the
conduct
of
the
Emperours
Armies
,
and
those
of
the
Catholick
Princes
,
Leagu'd
for
the
defence
of
Germany
;
or
whether
he
was
destitute
of
the
absolute
Authority
of
Walstein
;
so
that
not
daring
to
undertake
any
thing
,
without
consulting
the
Council
of
Vienna
,
or
the
Confederates
,
the
time
to
deliberate
lost
him
that
of
Action
:
or
finally
,
whether
it
were
that
Fortune
,
which
favours
things
in
their
growth
,
pleases
her self
in
forsaking
them
in
their
maturities
,
he
was
vanquish'd
at
Lipsic
;
and
the
loss
of
this
Battel
made
the
Empire
decline
towards
its
ruine
.
More
than
half
Germany
was
subjected
to
the
Swede
;
the
Duke
of
Saxony
seiz'd
on
Bohemia
;
the
Lantgrave
of
Hess
cast
himself
on
the
side
of
the
Victor
;
the
Elector
of
Triers
sought
protection
of
the
French
,
and
the
danger
seem'd
so
great
to
the
Duke
of
Bavaria
,
that
he
stagger'd
in
his
fidelity
to
the
Common
Cause
,
and
the
House
of
Austria
.
'T
was
believed
also
,
that
the
King
of
Sweden
might
have
ended
the
War
by
the
Conquest
of
the
Hereditary
Provinces
,
if
he
had
turn'd
his
Force
thither
after
this
Battel
:
but
truly
,
without
reflecting
on
what
might
be
said
to
the
contrary
,
humane
Counsel
seems
to
be
subjected
to
a
Superiour
cause
,
that
excuses
its
defects
;
and
in
all
actions
there
is
often
a
fatality
,
that
overbears
Prudence
or
blinds
it
.
In
the
mean
time
,
Gustavus
being
busied
in
the
taking
in
the
Mein
and
Rhein
,
those
of
Vienna
seeing
he
did
not
march
that
way
,
having
leisure
to
dismiss
their
Fears
,
employ'd
themselves
with
diligence
to
find
ready
and
apt
Remedies
for
these
Evils
,
and
after
many
Consultations
,
the
extremity
of
their
Affairs
obliged
them
to
have
recourse
to
Walstein
,
who
only
seem'd
capable
to
re-establish
them
,
if
he
would
undertake
it
.
They
consider'd
his
Courage
,
augmented
by
Difficulties
,
far
from
being
terrified
by
them
;
industrious
and
passionate
to
execute
what
others
held
impossible
;
his
active
Vigilance
never
surpriz'd
;
his
Riches
,
proper
to
facilitate
great
designs
,
and
ready
to
succour
the
necessities
of
the
Empire
;
his
Credit
,
his
Intelligences
,
and
the
desire
the
Souldier
had
to
serve
under
him
.
And
as
it
is
the
fault
of
our
Nature
to
hold
no
mean
,
neither
in
Prosperity
nor
in
Affliction
,
those
to
whom
his
Vertue
had
been
intolerable
then
,
when
he
seem'd
useless
,
prais'd
in
him
in
this
pressing
occasion
even
things
vain
and
fortuitous
.
They
believed
moreover
,
that
he
would
return
to
his
employment
with
an
extream
satisfaction
;
that
whatever
disgust
he
had
in
losing
it
,
his
Ambition
,
which
was
the
Master
of
his
other
Passions
,
would
stifle
his
resentment
;
that
this
his
obstinate
cleaving
to
a
Private
life
,
had
less
of
truth
than
ostentation
.
On
these
and
the
like
Considerations
they
resolved
to
shew
him
some
assured
hopes
of
his
re-establishment
,
thereby
to
draw
from
him
some
testimony
of
his
desire
thereof
:
and
thought
,
that
by
ingaging
him
to
ask
that
Charge
they
were
willing
to
give
,
the
Obligation
would
be
less
,
and
the
Conditions
easier
.
To
this
purpose
,
notwithstandig
the
opposition
of
the
Spaniards
,
who
would
never
consent
,
they
dispatch'd
Maximilian
Walstein
,
Master
of
the
Horse
to
the
King
of
Hungary
,
having
first
instructed
him
in
what
they
thought
necessary
:
for
besides
that
he
was
his
Nephew
,
he
was
one
of
those
he
treated
with
most
esteem
and
confidence
.
He
then
goes
to
visit
him
at
Zeman
,
where
he
remain'd
after
the
loss
of
Prague
;
and
after
he
had
entertain'd
him
with
a
general
discourse
of
the
Affairs
of
the
Empire
,
that
he
might
be
the
less
able
to
penetrate
the
aim
of
his
discourse
,
he
dextrously
turns
his
Speech
on
the
Praises
that
were
bestow'd
on
him
in
the
present
occurrence
,
and
upon
the
desire
all
people
had
to
see
him
again
undertake
the
defence
of
the
Empire
;
advising
him
not
to
reject
the
occasion
,
but
to
go
forward
towards
that
Fame
that
attended
him
.
Walstein
perceived
well
the
Artifice
;
wherefore
minding
,
according
to
his
projects
,
to
hide
his
design
more
carefully
now
he
saw
it
ready
to
take
effect
;
and
to
draw
all
advantages
from
the
necessity
of
Affairs
,
he
first
,
touching
his
Interest
,
answer'd
sparingly
and
modestly
;
then
extended
his
discourse
unto
the
sweetness
of
his
condition
,
and
the
desire
he
had
to
grow
Old
in
quiet
;
no
more
to
tempt
that
Fortune
which
had
treated
him
so
shamefully
,
that
though
she
were
minded
to
give
him
all
again
,
yet
it
must
be
by
robbing
him
of
his
Repose
:
and
coming
at
last
to
deplore
the
Misfortunes
of
his
Sovereign
,
as
if
he
had
been
deeply
affected
,
he
mingled
with
his
discourse
tender
and
doubtful
words
;
such
as
might
not
wholly
take
off
the
hopes
of
his
Service
,
but
represent
it
almost
impossible
.
Now
,
the
Ministers
of
the
Emperour
seeing
they
had
advanc'd
little
by
this
means
,
press'd
with
time
and
danger
,
serv'd
themselves
of
the
only
way
which
remain'd
;
to
act
openly
,
to
intreat
,
to
offer
,
to
yield
to
any
thing
that
they
might
bend
him
.
The
Baron
of
Questemburgh
and
the
Count
Wardemburgh
,
his
Friends
,
attempted
him
several
times
,
but
in
vain
.
His
obstinacy
appear'd
so
great
,
that
they
had
despair'd
to
overcome
it
,
if
the
Prince
of
Echamberg
had
not
labour'd
in
it
.
And
't
was
to
him
all
men
expected
Walstein
should
yield
,
having
lived
a
long
time
with
him
in
the
straitest
confidence
,
and
always
powerfully
serv'd
him
at
Court
;
imploying
all
his
diligences
to
prevent
his
Fall
,
and
in
his
disgrace
never
grew
cold
.
They
consider'd
also
the
Authority
of
this
man
;
powerful
over
the
inclinations
of
the
Emperour
,
whose
Director
and
Favourite
he
was
.
And
certainly
his
Favour
was
not
ill
plac'd
;
the
greatness
of
his
Merit
going
even
with
that
of
his
Fortune
.
He
then
caused
himself
to
be
carried
to
Zenam
,
being
much
vexed
with
the
Gout
;
and
after
he
had
given
Walstein
the
Emperours
Letters
,
dictated
as
the
present
occurrence
would
;
he
lively
represented
the
Honour
of
saving
his
Prince
and
Countrey
;
the
obligation
they
must
have
to
him
;
the
beauty
of
such
an
Enterprize
;
the
Fame
,
and
what
else
might
stir
up
a
mind
passionate
of
Glory
.
He
added
the
Intreaties
of
Ferdinand
;
that
he
was
Arbiter
of
all
;
that
he
might
dispense
;
that
he
might
act
;
with
assurances
he
should
find
an
entire
Obedience
,
and
great
Recompences
:
engaging
for
that
the
Credit
of
the
Emperour
and
his
own
,
which
he
knew
to
be
great
,
and
had
ever
prov'd
it
certain
.
Walstein
,
though
he
saw
that
it
was
time
to
close
,
yet
at
first
deny'd
his
assistance
,
though
in
a
fainter
manner
than
ordinary
:
opposing
,
as
in
doubt
,
the
malice
of
his
Enemies
,
ready
to
calumniate
what
he
might
do
;
the
facility
of
the
Emperour
to
believe
them
,
and
perhaps
to
cast
him
off
after
he
had
drawn
Service
from
him
:
And
besides
,
though
he
might
be
secur'd
in
these
particulars
,
he
asked
,
where
was
the
Army
whereof
they
would
make
him
General
;
and
what
means
to
set
right
a
desperate
Affair
.
But
at
last
,
seeing
himself
incessantly
press'd
,
sometimes
feigning
to
acquiess
in
their
perswasions
;
sometimes
,
to
give
way
to
the
importunity
of
his
Friends
,
he
promis'd
his
Service
;
but
for
Four
months
only
:
in
which
time
he
would
be
sole
and
absolute
;
and
that
ended
,
lay
down
this
burthenous
Authority
;
to
which
Echamberg
consented
;
believing
't
was
enough
he
had
engag'd
him
to
the
Imployment
,
in
which
the
occasions
themselves
might
oblige
him
to
continue
,
if
his
Ambition
did
not
;
so
having
consulted
of
what
they
thought
needful
,
after
this
final
Resolution
they
departed
.
Walstein
being
left
alone
,
unquiet
and
raving
,
began
to
revolve
in
his
mind
the
greatness
and
difficulty
of
that
which
he
was
about
to
undertake
;
sometimes
measuring
it
by
Fear
,
which
renders
every
thing
hard
;
sometimes
by
Ambition
,
which
finds
nothing
so
.
The
impossibility
of
usurping
a
Kingdom
from
a
legitimate
Prince
;
and
of
ingaging
to
Rebellion
a
People
,
that
make
Obedience
to
their
Sovereign
a
point
of
their
Religion
;
the
danger
of
trusting
such
a
Secret
;
the
ordinary
infidelity
of
Factious
minds
;
the
punishment
and
Infamy
;
if
it
did
not
succed
;
if
it
did
,
the
Murthers
,
Poysons
,
and
distrust
of
all
things
terrefied
him
.
On
the
other
side
,
his
resentment
of
his
ill
usage
;
his
hatred
,
appetite
of
Revenge
,
and
above
all
,
his
covetousness
of
Rule
,
which
could
never
be
extinct
in
his
unruly
mind
,
blindly
precipitated
him
.
He
saw
the
half
of
Germany
under
the
King
of
Sweden
;
the
rest
tottering
and
ill
assur'd
;
the
Princes
of
Europe
Leagu'd
with
Gustavus
,
or
Ill-willers
to
the
House
of
Austria
;
this
House
in
decline
:
And
he
judg'd
by
these
Conjunctures
,
the
time
ripe
for
Novelty
.
He
well
knew
,
that
extremity
of
Affairs
only
having
forc'd
the
Duke
of
Bavaria
and
the
Spaniards
,
powerful
at
Vienna
,
to
consent
to
his
re-establishment
,
he
could
expect
no
other
recompence
of
his
pains
,
if
he
should
settle
the
Empire
,
than
to
return
to
his
Private
condition
,
and
to
a
shameful
and
obscure
life
:
wherefore
he
thought
it
more
just
to
serve
himself
of
those
Forces
his
Enemies
had
put
into
his
hands
,
in
venturing
to
ruine
them
and
to
raise
himself
,
than
to
secure
them
and
to
lose
himself
.
He
thought
he
had
the
opportunity
and
the
means
.
He
consider'd
himself
consummate
in
the
experience
of
Military
Affairs
;
dear
to
the
Souldier
;
ready
to
command
a
mercenary
Army
;
hardy
,
opulent
,
and
industrious
;
always
succour'd
of
Fortune
:
whereas
he
look'd
upon
the
Emperour
as
slothful
;
little
addicted
to
Arms
;
of
a
soft
Nature
;
slow
,
expos'd
to
deceits
,
and
more
proper
to
dissemble
Injuries
than
to
repulse
them
.
In
this
violent
agitation
,
floating
in
doubts
,
sometimes
embracing
the
best
resolutions
,
sometimes
the
most
pernicious
;
after
he
had
a
long
time
suffer'd
these
torments
,
he
abandon'd
himself
at
last
to
the
worst
Counsels
,
and
determin'd
to
attempt
the
usurpation
of
Bohemia
;
not
being
able
to
vanquish
the
motions
of
his
vext
and
ulcerated
mind
,
nor
resist
that
cruel
passion
for
Greatess
,
which
never
left
him
in
repose
.
But
seeing
,
that
the
execution
of
such
a
design
depended
on
the
disposing
of
several
things
that
must
be
publick
and
interpreted
,
being
naturally
fram'd
to
dissimulations
and
feignings
,
he
resolv'd
,
without
admitting
any
Confident
of
this
his
last
resolution
,
to
bury
it
under
a
profound
Silence
,
and
to
apply
himself
intirely
to
act
in
such
a
manner
,
that
all
he
did
should
seem
to
tend
to
the
good
of
the
Empire
;
to
the
end
that
his
designs
not
being
suspected
at
first
,
they
should
not
be
able
to
ruine
the
beginnings
,
that
are
usually
weak
:
and
that
when
they
should
come
to
be
discover'd
,
he
might
be
in
a
condition
to
carry
them
on
by
force
.
Being
thus
confirm'd
against
the
danger
,
and
resign'd
intirely
to
something
more
powerful
than
his
Reason
;
whether
you
will
call
it
Fate
or
Genius
;
he
began
insensibly
to
drive
on
his
ends
,
for
which
he
had
need
of
much
Time
,
great
Fortune
,
and
many
Artifices
.
And
this
was
the
state
of
things
and
the
design
of
Walstein
,
when
he
was
recall'd
to
his
Imployment
.
After
this
,
to
put
the
Affairs
of
the
Emperour
in
reputation
,
who
had
scarce
any
left
;
and
to
relieve
the
people
in
their
Fears
by
raising
a
belief
in
them
,
that
this
side
wanted
only
a
Commander
,
and
not
Forces
;
willing
also
to
build
up
a
great
Opinion
of
himself
,
he
gives
out
Commissions
to
levy
sixty
Regiments
;
treats
with
the
King
of
Poland
for
twenty
thousand
Cossacks
;
negotiates
with
the
Duke
of
Lorain
to
engage
him
in
the
War
;
sends
into
Italy
to
buy
the
best
Arms
,
and
every
where
sows
Reports
advantagious
for
his
Party
.
And
to
the
end
,
that
the
success
might
not
deceive
his
Attempts
,
and
that
with
more
facility
he
might
assemble
his
Troops
,
who
were
to
be
the
source
of
his
second
Greatness
,
he
chose
the
Territory
of
Znaim
to
form
the
Body
of
his
Army
in
:
inclin'd
to
it
by
the
commodious
scituation
on
the
Confines
of
Moravia
and
the
Hereditary
Provinces
;
where
,
notwithstanding
the
Swedish
War
,
Abundance
and
Peace
had
remain'd
,
and
where
the
fury
of
the
Enemy
and
the
Domestick
mischiefs
of
Winter
quarter
had
not
penetrated
.
In
this
place
,
whilst
he
wrote
civilly
to
the
Colonels
,
dissembling
his
natural
Fierceness
,
treating
them
with
marks
of
Courtesy
and
Friendship
,
adding
largess
and
profusion
,
sparing
neither
Care
nor
Coyn
,
Souldiers
flocking
to
him
upon
his
Credit
;
he
rais'd
in
two
Months
an
Army
,
if
not
answering
the
Fame
in
number
,
yet
't
was
more
than
could
have
been
expected
:
aided
in
this
by
voluntary
Contributions
of
the
principal
Ministers
of
Vienna
;
great
for
the
particulars
,
but
made
more
considerable
by
the
necessity
;
supplying
out
of
his
own
Money
for
the
poorer
Officers
,
and
ingaging
the
Richer
by
his
address
to
raise
Troops
with
theirs
,
feeding
them
with
hopes
of
recovering
all
out
of
the
riches
of
Prey
and
Garrisons
.
When
he
saw
all
was
ready
,
casting
himself
again
within
his
wonted
Artifices
,
he
wrote
to
Vienna
,
that
he
had
satisfied
his
Promise
,
and
that
now
he
would
retire
;
that
the
Army
was
ready
,
but
he
wish'd
Domestick
Peace
;
that
they
should
send
a
General
and
grant
him
a
retirement
.
He
knew
for
all
this
,
that
what
he
as'kd
was
impossible
:
for
having
put
into
imployment
the
Captains
he
retain'd
in
his
disgrace
;
given
Regiments
to
his
Kinsmen
and
ancient
Confidents
,
under
pretence
of
sparing
the
principal
Pay
,
and
training
up
new
Souldiers
under
old
Commanders
,
obliging
the
Colonels
to
hazard
all
they
had
upon
the
sole
hopes
of
his
Parol
;
winning
the
Chief
Officers
by
high
Imployments
,
corrupting
the
Souldiers
by
Presents
,
and
all
men
in
general
by
the
expectation
of
his
Fortune
;
he
had
so
order'd
things
,
that
this
Army
could
not
subsist
without
him
,
and
reduc'd
the
Emperour
to
an
absolute
necessity
of
maintaining
him
General
.
When
they
knew
at
Vienna
,
that
he
persisted
to
signifie
dislike
of
the
Service
,
the
Ministers
of
Spain
and
those
of
Bavaria
,
attempted
once
more
to
take
his
Command
from
him
.
The
first
,
who
govern'd
the
King
of
Hungary
by
means
of
his
Wife
,
absolute
upon
his
Spirit
,
and
depending
wholly
on
their
Counsels
,
took
this
occasion
to
render
that
Prince
Master
of
Arms
and
of
Affairs
.
The
Duke
of
Bavaria
fear'd
to
see
the
Command
in
the
hands
of
him
whom
he
had
despoil'd
of
it
.
They
urg'd
both
of
them
,
that
the
Power
confer'd
on
Walstein
caus'd
the
Revolt
,
and
't
would
confirm
the
Rebellion
,
if
it
were
renew'd
,
and
make
those
contrive
to
revolt
,
who
hitherto
remain'd
faithful
;
that
the
presence
of
the
King
of
Hungary
would
lead
Princes
and
People
back
to
their
Allegiance
,
who
would
be
asham'd
to
bear
Arms
against
the
Son
of
their
Sovereign
,
and
who
must
one
day
be
so
:
besides
,
what
opinion
would
Europe
entertain
of
the
Successour
to
the
Empire
,
if
he
should
be
depriv'd
of
this
Command
?
And
what
greater
Argument
of
the
weakness
of
the
Empire
,
than
shamefully
to
betake
themselves
to
a
man
,
who
design'd
Misfortunes
to
it
?
That
this
was
to
condemn
of
Imprudence
the
last
Councils
,
and
expose
themselves
afresh
and
voluntarily
to
dangers
;
that
under
pretence
of
Publick
good
they
ought
not
to
trust
Walstein
,
nor
put
him
in
condition
to
revenge
the
Injuries
he
believed
to
have
receiv'd
,
especially
since
a
design
of
Rule
might
be
mixt
with
his
appetite
of
Revenge
,
and
our
Fidelities
hardly
defend
themselves
against
these
two
;
that
this
man
was
proud
and
immoderate
;
that
he
every
day
scatter'd
new
marks
of
his
Indignation
,
and
that
in
his
retreat
at
Prague
he
had
meditated
nothing
but
dangerous
and
vast
designs
;
dissimulation
and
revenge
.
But
these
Considerations
,
though
pregnant
,
gave
way
to
the
necessity
of
imploying
him
for
the
conservation
of
the
new
Army
,
the
chief
support
of
the
Imperial
party
.
Ferdinand
himself
calling
to
mind
in
his
present
calamity
,
the
formidable
estate
wherein
this
General
had
once
plac'd
him
;
as
it
is
ordinary
for
the
unhappy
to
suffer
themselves
to
be
blinded
with
the
weakest
hopes
,
flatter'd
himself
with
thoughts
of
retrieving
his
former
Greatness
,
and
secur'd
himself
of
the
Fears
they
endeavour'd
to
instill
.
Besides
,
his
Council
,
jealous
of
the
direction
of
the
Affairs
of
Germany
,
which
the
Spaniards
went
about
to
usurp
;
hoping
that
Walstein
joyning
with
them
,
might
uphold
their
credit
,
favour'd
his
Cause
and
declar'd
,
that
the
House
of
Austria
had
need
of
him
;
that
't
was
necessary
to
reserve
the
Emperour
for
last
extremities
,
and
not
fit
to
expose
the
welfare
of
his
state
to
the
Youth
and
Courage
of
his
Son
,
especially
in
a
conjuncture
wherein
they
could
not
err
twice
,
and
wherein
full
experience
of
the
Military
Art
was
scarce
sufficient
.
They
added
,
that
the
Duke
of
Bavaria
opposed
good
designs
,
because
't
is
natural
to
hate
those
we
have
wrong'd
,
and
that
he
preser'd
his
private
Enemies
to
the
general
good
;
that
he
would
strip
the
Empire
of
its
best
defence
,
the
more
easily
to
betray
it
.
For
at
this
time
the
Loyalty
of
this
Elector
became
suspected
,
and
by
intercepted
Letters
they
found
,
that
he
manag'd
a
Peace
with
the
Swede
.
And
thus
the
care
of
the
War
was
put
upon
Walstein
:
but
as
all
his
feigned
coolness
was
only
to
obtain
Advantages
on
which
he
might
found
his
Usurpation
,
perceiving
that
they
did
not
act
sincerely
,
and
that
the
hatred
of
his
Enemies
gave
way
only
to
the
despair
of
their
Affairs
,
ready
to
break
out
again
,
when
they
could
ruine
him
securely
;
that
the
good-will
of
Ferdinand
seem'd
constrain'd
,
and
that
his
words
were
by
so
much
the
less
real
,
as
they
were
vehement
and
common
in
fear
;
he
confirms
himself
in
his
resolution
of
maintaining
his
Authority
by
fraud
and
by
force
,
believing
he
could
do
nothing
unjust
against
his
mortal
Enemies
.
And
now
,
after
many
Instances
,
having
declar'd
,
that
he
was
ready
to
do
what
they
would
,
provided
they
furnish'd
him
with
what
was
necessary
;
Echamberg
and
the
Bishop
of
Vienna
,
who
were
return'd
with
ample
power
to
grant
him
any
thing
,
urging
him
to
declare
what
he
desir'd
,
as
one
that
accepted
of
a
weighty
Charge
,
and
ask'd
only
such
things
as
might
aid
him
to
overcome
the
difficulties
of
it
,
with
much
confidence
he
told
them
,
that
several
reasons
would
have
forbid
him
accepting
the
Command
wherein
he
was
ingag'd
,
if
the
love
of
his
Countrey
and
desire
to
serve
his
Prince
had
not
controul'd
them
;
that
he
had
already
imployed
his
Estate
;
that
he
was
ready
to
hazard
his
life
also
;
that
they
would
have
him
add
his
Honour
,
which
he
esteem'd
above
Riches
or
Life
;
that
he
was
upon
the
point
to
begin
a
War
,
in
which
't
was
rashness
to
hope
a
good
success
;
with
a
Great
and
War-like
King
,
hitherto
Arbiter
of
Victory
and
Fortune
,
against
whom
he
should
only
oppose
new
and
vanquish'd
Souldiers
;
that
he
could
expect
nothing
from
the
weakness
of
the
Empire
,
the
division
of
its
Councils
,
the
falseness
of
its
Allies
;
that
he
found
he
was
the
mark
of
Hatred
and
Envy
;
that
in
this
condition
,
where
every
thing
was
against
him
,
and
he
had
nothing
but
his
Virtue
to
encourage
him
,
they
expected
with
impatience
the
success
of
his
Imployment
;
that
if
good
men
wish'd
him
prosperous
,
because
he
labour'd
for
the
Publick
good
,
his
Enemies
long'd
for
his
ruine
,
which
they
prefer'd
to
their
cause
,
prepar'd
to
accuse
him
as
guilty
,
if
he
fail'd
to
be
happy
,
and
to
impute
to
him
as
Crimes
the
faults
of
Fortune
.
That
for
these
Reasons
it
behov'd
him
to
see
,
that
good
men
might
not
be
deceiv'd
;
that
Malice
might
be
disappointed
,
and
his
Honour
preserv'd
;
and
that
it
was
but
fit
,
that
those
who
against
his
mind
had
call'd
him
to
such
difficulties
,
should
grant
him
what
they
,
as
well
as
himself
,
must
judge
necessary
to
his
present
condition
,
and
without
which
they
would
ruine
the
Affairs
of
the
Empire
,
and
his
Reputation
.
After
this
discourse
,
which
in
appearance
was
so
much
the
more
innocent
,
as
it
seem'd
free
and
disinteressed
,
he
gave
them
Articles
containing
,
That
they
made
him
General
of
the
Austrian
Armies
,
and
Arbiter
of
Peace
,
with
an
intire
,
absolute
and
independent
Power
;
that
the
King
of
Hungary
should
never
come
to
the
Army
;
that
he
might
by
his
private
Authority
,
and
without
communicating
with
the
Councils
of
Ferdinand
or
the
Chamber
of
Spire
,
dispose
of
Confiscations
,
Permissions
and
Graces
;
and
that
the
Hereditary
Countries
should
be
appointed
for
the
Winter
quarters
of
his
Army
.
These
Conditions
were
hard
,
and
Walstein
to
excuse
them
alledged
,
That
great
Enterprizes
were
scarce
ever
successful
,
but
under
the
Conduct
of
one
man
;
that
often
the
issue
had
been
unfortunate
where
many
were
mingled
in
Command
;
that
the
Romans
,
when
they
had
chas'd
away
their
Kings
,
were
forc'd
in
the
dangers
of
their
Commonwealth
to
create
Dictatours
;
that
Gustavus
acting
alone
,
on
weak
beginnings
found
himself
Victorious
beyond
his
hopes
;
that
on
the
contrary
,
a
multitude
of
Masters
had
lost
the
best
Souldiers
of
the
World
,
and
brought
the
Empire
almost
to
its
subversion
;
that
this
Example
was
enough
to
let
us
see
,
how
weak
Power
becomes
when
't
is
divided
;
that
the
fear
of
Shame
and
desire
of
Glory
made
us
act
vigorously
,
so
long
as
they
touch'd
none
but
our selves
,
but
when
they
were
in
common
,
we
neglected
that
reputation
and
that
blame
,
whereof
little
would
come
to
our
share
.
He
imploy'd
the
like
Reasons
for
Negotiations
of
Peace
,
where
number
hurts
the
secret
;
where
different
Interests
and
divers
Conducts
hoodwink
Prudence
,
retarding
or
diverting
opportunities
of
Treating
.
He
added
,
that
it
would
not
be
advantagious
the
King
of
Hungary
should
Command
in
the
Army
,
nor
fit
he
should
Obey
;
that
't
was
not
convenient
Souldiers
should
leave
the
Service
,
and
go
to
seek
Rewards
of
their
pains
at
Court
,
where
their
Faces
were
scarce
known
,
and
where
ordinarily
forward
men
and
Flatterers
disguised
Truth
,
decry'd
the
best
Actions
,
and
usurp'd
the
place
of
Merit
;
that
't
was
necessary
Rewards
and
Punishments
should
be
present
in
Armies
,
if
we
would
preserve
Order
and
gain
Affection
;
that
there
were
no
Souldiers
,
that
fight
for
a
steril
Fame
;
that
the
desire
of
Gain
and
Greatness
drew
them
to
the
War
;
that
their
Blood
was
the
price
of
their
Fortune
;
that
the
transport
of
our
Passions
being
the
cause
of
our
Crimes
,
the
pleasure
of
satisfying
them
would
turn
these
Crimes
into
Habits
,
when
not
severely
chastis'd
;
that
upon
hopes
of
Impunity
bad
men
were
hardned
,
Good
men
corrupted
,
and
Discipline
ruin'd
;
that
he
did
desire
permission
to
establish
his
Winter
quarters
in
the
Hereditary
Provinces
,
only
to
serve
himself
of
it
in
extremity
,
and
to
maintain
his
Army
,
if
he
should
be
reduc'd
to
that
Retreat
,
other
parts
of
Germany
being
harras'd
and
possest
by
the
Enemy
;
that
he
should
endeavour
by
all
ways
to
Winter
elsewhere
,
but
if
the
fortune
of
Arms
,
always
doubtful
,
should
draw
the
War
in
length
,
as
't
was
probable
,
or
if
Fortune
should
continue
lavishly
to
favour
the
worst
side
,
they
ought
resolve
to
suffer
this
moderated
inconvenience
,
unless
they
had
a
mind
to
see
the
Swedish
Troops
pillage
the
Provinces
,
and
the
Heritage
of
Caesars
become
a
prey
to
the
Barbarous
.
Though
all
this
appear'd
necessary
and
innocent
,
yet
the
thoughts
of
Walstein
aim'd
further
,
and
tended
to
grasp
a
Dictatorship
in
the
Empire
,
that
he
might
render
Ferdinand
despicable
,
despoil'd
of
his
Majesty
,
and
reduc'd
to
a
perfect
Idleness
;
and
also
to
accustome
the
Souldier
to
acknowledge
him
their
only
Master
:
every
one
ordinarily
fixing
his
Servitude
to
the
present
fear
or
profit
;
and
does
not
wonder
to
see
the
Sovereignty
usurp'd
by
him
that
acts
all
,
from
him
that
voluntarily
fitting
still
,
seems
to
have
given
it
away
to
the
more
worthy
.
Now
,
the
better
to
cover
his
intentions
,
and
to
shew
that
he
did
not
stretch
his
designs
beyond
those
of
a
Private
man
,
after
his
Propositions
that
regarded
the
Publick
,
he
made
others
for
himself
;
earnestly
urging
,
that
the
reward
of
what
Service
he
should
do
,
might
be
assign'd
him
in
Austria
,
and
that
his
restitution
to
the
Dukedom
of
Meckleburgh
should
be
compriz'd
in
any
Treaty
of
Peace
that
might
be
made
:
as
if
he
dreamt
of
nothing
,
but
to
joyn
himself
to
,
and
depend
more
than
ever
upon
the
House
of
Austria
;
limiting
his
Ambition
and
his
hopes
to
the
bare
recovery
of
his
ancient
Dignity
.
Praying
further
,
that
if
they
should
call
him
off
from
his
Service
,
he
might
have
six
Months
warning
,
to
prepare
himself
,
as
he
said
,
to
retire
without
disorder
:
whether
it
were
to
make
them
believe
,
that
holding
his
Authority
as
a
thing
indifferent
and
uncertain
,
he
was
far
from
any
thoughts
of
keeping
it
by
force
;
or
whether
he
desir'd
to
have
this
warning
given
him
,
that
he
might
be
the
better
able
to
carry
his
designs
to
their
ends
without
precipitation
,
if
he
sound
himself
oblig'd
to
it
.
After
they
had
granted
him
every
thing
,
the
Spaniards
accommodating
themselves
to
Affairs
,
and
,
according
to
the
time
,
feigning
Joy
for
his
re-establishment
,
sent
him
their
Order
of
the
Fleece
,
as
a
publick
mark
of
Honour
and
good-will
.
However
,
that
their
proceeding
might
not
be
suspected
of
dissimulation
or
weakness
,
and
that
they
might
not
seem
totally
to
abandon
their
Pretentions
to
rule
in
Germany
,
they
propos'd
,
that
after
the
recovery
of
Behemia
,
the
King
of
Hungary
should
remain
at
Prague
with
an
Army
capable
to
defend
that
Kingdom
,
and
to
maintain
it
in
Peace
and
Obedience
.
Walstein
applauded
this
Overture
(
though
he
perceived
whither
it
tended
)
being
certain
to
hinder
the
execution
,
and
condescended
,
fearing
lest
they
should
augure
ill
from
his
refusing
.
The
Duke
of
Bavaria
for
his
part
,
fearing
to
draw
the
implacable
hatred
of
his
ancient
Enemy
upon
his
Countrey
,
bow'd
to
the
necessity
,
and
chose
the
least
Evil
,
breaking
off
his
plotted
accommodation
with
the
King
of
Sweden
,
and
submitted
anew
to
the
Fortune
of
the
Empire
.
In
the
mean
time
,
the
Court
of
Vienna
was
busied
in
publick
processions
,
and
paid
Vows
for
the
success
of
an
Army
destin'd
to
its
ruine
.
But
Walstein
perswaded
,
that
whilst
they
acted
nothing
,
they
addrest
themselves
in
vain
to
Heaven
,
which
hates
the
Prayers
of
the
slothful
;
and
on
the
contrary
,
that
he
could
not
fail
of
Success
whilst
he
acted
with
vigilance
,
diligence
and
prudence
,
busied
himself
only
to
hasten
the
preparatives
to
his
design
,
and
attended
his
good
Fortune
.
The
mention
I
have
made
of
the
Spaniards
at
Vienna
,
minds
me
to
say
something
of
them
in
a
few
words
,
and
only
for
the
clearing
of
the
matter
.
When
Charles
the
Fifth
had
shar'd
to
his
Family
the
Empire
and
the
Kingdom
of
Spain
,
his
Successours
remaining
in
the
Union
,
believ'd
it
was
their
interest
to
make
the
same
Peace
,
the
same
War
,
to
have
the
same
Alliances
;
whatever
concern'd
the
Greatness
of
their
House
being
common
to
them
;
and
after
they
had
consulted
together
for
the
publick
benefit
they
acted
apart
,
and
each
did
his
own
business
.
Rodolphus
and
Matthias
did
thus
.
But
the
Troubles
of
Germany
oblig'd
Ferdinand
to
implore
,
with
more
importunity
than
ordinary
,
the
power
of
the
Spaniard
:
they
valued
themselves
upon
his
easiness
and
the
urgency
of
the
occasion
,
to
seize
on
the
office
of
his
Ministers
,
and
would
themselves
have
the
government
and
disposal
of
those
aids
of
Men
or
Moneys
wherewith
they
assisted
him
.
As
this
first
Usurpation
took
effect
,
they
fortified
themselves
in
the
Emperours
Council
by
Pensions
and
Presents
,
so
that
at
length
nothing
was
done
without
them
.
Afterwards
their
Embassadour
had
a
particular
Council
to
deliberate
of
that
which
should
be
proposed
in
the
general
,
where
most
Resolutions
waited
upon
his
projects
;
not
without
the
extream
jealousie
of
those
among
the
German
Ministers
,
who
possest
the
Favour
of
Ferdinand
,
and
would
Govern
themselves
,
accounting
it
a
shame
,
that
Strangers
should
meddle
in
the
administrations
of
the
Empire
.
Thus
were
the
two
Factions
opposed
,
and
the
Empire
diversly
agitated
.
Let
this
suffice
.
Walstein
having
laid
so
happily
the
foundation
of
his
Revolt
,
deliberates
to
prolong
the
War
,
that
he
might
have
time
to
gain
the
Souldiers
,
to
ruine
the
Duke
of
Bavaria
by
the
Swedes
,
to
weaken
the
Hereditary
Provinces
by
Winter
quarters
,
and
at
leasure
to
make
his
Peace
with
the
Enemies
of
his
Master
.
Without
all
this
he
could
do
nothing
,
and
to
bring
it
about
much
time
was
necessary
.
He
resolv'd
however
to
use
all
diligence
in
the
Conquering
Bohemia
,
that
after
such
a
quick
expedition
they
should
not
suspect
him
for
the
length
of
the
War
;
and
that
he
might
insensibly
secure
himself
of
that
Kingdom
.
I
thought
of
nothing
less
,
than
to
recite
the
particulars
of
Walsteins
Military
exploits
;
divers
who
of
design
have
wrote
the
History
of
the
last
German
War
,
have
carefully
and
elegantly
recounted
them
.
I
shall
only
say
what
seems
necessary
to
my
Subject
.
OF
STYLE
.
I
Remember
that
in
my
first
years
of
Study
,
at
all
Academical
Assemblies
,
or
Private
Meetings
of
young
Students
,
great
things
were
said
of
that
Love
of
Plato
,
which
ravishes
the
mind
from
visible
beauties
to
invisible
.
No
sort
of
Argument
was
more
familiar
in
all
mens
mouths
;
nothing
furnish'd
Poets
with
more
propitious
matter
;
nothing
suggested
to
Oratours
a
more
benign
Subject
.
Wherefore
,
not
to
seem
a
Stranger
amongst
so
many
Citizens
of
Plato's
Commonwealth
,
I
betook
my self
with
a
great
deal
of
fervour
to
look
into
the
reverenc'd
Memorials
of
that
worthy
Philosopher
;
and
found
,
that
the
Pla●●nical
Doctrine
had
no
legitimate
consonancy
with
the
discourse
of
my
Friends
:
so
that
I
enquir'd
of
them
concerning
it
;
but
they
could
never
assign
me
a
right
definition
of
the
Love
they
call'd
Plasonick
,
according
to
the
true
Principles
of
their
Master
.
The
same
hath
hapned
to
me
concerning
Style
.
What
word
amongst
the
Learned
and
Unlearned
,
more
domestick
than
this
?
Who
is
not
bold
to
judge
of
it
?
who
does
not
pronounce
definitive
Sentences
,
condemning
the
greatest
Authors
who
have
labour'd
for
Praise
?
This
hath
no
Style
,
his
Style
is
too
rough
;
't
is
a
difficult
Style
,
that
is
consus'd
,
and
the
other
is
harsh
.
I
weep
over
the
unhappy
condition
of
the
Learned
,
who
perhaps
dare
not
suffer
their
Pens
to
take
a
flight
through
the
unknown
fields
of
Posterity
,
seeing
the
Heaven
of
the
present
Age
thus
darkned
with
clouds
of
Ignorance
and
Envy
,
which
thunder
upon
Historians
,
lighten
in
the
face
of
Oratours
,
and
blast
the
Bays
upon
the
venerable
Heads
of
Poets
.
I
made
it
my
task
therefore
to
search
among
the
Writings
of
the
Greeks
and
Latins
,
and
try
if
I
could
establish
in
my
mind
with
any
clearness
what
Style
is
,
in
what
it
is
placed
,
of
what
parts
it
is
compos'd
,
or
rather
from
the
conjunction
of
what
pieces
it
results
.
If
the
Science
which
God
at
first
infus'd
were
transmitted
to
the
Sons
of
Adam
,
as
well
as
the
Sin
which
he
contracted
is
propagated
,
Mankind
would
have
no
need
of
any
other
Instrument
for
the
full
knowledge
of
things
,
than
the
Names
by
which
they
were
call'd
.
For
though
the
Divine
light
participated
to
Adam
,
serv'd
to
many
and
noble
effects
,
yet
in
this
it
singularly
shin'd
forth
,
that
letting
him
perfectly
know
the
Essence
of
Created
things
,
he
could
impose
a
Name
upon
every
one
of
them
,
which
efficaciously
exprest
their
Nature
;
so
that
every
Name
might
be
call'd
,
the
Definition
of
the
thing
named
.
But
because
in
that
woful
Patrimony
,
inherited
by
his
unhappy
Posterity
,
the
plague
of
Ignorance
is
not
the
least
;
we
bewail
the
loss
of
Infallible
Science
together
with
Original
Righteousness
;
and
wandring
through
the
uncertain
and
deceitful
paths
of
a
cloudy
Philosophy
,
we
puzzle
our selves
amongst
shadows
of
Names
,
to
arrive
the
best
we
may
at
the
brightness
of
Truth
and
Essences
.
Wherefore
,
according
to
the
best
Examples
,
let
us
arrest
our
consideration
upon
the
Name
.
Stylus
,
according
to
its
Natural
sense
,
was
nothing
else
but
an
Instrument
,
sharp
at
one
end
and
broad
at
the
other
,
which
was
us'd
to
write
Characters
in
Waxen
Table-books
,
or
to
cancel
what
was
written
.
From
the
material
Instrument
with
which
they
wrote
,
the
signification
was
afterwards
transfer'd
to
the
act
of
Writing
,
that
is
,
to
the
use
and
exercise
of
the
Instrument
.
It
was
likewise
appropriated
to
Composing
,
and
in
this
sense
't
is
most
frequently
us'd
.
And
because
the
office
of
a
judicious
Author
is
double
,
to
Write
and
to
Correct
,
this
last
is
recommended
by
Quintilian
,
who
prescribes
the
use
of
that
part
of
the
Style
which
is
less
acute
,
and
which
serv'd
to
cancel
the
Characters
.
The
sharp
end
of
the
Style
had
also
its
Allegorical
signification
:
for
when
they
would
note
a
Book
for
being
Bitter
and
Satyrical
,
they
spoke
of
his
Style
,
not
as
of
an
Instrument
of
Writing
,
but
as
of
Arms
which
pierced
and
wounded
.
None
of
these
Considerations
can
lead
us
to
that
knowledge
of
Style
we
seek
;
but
there
is
one
place
in
Terence
which
goes
a
little
further
:
for
he
uses
the
word
Style
so
,
as
it
is
not
restrain'd
to
signifie
a
bare
Composition
,
but
comprehends
besides
a
certain
particular
quality
or
,
manner
of
Composing
.
'T
is
once
us'd
by
Cieero
in
the
same
sense
,
and
afterwards
frequently
by
Authors
of
less
Fame
.
But
though
many
took
Style
for
a
quality
of
,
or
manner
us'd
in
Composing
,
yet
none
have
declared
what
it
is
,
or
prescrib'd
Rules
for
it
.
So
that
we
must
proceed
in
our
Inquiry
.
The
use
of
Speech
was
given
to
man
for
the
Instrument
of
Reason
:
and
if
we
were
what
we
ought
to
be
,
the
simplicity
of
natural
Speaking
were
enough
to
perswade
to
Goodness
,
and
when
the
Understanding
had
Truth
any
way
represented
to
it
,
without
any
inticements
of
flattering
Eloquence
,
it
would
run
to
imbrace
it
;
and
the
Will
,
freely
bound
by
the
naked
,
but
efficacious
proposal
of
what
is
good
,
would
feel
it self
ravish'd
to
a
liking
of
it
,
without
expecting
the
Artificial
engines
of
an
Elegant
discourse
.
But
because
't
is
long
since
that
the
vigour
of
our
Innocency
was
enervated
,
Art
strives
to
come
in
with
its
aids
to
the
relief
of
oppressed
Nature
;
and
hath
in
its
Schools
compos'd
two
sorts
of
Remedies
.
The
one
violent
,
call'd
the
moving
of
the
Affection
,
which
does
not
work
but
by
a
notable
alteration
of
the
Patient
:
The
other
pleasant
,
call'd
Elocution
,
in
whose
company
Perswasion
does
sweetly
instil
it self
into
the
mind
.
Both
of
them
manag'd
by
the
Masters
of
the
Art
,
not
as
laudable
in
themselves
,
but
as
necessary
to
the
Infirmities
of
the
Auditors
.
The
last
only
serves
to
our
proposed
end
.
Elocution
is
generally
divided
into
two
parts
,
Purity
and
Ornament
.
Perhaps
he
would
say
the
same
,
that
bids
us
take
care
ut
verba
sint
Latina
,
aperta
,
ornata
.
Latina
,
that
they
do
not
break
the
Laws
of
received
Grammar
,
nor
recede
from
the
sense
given
them
by
the
most
Fam'd
Authors
,
nor
be
rude
and
uncultivate
.
Aperta
,
by
propriety
and
use
,
shunning
improper
ones
,
and
such
as
are
not
commonly
us'd
by
good
Authors
.
Ornata
,
with
figures
,
call'd
Tropes
and
Schemes
by
the
Greeks
.
But
if
Elocution
consists
only
in
the
choice
of
Words
,
and
in
the
ornament
given
them
by
Figures
,
we
cannot
rightly
call
it
Style
,
not
will
the
body
of
a
Discourse
be
enobled
by
it
only
,
as
it
ought
.
It
seems
to
me
,
that
Words
(
whether
in
their
own
nature
elegant
,
or
rais'd
to
a
forein
sense
by
using
them
figuratively
)
are
like
Stones
which
are
prepar'd
for
a
stately
Building
.
For
,
whether
they
are
precious
themselves
(
as
Marble
spotted
or
sincere
)
or
curiously
wrought
by
a
Chissil
,
if
they
have
not
in
the
structure
of
the
Edifice
the
symmetry
which
they
ought
to
have
,
if
they
do
not
keep
a
due
distance
,
or
want
equality
of
measure
,
they
cannot
compose
a
beautiful
Palace
or
a
sumptuous
Temple
.
To
reduce
Elocution
then
to
a
perfect
Form
,
't
is
necessary
that
something
be
added
to
the
Words
and
Figures
,
by
virtue
of
which
their
worth
may
appear
the
better
in
the
composition
;
which
is
done
by
a
judicious
placing
of
them
;
wherein
an
eye
must
be
had
to
the
Subject
which
is
handled
by
us
.
For
,
as
noble
and
elevate
Conceits
occur
in
vain
to
the
mind
,
if
they
do
not
meet
with
an
excellent
Elocution
,
which
can
fortunately
display
them
:
so
a
treasure
of
excellent
Words
and
ingenious
Figures
little
avail
,
if
they
are
not
both
call'd
out
to
their
proper
places
by
a
discreet
Collocation
.
Thus
Elocution
being
confin'd
within
too
narrow
bounds
by
those
,
who
restrain
it
to
the
propriety
and
ornament
of
Words
;
further
inquiring
into
what
the
Masters
of
the
best
tast
have
said
concerning
it
,
we
find
that
they
recommend
Elegance
,
Composition
,
and
Dignity
.
Under
the
first
name
of
Elegance
is
understood
the
Latinism
of
the
Romans
,
Helenism
of
the
Greeks
,
and
Tuscanism
of
the
Italians
,
and
so
proportionately
according
to
the
Language
;
by
which
they
mean
certainly
in
the
Grammar
Rules
of
that
Age
;
clearness
,
by
the
use
of
received
Words
,
and
proper
to
the
matter
they
handle
.
The
second
word
,
Composition
,
expresses
the
good
placing
of
Words
and
Periods
amongst
themselves
.
The
third
,
Dignity
,
signifies
the
ornament
which
the
Writing
recives
from
Figures
,
which
consist
either
in
Words
or
regard
the
Sentence
.
To
draw
now
the
most
general
virtues
of
Elocution
into
a
Compendium
:
Let
it
be
first
Pure
;
that
it
does
not
trip
in
the
path
of
Grammar
.
And
that
it
not
only
be
at
distance
from
Vice
or
Errour
,
but
as
much
as
may
be
,
approach
that
Vertue
which
may
render
the
Composition
without
exception
chast
and
correct
.
Let
it
be
clear
and
perspicuous
:
and
this
perspicuity
is
chiefly
deriv'd
from
the
propriety
of
it
.
We
must
acknowledge
for
an
undoubted
Truth
,
that
those
who
Writers
,
refusing
the
way
trodden
by
good
Authors
,
practise
unus'd
Forms
,
do
so
intreague
Elocution
,
that
the
poor
Reader
finds
his
path
intangled
,
nor
can
free
his
feet
from
those
Enigma's
which
retard
him
.
An
Errour
common
to
the
Writers
of
our
times
,
who
think
then
they
are
Witty
,
Si
ad
eos
intelligendos
opus
sit
ingenio
.
But
because
facility
in
a
discourse
for
the
most
part
borders
upon
meanness
,
we
must
look
that
it
be
clear
and
easie
,
but
that
discretion
prescribe
a
measure
,
that
it
does
not
become
low
and
groveling
.
To
this
we
must
add
Ornament
,
which
proceeds
from
an
opportune
managing
of
the
Figures
,
whether
they
are
of
Words
or
Sentences
.
It
must
not
be
effeminate
or
lascivious
;
but
as
Quintilian
saith
,
Virilis
,
fortis
&
Sanctus
.
Also
that
sort
of
Ornament
must
be
chosen
,
that
fits
the
nature
of
the
discourse
.
For
one
kind
becomes
the
Historian
,
another
the
Poet
,
another
the
Oratour
:
or
rather
none
of
these
must
be
always
uniform
,
but
vary
habit
as
the
matter
requires
.
In
Elocution
also
regard
must
be
had
to
the
Sound
and
Numbers
.
For
,
though
Number
principally
appertains
to
Verse
,
yet
for
all
that
,
Prose
hath
its
proportionate
Numbers
different
from
the
Poetical
,
whereof
the
Ear
that
hath
contracted
a
good
habit
is
the
best
Judge
.
And
in
this
particular
it
were
to
be
wish'd
,
that
some
Modern
Authors
bore
more
respect
to
the
Ears
of
understanding
men
:
for
we
see
a
form
of
Discourse
introduc'd
,
abrupt
and
loud
,
which
like
Water
broke
off
in
the
midst
of
its
course
by
Stones
,
wonderfully
offends
the
hearing
.
In
the
last
place
,
let
it
be
well
plac'd
or
dispos'd
.
Hence
springs
the
dependance
and
joynting
of
Members
and
Periods
.
Whence
those
who
work
their
pieces
ala
Musaico
may
perceive
,
that
forming
a
Discourse
made
up
of
bits
,
not
chain'd
together
,
but
broken
and
no
way
correspondent
,
make
a
Garment
of
divers
Snips
ill
stitch'd
together
,
but
do
not
weave
a
regular
and
uniform
piece
.
Every
three
words
a
Period
.
Every
Period
a
Sentence
,
which
does
not
agree
with
what
went
before
,
nor
calls
for
that
which
follows
.
Whatever
I
have
said
of
Elocution
,
I
cannot
resolve
that
the
Style
we
are
in
search
of
,
consists
in
it
.
'T
is
true
we
have
laid
a
Foundation
,
but
all
the
parts
of
an
entire
building
are
not
in
the
Foundation
.
We
must
pass
on
therefore
:
For
if
to
the
constituting
Style
the
three
kinds
or
Characters
of
Writing
are
necessary
,
then
Elocution
alone
is
not
enough
.
Elocution
,
though
in
its
perfection
,
if
it
be
without
the
Characters
,
forms
,
or
Idea's
of
Speech
,
remains
idle
and
indetermin'd
.
For
if
a
discourse
were
to
be
examin'd
by
the
foregoing
Rules
of
Elocution
,
many
things
would
remain
unexamin'd
,
because
they
do
not
belong
to
the
Elocution
,
but
to
the
Character
or
Idea
.
The
Characters
of
Speech
are
three
;
the
Sublime
,
the
Humble
,
and
the
Temperate
.
Homer
is
said
to
have
excellently
observ'd
this
distinction
in
three
principal
persons
of
his
Poem
.
To
Menelaus
he
attributes
a
mode
of
Reasoning
altogether
sincere
and
restrain'd
,
without
superfluity
;
which
is
the
vertue
of
the
Humble
Character
;
whilst
words
,
they
said
,
flow'd
out
of
Nestors
mouth
more
sweet
than
Honey
,
and
regards
the
Temperate
.
But
to
express
the
Sublime
,
in
the
person
of
Vlysses
he
composes
such
an
ample
and
stately
Eloquence
,
as
is
compared
to
a
Torrent
inrich'd
and
grown
proud
by
melted
Snow
.
There
is
no
Subject
which
may
not
laudably
be
manag'd
with
diversity
of
Character
.
That
Almighty
God
,
who
hath
the
Seat
of
his
Glory
upon
the
back
of
Cherubins
;
and
sometimes
carried
upon
the
Wings
of
the
Wind
,
sometimes
in
a
Triumphal
Chariot
to
which
Seraphims
serve
for
Wheels
,
and
passes
over
the
immense
Fields
of
the
Heavens
;
what
matter
does
not
this
furnish
to
the
Sublimity
of
discourse
we
find
in
Ezekiel
and
Isaiah
?
But
the
same
God
,
whilst
he
gathers
the
Souls
of
the
Faithful
,
as
a
Hen
gathers
her
Chickens
,
and
under
the
Wings
of
his
gracious
Protection
keeps
and
defends
them
,
humbles
himself
under
the
simplicity
of
Conceit
and
Character
,
with
which
,
for
all
that
,
his
infinite
Majesty
is
not
diminish'd
or
offended
.
Who
more
magnificently
reasons
of
Divine
things
than
the
Areopagite
?
But
,
who
more
devoutly
discourses
of
the
same
things
than
St.
Bernard
?
Nazianzen
lightens
and
thunders
;
as
if
having
put
off
humanity
,
he
strove
to
equal
the
height
of
his
Subject
with
a
Celestial
facundity
.
Anselmus
sighs
and
weeps
,
and
accompanies
the
sense
of
his
Soul
with
Humility
of
thoughts
and
words
.
Let
us
add
,
that
certain
Authors
are
endow'd
with
a
Wit
and
Genius
of
that
nature
,
that
whatever
Matter
they
handle
they
do
it
with
uniformity
of
Character
;
because
they
are
not
capable
of
any
variety
.
Men
who
write
on
all
Subjects
with
a
Character
so
generous
and
high
,
that
they
cannot
stoop
even
in
the
most
tender
and
delicate
affections
.
Let
us
take
the
Example
from
Painting
and
Sculpture
.
We
see
in
the
Pieces
of
some
that
are
universally
famous
,
a
certain
particular
Manner
that
distinguishes
them
from
others
.
One
is
so
excellent
in
formiug
the
tenderness
of
the
Flesh
,
that
he
unwillingly
encounters
a
Figure
that
is
robust
and
nervous
;
or
if
he
is
to
draw
an
Athlet
,
in
that
vastness
of
vigorous
Members
there
will
appear
the
delicateness
of
the
Idea
,
which
guided
the
hand
that
form'd
it
:
Others
,
on
the
contrary
,
profess
a
way
and
Manner
more
resolute
and
virile
;
and
these
know
not
how
to
paint
a
Youth
,
which
shall
not
resemble
Hippolytus
in
Fierceness
:
they
cannot
paint
a
Lady
but
like
an
Amazon
;
and
for
all
this
,
their
Works
are
most
perfect
.
Of
the
first
sort
amongst
the
Ancients
was
Polictetus
,
who
form'd
humane
Statues
beautiful
to
wonder
,
but
never
could
arrive
to
bestow
on
the
Images
of
the
Gods
that
Majesty
,
or
,
as
Quintilian
calls
it
,
that
weight
which
is
convenient
to
a
Divinity
.
So
it
happens
to
Writers
also
,
according
to
the
difference
of
Genius
,
or
perhaps
of
Habit
which
they
contract
in
composing
.
Some
,
though
the
Argument
be
low
and
vulgar
,
yet
for
all
that
,
discourse
as
magnificently
of
it
as
they
can
:
so
on
the
contrary
,
the
same
variety
is
often
caused
by
Circumstances
which
accompany
the
Writing
.
Of
a
glorious
and
heroick
Exploit
in
War
,
may
be
form'd
a
Letter
,
which
by
way
of
Advice
recounts
it
;
a
Dialogue
which
examines
it
;
a
History
that
transmits
it
to
Posterity
;
an
Oration
that
exalts
it
,
and
a
Poem
that
sings
it
;
and
who
does
not
see
with
what
diversity
of
Character
this
sole
Argument
may
be
commendably
handled
?
Examples
of
the
Characters
out
of
Tasso
.
BY
all
this
discourse
we
do
not
reach
a
decision
of
Style
;
for
,
that
it
does
not
consist
in
these
three
Characters
,
we
may
consider
first
,
that
if
Style
and
Character
were
one
,
there
would
be
but
three
sorts
of
Style
,
as
there
are
but
three
Characters
;
which
is
so
manifestly
oppos'd
to
Experience
,
that
we
find
as
many
kinds
of
Style
as
there
are
Writers
.
Besides
,
we
find
many
excellent
Authors
who
write
in
the
same
Character
,
which
compar'd
are
of
a
Style
vastly
different
;
and
every
one
hath
his
proper
excellence
,
which
distinguishes
him
from
those
,
from
whom
he
does
not
differ
in
the
kind
or
character
of
Writing
.
Virgil
and
Lucan
compos'd
their
Heroick
Poems
in
the
Sublime
character
,
yet
they
are
altogether
unlike
in
Style
.
Let
us
add
,
that
the
most
Famous
Authors
make
use
of
all
the
Characters
according
to
occasion
,
yet
the
Style
with
which
they
manage
them
is
the
same
.
Nor
does
Cicero
vary
his
Style
with
his
Character
,
whether
he
writes
a
familiar
Epistle
or
forms
a
Dialogue
,
or
treats
of
Morality
,
or
thunders
in
an
Oration
;
but
by
the
consent
of
all
men
the
Ciceronian
Style
is
one
and
the
the
same
.
And
thus
we
have
found
,
I
think
fortunately
enough
,
in
what
Style
does
not
consist
,
and
what
it
is
not
:
But
because
to
be
defin'd
by
Negations
belongs
only
to
the
Divinity
,
by
reason
of
that
infinite
excess
in
all
the
parts
of
it
,
which
does
not
suffer
created
Understanding
to
comprehend
it
;
let
us
see
if
we
can
in
Positive
terms
arrive
at
the
Truth
we
seek
.
The
Precepts
,
the
Art
of
Elocution
,
the
Forms
and
Characters
of
Discourse
are
common
to
all
;
but
Nature
,
which
endows
men
with
different
Genius
,
hath
so
order'd
it
,
that
every
one
in
the
use
of
those
Precepts
possesses
a
certain
particularity
,
something
peculiar
,
which
springs
from
his
proper
Genius
,
by
virtue
whereof
that
Elocution
,
those
Forms
,
that
Character
in
themselves
common
to
all
Writers
become
in
such
manner
proper
to
each
one
,
that
one
mans
Writing
is
distinguish'd
from
another
by
that
particularness
:
and
this
I
would
call
Style
.
Thucidides
and
Demosthenes
,
according
to
the
opinion
of
all
Masters
of
the
Art
,
form'd
their
Writings
according
to
the
magnifick
or
sublime
Character
.
And
not
differing
in
the
Character
,
by
consequence
they
do
not
differ
in
the
Form
and
Elocution
,
which
are
the
parts
whereof
Character
is
compos'd
:
yet
,
whoever
shall
read
their
Works
will
find
in
them
a
mighty
difference
,
and
shall
not
know
wherein
it
consists
.
Now
this
difference
arises
from
that
particularity
which
issues
from
the
proper
Genius
of
each
of
them
,
so
working
that
though
Character
in
the
kind
and
the
precept
be
the
same
,
yet
it
is
not
the
same
in
the
use
:
so
that
from
the
Character
in
conjunction
with
the
individual
particularity
springing
from
the
use
of
Thucidides
genius
or
wit
,
results
the
Style
of
Thucidides
;
and
from
the
same
Character
in
the
application
of
it
,
and
individual
use
of
Demosthenes
,
results
the
Style
of
Demosthenes
.
'T
is
on
all
hands
confess'd
,
that
Arguments
may
be
drawn
from
the
Writing
,
if
not
infallible
and
necessary
,
at
least
probable
and
well
grounded
,
of
the
affections
and
manners
of
the
Writer
.
But
this
guess
cannot
be
founded
in
the
Character
;
for
't
would
be
insufferable
fascity
to
infer
uniformity
of
passions
and
manners
in
those
that
compose
in
an
uniform
Character
:
therefore
the
illation
depends
upon
some
other
principle
more
individual
and
intrinsick
.
Virgil
and
Lucan
,
for
what
concerns
Character
,
must
both
be
ranked
with
the
Sublime
.
Now
he
that
in
the
Works
of
Lucan
traces
the
manners
of
the
Writer
,
will
esteem
him
conrumacious
,
proud
,
impatient
of
Order
and
Laws
;
of
tumultuous
thoughts
,
precipitous
resolutions
;
agitated
rather
by
fury
than
by
sober
Counsels
;
worthy
,
in
fine
,
to
be
numbred
amongst
those
that
conspir'd
against
Nero.
On
the
contrary
,
Virgil
will
appear
always
noble
and
honourable
;
of
pleasing
behaviour
;
of
a
generous
,
but
temperate
mind
;
an
Enemy
of
all
Indignity
,
tenacious
of
Decorum
;
bashful
,
but
manly
.
Now
if
this
diversity
hath
no
foundation
in
the
Character
,
which
is
the
same
in
both
,
it
must
have
it
in
that
particular
manner
in
the
application
and
use
of
the
Character
,
which
is
individual
to
every
one
,
as
the
Wit
which
produces
it
is
individual
,
and
makes
the
difference
of
Lucans
and
Virgils
Style
.
I
will
add
one
Consideration
,
which
,
if
I
am
not
deceiv'd
,
serves
efficaciously
to
display
the
Opinion
I
intend
to
establish
.
In
the
short
space
of
humane
face
,
by
an
unconceivable
miracle
of
Nature
the
same
parts
concur
in
every
one
;
and
in
all
,
they
are
disposed
in
the
same
order
,
placed
with
correspondent
and
uniform
distance
;
and
yet
in
this
likeness
of
parts
an
entire
dissimilitude
of
Faces
appears
.
Further
,
let
us
imagine
a
thousand
Faces
equally
beautiful
in
proportion
and
symmetry
of
parts
and
well
temper'd
colour
,
yet
for
all
that
each
of
them
shall
have
its
proper
air
,
which
shall
be
enough
to
distinguish
it
from
all
the
rest
.
Whence
we
say
,
this
hath
a
gentle
air
,
this
a
noble
mein
.
'T
is
certain
,
the
Air
does
not
consist
in
the
parts
so
order'd
and
dispos'd
,
nor
in
the
Colour
temper'd
and
compos'd
after
a
certain
manner
,
for
both
one
and
the
other
are
common
to
all
of
them
:
yea
,
it
oftentimes
happens
,
that
a
Face
which
is
not
fair
according
to
the
proprieties
appertaining
to
perfect
Beauty
,
is
for
all
that
of
a
better
air
,
and
more
amiable
than
one
entirely
Beautiful
.
So
that
what
we
vulgarly
call
the
Air
of
the
Face
,
is
a
proper
and
individual
quality
of
each
one
arising
from
the
particular
Complexion
,
by
which
it
is
rendred
different
from
others
,
in
common
with
which
it
hath
the
same
measure
and
order
of
Parts
,
and
mixture
of
Colours
.
And
this
,
perhaps
though
understood
by
all
men
,
we
know
not
how
to
define
or
express
.
This
Air
of
the
Face
answers
to
Style
,
as
the
Parts
and
Colour
correspond
with
Character
;
and
is
perhaps
what
the
Masters
of
the
Art
often
name
Orationis
Color
,
and
we
may
style
the
Air
of
a
Composition
.
But
it
may
be
another
similitude
drawn
from
Art
,
will
better
express
our
intentions
,
and
't
is
taken
out
of
Cicero
.
Four
things
are
necessarily
requir'd
to
render
a
Painter
excellent
in
his
Art
:
Design
,
Colour
,
Composition
,
and
Custome
;
(
though
for
Custome
't
is
known
of
few
,
and
observ'd
by
fewer
:
)
and
if
a
Painter
fail
in
any
of
these
parts
,
he
cannot
be
term'd
excellent
.
Raphael
,
Titian
,
and
Corregio
possess'd
them
all
in
a
supream
degree
:
and
at
this
day
,
eminently
,
Giuseppino
,
&c.
Wherefore
in
the
mouths
of
those
that
understand
,
they
pass
for
Painters
of
the
first
Classis
,
and
such
as
fortunately
contend
with
the
Ancients
.
'T
is
certain
for
all
this
,
that
amongst
themselves
they
vastly
differ
.
Nor
can
this
difference
have
its
original
in
those
things
which
have
an
invariable
and
common
Rule
:
for
they
have
all
a
regular
design
;
proportionate
colour
,
though
not
uniform
;
every
one
of
them
preserves
an
orderly
Composition
,
without
confusion
,
and
all
of
them
study
,
as
they
may
,
livelily
to
express
Custome
;
and
yet
those
who
understand
the
excellency
of
the
Art
,
find
out
a
particularity
in
their
Pieces
,
by
virtue
of
which
they
know
how
to
pronounce
this
Picture
is
Giuseppino's
,
this
Guido's
,
&c.
And
to
this
particularity
,
by
men
of
the
Skill
,
is
given
the
title
of
Manner
,
or
Way
;
whence
they
say
the
Manner
of
Raphael
and
the
Manner
of
Titian
.
To
the
Manner
of
Painters
we
may
compare
the
Style
of
Writers
,
and
say
as
properly
,
this
is
the
Style
of
Salust
in
Catelines
Conspiracy
,
as
this
is
the
Manner
of
Raphael
,
speaking
of
a
Picture
.
From
all
that
hath
been
said
we
may
draw
these
Corollaries
.
First
,
that
Style
is
a
particular
and
individual
manner
of
Discoursing
or
Writing
,
arising
from
the
particular
Genius
of
each
Writer
in
the
application
and
use
of
the
Characters
of
Discourse
.
Secondly
,
Comparing
Character
with
Style
,
this
holds
of
Nature
and
Genius
,
that
regards
Art
and
Study
.
And
by
consequence
this
multiplies
and
varies
according
to
the
number
and
quality
of
the
Genius's
;
that
remains
always
divided
into
three
Members
,
as
before
we
have
declared
.
Thirdly
,
To
ask
any
one
in
what
Style
he
writes
,
is
foolish
;
because
he
cannot
compose
in
any
other
Style
than
his
own
,
dictated
by
his
Genius
:
except
that
through
imitation
he
may
study
to
express
with
some
likeness
the
Style
of
another
;
so
that
to
render
the
question
proper
,
we
ought
to
say
,
In
what
Character
does
he
write
;
when
we
do
not
mean
Imitation
.
Fourthly
,
We
may
say
,
this
is
the
Style
of
Thucidides
and
Salust
;
but
we
cannot
say
,
this
is
their
Character
,
for
't
is
a
thing
common
to
all
,
and
not
proper
to
any
one
,
as
Style
is
.
The
History
of
ALCIDALIS
and
ZELIDE
;
Written
in
French
by
Mr.
Voiture
.
Dedicated
to
Madamoiselle
de
Rambouillet
,
who
invented
the
Subject
of
it
.
—
unfinish'd
.
Les
plus
belles
choses
du
monde
sont
imparfaites
.
WHen
Spain
was
divided
,
not
only
amongst
many
Kings
,
but
amongst
many
Nations
;
and
that
the
Gothes
,
Moors
,
and
Spaniards
held
each
a
part
of
it
;
Aragon
was
under
the
power
of
one
King
,
who
amidst
the
Wars
wherewith
his
Neighbours
were
busied
,
had
always
maintain'd
his
Subjects
in
Peace
;
and
who
had
nothing
remarkable
,
but
his
being
Father
to
him
whose
History
we
write
.
His
Wife
,
when
she
had
given
him
a
Son
,
left
him
a
Widower
,
much
about
the
time
that
the
Countess
of
Barcellona
,
a
young
and
vertuous
Princess
,
lost
her
Husband
.
band
.
Though
he
was
now
old
,
his
Council
and
Subjects
found
,
that
for
the
safety
of
his
Person
and
Estate
,
it
were
to
be
wish'd
he
could
leave
more
than
one
Heir
;
and
pray'd
him
to
that
purpose
,
to
choose
a
Wife
to
his
mind
in
his
own
Countrey
,
or
amongst
his
Neighbours
.
The
Beauty
and
Vertue
of
the
Countess
were
known
beyond
Aragon
.
And
besides
that
reason
of
State
requir'd
,
that
an
occasion
of
joyning
to
his
Kingdom
a
Town
so
important
as
Barcellona
should
not
be
lost
,
the
inclination
of
the
King
did
entirely
carry
him
to
it
.
Rosalva
(
for
so
she
was
call'd
)
was
fair
enough
,
and
Judicious
as
she
was
fair
:
and
finding
her self
a
Sovereign
Princess
,
nothing
less
than
a
Scepter
could
tempt
her
to
a
second
Marriage
.
But
having
only
one
Daughter
,
and
the
King
of
Aragon
but
one
Son
,
she
believed
that
it
was
not
only
to
make
her self
a
Queen
,
but
to
leave
an
hereditary
Kingdom
to
her
Daughter
:
and
that
being
amidst
many
Neighbours
,
who
design'd
upon
her
State
,
she
could
not
be
blam'd
for
securing
it
by
putting
a
Crown
upon
her
head
.
She
easily
agreed
then
to
lose
the
name
of
Countess
of
Barcellona
to
be
Queen
of
Aragon
;
and
was
received
with
all
the
Joy
and
Magnificence
possible
.
Being
young
,
fair
,
and
witty
,
in
a
short
time
she
absolutely
govern'd
the
King
,
and
soon
after
the
whole
Kingdom
.
The
most
important
Affairs
were
not
determin'd
without
her
advice
:
And
the
King
had
quitted
all
sorts
of
care
for
that
of
pleasing
her
.
But
in
this
great
Power
,
her
main
design
was
to
marry
her
Daughter
with
the
Prince
:
and
the
knowledge
she
had
of
her
Son
in
Law
daily
augmented
in
her
the
desire
of
this
union
.
Alcidalis
(
't
was
the
name
of
the
Prince
)
was
born
so
happily
,
and
with
so
many
advantages
of
Nature
,
that
one
of
his
least
qualities
was
to
be
Son
to
a
King
.
He
had
a
Beauty
which
gain'd
the
hearts
of
all
that
look'd
upon
it
,
a
Wit
which
in
the
first
years
of
his
age
found
no
equal
,
and
a
height
of
Soul
and
Courage
which
gave
respect
and
fear
to
all
the
World
.
The
Childhood
of
Alexander
was
not
greater
nor
more
marvellous
than
his
.
There
past
no
day
wherein
he
did
not
say
or
do
something
which
astonish'd
all
the
Court
.
Those
who
had
the
art
to
judge
of
mens
Fortunes
by
the
lines
of
their
Faces
,
spy'd
promises
of
many
great
and
incredible
events
in
his
.
And
those
who
consider'd
his
Actions
and
his
great
Qualities
,
said
the
Crown
of
Aragon
was
too
small
for
a
head
like
his
.
They
foresaw
that
the
Moors
,
who
were
the
Neighbours
of
his
Father
,
should
one
day
be
forc'd
to
put
the
Sea
between
him
and
them
;
and
that
no
more
time
was
necessary
to
give
up
Spain
to
one
mans
power
,
than
was
needful
to
give
this
young
Prince
strength
to
draw
his
Sword
.
All
these
qualities
daily
augmented
the
Queens
affection
towards
him
,
who
knew
him
better
than
any
.
She
wish'd
with
impatience
an
occasion
to
effectuate
the
Marriage
which
she
had
projected
:
and
did
not
esteem
it
so
great
an
advantage
for
her
Daughter
to
be
Queen
of
Aragon
,
as
to
be
Wife
to
Alcidalis
.
But
whatever
we
say
of
Fortune
,
it
must
be
confess'd
there
's
no
prudence
like
hers
.
She
establishes
her
designs
so
far
off
,
and
guides
them
by
such
secret
paths
,
that
't
is
impossible
for
our
foresight
to
hinder
them
;
and
in
despite
of
our
conduct
she
arrives
at
the
end
of
what
she
enteprizes
.
She
had
resolv'd
to
combat
the
Prudence
of
Rosalva
:
and
see
,
she
brings
from
beyond
the
Seas
an
infant
Maid
,
who
,
an
Orphan
and
a
Stranger
,
shall
overthrow
the
designs
of
a
most
powerful
and
prudent
Queen
.
The
Prince
of
Tenarus
,
of
one
of
the
most
Illustrious
Families
in
the
Kingdom
of
Calabria
,
and
which
had
formerly
given
Kings
to
Naples
and
Sicily
,
had
a
great
and
important
Succession
in
Aragon
,
which
he
resolv'd
to
go
in
person
and
possess
himself
of
,
because
it
was
disputed
him
.
But
extreamly
loving
his
Wife
,
and
both
of
them
having
a
great
passion
for
an
only
Daughter
about
the
age
of
six
years
,
they
could
not
resolve
to
part
,
but
pass'd
with
all
their
Family
to
Aragon
.
They
were
receiv'd
of
the
King
and
Queen
with
all
the
goodness
and
civility
due
to
Strangers
,
and
to
Strangers
of
their
quality
and
merit
.
But
soon
after
their
arrival
the
Prince
fell
sick
,
and
in
few
days
died
;
leaving
his
Wife
in
a
despair
,
wherein
't
was
not
likely
she
could
live
long
.
She
receiv'd
from
the
Queen
,
whose
affection
she
had
gain'd
,
all
the
consolation
and
assistance
she
could
wish
,
in
her
affliction
,
and
in
her
Affairs
.
Rosalva
had
always
found
the
Princess
to
her
mind
;
but
after
her
misfortune
,
pity
did
in
such
a
manner
increase
the
affection
she
bore
her
,
that
she
began
to
love
her
as
her self
.
She
lodg'd
her
in
the
Palace
,
and
had
so
much
care
of
keeping
her
near
her
person
,
that
it
seem'd
she
lost
somewhat
when
ever
she
parted
from
her
;
and
that
she
was
not
at
all
her self
where
Camilla
was
not
:
'T
was
so
they
call'd
this
afflicted
Princess
.
In
the
mean
time
,
these
extraordinary
kindnesses
of
the
Queen
,
which
perhaps
were
capable
of
curing
any
other
malady
but
hers
,
wrought
no
other
effect
in
her
,
than
to
sweeten
it
a
little
,
and
to
cause
her
bear
her
grief
with
less
impatience
and
despair
.
And
to
say
the
truth
,
the
death
of
the
Prince
her
Husband
in
such
an
ill
conjuncture
was
so
rude
a
shock
,
and
so
hard
to
support
,
that
all
the
goodness
and
consolation
of
the
Queen
could
not
hinder
her
being
arrested
,
for
want
of
nourishment
and
sleep
,
by
a
sickness
which
she
presently
judg'd
would
be
the
last
of
all
her
Evils
.
This
extreamly
griev'd
the
Queen
,
who
passionately
wish'd
her
health
.
She
conjur'd
the
most
expert
Physicians
to
practise
the
greatest
secrets
of
their
Art
;
but
though
at
her
solicitations
they
employ'd
all
their
skill
,
and
spar'd
no
diligence
,
the
sickness
of
the
Princess
prevail'd
upon
all
their
Remedies
:
Which
she
well
knew
,
and
resolv'd
to
follow
the
Prince
her
Husband
with
all
the
tranquillity
which
could
be
permitted
by
the
only
trouble
she
had
in
death
,
of
leaving
her
Daughter
in
her
need
,
and
leaving
her
an
Orphan
in
an
age
so
little
capable
of
Reason
;
and
in
a
strange
Countrey
,
where
she
could
not
hope
assistance
,
but
from
the
goodness
of
the
Queen
.
During
these
different
thoughts
which
agitated
her
in
the
height
of
sickness
,
the
Queen
,
who
visited
her
as
often
as
possible
,
having
demanded
how
she
did
,
Camilla
sweetly
turning
her
eyes
upon
her
took
her
hand
,
which
she
kiss'd
often
without
speaking
:
then
on
a
sudden
addressing
her
voice
she
told
her
,
That
she
had
infinite
obligations
to
the
best
Queen
in
the
World
for
the
interest
she
took
in
her
health
.
That
seeing
she
did
her
the
honour
to
enquire
into
the
truth
of
her
condition
,
she
would
please
to
suffer
her
to
say
,
she
felt
her self
drawing
near
her
end
.
But
that
the
most
mortal
thought
she
had
in
her
present
condition
,
was
not
that
of
her
death
;
and
that
loving
her
daughter
more
than
her
life
,
she
had
more
regret
to
leave
her
than
to
leave
the
World
.
She
pray'd
her
then
to
permit
she
might
manage
those
few
hours
that
remain'd
,
and
that
she
might
employ
them
in
pouring
into
her
bosom
the
last
and
most
tender
Sentiments
of
her
Soul
.
Which
were
,
That
she
should
bless
Heaven
with
all
her
heart
,
for
bringing
her
into
a
condition
to
follow
the
Prince
her
Spouse
to
his
Grave
,
if
before
her
death
she
would
daign
to
receive
from
her
hand
the
Present
she
was
about
to
make
of
all
,
which
in
the
World
remain'd
most
dear
and
precious
to
her
.
That
in
all
her
miseries
she
could
not
believe
Fortune
was
absolutely
her
Enemy
,
seeing
she
had
given
her
the
honour
to
be
known
to
her
;
that
,
excepting
the
misfortune
of
her
Husband
,
she
esteem'd
the
Voyage
of
Aragon
a
happy
one
,
though
she
easily
judg'd
,
't
would
cost
her
life
as
well
as
his
.
However
,
she
thought
she
had
the
good
fortune
of
being
belov'd
by
her
at
an
easie
rate
;
which
she
so
esteem'd
,
that
if
the
World
had
any
thing
she
lost
with
impatience
,
't
was
her
Friendship
.
But
that
she
comforted
her self
with
hopes
,
that
her
Daughter
should
succeed
in
the
honour
of
her
Favours
.
That
she
would
have
the
goodness
to
be
her
Mother
,
and
would
do
her
the
favour
to
have
a
care
of
her
,
as
of
a
person
she
be
queath'd
in
dying
.
That
she
pray'd
her
with
all
her
heart
to
accept
the
Gift
she
made
:
and
that
leaving
her
with
this
new
quality
of
Daughter
to
the
Queen
,
she
believ'd
she
left
her
richer
in
it
,
than
in
the
two
Estates
to
which
she
remain'd
Heir
.
That
she
should
die
content
,
and
believe
her
death
would
be
in
some
sort
happy
for
Zelide
,
if
it
procur'd
her
the
honour
to
be
brought
up
by
the
wisest
Queen
in
the
World
.
The
Queen
imbracing
her
said
,
that
she
receiv'd
with
much
joy
the
Present
she
made
her
,
on
condition
she
would
not
revoke
it
:
That
from
that
moment
she
would
believe
she
had
two
Daughters
;
and
that
there
should
be
no
difference
between
them
but
this
,
that
Zelide
should
be
always
the
eldest
:
but
,
that
she
would
take
heart
;
and
that
she
hoped
she
might
live
long
yet
,
to
be
her self
a
Witness
of
the
effects
of
her
Promise
.
This
extreamly
comforted
the
mind
of
Camilla
,
but
did
not
diminish
her
disease
.
She
liv'd
two
days
longer
,
at
the
end
whereof
she
went
out
of
the
World
with
as
much
satisfaction
,
as
men
go
out
of
Prison
;
and
left
all
the
Court
in
sadness
,
and
the
Queen
in
an
affliction
which
cannot
be
represented
.
Thus
Zelide
in
less
than
three
Months
saw
her
Father
and
Mother
interr'd
in
the
Tomb
of
those
persons
to
whom
they
came
to
succeed
.
See
her
now
at
the
Age
of
six
years
,
three
hundred
Leagues
from
the
place
of
her
Birth
,
in
a
strange
Countrey
,
and
,
which
is
more
to
be
fear'd
by
her
,
in
the
power
of
a
person
by
whom
the
Stars
threatned
her
with
all
the
Misfortunes
of
her
life
.
But
Fortune
is
the
best
Mother
in
the
World
:
and
no
ill
can
happen
to
the
Children
which
she
will
adopt
.
She
took
this
Orphan
into
her
tutelage
;
and
,
by
so
unhappy
beginnings
,
undertook
to
put
two
Crowns
upon
her
head
.
Zelide
was
the
most
perfect
piece
that
the
Heavens
ever
made
.
As
her
life
was
to
be
full
of
Miracles
,
her
person
was
so
also
:
and
this
History
which
is
every
where
likely
,
is
incredible
only
in
what
it
recounts
of
her
.
Since
the
Sun
made
his
course
round
this
Globe
,
it
had
never
seen
a
Beauty
more
accomplish'd
than
hers
:
and
in
the
fairest
body
in
the
World
,
she
had
a
mind
which
cannot
be
imagin'd
by
ours
:
it
seem'd
to
be
of
those
which
are
not
to
govern
other
Bodies
than
those
above
,
and
which
have
been
made
to
conduct
the
Stars
.
In
an
age
wherein
others
scarce
know
how
to
pronounce
words
,
she
said
things
which
would
have
been
admir'd
in
the
mouths
of
Sages
.
There
was
never
known
a
Birth
so
happy
as
hers
.
All
the
Stars
had
conspir'd
to
bestow
upon
her
what
was
best
in
them
:
and
the
Heaven
had
imparted
so
many
of
its
excellencies
,
that
the
least
part
of
her
was
what
she
held
of
the
Earth
;
so
that
she
seem'd
a
Celestial
person
dropt
down
here
below
by
miracle
.
Her
inclinations
carried
her
so
powerfully
to
good
,
that
it
seem'd
she
had
not
free-will
to
do
amiss
:
and
all
the
Vertues
were
so
natural
to
her
,
that
she
must
have
done
violence
to
her self
not
to
exercise
some
one
of
them
.
There
never
was
any
combat
in
her
Soul
.
She
never
was
in
doubt
between
good
and
evil
:
and
she
always
follow'd
what
was
right
and
handsom
in
following
all
her
will
.
Besides
so
many
perfections
which
were
known
,
these
hidden
qualities
and
secret
graces
,
which
make
us
love
a
person
without
knowing
why
,
were
in
her
to
such
a
degree
,
that
she
was
always
the
inclination
of
all
the
World
.
There
was
I
know
not
what
charm
in
all
her
Actions
,
which
shed
love
and
delight
in
the
hearts
of
all
that
beheld
them
:
and
the
tone
of
her
voice
had
something
which
inchanted
Souls
.
She
had
infinite
other
amiable
qualities
,
which
cannot
be
exprest
:
and
the
least
part
of
her
perfections
were
those
which
could
be
.
See
her
,
Madam
,
I
think
in
every
thing
so
like
you
,
that
there
is
no
body
but
would
take
her
for
your
Sister
.
And
for
my
part
,
though
I
extreamly
well
consider'd
her
when
you
shew'd
her
to
me
,
yet
there
were
so
many
things
to
be
observ'd
,
that
I
vow
I
could
not
paint
her
in
my
memory
;
and
should
not
have
drawn
her
Picture
so
well
,
if
I
had
not
coppied
her
by
you
.
With
these
Arms
Zelide
must
conquer
the
Kingdom
of
Aragon
:
and
there
needed
no
other
,
seeing
that
for
this
purpose
she
was
only
to
gain
the
heart
of
Alcidalis
,
which
all
the
force
in
the
World
could
not
vanquish
.
She
was
received
into
the
Palace
with
such
a
general
joy
and
affection
,
that
an
augury
might
have
been
drawn
from
thence
,
that
she
enter'd
as
Mistress
,
and
that
she
should
one
day
Command
there
.
The
Queen
,
who
thought
she
could
never
have
been
comforted
for
the
death
of
the
Mother
,
could
not
be
sad
as
often
as
she
saw
her
:
and
the
King
scarce
found
a
difference
between
the
affection
he
bore
her
,
and
that
which
he
had
for
his
Son
.
Alcidalis
and
Zelide
were
in
the
age
wherein
we
are
wont
to
paint
Cupids
:
and
both
of
them
with
all
the
charms
and
all
the
graces
,
which
the
most
excellent
Painters
know
how
to
give
them
.
They
had
a
Beauty
so
equal
,
though
extreamly
different
,
and
men
saw
Qualities
shine
in
them
so
extraordinary
,
that
there
was
no
body
but
thought
they
were
born
one
for
the
other
.
Each
of
them
had
been
in
the
World
without
an
equal
,
if
they
had
not
appear'd
at
the
same
time
in
it
.
So
that
,
to
say
the
truth
,
though
they
gain'd
the
affection
of
all
that
saw
them
,
they
had
never
been
lov'd
worthily
,
if
they
had
not
been
lov'd
by
one
another
;
and
there
were
no
other
Souls
but
theirs
,
which
were
capable
of
so
great
a
passion
as
each
of
them
merited
.
Love
,
who
resolv'd
to
give
signal
proofs
of
his
power
in
two
such
rare
persons
,
establish'd
it
betimes
;
so
that
they
felt
it
a
long
time
before
they
could
know
it
;
and
would
not
let
them
pass
this
first
season
of
their
Age
in
quiet
,
which
Nature
seems
to
have
freed
from
Passions
.
Zelide
did
not
fail
at
first
view
to
work
the
same
effects
in
the
heart
of
Alcidalis
,
which
were
ordinarily
wrought
by
her
in
other
men
:
and
he
also
at
the
same
time
did
cause
in
the
breast
of
Zelide
an
emotion
,
which
she
had
never
felt
for
any
.
The
Queen
,
pursuing
the
design
she
had
projected
,
had
always
brought
up
the
Prince
with
those
Artifices
which
might
induce
him
to
love
her
Daughter
:
from
the
time
that
he
could
speak
,
they
were
wont
to
call
her
his
Mistress
:
they
carried
him
every
day
to
visit
her
:
and
all
those
which
were
about
him
lost
no
occasion
to
praise
her
Beauty
,
or
her
Wit.
But
the
inclinations
of
Alcidalis
were
not
of
accord
with
the
Queens
will
.
And
he
who
had
sweetness
and
complacency
for
all
the
World
,
seem'd
to
want
it
only
for
the
young
Countess
,
and
never
appear'd
so
constrain'd
as
when
he
was
with
her
.
Whether
it
was
that
this
glorious
mind
took
it
ill
,
that
they
should
destine
him
to
any
thing
without
informing
themselves
of
his
will
;
or
that
the
Stars
,
which
had
caus'd
him
to
be
born
for
Zelide
,
gave
him
a
secret
aversion
for
all
those
who
would
usurp
her
place
.
So
that
when
she
was
enter'd
the
Palace
,
and
that
the
Queen
had
given
her
for
Companion
to
her
Daughter
.
His
mind
seem'd
to
be
chang'd
all
at
once
.
He
never
left
the
apartment
of
the
Countess
,
nor
enjoy'd
good
hours
,
but
those
he
past
in
Zelids
company
.
Love
,
to
be
welcom'd
into
the
Soul
,
makes
its
entrance
accompanied
with
joy
and
beauty
:
and
does
no
evil
or
violence
till
he
thinks
he
is
Master
of
the
place
,
and
that
he
hath
render'd
himself
so
powerful
,
that
he
need
not
fear
to
be
chaced
thence
.
At
first
these
two
young
Lovers
felt
nothing
in
themselves
extraordinary
,
but
an
extream
pleasure
to
see
each
other
.
At
their
interviews
they
were
touch'd
with
a
certain
joy
and
content
,
which
they
were
not
us'd
to
feel
:
and
there
was
no
body
,
but
thought
they
imbellish'd
each
other
as
often
as
they
met
.
Zelide
,
who
till
then
had
past
a
dull
Childhood
,
began
to
be
more
awake
than
formerly
.
And
Alcidalis
was
so
gay
and
pleasant
when
he
saw
her
,
that
it
seem'd
he
reserv'd
a
peculiar
humour
and
a
grace
to
appear
in
before
her
.
In
this
Innocent
state
they
were
some
Months
peaceably
enjoying
this
pleasure
;
which
was
doubtless
the
most
happy
condition
they
knew
for
a
long
time
after
.
But
their
minds
from
day
to
day
taking
new
forces
,
their
passion
did
so
too
.
And
Love
began
to
be
so
powerful
,
that
at
last
he
made
himself
be
felt
,
and
render'd
himself
knowable
.
Alcidalis
began
to
be
more
melancholy
than
formerly
,
and
when
he
did
not
see
Zelide
,
he
paid
for
the
content
of
having
seen
her
by
an
extraordinary
sadness
.
There
were
no
sports
nor
pastime
for
him
,
but
those
he
took
with
her
;
nor
other
pleasure
,
but
that
of
seeing
her
,
and
if
any
thing
could
touch
him
in
her
absence
,
't
was
to
be
speaking
of
her
.
He
,
who
in
his
Infancy
propos'd
to
subject
all
the
World
,
dreamt
of
nothing
now
but
the
conquest
of
Zelide
:
and
if
any
thought
of
his
first
ambition
returns
,
't
is
only
with
design
to
render
himself
more
worthy
of
her
;
and
to
lay
at
her
feet
as
many
Crowns
as
she
deserv'd
.
As
oft
as
he
left
her
,
he
seem'd
to
have
fallen
from
Heaven
to
Earth
;
and
loosing
her
company
,
he
could
suffer
nothing
but
solitude
.
And
then
he
past
exactly
in
his
mind
all
her
words
and
all
her
actions
:
and
considering
them
by
all
their
biasses
,
he
drew
conjectures
favourable
or
disadvantagious
.
Then
calling
to
mind
all
that
he
had
said
or
done
,
he
still
repented
him
of
something
.
Sometimes
he
blam'd
himself
for
being
too
fearful
;
another
time
for
being
too
bold
;
and
still
remain'd
as
ill
satisfied
with
himself
,
as
he
was
well
satisfied
with
her
.
He
began
by
little
and
little
to
leave
all
those
pleasures
which
pleas'd
him
before
.
Hunting
did
not
content
him
,
if
she
was
not
present
:
and
if
he
had
any
care
of
his
Exercises
,
't
was
only
that
he
might
appear
more
acceptable
to
her
.
In
fine
,
he
consider'd
Zelide
as
if
she
had
been
alone
in
the
World
,
and
all
his
thoughts
and
designs
began
with
her
and
ended
with
her
.
Love
,
on
the
other
side
,
was
well
enter'd
in
the
heart
of
Zelide
;
but
had
not
made
so
great
a
progress
,
nor
extended
his
power
so
far
:
whether
acquainted
with
her
fierceness
,
he
durst
not
make
himself
known
to
her
;
or
whether
she
being
younger
by
two
years
,
was
less
capable
of
this
passion
.
However
,
she
felt
some
change
in
her self
as
oft
as
she
saw
the
young
Prince
.
She
had
more
care
of
her
Beauty
and
Dress
than
ordinary
.
She
lov'd
less
the
Countess
,
because
she
was
destin'd
for
him
:
and
the
Duties
which
by
force
he
render'd
her
,
though
't
was
with
more
coldness
than
formerly
,
did
not
fail
to
concern
her
.
In
the
mean
time
,
as
she
had
a
Soul
great
,
strong
and
lively
,
and
by
consequence
capable
of
a
passion
which
had
all
these
qualities
;
the
Merit
of
Alcidalis
,
and
the
Stars
which
inclin'd
her
,
wrought
with
time
an
impression
there
which
nothing
could
ever
efface
,
and
form'd
in
it
an
affection
as
fair
and
perfect
as
her self
.
Love
,
between
persons
of
High
condition
,
is
like
a
Fire
upon
a
Tower
,
which
cannot
be
hid
,
and
which
is
seen
afar
off
.
The
affection
of
Alcidalis
and
Zelide
was
quickly
known
to
all
the
World
:
and
many
had
taken
notice
that
they
were
amorous
one
of
another
,
before
they
perceiv'd
it
themselves
.
At
first
,
when
their
Childhood
render'd
their
Actions
less
considerable
,
't
was
thought
there
was
no
other
Love
between
them
,
but
that
of
sports
and
pastimes
,
which
they
took
together
:
But
when
with
time
Zelide
became
more
serious
,
and
that
Alcidalis
made
appear
in
all
his
actions
a
Judgment
which
might
serve
to
govern
his
Fathers
Kingdom
,
there
was
no
body
in
the
Court
but
thought
their
two
Souls
were
united
by
a
veritable
passion
,
and
that
't
would
be
hard
to
separate
them
.
The
Queen
,
who
was
very
able
,
and
to
whom
nothing
was
so
considerable
as
the
young
Prince
,
began
betimes
to
suspect
the
Graces
of
Zelide
,
and
was
one
of
the
first
who
took
notice
of
this
affection
.
But
trusting
much
to
her
Wit
and
Authority
,
she
thought
she
could
not
be
troubled
with
them
,
or
find
relistance
in
two
young
persons
over
whom
she
had
a
power
;
she
,
who
had
bow'd
the
greatest
and
ablest
men
in
the
Kingdom
.
In
the
mean
time
,
the
Beauty
of
Zelide
increased
daily
:
and
whereas
hitherto
it
had
been
as
it
were
in
its
dawn
,
she
now
advanc'd
with
so
much
light
and
splendour
,
that
it
seem'd
she
declar'd
openly
against
the
Queen
;
as
if
in
despite
of
her
,
she
would
gain
all
the
hearts
in
her
Kingdom
.
On
the
other
side
,
the
young
Prince
,
feeling
his
Birth
and
his
Power
,
became
weary
of
living
under
the
Laws
of
Governours
,
and
under
the
conduct
of
a
Woman
.
His
Breast
,
naturally
great
and
Royal
,
was
also
swell'd
up
and
inlarg'd
with
the
passion
which
fill'd
it
,
and
could
no
longer
acknowledge
any
other
Empire
than
Zelides
.
He
began
openly
to
let
appear
the
affection
he
had
for
her
,
and
granted
no
Favours
but
by
her
recommendation
.
He
wore
only
her
Colours
in
Turnaments
;
and
in
Dances
all
his
devices
spake
of
her
;
and
he
could
not
endure
it
should
be
imagin'd
any
,
but
she
had
a
part
in
his
Soul
.
There
was
no
body
which
did
not
in
his
heart
favour
this
affection
.
Every
body
made
secret
Vows
for
them
.
Their
passion
was
that
of
all
the
World
;
and
their
desires
were
follow'd
with
the
desires
of
all
others
.
The
Queen
now
began
to
fear
,
and
to
perceive
she
had
too
long
defer'd
to
oppose
so
great
a
fire
;
that
it
would
cost
her
care
to
extinguish
it
;
and
that
she
should
be
forc'd
to
serve
her self
of
violent
remedies
.
But
she
would
first
try
all
others
.
She
essay'd
by
all
ways
to
regain
the
mind
of
Alcidalis
,
which
she
saw
was
estrang'd
from
her
.
There
was
no
artifice
she
did
not
use
to
diminish
the
Beauty
of
Zelide
,
and
to
augment
her
Daughters
.
She
instructed
her
in
every
thing
she
was
to
say
or
do
.
She
appear'd
always
with
a
great
deal
of
Pomp
;
always
drest
,
and
hid
in
Jewels
.
But
Zelide
neglected
,
as
she
was
,
shin'd
more
.
Her
eyes
and
colour
took
away
the
glittering
from
Diamonds
,
and
whiteness
from
Pearls
:
and
the
Riches
which
Heaven
had
given
her
effac'd
all
those
of
the
Earth
.
The
Queen
therefore
,
observing
how
much
her
presence
was
contrary
to
her
designs
,
and
that
with
one
look
she
overthrew
all
her
Counsels
;
resolv'd
at
last
to
separate
them
,
and
to
carry
Zelide
farther
off
:
hoping
that
Absence
might
blot
out
those
impressions
which
Love
had
stamp'd
in
their
minds
,
as
yet
young
and
tender
;
and
that
those
she
had
plac'd
about
Alcidalis
to
gain
him
,
might
find
him
more
capable
of
being
perswaded
,
when
he
should
no
longer
see
the
object
of
this
growing
passion
.
She
feign'd
then
,
that
for
the
health
of
her
Daughter
she
would
go
and
pass
two
or
three
Months
at
a
House
she
had
in
Catalogua
.
And
having
communicated
it
to
the
King
,
she
commanded
every
thing
should
be
made
ready
for
her
departure
,
and
said
,
she
would
not
be
accompanied
by
any
but
her
Women
.
The
astonishment
of
our
Lovers
,
when
they
heard
this
news
,
is
not
a
thing
that
can
be
represented
.
Hitherto
they
had
not
felt
any
of
the
bitternesses
of
Love
,
and
had
only
had
his
Sweets
and
Roses
.
They
had
quietly
enjoy'd
each
others
presence
:
and
except
some
apprehensions
for
the
future
,
which
could
not
be
strong
in
minds
so
young
and
full
of
confidence
,
their
Joy
had
been
without
trouble
and
without
a
cloud
.
Alcidalis
was
most
sensibly
touch'd
with
this
displeasure
;
or
at
least
he
could
worst
dissemble
it
.
There
was
not
any
thing
which
he
did
not
attempt
to
break
this
design
:
and
all
things
,
even
the
most
extream
,
past
through
his
imagination
.
But
seeing
that
this
Evil
was
without
remedy
;
and
that
at
last
the
time
approach'd
that
Zelide
must
be
carried
from
him
:
he
resolv'd
at
least
,
not
to
let
it
pass
without
openly
declaring
his
affection
,
and
letting
her
know
of
what
quality
it
was
.
To
this
time
he
had
liv'd
with
her
without
saying
any
thing
of
his
Passion
:
and
all
his
actions
spake
to
her
daily
,
though
his
words
witness'd
nothing
of
it
.
Whether
it
was
,
that
shame
,
which
is
ordinary
to
this
Age
,
had
hinder'd
him
;
or
that
being
intirely
fill'd
and
satisfy'd
with
the
pleasure
of
seeing
her
,
he
did
not
think
of
any
thing
else
.
In
fine
,
the
last
Evening
before
her
departure
he
went
to
the
Queens
Lodgings
;
where
,
after
some
time
,
he
finds
the
way
to
meet
Zelide
apart
.
This
was
the
first
time
that
Alcidalis
had
felt
what
Fear
was
.
Twice
or
thrice
he
try'd
to
say
what
he
had
resolv'd
upon
:
and
having
open'd
his
mouth
he
said
something
else
,
not
having
resolution
enough
for
that
.
Whereas
at
other
times
,
at
the
sight
of
Zelide
he
was
all
fire
,
he
felt
himself
now
all
Ice
.
But
at
last
,
after
some
indifferent
discourse
,
with
a
palpitation
of
heart
,
and
a
voice
low
and
trembling
he
told
her
;
I
doubt
not
,
Zelide
,
but
you
know
I
love
you
:
but
I
am
sure
you
do
not
know
how
much
.
And
because
this
absence
of
some
days
ought
to
be
to
me
for
so
many
years
;
and
that
I
cannot
tell
whether
I
shall
live
so
long
:
I
will
let
you
know
my
affection
,
to
the
end
,
that
if
you
find
me
not
at
your
return
,
you
may
know
at
least
how
much
you
ought
to
pity
me
.
If
you
consider
your self
,
Zelide
,
and
consider
me
too
;
you
will
easily
conclude
,
that
you
cannot
breed
ordinary
affections
;
and
you
will
believe
of
me
,
that
I
cannot
receive
mean
ones
;
and
if
there
is
any
thing
extraordinary
in
my
person
,
you
must
conclude
't
is
chiefly
this
affection
I
bear
you
.
By
the
knowledge
you
have
of
your self
and
of
me
,
you
may
imagine
how
sincere
it
is
,
how
faithful
and
how
respectful
;
but
how
great
it
is
you
cannot
know
.
That
is
a
thing
beyond
all
imagination
:
and
I
who
feel
it
cannot
express
it
,
and
oftentimes
I
cannot
comprehend
it
.
From
the
moment
I
saw
you
,
the
passion
I
have
for
you
was
at
a
point
to
which
after
much
time
the
greatest
are
wont
to
arrive
:
and
from
that
time
there
hath
not
past
one
moment
in
which
it
hath
not
receiv'd
growth
and
augmentation
.
Whilst
I
was
a
Child
,
I
was
not
able
to
tell
it
you
;
and
since
,
I
durst
not
.
Even
at
this
time
I
tremble
in
saying
,
I
adore
you
:
and
if
you
do
not
re-assure
me
by
a
favourable
regard
,
I
shall
not
have
force
to
finish
what
remains
for
me
to
say
.
Here
she
,
who
had
hitherto
kept
her
eyes
upon
the
ground
,
sweetly
cast
a
glance
upon
him
.
It
seem'd
to
Alcidalis
,
that
he
had
seen
the
Heavens
open'd
in
the
eyes
of
Zelide
,
and
taking
courage
he
continued
thus
;
It
is
true
,
Zelide
,
that
I
know
the
passion
I
have
for
you
,
is
the
greatest
and
most
perfect
that
ever
was
.
But
how
do
I
know
that
it
is
permitted
to
Men
to
have
a
passion
for
you
?
I
will
tell
you
freely
,
Humility
is
a
Vertue
that
you
only
have
made
me
understand
.
I
ever
believed
,
that
all
the
Earth
was
too
little
for
me
.
But
I
now
believe
,
that
I
my self
am
too
little
for
you
:
and
as
much
as
I
esteem
all
things
below
my self
,
I
hold
my self
below
your
merits
.
I
know
well
,
that
my
Fortune
is
the
last
thing
which
you
consider
in
my
person
:
and
I
am
not
To
unhappy
,
but
you
may
find
in
me
some
qualities
,
which
you
will
esteem
more
than
that
which
my
Birth
has
given
me
.
But
if
there
be
any
thing
worthy
of
you
,
't
is
this
Soul
which
I
present
to
you
;
and
which
I
can
say
is
great
enough
,
and
noble
enough
to
be
receiv'd
by
yours
.
I
would
not
praise
it
thus
boldly
,
if
it
were
still
mine
:
and
I
speak
advantagiously
of
it
,
as
of
all
things
that
belong
to
you
.
Since
it
hath
had
any
knowledge
,
it
hath
had
but
two
designs
:
the
first
,
and
which
entertain'd
its
Infancy
,
was
the
conquest
of
the
World
;
and
since
it
hath
been
more
bold
and
more
reasonable
,
it
hath
desir'd
Zelide
.
If
this
adorable
Zelide
does
not
oppose
me
,
't
will
be
easie
to
bring
about
the
other
:
and
the
Crown
of
Aragon
,
which
I
promise
her
now
,
and
which
all
our
Enemies
cannot
hinder
me
from
giving
her
,
shall
be
but
a
small
part
of
that
which
I
will
one
day
lay
at
her
feet
.
Alcidalis
was
silent
,
expecting
Zelides
answer
;
who
,
in
the
trouble
wherein
she
was
,
had
scarce
strength
enough
to
pronounce
these
few
words
.
Sir
,
I
am
so
astonish'd
to
hear
you
speak
so
seriously
in
a
matter
of
this
nature
,
and
to
see
how
every
body
considers
our
discourse
,
that
I
know
not
what
to
say
at
present
,
and
pray
you
permit
me
to
defer
the
Answer
till
our
return
.
In
the
mean
time
you
may
believe
,
I
shall
be
glad
they
do
not
give
me
much
time
for
it
.
During
this
discourse
,
there
was
no
body
who
did
not
fasten
their
eyes
upon
Alcidalis
and
Zelide
,
and
who
did
not
take
notice
,
that
he
spake
to
her
with
more
earnestness
than
usual
.
The
Queen
,
who
above
all
others
had
minded
it
,
and
to
whom
this
converse
gave
much
disquiet
,
rose
up
,
and
approaching
them
said
pleasantly
to
Alcidalis
.
Sir
,
you
speak
to
Zelide
with
so
much
action
,
and
such
a
serious
countenance
,
that
it
seems
you
have
some
quarrel
with
her
.
If
it
be
so
,
complain
to
me
.
For
I
will
be
on
your
side
;
and
before
she
parts
,
she
shall
do
you
right
.
Alcidalis
having
born
the
first
brunt
,
and
taken
the
boldness
to
speak
of
his
affection
to
Zelide
,
was
confident
enough
;
and
being
desirous
to
continue
the
conversation
,
was
in
despair
seeing
it
interrupted
:
and
,
scarce
looking
upon
the
Queen
,
answer'd
fiercely
;
Madam
,
I
hold
Zelide
for
so
just
a
person
,
that
if
she
had
done
me
wrong
,
I
would
have
no
other
Judge
but
her self
.
There
is
no
occasion
,
that
any
should
mingle
themselves
in
our
differences
:
and
whatever
quarrel
we
have
,
I
cannot
be
pleas'd
with
those
that
think
it
their
duty
to
part
us
.
Every
body
took
notice
of
this
Answer
;
and
the
Queen
,
who
was
most
sensible
of
it
,
seem'd
least
to
understand
it
,
and
presently
chang'd
the
discourse
.
In
the
Morning
Zelide
departed
,
and
left
the
Prince
in
a
mortal
heaviness
;
but
she
was
in
this
more
unhappy
than
he
;
for
besides
that
she
felt
the
like
,
she
had
moreover
the
pain
of
concealing
it
,
and
to
be
obliged
to
laugh
before
the
World
,
when
her
Soul
wept
tears
of
blood
.
Amongst
all
the
displeasures
which
Love
draws
along
with
it
,
Absence
is
one
of
the
most
sensible
.
There
are
some
sharp
griefs
,
as
Jealousie
,
which
pierce
and
wound
more
:
but
there
is
none
so
weighty
and
so
hard
to
support
,
and
which
overwhelms
all
sort
of
vigour
as
this
.
The
first
thing
which
Alcidalis
did
was
to
retire
alone
to
his
Chamber
:
there
he
cast
himself
upon
his
Bed
,
and
melting
into
Tears
aad
Sighs
,
suffer'd
the
same
regrets
as
if
Zelide
had
been
dead
,
and
not
absent
.
Why
do
you
complain
,
Alcidalis
?
you
have
all
your
life
peaceably
enjoy'd
the
fight
of
Zelide
,
and
do
you
not
know
how
to
endure
a
few
days
absence
?
Love
is
wont
to
lend
all
his
Joys
at
gross
usury
.
He
makes
his
Subjects
pay
for
all
at
last
.
And
it
is
not
his
ordinary
course
to
leave
those
that
owe
him
any
thing
so
long
at
repose
.
You
are
one
of
those
he
hath
treated
most
favourably
.
Reserve
then
these
Tears
to
another
occasion
,
wherein
they
shall
be
better
employ'd
.
The
time
will
shortly
come
when
you
shall
have
more
reason
to
lament
:
and
the
day
approaches
that
Zelide
and
you
shall
be
more
cruelly
parted
,
without
hopes
of
ever
meeting
again
.
He
pass'd
all
that
day
without
seeing
any
body
,
and
the
following
without
speaking
,
except
when
he
went
to
see
the
King
,
and
could
not
avoid
to
answer
him
.
At
last
,
having
past
eight
days
in
all
the
sadness
and
impatience
imaginable
:
he
thought
he
was
at
the
end
of
his
life
,
and
that
it
was
a
thousand
years
since
he
had
seen
Zelide
.
So
that
one
Evening
being
alone
in
his
Chamber
to
entertain
his
thoughts
;
without
taking
Counsel
of
any
,
but
his
desires
and
inquietudes
,
he
resolv'd
to
go
where
Zelide
was
.
And
seeing
that
in
this
absence
he
foresaw
an
infallible
death
,
he
concluded
there
could
not
worse
happen
to
him
from
his
attempting
to
see
her
.
After
that
the
Heber
,
which
is
one
of
the
most
celebrated
Rivers
of
Spain
,
hath
pass'd
along
the
Walls
of
Saragosa
:
as
if
there
were
nothing
more
worthy
of
him
in
Aragon
,
he
takes
the
way
of
Catalogna
;
where
having
receiv'd
in
his
passage
many
small
Rivolets
to
enter
more
magnificently
into
the
Sea
,
at
last
he
renders
himself
to
it
half
a
League
from
Tortosa
.
All
the
ground
which
he
waters
is
extreamly
fertile
,
and
cover'd
with
Trees
;
and
by
so
much
the
more
pleasant
as
the
rest
of
the
Countrey
consists
in
dry
and
naked
Plains
,
or
in
Mountains
black
and
scorch'd
with
a
fervent
Sun
.
Fifteen
Leagues
from
its
mouth
,
it
passes
by
a
Valley
of
two
Leagues
in
length
,
and
two
in
breadth
;
and
which
is
incompass'd
on
one
side
and
on
the
other
with
Mountains
.
In
this
place
the
River
glides
very
peaceably
by
the
incounter
of
certain
Rocks
,
which
four
Leagues
further
oppose
its
course
,
and
makes
many
doublings
in
the
Plain
,
as
doubtful
of
the
way
it
ought
to
take
through
those
Mountains
.
Its
Banks
are
extreamly
shady
and
flowry
.
And
its
Waters
so
clear
and
neat
,
that
there
is
not
a
Tree
near
it
,
nor
scarce
a
Flower
which
is
not
seen
twice
;
and
which
does
not
appear
in
the
Water
as
fair
and
distinct
,
as
upon
the
ground
.
The
ordinary
Plants
of
this
Countrey
are
Oaks
,
Olives
,
and
Pines
:
and
besides
that
it
is
not
cold
,
there
are
none
of
these
Trees
that
fear
it
.
The
Mountains
of
Catalogna
defend
the
Valley
from
the
North-wind
,
so
that
at
all
times
't
is
cover'd
with
green
;
and
the
Winter
,
which
they
always
see
on
the
Neighbour
Mountains
,
is
not
felt
there
.
'T
was
in
this
Paradise
that
Zelide
made
her
Hell
,
and
where
the
House
to
which
the
Queen
had
carried
her
stood
.
One
would
have
said
,
that
the
River
,
Flowers
,
and
Plants
were
imbellish'd
by
her
presence
.
She
only
was
sad
amidst
so
many
objects
of
Pleasure
,
and
lost
daily
that
lustre
and
beauty
,
which
she
seem'd
to
impart
to
all
things
.
The
absence
of
Alcidalis
afflicted
her
extreamly
.
But
above
all
,
the
designs
of
the
Queen
cast
her
into
perplexities
:
and
her
imagination
so
well
represented
to
her
all
those
Evils
which
were
to
befal
her
;
that
often
the
fear
of
what
was
to
come
,
took
from
her
the
feeling
of
the
present
.
She
saw
that
her
Goods
,
her
Fortune
,
and
her self
were
in
the
power
of
the
Queen
;
and
,
that
which
she
dreaded
most
,
that
Alcidalis
was
so
too
:
he
that
was
more
dear
to
her
than
her self
,
than
her
Goods
,
or
than
her
Fortunes
.
She
consider'd
that
the
Princes
Affection
was
not
ordinary
,
that
his
Courage
was
extraordinary
;
but
that
his
power
was
as
yet
but
weak
.
That
he
would
never
be
suffer'd
to
despise
the
City
of
Barcelona
,
which
Fortune
offer'd
him
so
happily
with
the
Queens
Daughter
;
to
take
an
Orphan
and
a
Stranger
who
had
no
Riches
,
Friends
,
or
support
,
but
beyond
the
Seas
.
That
he
alone
could
not
resist
the
King
and
Kingdom
.
That
the
Queen
absolutely
govern'd
both
.
That
whilst
they
were
Children
,
all
men
lik'd
their
affection
,
but
that
no
body
would
approve
of
their
Marriage
.
And
,
that
some
already
look'd
upon
it
as
the
Enemy
of
the
State
,
and
the
Torch
which
should
one
day
fire
the
Royal
House
.
These
thoughts
,
and
others
like
them
,
fill'd
her
mind
with
a
thousand
Troubles
.
And
as
far
as
she
carried
her
sight
into
suturities
,
she
saw
no
day
for
her
Hopes
:
and
without
knowing
,
in
this
Labyrinth
,
what
end
her
Adventures
might
take
,
she
easily
judg'd
it
could
not
be
a
happy
one
.
One
day
amongst
the
rest
,
accompanying
the
Queen
,
who
walk'd
in
a
Wood
extreamly
shaded
,
whose
Alleys
led
to
the
Meadow
,
which
serv'd
as
a
border
to
the
River
,
she
sound
opportunity
to
leave
the
Company
,
follow'd
only
by
one
of
her
Maids
.
And
it
was
not
a
small
consolation
to
her
,
that
she
sound
her self
at
liberty
to
be
sad
,
and
to
appear
so
.
Representing
to
her self
the
Fortunes
of
her
life
;
running
over
the
past
Misfortunes
,
the
present
,
and
those
which
threatned
her
;
her
thoughts
had
entertain'd
her
so
well
,
that
not
thinking
of
the
way
she
had
made
,
she
found
her self
upon
the
Banks
of
Heber
,
and
in
a
place
so
pleasant
as
might
have
diverted
any
other
Grief
,
but
hers
.
The
Sun
,
which
in
this
Countrey
lies
down
in
the
Ocean
,
and
appears
fairer
than
in
any
place
of
the
World
;
was
now
ready
to
hide
it self
in
those
clouds
of
Gold
and
Azure
,
wherewith
't
is
invelop'd
when
it
goes
to
visit
the
Nymphs
of
the
Sea
.
But
having
seen
nothing
from
its
rising
so
fair
as
Zelide
;
it
seemed
,
that
to
behold
her
longer
,
he
made
no
haste
to
descend
into
the
Floods
:
and
cast
so
much
Gold
upon
all
the
Leaves
of
the
Trees
,
and
Waves
of
the
River
,
that
he
seem'd
to
rekindle
his
Rays
to
continue
a
day
in
favour
of
this
Princess
;
invironing
her
in
such
a
manner
,
and
according
so
well
with
the
rest
of
her
Beauties
,
that
it
was
doubtful
whether
those
Rays
were
the
Suns
or
Zelides
.
The
charms
of
this
delicious
place
the
sweetness
of
the
Air
,
and
the
pleasure
she
took
in
being
alone
,
intic'd
her
to
continue
her
walk
in
the
Meadow
.
After
some
time
,
taking
the
Path
that
led
to
the
Queen
,
the
sound
of
a
Horn
,
which
seemed
not
to
come
far
off
,
made
her
turn
her
head
toward
the
neighbouring
Mountain
;
where
,
having
arrested
her
sight
,
she
saw
as
she
thought
,
two
men
strugling
together
,
who
roll'd
down
from
the
height
of
a
Rock
:
But
afterwards
she
perceiv'd
that
what
she
took
for
two
men
,
was
a
man
and
a
Bear
which
wrestled
together
;
but
with
that
disadvantage
,
which
we
may
imagine
in
a
combat
so
unequal
.
At
the
same
time
she
saw
,
near
that
part
of
the
Mountain
from
whence
they
fell
,
a
young
Cavalier
advantagiously
mounted
,
carrying
a
Horn
hanging
in
a
Ribband
,
and
a
Lance
in
his
hand
.
Who
stopping
a
little
,
and
seeing
the
danger
in
which
the
man
was
,
who
seem'd
to
be
of
his
company
;
put
on
his
Horse
,
or
,
to
say
better
,
precipitated
him
to
the
bottom
of
the
Mountain
.
But
such
was
the
strength
of
the
Horse
,
the
skill
of
the
Cavalier
,
or
the
fortune
of
both
,
that
,
as
if
he
had
run
in
a
plain
field
,
without
receiving
any
hurt
,
he
found
himself
near
the
Bear
,
and
thrust
the
Lance
he
had
in
his
hand
so
far
into
his
entrails
,
that
at
the
same
time
he
lost
his
life
and
his
prey
:
All
this
too
,
to
thunder
down
the
Mountain
,
kill
the
Bear
,
and
deliver
his
Friend
,
was
done
so
in
an
instant
,
that
one
might
say
,
Lightning
does
not
fall
more
swift
,
nor
more
readily
work
its
effects
.
It
displeased
Zelide
,
that
any
but
Alcidalis
had
given
this
blow
:
and
she
was
vext
to
have
seen
in
any
other
but
him
something
that
might
please
her
.
But
the
Cavalier
making
towards
her
,
and
wading
over
the
River
,
she
began
to
doubt
if
it
was
not
he
:
and
as
he
drew
nearer
,
having
finish'd
to
know
him
,
but
not
daring
to
remain
certain
,
she
turn'd
back
to
her
Maid
and
ask'd
her
,
if
she
knew
that
Cavalier
.
Madam
,
replies
she
,
when
he
was
further
off
,
we
ought
to
have
known
him
by
what
he
did
,
but
now
we
see
that
it
is
the
Prince
.
He
was
now
twenty
paces
from
them
.
Wonder
,
fear
and
joy
,
at
once
seiz'd
upon
Zelide
;
so
that
she
could
not
find
words
for
the
first
Complements
.
The
Prince
,
who
was
prepar'd
for
this
encounter
,
though
with
much
difficulty
on
his
side
,
was
more
assur'd
than
she
;
and
said
to
her
,
If
I
had
not
known
,
Madam
,
that
this
was
the
place
where
you
were
,
by
the
Pleasures
of
it
't
was
easie
to
divine
,
that
Zelide
was
not
far
off
.
None
but
you
could
cause
the
birth
of
so
many
Flowers
in
so
desert
a
Soil
,
or
could
have
wrought
this
Miracle
in
the
Mountains
of
Catalogna
.
Sir
,
says
Zelide
to
him
,
who
now
had
leasure
ro
recollect
her
Spirits
,
you
are
ingrateful
to
the
Heber
,
on
whose
Banks
you
are
,
and
which
seem'd
to
stoop
under
you
to
favour
your
passage
over
,
to
give
me
a
glory
which
is
due
to
the
fertility
of
its
Waves
:
which
water
and
imbrace
this
Valley
with
so
much
care
,
that
when
you
shall
have
well
consider'd
the
beauty
of
this
Meadow
,
these
Woods
and
this
Park
which
we
are
entring
,
you
may
confess
,
that
the
Palaces
of
Saragosa
,
and
the
Magnificences
of
the
Moorish
Kings
,
may
be
left
for
this
solitude
.
But
,
after
all
this
,
I
assure
you
Sir
,
saith
she
smiling
,
we
have
seen
nothing
in
this
Valley
so
handsom
,
as
what
you
shew'd
upon
the
Mountain
.
And
I
,
says
the
Prince
,
who
was
minded
to
change
this
discourse
,
that
when
from
the
Mountain
we
had
the
prospect
of
all
about
us
,
nothing
appear'd
so
fair
,
as
what
you
let
us
see
in
this
Valley
.
Now
they
had
taken
the
path
which
led
to
the
Queen
,
and
the
Maid
that
follow'd
them
,
staying
a
little
behind
,
Zelide
with
a
low
voice
said
to
him
;
Sir
,
you
have
perform'd
two
things
of
a
great
deal
of
boldness
;
one
,
to
precipitate
your self
from
the
Rock
to
combat
such
a
savage
Animal
;
the
other
,
to
give
the
Queen
a
visit
in
a
time
she
so
little
expected
it
.
Madam
,
answer'd
Alcidalis
,
it
had
been
a
greater
boldness
for
me
to
have
staid
in
Saragosa
.
For
that
had
been
with
a
firm
foot
to
attend
that
death
I
could
not
shun
,
if
I
had
remain'd
longer
without
seeing
you
.
So
that
what
seems
to
you
a
rashness
,
is
rather
want
of
Courage
:
seeing
I
am
come
hither
to
avoid
a
greater
peril
,
than
either
of
those
you
say
I
have
engag'd
in
.
I
could
not
have
imagin'd
that
,
says
she
to
him
.
And
for
my
part
,
I
vow
to
you
,
I
durst
not
have
fought
the
Bear
,
and
I
durst
as
little
have
displeas'd
the
Queen
.
But
I
think
I
have
courage
enough
to
suffer
an
Absence
.
To
know
what
an
absence
is
,
replies
Alcidalis
,
we
must
know
what
affection
is
:
and
you
cannot
suffer
here
,
you
Madam
,
who
ought
to
love
none
but
your self
;
and
who
carry
always
with
you
whatever
is
amiable
in
the
World
.
Alcidalis
,
answer'd
Zelide
,
you
do
not
believe
what
you
say
:
and
if
you
thought
me
so
ungrateful
and
so
vain
as
not
to
love
any
but
my self
,
you
would
not
have
so
much
impatience
to
see
me
.
But
to
the
end
that
you
may
be
better
inform'd
,
give
me
the
hearing
and
leasure
to
make
that
answer
I
promis'd
you
at
our
parting
.
And
because
in
saying
this
,
she
felt
she
blush'd
extreamly
,
and
saw
that
he
took
notice
of
it
,
she
began
thus
;
The
colour
which
mounts
up
to
my
Cheeks
,
proceeds
rather
from
my
being
about
to
speak
something
which
I
am
not
wont
to
speak
,
than
from
an
apprehension
of
doing
any
thing
in
it
contrary
to
my
duty
.
I
know
not
,
if
it
be
always
a
shame
for
a
Virgin
to
confess
she
Loves
;
but
I
know
,
if
any
may
be
excus'd
,
't
is
I
more
than
another
.
I
will
not
say
,
that
the
Stars
have
done
me
violence
,
or
that
your
qualities
have
obliged
me
to
it
:
't
is
a
cloak
and
pretence
under
which
all
others
may
shrow'd
themselves
.
I
will
only
alledge
what
is
particular
for
my
defence
.
Before
I
knew
that
't
was
not
lawful
to
love
,
I
knew
you
to
be
amiable
:
and
I
received
your
affection
in
a
time
,
when
I
did
not
know
those
Laws
which
forbid
our
Sex
to
entertain
any
.
I
cannot
be
blam'd
for
indulging
a
passion
,
which
I
may
say
,
I
found
in
my
Soul
rather
than
let
it
in
;
and
which
hath
been
so
long
its
Guest
,
that
I
can
no
more
remember
its
birth
than
my
own
.
The
first
Sentiment
I
had
in
the
World
was
,
that
which
concern'd
me
for
you
:
and
Self-love
,
which
we
feel
betimes
,
and
which
is
so
natural
to
all
the
World
,
enter'd
my
mind
later
than
that
Friendship
I
bear
you
.
My
Reason
,
which
appear'd
long
after
,
found
it
so
well
establish'd
,
that
it
took
it
for
a
part
of
my self
:
Besides
,
it
seem'd
so
innocent
and
so
just
,
that
she
hath
rather
strove
to
fortifie
,
than
to
destroy
it
.
I
say
all
this
,
to
excuse
me
with
you
and
with
my self
;
and
to
let
you
see
,
that
a
mind
the
most
strong
and
most
just
in
the
World
,
had
been
taken
as
mine
.
If
you
are
glad
then
,
that
I
love
you
,
do
not
thank
me
for
it
;
but
thank
the
gods
that
will'd
it
.
And
if
you
are
oblig'd
to
me
in
any
thing
,
't
is
for
that
I
have
been
willing
to
confess
it
.
For
if
I
had
not
strength
enough
to
extinguish
the
affection
I
bore
you
,
I
had
enough
to
hide
it
:
and
it
was
in
my
power
to
dissemble
it
all
my
life
;
or
as
some
do
,
to
drop
out
a
confession
after
you
had
long
attended
it
.
But
if
it
be
unreasonable
and
unworthy
of
you
and
me
,
it
would
never
be
time
to
discover
it
:
and
if
on
the
contrary
,
't
is
such
as
I
ought
to
have
to
be
worthy
of
Alcidalis
and
Zelide
;
why
should
I
not
give
you
now
the
content
of
knowing
and
being
assur'd
of
it
?
I
tell
you
then
Alcidalis
,
I
love
you
;
and
though
I
speak
it
with
a
blush
,
yet
I
speak
it
without
shame
;
I
accept
of
that
heart
which
you
say
you
give
me
.
For
what
concerns
the
Crown
you
promise
me
with
it
,
Fortune
shall
dispose
thereof
.
I
esteem
more
what
you
have
given
me
,
than
any
thing
she
can
offer
;
and
I
prize
your
heart
more
than
your
Kingdom
.
I
am
glad
to
see
there
is
not
a
quality
in
you
which
is
not
Royal.
But
I
wish
your
Birth
were
not
.
This
Crown
which
you
promise
me
as
the
Crown
of
my
selicity
,
will
be
the
cause
of
all
my
misfortune
:
and
to
get
from
me
that
which
I
least
esteem
in
you
,
they
will
use
all
ways
to
ravish
from
me
the
rest
.
I
see
,
at
this
hour
,
but
with
an
assured
Brow
,
all
the
evils
that
threaten
me
.
I
know
your
Love
will
procure
me
all
mens
hatred
;
and
because
you
wish
me
well
,
I
shall
suffer
much
ill
.
But
she
,
who
with
the
heart
of
Zelide
has
also
that
of
Alcidalis
,
ought
to
fear
nothing
.
I
will
resist
all
with
a
resolution
shall
astonish
you
:
and
seeing
the
Heavens
will
have
me
bear
an
affection
;
I
will
accompany
it
with
so
much
Constancy
,
Courage
,
and
Vertue
,
that
what
is
ordinarily
blam'd
in
our
Sex
,
shall
be
in
me
a
subject
of
esteem
and
praise
.
Alcidalis
,
who
at
the
beginning
was
dead
with
fear
,
as
a
man
who
was
to
hear
the
Sentence
of
his
life
or
death
;
perceiving
after
what
manner
she
spake
,
and
that
it
was
much
more
favourable
than
he
durst
wish
,
could
scarce
believe
his
ears
.
But
at
last
,
seeing
he
was
not
deceiv'd
,
he
found
himself
in
such
a
ravishment
,
that
he
was
a
long
time
without
saying
any
thing
,
and
could
not
find
words
to
thank
her
.
Indeed
,
there
were
none
to
be
found
;
and
his
seeking
for
them
was
an
effect
of
the
present
perplexity
.
He
answer'd
better
by
Silence
and
tears
of
Joy
.
But
having
turn'd
into
another
Alley
,
and
seeing
himself
out
of
the
sight
of
her
which
followed
them
,
he
put
one
knee
to
the
ground
,
and
as
he
began
to
speak
,
he
spied
the
Queen
at
the
other
end
;
who
knowing
of
Alcidalis
arrival
came
to
receive
him
.
The
Alley
was
not
so
long
,
but
what
was
done
in
it
might
be
seen
distinctly
from
one
end
to
the
other
.
Alcidalis
rose
up
as
speedily
as
he
could
.
and
Zelide
,
extreamly
troubled
at
this
encounter
,
told
him
,
Sir
,
your
undue
humility
will
cost
you
dear
,
and
see
a
beginning
of
my
Prophesies
.
Madam
,
answer'd
Alcidalis
,
I
can
fear
nothing
seeing
you
are
for
me
:
and
we
shall
be
too
strong
for
all
the
rest
of
the
World
,
so
long
as
we
are
of
a
side
.
Therefore
,
replies
she
,
they
will
soon
find
ways
to
part
us
.
They
said
all
this
with
an
action
wherewith
we
speak
things
indifferent
,
still
having
an
eye
upon
the
Troop
which
came
towards
them
.
The
Queen
was
now
advanc'd
,
and
Alcidalis
being
near
her
,
she
receiv'd
him
with
a
face
so
open
and
pleasant
,
that
Zelide
could
not
have
done
more
.
When
the
first
Complements
were
finish'd
,
and
that
the
Prince
had
told
her
,
his
Sport
having
led
him
within
six
or
seven
Leagues
off
the
house
,
he
believ'd
himself
bound
to
come
and
kiss
her
hands
;
the
Queen
said
,
she
was
beholding
to
Fortune
for
conducting
him
thither
.
But
Sir
,
says
she
,
I
believe
you
are
well
paid
for
the
trouble
.
For
't
is
to
be
imagin'd
,
that
the
favour
Zelide
hath
granted
you
is
not
ordinary
,
seeing
you
were
oblig'd
to
thank
her
on
your
knee
.
And
truly
at
first
I
could
not
know
you
,
but
thought
it
was
one
of
your
Servants
.
However
,
I
am
glad
no
other
than
your self
receiv'd
this
satisfaction
.
Tell
us
,
I
pray
,
what
is
the
matter
,
and
what
she
hath
promis'd
or
given
you
,
that
I
may
share
in
it
,
or
joyn
with
you
to
thank
her
.
Zelide
did
not
blush
,
for
,
from
the
time
she
began
her
discourse
with
Alcidalis
,
she
had
not
put
off
that
Colour
.
And
fearing
he
could
not
come
off
in
this
discourse
;
as
indeed
Womens
wits
are
more
at
hand
,
and
serve
a
surprize
best
;
she
advanc'd
to
answer
for
him
,
and
said
,
Madam
,
I
ask'd
Alcidalis
news
of
Saragosa
,
he
who
doubtless
thought
of
his
Hunting
did
not
reply
;
I
reproaching
his
heedlessness
and
silence
,
he
put
his
knee
to
the
ground
to
satisfie
me
;
believing
by
an
irregular
and
immeasurable
civility
to
repair
the
small
care
he
had
of
answering
me
.
That
is
to
be
very
civil
,
says
the
Queen
coldly
.
And
because
you
think
the
Prince
dreams
still
,
you
step
up
to
answer
for
him
.
Zelide
began
to
faulter
,
seeing
the
Queen
press
upon
her
in
this
manner
,
and
believ'd
,
she
would
not
be
able
to
suppress
the
evil-will
she
bore
her
,
but
that
now
't
would
break
out
before
all
the
World
.
But
Alcidalis
perceiving
her
perplexity
came
in
to
her
succour
,
as
she
had
done
to
his
,
and
broke
off
the
discourse
with
that
of
his
Hunting
.
He
was
so
possest
with
Joy
for
what
Zelide
had
said
,
that
he
entertain'd
the
Queen
all
that
day
with
a
marvellous
complacency
,
and
was
more
careful
to
discourse
with
her
Daughter
than
ever
before
.
But
these
two
young
persons
were
not
crafty
enough
to
deceive
her
.
She
soon
took
notice
of
this
change
.
By
the
pleasantness
of
Alcidalis
,
and
the
extraordinary
assiduities
which
he
render'd
to
her
Daughter
,
she
thought
he
must
be
well
content
and
assur'd
of
Zelide
.
She
saw
by
this
,
that
there
was
no
time
to
lose
,
and
from
that
day
took
up
the
resolution
,
which
afterwards
cost
our
Lovers
so
many
tears
and
dangers
.
Prepare
your self
Alcidalis
for
the
misfortunes
which
threaten
you
:
and
take
the
contentment
you
have
this
day
receiv'd
,
as
the
last
kindness
of
Fortune
.
Expect
no
more
Friendship
from
her
,
and
content
your self
with
that
of
Zelide
.
The
next
day
the
Prince
went
for
Saragosa
,
and
the
Queen
eight
days
after
.
Alcidalis
suffer'd
this
Absence
with
more
patience
than
the
former
;
his
thoughts
being
now
so
sweet
and
satisfactory
,
that
with
them
he
could
not
but
be
happy
.
But
as
a
fair
day
is
always
more
fair
than
the
fairest
night
,
and
as
there
is
no
perfect
contentment
in
darkness
:
it
seem'd
,
that
the
presence
of
Zelide
brought
a
new
Joy
to
his
Soul
,
and
gave
new
force
to
those
pleasures
which
without
her
he
could
not
intirely
relish
.
He
pass'd
some
Months
with
an
extream
content
,
and
so
perfect
a
one
,
that
from
thence
only
't
was
easie
to
guess
it
could
not
last
,
and
that
this
great
calm
would
be
follow'd
by
a
violent
tempest
.
The
satisfaction
and
assurance
which
he
had
,
made
him
live
with
more
discretion
than
formerly
,
and
with
more
fear
of
displeasing
the
Queen
.
He
serv'd
her
Daughter
with
more
care
,
and
entertain'd
Zelide
but
seldom
,
and
contented
himself
with
the
liberty
of
seeing
her
.
She
also
,
who
was
serious
from
her
Infancy
,
began
to
be
more
so
;
to
speak
to
the
Prince
with
more
respect
;
to
give
him
fewer
occasions
of
approaching
her
,
and
to
sear
more
,
lest
they
should
imagine
any
thing
of
her
affection
.
But
this
discretion
,
as
for
the
most
part
that
of
Lovers
,
came
too
late
.
The
Queen
would
not
be
abus'd
by
it
:
and
with
much
care
,
secrecy
and
diligence
took
order
for
the
execution
of
those
designs
she
had
projected
.
As
those
who
are
in
a
Cittadel
which
is
secretly
undermin'd
,
have
ordinarily
more
fear
of
any
other
peril
than
that
which
threatens
them
,
and
are
quiet
whilst
their
Grave
is
digging
,
and
whilst
that
ruine
is
preparing
that
must
in
a
moment
overwhelm
them
:
so
these
two
Lovers
suspected
nothing
of
the
Treason
which
was
hatching
against
them
,
but
were
in
a
profound
tranquillity
;
and
if
the
ill-will
of
the
Queen
made
them
apprehend
some
misfortune
,
they
did
not
imagine
it
so
great
,
so
present
,
nor
of
such
a
nature
as
that
which
was
to
happen
to
them
.
Here
begin
those
Misfortunes
which
seem
to
be
endless
;
and
adventures
so
strange
and
involv'd
,
that
if
it
be
scarce
credible
that
they
did
really
happen
,
it
is
no
less
hard
to
believe
,
that
they
could
be
invented
,
or
be
the
effects
of
the
strongest
imagination
.
It
seem'd
to
Fortune
,
that
Aragon
and
Catalogna
were
too
narrow
Theaters
,
to
represent
the
fairest
piece
she
had
ever
acted
in
the
World
:
she
would
take
one
more
spacious
;
and
changing
the
face
of
that
we
have
hitherto
seen
,
instead
of
Saragosa
and
Barcelona
,
Meadows
and
Walks
;
she
will
let
us
see
the
Sea
and
Africa
,
persons
unknown
,
people
scarce
heard
of
,
Ships
taken
and
burnt
,
Duels
and
Battels
.
And
what
is
more
strange
,
at
the
same
time
and
in
the
same
Subject
,
Chains
and
Crowns
.
Four
Months
after
the
Queen
had
left
Catalogna
,
she
took
occasion
to
return
;
but
did
not
declare
her
mind
till
the
day
before
.
Alcidalis
and
Zelide
were
so
surpriz'd
,
that
they
had
scarce
leasure
to
bid
adieu
.
But
when
the
Prince
declar'd
his
grief
for
her
departure
,
she
told
him
,
Sir
remember
what
you
said
in
Catalogna
,
That
there
was
nothing
in
the
World
you
could
sear
so
long
as
I
was
of
your
side
.
We
have
other
manner
of
Evils
to
suffer
.
But
in
all
your
misfortunes
remember
,
that
you
cannot
be
unhappy
,
being
assur'd
I
love
you
.
You
cannot
doubt
of
that
,
seeing
I
say
it
.
If
that
be
not
enough
receive
this
Ring
,
which
in
the
presence
of
the
Gods
I
give
you
together
with
my
heart
.
Alcidalis
took
it
,
and
having
given
her
another
with
the
same
words
,
they
parted
.
The
Queen
the
next
day
pretended
she
had
receiv'd
News
from
Barcelona
,
which
oblig'd
her
to
go
thither
;
so
she
left
her
Daughter
with
part
of
her
Train
,
and
carried
Zelide
along
with
her
.
They
came
to
that
fair
City
,
which
no
less
for
its
scituation
,
than
for
the
fertility
of
its
Territory
,
is
one
of
the
most
famous
in
Spain
.
Zelide
wonder'd
,
that
the
Queen
having
left
her
Daughter
,
did
not
leave
her
too
.
And
having
well
consider'd
the
Novelty
,
she
judg'd
it
was
not
done
without
some
reason
.
But
on
what
side
soever
she
cast
her
eye
,
she
could
not
imagine
any
thing
;
and
seeing
nothing
which
she
could
particularly
fear
,
she
fear'd
every
thing
.
The
Queen
having
imploy'd
the
rest
of
that
day
in
beholding
the
Magnificences
of
her
reception
,
gave
the
next
to
those
affairs
which
't
was
thought
led
her
thither
.
The
day
after
't
was
told
her
,
a
Ship
which
bore
her
Name
enter'd
the
Port.
She
said
,
she
would
presently
go
and
see
it
.
In
their
way
they
beheld
all
that
pomp
of
the
Sea
,
which
is
so
pleasant
to
see
when
we
are
on
the
Shore
.
But
nothing
could
be
a
divertisement
to
Zelide
;
her
heart
told
her
,
that
the
Evils
she
had
foreseen
began
to
tread
upon
her
heels
,
and
on
all
sides
she
fear'd
Ambushes
.
The
Queen
put
her self
into
a
Boat
,
and
bid
Zelide
follow
her
.
She
found
the
Captain
aboard
and
his
Wife
,
and
after
she
had
taken
a
view
of
the
Vessel
,
she
shut
her self
up
with
them
in
the
Cabin
.
This
augmented
the
Suspicions
of
Zelide
:
and
with
tears
in
her
eyes
she
cast
a
look
upon
the
Land
,
and
began
to
doubt
,
if
she
should
ever
return
thither
.
An
hour
after
the
Captain
and
his
Wife
came
out
and
told
Zelide
,
the
Queen
call'd
for
her
.
All
her
Blood
at
this
instant
froze
in
her
Veins
.
The
Queen
bid
her
shut
the
door
,
and
thus
deliver'd
her self
.
'T
is
long
since
,
Zelide
,
that
we
lost
together
,
you
the
best
Mother
in
the
World
,
and
I
the
best
Friend
.
The
affection
I
had
for
her
will
never
be
lost
in
me
,
nor
the
memory
of
her
last
words
,
wherewith
she
pray'd
me
to
have
a
care
of
you
.
If
this
consideration
had
not
ingag'd
me
,
yet
your
Beauty
,
Parts
and
Virtue
would
have
oblig'd
me
to
it
.
And
having
nourish'd
you
thus
long
,
and
found
in
you
with
advantage
all
those
qualities
which
endear'd
her
to
me
,
I
should
not
be
reasonable
,
if
I
had
not
a
kindness
for
you
too
.
And
I
may
say
,
that
in
this
I
have
done
more
than
she
desir'd
.
She
pray'd
me
to
love
you
as
her
Daughter
,
and
I
have
always
lov'd
you
as
mine
.
She
,
whom
the
Heavens
only
gave
me
in
the
World
,
lost
the
name
of
only
,
from
the
day
I
took
charge
of
you
.
I
have
had
the
same
affection
,
and
the
same
tenderness
for
you
,
as
for
her
:
and
I
have
consider'd
the
one
and
the
other
,
as
if
you
were
equally
mine
.
It
being
so
,
and
not
one
of
your
actions
,
or
any
thing
that
concern'd
you
having
been
indifferent
to
me
,
you
may
believe
it
hard
,
that
I
should
not
have
some
knowledge
of
that
passion
which
your
Beauty
,
without
your
consent
,
hath
bred
in
the
mind
of
Alcidalis
;
and
that
,
as
well
as
you
,
I
have
been
often
troubled
about
the
wrong
it
might
do
you
.
You
know
what
trust
is
to
be
given
to
persons
of
his
age
and
condition
,
who
have
equally
the
priviledge
to
deceive
and
to
deny
.
And
I
make
you
Judge
,
if
it
be
possible
the
affection
he
hath
for
you
can
ever
be
advantagious
to
you
.
You
see
,
as
well
as
I
,
all
the
reasons
that
will
not
permit
it
.
You
are
too
wise
ever
to
have
hop'd
it
:
and
though
it
should
be
in
his
power
and
yours
,
you
are
Just
enough
,
and
grateful
enough
not
to
desire
it
.
I
know
your
Vertue
,
Zelide
;
and
I
know
there
is
nothing
in
the
World
which
can
endanger
it
.
But
,
as
great
as
it
is
,
you
cannot
take
from
the
Prince
occasions
of
visiting
you
,
nor
from
others
of
speaking
of
you
.
All
that
your
Vertue
can
do
in
this
is
to
hinder
the
evil
,
but
it
cannot
hinder
the
fame
:
and
I
know
of
what
prejudice
this
report
is
to
persons
of
your
Sex
;
and
particularly
,
what
displeasure
it
causes
to
persons
of
your
wisdom
and
honour
.
I
thought
therefore
,
't
was
my
part
to
come
in
to
your
assistance
:
and
that
't
was
time
to
perform
the
Promises
I
made
your
Mother
.
The
Duke
of
Tarant
is
a
Prince
wise
and
vertuous
;
considerable
in
Italy
,
and
esteem'd
of
all
his
Neighbours
:
He
,
by
his
Letters
and
Messengers
,
hath
long
since
declar'd
to
me
a
great
passion
for
you
:
I
would
not
tell
you
of
it
till
the
matter
was
certain
and
fully
ripe
.
This
day
I
understand
he
expects
you
,
Zelide
,
to
give
you
possession
of
his
Estate
and
Person
.
He
that
Commands
this
Vessel
left
him
but
fifteen
days
since
,
and
promis'd
him
,
on
my
part
,
to
carry
you
thither
in
as
many
more
.
Diligence
and
Secresie
,
for
reasons
I
cannot
now
acquaint
you
with
,
are
so
important
,
that
't
is
needful
you
depart
this
minute
.
I
doubt
not
but
your
good
nature
will
cause
in
you
some
regret
to
leave
us
.
But
though
we
are
separated
by
the
Sea
,
our
affections
shall
not
be
less
united
.
In
fine
,
you
ought
to
be
glad
of
returning
into
a
Countrey
,
where
you
will
find
your
Estate
,
your
Kindred
,
and
the
place
of
your
Birth
.
But
though
this
should
not
be
your
will
,
't
is
enough
to
let
you
know
that
't
is
mine
.
Besides
the
power
that
my
quality
gives
me
over
you
,
I
have
that
of
a
Mother
which
lends
me
more
authority
.
Consent
then
,
and
willingly
agree
to
a
thing
,
which
besides
that
it
is
just
,
is
also
necessary
:
and
by
a
ready
obedience
to
what
I
counsel
and
command
you
at
once
,
make
appear
that
modesty
you
owe
to
your self
,
and
that
respect
you
owe
to
me
.
This
you
may
easily
resolve
to
do
,
for
he
you
think
so
faithful
to
you
,
and
who
ought
most
to
oppose
it
,
is
the
first
that
consented
to
it
.
With
these
words
she
imbrac'd
her
;
and
pretending
she
would
not
take
a
long
adue
for
fear
of
afflicting
her
too
much
,
left
the
Cabin
.
Grief
,
despite
,
shame
,
rage
and
the
excess
of
the
Misfortune
,
did
so
oppress
the
Spirits
of
Zelide
,
that
not
being
able
to
speak
a
word
or
stir
a
foot
,
she
remain'd
in
the
condition
wherein
the
Queen
left
her
:
and
doubtless
,
't
was
the
best
wherein
she
found
her self
for
a
long
time
after
,
seeing
that
at
this
first
brunt
she
felt
nothing
.
All
our
powers
are
so
weak
and
so
limited
,
that
we
are
not
capable
of
any
thing
extraordinary
:
and
,
as
a
great
light
blinds
us
,
and
a
great
noise
deasens
us
;
great
Griefs
are
not
felt
,
no
more
than
great
Joys
are
.
She
had
remain'd
thus
without
motion
a
quarter
of
an
hour
:
when
at
last
her
Spirits
,
buried
under
this
sudden
ruine
of
all
things
,
beginning
to
return
,
she
thought
there
would
be
no
remedy
to
this
evil
,
if
she
did
not
find
one
in
this
instant
;
so
she
runs
out
of
the
Cabin
,
intending
to
cast
her self
at
the
Queens
feet
,
and
to
try
if
she
could
change
her
mind
.
But
when
they
told
her
she
was
gone
,
and
that
she
saw
they
were
got
out
to
Sea
,
she
cast
her
eyes
upon
the
shore
,
and
her
thoughts
upon
what
she
had
left
there
,
and
on
a
sudden
took
up
a
resolution
which
seem'd
to
quiet
her
.
Then
,
with
a
serene
countenance
,
turning
towards
those
about
her
,
she
spake
some
few
words
,
and
seeming
to
receive
the
Consolations
they
tender'd
,
she
went
to
her
Bed
,
and
pray'd
them
to
leave
her
to
her
rest
.
Miserable
Alcidalis
,
thou
art
now
counting
the
moments
as
they
pass
:
and
when
thou
thinkest
of
the
eight
days
in
which
thou
shalt
not
see
Zelide
,
this
term
appears
infinite
.
Whilst
she
is
remov'd
from
thee
for
many
years
.
In
a
few
days
the
Sea
shall
be
between
thee
and
her
.
The
Wind
hurries
away
all
thy
Joys
and
all
thy
Hopes
;
and
is
about
to
put
into
the
power
of
another
the
only
good
thou
desirest
in
the
World
,
and
the
only
one
that
is
worthy
of
thee
in
it
.
Fear
and
Hope
are
the
two
Winds
of
our
Soul
,
which
never
cease
,
and
there
are
no
Tempests
in
it
which
are
not
made
by
one
of
them
.
The
present
,
being
only
a
point
,
would
not
be
considerable
to
us
,
if
one
of
these
two
passions
did
not
make
us
feel
the
future
.
Zelide
believ'd
,
that
Fortune
had
put
her
in
a
condition
,
wherein
it
was
not
in
her
power
to
hurt
or
succour
her
.
So
that
she
was
in
that
fatal
tranquillity
in
which
those
are
who
neither
fear
nor
hope
,
and
who
only
expect
the
end
of
their
miseries
in
the
end
of
their
life
.
And
amidst
so
many
miseries
,
at
least
she
had
not
that
of
seeking
remedies
,
which
is
one
of
the
greatest
torments
to
wretched
persons
.
Being
well
resolv'd
of
what
she
had
to
do
;
and
knowing
,
within
a
little
,
how
long
her
Misfortunes
could
last
,
she
past
the
night
in
thinking
of
Alcidalis
,
and
flatter'd
her self
with
some
content
,
when
she
confider'd
that
signal
proof
she
was
about
to
give
him
of
her
affection
and
courage
.
Though
the
Queens
last
words
,
whereby
she
would
have
made
her
believe
,
that
the
Prince
betray'd
her
,
caus'd
in
her
some
violent
transports
.
When
the
Captain
and
his
Wife
thought
she
was
awake
,
they
enter'd
the
Cabin
,
and
asking
her
,
if
she
would
not
eat
;
she
reply'd
,
that
not
only
she
would
not
eat
now
,
but
that
she
would
eat
no
more
.
They
were
startled
at
the
Answer
,
and
thought
she
was
relaps'd
to
her
first
sadness
,
and
that
it
requir'd
more
time
to
digest
it
.
But
,
some
hours
after
,
seeing
she
did
not
call
,
they
return'd
and
us'd
all
Arguments
to
perswade
her
to
eat
:
To
all
which
she
did
not
answer
,
but
by
an
obstinate
silence
,
and
by
so
cold
and
resolv'd
a
look
,
that
she
did
not
seem
to
hear
them
.
They
went
out
the
second
time
extraordinarily
troubled
,
and
began
to
fear
some
tragick
end
of
this
strange
resolution
.
At
night
they
return'd
,
and
with
a
Neece
they
had
of
the
age
of
Zelide
they
kneel'd
about
the
Bed
,
conjuring
her
by
all
things
,
to
have
a
care
of
her
life
.
They
could
not
for
all
this
obtain
an
Answer
,
but
withdrew
at
last
,
that
they
might
not
rob
her
of
her
repose
,
which
seem'd
to
be
the
only
benefit
left
her
.
Three
days
past
in
which
they
were
not
able
to
change
her
mind
by
prayers
,
tears
and
remonstrances
,
or
draw
one
word
from
her
.
The
fourth
day
they
came
again
to
try
their
utmost
,
and
getting
about
her
upon
their
knees
,
melting
into
tears
,
offering
her
every
thing
,
conjur'd
her
to
have
pity
of
her self
and
of
them
.
When
Zelide
had
hearkned
to
them
,
fetching
a
sigh
,
with
much
pain
she
sate
up
in
her
Bed
.
Then
they
knew
the
extremity
to
which
she
was
reduc'd
.
In
the
fairest
face
of
the
World
they
saw
an
affrighting
image
of
despair
,
and
approaching
death
;
and
something
which
struck
them
with
fear
and
pity
at
once
.
When
they
had
look'd
upon
one
another
for
some
time
,
at
last
she
broke
that
Silence
which
she
had
so
long
kept
,
and
spake
to
them
after
this
manner
:
My
Friends
,
you
ask
me
a
thing
which
none
but
you
can
give
me
.
You
pray
me
to
live
.
I
pray
you
,
that
I
may
.
And
't
is
in
your
power
,
not
in
mine
.
I
have
resolv'd
I
will
not
be
carried
alive
to
the
shore
of
Italy
:
and
I
swear
it
again
by
the
gods
above
,
by
the
Fire
and
by
the
Light
;
by
those
below
,
and
by
the
shades
of
my
Parents
.
It
is
not
then
in
me
to
dispose
otherwise
of
my self
.
And
seeing
you
can
carry
me
,
or
not
carry
me
thither
;
you
must
pronounce
the
sentence
of
my
life
or
death
.
Can
you
now
refuse
me
that
,
which
you
have
beg'd
of
me
with
so
many
tears
?
And
will
you
be
my
Murtherers
,
that
were
chosen
for
my
Conducters
?
The
Duke
of
Tarant
expects
me
;
but
hath
never
seen
me
.
Here
's
your
Neece
,
of
my
age
,
my
stature
,
and
not
much
unlike
me
.
You
may
put
her
in
my
place
;
and
procure
her
this
good
Fortune
,
and
deliver
me
from
the
greatest
misfortune
in
the
World
.
'T
is
true
,
you
will
deceive
the
Duke
by
another
person
than
he
expects
:
but
if
you
could
conduct
me
in
the
condition
wherein
I
am
,
would
it
be
Zelide
?
And
is
not
this
Maid
more
like
to
what
I
was
,
than
I
am
to
my self
?
Will
not
the
Duke
be
more
happy
to
have
a
Wife
that
will
be
content
,
and
who
wishes
for
him
,
than
one
that
long
consider'd
,
whether
she
should
choose
death
or
him
?
and
which
at
last
prefer'd
death
to
his
person
?
But
't
is
not
mine
he
loves
,
seeing
it
is
unknown
to
him
;
't
is
my
Fortunes
,
which
I
now
make
over
to
your
Neece
,
with
the
name
of
Zelide
:
and
call
the
gods
to
witness
,
that
for
me
no
person
alive
shall
know
of
it
,
and
that
I
will
never
repent
of
it
.
'T
is
true
,
the
Queen
hath
commanded
you
to
convey
me
where
I
am
expected
;
but
are
not
you
bound
to
follow
her
will
rather
than
her
words
?
And
don't
you
think
that
if
she
were
now
present
,
and
saw
the
danger
in
which
I
am
,
she
would
not
rather
provide
for
my
safety
in
any
place
,
than
send
me
dead
for
Italy
?
Did
she
bid
you
put
me
into
the
hands
of
the
Duke
,
alive
or
dead
?
Don't
you
think
she
intends
this
Marriage
for
my
good
and
advancement
?
and
that
she
,
who
hath
had
a
care
of
my
Fortune
,
would
have
a
care
of
my
life
?
When
all
the
World
shall
reproach
her
with
this
cruelty
,
will
she
not
discharge
her self
upon
you
?
But
who
can
oblige
you
,
except
you
will
,
to
return
to
Barcelona
and
give
her
account
of
what
you
have
done
?
With
this
Ship
you
may
go
any where
,
where
the
Winds
go
,
and
you
have
all
the
World
before
you
.
Then
drawing
out
a
small
Cabinet
the
Queen
had
left
her
,
containing
her
Mothers
Jewels
,
she
told
them
;
These
Jewels
are
of
infinite
value
.
The
Queen
would
not
give
you
more
if
she
presented
you
Barcelona
.
I
present
them
all
to
you
,
for
the
ransom
of
my
life
and
liberty
:
and
as
these
two
surpass
in
value
what
I
present
;
and
that
Liberty
alone
is
worth
all
the
Riches
in
the
World
,
you
may
give
me
more
than
I
give
you
,
and
I
shall
still
be
your
Debtor
.
With
these
you
will
find
Friends
,
Kindred
and
Countrey
any
where
.
Many
would
be
tempted
to
take
away
my
life
,
with
what
I
offer
you
to
save
it
:
and
I
incite
you
to
a
good
action
,
by
a
reward
capable
of
purchasing
others
for
a
bad
one
.
If
you
are
touch'd
with
a
scruple
of
obeying
the
Queen
;
are
you
not
more
afraid
of
murthering
an
Innocent
?
Can
you
more
easily
resolve
to
kill
one
of
her
Friends
,
than
to
break
one
of
her
commands
?
Are
you
not
more
afraid
of
provoking
the
gods
,
than
of
offending
men
in
the
person
of
a
Woman
?
And
if
a
dread
of
her
hatred
or
revenge
restrains
you
,
ought
you
not
to
consider
,
that
there
are
some
in
Aragon
,
as
powerful
as
she
,
who
will
seek
you
throughout
the
World
,
and
make
you
give
account
of
my
person
and
life
?
But
after
all
,
if
these
Reasons
should
not
appear
so
;
I
adjure
you
by
that
compassion
you
seem'd
to
have
of
me
,
and
by
the
tears
you
lately
shed
,
to
deliver
me
out
of
this
misery
:
and
by
a
ready
complying
shew
,
that
it
is
for
the
love
of
me
,
rather
than
for
your
own
consideration
,
that
you
do
it
.
But
if
my
Reasons
,
my
prayers
,
and
my
offers
cannot
prevail
;
and
if
I
cannot
perswade
you
to
an
action
which
is
just
,
safe
and
profitable
:
I
shut
my
mouth
never
to
open
it
again
;
and
in
despite
of
you
,
death
shall
one
day
give
me
the
liberty
you
have
refus'd
.
Ending
this
discourse
she
open'd
the
Cabinet
and
let
the
Stones
sparkle
in
their
eyes
.
Which
indeed
was
not
one
of
the
weakest
means
whereof
she
serv'd
her self
to
perswade
them
.
They
were
mov'd
with
what
they
heard
;
but
more
by
what
they
saw
;
and
't
was
hard
for
them
to
resist
so
many
violences
at
once
.
The
Captain
was
much
a
Souldier
,
and
of
great
Courage
:
who
had
past
the
half
of
his
life
upon
the
Sea
;
and
who
had
run
many
Fortunes
,
but
made
none
.
He
thought
that
now
she
would
pay
him
all
at
once
:
and
was
astonish'd
to
see
in
so
small
a
space
,
more
riches
than
he
had
ever
beheld
in
the
Indies
.
He
presently
began
to
think
how
many
Ships
he
would
build
and
Man
out
with
a
part
of
it
.
All
Zelides
Arguments
appear'd
good
ones
.
He
thought
that
generosity
oblig'd
him
to
succour
a
Princess
so
amiable
,
and
so
unjustly
afflicted
:
and
thought
besides
,
that
if
he
could
bestow
her
in
some
place
,
whence
he
might
afterwards
render
her
to
Alcidalis
,
he
might
return
to
Spain
with
more
favour
than
ever
;
and
had
ground
to
hope
as
great
Reward
hereafter
,
as
that
which
he
saw
before
him
.
When
he
had
attentively
hearkned
to
Zelide
,
he
remain'd
silent
a
long
time
:
and
resolv'd
upon
what
he
would
do
,
he
only
studied
what
he
should
say
.
She
believing
he
doubted
what
resolution
he
should
take
,
added
so
many
prayers
and
promises
to
what
she
had
said
,
and
knew
how
to
press
him
in
such
a
manner
,
that
at
last
seeming
to
render
himself
up
to
her
Reasons
and
to
pity
,
he
swore
by
solemn
Oaths
to
do
what
she
desir'd
.
Zelide
,
who
hitherto
in
the
height
of
her
misfortunes
and
despair
had
never
dropt
a
tear
,
felt
her self
now
stirr'd
with
joy
,
and
a
pity
she
had
of
her self
,
reflecting
on
her
condition
,
and
began
to
weep
abundantly
,
as
miserable
persons
are
wont
to
do
,
when
in
their
griefs
some
glimpse
of
hope
darts
in
upon
them
.
She
did
not
think
so
much
of
her
being
snatch'd
from
the
arms
of
Alcidalis
,
as
of
her
being
deliver'd
from
falling
into
the
Dukes
.
With
the
help
of
this
Joy
she
soon
recover'd
her
strength
;
and
re-establish'd
her
health
in
as
few
days
as
she
had
lost
it
.
They
agreed
then
,
she
should
not
shew
her self
:
and
Erminia
their
Neece
was
shut
up
in
a
Cabin
,
and
receiv'd
Lessons
to
act
well
the
part
of
Zelide
.
At
last
they
came
near
the
Shore
,
and
they
suffer'd
her
,
being
well
instructed
,
to
be
seen
by
the
principal
Officers
of
the
Gallies
,
and
she
rehears'd
before
them
the
part
she
was
to
play
upon
a
more
noble
Theater
.
Though
Zelide
saw
things
well
dispos'd
,
and
the
extream
passion
her
Guardians
had
to
bring
about
their
design
,
her
heart
fail'd
her
when
she
saw
the
Land
.
In
the
mean
time
,
that
they
might
not
expose
the
false
Zelide
to
the
eyes
of
the
Croud
,
which
cover'd
the
Shore
,
as
soon
as
she
was
Landed
they
put
her
into
a
close
Chair
,
pretending
her
indisposition
,
and
so
convey'd
her
to
the
Palace
:
and
they
advis'd
her
,
with
the
same
pretext
to
shun
the
sight
of
People
,
and
to
keep
her
Bed
till
she
had
fortified
her
action
and
countenance
,
and
was
well
accustom'd
to
be
a
Dutchess
.
So
that
she
was
seen
of
none
but
the
Duke
;
who
,
though
he
did
not
find
in
her
that
great
Beauty
which
had
made
so
much
noise
;
was
content
,
and
attributed
something
to
her
sickness
and
a
Sea
Voyage
:
or
at
least
to
the
deceitfulness
of
Fame
.
The
Captain
and
his
Wife
,
laden
with
Presents
,
took
leave
and
went
to
Sea
.
When
they
were
return'd
,
and
that
Zelide
saw
the
Ship
was
under
Sail
,
and
she
at
distance
from
this
fatal
Shore
,
which
she
had
so
much
fear'd
;
she
was
fill'd
with
such
a
Joy
,
that
it
wanted
little
but
the
pleasure
of
leaving
Italy
made
amends
for
the
grief
she
felt
in
leaving
Spain
.
But
what
serves
it
for
an
unfortunate
person
to
scape
one
Misfortune
?
And
what
safety
for
those
that
Fortune
pursues
?
All
the
Earth
,
without
doubt
,
is
of
her
Empire
.
But
the
Sea
seems
to
be
her
proper
Inheritance
.
'T
is
there
she
is
most
to
be
fear'd
;
and
there
are
wrought
her
greatest
miracles
and
greatest
perfidies
.
In
the
mean
time
,
as
if
there
were
nothing
to
be
fear'd
,
Zelide
thankt
the
gods
:
and
being
upon
the
most
unfaithful
Element
of
all
,
in
a
weak
Vessel
,
and
amongst
people
from
whom
she
could
expect
nothing
,
having
no
more
to
give
them
,
she
is
in
the
same
assurance
as
if
she
were
upon
the
Land
,
in
a
Palace
,
and
amongst
her
Friends
.
They
made
for
Sardinia
,
to
which
place
the
Captain
design'd
to
carry
the
young
Princess
,
and
commit
her
to
the
care
of
a
Sister
of
his
,
till
he
could
find
means
to
put
her
into
the
power
of
Alcidalis
.
After
a
few
days
sail
with
a
favourable
Wind
,
one
Evening
they
descry'd
three
Sail.
There
is
no
place
where
men
live
with
so
much
distrust
,
as
upon
this
Element
.
The
Water
,
Air
,
Earth
and
Fire
are
enemies
to
Voyagers
.
But
men
are
more
so
,
and
amidst
so
many
dangers
there
is
nothing
a
Vessel
fears
more
,
than
the
encounter
of
another
.
This
News
rouz'd
them
all
,
they
made
all
fail
possible
,
and
the
Night
came
on
,
but
in
the
Morning
they
found
them
by
their
side
.
Then
astonishment
seiz'd
upon
them
;
the
most
fearful
betook
themselves
to
Cries
and
Tears
,
and
the
most
resolute
to
their
Arms.
And
the
wisest
judg'd
the
one
and
the
other
were
equally
in
vain
.
Though
the
Captain
had
experience
enough
to
judge
that
he
could
not
defend
himself
,
nevertheless
a
regret
to
loose
so
much
Riches
,
and
to
see
that
Fortune
would
snatch
out
of
his
hands
what
she
but
now
gave
him
,
put
him
in
despair
,
and
made
him
resolve
to
die
rather
than
yield
.
In
this
general
alarm
and
confusion
Zelide
only
was
unaffrighted
:
and
whilst
others
fear'd
for
their
Goods
,
Lives
and
Liberty
;
she
,
to
whom
all
these
things
were
indifferent
,
thought
of
preserving
that
she
esteem'd
most
.
After
she
had
fac'd
the
danger
with
a
firm
and
resolv'd
mind
,
she
shut
her self
up
in
the
Cabin
with
the
Captains
Wise
.
The
first
thing
she
did
was
to
throw
the
Cabinet
of
Jewels
into
the
Sea
,
lest
she
should
be
discover'd
by
them
.
After
that
she
pray'd
her
to
cut
her
Hair
:
and
then
with
Tears
in
her
eyes
,
seeing
what
Fortune
constrain'd
her
to
,
made
her
bring
a
Sute
of
her
Husbands
Clothes
,
which
she
put
on
.
In
the
mean
time
the
Ships
,
now
known
to
be
of
Africa
,
were
within
Canon-shot
,
and
finding
that
our
Ship
pretended
to
defend
her self
,
discharg'd
a
Broad-side
;
ours
did
the
same
,
but
with
different
success
;
for
having
done
no
hurt
to
the
Enemy
it
lost
Mast
and
Sails
.
At
this
noise
Zelide
came
out
,
and
put
her self
amongst
the
most
resolute
,
and
where
there
was
most
danger
:
believing
by
this
means
she
should
find
her
death
,
or
better
disguise
her self
.
The
Combat
was
so
unequal
it
could
not
last
long
.
The
Corsairs
quickly
boarded
the
Ship
;
where
having
kill'd
ten
or
twelve
of
the
stoutest
,
and
amongst
them
the
Captain
,
the
rest
ask
their
lives
.
The
Commander
of
these
Vessels
was
of
of
the
Kingdom
of
Bareba
,
a
part
of
Africa
which
confines
on
one
side
with
Egypt
,
on
the
other
with
Nubia
.
These
people
,
extreamly
Savage
,
know
not
what-Commerce
is
;
and
have
no
other
way
of
communicating
with
Strangers
,
but
by
vanquishing
of
them
,
and
carrying
away
Merchants
and
Merchandize
:
What
we
call
Stealing
,
they
say
is
to
gain
upon
the
Enemy
;
and
call
that
Valour
,
which
we
style
Piracy
.
What
they
can
have
at
the
price
of
their
Blood
,
they
would
be
asham'd
to
get
otherwise
:
and
to
take
a
thing
by
force
and
with
danger
,
is
amongst
them
the
most
honest
sort
of
acquisition
.
This
man
being
of
the
noblest
and
most
powerful
of
his
Nation
,
had
been
for
a
long
time
the
terrour
of
the
Grecian
and
Italian
Coasts
,
able
and
extreamly
valiant
;
pitiful
and
humane
,
more
than
his
Countrey
or
Trade
permitted
;
good
and
generous
,
without
knowing
what
goodness
or
generosity
was
.
As
in
the
coldest
parts
of
the
North
there
are
found
some
veins
of
Gold
as
fine
as
that
of
the
Indies
,
though
not
in
so
great
quantity
:
so
in
all
sorts
of
Climates
,
Nature
is
pleas'd
sometimes
to
produce
rich
dispositions
,
which
she
instructs
and
dresses
up
her self
;
and
bestows
upon
them
,
without
their
study
,
all
necessary
lights
.
When
Orchant
,
which
was
the
name
of
the
Corsaire
,
view'd
his
Captives
and
the
prey
he
had
made
;
the
Beauty
and
Majesty
which
sparkled
in
the
face
of
Zelide
struck
his
sight
:
and
asking
who
she
was
;
she
said
,
she
was
a
Spaniard
by
Nation
,
and
nam'd
her self
Zelidan
,
Cousin
to
the
Captain
of
the
Ship
he
had
taken
;
that
she
was
sorry
she
could
not
follow
him
;
and
that
she
esteem'd
him
happy
to
have
lost
his
life
rather
than
his
liberty
.
She
said
this
with
a
Countenance
that
held
nothing
of
the
Captive
;
without
tears
,
without
prayers
,
without
submissions
.
But
in
spite
of
her self
her
face
and
good
grace
pleaded
for
her
;
and
her
Constancy
and
Courage
were
recommendation
enough
.
So
that
Orchant
esteem'd
her
Pride
;
and
what
would
have
invited
the
anger
of
another
,
bred
admiration
in
him
.
He
exhorted
him
to
be
of
good
courage
;
that
his
Servitude
should
not
be
harsh
;
that
he
should
taste
more
liberty
than
before
;
that
he
might
hope
't
would
not
last
,
seeing
he
had
a
Master
who
kept
no
Slaves
,
but
those
who
deserv'd
to
be
so
:
that
for
his
part
,
he
did
not
practise
the
Sea
as
a
Merchant
;
that
he
rather
sought
Fame
than
Gain
;
that
he
took
more
pleasure
in
making
Free-men
,
than
in
making
Slaves
:
that
for
his
part
of
the
Booty
,
he
would
content
himself
with
Zelidan
,
and
leave
the
rest
to
his
Souldiers
:
that
he
might
ransom
himself
when
he
would
;
that
one
gallant
Action
would
be
enough
to
do
it
;
that
if
the
rest
of
him
answer'd
to
his
face
,
he
might
believe
he
should
be
longer
his
Friend
than
his
Slave
.
Zelide
,
who
expected
nothing
like
this
from
a
Barbarian
and
a
Pirate
,
was
glad
,
and
wonder'd
at
his
discourse
,
esteeming
her
Captivity
much
more
supportable
.
And
now
having
shun'd
an
odious
Marriage
,
see
her
the
Slave
of
a
Pirate
:
and
she
thought
this
Accident
less
afflicting
than
the
other
,
because
it
had
more
remedies
.
There
was
no
good
fortune
for
her
,
but
to
be
Alcidalis's
;
nor
ill
,
but
to
be
anothers
.
Besides
this
,
she
knew
no
good
nor
evil
in
the
World
;
and
all
things
were
indifferent
to
her
.
Thus
she
who
deserv'd
to
command
the
Universe
,
resolves
to
serve
:
and
that
heart
which
was
so
vast
and
elevate
,
that
the
Heavens
are
not
more
,
stoops
to
the
lowest
of
Misfortunes
,
with
more
patience
than
the
meanest
Mariner
taken
with
her
.
But
it
was
impossible
for
Zelide
to
serve
long
.
This
disorder
and
violence
could
not
last
in
nature
.
It
had
been
easier
to
submit
the
sphere
of
Fire
to
the
other
Elements
:
and
it
was
impossible
but
those
divine
qualities
which
were
in
her
,
should
be
known
and
admir'd
.
Besides
that
the
Heavens
had
bestow'd
on
her
all
Beauties
in
perfection
;
and
the
charms
of
body
and
mind
,
together
with
all
the
graces
which
breed
love
and
respect
:
she
was
born
under
such
a
strong
Constellation
of
Empire
and
Command
,
that
she
would
have
been
obey'd
by
the
most
Savage
Animals
,
and
easily
gain'd
Authority
over
reasonable
Souls
.
So
that
Zelidan
,
for
we
must
accustome
our selves
to
call
her
so
,
became
the
Master
of
his
Master
.
Slaves
,
Mariners
,
Souldiers
equally
lov'd
her
,
and
he
absolutely
Commanded
in
the
Vessel
where
he
was
Prisoner
.
Considering
the
passion
Orchant
had
for
him
,
he
guest
how
easily
this
Friendship
would
convert
into
Love
,
if
he
were
known
;
and
that
in
this
case
,
that
affection
which
might
be
some
way
a
succour
to
him
,
would
be
the
inevitable
cause
of
his
loss
.
He
took
care
then
to
conceal
himself
:
and
the
better
to
do
it
,
resolv'd
to
oppose
his
Courage
to
all
sorts
of
dangers
,
and
to
inure
himself
to
those
things
wereof
this
Sex
does
not
seem
capable
.
They
past
that
Summer
without
making
any
Port
,
except
for
Water
;
often
changing
course
and
design
;
following
the
Winds
,
and
the
way
they
thought
they
might
furnish
prize
.
In
which
time
Zelidan
signaliz'd
her self
in
all
occasions
that
offer'd
;
running
where
danger
was
most
apparent
without
Armour
,
and
the
most
rash
remain'd
behind
her
.
There
are
no
inchanted
Arms
like
those
of
good
Fortune
,
not
Buckler
which
covers
like
hers
.
Those
she
defends
may
run
naked
upon
Swords
points
;
but
for
those
she
bears
ill-will
to
,
Armour
of
proof
will
be
faulty
.
Now
,
the
hopes
Orchant
had
conceiv'd
of
her
became
a
confirm'd
opinion
,
and
an
esteem
solidly
establish'd
.
'T
was
necessary
we
should
leave
Alcidalis
,
and
necessary
we
leave
him
no
longer
.
For
his
first
grief
could
not
be
describ'd
;
and
at
first
't
was
impossible
to
represent
all
his
sighs
,
tears
,
rages
and
suries
.
Having
seen
the
Queen
return
without
Zelide
;
and
having
been
eight
days
without
being
able
to
discover
what
was
become
of
her
;
he
past
that
time
in
a
mortal
sadness
and
inquietude
.
But
when
he
came
to
know
the
history
of
her
Misfortune
,
and
knew
the
Evil
was
without
remedy
;
when
he
consider'd
her
in
the
arms
of
another
,
and
that
his
Imagination
had
presented
to
him
whatever
might
torment
him
:
Then
his
tears
ceas'd
,
and
despair
seiz'd
him
;
then
he
lost
all
sorts
of
respects
and
fears
;
he
lowdly
threatned
the
Queen
;
and
testify'd
all
those
resentments
,
which
highest
wrongs
can
breed
in
the
greatest
heart
in
the
World
.
He
was
two
days
deliberating
,
if
he
ought
first
to
revenge
himself
on
the
Queen
,
or
go
and
ravish
Zelide
from
the
hands
of
him
that
possest
her
,
or
rather
rid
himself
of
his
miseries
by
a
voluntary
death
.
But
at
last
his
body
,
which
for
some
time
had
as
't
were
nourish'd
it self
with
poyson
,
sunk
under
so
many
evils
,
and
put
an
end
to
the
transports
of
his
mind
.
A
Feaver
seiz'd
him
,
which
at
first
was
accompanied
with
such
furious
fits
as
gave
fear
to
all
the
World
:
and
those
who
knew
the
cause
of
his
disease
,
believed
this
would
be
the
end
of
it
.
In
few
days
he
became
forceless
;
and
,
which
was
well
for
him
,
without
knowledge
,
without
sense
.
So
all
those
thoughts
,
which
his
different
passions
crouded
into
his
mind
,
were
dampt
;
and
he
that
would
pass
the
Seas
and
run
through
the
World
,
was
detain'd
in
his
bed
for
four
Months
.
A
Feaver
,
Love
and
Jealousie
,
that
is
,
the
greatest
Evils
of
body
and
mind
equally
consum'd
him
:
and
each
of
them
were
in
him
to
such
a
height
,
and
with
such
circumstances
,
that
there
was
no
probability
any
one
of
them
was
capable
of
remedy
.
But
Nature
would
not
lose
the
fairest
piece
that
ever
pass'd
her
hands
:
and
she
had
in
him
so
much
force
and
vigour
,
that
against
all
reason
and
against
his
own
mind
she
return'd
him
to
health
.
And
now
having
less
of
Sickness
he
had
more
of
Sorrow
:
and
not
being
able
to
stay
till
he
had
recover'd
his
strength
,
he
left
Saragosa
,
and
imbarking
at
the
first
Port
went
for
Italy
with
some
shadow
of
Joy
,
in
thinking
he
scap'd
the
hands
of
his
Enemies
and
follow'd
the
footsteps
of
Zelide
.
The
false
Zelide
had
Fortune
more
favourable
than
the
other
;
and
her
designs
prosper'd
better
.
She
had
a
midling
Beauty
,
and
that
sort
of
Wit
which
is
proper
for
Craft
.
Seeing
the
danger
of
her
attempt
,
she
endeavour'd
by
all
ways
to
gain
the
heart
of
her
Husband
,
and
to
fortifie
her self
against
all
Accidents
that
might
happen
.
He
was
in
that
season
of
his
life
wherein
the
approaches
of
Age
begin
to
give
men
distrust
of
themselves
,
and
wherein
they
ought
not
to
hope
for
love
from
any
Women
,
but
those
who
are
by
duty
oblig'd
to
it
:
so
that
the
Beauty
,
behaviour
,
and
kindness
of
his
Wife
easily
gain'd
him
.
As
Flowers
are
never
so
acceptable
to
us
,
as
at
the
beginning
of
the
Spring
or
end
of
Autumn
;
those
for
their
novelty
,
and
these
because
we
think
we
shall
quickly
lose
them
:
the
pleasures
of
Love
do
not
in
any
Season
touch
us
so
sensibly
as
in
the
first
youth
,
or
decline
of
our
Age.
'T
is
so
great
a
satisfaction
and
rare
a
pleasure
for
an
Old
man
to
be
belov'd
,
that
there
are
none
which
upon
this
opinion
do
not
become
young
,
and
kindle
their
ashes
again
.
But
likewise
,
as
the
Sun
shining
far
off
us
makes
the
longest
shadows
:
when
Love
shines
in
this
Age
,
from
which
't
is
naturally
distant
,
it
causes
largest
Shadows
.
As
soon
as
the
Duke
felt
himself
amorous
,
he
became
Jealous
.
This
passion
,
which
is
elsewhere
a
fortuitous
effect
of
Love
,
is
an
inseparable
Accident
in
all
men
of
this
Climate
.
They
do
not
believe
a
great
desire
can
subsist
without
a
great
fear
:
and
Love
and
Jealousie
are
the
two
Twins
,
which
are
always
here
born
together
.
Whether
then
the
excess
of
his
affection
wrought
the
effect
,
or
the
Air
of
the
Countrey
,
or
the
suspicious
humour
which
years
brought
along
with
them
;
or
whether
he
had
notice
of
Alcidalis
passion
:
his
distrust
arriv'd
to
that
point
,
that
he
was
not
safe
but
when
the
Dutchess
was
in
his
sight
.
And
besides
,
't
was
with
impatience
,
that
he
suffer'd
her
to
be
seen
by
any
eyes
but
his
own
.
She
,
who
for
another
reason
fear'd
nothing
more
than
to
be
seen
,
easily
met
his
humour
:
and
pretending
to
please
him
,
said
,
she
equally
loy'd
all
the
effects
of
his
passion
;
that
his
fear
for
her
pleas'd
her
,
seeing
't
was
a
proof
of
his
Love
;
however
,
she
would
try
all
ways
to
satisfie
him
,
and
that
he
needed
not
take
care
for
any
thing
but
his
own
quiet
.
For
her
part
,
she
would
be
always
content
if
he
were
:
and
seeing
that
he
was
to
her
instead
of
all
things
,
she
would
believe
she
possest
all
,
when
she
possest
him
.
He
received
these
offers
with
much
content
:
and
used
the
liberty
she
gave
him
in
taking
away
hers
.
So
that
daily
paring
away
something
,
from
a
great
Palace
and
an
infinite
number
of
Servants
,
she
is
reduc'd
to
a
few
Chambers
,
a
Gallery
,
and
five
or
six
Women
.
As
the
Duke
gave
her
proofs
of
his
Jealousie
,
he
would
also
give
her
some
of
his
Love
:
and
satisfying
himself
,
he
strove
likewise
to
content
her
.
There
was
nothing
rare
either
in
Europe
or
the
Indies
,
which
he
did
not
cause
to
be
bought
for
her
.
Whatever
was
precious
in
the
World
,
the
richest
workmanship
of
Nature
,
the
most
accomplish'd
Master-pieces
of
Art
adorn'd
her
Cabinets
.
She
had
,
in
fine
,
the
fairest
Prison
we
can
imagine
,
if
any
Prison
can
be
said
to
be
fair
:
and
she
saw
whatever
she
could
desire
,
except
men
.
But
because
the
most
pleasing
Solitude
has
always
somewhat
of
Melancholy
,
he
would
remedy
that
too
.
With
great
care
and
expence
he
sought
out
the
handsomest
and
strongest
Slaves
.
And
having
got
a
great
number
,
he
caus'd
them
to
be
instructed
by
the
best
Masters
of
Italy
,
in
all
exercises
wherein
the
Nobility
are
wont
to
excel
.
These
were
call'd
the
Dutchess
Slaves
,
and
wore
her
Livery
:
they
had
no
other
mark
of
Servitude
but
a
Ring
of
Gold
about
their
necks
,
with
a
Chain
fasten'd
to
it
,
and
a
Medal
of
their
Mistresses
Arms.
Three
times
a
week
they
enter'd
a
spacious
Court
,
which
answer'd
to
the
Windows
of
her
Gallery
:
and
there
they
exercis'd
.
The
Duke
invented
this
for
two
ends
;
one
to
entertain
the
Dutchess
,
who
was
extreamly
belov'd
by
him
;
the
other
,
to
make
her
despise
all
men
by
letting
her
fee
in
Slaves
,
that
is
,
in
the
vilest
persons
among
them
,
the
same
qualities
which
are
found
in
those
most
Nobly
descended
,
and
which
render
them
considerable
.
Alcidalis
coming
to
Italy
understood
all
this
;
and
having
consider'd
some
time
,
he
thought
no
quality
could
become
him
better
than
to
be
Zelides
Slave
;
and
that
the
greatness
of
his
Fortune
having
caus'd
all
his
Misfortunes
,
he
could
not
cure
them
better
than
by
putting
himself
into
the
lowest
state
.
He
imparted
his
design
to
him
that
accompanied
him
.
Who
feigning
himself
to
be
a
Merchant
,
went
to
those
who
govern'd
this
Troop
.
They
seeing
in
Alcidalis
all
the
qualities
they
sought
,
quickly
set
a
price
upon
a
Person
invaluable
,
and
with
a
small
sum
of
Money
bought
for
a
Slave
the
Son
of
a
King
,
and
the
most
accomplish'd
person
on
Earth
.
At
first
he
was
a
Scholar
to
them
to
whom
he
might
have
been
Master
;
and
suffer'd
himself
to
be
taught
what
he
knew
better
than
they
,
or
any
body
else
.
Thus
pretending
every
day
to
learn
something
of
them
,
he
made
such
a
progress
in
a
short
time
,
that
he
was
admir'd
by
all
.
Whether
he
did
Ride
,
Wrestle
,
or
Jump
;
he
shew'd
every
where
so
much
address
,
strength
and
disposition
,
that
it
proceeded
to
a
prodigy
.
Horses
seem'd
naturally
to
obey
him
;
and
that
without
any
motion
he
made
them
understand
his
mind
.
If
he
were
chaleng'd
at
Wrestling
,
or
at
the
Course
;
he
so
easily
cast
one
on
the
ground
,
and
got
ground
of
the
other
,
that
it
seem'd
he
was
born
to
be
their
Master
,
and
that
they
ought
always
to
be
at
his
feet
or
much
behind
him
.
When
he
run
on
foot
,
Horses
had
not
such
speed
,
and
when
he
was
on
their
backs
,
they
were
swifter
than
Birds
.
In
fine
,
no
prize
was
proposed
which
was
not
his
:
and
there
was
no
way
to
make
an
equal
match
,
if
he
were
in
,
except
he
were
on
one
side
;
and
yet
so
,
he
did
not
fail
to
vanquish
.
In
the
mean
time
,
amidst
all
these
Praises
,
he
felt
some
shame
in
himself
to
contend
with
Slaves
.
He
had
a
heart
to
ask
Kings
for
his
Rivals
.
But
this
was
necessary
for
his
design
.
Though
he
perform'd
every
thing
with
a
marvellous
grace
,
yet
it
was
with
so
little
attention
,
and
in
so
careless
a
manner
,
that
't
was
easie
to
perceive
he
thought
of
higher
Victories
.
As
oft
as
he
enter'd
the
Course
,
and
could
be
seen
by
the
Dutchess
,
he
came
first
and
went
away
last
.
In
all
his
Exercises
his
eyes
were
still
fixt
upon
the
Grates
,
whence
he
believ'd
she
beheld
him
,
and
whatever
himself
did
or
others
did
,
could
not
divert
them
.
To
what
blindnesses
are
Men
subject
?
The
most
faithful
of
Lovers
Idolizes
a
Beauty
he
never
saw
.
He
sighs
for
her
,
he
sends
her
his
heart
by
his
eyes
:
and
having
a
Mistress
he
loves
a
hundred
times
more
than
himself
,
he
voluntarily
sells
himself
to
another
.
Alcidalis
,
who
would
have
been
remarkable
amongst
the
most
accomplish'd
Princes
in
the
World
,
was
easily
so
among
Slaves
.
The
first
day
he
enter'd
his
Beauty
and
Behaviour
drew
the
Dutchesses
eyes
upon
him
.
Soon
after
he
gain'd
her
esteem
,
and
admiration
:
and
having
consider'd
him
better
,
she
thought
she
beheld
in
the
gallantness
of
his
port
,
something
extraordinary
,
and
which
was
not
of
his
present
condition
.
She
minded
the
attention
with
which
he
look'd
toward
her
.
She
mark'd
his
sighs
,
the
paleness
and
grief
which
dwelt
in
his
face
:
and
how
amidst
general
applauses
,
nothing
could
affect
him
.
All
this
begot
in
her
first
Curiosity
,
then
Pity
,
and
at
last
Love
.
I
have
always
heard
you
say
,
Madam
,
she
was
not
touch'd
with
this
last
passion
,
and
that
she
had
only
the
curiosity
to
know
a
person
,
who
in
so
low
Fortunes
shew'd
such
high
Indowments
.
But
you
shall
permit
me
,
not
to
be
satisfied
with
what
you
say
.
I
have
heard
you
sometimes
excuse
persons
less
excusable
than
she
,
and
I
know
you
are
scrupulous
to
a
degree
of
fearing
to
offend
a
person
that
never
was
.
If
you
consider
the
Duke
was
Old
and
Jealous
;
the
Dutchess
young
and
a
Prisoner
,
and
the
Prince
the
most
amiable
person
in
the
World
,
you
will
find
,
it
is
not
a
very
rash
suspicion
to
think
she
was
amorous
.
One
Evening
,
as
this
Slave
left
the
Palace
,
he
felt
himself
pull'd
aside
into
a
dark
Entry
by
a
Woman
he
did
not
know
;
who
told
him
,
Sir
,
if
you
are
the
gallant
Man
you
seem
,
go
to
morrow
two
hours
in
the
Night
to
the
foot
of
the
Greek
Tower
:
where
,
if
you
serve
your self
of
the
occasion
that
will
present
,
you
shall
be
happier
than
ever
you
hoped
to
be
.
She
said
this
in
haste
,
and
left
him
without
expecting
an
Answer
.
It
could
never
be
imagin'd
how
the
Dutchess
,
shut
up
and
watch'd
as
she
was
,
could
find
a
way
to
let
Alcidalis
understand
her
mind
.
You
,
Madam
,
never
gave
good
account
of
it
:
And
I
remember
,
Madam
,
your
Mother
,
who
never
lost
an
occasion
of
saying
a
handsom
thing
,
prais'd
you
for
having
fail'd
in
Invention
at
this
part
of
the
History
.
And
truly
't
is
very
remarkable
,
that
when
you
could
save
Alcidalis
in
so
many
Accidents
,
and
keep
Zelide
untouch'd
amidst
Pirates
,
and
bring
them
both
to
their
Kingdoms
after
so
many
wandrings
;
your
imagination
fell
short
in
this
occasion
,
and
you
could
not
find
a
way
to
send
a
man
a
Message
.
Since
Alcidalis
began
to
be
unfortunate
,
he
had
never
seen
the
least
glimmering
of
Joy
but
at
this
instant
.
He
presently
thought
this
Message
came
from
Zelide
,
and
with
tears
in
his
eyes
thank'd
Heaven
,
which
seem'd
to
begin
to
take
compassion
on
him
.
However
,
whether
the
Souls
of
great
men
see
something
in
the
darknesses
of
the
future
;
or
whether
the
miserable
dare
not
trust
the
Promises
of
hope
,
wherewith
they
have
been
often
abus'd
:
he
durst
not
be
confident
of
his
good
Fortune
;
and
beginning
to
hope
he
began
to
fear
too
.
Here
,
Madam
,
a
more
eloquent
Writer
than
I
would
not
fail
to
say
,
That
all
the
hours
seem'd
days
,
and
all
the
days
years
:
And
that
his
amorous
impatience
made
him
count
the
moments
;
blame
the
slowness
of
time
,
and
of
the
Sun
;
and
accuse
all
the
Heavens
.
But
without
saying
all
this
,
we
may
easily
imagine
the
Inquietudes
of
Alcidalis
by
the
causes
he
had
for
it
.
The
Day
,
or
rather
the
Night
of
the
assignation
came
at
last
.
And
before
she
had
well
thickned
her
shadows
,
he
was
at
the
foot
of
the
Tower
.
'T
was
an
Old
building
joyn'd
to
the
Palace
.
It
s
foot
was
wash'd
by
the
waves
of
the
Sea
.
The
Prince
had
provided
himself
of
a
Fishing-Boat
;
which
he
fastned
to
some
Rings
in
the
Wall
,
and
attended
that
success
which
Fortune
would
give
to
this
Adventure
,
in
the
darkness
and
silence
of
the
Night
,
which
was
not
interrupted
but
by
the
waves
of
the
Sea
.
He
staid
an
hour
without
seeing
any
thing
:
diversly
agitated
with
hopes
and
fears
;
which
being
two
contrary
passions
are
,
for
all
that
,
often
found
together
.
He
form'd
all
those
Imaginations
which
another
may
conceive
;
but
which
neither
you
nor
I
,
Madam
,
who
never
knew
Love
,
can
relate
.
At
last
,
when
he
began
to
despair
,
and
had
thoughts
as
black
and
dreadful
as
the
Night
and
Sea
,
which
inviron'd
him
,
a
noise
he
heard
from
above
restor'd
him
his
lost
hopes
.
He
thought
he
heard
some
words
,
which
he
could
not
understand
;
to
which
having
answer'd
by
a
noise
he
made
below
,
he
heard
something
fall
into
the
Sea
,
and
perceived
it
white
upon
the
Water
:
which
having
reach'd
to
him
,
he
knew
't
was
a
Ladder
of
Cord
,
to
which
a
piece
of
Linnen
was
ty'd
that
he
might
the
better
see
it
.
Now
Alcidalis
suffer'd
himself
to
be
deceiv'd
by
the
apparences
of
his
good
Fortune
,
and
believed
she
would
give
him
back
something
of
Zelide
.
Presently
,
without
considering
the
danger
,
and
in
spite
of
the
Darkness
,
and
Winds
which
blew
horribly
,
he
undertook
by
this
dangerous
way
to
mount
to
an
extream
height
;
without
knowing
whither
he
went
,
of
whom
,
nor
how
he
should
be
receiv'd
.
He
at
last
finds
a
Window
,
where
he
perceiv'd
a
person
who
gave
him
her
hand
,
and
by
many
turnings
and
windings
conducted
him
to
a
Chamber
,
enlightned
by
three
Lamps
of
Gold
,
and
richly
adorn'd
.
The
Woman
bid
him
sit
down
a
while
,
and
left
him
.
Now
considering
what
had
past
,
and
what
he
saw
,
he
confirmed
himself
in
the
opinion
he
had
,
that
he
was
sent
for
by
Zelide
.
And
in
the
midst
of
so
many
perils
which
he
might
imagine
to
himself
,
by
a
secret
presentiment
of
his
Misfortune
,
he
fear'd
nothing
so
much
as
not
to
see
her
.
I
cannot
tell
you
the
divers
thoughts
he
had
;
his
impatiences
,
desires
,
fears
,
distrusts
,
suspicions
,
surprizes
,
alarms
.
All
which
cannot
be
represented
upon
Paper
:
and
nothing
but
humane
mind
is
capable
of
this
confusion
.
He
remain'd
thus
an
hour
.
At
last
the
same
person
enter'd
;
You
will
pardon
me
by
and
by
Sir
,
saith
she
to
him
,
for
making
you
stay
;
the
Honour
you
are
going
to
receive
,
deserves
to
be
staid
for
.
The
Prince
having
thank'd
her
,
and
pray'd
her
to
let
him
know
what
that
Honour
was
;
after
some
pause
she
told
him
.
If
it
were
not
easie
to
conclude
the
greatness
and
force
of
your
mind
by
what
we
have
seen
of
you
,
it
would
not
be
fit
to
tell
you
your
good
Fortune
all
at
once
,
but
give
you
time
to
use
your self
to
it
,
and
to
try
how
you
could
bear
it
.
But
it
is
to
be
believ'd
of
you
,
that
you
will
not
be
surpriz'd
,
and
that
your
thoughts
are
no
less
high
and
noble
than
your
actions
.
Know
then
that
you
are
in
Zelides
Lodgings
,
and
in
a
moment
you
shall
be
in
her
Chamber
.
The
Dutchess
hath
taken
notice
of
all
those
qualities
which
render
you
esteemable
:
and
seeing
that
there
is
nothing
low
in
you
but
your
Fortune
,
she
will
take
care
of
that
her self
and
make
it
better
:
and
to
this
purpose
she
would
know
who
you
are
.
Hereafter
shew
as
much
discretion
and
conduct
,
as
you
have
hitherto
shewn
art
and
valour
.
With
this
she
led
him
to
her
Mistresses
Chamber
.
The
weakness
of
our
minds
is
very
strange
.
Alcidalis
,
whom
death
and
all
that
is
horrible
could
not
affright
;
who
in
spite
of
the
Wind
,
the
Night
and
the
Sea
,
by
a
weak
Ladder
of
Cord
was
got
so
high
;
and
who
durst
at
Noon-day
have
ventur'd
to
deliver
the
Dutchess
from
the
hands
and
power
of
the
Duke
;
trembled
here
,
where
he
knew
there
were
none
but
Women
.
That
heart
which
would
fearlesly
have
confronted
a
World
of
Enemies
,
is
fill'd
with
fear
approaching
the
only
person
he
loves
,
and
by
whom
he
knows
he
is
belov'd
.
The
Chamber
was
inlightned
only
by
a
Torch
,
and
the
Dutchess
was
in
her
bed
,
with
that
little
light
which
such
enterprizes
,
the
shame
and
astonishment
of
a
young
unexperienc'd
person
demands
.
So
that
if
the
Prince
had
been
more
himself
and
less
surpriz'd
,
scarce
could
he
have
known
his
errour
,
and
the
cheat
which
Fortune
put
upon
him
.
At
first
he
put
himself
upon
his
knee
;
and
having
begun
to
say
some
words
,
which
were
ill
pronounc'd
and
worse
follow'd
,
he
stopt
in
the
middle
of
his
discourse
.
The
trouble
of
his
mind
and
a
troop
of
passions
press'd
him
so
,
that
he
could
not
proceed
:
and
half
beside
himself
,
he
fell
with
his
head
upon
the
Princes
Bed
.
Who
putting
out
her
hand
to
remove
it
,
he
took
it
,
and
coming
to
himself
,
he
said
,
At
last
,
Zelide
,
the
Heavens
have
had
pity
of
Alcidalis
;
and
however
they
have
oppos'd
me
,
I
must
thank
them
for
permitting
me
to
see
you
before
I
die
.
Here
his
Sighs
broke
off
his
discourse
.
And
as
he
was
beginning
again
,
he
heard
a
great
noise
in
the
Palace
,
and
she
that
led
him
in
,
enters
amaz'd
,
saying
it
was
the
Duke
,
and
that
he
was
now
in
the
Dutchesses
Lodgings
.
The
good
Man
,
little
imagining
what
pass'd
in
the
Palace
,
had
left
it
with
design
to
stay
three
days
abroad
a
Hunting
.
But
whether
his
Love
or
Jealousie
call'd
him
back
;
or
whether
he
thought
it
a
piece
of
Courtship
to
shew
his
impatience
and
his
affection
to
the
Dutchess
,
he
returns
the
same
day
,
and
presently
hastens
to
see
her
.
I
am
extreamly
vext
he
came
so
unseasonably
.
For
I
would
fain
have
understood
,
what
the
Dutchess
could
answer
in
that
astonishment
she
must
needs
be
in
,
hearing
Alcidalis
speak
as
he
did
.
I
find
him
very
troublesom
to
arrive
just
now
,
and
if
I
had
made
the
History
,
in
spite
I
would
have
—
The
Dutchess
was
so
affrighted
,
she
could
not
speak
one
word
.
The
Lady
that
brought
the
Prince
in
,
taking
him
again
by
the
hand
and
conducting
him
by
the
same
way
he
enter'd
,
carried
him
to
the
Window
;
whence
,
seeing
the
treasons
of
Fortune
,
he
had
a
mind
to
precipitate
himself
,
rather
than
descend
.
FIESCHI'S
Conspiracy
,
Out
of
Italian
.
THe
War
raging
in
Italy
between
the
Emperour
Charles
the
Fifth
and
Francis
the
First
,
King
of
France
,
Andrea
Doria
an
experienc'd
Commander
in
Sea
Affairs
,
follow'd
the
Banner
of
the
French
.
With
his
Valour
and
Counsels
he
sustain'd
the
reputation
,
and
notably
promoted
the
Interests
of
that
Crown
;
satisfying
at
once
the
Faith
due
to
his
King
,
and
the
fierce
hatred
he
bore
the
Spaniards
for
the
cruel
Accidents
hapned
in
the
Sack
of
Genoua
.
But
as
it
is
the
fatal
infelicity
of
Princes
,
not
to
esteem
eminent
persons
whilst
they
are
ingaged
in
their
Service
,
the
King
by
ways
little
discreet
exasperated
the
mind
of
Andrea
,
a
Minister
so
necessary
to
him
at
this
time
.
He
did
not
pay
him
his
assign'd
Stipend
;
and
after
he
had
taken
from
him
the
Prince
of
Orange
,
his
Prisoner
of
War
,
and
set
him
at
liberty
,
thereby
defrauding
him
of
his
due
Ransom
,
he
demanded
with
importunity
and
insolent
threatnings
the
Marquess
Vasto
,
and
Ascanio
Colonna
,
taken
in
fight
by
Philippino
Dorea
,
Lieutenant
to
Andrea
.
But
that
which
most
pierc'd
the
Soul
of
the
good
Old
man
,
was
the
small
faith
of
the
King
in
complying
with
his
Promise
,
touching
the
Interest
and
Reputation
of
the
Genoueses
.
The
City
of
Savona
had
withdrawn
it self
from
the
obedience
of
the
Common-wealth
;
expecting
,
under
the
protection
of
France
,
to
meliorate
its
condition
by
the
commodiousness
of
the
Port
,
which
furnish'd
them
with
extraordinary
emoluments
,
to
the
irreparable
damage
of
the
City
of
Genoua
.
Andrea
had
often
complain'd
of
this
to
the
King
,
praying
him
,
that
in
recompence
of
his
Services
,
he
would
restore
to
his
Countrey
what
by
all
right
was
due
to
it
.
The
King
overcome
by
the
honesty
of
the
Request
,
had
promis'd
Doria
to
satisfie
him
;
but
his
regard
to
Justice
being
combated
by
the
hopes
of
Interest
,
he
at
last
inclines
to
the
worst
choice
,
and
resolves
to
detain
that
City
.
He
had
seen
by
experience
how
inconstant
the
Genoueses
were
,
and
how
little
he
could
depend
upon
that
Commonwealth
for
his
War
in
Italy
.
For
tyranniz'd
by
factions
it
easily
chang'd
its
form
of
Government
,
according
to
the
different
prevailing
humours
:
therefore
esteeming
it
necessary
for
his
designs
to
have
a
Port
at
his
devotion
commodious
for
the
Affairs
of
Lombardy
,
he
chose
Savona
,
and
gave
the
charge
of
it
to
Momorancy
.
Conceiving
,
that
with
this
determination
he
had
at
once
bridled
the
inconstancy
of
the
Genoueses
,
and
greatly
advantag'd
the
course
of
his
Enterprize
;
because
the
City
of
Savona
being
near
to
Piemont
,
Montferrat
and
Lombardy
,
it
became
an
opportune
Scale
,
no
less
for
Merchandize
than
for
War
.
Hence
't
was
fear'd
,
that
in
a
few
years
growing
in
Reputation
and
Riches
,
it
might
not
only
divert
the
Trade
from
the
Port
of
Genoua
,
but
rival
it
with
them
for
the
principality
of
that
Sea
.
Of
this
Doria
,
as
a
singular
lover
of
his
Countrey
,
sharply
complain'd
.
But
at
last
seeing
it
was
in
vain
,
he
turns
his
mind
to
other
Counsels
.
In
the
mean
while
growing
cold
in
his
devotions
to
the
King
,
he
by
degrees
slackned
his
wonted
diligence
in
serving
him
:
and
directed
Philippino
how
to
comport
himself
in
the
future
.
The
French
,
who
besieg'd
Naples
under
Lautrech
,
quickly
found
the
damage
they
receiv'd
by
the
voluntary
negligence
of
Philippino
:
for
he
who
but
little
before
had
with
incredible
Valour
worsted
the
Imperial
Navy
,
now
could
not
hinder
a
few
Barks
from
entring
into
Naples
with
Provisions
:
And
this
was
the
beginning
of
the
ruine
of
that
design
.
Pope
Clement
the
Seventh
understanding
how
Doria
was
alienated
from
the
Crown
of
France
,
seriously
admonish'd
the
King
by
his
Legat
,
to
provide
speedy
remedy
for
this
Evil
,
by
giving
satisfaction
to
a
Captain
of
so
much
reputation
and
so
powerful
at
Sea
,
lest
being
provok'd
to
pass
over
to
the
Service
of
Caesar
,
he
should
carry
with
him
all
hopes
of
the
approaching
Victory
.
He
sent
likewise
to
Doria
his
Secretary
Sanga
,
to
mitigate
his
resentments
.
They
now
deliberated
in
the
Kings
Council
on
this
important
affair
.
Some
amongst
them
painted
Doria
as
a
man
too
proud
in
the
use
of
his
Authority
,
and
esteeming
it
impossible
to
gain
him
counsel'd
,
that
he
should
be
cut
off
;
preventing
by
a
sudden
violence
those
designs
,
which
by
gentler
ways
could
hardly
be
impeded
,
so
depriving
Caesar
of
that
Aid
,
which
in
the
present
conjuncture
would
be
of
much
avail
to
him
.
Accordingly
necessary
Orders
were
given
to
Barbigios
,
who
pass'd
into
Italy
with
the
charge
of
Admiral
.
Doria
in
the
mean
time
having
notice
hereof
,
and
detesting
that
ingratitude
and
perfidiousness
with
which
the
French
Ministers
would
have
recompenc'd
his
Services
,
treated
with
the
Marquess
Vasto
,
his
Prisoner
,
about
serving
the
Emperour
;
by
whom
being
gladly
receiv'd
,
he
openly
renounc'd
the
Friendship
of
the
French
King
,
and
return'd
him
the
Collar
and
Order
of
St.
Michael
.
The
first
Conditions
he
made
with
Caesar
,
were
such
as
might
be
hoped
for
from
a
Citizen
,
who
dearly
lov'd
his
Countrey
;
to
wit
,
the
liberty
of
Genoua
under
the
Imperial
protection
,
and
the
reducing
Savona
:
the
rest
respected
principally
his
own
profit
and
reputation
.
The
resolution
of
Doria
did
in
such
a
manner
startle
the
drowsie
King
,
that
willing
to
correct
his
past
neglects
with
present
sollicitousness
,
he
begins
to
study
how
he
might
bring
him
back
on
Honourable
terms
.
But
his
Repentance
came
too
late
.
For
Doria
altogether
intent
upon
the
freeing
of
his
Countrey
from
the
yoak
of
Strangers
,
would
admit
of
no
Conditions
that
might
retard
the
execution
of
his
designs
.
The
King
notwithstanding
as
impatient
to
recover
,
as
he
had
been
careless
in
keeping
him
,
with
diminution
of
Decorum
and
Majesty
,
descended
of
his
own
accord
to
offer
him
all
that
satisfaction
which
he
had
formerly
deny'd
;
and
,
which
was
worse
,
without
first
secretly
trying
by
means
of
Friends
how
Doria
stood
inclin'd
,
he
prostituted
the
Royal
dignity
to
the
ignominy
of
a
Repulse
.
Which
being
return'd
most
precise
and
resolute
,
it
is
not
to
be
imagin'd
,
how
it
fill'd
the
Kings
mind
with
vexation
and
shame
.
Doria
now
in
the
Service
of
Caesar
,
with
twelve
Gallies
apply'd
himself
to
procure
the
liberty
of
his
Countrey
,
which
had
ever
been
the
sole
Object
of
his
thoughts
.
The
Commonwealth
at
this
time
was
become
a
prey
to
the
will
of
the
Common
people
;
who
putting
no
difference
between
private
License
and
publick
Liberty
,
under
the
name
of
the
Common
good
fomented
with
continual
tumults
the
passions
of
particulars
.
And
when
one
Faction
found
it self
weak
in
its
own
Forces
,
having
recourse
to
Strangers
,
they
introduc'd
a
new
form
of
Government
.
Thus
one
while
the
Adorni
drave
out
the
Fregosi
,
and
anon
were
driven
out
by
them
:
Governours
from
Millan
were
call'd
,
and
sent
away
again
:
the
French
yoke
accepted
,
and
shaken
off
.
So
that
the
wounds
in
the
body
of
the
Common-wealth
were
still
kept
open
by
change
of
Plaisters
,
which
had
need
of
being
well
clos'd
by
Concord
.
All
which
Doria
considering
came
before
Genoua
with
his
Gallies
,
to
give
heat
to
the
good
will
of
those
,
who
together
with
himself
desir'd
the
Common
good
:
nor
was
he
deceiv'd
in
his
thoughts
.
For
divers
Citizens
tir'd
with
the
calamities
of
past
Discord
,
apply'd
themselves
to
more
wholsom
Counsels
,
desiring
a
good
and
firm
Union
.
The
City
was
now
govern'd
in
the
name
of
the
French
King
by
Triultio
,
who
having
before
acquir'd
the
reputation
of
a
valiant
and
prudent
Captain
,
it
begot
the
more
wonder
in
all
mens
minds
,
when
they
consider'd
how
little
this
action
of
his
corresponded
to
that
praise
which
was
due
to
the
rest
.
For
though
he
understood
that
the
discourses
and
designs
of
the
Genoueses
did
tend
to
Peace
,
he
took
no
care
to
disturb
them
:
either
because
he
esteem'd
it
a
meer
reconciliation
of
private
Enmities
between
the
Nobility
and
People
;
or
because
he
rely'd
too
much
upon
the
Kings
Forces
and
his
own
Valour
:
not
considering
,
that
Genoua
put
into
his
hands
by
civil
Discord
,
might
be
snatch'd
from
him
only
by
Union
.
Doria
thus
valuing
himself
,
both
upon
the
good
disposition
of
the
Citizens
,
and
the
opportunity
presented
him
by
Triultio
,
attempted
to
conduct
his
Enterprize
to
its
end
:
which
he
did
so
happily
,
that
without
bloodshed
he
got
the
City
,
driving
thence
the
French
Garrison
.
Being
receiv'd
by
the
Genoueses
with
incredible
demonstrations
of
Joy
,
and
perswaded
by
several
to
open
his
bosom
to
the
favours
of
Fortune
,
which
offer'd
him
the
Dominion
of
Liguria
,
with
a
mind
superiour
to
Worldly
happiness
,
he
refus'd
it
.
Afterwards
by
a
weighty
Speech
,
and
worthy
the
Father
of
his
Countrey
,
he
exhorted
the
Citizens
at
last
to
know
themselves
,
and
for
the
future
to
maintain
that
Liberty
which
he
freely
bestow'd
upon
them
.
The
City
of
Genoua
oblig'd
by
so
many
benefits
desir'd
to
shew
efficacious
signs
of
a
true
gratitude
;
wherefore
,
granting
to
him
and
his
posterity
large
Priviledges
,
they
erected
a
Marble
Statue
,
and
by
certain
words
ingrav'd
in
the
Base
thereof
,
declar'd
him
the
Author
of
the
publick
Liberty
.
He
now
grown
Old
retires
himself
,
and
enjoys
in
the
bosom
of
his
Coutrey
the
fruit
of
that
Victory
and
quiet
which
himself
had
procur'd
.
He
had
with
him
Giannettino
his
Cousin
,
a
young
Man
of
great
Spirit
and
known
Vertue
;
and
who
had
merited
by
his
Valour
to
be
his
Adopted
Son
and
destin'd
Successour
in
his
Charge
at
Sea
,
with
the
consent
of
Caesar
.
Thus
,
by
reason
of
the
quality
of
this
Excellent
person
,
esteem'd
by
all
Princes
,
rich
,
no
less
in
Fame
than
in
Fortune
;
and
for
the
Reverence
the
Ganoueses
bore
him
as
the
publick
Benefactor
,
his
House
was
frequented
,
not
as
that
of
a
simple
Citizen
,
but
as
of
some
great
Prince
.
These
things
thus
summarily
describ'd
,
were
the
true
causes
of
Fieschi's
Conspiracy
.
With
a
memorable
Example
to
all
Free
Cities
of
the
incredible
dammage
which
the
Greatness
of
an
eminent
Citizen
,
though
never
so
Vertuous
and
discreet
,
is
to
the
Publick
;
and
of
that
necessity
,
which
moved
the
Athenians
to
publish
their
Law
of
Ostracism
.
Pope
Paul
the
Third
and
the
King
of
France
were
they
which
envy'd
Genona's
publick
,
and
Doria's
private
happiness
;
because
by
that
,
Cities
being
withdrawn
from
the
Service
of
the
French
,
and
put
under
the
protection
of
Caesar
,
sprung
up
extraordinary
obstacles
to
the
Affairs
of
Millan
,
which
the
Pope
would
gladly
have
seen
favourable
to
the
King
;
as
well
to
curb
in
some
measure
the
power
of
Caesar
,
now
formidable
to
all
;
as
to
vindicate
himself
for
the
impediment
he
receiv'd
,
in
advancing
one
of
his
Family
to
that
Dukedom
.
Nor
could
they
endure
,
that
Doria
the
only
Author
and
promoter
hereof
should
remain
in
an
Honourable
repose
a
Spectatour
of
others
Misfortunes
.
They
now
expected
some
Accident
which
might
minister
an
occasion
to
their
designs
.
But
that
opportunity
which
they
could
not
find
,
was
put
into
their
hands
by
Fortune
,
not
yet
intirely
reconcil'd
to
the
Genoueses
.
Gio
Luigi
de
Fieschi
,
a
young
man
of
great
Spirit
and
turbulent
humour
,
was
at
this
time
compassing
how
he
might
better
his
Reputation
and
Degree
.
He
was
descended
of
Noble
Parentage
;
rich
no
less
in
Adherence
and
Followers
,
than
in
Vassals
and
Estate
.
Not
contented
for
all
this
with
that
Honourable
condition
which
descended
to
him
from
his
Ancestors
,
he
suffer'd
himself
to
be
hurried
by
the
heats
of
his
Age
and
by
Ambition
,
the
ordinary
disease
of
the
Nobility
,
to
dangerous
hopes
.
From
a
Boy
he
gave
manifest
signs
of
an
immature
fierceness
,
from
which
wife
men
collected
,
that
he
grew
up
for
the
disturbance
of
his
Countreys
Peace
.
To
these
pernicious
Incentives
of
his
Nature
was
added
a
bad
Education
,
the
incurable
pest
of
Youth
;
for
though
his
Master
,
Paolo
Pansa
,
was
both
Learn'd
and
Vertuous
,
those
with
whom
he
most
freely
convers'd
were
dangerous
persons
,
who
employ'd
their
skill
by
Flatteries
to
nourish
in
his
mind
perverse
and
novel
designs
,
styling
them
Noble
and
Generous
.
Nor
(
as
't
was
said
)
was
his
Mother
wanting
to
add
Fuel
to
this
growing
flame
.
For
,
more
ambitious
than
considerate
,
she
often
wounded
the
mind
of
her
Son
with
bitter
Reproaches
,
as
if
he
poorly
contenting
himself
with
a
private
Fortune
did
degenerate
from
his
Ancestours
,
who
in
their
Countrey
and
out
of
it
,
were
wont
to
sustain
the
greatest
Dignities
.
And
to
make
all
sure
,
he
(
by
the
Advice
of
his
Friends
)
gave
himself
to
read
and
study
the
Life
of
Nero
,
Catilines
Conspiracy
,
and
Machiavels
Prince
.
From
which
Books
he
did
suck
in
priciples
of
Cruelty
,
Perfidiousness
,
and
love
of
Private
Interest
,
above
divine
or
humane
Reason
.
So
much
force
hath
good
or
ill
to
change
even
the
will
of
the
Reader
,
when
convey'd
by
a
powerful
Pen
,
and
apt
to
perswade
.
Those
who
watch'd
over
Advantages
to
ruine
Genoua
,
had
penetrated
the
Qualities
of
Gio.
Luigi
,
and
believ'd
him
a
fitting
Instrument
for
their
important
design
.
They
endeavour'd
by
all
ways
to
put
him
upon
the
action
,
setting
before
him
the
Profit
and
Honour
of
it
.
Amongst
others
,
Caesare
Fregoso
attempted
him
in
the
name
of
the
French
King
,
whereof
Doria
had
notice
,
but
the
Advice
did
not
find
belief
with
the
Old
man
,
who
was
preoccupied
with
an
affection
to
Gio.
Luigi
,
and
with
his
own
opinion
,
founded
upon
the
incertainty
of
vain
Conjectures
.
Nor
was
the
Pope
wanting
to
invite
him
to
it
,
and
he
being
then
in
the
Popes
state
caused
four
Gallies
to
be
sold
him
by
the
Duke
of
Piacenza
.
Where
likewise
Cardinal
Triultio
,
Protector
of
France
,
gave
him
a
Visit
,
and
knowing
him
a
man
greedy
of
Fame
,
spake
to
him
after
this
manner
:
If
Fortune
were
propitious
to
your
Vertue
,
Noble
Youth
,
I
might
be
happy
to
see
you
in
a
condition
far
above
that
of
a
private
Citizen
.
But
seeing
through
the
Iniquity
of
the
Times
your
rewards
do
not
go
equal
with
your
merits
,
take
in
good
part
that
I
pity
your
condition
,
and
joyn
with
all
good
men
to
wish
you
better
Fortune
.
Your
Birth
and
Parts
have
made
your
Advancement
the
subject
of
all
their
Vows
,
who
desire
the
Common
good
:
and
I
,
who
by
the
height
of
my
place
have
a
fair
prospect
into
the
Affairs
of
the
World
,
cannot
but
wish
you
had
a
larger
Theater
open'd
for
so
much
Valour
.
You
are
born
in
Times
so
calamitous
,
that
in
your
own
City
't
is
not
lawful
to
aim
at
Eminency
:
because
it
being
reduc'd
to
a
Civil
equality
,
will
not
endure
you
other
than
a
meer
Citizen
.
Besides
,
that
Andrea
and
Giannettin
Doria
have
,
under
pretence
of
publick
Liberty
,
so
firmly
rooted
their
Power
,
that
the
greatest
publick
Concord
consists
in
serving
their
Wills
.
Thus
the
Genoueses
have
chastis'd
themselves
for
that
blind
resolution
,
which
withdrew
them
from
the
dominion
of
a
Potent
Prince
,
by
their
so
tamely
subjecting
themselves
to
the
tyranny
of
two
private
Men.
They
,
upheld
by
Caesar
,
and
formidable
by
a
good
number
of
Ships
,
will
not
suffer
a
noble
and
generous
Spirit
;
but
will
look
upon
the
Vertue
of
an
eminent
Citizen
,
as
dangerous
to
the
growing
Fortunes
of
their
Family
.
They
will
value
themselves
upon
the
specious
names
of
Fathers
of
their
Countrey
,
and
Restorers
of
its
lost
Liberty
,
to
oppress
the
bravest
Men
under
pretence
of
the
Common
good
.
So
that
under
their
Empire
you
shall
be
more
sure
of
Injuries
than
of
Life
:
and
if
all
this
hath
not
hapned
hitherto
,
impute
it
to
the
unripe
Greatness
of
Doria
,
and
the
moderation
of
Andrea
,
who
gives
check
to
the
rashness
of
Giannettin
.
He
being
of
a
proud
and
impotent
nature
,
when
he
shall
see
himself
girt
about
with
his
own
Forces
,
and
for
the
importance
of
his
Charge
reverenc'd
by
all
the
Nobility
,
what
is
it
which
he
will
not
make
lawful
for
his
Power
?
Do
you
think
that
his
thirst
of
Rule
,
provok'd
by
his
approaching
hopes
,
will
be
extinguish'd
by
any
thing
but
the
Blood
of
the
Innocent
?
Do
you
believe
,
that
content
with
the
Greatness
which
his
over
partial
Fortune
and
Folly
of
the
Citizens
hath
invested
him
with
,
he
will
die
with
the
bare
name
of
Giann
.
Doria
?
I
for
my
part
cannot
think
so
.
He
is
not
of
that
moderation
,
that
either
he
should
know
how
,
or
be
willing
to
stop
the
course
of
his
extream
felicity
.
He
expects
,
I
imagine
,
the
death
of
Andrea
,
and
then
by
a
wicked
Invasion
staining
all
his
famous
Actions
,
done
in
behalf
of
his
Countrey
,
he
will
usurp
the
Command
of
it
.
But
let
us
suppose
the
Divine
goodness
prevents
these
designs
,
can
his
present
height
be
endur'd
by
a
well-born
Citizen
?
If
you
have
not
hitherto
tasted
of
his
Insolencies
,
you
are
oblig'd
to
the
tenderness
of
your
years
,
not
to
his
good
Manners
:
but
hereafter
you
will
find
yourself
involv'd
in
the
Common
misery
.
You
,
you
I
say
,
amongst
the
rest
shall
be
seen
to
visit
,
accompany
and
serve
him
;
Giannettin
shall
be
able
to
number
amongst
the
Trophies
of
his
intolerable
Insolence
,
that
Gio.
Luigi
de
Fieschi
,
Earl
of
Lavagna
,
and
Lord
of
so
many
Vassals
,
courted
him
,
reverenc'd
him
,
and
bow'd
to
him
.
How
much
better
were
it
,
that
awaking
your
mind
to
Resolutions
worthy
of
your
Countrey
,
Family
,
and
Vertue
,
you
should
deliver
all
others
and
your self
from
this
Servitude
?
And
can
you
want
Forces
,
when
you
please
to
use
them
?
Before
you
leave
Rome
,
you
shall
be
furnish'd
with
all
necessary
Aids
.
I
can
promise
you
the
assistance
of
the
King
of
France
.
In
Genoua
the
Common
people
ever
at
variance
with
the
Nobility
,
shall
be
to
you
a
Sword
and
Shield
.
Giannettin
sleeping
in
the
arms
of
his
good
Fortune
,
will
fall
an
easie
prey
into
your
Nets
;
your
own
Subjects
,
and
those
of
the
Duke
of
Piacenza
,
will
be
able
to
defend
you
against
any
Force
that
can
be
rais'd
.
In
short
,
all
things
invite
you
to
Victory
:
only
wants
your
own
determination
,
not
to
fight
,
but
to
triumph
.
Consider
,
't
is
necessary
you
command
or
serve
;
either
render
your self
formidable
to
others
,
or
live
in
perpetual
fear
.
Triultio
could
not
have
touch'd
his
mind
in
a
part
more
sensible
:
for
having
long
envied
the
Greatness
of
Doria
,
he
look'd
upon
Giannettin
as
a
reproach
to
his
own
tameness
:
So
that
having
his
Will
well
prepared
,
he
soon
took
fire
from
this
spark
the
Cardinal
administred
.
When
he
had
greedily
hearkned
to
the
Conditions
propounded
in
the
name
of
the
King
,
he
did
not
think
them
despisable
;
and
they
were
the
following
,
That
he
should
presently
receive
money
for
the
maintaining
six
Gallies
;
That
he
should
be
secur'd
of
Pay
for
two
hundred
men
,
to
be
put
into
his
Castle
of
Montobby
;
That
he
should
receive
twelve
thousand
Crowns
per
annum
for
his
provision
.
Which
Conditions
were
soon
after
confirm'd
to
him
by
the
Kings
Order
.
He
gave
now
good
hopes
of
himself
;
not
only
by
that
alteration
which
Triultio
quickly
spy'd
in
him
,
but
by
words
;
yet
reserving
his
last
Resolution
to
his
return
for
Genoua
.
Where
being
arriv'd
,
he
began
more
diligently
to
observe
the
proceedings
of
Giannettin
:
for
though
the
splendour
of
the
Family
deriv'd
it self
chiefly
from
the
person
of
Andrea
;
yet
because
most
worship
the
rising
Sun
,
the
eyes
of
all
were
turn'd
upon
Giannettin
.
He
having
increas'd
his
natural
pride
by
a
Military
education
,
and
being
reverenc'd
for
the
Command
he
had
of
20
Gallies
,
and
for
the
succession
in
the
Admiralship
design'd
him
by
Caesar
,
heightned
also
by
several
Proofs
he
had
given
of
his
personal
Valour
,
had
drank
in
Conceits
far
beyond
the
condition
of
a
private
Citizen
:
whence
,
not
caring
to
acquire
by
Courtesie
those
men
,
which
he
believ'd
were
oblig'd
to
him
by
Interest
,
he
studied
more
the
ostentation
of
his
own
power
,
than
others
good
will
.
For
all
this
,
he
was
much
hated
by
the
popular
Faction
:
and
the
young
Nobility
which
follow'd
him
,
were
drawn
by
the
profit
they
hop'd
to
reap
from
him
,
and
not
invited
by
his
manner
of
treating
them
.
He
also
us'd
Fieschi
but
coursly
,
which
provok'd
him
in
such
a
manner
,
that
he
was
so
far
from
seeking
his
Friendship
by
the
ordinary
servilities
,
that
he
rather
indiscreetly
betray'd
some
signs
of
his
evil-will
:
and
to
shew
that
he
stood
in
no
need
of
him
in
that
very
particular
which
made
him
so
Famous
,
he
bought
the
four
Gallies
of
the
Duke
of
Piacenza
to
the
infinite
vexation
of
Giannettin
.
In
the
mean
while
Triultio
would
not
by
omitting
his
diligences
corrupt
the
hopes
he
had
conceiv'd
of
gaining
Gio.
Luigi
;
and
knowing
that
in
important
Resolutions
the
nature
of
Youth
must
be
taken
warm
,
that
the
heat
of
his
past
Negotiation
might
not
cool
,
he
sent
Nicolo
Foderato
,
a
Kinsman
of
the
Earls
,
to
Genoua
.
He
,
by
renewing
the
Treaty
and
inlarging
the
Cardinals
Promises
,
drew
Gio.
Luigi
at
last
to
an
express
declaration
of
his
readiness
to
assist
the
French
Army
in
reducing
Genoua
to
the
Kings
Obedience
,
upon
some
Conditions
favourable
to
his
own
greatness
.
The
Earl
now
puts
his
design
to
Consultation
;
and
three
Persons
there
were
which
he
call'd
to
it
;
Vincenza
Calcagno
,
an
old
and
faithful
Servant
of
his
;
Raphael
Sacco
,
his
Lawyer
;
and
Gio.
Battista
Verrina
,
a
Citizen
of
Genoua
.
This
last
being
a
near
Neighbour
of
Fieschi's
easily
obtaind
his
acquaintance
,
and
by
the
Earls
Liberality
sustain'd
his
declining
Fortunes
:
and
had
insinuated
himself
into
a
participation
of
his
greatest
Secrets
.
He
was
of
a
vast
Spirit
,
and
bent
to
the
greatest
Exploits
:
an
implacable
enemy
of
the
Nobility
,
as
well
through
Faction
as
for
particular
Injuries
.
Nor
could
he
be
content
with
the
present
Government
,
which
being
in
the
hands
of
the
Nobility
,
excluded
him
from
all
hopes
of
sharing
in
it
.
Add
to
this
his
slender
Fortunes
clog'd
with
Debts
,
a
powerful
spur
to
Sensitive
minds
,
which
puts
them
upon
a
desperate
imbracing
any
strange
design
,
as
well
by
consideration
of
their
present
wants
,
as
the
memory
of
their
past
abundance
.
Verrina
then
perceiving
he
could
no
longer
conceal
his
broken
Fortunes
in
the
serenity
of
a
publick
Peace
,
desired
to
hide
them
in
the
universal
confusion
of
his
Countrey
.
For
if
the
designed
wickedness
were
accompanied
with
Fortune
,
he
should
marvellously
better
his
condition
:
and
if
it
were
fatal
,
he
should
miscarry
,
be
ruin'd
in
the
common
ruine
,
and
expire
in
the
heat
of
a
great
Enterprize
,
he
comforted
himself
with
the
famous
infamy
of
having
provided
for
his
Name
.
So
mad
a
thing
is
Ambition
,
which
makes
no
difference
in
Fame
,
whether
good
or
evil
,
so
it
be
Great
.
On
the
other
side
Calcagno
,
one
of
a
ripe
Judgment
,
but
a
timorous
nature
,
being
us'd
to
the
delights
and
ease
of
a
plentiful
House
,
hated
to
think
of
those
dangers
into
which
he
saw
Gio.
Luigi
about
to
precipitate
himself
:
Besides
,
that
sincerely
loving
the
Person
rather
than
the
Fortunes
of
the
Earl
,
in
whose
Service
he
had
grown
up
from
a
Child
,
he
had
no
Interest
of
his
own
which
he
desir'd
should
flourish
at
the
expence
of
his
Master
.
Sacco
seeing
the
matter
every
way
dangerous
stood
Neuter
,
not
declaring
his
Sentiments
,
that
he
might
accommodate
himself
opportunely
to
that
Resolution
which
should
be
imbraced
by
the
Earl
.
Gio.
Luigi
now
lays
open
his
mind
,
with
a
short
,
but
vehement
Speech
,
declaring
,
That
he
was
absolutely
resolv'd
to
attempt
some
great
matter
,
and
that
he
ask'd
their
Advice
only
about
the
manner
.
Notwithstanding
which
,
Calcagno
bearing
himself
upon
the
tender
love
he
bore
to
his
Master
,
and
long
Familiarity
,
with
singular
liberty
spake
to
this
purpose
:
If
in
your
Resolutions
of
attempting
this
design
you
are
as
obstinate
as
your
words
seem
to
declare
,
I
may
rather
weep
over
the
Common
misery
,
than
hope
to
effect
any
thing
by
contradicting
you
.
But
if
prudence
and
your
better
Fortune
have
left
place
for
Second
thoughts
,
which
are
wont
to
be
most
matur'd
,
you
shall
this
day
have
proof
of
my
fidelity
in
freely
speaking
to
you
,
as
you
have
hitherto
had
in
my
faithful
acting
for
you
.
You
have
hitherto
liv'd
in
a
constant
tenour
of
happiness
,
and
have
not
seen
the
threatning
face
of
Fortune
:
so
that
according
to
the
manner
of
the
Fortunate
,
you
dream
of
nothing
but
Victory
,
increase
of
State
and
Lordships
.
But
I
fear
much
,
that
these
gay
Figures
which
revel
in
your
Imagination
,
will
be
defac'd
by
some
disastrous
event
;
which
will
be
so
much
the
more
intolerable
,
by
how
much
the
less
't
is
fear'd
.
To
introduce
a
change
in
the
Government
of
this
Commonwealth
is
a
work
of
so
much
difficulty
,
and
expos'd
to
such
evident
danger
,
that
I
cannot
do
so
much
violence
to
my
own
thoughts
,
as
to
fancy
it
secure
and
easie
.
For
you
either
design
to
value
your self
upon
the
Forces
of
Strangers
,
or
you
hold
Intelligence
with
the
Citizens
.
I
see
no
Forein
Forces
ready
;
and
if
they
were
,
they
can
neither
be
so
speedy
or
so
secret
,
but
it
may
come
to
the
notice
of
the
City
,
Doria
and
Caesar
.
Italy
,
for
our
Misfortune
,
is
at
present
the
Stage
of
such
important
Actions
as
keep
open
all
mens
eyes
:
and
Genoua
being
the
only
Frontier
of
this
Province
,
is
the
more
jealously
look'd
to
.
The
State
of
Millan
(
both
the
Field
of
Battel
,
and
the
destin'd
prey
to
the
Fortune
of
the
Imperial
or
French
Arms
)
causes
Caesar
to
watch
over
Genoua
as
the
Bulwark
of
his
Power
in
Italy
.
Doria
assists
him
with
twenty
Gallies
;
and
the
Citizens
hating
the
tyranny
of
the
Duke
of
Millan
and
King
of
France
,
loath
the
name
of
Foreiners
.
You
may
indeed
with
a
small
Force
discover
your
intention
,
but
not
bring
it
to
effect
;
and
whence
you
should
hope
great
I
cannot
imagine
.
The
King
of
France
hath
enough
to
do
to
secure
his
own
Frontiers
;
or
if
he
should
assist
you
,
will
not
Caesar
oppose
him
with
Superiour
,
or
not
unequal
Force
?
In
such
a
case
at
least
the
uncertainty
of
the
event
will
take
place
,
which
depends
on
the
doubtful
success
of
a
Battel
.
After
which
you
will
be
forc'd
to
accommodate
your self
to
that
Fortune
which
shall
be
prescrib'd
you
by
the
Conquerour
;
and
nothing
remain
with
you
but
the
infamy
of
having
ungratefully
depriv'd
your
Countrey
of
its
liberty
,
and
put
it
under
the
yoke
of
Strangers
.
If
you
expect
assistance
within
the
Town
,
either
I
do
not
know
the
nature
and
condition
of
the
Genoueses
,
or
you
have
a
slippery
foundation
for
your
hopes
.
Tell
me
,
from
what
order
of
Citizens
you
attend
Succours
;
perhaps
from
the
Nobility
:
But
they
are
the
Creatures
of
Doria
,
and
bound
to
him
by
notable
Intcrest
.
They
live
in
an
honourable
Peace
,
and
possess
the
Command
of
the
Commonwealth
:
so
that
if
the
least
mutation
will
endammage
their
condition
,
how
can
you
expect
they
consent
to
a
turbulent
Revolution
,
which
must
cast
them
into
worse
Calamities
than
the
past
?
Will
they
,
think
you
,
to
please
your
will
,
put
in
oblivion
their
Countrey
,
Liberty
,
Fortunes
,
Wives
and
Children
?
Will
they
,
for
your
Friendship
,
slight
the
Protection
of
Doria
,
now
reverenc'd
as
their
Father
by
so
many
particular
and
common
Titles
?
Nor
can
you
make
better
Judgment
of
the
Common
peoples
inclination
towards
you
.
For
,
the
greater
the
hatred
is
they
profess
to
the
name
of
the
Nobility
,
the
less
can
they
hope
that
you
,
one
of
the
chief
in
that
Order
,
will
without
any
appearance
of
reason
endeavour
to
extinguish
it
.
But
if
you
design
to
compass
to
your self
the
Command
of
the
Commonwealth
,
what
Action
less
popular
than
this
,
or
more
unlike
to
gain
the
People
?
But
perhaps
you
pretend
to
restore
the
first
Form
of
Government
chang'd
by
the
violence
of
Doria
,
in
which
flourish'd
the
popular
Power
,
and
by
declaring
so
much
you
think
to
stir
up
the
People
in
your
favour
:
nor
am
I
obstinate
in
believing
the
contrary
,
but
rather
imagine
those
who
are
at
present
ill-satisfied
,
will
greedily
imbrace
an
occasion
of
renewing
the
past
Tragedies
.
To
which
they
will
be
more
easily
mov'd
,
whilst
they
shall
reap
the
profit
,
and
you
the
infamy
of
the
Action
:
unless
you
can
perswade
your self
,
that
the
Adorni
and
Fregosi
will
yield
to
you
that
preheminence
in
the
popular
administration
,
which
they
have
so
long
and
so
often
sought
for
themselves
.
They
will
praise
your
rashness
,
and
call
it
Valour
:
they
will
follow
your
Ensigns
as
their
Deliverer
:
they
will
be
glad
to
see
the
Nobility
crush'd
by
a
Noble
man
;
the
bowels
of
the
Commonwealth
wounded
by
your
Arms
;
the
Common
Peace
overwhelm'd
by
your
Fury
;
their
Tyranny
restor'd
by
your
Folly
;
and
keeping
aloof
from
the
wickedness
you
set
on
foot
,
(
let
every
thing
be
call'd
by
its
right
name
)
they
will
take
their
time
to
enter
upon
the
harvest
of
your
Labours
;
to
share
in
the
honour
of
your
Attempts
,
in
the
triumph
of
your
Combats
.
In
what
condition
shall
you
then
find
your self
?
odious
to
the
Nobility
you
have
betray'd
;
scorn'd
by
the
Commonalty
,
who
enjoy
the
fruits
of
your
Artifices
;
hated
by
your
Countrey
,
which
through
your
means
hath
lost
its
Liberty
;
an
Enemy
to
Caesar
,
under
whose
protection
we
are
;
not
trusted
by
the
King
of
France
,
who
aim'd
at
the
absolute
Command
of
Genoua
;
abhorr'd
by
the
whole
World
,
which
justly
detests
all
Treasons
.
And
further
I
must
tell
you
,
and
't
is
necessary
you
hear
it
;
for
the
fidelity
I
owe
to
your
Service
,
and
the
love
I
bear
your
Person
,
makes
me
thus
bold
:
I
fear
(
and
God
grant
my
Fears
be
vain
)
I
fear
I
say
,
that
these
unquiet
and
tumultuous
Thoughts
are
the
instigations
of
your
evil
Fortune
,
which
hath
destin'd
you
to
the
loss
of
Reputation
,
Life
and
Estate
.
You
know
that
Doria
looks
upon
you
with
an
envious
Eye
;
and
you
have
complain'd
to
me
,
that
you
dread
his
Malice
;
Why
then
will
you
put
Arms
into
his
hand
,
wherewith
he
may
justly
oppress
you
?
With
how
much
eagerness
will
he
incounter
an
occasion
to
satisfie
his
Hatred
to
you
,
under
pretence
of
Love
to
his
Countrey
?
He
will
secretly
be
glad
of
that
resolution
which
thrusts
you
forward
;
and
openly
taking
Arms
,
with
what
reasons
may
he
not
justifie
to
the
World
his
opposing
you
?
You
shall
be
the
Enemy
of
the
publick
Peace
,
the
Tyrant
of
publick
Liberty
,
the
Betrayer
of
your
Countrey
,
a
Rebel
to
the
Commonwealth
,
the
Catiline
of
Genoua
.
With
these
magnificent
and
plausible
words
,
who
amongst
the
Commonalty
,
Nobility
,
Citizens
;
what
Stanger
,
what
Private
man
,
what
Prince
will
not
Arm
himself
against
you
?
I
am
astonish'd
to
think
,
much
more
to
speak
of
it
.
At
last
,
you
shall
remain
opprest
by
a
Common
force
conspiring
your
destruction
.
Your
Lands
confiscate
,
as
those
of
a
Traytor
;
your
memory
stain'd
and
dishonour'd
in
the
Annals
of
Genoua
;
and
Giannettin
acknowledg'd
the
Second
Deliverer
of
his
Countrey
and
Restorer
of
Liberty
,
will
build
his
Glories
upon
your
ruines
.
The
gratitude
of
the
Genoueses
will
raise
up
a
Statue
to
him
,
to
accompay
that
of
Andrea
,
in
whose
Inscription
shall
be
inserted
the
Name
of
Gio.
Luigi
Fieschi
the
publick
Enemy
,
o'rethrown
by
Giannettin
Doria
the
publick
Benefactour
.
Do
not
then
suffer
your self
to
be
hurried
by
the
impetuousness
of
your
Youth
,
or
resentments
to
such
dangerous
Attempts
.
Be
content
to
be
restrain'd
by
a
pity
to
your Self
,
Family
,
and
Subjects
.
Compassionate
the
infelicity
of
your
Mother
and
Wife
.
Deliver
those
that
love
you
from
so
just
and
necessary
Fears
.
This
your
Youth
accompanied
with
so
much
worth
,
does
not
deserve
to
be
prodigally
cast
into
the
hands
of
Fortune
:
Enjoy
,
enjoy
those
Riches
,
which
in
such
abundance
your
Father
left
you
;
for
you
are
plac'd
in
a
degree
every
way
so
eminent
,
that
you
may
live
envy'd
by
Giannettin
.
These
words
were
not
heard
by
Fieschi
without
some
trouble
of
mind
;
for
having
receiv'd
other
proofs
of
the
tender
affection
of
Calcagno
,
he
saw
it
now
accompanied
with
so
many
and
so
powerful
Reasons
,
that
he
remain'd
not
a
little
alter'd
;
which
Verrina
observing
,
and
considering
,
that
if
he
let
his
Thoughts
gather
force
,
all
was
in
danger
;
handsomly
,
but
with
a
detestable
Impiety
,
he
thus
oppos'd
Calcagno's
Arguments
:
I
would
to
God
that
the
Affairs
of
the
Common-wealth
were
reduc'd
to
such
terms
,
that
the
Citizens
might
quietly
enjoy
their
own
;
you
could
not
then
wish
your self
in
a
better
condition
:
for
as
Calcagno
hath
well
consider'd
,
for
largeness
of
Territory
,
Nobility
of
Birth
,
and
for
Riches
you
have
not
your
equal
in
Genoua
:
nor
ought
a
Wise
man
in
the
height
of
his
felicity
to
provoke
his
Fortune
,
which
cannot
suffer
change
but
for
the
worse
.
But
Destiny
,
the
Enemy
of
your
welfare
,
hath
so
intangled
matters
,
that
you
must
attempt
great
things
,
or
perish
.
Giannettin
Doria
,
who
for
so
many
years
hath
destin'd
to
his
Covetousness
the
Command
of
Genoua
,
will
never
endure
you
.
If
you
do
not
plainly
read
in
his
Forehead
the
implacable
Hatred
he
bears
you
;
if
in
his
Behaviour
you
do
not
discover
his
Pride
,
the
Gallies
bought
by
you
speak
loud
enough
,
that
you
are
a
Thorn
in
his
side
.
That
Insolent
man
does
ambition
the
free
and
absolute
Dominion
of
these
Seas
,
nor
will
he
endure
that
any
body
should
dare
to
disturb
or
divide
it
with
him
.
How
can
you
imagine
he
will
long
suffer
you
to
share
with
him
in
that
Power
,
when
the
Jealousie
of
Rule
does
not
spare
the
Blood
of
Brothers
,
Sons
,
or
Parents
?
Either
you
must
then
by
a
shameful
flight
retire
to
your
Castles
,
and
leaving
your
Gallies
leave
the
Field
;
or
else
you
must
awaken
that
Courage
which
shall
be
sufficient
to
oppose
him
.
If
you
resolve
to
redeem
your self
from
the
approaching
danger
with
your
Infamy
,
and
lead
your
life
as
receiv'd
in
gift
from
him
,
go
,
I
will
not
stop
you
:
a
more
wretched
condition
the
hate
of
Giannettin
could
not
wish
you
.
But
your
Vertue
bids
me
hope
something
more
generous
,
and
that
I
shall
see
the
vain
Pride
of
that
rash
man
broken
by
your
Valour
.
You
are
then
to
embrace
such
an
Enterprize
as
Giannettin
himself
shall
envy
.
Fortune
hath
plac'd
between
you
two
the
Empire
of
Liguria
,
nor
can
one
of
you
attain
it
without
making
way
for
the
wheels
of
his
Triumph
over
the
breast
of
the
other
.
He
can
best
secure
himself
of
Victory
,
that
knows
how
by
prevention
to
cut
off
his
Enemies
way
.
the
necessity
of
securing
your
own
safety
is
common
to
both
;
he
will
appear
wisest
,
who
by
the
celerity
of
a
resolute
execution
shall
be
beforehand
with
tardy
and
immature
Counsels
.
Either
assault
,
or
expect
to
be
assaulted
.
Either
prevent
him
,
or
fall
into
his
Nets
;
or
kill
,
or
die
.
Perhaps
my
words
may
appear
too
sharp
;
but
Necessity
,
which
in
desperate
cases
is
the
Whetstone
of
Fortitude
,
is
likewise
the
Shield
of
Innocence
.
Let
the
folly
of
Giannettiu
be
accus'd
;
the
Cowardice
of
your
Countrey
and
the
iniquity
of
Fortune
,
which
have
reduc'd
you
to
such
inevitable
straits
.
You
are
not
injurious
to
any
,
whilst
to
defend
your self
you
follow
the
order
of
Nature
.
It
is
part
of
prudence
to
divert
that
Tempest
upon
the
head
of
our
Enemy
,
which
threatens
our
own
;
and
if
this
cannot
be
done
without
appearance
of
evil
,
it
is
not
your
fault
,
but
Destiny
's
,
which
left
no
way
to
maintain
your
life
but
anothers
death
;
and
grants
no
other
defence
for
your
Vertue
,
than
Vice
.
But
why
do
I
say
Vice
?
this
is
your
word
Calcagno
,
and
you
have
learn'd
it
in
the
School
of
the
Vulgar
,
Strangers
to
the
doctrine
of
Rule
.
The
Actions
of
Private
persons
are
styl'd
by
this
name
,
not
the
Enterprizes
of
Princes
.
If
your
Rule
were
right
,
all
Empire
should
be
wicked
:
for
it
all
proceeds
from
the
force
of
the
stronger
over
the
weaker
.
Nature
produc'd
Mankind
in
a
perfect
equality
,
and
left
it
to
Vertue
to
attain
Supremacy
.
Whence
those
are
call'd
Princes
,
who
by
their
Wit
and
Force
knew
how
to
compass
a
Command
over
others
.
I
deny
not
but
some
will
joyn
with
Calcagno
to
chide
your
Resolution
before
it
be
conducted
to
its
end
:
for
dangerous
and
bold
Actions
are
not
celebrated
till
they
have
attain'd
their
effect
;
but
when
the
Fortune
of
the
execution
shall
have
authenticated
the
nobleness
of
the
Attempt
,
that
blaming
shall
be
converted
into
wonder
,
and
what
was
first
call'd
Rashness
shall
be
honour'd
with
the
Title
of
Valour
.
Whilst
Caesar
himself
had
his
Arms
in
his
hand
,
and
fought
for
the
Empire
of
Rome
,
not
only
Pompey
,
but
the
greatest
part
of
the
Nobility
obstinately
oppos'd
him
;
but
when
he
had
overthrown
his
Enemy
in
the
Pharsalian
Field
,
and
master'd
the
Commonwealth
,
Civil
hatred
ceas'd
,
and
he
was
so
sincerely
belov'd
by
the
Romans
,
that
they
severely
reveng'd
his
death
.
Let
the
Genoueses
for
a
time
call
you
Tyrant
,
and
don
't
think
that
Name
injurious
,
but
imagine
only
that
dying
Liberty
talks
idly
.
They
will
by
degrees
be
brought
to
acknowledge
you
a
legitimate
Prince
.
You
see
how
I
confide
in
your
Fortunes
,
designing
you
Empire
before
you
are
prepar'd
to
fight
for
it
.
But
such
is
the
disposition
of
Affairs
,
that
you
may
rather
be
wanting
to
your self
,
than
Empire
to
you
.
For
if
the
difficulties
are
great
in
the
opinion
of
Calcagno
,
you
have
Force
enough
to
master
greater
.
And
grant
that
't
is
a
hard
and
knotty
Enterprize
;
what
Famous
Action
do
you
meet
with
in
Ancient
or
Modern
story
,
that
was
conducted
by
smooth
and
flowry
ways
?
Great
Enterprizes
were
ever
accompanied
with
great
Dangers
,
and
the
greatest
heights
confine
upon
Precipices
.
A
man
of
elevated
thoughts
will
not
for
all
that
let
an
uncertain
fear
of
eminent
Calamity
deliver
him
a
prey
to
certain
Misery
.
In
a
Private
condition
't
is
prudent
Counsel
to
stick
to
Mediocrities
,
but
in
occurrences
of
State
middle
ways
are
most
pernicious
;
especially
when
the
business
must
begin
at
execution
:
For
not
being
able
to
put
bounds
to
things
that
are
once
a
foot
,
and
out
of
our
hands
,
we
must
reach
our
proposed
ends
,
or
fall
into
ruine
.
But
let
us
not
give
to
our
Affairs
such
unhappy
Auguries
.
Let
us
take
a
view
of
Misfortunes
by
a
necessary
foresight
,
not
to
torment
our selves
in
the
expectation
,
but
to
prevent
their
bad
effects
by
prudence
;
let
us
walk
warily
,
but
let
not
too
much
Caution
render
us
fearful
and
irresolute
.
Let
something
be
left
to
the
disposal
of
your
Fortune
;
and
Fate
,
who
having
chosen
you
for
Genoua's
Deliverer
,
and
Restorer
of
the
Ancient
Italian
Valour
,
will
find
ways
to
unravel
all
difficulties
;
only
consent
to
be
Absolute
,
and
imbrace
with
largeness
of
heart
those
Favours
which
Fortune
freely
pours
into
your
bosom
,
without
dividing
them
.
To
what
end
should
you
call
the
French
to
share
in
your
Fortunes
,
who
having
lost
what
they
possest
on
this
side
the
Mountains
,
together
with
their
Reputation
,
are
not
secure
of
Caesar
in
their
own
Territories
?
Besides
,
you
ought
to
consider
the
natural
Hatred
that
Nation
bears
to
the
Italian
Name
.
That
King
,
't
is
true
,
is
indu'd
with
Qualities
truly
Royal
,
but
for
all
that
he
hath
his
weaknesses
,
inseparable
from
great
Princes
.
And
what
Recompence
can
the
French
give
you
worthy
of
your
pains
and
dangers
?
perhaps
leave
you
in
the
Government
of
Genoua
,
with
dependance
upon
them
?
But
this
were
to
make
your self
mercenary
in
that
Countrey
,
where
Nature
hath
invested
you
with
part
of
the
Principality
:
't
is
better
you
value
your self
on
your
own
Subjects
,
Friends
,
and
Confederates
;
and
not
let
that
Crown
be
put
on
your
Head
by
others
hands
,
which
is
so
worthy
of
you
,
and
you
of
it
.
When
you
shall
have
establish'd
your
Power
in
Genoua
,
and
thereby
keep
even
the
Key
of
Italy
,
the
best
Princes
of
Christendom
will
ambitiously
court
your
Friendship
.
Then
,
when
you
shall
have
overcome
the
envy
of
Competitours
,
your
Family
shall
be
plac'd
in
a
height
to
which
none
of
Genoua
hath
attain'd
.
Giannettin
shall
fall
at
your
feet
,
reverence
you
as
his
Lord
,
and
fear
you
as
his
Prince
;
with
a
beck
you
shall
regulate
his
Actions
,
and
your
will
shall
give
Law
to
his
desires
.
Let
the
French
alone
then
in
their
Countrey
,
and
there
let
them
hear
the
sound
of
your
Victories
.
To
you
it
belongs
now
vigorously
to
incounter
what
stands
in
the
way
of
your
design
.
Do
it
with
a
Resolution
worthy
of
your
Birth
and
Courage
.
Deserve
that
Triumph
which
the
Heavens
have
destin'd
you
.
Let
the
World
see
you
know
how
to
build
your
own
Fortunes
.
Let
my
mighty
Hopes
be
surmounted
by
your
Vertue
.
Secure
a
Kingdom
to
your
Family
,
and
eternity
to
your
Name
.
Gio.
Luigi
had
never
apply'd
his
mind
to
get
Genoua
for
himself
,
but
for
the
Crown
of
France
;
contented
to
lessen
the
excessive
Power
of
Doria
,
and
to
better
his
own
condition
under
the
Kings
protection
:
but
being
covetous
of
Fame
,
and
in
his
nature
inclin'd
to
vast
Pretences
,
't
was
easie
for
Verrina
to
take
him
off
from
the
French
,
and
put
him
upon
his
own
Advancement
.
So
that
no
longer
weighing
the
Reasons
of
Calcagno
,
he
was
as
it
were
fatally
carried
to
the
execution
of
the
most
dangerous
,
and
least
honest
Advice
.
But
for
all
this
he
was
much
perplexed
with
an
apprehension
of
the
difficulties
wanting
the
French
assistance
.
In
which
doubt
Raphael
Sacco
confirm'd
him
,
who
being
of
the
French
Faction
prais'd
the
Conditions
offer'd
by
Triultio
,
as
fit
to
be
imbrac'd
.
But
Verrina
detesting
all
mixtures
as
dangerous
in
a
business
which
call'd
for
extream
Resolutions
,
endeavour'd
by
all
ways
to
remove
this
obstacle
which
cool'd
the
fervency
of
Gio.
Luigi
.
So
he
replies
with
much
vehemency
,
That
't
was
a
meanness
unworthy
a
Noble
mind
to
be
frighted
off
a
design
with
Phantasms
.
That
in
the
Garrison
of
Genoua
were
no
more
than
two
hundred
Souldiers
;
Doria's
Gallies
though
many
in
number
remain'd
useless
,
for
by
reason
of
the
Season
improper
for
Navigation
they
were
disarm'd
;
Andrea
and
Giannettin
far
from
all
suspicion
of
Violence
,
liv'd
abandon'd
without
Guard
publick
or
private
;
Gio.
Luigi
might
in
an
instant
bring
in
a
good
number
of
Souldiers
from
the
neighbouring
Castles
,
which
should
surprize
the
Doria's
in
their
House
;
at
the
same
time
't
would
be
easie
to
master
the
Gallies
:
the
rest
would
happily
fall
in
of
it self
,
through
the
inveterate
hatred
the
Common
people
bore
the
Nobility
:
He
offer'd
himself
to
stir
up
the
Commonalty
in
favour
of
the
Enterprize
,
whose
minds
he
had
by
his
endeavours
already
well
dispos'd
.
These
,
and
other
particulars
urg'd
by
Verrina
with
great
subtlety
,
especially
a
superiority
of
Genius
which
he
had
over
Gio.
Luigi
,
gave
the
last
shock
to
his
wavering
mind
.
So
now
sully
descending
into
the
opinion
of
Verrina
,
he
began
to
consider
how
he
might
proceed
to
carry
the
design
prosperously
.
The
first
and
joynt
Resolution
of
them
all
was
,
that
seeing
the
safety
of
the
Doria's
was
inseparably
link'd
to
the
present
Government
,
to
change
this
't
was
necessary
to
take
those
out
of
the
way
:
and
,
to
be
secure
in
their
Revenge
,
to
kill
likewise
Adamo
Conturione
,
Father
in
Law
to
Giannettin
,
and
some
others
of
the
Nobility
.
From
the
first
day
that
Gio.
Luigi
gave
way
to
these
thoughts
,
after
he
had
bought
the
Gallies
he
retir'd
to
his
Castles
,
where
he
was
wont
to
exercise
the
Militia
of
the
Countrey
,
pretending
to
fear
the
Duke
of
Piacenza
his
Neighbour
;
but
really
with
intention
of
fitting
his
Subjects
,
that
they
might
become
proportionable
Instruments
to
his
designs
.
Returning
to
the
City
at
the
beginning
of
Autumn
,
he
us'd
great
Art
to
purchase
the
Friendship
of
those
among
the
Nobility
,
which
were
styl'd
Popular
.
He
insinuates
himself
into
their
Conversation
with
wondrous
facility
:
to
some
he
gave
;
others
he
assisted
in
their
occurring
Interests
;
to
every
one
he
offer'd
himself
with
great
demonstrations
of
Courtesie
.
And
being
of
a
lively
Wit
and
a
bending
Nature
,
't
is
scarce
credible
how
fortunately
he
gain'd
their
confidence
.
When
he
saw
that
he
had
master'd
their
wills
,
he
began
as
occasion
offer'd
,
to
mock
at
the
Tyranny
of
the
Nobility
,
as
he
call'd
it
;
at
another
time
he
would
seem
,
by
abrupt
discourses
,
to
pity
the
condition
of
the
Common
people
,
sometimes
he
would
hint
,
that
there
was
a
way
to
suppress
the
Arrogance
of
the
Nobility
,
if
they
were
not
wanting
to
themselves
;
sometimes
exhorting
them
by
a
bitter
Irony
to
patience
,
and
ever
with
perplexed
words
leaving
some
sting
in
their
minds
.
But
above
all
,
exaggerating
the
iniquity
of
the
Government
,
if
by
chance
any
thing
fell
out
displeasing
to
the
Common
people
.
Nor
did
he
omit
his
diligences
even
with
the
dregs
of
the
Commonalty
;
ready
in
his
Salutations
;
pleasant
in
encounter
;
splendid
in
his
Habit
;
Courteous
to
all
.
In
this
Nature
helped
him
not
a
little
,
being
of
exquisite
Form
,
in
the
flower
of
his
Youth
,
and
of
a
Jovial
complexion
;
whence
by
a
sweetness
of
air
in
his
Face
,
and
an
elegant
Behaviour
,
he
was
belov'd
even
at
first
sight
,
and
verified
in
himself
what
was
said
of
Absalon
.
Besides
,
he
frequently
exercis'd
Horsemanship
,
and
did
it
with
infinite
grace
and
becomingness
.
But
because
an
opinion
of
Liberality
is
the
strongest
Chain
to
bind
the
Multitude
,
't
is
said
,
that
he
one
day
call'd
to
him
the
Consul
of
the
Silk-weavers
,
of
which
Trade
there
are
a
great
number
in
Genoua
,
familiarly
asking
him
the
condition
of
his
Company
;
and
understanding
that
they
liv'd
in
great
misery
by
reason
of
the
badness
of
Trade
,
he
shew'd
signs
of
a
most
tender
Compassion
toward
the
Poor
men
,
and
said
,
they
were
not
to
be
abandon'd
in
a
time
of
so
much
need
;
he
therefore
orders
him
to
send
secretly
to
his
House
such
whose
necessity
was
most
manifest
and
urgent
.
The
next
day
comes
a
great
number
of
them
one
by
one
,
and
he
as
one
of
singular
Charity
,
divides
amongst
them
a
certain
quantity
of
Corn
;
telling
them
withal
,
that
it
being
the
Ancient
Custome
of
his
Family
to
relieve
necessitous
and
afflicted
Persons
,
he
could
not
degenerate
from
his
Ancestours
,
therefore
when
they
wanted
Means
to
sustain
their
Families
,
they
might
confidently
value
themselves
on
his
Substance
,
which
they
should
always
find
expos'd
to
their
Relief
,
provided
they
were
silent
;
Secresie
being
a
main
circumstance
in
Alms.
They
departed
no
less
comforted
by
the
Relief
,
than
amaz'd
at
the
Liberality
,
reputing
their
Benefactour
worthy
of
all
good
Fortune
.
He
in
the
mean
time
would
not
in
such
a
manner
cast
himself
into
the
arms
of
the
Commonalty
as
to
fall
into
Jealousies
of
the
Nobility
;
but
studied
to
use
such
a
temperament
,
that
the
confidence
of
the
one
should
not
destroy
the
Friendship
of
the
other
.
Wherefore
he
betook
himself
to
a
profound
Simulation
,
and
began
to
frequent
Doria's
Palace
more
than
before
:
and
dissembling
well
the
mortal
hatred
he
bore
Giannettin
,
behav'd
himself
with
all
Familiarity
,
craving
his
Advice
and
assistance
in
all
his
Affairs
.
In
the
mean
while
he
corresponded
with
the
Duke
of
Piacenza
,
who
promis'd
him
two
thousand
Foot
to
joyn
with
what
Force
he
could
raise
in
his
own
State
.
He
likewise
causes
one
of
his
Gallies
to
come
to
Genoua
,
pretending
to
send
it
for
the
Barbary
shore
.
Nor
was
Verrina
idle
all
this
while
,
but
cunningly
gain'd
divers
persons
to
promise
him
their
aid
in
a
certain
occasion
.
With
these
Preparations
they
thought
a
sufficient
foundation
was
laid
for
the
building
up
of
their
design
,
and
met
once
more
to
consult
of
the
execution
.
The
first
opinion
was
,
that
they
should
intimate
a
new
Mass
in
the
Church
of
St.
Andrea
,
to
which
Andrea
,
Giannettin
,
and
some
of
the
principal
Nobility
,
whose
lives
they
design'd
upon
,
should
be
invited
.
But
this
seem'd
no
less
wioked
than
unsafe
;
for
Andrea
would
have
excus'd
himself
by
his
Age
:
Besides
,
it
seem'd
too
horrid
to
give
beginning
to
their
design
with
the
Sacrilegious
prophaning
of
a
Temple
and
Sacrifice
.
But
because
the
Reins
once
let
loose
we
are
hurried
precipitously
to
all
sorts
of
wickedness
,
though
shame
gave
check
to
the
last
determination
,
it
broke
out
afterwards
in
a
most
detestable
Impiety
.
For
upon
occasion
of
a
Marriage
to
be
celebrated
between
a
Sister
of
Giannettins
and
Guilio
Gabo
,
Marquess
of
Massa
,
and
Kinsman
of
Gio.
Luigi
,
they
resolv'd
that
the
Earl
should
invite
the
Doria's
,
and
those
of
the
Nobility
which
they
thought
stood
most
in
the
way
,
to
Supper
with
the
Brides
Company
;
and
that
all
of
them
(
violating
the
right
of
Hospitality
)
should
be
murther'd
by
certain
Men
conceal'd
in
the
House
for
that
purpose
;
and
that
the
Earl
should
immediately
issue
out
with
his
Followers
,
and
call
the
people
to
Liberty
;
and
that
at
the
Palace
Verrina
,
by
a
plausible
Speech
shewing
the
necessity
of
reforming
the
Government
,
should
prepare
the
Commons
to
accept
of
Gio.
Luigi
for
their
Prince
.
Hereupon
order
was
given
,
that
from
Gio.
Luigi's
Castle
should
enter
into
the
City
one
by
one
the
best
of
his
Souldiers
,
and
the
Duke
of
Piacenza
was
solicited
to
send
his
promis'd
Succours
.
These
diligences
,
especially
of
listing
Souldiers
,
could
not
pass
so
secretly
but
the
Governour
of
Millan
had
some
notice
of
it
,
and
sent
to
Genoua
to
give
it
Doria
and
the
Emperours
Embassadour
.
Andrea
notwithstanding
,
deceiv'd
by
those
flattering
demonstrations
of
affection
,
and
that
serenity
of
Countenance
which
he
continually
found
in
Gio.
Luigi
,
was
a
second
time
incredulous
to
those
pregnant
Circumstances
which
lay
against
him
.
Nor
did
he
change
opinion
,
when
the
same
Government
of
Millan
having
a
confirmation
of
it
from
the
Court
of
France
,
advis'd
him
once
more
seriously
to
take
it
into
consideration
.
And
certainly
,
if
we
did
not
read
of
several
Great
persons
,
who
have
been
hardly
induc'd
to
give
credit
to
what
they
heard
was
plotting
against
their
safety
,
the
simplicity
of
Andrea
were
sharply
to
be
blam'd
;
who
in
a
matter
that
concern'd
his
life
,
and
the
safety
of
the
Commonwealth
,
lent
more
belief
to
the
dissembling
looks
of
Gio.
Luigi
,
than
to
the
thing
it self
;
as
if
it
were
an
unusual
thing
to
put
on
a
Face
to
serve
the
Scene
;
or
as
if
for
the
safeguard
of
our
Countrey
and
Life
any
kind
of
Vigilance
were
superfluous
.
But
seeing
the
Stories
of
all
times
do
furnish
a
hundred
Examples
of
prudent
men
,
who
have
suffer'd
themselves
to
be
bewitch'd
by
this
fatal
Incredulity
in
things
of
the
greatest
importance
,
we
must
needs
say
,
that
the
Accidents
order'd
or
inevitably
permitted
by
the
Providence
that
governs
them
,
require
to
bring
them
to
effect
this
momentany
Folly
in
the
brightest
Intellects
,
as
the
assault
of
a
violent
fit
in
the
most
healthful
Bodies
,
to
mortifie
Worldly
wisdom
,
which
in
Affairs
of
greatest
weight
appears
lightest
.
More
quick-sighted
was
Paolo
Pansa
,
who
with
a
loving
as
well
as
a
prudent
Eye
,
studying
the
Actions
of
Gio.
Luigi
from
the
time
that
he
bought
the
Gallies
,
did
much
suspect
some
important
Action
depending
,
and
by
the
Authority
which
his
condition
gave
him
,
reprov'd
him
.
After
that
,
weighing
exactly
what
he
heard
and
saw
,
he
found
occasion
to
augment
his
conceiv'd
suspicion
.
For
Gio.
Luigi
,
who
was
wont
before
to
impart
to
him
his
most
secret
Affairs
was
now
silent
,
and
withdrew
often
to
private
Consultations
with
others
.
And
though
riding
about
the
City
,
or
in
conversation
with
his
Friends
,
he
marvellously
conceal'd
his
inward
thoughts
;
yet
when
he
came
home
he
was
chang'd
into
another
man
,
full
of
profound
thoughtfulness
,
and
little
less
than
astonish'd
.
Nor
did
he
hide
his
designs
from
Pansa
for
any
other
reason
,
but
because
knowing
him
a
Man
of
singular
integrity
,
he
concluded
that
he
would
by
all
means
endeavour
to
divert
him
:
or
at
least
,
as
one
that
was
a
Stranger
to
Military
noises
,
and
educated
in
the
pleasing
idleness
of
the
Muses
,
examining
every
Circumstance
with
too
much
Caution
,
he
would
measure
the
Enterprize
by
terms
of
security
,
impossible
to
be
had
in
such
cases
.
One
day
Gio.
Luigi
coming
home
more
than
ordinarily
Melancholy
,
by
an
unquiet
motion
and
uncertain
countenance
gave
signs
of
some
great
alteration
;
so
that
Pansa
resolv'd
to
speak
to
him
,
lest
by
deferring
it
,
the
Remedy
might
come
when
the
Disease
was
past
cure
;
and
withdrawing
into
a
Chamber
with
him
,
he
thus
began
:
To
pry
into
anothers
Secrets
is
as
unworthy
a
gallant
man
,
as
the
faithful
keeping
of
them
,
when
deposited
,
is
laudable
;
and
I
,
who
would
have
promis'd
this
,
if
it
were
not
known
to
you
by
so
many
proofs
,
have
abstain'd
from
that
,
not
to
do
a
thing
that
might
displease
you
.
Your
unwonted
Silence
speaks
to
me
notwithstanding
loud
enough
,
and
signifies
Matters
of
so
much
the
more
weight
,
as
they
are
deeply
conceal'd
.
I
read
in
your
disturb'd
Face
the
necessity
of
my
Cares
,
and
I
learn
from
your
Fears
to
fear
.
I
fear
Gio.
Luigi
,
I
fear
,
nor
do
I
know
what
:
I
know
well
,
that
this
is
the
fervency
of
the
Love
I
bear
you
,
and
one
of
the
Raptures
of
my
Fidelity
.
And
how
can
I
perswade
my self
that
your
mind
is
bent
upon
a
fitting
Subject
,
when
it
hath
the
power
to
disturb
its
serenity
?
The
execution
of
your
design
cannot
be
peaceable
,
when
the
bare
thought
of
it
works
such
a
change
in
you
:
and
you
give
too
unhappy
augury
of
that
Enterprize
,
which
you
commence
with
inquietudes
.
To
what
end
do
those
Counsels
tend
,
which
leave
you
floating
in
a
thousand
perplexing
Cares
?
These
secret
Assemblings
of
men
Violent
and
Crafty
,
I
fear
much
,
will
lead
you
astray
from
the
path
of
Honesty
,
(
Suffer
me
to
handle
the
Wound
in
order
to
its
cure
,
)
they
are
not
of
so
Innocent
life
,
or
such
sincere
Piety
,
that
I
dare
promise
my self
from
them
an
honest
and
religious
Advice
.
Perhaps
they
abuse
your
Years
,
and
finding
you
generous
,
propound
Actions
in
appearance
Magnificent
,
but
indeed
rash
.
Open
your
eyes
Gio.
Luigi
,
for
one
fool
may
thrust
you
down
that
Precipice
,
from
which
the
arts
of
a
thousand
Wise
men
shall
not
recover
you
.
'T
is
easie
to
set
a
House
on
fire
,
but
with
how
much
sweat
,
and
after
how
much
dammage
is
it
extinguish'd
?
Look
to
it
,
that
they
do
not
use
you
as
the
way
to
their
end
,
or
that
your
loss
does
not
profit
those
that
deceive
you
.
Those
Counsellors
are
too
rarely
found
,
which
aim
at
what
is
right
separate
from
Interest
;
and
yet
by
this
Touchstone
you
ought
to
try
them
.
I
cannot
believe
,
that
he
who
leads
his
life
amidst
a
thousand
Debaucheries
,
will
invite
another
to
Vertue
:
for
though
what
he
saith
contradicts
what
he
does
,
yet
the
principal
part
of
perswasion
lies
in
the
Example
,
not
in
the
Tongue
;
at
least
the
Mouth
and
Hand
must
go
together
.
What
do
they
desire
of
you
?
what
Novelty
would
they
have
you
attempt
?
Your
condition
hath
no
need
of
motion
to
change
it
.
That
Fortune
,
so
propitious
to
your
House
,
may
be
easily
provok'd
.
The
least
alteration
which
can
succeed
must
be
worse
than
your
present
state
.
Envy
hath
long
sought
to
enter
amidst
your
happiness
,
and
will
soon
get
in
,
if
you
put
it
in
disorder
:
for
many
of
those
which
are
Inferiour
to
you
for
Birth
and
Place
,
go
in
quest
of
occasions
to
traduce
you
.
Youth
hath
not
a
sweeter
food
than
Hope
,
't
is
true
;
but
't
is
as
true
there
is
nothing
more
slippery
than
Prosperity
:
Look
to
it
then
,
that
by
reaching
at
what
you
hope
for
,
you
do
not
lose
what
you
have
in
your
hands
.
Those
who
are
of
your
Counsel
have
nothing
to
lose
.
Tumults
,
Seditions
and
Ruines
,
by
which
bad
Men
rise
,
make
for
them
:
he
does
not
fear
to
fall
that
is
not
plac'd
on
high
.
You
ought
to
walk
warily
,
for
you
are
oblig'd
to
furnish
Fame
with
matter
worthy
of
your
Birth
.
This
Discourse
was
heard
by
Gio.
Luigi
with
impatience
,
for
his
mind
was
elsewhere
:
He
answer'd
him
notwithstanding
confusedly
,
That
he
intended
nothing
but
what
was
Noble
and
worthy
of
his
Birth
,
which
at
convenient
time
he
should
understand
from
him
.
Whilst
the
day
appointed
for
the
Feast
,
being
the
fourth
of
January
,
was
expected
by
the
Conspiratours
,
there
happen'd
an
Accident
which
put
them
on
a
necessity
of
hastning
the
design
;
to
their
infinite
vexation
,
seeing
their
hopes
of
seizing
on
a
good
part
of
the
Nobility
at
the
Creation
of
a
new
Duke
frustrate
.
For
Andrea
taken
with
unwonted
and
excessive
pains
of
the
Gout
could
not
come
according
to
his
Promise
,
and
Giannettin
was
to
leave
Genoua
upon
some
urgent
Affair
;
so
that
considering
a
Conspiracy
hath
not
a
greater
obstacle
than
Delay
,
they
resolv'd
to
execute
it
the
night
of
the
second
of
January
.
And
now
Gio.
Luigi
gives
out
,
that
he
will
send
abroad
one
of
his
Gallies
against
the
Pirates
.
And
under
this
colour
he
brought
in
the
Souldiers
sent
him
from
Piacenza
,
and
some
of
his
own
Vassals
,
pretending
an
Election
out
of
them
.
And
to
the
end
that
the
Number
of
them
which
came
from
his
own
State
,
beyond
the
occasions
of
one
Galley
,
might
not
give
suspicion
,
he
caused
some
of
them
to
be
brought
in
fetter'd
,
as
Criminals
destin'd
to
the
Ore
:
others
enter'd
singly
at
several
Gates
,
and
Arms
were
provided
for
them
all
.
Afterwards
,
the
better
to
deceive
Giannettin
,
under
pretext
of
Confidence
he
imparts
his
design
,
praying
him
to
interpose
with
Andrea
,
that
it
might
not
be
impeded
;
seeming
to
be
fearful
,
that
because
a
Truce
was
made
between
the
Grand
Signior
and
Caesar
,
he
might
stop
the
Galley
.
The
first
of
January
,
which
preceded
the
Night
fatal
to
Genoua
,
Gio.
Luigi
call'd
home
to
him
certain
Souldiers
of
the
City
Garrison
,
whereof
some
were
his
own
Vassals
,
others
had
obtain'd
their
Places
by
his
means
;
then
he
goes
to
Andrea's
House
,
where
he
staid
late
,
shewing
signs
of
a
most
tender
love
and
respect
:
and
meeting
with
the
Children
of
Giannettin
,
which
were
playing
in
the
Hall
,
with
a
tender
and
curious
flattery
,
in
the
sight
of
their
Father
he
kisses
them
several
times
,
and
takes
them
in
his
arms
:
At
parting
he
renews
his
instance
with
Giannettin
,
to
take
care
his
Galley
,
which
that
Night
was
to
set
sail
,
was
not
hindred
by
his
Men.
And
further
,
he
advises
him
not
to
be
surpriz'd
,
if
by
chance
he
heard
Guns
shot
off
,
or
other
noise
;
for
a
business
of
this
nature
could
not
be
effected
without
some
disturbance
.
When
it
began
to
be
dark
,
he
brings
into
his
House
those
Souldiers
he
had
need
of
,
and
set
such
as
he
esteem'd
most
Faithful
and
Valiant
at
the
Gates
to
admit
all
that
came
,
but
not
to
suffer
any
go
out
.
He
dwelt
in
the
highest
part
of
the
City
,
in
a
place
as
it
were
divided
from
the
rest
,
which
was
opportune
for
his
design
.
When
the
Centinels
were
to
be
set
,
he
who
commanded
the
Garrison
miss'd
some
of
his
Souldiers
,
and
found
they
were
gone
to
Gio.
Luigi's
House
;
so
that
suspecting
some
pernicious
design
,
he
advis'd
the
Senatours
who
were
at
the
Palace
.
And
now
began
to
appear
the
fruit
of
Gio.
Luigi's
Dissimulation
and
Caution
:
for
Giannettin
possest
with
what
he
had
heard
concerning
the
Galley
,
stifled
their
growing
Fears
by
telling
them
,
That
those
Souldiers
,
or
Vassals
,
or
Servants
of
the
Earl
,
were
employ'd
by
him
about
the
Voyage
for
the
Lieutenant
.
So
short
sighted
is
Humane
understanding
,
that
then
men
build
up
their
own
Misfortunes
,
when
they
think
they
have
put
all
in
security
.
Gio.
Luigi
,
after
he
had
given
necessary
Orders
at
home
,
went
abroad
to
visit
the
Vegli's
which
the
Nobility
are
wont
to
keep
at
their
Houses
in
Winter
Evenings
.
About
four
hours
in
the
Night
he
came
to
the
House
of
Tomaso
Asereto
,
where
Verrina
had
cunningly
drawn
together
three
and
twenty
of
the
young
Nobility
of
the
Popular
Order
.
He
treats
them
with
much
kindness
,
and
invites
them
home
with
him
to
Supper
;
praising
the
stilness
of
the
Evening
,
enlightned
by
a
pure
ray
of
the
Moon
.
When
he
was
come
home
,
he
carries
them
into
a
certain
remote
Chamber
,
and
orders
Pansa
to
entertain
his
Wife
Leonora
in
another
Room
till
he
return'd
.
In
the
mean
while
Verrina
goes
up
and
down
to
the
Palace
,
to
Doria's
House
,
and
other
parts
of
the
City
,
to
see
if
there
were
any
Rumour
.
The
young
Gentlemen
were
not
a
little
astonish'd
to
see
the
House
full
of
Arms
and
Armed
men
,
and
look'd
upon
one
another
,
when
Gio.
Luigi
his
Countenance
altogether
chang'd
(
whether
with
horrour
of
the
approaching
Parricide
,
or
with
rage
against
Giannettin
,
which
hitherto
violently
smother'd
in
his
breast
,
now
began
to
attempt
a
passage
through
his
eyes
and
mouth
)
leaning
upon
a
Table
,
and
striking
upon
it
with
his
hand
,
he
thus
deliver'd
himself
:
So
it
is
gallant
Gentlemen
.
He
that
hath
but
one
drop
of
ingenuous
Blood
cannot
suffer
it
.
The
constancy
of
my
Thoughts
receives
too
great
a
violence
from
the
unworthiness
of
those
who
go
about
to
ruine
me
.
Too
sad
a
Spectacle
is
drawn
in
my
mind
by
the
fear
of
my
falling
Countrey
,
and
oppress'd
Countreymen
.
If
the
Evils
which
mortally
afflict
the
Commonwealth
could
hope
a
remedy
from
Time
,
I
would
willingly
submit
to
any
delay
that
might
be
useful
to
the
Common
good
:
but
seeing
our
Affairs
are
arriv'd
at
their
last
Precipice
;
't
is
necessary
we
go
meet
our
misery
to
sustain
it
.
Dangers
generously
encounter'd
,
lose
their
force
;
patiently
expected
,
gather
strength
.
Giannettin
Doria
fatiated
with
the
idle
Felicity
that
pursues
him
,
wearies
himself
in
following
that
Ambition
which
torments
him
;
and
now
ready
to
gather
the
fruits
of
his
bad
designs
,
threatens
you
with
loss
of
Liberty
,
and
me
of
Life
.
Not
content
to
see
the
People
of
Genoua
,
who
were
lately
absolute
Moderators
of
all
Liguria
,
now
stript
of
their
Dignity
,
and
a
scorn
to
the
Pride
of
the
Nobility
,
he
dare
subject
it
to
a
Tyrannous
Principality
,
which
he
is
erecting
for
himself
.
To
this
effect
,
not
enduring
a
Private
Fortune
,
become
in
a
Free
Countrey
more
barbarous
than
Strangers
,
he
arms
his
heart
with
such
a
contumacious
Pride
as
cannot
be
overcome
by
Modesty
,
nor
scap'd
by
Humility
.
He
keeps
,
as
you
see
,
your
Sea
besieg'd
with
twenty
Gallies
;
he
passes
up
and
down
the
City
surrounded
with
the
Nobility
,
who
by
Andrea's
favour
,
possess'd
of
those
Dignities
which
were
yours
,
render
to
Giannettin
a
Servile
respect
,
as
a
Reward
for
his
crushing
the
Common
People
:
and
that
which
more
afflicts
me
,
I
have
invincible
Proofs
,
that
by
the
assistance
of
a
Great
Prince
he
prepares
a
cruel
Yoke
for
the
Publick
Liberty
.
And
because
I
alone
being
partial
,
not
so
much
to
your
Order
as
to
Right
,
have
never
consented
with
the
rest
of
the
Nobility
to
the
oppression
of
the
People
,
my
life
is
aim'd
at
.
Why
then
do
we
lie
buried
in
Sloth
,
my
Countreymen
?
why
do
we
remain
fearful
Spectitours
of
our
own
Miseries
?
For
what
Enterprize
do
we
reserve
our
Courage
,
if
in
the
utmost
desolation
of
our
Countrey
we
unhappily
abandon
our selves
?
It
is
no
longer
time
to
complain
of
them
,
but
to
be
reveng'd
upon
them
;
let
us
leave
the
Tongue-War
to
Women
,
and
he
that
is
a
Man
let
him
use
his
hands
.
We
have
too
long
born
their
Insolence
,
who
call
our
Modesty
Cowardize
.
The
impunity
of
past
Crimes
is
pregnant
of
new
,
and
too
much
dissimulation
of
the
Oppressed
provokes
the
minds
of
Oppressours
to
greater
Injuries
.
And
what
do
we
expect
further
from
them
?
Having
lost
the
Government
,
and
all
place
of
Command
in
the
Commonwealth
,
can
you
be
content
to
see
your
Goods
snatch'd
from
you
by
Giannettins
Officers
,
your
Families
destroy'd
,
your
Lives
betray'd
,
your
Wives
and
Children
dishonour'd
,
and
all
those
Villanies
committed
,
which
may
justly
be
fear'd
in
a
Tyranny
bred
out
of
the
ruine
of
your
Countrey
,
nourish'd
with
the
Publick
hatred
,
grown
up
with
the
Injuries
of
the
Citizens
,
establish'd
by
the
death
of
Good
men
?
Are
our
minds
so
low
,
and
our
Bloods
so
Spiritless
?
Are
our
Arms
so
blunt
,
that
we
cannot
by
a
Revenging
hand
cut
of
their
infamous
Lives
,
who
honour
themselves
with
our
Disgraces
,
triumph
in
our
Misfortunes
,
and
feed
on
our
Miseries
?
Shall
we
not
tear
from
the
Breast
of
Giannettin
his
wretched
Bowels
?
Shall
we
not
rend
that
Heart
from
its
fibres
,
which
is
the
nest
of
such
enormous
Treasons
?
Shall
we
suffer
a
Citizen
with
an
Insolent
foot
to
trample
on
us
,
and
to
have
over
us
,
as
over
Slaves
born
to
serve
,
the
arbitrement
of
lise
and
death
?
I
for
my
part
esteem
a
Liberty
bought
with
great
Danger
more
glorious
,
than
a
Servitude
flatter'd
with
Idleness
:
and
as
I
count
it
my
Honour
,
that
the
Common
Enemy
designs
to
joyn
my
death
with
the
destruction
of
the
Commonwealth
,
so
I
willingly
consecrate
my
life
to
the
conservation
of
its
Liberty
;
and
I
should
be
unworthy
of
it
,
did
I
prize
it
above
my
Countrey
.
Only
I
would
discover
in
you
such
a
freeness
of
Soul
as
is
,
if
not
worthy
of
your
Vertue
,
at
least
correspondent
to
your
danger
.
Wherefore
either
Captain
or
Souldier
,
which
you
will
for
my
part
;
if
you
lead
,
I
'le
follow
;
follow
me
,
if
I
lead
.
I
consign
you
my
Mind
fearless
in
all
Accidents
,
my
Body
shall
be
always
in
your
hands
.
But
you
,
whether
Honour
be
dear
to
you
,
or
whether
you
desire
to
be
safe
,
't
is
necessary
you
be
Couragious
,
and
betake
you
to
your
Arms
:
for
such
a
Resolution
which
as
to
Valiant
men
is
glorious
,
as
to
Cowards
is
profitable
,
and
every
way
necessary
.
Nor
do
I
call
you
to
an
indigested
and
rash
design
;
for
several
Months
since
I
have
not
only
foreseen
,
but
provided
for
this
hour
,
by
assembling
sufficient
Forces
,
which
distributed
in
fitting
places
invite
you
rather
to
a
Spectacle
of
certain
Victory
,
than
to
the
danger
of
a
doubtful
Combat
.
When
you
shall
reduce
to
your
memory
the
Abuses
of
the
Nobility
,
and
the
Pride
of
Giannettin
,
I
am
confident
,
that
awakening
in
your selves
the
desire
of
an
honourable
Revenge
,
it
will
make
you
so
bold
in
the
manage
of
your
Arms
,
that
our
Enemies
to
their
loss
shall
be
forc'd
to
admire
Valour
in
those
whom
they
despis'd
;
whilst
you
on
the
contrary
shall
make
experience
,
whether
they
have
so
much
force
in
feats
of
War
,
as
softness
in
the
encounters
of
Peace
.
Along
then
my
Companions
,
this
shall
be
the
end
of
my
Speech
,
and
the
beginning
of
your
Conquest
.
Let
us
go
out
into
the
City
,
where
we
are
expected
,
to
put
a
speedy
end
to
an
Enterprize
so
well
begun
.
The
Gates
are
in
the
power
of
Souldiers
by
me
corrupted
:
the
Gallies
,
at
a
sign
given
,
will
fall
into
the
hands
of
such
as
are
bold
and
able
to
keep
them
:
In
the
City
fifteen
hundred
Artizans
ready
Arm'd
expect
us
:
In
the
Suburbs
by
this
time
are
arriv'd
two
thousand
Foot
from
Piacenza
,
and
as
many
more
of
my
own
Souldiers
.
Let
us
call
the
People
to
Liberty
:
Let
us
return
to
the
sweetness
of
the
Ancient
Government
,
and
root
out
the
Tyranny
of
Giannettin
and
the
Nobility
.
Generously
,
my
Companions
,
in
one
sole
Night
,
more
bright
than
a
thousand
Days
,
let
us
restore
to
the
obscur'd
Name
of
the
Populace
its
Ancient
splendour
,
and
cancel
all
memory
of
past
Cowardice
.
But
if
any
of
you
shall
be
so
stubborn
as
to
think
of
opposing
so
Noble
and
Pious
an
Action
,
let
him
behold
this
horrible
Scene
of
Arms
and
Armed
men
,
and
think
the
point
of
every
Sword
is
levell'd
at
his
breast
.
I
vow
,
Companions
,
't
is
necessary
to
fight
,
or
die
:
That
Blood
which
ungratefully
is
deny'd
to
the
succour
of
the
suffering
Commonwealth
,
shall
be
spilt
in
this
very
place
to
wash
off
the
stain
of
so
much
perfidiousness
;
and
he
as
the
first
Victim
to
be
consecrated
this
Night
to
the
love
of
our
Countrey
,
shall
fall
here
by
my
hand
,
if
any
dare
oppose
me
.
Those
who
were
present
startled
at
this
terrible
Speech
,
and
frighted
to
see
themselves
encompass'd
on
all
sides
with
Arm'd
men
,
were
silent
awhile
;
but
at
last
,
sway'd
more
by
the
fear
of
the
present
danger
,
than
by
the
horrour
of
the
future
wickedness
,
appear'd
willing
to
apply
themselves
to
the
will
of
Gio.
Luigi
.
In
the
mean
while
rather
a
short
Collation
than
a
Supper
is
brought
in
;
which
while
they
were
eating
Gio.
Luigi
goes
into
the
Chamber
where
his
Wife
Leonora
was
with
Pansa
,
and
discovers
to
them
in
a
few
words
what
he
was
about
to
do
.
The
Lady
wonderfully
astonish'd
at
the
wickedness
of
the
Fact
joyn'd
with
the
extream
peril
of
her
Husband
,
all
in
Tears
fell
at
his
feet
;
By
what
is
most
dear
to
you
in
the
World
(
saith
she
to
him
)
and
by
that
tender
Love
I
bear
you
,
let
me
beseech
you
Gio.
Luigi
,
to
have
a
care
of
your
own
Life
,
and
do
not
stain
the
Honour
of
your
Family
by
so
unworthy
an
Action
.
By
these
my
Tears
I
conjure
you
,
not
to
forget
your self
,
me
,
your
Countrey
,
and
God
.
To
what
Precipice
are
you
hastning
?
and
me
,
where
do
you
leave
me
?
Must
I
stay
here
with
a
trembling
heart
,
expecting
the
cruel
News
of
your
death
,
and
remain
a
disconsolate
Widow
,
pointed
at
by
all
for
having
been
the
Wife
of
a
Traytour
?
Can
you
find
in
your
heart
to
abandon
me
a
prey
to
the
Licence
of
Souldiers
,
and
of
the
Common
people
,
who
flocking
hither
to
sack
this
House
,
as
the
nest
of
a
Rebel
,
shall
satiate
their
Cruelty
,
and
perhaps
their
Lust
in
this
my
Body
?
Stay
Gio.
Luigi
—
She
could
not
proceed
,
hindred
by
her
Tears
,
and
interrupted
by
the
Earl
,
who
seeing
Pansa
prepar'd
to
second
her
,
cut
off
all
in
saying
,
Do
not
,
my
Dear
Wife
;
lend
so
bad
Omens
to
my
Enterprize
,
but
sustain
your
mind
with
better
hopes
.
I
go
whither
I
am
call'd
by
my
Fate
.
Prepare
your
mind
for
all
Events
.
My
Affairs
are
reduc'd
to
that
point
,
that
I
am
not
at
liberty
to
retire
.
A
few
hours
will
let
you
know
my
Death
,
or
your
Happiness
:
Rest
in
peace
.
And
now
comes
in
Verrina
,
and
tells
them
no
opposition
could
be
suspected
in
any
part
of
the
Town
,
and
that
the
Galley
stust
with
stout
Souldiers
was
ready
to
stop
the
mouth
of
the
Darsena
,
and
as
it
were
to
besiege
those
of
Doria
.
Now
Gio.
Luigi
,
Arming
those
he
had
assembled
,
goes
out
at
Ten
of
the
Clock
at
Night
,
sending
before
him
an
hundred
and
fifty
of
his
best
Men.
He
follows
accompany'd
with
the
Nobility
,
taking
great
care
that
none
of
them
slipt
away
.
Being
come
to
the
Town
,
he
sent
Cornelio
his
Natural
Brother
with
a
Squadron
of
Souldiers
to
possess
themselves
of
the
Gate
del
Arco
;
which
they
did
,
the
Guard
consisting
but
of
a
few
,
being
easily
oppress'd
.
Heartned
by
this
favourable
success
he
goes
on
,
and
sends
Girolamo
and
Ottabruno
his
Brothers
with
Calcagno
to
seize
on
the
Gate
of
St.
Tomaso
:
but
himself
hearing
the
sign
from
the
Galleys
,
hastens
to
the
Bridge
de
Catani
,
and
finds
his
way
made
for
him
by
Borgognini
,
who
had
by
Water
got
into
the
Darsena
.
And
now
't
was
not
difficult
for
him
to
enter
Doria's
Galley
.
The
Mariners
and
Slaves
awakened
by
the
unexpected
Violence
of
Arm'd
men
in
the
Port
,
did
wound
the
Air
with
a
confus'd
and
horrible
noise
of
Chains
and
Voices
,
crying
Liberty
.
The
Slaves
all
striving
to
break
their
odious
Fetters
.
But
Gio.
Luigi
,
whose
intentions
and
occasions
could
not
be
serv'd
by
naked
Galleys
,
to
hinder
the
dammage
which
might
result
from
their
escape
,
ran
hastily
toward
the
Captain
,
and
getting
upon
a
Plank
which
was
laid
to
pass
from
the
Poop
to
the
shore
,
the
Galley
having
some
small
motion
,
he
fell
together
with
the
Plank
into
the
Water
;
being
Arm'd
at
all
points
,
he
could
not
help
himself
by
Swimming
;
and
by
reason
of
the
noise
of
the
Tumult
,
and
the
darkness
of
the
Night
,
he
was
not
seen
nor
heard
of
any
body
,
but
miserably
perish'd
rather
in
a
puddle
of
Muddy
water
,
than
in
the
Sea
,
oppress'd
by
those
very
Arms
to
which
he
had
trusted
the
safety
of
his
life
.
Thus
the
unerring
Providence
of
God
sports
with
the
foolish
prudence
of
unhappy
Mortals
,
and
by
a
light
and
casual
motion
,
like
the
Stone
cut
out
of
the
Mountain
in
an
instant
,
destroy'd
the
proud
Machine
of
a
Conspiracy
,
which
had
been
long
building
with
a
great
deal
of
Artifice
,
and
secur'd
by
so
much
Force
:
driving
back
upon
the
heads
of
the
guilty
those
Thunderbolts
,
which
they
barbarously
darted
at
the
bosom
of
their
miserable
Countrey
,
and
so
many
innocent
Citizens
.
For
all
this
the
Galley
was
taken
and
secur'd
by
the
Conspiratours
.
Nor
was
Girolamo
and
Ottabruno
wanting
to
their
charge
;
for
hearing
the
Gun
shot
off
,
as
was
agreed
,
they
affaulted
the
Gate
St.
Tomaso
with
sixty
Souldiers
,
not
only
to
reduce
it
into
their
hands
,
but
to
pass
by
it
to
the
Palace
of
Doria
,
which
stood
a
little
without
the
City
.
Here
they
found
some
resistance
,
but
in
a
short
time
became
Masters
of
the
Gate
.
The
noise
in
the
Darsena
was
heard
to
Doria's
Palace
.
And
Giannettin
rising
from
his
Bed
,
thinking
some
quarrel
might
have
hapned
aboard
the
Galley
at
Play
,
or
by
some
other
Accident
,
rapt
by
his
Destiny
to
encounter
death
,
accompany'd
with
one
Servant
and
a
Page
,
goes
toward
the
Gate
,
which
he
believ'd
was
kept
by
the
wonted
Guard
,
and
with
his
usual
fierceness
increas'd
then
by
his
anger
,
he
calls
to
have
it
open'd
.
The
Voice
being
known
by
the
Conspiratours
they
readily
open'd
it
;
but
he
was
scarce
step'd
in
,
when
with
a
tempest
of
Blows
he
was
cruelly
murther'd
.
At
the
very
same
point
of
time
(
as
some
observ'd
)
that
Gio.
Luigi
,
the
sole
Author
of
his
death
,
perish'd
unfortunately
in
the
Water
:
The
Revenge
issuing
from
the
hand
of
God
at
the
same
instant
the
Crime
was
perpetrated
by
the
order
of
the
Earl
.
It
was
a
thing
that
did
beget
wonder
,
that
the
Murtherers
did
not
go
presently
to
Andrea's
House
,
conform
to
their
first
resolution
,
to
secure
themselves
at
the
same
time
of
his
life
,
who
might
once
more
give
life
to
the
Publick
Liberty
,
and
from
whose
wrath
they
might
justly
expect
a
signal
Revenge
,
not
only
for
his
private
Injuries
,
but
their
publick
Rebellion
.
But
they
abstain'd
perhaps
by
reason
of
the
Confusion
,
which
a
wicked
Action
is
wont
to
cause
in
the
minds
of
Bad
men
;
or
perhaps
hindred
by
Girolamo
the
Brother
of
Gio.
Luigi
,
who
having
thus
dispatch'd
Giannettin
,
a
young
Gentleman
,
fierce
and
of
resolute
Counsels
,
and
his
Companions
having
,
as
he
believ'd
,
seized
the
Galleys
and
subdued
the
City
,
did
not
much
fear
Andrea
,
a
man
of
Eighty
years
,
infirm
of
Body
and
stript
of
his
Forces
;
nor
perhaps
,
on
the
other
side
,
was
he
willing
the
Souldiers
greedy
of
Rapine
,
and
altogether
intent
upon
the
prey
,
should
dissipate
and
spoil
those
precious
Moveables
,
which
he
would
reserve
intire
for
the
needs
and
covetousness
of
his
Brother
.
In
the
mean
time
the
Rumour
increasing
more
and
more
,
and
Andrea
not
knowing
whence
it
might
arise
,
enquir'd
often
for
Giannettin
.
At
last
he
was
told
by
a
Servant
,
that
the
City
was
fallen
into
the
Power
of
Gio.
Luigi
de
Fieschi
;
that
the
Commonwealth
was
in
extream
danger
,
the
Galleys
in
the
Power
of
the
Conspiratours
,
the
People
seditiously
crying
out
Liberty
,
and
calling
upon
the
name
of
Fieschi
;
nothing
any where
to
be
seen
,
but
Slaughter
,
or
heard
,
but
threatnings
of
the
Nobility
,
and
his
own
life
.
Andrea
not
astonish'd
,
but
overcome
by
a
pity
to
his
falling
Countrey
,
resolv'd
to
remain
a
voluntary
prey
to
those
Furies
;
saying
,
It
was
not
fit
he
should
live
after
the
ruine
of
his
Countrey
,
but
readily
sacrifice
the
poor
Remains
of
his
years
to
the
last
gaspings
of
Genoua's
Liberty
.
But
his
Wife
with
vehement
Prayers
accompanied
with
Tears
,
and
with
the
loving
violence
of
his
Domesticks
hastned
his
flight
,
telling
him
,
'T
was
necessary
he
should
withdraw
;
that
he
ought
to
reserve
the
last
act
of
his
Honour'd
life
for
the
Common
Service
;
that
he
should
therefore
be
content
to
live
,
to
get
new
Glory
by
renewing
his
Service
to
the
Commonwealth
,
which
again
might
be
delivered
by
him
:
That
now
't
was
a
time
to
authenticate
his
past
Valour
by
Constancy
,
and
to
take
Counsel
of
his
own
Vertue
:
That
he
ought
to
consider
,
that
upon
the
safety
of
his
Person
did
depend
the
Hopes
of
his
Countrey
;
which
oppress'd
for
a
while
by
the
Fury
of
Bad
men
,
could
not
despair
of
rising
again
,
as
long
as
their
Deliverer
was
free
:
That
he
should
go
elsewhere
to
prepare
Remedies
for
the
Publick
wounds
,
which
he
could
not
hope
to
do
now
in
Genoua
:
And
that
it
was
not
a
flight
,
but
a
charge
his
afflicted
Countrey
laid
upon
him
for
i●s
own
Relief
:
So
much
was
said
and
done
,
that
he
at
last
was
carried
to
Massoni
,
a
Castle
fifteen
miles
from
Genoua
.
Amidst
these
many
and
fortunate
Atchievments
of
the
Conspiratours
,
Gio.
Luigi
being
missing
every
one
call'd
upon
him
;
but
through
the
obstinate
Silence
of
every
body
in
giving
Tidings
of
him
,
there
enter'd
into
their
minds
a
necessary
suspicion
of
the
fatal
Accident
.
But
for
all
this
they
did
not
abandon
the
course
of
their
Victory
;
for
leaving
a
good
Guard
at
the
Gates
and
upon
the
Galleys
,
two
hundred
of
the
stoutest
among
them
joyn'd
with
Girolamo
,
and
went
up
and
down
the
City
,
stirring
up
the
People
to
take
Arms
:
but
with
little
fruit
;
for
though
at
the
first
the
name
of
Gio.
Luigi
did
invite
a
great
number
of
the
Meanest
sort
to
follow
,
yet
those
of
any
Account
did
not
stir
.
Whether
it
were
,
that
desirous
of
the
Common
quiet
they
abhorr'd
that
disorderly
Insurrection
;
or
whether
they
did
not
like
,
that
a
Nobleman
backt
by
the
Common
people
should
promote
his
own
particular
ends
;
or
,
that
they
held
themselves
ill
treated
by
Gio.
Luigi
,
who
without
their
participation
had
put
his
hand
to
such
an
important
Enterprize
;
or
lastly
,
remembring
the
continued
and
grievous
Excesses
lately
committed
,
they
hated
that
manner
of
Plebeian
Government
,
which
casting
the
Supream
Dignities
upon
the
Vilest
of
the
People
,
the
Publick
business
was
manag'd
with
small
Decorum
;
and
the
most
difficult
matters
falling
into
the
hands
of
persons
rough
and
uncapable
,
Resolutions
were
form'd
upon
them
always
violent
and
precipitous
.
The
City
in
the
mean
time
was
all
in
disorder
;
every
one
madly
running
about
,
not
knowing
whither
:
enquiring
mutually
what
might
be
the
occasion
of
such
a
terrible
uproar
,
without
finding
any
body
to
answer
:
The
Women
at
the
Windows
with
Cries
and
Tears
calling
back
their
Husbands
,
Brothers
and
Sons
:
The
amaz'd
Nobility
would
have
run
to
the
Palace
,
but
fear'd
the
plundring
of
their
own
Houses
:
Caesars
Embassadour
would
have
left
Genoua
,
lest
he
should
in
his
own
person
expose
the
Dignity
of
his
Prince
to
some
outrage
;
but
being
perswaded
to
stay
and
assist
the
Commonwealth
so
devoted
to
Caesar
with
his
utmost
Forces
,
he
went
presently
to
the
Palace
,
where
he
found
divers
of
the
Senatours
,
and
concluded
,
with
them
to
send
fifty
Souldiers
to
secure
the
Gate
St.
Tomaso
,
which
they
valiantly
attempted
,
but
were
beaten
back
.
All
this
while
G.
Luigi
could
not
be
heard
of
;
and
Verrina
,
who
saw
the
plot
(
hitherto
well
conducted
)
was
in
danger
without
him
,
betook
himself
to
the
Galley
,
resolving
,
if
he
saw
things
miscarry
,
as
't
was
to
be
fear'd
,
to
withdraw
himself
from
the
danger
by
flying
to
Marseille
.
The
rest
of
the
Conspiratours
seeing
neither
him
nor
G.
Luigi
,
one
the
Head
,
the
other
the
Heart
of
the
Conspiracy
,
were
not
entirely
satisfied
of
Girolamo
,
who
unexperienc'd
and
foolishly
heady
,
guided
the
matter
rather
with
Impetuousness
than
by
sound
Advice
.
Nor
did
they
find
in
themselves
that
motive
to
Reverence
,
which
is
ordinarily
born
to
persons
of
great
Valour
,
and
who
for
long
time
have
been
in
possession
of
a
good
opinion
;
whence
they
began
not
only
to
cool
in
their
first
fervencies
,
but
to
look
out
for
an
opportunity
to
flie
.
Of
so
much
moment
is
that
good
conceit
which
a
Captain
acquires
amongst
his
Souldiers
.
But
an
Accident
,
which
in
reason
ought
to
have
mortified
the
rashness
of
Girolamo
,
extreamly
heightned
it
;
though
not
long
after
having
inspir'd
him
with
an
inconsiderate
Ambition
,
it
serv'd
t
ruine
him
.
The
certain
News
of
Gio.
Luigi's
death
was
spread
amongst
the
Conspiratours
,
and
Girolamo
considering
he
was
left
the
absolute
Head
of
that
Faction
,
would
be
likewise
Heir
to
the
Earls
projects
,
and
devouring
in
his
imagination
that
Principality
for
himself
,
for
which
hitherto
he
had
sought
in
the
behalf
of
Gio.
Luigi
;
with
so
much
the
more
vehemency
he
attended
to
mature
the
fruits
of
his
Victory
,
by
how
much
he
was
flatter'd
at
hand
with
unexpected
hopes
;
and
by
how
much
sharper
the
Spur
is
that
puts
us
upon
acting
for
our
own
profit
,
than
for
anothers
benefit
.
The
Senatours
and
other
Citizens
assembled
in
the
Palace
,
were
not
wanting
to
assist
in
this
extream
necessity
of
their
Countrey
:
but
not
having
Forces
,
nor
knowing
the
designs
of
Gio.
Luigi
they
could
not
betake
themselves
to
any
determinate
resolution
.
However
,
they
would
have
sent
Cardinal
Doria
,
Kinsman
of
Gio.
Luigi
,
to
speak
with
him
,
and
to
try
if
the
eminency
of
his
Dignity
,
sometimes
more
prevalent
than
ties
of
Blood
,
or
force
of
Eloquence
,
were
enough
to
withdraw
him
from
his
rash
Attempts
:
but
being
advis'd
by
divers
prudent
persons
,
not
to
cast
the
Respect
due
to
his
place
into
the
hands
(
always
indiscreet
,
but
now
tumultuous
)
of
the
P'ebeians
,
but
to
reserve
the
use
of
his
Authority
for
a
p●ivate
Conference
with
Gio.
Luigi
,
when
it
might
be
●ad
;
he
resus'd
to
go
.
So
that
they
now
made
election
of
other
Gentlemen
,
who
met
with
Girolamo
and
enquir'd
for
the
Earl
,
that
they
might
deliver
to
him
what
they
had
in
Commission
.
To
which
Girolamo
answer'd
,
they
were
to
expect
no
other
Earl
than
himself
,
but
should
presently
deliver
up
the
Palace
to
him
.
From
which
imprudent
and
unseasonable
Answer
they
collected
the
Earl
was
dead
,
and
the
Genoueses
began
to
take
heart
:
for
they
returning
to
the
Senate
with
the
News
of
Fieschi's
death
,
and
the
contumacy
of
Girolamo
,
twelve
of
the
Nobility
were
order'd
to
assemble
as
many
of
the
Common
People
and
of
the
Guard
as
they
could
,
to
drive
the
remainder
of
the
Conspiratours
out
of
the
City
,
or
to
suppress
them
in
it
.
But
there
was
no
need
of
fighting
,
for
the
Common
people
,
which
at
name
of
Liberty
were
call'd
forth
,
desirous
to
plunder
the
Houses
of
the
Nobility
,
seeing
the
vanity
of
their
hopes
,
and
repenting
the
Sedition
,
did
dissipate
themselves
by
degrees
;
and
the
Morning
approaching
none
would
be
known
for
a
Complice
in
the
Conspiracy
;
and
others
now
sainting
,
turn'd
their
thoughts
rather
upon
that
safety
which
they
might
owe
to
their
own
flight
,
than
to
the
gain
of
others
Victory
.
Girolamo
now
seeing
the
weakness
of
his
own
,
and
the
strength
of
those
Forces
which
were
pick'd
up
to
oppose
him
,
knew
not
which
way
to
turn
himself
;
but
as
the
best
,
bent
his
course
toward
the
Gate
del
Arco
.
But
in
the
Palace
every
one
took
heart
,
and
some
advis'd
that
they
should
set
upon
the
Squadron
of
Fieschi
already
put
into
disorder
,
and
not
vilifie
the
Majesty
of
the
Senate
,
by
introducing
Capitulations
of
Accord
with
Armed
Rebels
.
But
others
more
mature
,
opposing
profitable
to
specious
Arguments
,
would
not
consent
:
as
well
to
spare
the
Blood
of
Citizens
(
of
which
a
Prince
or
Captain
is
laudably
covetous
)
as
not
to
leave
room
for
some
unforeseen
event
,
which
might
overwhelm
the
Affairs
of
the
Commonwealth
,
now
as
it
were
in
harbour
.
For
by
Publick
Authority
to
put
Arms
into
the
hands
of
Citizens
now
in
motion
,
and
in
the
Night
,
whilst
many
of
them
were
ill
satisfied
of
the
present
Government
,
and
many
now
declared
Rebels
,
was
to
disturb
by
motion
the
humours
of
an
infirm
Body
,
which
had
need
of
being
settled
by
repose
.
To
Paolo
Pansa
then
the
honour
fell
,
to
heal
by
prudent
Advice
that
Evil
,
which
he
could
not
hinder
by
the
preservatives
of
his
Exhortation
.
Brought
therefore
into
the
Senate
,
and
having
briefly
given
a
satisfaction
not
necessary
concerning
his
own
Actions
,
he
was
sent
in
the
Name
of
the
Senate
to
command
Girolamo
depart
the
City
,
leaving
his
People
behind
him
,
on
which
condition
the
Senate
would
grant
a
General
Pardon
.
Girolamo
by
the
industry
of
Pansa
was
brought
to
condescend
,
and
left
Genoua
,
going
with
his
Servants
to
Montobbio
.
Verrina
,
Calcagno
and
Sacco
,
seeing
the
Affairs
of
their
Companions
totally
ruin'd
,
set
Sail
for
Marseillia
.
The
Body
of
Gio.
Luigi
not
being
sound
for
four
days
,
it
wrought
in
the
minds
of
the
Common
People
a
firm
opinion
of
his
flight
for
Marseille
:
So
that
many
thought
the
War
rather
deferr'd
than
extinct
;
which
they
believed
would
in
its
time
be
so
much
the
more
cruel
,
by
how
much
Gio.
Luigi
would
be
more
resolute
in
moving
and
conducting
it
,
after
he
had
by
so
enormous
an
action
put
off
the
Mask
of
a
Citizen
,
and
openly
implor'd
help
of
the
French
.
But
this
suspicion
did
not
last
long
;
for
the
Body
being
found
,
after
some
time
was
again
cast
into
the
Sea
,
which
put
an
end
to
the
Common
Fears
.
AN
Historical
Transition
varied
:
BY
MASCARDI
.
THe
History
this
.
At
the
same
time
that
Hannibal
wasted
Italy
with
his
Army
,
and
threatned
the
fall
of
the
Roman
Empire
;
Scipio
,
the
Pillar
of
the
declining
Commonwealth
,
by
a
memorable
Victory
ruin'd
the
Africans
in
Spain
:
and
recovering
by
his
Arms
the
lost
Province
,
open'd
his
way
to
the
Conquest
of
Africa
,
and
the
desolation
of
the
Carthaginian
Empire
.
The
Historian
,
having
recounted
the
Successes
of
Hannibal
,
is
to
pass
over
to
the
Actions
of
Scipio
.
(1)
In
the
mean
while
,
Scipio
,
who
knew
how
to
fight
Hannibal
even
in
Spain
,
left
no
way
untry'd
,
by
which
he
might
forceably
draw
him
out
of
the
bowels
of
Italy
.
So
that
,
&c.
(2)
.
The
Carthaginians
,
who
for
so
many
years
had
been
us'd
to
hear
good
News
from
their
Armies
,
were
the
more
astonish'd
at
the
tidings
which
came
from
Spain
.
For
Scipio
,
&c.
(3)
But
the
confidence
which
the
Carthaginians
drew
from
their
continual
Successes
,
lessen'd
every
day
by
reason
of
News
which
came
from
Spain
.
Seeing
that
Scipio
,
&c.
(4)
But
the
Reports
of
Scipio's
Victories
abated
the
force
,
and
drown'd
the
noise
of
Hannibals
applause
in
Carthage
.
(5)
In
the
mean
while
,
the
Advice
which
came
from
Spain
to
Carthage
did
not
only
terrifie
the
City
,
but
divided
the
minds
of
the
Senatours
:
for
,
some
of
them
,
considering
the
marvellous
progress
of
Scipio
so
near
to
the
bowels
of
their
Empire
,
&c.
(6)
All
Hannibals
Victories
could
not
give
perfect
consolation
to
the
Commonwealth
of
Carthage
,
seeing
a
powerful
Army
of
Romans
hovering
over
them
,
commanded
by
Scipio
,
a
valiant
Captain
.
Who
in
Spain
,
&c.
(7)
But
the
Commonwealth
of
Rome
,
amidst
so
many
calamities
did
not
lose
their
hopes
of
rising
:
For
the
Conquests
of
Scipio
in
Spain
weighed
down
the
losses
they
sustain'd
in
Italy
.
(8)
Never
was
there
a
time
wherein
the
power
of
Fortune
more
clearly
appear'd
in
matters
of
War
:
for
when
the
Affairs
of
Carthage
over
the
Romans
appear'd
best
establish'd
,
then
they
began
to
totter
by
the
Vertue
of
Scipio
.
Who
in
Spain
,
&c.
(9)
The
Commonwealth
,
taking
their
eyes
off
the
losses
they
had
received
by
the
sury
of
Hannibal
;
and
considering
the
Actions
and
Vertue
of
Scipio
,
assum'd
new
Courage
.
For
the
valiant
Consul
,
&c.
(
10
)
Fortune
at
length
reconcil'd
to
the
Romans
,
on
a
sudden
return'd
to
favour
their
Empire
,
which
hitherto
she
had
wounded
with
such
mortal
strokes
.
For
Scipio
,
&c.
(
11
)
In
the
mean
time
,
Scipio
,
knowing
that
the
burthen
of
the
falling
Empire
lay
upon
his
Shoulders
,
did
in
Spain
,
&c.
(
12
)
But
the
calamities
of
the
Romans
in
Italy
were
as
so
many
sharp
spurs
to
the
mind
of
Scipio
;
who
,
resolv'd
to
sustain
his
Countrey
by
his
Valour
,
did
,
&c.
(
13
)
In
the
mean-time
,
the
felicity
of
Hannibal
being
arriv'd
to
its
highest
point
,
threatned
(
according
to
the
course
of
humane
things
)
a
sudden
fall
.
For
Scipio
,
&c.
(
14
)
Amidst
so
many
and
satal
losses
of
Armies
and
Territories
in
Italy
,
the
Romans
were
succour'd
by
the
Conquests
of
Scipio
in
Spain
.
Who
,
&c.
(
15
)
Scipio
,
in
the
mean
time
,
resolv'd
to
snatch
out
of
Hannibals
hands
the
rich
prey
of
the
Roman
Empire
,
did
in
Spain
,
&c.
(
16
)
The
Roman
generosity
never
appear'd
more
manifestly
in
any
occasion
:
for
,
not
discourag'd
with
so
many
losses
sustain'd
at
home
,
they
design'd
the
destruction
of
their
Enemies
even
in
the
utmost
parts
of
Spain
.
Where
Scipio
,
&c.
(
17
)
The
fall
of
the
Roman
Empire
seem'd
inevitable
through
so
many
dreadful
and
repeated
strokes
,
if
the
Valour
of
Scipio
had
not
come
in
to
its
relief
.
Who
in
Spain
did
,
&c.
(
18
)
But
because
Worldly
accidents
have
not
perpetuity
and
constancy
in
their
nature
,
the
glory
of
the
Carthaginians
in
the
happy
progress
of
Hannibal
was
interrupted
by
the
Vertue
of
Scipio
.
Who
in
Spain
,
&c.
(
19
)
In
this
miserable
state
of
Affairs
,
the
oppressed
City
comforted
it self
with
the
News
brought
them
from
Spain
concerning
the
proceedings
of
Scipio
.
Who
,
&c.
(
20.
)
The
fierceness
of
Hannibal
could
not
have
been
restrain'd
by
a
more
potent
Bridle
than
that
of
the
notable
progress
of
Scipio
.
Who
in
Spain
,
&c.
(
21
)
In
the
mean
time
Hannibal
,
us'd
to
the
sweet
sound
of
Victory
,
had
his
ear
wounded
,
but
much
more
his
Soul
,
with
the
bitter
News
of
the
loss
of
Spain
;
where
Scipio
,
&c.
(
22
)
Hannibal
could
not
so
perfectly
rejoyce
over
his
Acquists
in
Italy
,
but
that
he
found
a
greater
occasion
of
displeasure
in
the
loss
of
Spain
.
Where
Scipio
,
&c.
(
23
)
But
Spain
,
which
had
been
to
Hannibal
and
all
his
Family
a
large
Theatre
of
Fame
,
became
now
to
them
a
necessary
occasion
of
grief
and
infamy
.
For
Scipio
,
&c.
(
24
)
But
it
was
fatal
to
Hannibal
,
that
the
same
Provinces
,
which
serv'd
him
as
a
Ladder
to
climb
up
to
the
possession
of
the
Roman
Empire
,
were
the
occasions
of
his
precipice
by
withdrawing
him
from
Italy
.
Seeing
that
Scipio
,
&c.
(
25
)
In
the
mean
time
,
Spain
,
which
was
to
Hannibal
the
beginning
of
his
Reputation
,
being
possess'd
now
by
Scipio
,
was
consider'd
by
him
as
the
beginning
of
his
ruine
.
(
26
)
But
Hannibal
could
not
now
hope
his
felicity
should
be
lasting
,
whilst
Scipio
with
a
fortunate
current
of
Affairs
victoriously
over-ran
Spain
.
(
27
)
Amidst
these
fortunate
events
of
Hannibal
in
Italy
,
Scipio
couragiously
reveng'd
the
publick
Injuries
,
as
well
as
his
own
private
Losses
in
Spain
.
(
28
)
But
if
Italy
wept
under
the
yoke
of
the
African
Arms
;
Spain
in
the
mean
time
had
no
cause
to
rejoyce
,
being
conquer'd
by
the
Valour
of
Scipio
.
Who
,
&c.
(
29
)
In
the
mean
while
Scipio
,
who
design'd
to
vanquish
Hannibal
in
Africa
,
proceeded
in
his
Conquest
of
Spain
,
thereby
to
smooth
his
way
to
an
intire
Victory
.
(
30
)
The
People
of
Rome
now
understood
effectually
the
worth
of
a
generous
and
prudent
Commander
.
For
Scipio
by
his
Valour
in
Spain
serv'd
to
beat
down
the
Pride
,
and
afterwards
the
Reputation
of
Hannibal
,
gain'd
by
the
slaughter
of
so
many
Consuls
,
and
defeat
of
so
many
Armies
.
(
31
)
Experience
now
taught
the
Romans
,
that
in
accidents
of
War
there
is
no
condition
so
desperate
,
which
the
Vertue
of
a
good
Captain
cannot
mend
.
For
in
the
extream
peril
of
the
Common-wealth
,
Scipio
carrying
his
Victories
through
Spain
,
was
the
occasion
of
,
&c.
(
32
)
But
in
fine
,
so
long
as
the
War
lasts
,
the
Conquerour
cannot
be
so
secure
,
as
not
to
fear
a
Revolution
,
which
of●
comes
from
whence
we
least
dream
of
it
,
as
it
hapned
to
Hannibal
,
who
securely
reposing
upon
his
Conquests
in
Italy
,
saw
his
Fortune
equall'd
and
overcome
by
the
Valour
of
Scipio
.
Who
in
Spain
,
&c.
(
33
)
At
this
time
Hannibal
thought
he
had
secur'd
his
Affairs
,
keeping
a
victorious
Army
in
the
very
heart
of
Italy
;
and
did
not
foresee
,
that
in
Spain
(
as
in
the
parts
most
remote
from
the
vital
)
the
body
of
the
Commonwealth
should
receive
vigour
and
breath
from
the
Valour
of
Scipio
to
contend
with
him
.
For
that
Valiant
,
&c.
(
34
)
But
Hannibal
,
bewitch'd
with
his
own
good
Fortune
,
foolishly
measur'd
things
by
his
late
Prosperities
;
and
could
not
foresee
by
prudence
those
Miseries
,
to
which
he
was
destin'd
by
the
Valour
of
Scipio
Warring
in
Spain
,
&c.
TO
CLEOPATRA
,
Perswading
her
to
kill
her self
.
Out
of
Italian
.
IF
your
Misfortunes
were
more
supportable
,
or
your
heart
less
generous
,
I
would
not
prompt
you
to
those
Remedies
which
,
being
extream
,
are
due
only
to
extream
Evils
.
Nor
would
I
counsel
you
to
forego
your
life
,
if
you
had
not
lost
all
that
which
made
it
dear
to
you
,
and
were
now
to
encounter
all
that
which
will
render
it
hateful
.
Things
are
come
to
that
pass
,
a
little
delay
will
deprive
you
,
as
of
the
liberty
of
living
,
so
of
the
liberty
of
dying
.
Nay
,
your
evil
Destiny
hath
not
left
you
free
to
thought
:
't
is
not
for
Cleopatra
to
consult
whether
she
ought
to
die
,
when
't
is
resolv'd
she
must
no
longer
Reign
.
They
who
can
outlive
Empire
,
never
deserv'd
it
.
And
what
motives
are
wanting
to
determine
you
?
You
have
hitherto
own'd
a
Fortune
more
fruitful
than
your
Nile
;
your
Genius
invok'd
more
than
the
gods
of
Egypt
;
your
height
of
happiness
more
astonishing
than
that
of
your
Pyramides
;
and
for
you
Africa
hath
been
monstrous
only
in
Pleasures
.
If
you
have
fought
,
you
have
been
victorious
:
when
you
have
fled
you
have
been
follow'd
;
as
if
your
flight
were
more
worthy
to
be
attended
than
others
Triumphs
.
You
have
reign'd
,
and
Caesars
have
got
Trophies
only
for
you
,
whilst
your
Antony
hath
thrown
into
your
bosom
the
hopes
of
the
Universe
.
What
can
you
wish
,
but
to
have
died
then
?
What
can
you
fear
,
but
to
lose
the
opportunity
of
dying
now
?
Perhaps
you
would
have
expir'd
Commanding
,
and
so
abandon'd
Fortune
,
rather
than
now
leave
the
World
when
Fortune
hath
left
you
:
some
have
chosen
to
put
a
period
to
their
life
,
rather
than
see
the
end
of
their
happiness
.
But
what
we
do
that
we
may
not
become
miserable
,
we
ought
to
do
that
we
may
cease
to
be
so
.
The
best
of
Fortune
is
not
to
tast
of
miseries
,
next
to
that
is
to
know
how
to
end
them
.
If
you
be
not
follow'd
to
your
Sepulchre
with
the
pompous
train
of
your
Subjects
,
at
least
you
shall
not
make
one
of
that
ignominious
troop
,
which
must
sacrifice
to
the
pride
of
your
Enemies
.
Though
you
do
not
triumph
in
death
by
a
Royal
Funeral
,
at
least
your self
shall
not
make
up
a
part
of
the
Roman
Triumph
;
and
though
you
do
not
die
Queen
in
Egypt
,
you
shall
not
live
a
slave
in
Italy
.
And
though
you
could
dismiss
that
fear
,
and
entertain
a
hope
from
the
generousness
of
your
Conquerour
to
be
re-instated
in
your
Throne
,
would
you
accept
from
his
hand
that
which
before
you
ow'd
only
to
the
bounty
of
Heaven
,
and
so
become
twice
a
slave
,
to
your
Enemies
force
,
and
to
his
courtesie
?
Would
you
re-ascend
,
to
fall
again
from
that
height
whence
you
have
already
faln
?
What
can
you
enjoy
,
which
you
have
not
enjoy'd
?
Can
the
wit
of
Fortune
or
Nature
present
you
any
new
happiness
?
Would
it
not
pose
your
most
exquisite
desires
to
fancy
more
?
Hath
not
the
Sea
produc'd
new
Treasures
,
not
only
for
your
ornament
,
but
for
your
luxury
?
Is
not
Nature
weary
in
distilling
strange
pleasures
for
you
?
What
kind
of
honour
is
there
,
that
hath
not
paid
Tribute
to
your
Scepter
?
and
are
you
not
cloy'd
?
How
many
have
kill'd
themselves
,
being
wearied
in
a
tedious
repetition
of
the
same
happiness
?
He
hath
liv'd
enough
,
that
hath
perfectly
enjoy'd
.
What
should
we
do
,
when
we
can
meet
nothing
new
but
Mischiefs
?
You
live
not
now
to
live
,
but
because
you
have
not
courage
to
die
.
And
suppose
a
return
of
your
first
good
Fortune
,
shall
your
Antony
return
again
?
But
I
flatter
you
,
O
Queen
.
Nor
Antony
,
nor
Kingdom
,
or
ought
of
your
first
estate
remains
for
you
:
only
rests
those
miseries
,
which
are
not
to
be
allay'd
with
thoughts
of
not
deserving
them
;
for
who
would
not
accompany
,
or
will
not
follow
Antony
,
merits
worse
.
Perhaps
you
relie
on
the
kind
offers
of
Augustus
:
But
reflect
upon
the
vast
Treasures
you
have
hid
,
and
consider
,
that
those
feed
with
hopes
who
desire
possession
.
Perhaps
his
courteous
Visit
in
your
sickness
comforts
you
,
but
the
veyl
with
which
he
would
have
shadow'd
his
Pride
was
too
transparent
:
he
was
content
you
should
fall
at
his
feet
with
the
tremblings
of
a
sick
,
as
well
as
of
an
unfortunate
person
:
he
suffer'd
you
to
imbrace
his
knees
with
those
hands
,
whose
beck
once
commanded
the
same
petitionary
posture
in
a
Kingdom
.
He
was
slow
to
raise
you
up
,
and
under
a
feign'd
sweetness
cloaking
an
imperious
gravity
,
with
scant
speech
he
bid
you
to
hope
well
.
But
he
that
would
have
you
hope
for
what
is
in
his
power
to
give
,
would
obtain
somewhat
himself
;
but
means
not
,
you
should
ever
obtain
what
he
bid
you
hope
for
.
Consider
what
cunning
that
man
is
master
of
,
that
could
resist
your
powerful
charms
:
and
since
you
could
not
draw
him
into
the
snares
of
your
beauty
,
take
heed
you
fall
not
into
those
of
his
ambition
.
Consider
,
that
life
cannot
be
good
for
you
;
since
your
Enemy
desires
it
:
and
he
bids
you
live
,
that
gives
you
nothing
but
hope
,
and
could
give
you
what
he
would
.
You
are
too
fair
a
Spoil
for
a
Triumph
.
Nor
can
Augustus
better
repair
his
loss
(
seeing
Antony
hath
scap'd
his
hands
by
death
)
than
by
leading
you
in
triumph
,
who
have
triumphed
over
Antony
.
Prepare
then
to
grace
the
Tiber
with
a
new
spectacle
:
To
shew
your self
,
not
as
once
your
Antony
design'd
to
present
you
,
but
in
Servile
habit
,
a
slave
amidst
a
throng
of
Slaves
;
your
Hair
dishevel'd
,
perhaps
shav'd
;
Bare-foot
,
going
before
or
following
the
Chariot
of
your
proud
Lord
;
pointed
at
by
Children
,
mock'd
by
the
Licentious
Souldier
,
thus
scost
at
by
the
Roman
Matrons
,
There
goes
the
great
Queen
,
not
of
Egypt
,
but
of
Whores
;
There
's
the
mighty
Amazon
,
who
overthrew
Emperours
—
upon
a
Feather-bed
;
See
,
how
with
down
cast
eye
she
is
come
to
teach
our
Virgins
modesty
.
And
is
all
this
supportable
?
Have
you
the
heart
to
expose
your self
to
the
outrages
of
the
wrong'd
Octavia
?
No
breast
more
true
to
hatred
than
a
Womans
,
no
Woman
more
cruel
than
a
Rival
.
How
often
hath
she
preserr'd
her
Vows
to
Heaven
,
that
she
might
with
her
own
hands
tear
out
those
eyes
of
yours
,
whose
wounding
influence
murther'd
affection
in
the
heart
of
her
Husband
?
How
often
hath
she
covenanted
with
the
gods
at
the
price
of
her
own
life
,
to
rip
up
that
bosom
which
hath
so
long
usurp'd
possession
of
her
Antony
?
And
will
she
not
now
use
her
good
Fortune
?
will
not
her
fond
Brother
Augustus
bestow
you
upon
her
,
that
she
might
share
in
his
Victory
?
Unhappy
Queen
!
methinks
I
see
those
base
Services
she
designs
you
.
Those
taunts
with
which
she
will
wound
your
Soul
:
upbraiding
you
with
dissolv'd
Pearl
,
when
she
appoints
you
a
draught
of
Wormwood
:
commanding
you
to
put
her
into
that
dress
which
catch'd
the
heart
of
Antony
.
In
fine
,
I
see
,
and
with
horrour
consider
the
Scorns
,
the
Abuses
,
with
which
a
great
,
a
provok'd
Lady
and
a
Mistress
will
take
revenge
of
past
wrongs
.
Call
to
mind
then
,
what
becomes
you
as
a
Queen
.
Behold
the
magnanimous
Dido
opening
her
bosom
with
a
generous
blow
.
She
might
by
living
have
reveng'd
her self
on
him
that
betray'd
her
;
you
in
not
dying
,
betray
him
that
lov'd
you
.
She
remain'd
a
Queen
,
you
have
lost
your
Crown
.
Or
if
you
would
take
a
lesson
of
freedom
out
of
that
Rome
,
whither
you
are
a
destin'd
Slave
;
consider
Lucrece
,
and
see
if
the
loss
of
a
Kingdom
requires
as
much
as
the
loss
of
an
opinion
.
If
that
publick
shame
which
attends
you
weighs
with
her
secret
disgrace
.
But
why
do
I
muster
Examples
,
when
you
have
before
you
that
of
your
dead
Antony
?
If
his
memory
be
not
enough
to
steel
you
with
resolution
,
what
Argument
is
sufficient
?
If
this
be
not
enough
,
unhappy
Antony
!
thou
art
deceiv'd
.
Thou
didst
never
believe
,
that
the
Lady
thou
esteem'dst
worthy
to
receive
Kingdoms
in
gift
from
thee
;
whom
to
follow
when
she
fled
,
thou
thought'st
no
less
glory
than
to
pursue
a
flying
Enemy
;
in
whose
bosom
to
recover
thy self
,
seem'd
a
sufficient
recompence
for
the
loss
of
half
the
World
;
thou
never
thought'st
,
I
say
,
that
she
had
a
heart
capable
of
Servitude
.
Thou
hast
not
scap'd
by
death
,
but
art
still
subjected
to
thy
proud
Rival
,
who
triumphs
over
thee
in
Cleopatra
.
See
,
a
noble
testimony
of
a
grateful
heart
!
Cleopatra
considers
not
which
is
best
,
to
live
or
to
die
;
but
whether
in
Chains
by
the
violences
of
the
inrag'd
Octavia
,
or
whether
she
should
now
snatch
an
Antidote
from
Death
against
the
malice
of
her
Fortune
,
and
unite
her self
for
ever
to
thy
blessed
Shade
.
Call
to
mind
your
Antony
,
when
stain'd
with
the
blood
of
those
Veins
his
own
bold
hand
had
open'd
;
when
he
threw
himself
into
your
imbraces
,
and
seem'd
to
live
no
other
life
than
what
you
breath'd
into
him
by
your
last
kisses
;
when
with
an
undaunted
courage
he
fronted
his
Fate
,
and
taught
you
those
steps
which
the
unfortunately
Magnanimous
ought
to
tread
.
You
then
fill'd
his
breast
with
mighty
hopes
,
imprecated
the
worst
of
Roman
Slavery
,
if
you
did
not
follow
him
,
whilst
he
imbrac'd
you
as
if
he
had
hugg'd
Victory
in
his
arms
,
and
with
an
inviting
smile
bid
you
hasten
alter
him
,
and
expir'd
.
And
will
you
deceive
the
honour'd
Ashes
of
that
mighty
Hero
,
which
from
their
Urne
seem
thus
to
summon
you
?
There
advances
but
a
few
minutes
,
O
Cleopatra
;
you
may
die
when
you
will
,
but
you
cannot
die
free
when
you
will
.
If
you
kill
your self
now
,
you
do
it
to
bestow
your self
on
me
;
if
afterwards
,
't
is
to
steal
your self
from
others
.
Give
that
life
up
to
your
Love
,
which
shortly
will
be
usurp'd
by
your
impatience
.
But
if
thou
wilt
live
,
withal
remember
when
thou
shalt
be
in
Rome
,
that
the
Body
of
thy
Antony
is
in
Egypt
.
Now
what
remains
,
but
that
I
conjure
you
by
these
private
walks
,
the
Secretaries
of
both
your
Fortunes
,
where
you
have
liv'd
free
,
and
may
die
free
;
by
your
Houshould
gods
,
and
more
by
the
genius
of
Antony
,
your
Sovereign
Jove
,
(
which
without
doubt
hovers
in
the
Air
about
us
)
that
you
will
not
by
your
weakness
make
Egypt
blush
,
where
you
have
been
Queen
,
and
may
by
your
Courage
be
number'd
amongst
her
Deities
?
FINIS
.
The
Sublime
Character
;
Out
of
Tasso
,
Lib.
4.
THe
dreary
Trumpet
blew
a
dreadful
blast
,
And
rumbled
through
the
Lands
and
Kingdoms
under
;
Through
Wastness
wide
it
roar'd
,
and
hollows
vast
,
And
fill'd
the
Deep
with
horrour
,
fear
and
wonder
.
Not
half
so
dreadful
noise
the
Tempests
cast
,
That
fall
from
Skies
with
storms
of
Hail
and
Thunder
:
Nor
half
so
loud
the
whistling
Winds
do
sing
,
Broke
from
the
Earthen
prisons
of
their
King
.
The
Temperate
.
Lib.
14.
SO
in
the
Twilight
doth
sometimes
appear
A
Nymph
,
a
Goddess
,
or
a
Fairy
Queen
:
And
though
no
Syrene
,
but
a
Sprite
this
were
;
Yet
by
her
Beauty
see'md
it
,
she
had
been
One
of
those
Sisters
false
,
which
haunted
near
The
Tyrrhene
shores
,
and
kept
those
Waters
sheen
.
Like
theirs
,
her
Face
,
her
Voice
was
,
and
her
sound
:
And
thus
she
sung
,
and
pleas'd
both
Skies
and
Ground
;
Ye
Happy
Youths
,
whom
April
fresh
,
and
May
,
Attire
in
flow'ring
green
of
Lusty
age
,
For
glory
Vain
,
and
Vertues
idle
ray
,
Do
not
your
tender
Limbs
to
toyl
ingage
.
The
Humble
.
Lib.
7.
MY
Son
,
quoth
he
,
this
poor
estate
of
ours
Is
ever
safe
from
storm
of
Warlike
broyl
:
This
Wilderness
doth
us
in
safety
keep
,
No
thundring
Drum
,
no
Trumpet
breaks
our
sleep
.
Haply
just
Heavens
defence
and
Shield
of
Right
Doth
love
the
innocence
of
simple
Swains
.
The
Thunderbolts
on
highest
Mountains
light
;
Seldom
or
never
strike
the
lower
Plains
:
So
Kings
have
cause
to
fear
Bellona's
might
;
Not
they
whose
sweat
and
toyl
their
dinner
gains
;
Nor
ever
greedy
Souldier
was
intic'd
By
Poverty
neglected
and
despis'd
.
Errata
.
Page
2.
line
27.
read
Pericles
,
p.
3.
l.
34.
attack
,
p.
12.
l.
20.
Chamaleon
,
p.
17.
l
:
1.
that
,
p.
19.
l.
2.
toss
,
p.
23.
l.
6.
Titian
,
p.
29.
l.
7.
Chapebain
,
p.
58.
l.
14.
Abydos
.
p.
101.
l.
29.
Stralsound
,
p.
130.
l.
9.
Writers
,
who
.