THE
UNFORTUNATE
HEROES
:
OR
,
THE
ILLUSTRIOUS
EXILES
OF
The
Court
of
AUGUSTUS
.
The
First
Part.
THE
famous
Ovid
,
whose
matchless
Charms
had
render'd
the
Grand
Master
of
the
Universe
jealous
,
as
well
of
his
Honor
,
as
in
his
Amours
,
was
sent
into
the
Isle
of
Thalassia
,
to
expiate
a
Crime
,
they
had
only
made
him
guilty
of
.
He
much
affected
the
Court
,
and
its
delights
:
And
a
Banishment
was
more
cruel
and
insupportable
to
a
person
of
his
temper
,
than
it
would
have
been
to
any
other
of
a
more
reserv'd
converse
.
He
vented
his
resentments
in
the
deepest
complaints
,
and
most
extravagant
ravings
,
his
Soul
was
capable
to
express
;
and
with
a
motion
,
whereby
he
would
seem
to
measure
the
length
of
his
misfortunes
,
hastily
plung'd
himself
into
a
thick
Wood
,
which
border'd
upon
the
Coast
,
that
respects
Macedonia
:
when
passing
by
a
place
,
which
Nature
had
seem'd
to
have
taken
pleasure
to
make
the
seat
of
a
vernant
Palace
,
he
cast
a
careless
glance
upon
a
Cloth
,
disorderly
spread
on
a
fragrant
Bed
of
Camomile
,
which
look't
as
if
with
a
negligent
curiosity
it
had
been
embroider'd
over
with
scatter'd
flowers
,
fruits
,
empty
dishes
,
and
many
other
ruines
of
a
noble
Treat
.
He
cast
a
quick
eye
round
about
him
,
to
see
if
amongst
the
Trees
he
could
retrieve
some
person
,
or
other
,
that
might
give
him
an
account
of
so
unexpected
an
Adventure
.
At
length
he
discover'd
two
Women
of
excellent
feature
;
who
rushing
suddenly
into
the
darkest
coverts
of
those
Woods
,
made
themselves
a
Skreen
,
to
rob
their
Beauties
as
well
from
the
eyes
of
Tytan
,
as
his
,
of
some
Thickets
,
which
Nature
seem'd
with
the
interwoven
branches
of
sweet
blossoming
Thorns
and
wild
Roses
to
have
form'd
for
a
withdrawing
Room
to
the
other
,
from
whence
the
unseen
Guests
,
had
a
little
before
departed
.
He
made
a
sign
to
his
Esquire
,
and
two
Slaves
(
who
compos'd
the
whole
Retinue
of
his
Exile
)
not
to
follow
him
;
and
eagerly
pursuing
the
fair
Fugitives
,
he
prepar'd
himself
to
speak
something
of
gallantry
to
them
upon
the
first
encounter
,
Fortune
had
so
kindly
offer'd
him
;
when
he
thought
his
own
name
resounded
in
his
ear
:
He
made
a
halt
;
and
lending
a
more
diligent
attention
,
he
heard
one
of
them
,
say
to
the
other
,
How
is
it
possible
that
a
Passion
so
violent
,
should
be
so
deeply
engrafted
in
a
heart
,
for
a
Person
,
whom
one
never
saw
?
I
understand
well
enough
,
that
the
sight
of
an
object
,
which
gives
a
kind
of
pleasing
titillation
to
the
senses
,
passes
from
thence
into
the
cabinet
of
our
hearts
;
and
there
creates
that
agreeable
distemper
,
which
the
concurrence
,
or
sympathy
of
humor
,
converts
into
Love
;
But
upon
the
bare
character
,
one
receives
either
of
the
gayety
of
,
wit
,
or
converse
of
an
unknown
,
that
one
should
nourish
such
desires
,
caress
such
an
unquiet
Guest
within
their
breasts
;
in
a
word
,
Love
with
such
violence
,
as
you
love
Ovid
,
is
that
,
which
never
yet
signaliz'd
any
of
your
Sex
,
but
your self
;
and
what
Posterity
will
chronicle
amongst
her
fabulous
miracles
,
if
she
shall
have
the
honor
to
write
your
History
.
I
do
not
fear
that
treachery
on
your
part
,
reply'd
the
Lady
,
to
whom
this
discourse
was
addrest
,
though
you
are
the
onely
person
capable
to
effect
it
;
since
you
are
the
onely
person
in
the
world
,
to
whom
I
have
unbosom'd
the
secrets
of
my
heart
.
But
,
my
dear
one
,
if
this
misfortune
should
arrive
me
,
I
hope
,
the
same
Posterity
,
that
shall
be
acquainted
with
my
name
,
will
not
likewise
be
ignorant
of
that
of
Ovid
;
and
in
exposing
to
the
view
of
the
world
my
weakness
for
that
great
Personage
,
it
will
likewise
,
at
the
same
time
,
convince
it
of
my
innocence
.
It
is
not
the
beauty
of
his
Person
that
charms
me
;
but
those
more
powerful
charms
of
his
wit
,
which
never
yet
any
female
ones
could
boast
they
were
proof
against
.
When
I
read
those
passionate
expressions
in
his
Elegies
,
wherein
he
so
naturally
delineates
to
our
fancies
the
various
characters
of
Love
,
with
the
divine
Pencil
of
his
admirable
Muse
,
I
am
surpriz'd
with
a
sudden
emotion
of
delight
,
that
inflames
me
with
a
most
impatient
desire
of
seeing
that
more
admirable
Person
,
to
whom
I
owe
it
.
I
cannot
forbear
,
methinks
,
to
interest
my self
in
all
his
Concerns
,
in
gratitude
to
those
agreeable
Transpotts
,
his
Verses
inspire
into
my
Soul
:
And
as
often
as
I
make
a
reflection
upon
that
felicity
,
which
might
have
blest
these
eyes
with
so
noble
an
object
,
as
Ovid
,
in
the
Court
of
Caesar
,
in
Rome
,
had
Fortune
treated
me
with
less
rigor
,
I
heap
as
many
imprecations
upon
her
for
this
one
circumstance
of
my
misfortune
,
as
for
that
obscurity
,
wherein
she
forces
me
to
linger
out
the
inglorious
remnant
of
a
vagabond
life
.
This
is
call
d
,
my
sweet
one
,
reply'd
the
other
,
interrupting
her
,
a
Love
not
of
Ovid
,
but
of
his
Verses
,
since
you
have
yet
seen
no
other
part
of
him
;
but
should
Fortune
,
to
regain
your
good
opinion
,
present
you
together
with
the
magick
of
his
enchanting
Muse
,
a
sight
of
his
Person
,
you
would
then
become
more
enamor'd
of
the
Author
,
than
you
are
now
of
his
Works
.
Ovid's
attention
was
so
fixt
to
the
discourse
of
those
Women
,
that
he
was
not
sensible
of
the
noise
,
which
two
men
made
in
passing
by
him
;
who
had
the
leisure
to
entertain
him
,
as
well
in
their
embraces
,
as
their
knowledge
,
before
he
came
to
his
own
.
Their
caresses
reduc'd
him
out
of
his
extasie
,
and
presented
to
his
admiration
Cornelius
Lentulus
,
whose
renowned
Victories
over
the
Scythians
,
and
Dacians
,
had
purchas'd
him
the
fame
of
one
of
the
greatest
Captains
in
the
world
;
and
Hortensius
Hortalus
,
the
onely
surviving
branch
of
the
illustrious
Race
of
the
Hortensius's
.
But
Ovid's
surprize
was
not
so
great
,
at
the
encounter
of
him
,
(
whom
he
knew
Caesar
had
some
three
,
or
four
years
before
banish't
into
Thalassia
,
for
having
refus'd
to
receive
an
eminent
Command
,
and
a
fair
Wife
from
his
hands
,
)
as
of
Lentulus
;
who
,
he
thought
had
been
at
the
head
of
those
Troops
,
which
the
Emperor
had
sent
forth
to
chastise
the
late
Revolt
of
the
Getes
.
Have
the
Rebels
,
said
he
to
Lentulus
,
tamely
submitted
their
obedience
to
your
all-conquering
fame
?
And
your
redoubted
Name
,
and
the
memory
of
those
splendid
Actions
,
you
perform'd
once
before
in
the
reduction
of
those
Barbarians
,
disarm'd
them
of
their
natural
fierceness
and
courage
?
Or
has
Caesar
so
unworthily
forgotten
himself
,
as
to
recompence
the
glorious
services
of
Lentulus
,
with
an
unnatural
Banishment
?
The
Getes
,
reply'd
Lentulus
,
continue
obstinate
,
and
with
a
stiff
neck
refuse
to
receive
again
the
yoke
of
their
duty
;
And
if
Caesar
has
unworthily
recompenc'd
the
zeal
,
I
have
ever
had
for
his
interests
and
glory
,
it
is
not
now
by
confining
me
to
this
barbarous
Climate
;
but
a
motive
,
no
less
powerful
,
than
that
of
his
Commands
,
has
call
d
me
hither
;
from
whence
it
must
be
a
greater
,
than
the
obedience
I
owe
them
,
that
can
recall
me
.
This
is
a
mystery
,
I
shall
declare
to
you
at
more
leisure
:
In
the
mean
time
let
us
understand
what
rigorous
Fate
has
hurry'd
you
hither
,
to
breathe
this
inhumane
air
:
for
if
you
believe
that
Caesar
has
forgotten
both
himself
and
his
honor
,
in
confining
me
to
it
,
I
must
judge
,
that
he
is
guilty
of
a
greater
injustice
,
in
treating
the
renowned
Ovid
with
so
much
cruelty
.
The
arrival
of
the
two
Ladies
,
who
came
forth
of
their
flowry
Cabinet
,
prevented
Ovid
from
returning
an
answer
:
They
heard
some
persons
discoursing
not
far
from
them
,
and
they
came
to
inform
themselves
,
who
they
were
.
Ovid
ask't
Hortensius
the
names
,
and
quality
of
those
Ladies
;
who
told
him
,
that
one
of
them
was
named
Junia
,
daughter
to
the
Triumvir
Lepidus
;
and
the
other
,
said
Lentulus
interrupting
him
,
calls
herself
Roselina
,
and
makes
a
most
inviolable
secret
both
of
her
Birth
and
her
Fortune
:
She
speaks
two
or
three
Languages
with
that
natural
grace
and
eloquence
,
that
no
Man
can
judge
,
which
of
them
is
her
native
Tongue
.
But
by
the
sweetness
of
her
temper
,
and
the
gentile
air
of
her
deportment
,
I
judge
her
to
be
of
Roman
extraction
.
Whether
it
were
the
beauty
of
this
fair
Stranger
,
that
on
the
first
prospect
made
a
deeper
impression
in
the
soft
breast
of
the
amorous
Ovid
,
than
that
of
Junia
,
(
over
which
notwithstanding
the
other
could
challenge
no
superiority
)
or
that
he
thought
,
he
discover'd
,
in
the
eyes
of
Roselina
,
something
which
seem'd
more
ally'd
to
the
blind
passion
,
he
understood
one
of
them
had
for
him
,
than
in
the
severe
and
majestick
garb
of
the
daughter
of
Lepidus
,
he
sent
a
thousand
silent
wishes
to
Heaven
,
that
Roselina
might
be
that
secret
Amoreuse
,
he
heard
them
discourse
of
.
He
could
not
rectifie
himself
in
his
hopes
by
the
knowledge
of
their
voices
;
he
had
been
so
short
a
time
their
Auditor
,
that
he
could
not
distinguish
them
;
and
as
they
treated
of
private
affairs
,
they
spoke
not
so
loud
,
as
to
tune
them
in
their
natural
key
.
The
different
proceedings
of
these
two
Ladies
confirm'd
his
suspition
.
Junia
remain'd
not
long
in
the
company
of
Ovid
,
after
they
had
acquainted
him
with
their
names
;
But
Roselina
on
the
other
side
,
seem'd
fixt
,
as
it
were
,
by
a
secret
charm
,
to
the
conversation
of
those
three
Romans
:
each
action
of
hers
was
passionate
,
and
her
eyes
exprest
a
trouble
and
confusion
,
which
Ovid
had
in
his
Works
presented
the
World
too
lively
a
draught
of
,
to
be
ignorant
of
the
character
.
He
had
scarce
time
to
make
his
full
Remark
on
this
Subject
;
for
Junia
having
proclaim'd
the
arrival
of
this
illustrious
Man
to
all
she
met
,
oblig'd
him
to
turn
from
Roselina
,
to
repay
the
Civilities
and
generous
Caresses
of
all
the
eminent
Persons
,
who
at
that
time
did
with
their
Residence
illustrate
the
Isle
of
Thalassia
.
Their
number
was
considerable
,
and
that
day
Lentulus's
invitation
of
them
to
a
Collation
,
had
assembled
them
.
The
two
Friends
of
Ovid
inform'd
him
of
the
quality
,
and
name
of
each
person
,
which
compos'd
that
noble
Convention
.
He
saluted
Tisienus
Galius
,
but
not
without
a
blush
.
Hortensius
presented
to
him
a
fair
Cozen
of
his
,
nam'd
Adiamante
,
who
was
Companion
to
Roselina
.
There
were
likewise
two
or
three
Inhabitants
of
Lesbos
,
who
came
every
year
about
that
season
to
furnish
the
Thalassian
Exiles
with
what
Commodities
,
they
wanted
.
Many
were
curious
to
be
inform'd
from
Ovid's
mouth
,
of
the
cause
of
his
visiting
that
Island
;
but
he
reserv'd
that
secret
for
his
particular
Friends
;
and
only
declar'd
to
others
,
that
it
was
in
obedience
to
the
Emperors
Commands
.
He
added
moreover
,
that
his
Conscience
could
lay
no
crime
to
his
charge
,
but
that
he
could
not
pronounce
himself
wholly
innocent
neither
,
since
Caesar
had
been
pleas'd
to
pronounce
him
guilty
.
This
modesty
of
his
prov'd
no
example
to
be
imitated
,
by
those
that
were
witnesses
to
it
;
for
they
fixt
the
Title
of
Cruelty
and
Injustice
upon
the
Emperor's
Commands
;
and
following
the
Maxim
of
most
of
your
Exiles
,
who
do
not
perceive
,
that
in
darting
such
murmurs
and
reproaches
at
their
rebounding
miseries
,
they
only
administer
fuel
to
those
flames
,
they
endeavor
to
extinguish
.
Our
Malecontents
indulg'd
that
liberty
to
their
tongues
,
which
the
rest
of
their
bodies
could
not
command
.
Hortensius
engag'd
this
new
Guest
to
take
his
quarters
with
him
.
Lentulus
would
willingly
have
rais'd
a
friendly
debate
upon
this
occasion
,
had
he
not
been
oblig'd
to
another
for
his
own
.
When
Ovid
saw
himself
alone
with
Hortensius
,
he
thought
he
should
do
an
injury
to
his
friendship
,
if
he
should
observe
that
precaution
with
him
,
which
he
practis'd
towards
persons
,
wholly
indifferent
to
it
.
Hortensius
had
been
a
Friend
of
very
ancient
acquaintance
;
and
he
made
no
scruple
to
tell
him
,
that
the
favors
,
wherewith
the
daughter
of
Augustus
was
pleas'd
to
honor
him
,
had
been
whisper'd
in
the
Emperor's
ear
,
and
occasion'd
his
Banishment
:
you
make
me
but
half
your
Confident
,
sayes
Hortensius
,
interrupting
him
:
I
have
such
correspondence
at
Rome
,
as
will
not
suffer
me
to
be
ignorant
of
the
circumstances
of
a
misfortune
,
wherein
I
claim
my self
so
near
a
concern
.
Confess
the
truth
,
my
dear
Ovid
,
cry'd
he
,
with
a
smile
;
Caesar
would
have
pardon'd
you
the
glorious
attack
,
you
made
upon
the
heart
of
Julia
,
had
you
confin'd
the
lustre
of
your
merit
within
the
circumference
of
that
orb
;
the
Emperor
ought
to
take
satisfaction
in
the
gallantries
of
his
daughter
;
and
his
Court
would
become
a
Desart
,
should
the
honor
to
serve
her
,
be
adjudg'd
a
crime
of
State
:
But
you
have
attackt
that
Prince
in
a
more
sensible
part
,
and
the
fair
Terentia
was
not
able
to
resist
the
influence
of
so
powerful
a
Planet
.
See
,
see
here
,
cry'd
Ovid
,
one
of
the
most
cruel
darts
malice
can
level
at
my
disgrace
.
I
received
the
sentence
of
my
Banishment
with
constancy
enough
;
but
I
am
not
able
without
transport
to
hear
Terentia
branded
with
a
weakness
,
she
is
so
little
capable
of
.
I
will
not
endeavor
,
said
Hortensius
,
to
extort
a
more
ingenuous
confession
from
you
:
the
method
you
take
to
vindicate
the
fair
Terentia
,
satisfies
me
,
to
what
degree
you
love
her
;
and
as
I
hold
it
for
a
circumstance
of
impossibility
,
that
a
Lady
of
capacity
and
judgement
should
be
ador'd
by
you
,
without
a
reciprocal
esteem
and
respect
;
I
assure
my self
that
my
Agents
have
good
correspondence
,
and
I
will
send
them
my
thanks
in
my
next
Letters
,
for
the
faithful
intelligence
,
they
furnish
me
with
.
I
call
the
gods
to
witness
,
reply'd
Ovid
'
that
no
report
had
ever
so
false
a
false
a
ground
,
to
support
its
malice
,
as
this
of
a
Love-intrigue
betwixt
Terentia
and
my self
:
I
cannot
deny
but
that
I
have
a
veneration
for
her
equal
to
her
merit
;
She
has
the
command
of
a
clear
and
piercing
judgment
,
and
being
affected
with
some
places
in
my
Writings
(
where
my
Pen
has
been
more
industrious
and
luxuriant
)
than
another
woman
possibly
might
be
,
I
doubt
not
but
she
may
have
a
more
particular
esteem
for
me
than
a
person
of
less
capacity
:
but
whereas
besides
that
she
seem'd
to
me
not
to
be
capable
of
a
Passion
for
any
other
,
but
the
Emperor
;
I
am
endear'd
to
the
brave
Moecenas
by
obligations
too
strait
,
to
make
a
criminal
attempt
upon
the
chastity
of
his
Wife
.
Oh!
said
Hortensius
,
by
what
chains
of
merit
and
obligations
is
not
Caesar
bound
to
that
illustrious
Favourite
?
What
does
he
not
owe
to
the
zeal
and
prudence
of
that
Great
Man
?
What
has
not
Moecenas
acted
to
establish
him
in
the
Imperial
Throne
of
the
Universe
?
With
what
vigilance
did
he
disarm
the
attempts
,
which
were
levelled
at
his
life
?
With
what
fidelity
does
he
assist
him
by
his
Counsels
?
And
do
we
see
Augustus
make
any
scruple
to
ravish
from
him
the
heart
and
affections
of
his
Wife
?
I
do
not
think
my self
oblig'd
,
reply'd
Ovid
,
to
vindicate
the
Honor
of
Caesar
;
for
the
breast
of
a
banish'd
Man
,
is
the
natural
seat
of
malice
and
revenge
;
and
I
have
left
behind
me
at
Rome
those
concerns
,
which
will
always
suggest
to
them
a
high
resentment
of
those
commands
which
cast
me
out
of
it
.
But
if
the
lovely
Terentia
had
practis'd
as
much
art
and
diligence
to
endear
me
to
her
,
as
she
has
done
to
improve
the
Emperors
affections
towards
her
,
and
Moecenas
would
have
express'd
the
same
compliance
in
my
favor
,
as
he
did
in
his
Masters
,
perhaps
Ovid
might
have
as
much
forgotten
himself
as
Augustus
has
done
.
You
cannot
affirm
,
reply'd
Hortensius
,
smiling
,
but
Moecenas
did
express
some
in
yours
,
otherwise
young
Crassus
could
not
have
surpriz'd
you
one
night-coming
out
of
her
Appartment
.
Since
you
have
been
made
acquainted
,
said
Ovid
,
with
that
encounter
,
I
shall
confide
the
secret
to
you
:
You
are
prudent
,
and
my
friend
;
make
use
of
my
confidence
in
you
,
as
it
becomes
a
man
of
honor
,
that
professes
he
has
espoused
my
Interests
.
THE
HISTORY
OF
OVID.
I
Should
in
vain
study
to
render
my self
guilty
of
a
black
ingratitude
,
in
going
about
to
disown
those
generous
favors
,
the
glorious
Daughter
of
Augustus
has
grac'd
me
with
;
which
my
banishment
has
caus'd
the
World
to
believe
were
so
great
,
that
I
cannot
think
it
will
be
interpreted
a
vanity
,
or
indiscretion
in
me
to
represent
them
before
it
in
their
due
character
:
wherefore
I
shall
avow
a
truth
,
and
confess
,
that
that
excellent
Princess
did
treat
me
with
a
freedom
and
confidence
,
the
memory
whereof
still
is
,
and
ever
shall
be
,
as
pretious
to
me
,
as
my
unfortunate
life
.
She
gave
me
the
liberty
to
consecrate
to
her
Idea
all
those
passionate
Poems
,
which
I
publish'd
under
the
name
of
Corinna
.
She
was
oftentimes
pleas'd
to
answer
the
little
Harangues
of
Love
,
the
languishing
Rhetorick
of
my
eyes
,
made
to
her
,
with
regards
as
full
of
sweetness
,
as
mine
were
of
passion
;
which
gave
encouragement
to
my
presumption
to
make
those
attempts
,
which
might
with
some
reason
be
interpreted
as
criminal
,
in
a
simple
Chevalier
,
since
they
had
for
their
object
the
Daughter
of
his
Emperor
;
but
would
have
been
judg'd
innocent
,
had
Julia
been
the
Daughter
only
of
a
Roman
Knight
.
Varnish
that
piece
over
,
quoth
Hortensius
,
I
beseech
you
,
with
as
light
a
hand
as
you
can
;
I
see
the
inclination
you
have
to
make
a
fair
Apology
for
a
fair
friend
;
I
am
acquainted
already
with
every
circumstance
of
the
Intrigue
betwixt
you
and
Julia
,
and
I
desire
only
an
account
of
what
relates
to
Terentia
.
You
are
in
an
error
,
reply'd
Ovid
,
and
to
dispossess
you
of
it
,
I
must
beg
your
patience
to
a
Discourse
,
which
may
perhaps
detain
it
longer
than
you
desire
The
beginning
of
a
Love-intrigue
with
the
first
Princess
of
the
World
you
must
apprehend
,
was
sufficient
to
charm
the
spirit
of
an
ambitious
man
with
raptures
,
scarce
comprehensible
by
imagination
it self
.
I
consider'd
the
preference
she
honor'd
me
with
in
her
esteem
,
before
all
others
of
my
Rank
in
the
Court
,
with
a
most
ravishing
satisfaction
;
and
acting
the
part
of
a
great
Prince
in
the
private
Converses
she
was
pleas'd
to
admit
me
to
,
I
could
fancy
my self
nothing
less
than
one
of
the
happiest
in
the
Universe
.
I
forgot
the
quality
both
of
Julia
,
and
my self
;
but
as
the
Princess
(
let
malice
and
detraction
spend
their
mouths
as
loud
as
they
will
,
to
blemish
her
virtue
)
did
always
reserve
to
her self
,
as
a
Royal
Prerogative
of
her
Greatness
,
the
power
of
repressing
my
audacity
;
all
the
little
satisfactions
she
permitted
me
,
serv'd
but
to
tantalize
my
vanity
,
and
only
entertain'd
my
Love
with
some
slight
Banquet
of
Sweatmeats
,
which
thirsted
after
a
more
solid
repast
.
Julia
is
one
of
the
most
charming
Beauties
of
the
Universe
;
and
my
desires
,
which
had
kindled
a
new
Aetna
within
my
breast
,
wanting
the
blessings
of
a
gentle
showre
from
her
more
substantial
favors
,
to
qualifie
its
flames
,
converted
all
those
flattering
pleasures
into
an
insupportable
torment
.
Sulpicia
,
Wife
to
Tisienus
Gallus
,
who
is
here
in
Thalassia
,
that
then
was
Servant
to
the
Princess
,
and
to
whom
she
unlockt
the
Cabinet
of
all
her
secrets
,
was
a
witness
to
the
deplorable
estate
,
those
her
half
Bounties
had
reduc'd
me
to
.
Tisienus
about
that
time
was
suspected
to
have
been
a
Complice
in
the
Conspiracy
of
Marcus
Lepidus
,
and
banish'd
into
this
Island
.
His
absence
gave
Sulpicia
the
freedom
to
exercise
those
liberties
his
morose
humor
retrench'd
her
from
,
when
he
was
with
her
.
This
generous
person
was
toucht
with
a
compassion
of
my
Sufferings
,
and
was
sparing
neither
of
her
advice
,
nor
interest
for
the
advancing
of
my
felicity
.
This
your
manner
of
proceeding
with
Ovid
,
said
she
to
the
Princess
,
is
as
much
opposite
to
the
rules
of
Love
,
as
Virtue
;
you
suffer
a
person
to
expire
at
your
feet
,
whom
you
love
;
because
a
little
punctilio
;
perhaps
,
either
of
State
,
or
Modesty
,
will
not
permit
you
to
allow
him
the
benefit
of
your
Mercy
;
when
you
shall
do
them
both
but
an
equal
injury
,
either
by
enslaving
them
to
these
terms
of
rigor
and
severity
,
or
indulging
them
those
liberties
from
which
restrain
them
.
Eeither
assume
the
Character
of
the
Daughter
of
Caesar
,
or
with
courage
renounce
the
arbitrary
Yoke
it
would
impose
upon
your
freedom
.
A
Virtue
that
can
admit
of
the
least
allay
of
any
other
ignobler
passion
,
is
but
the
slave
of
irresolution
and
timidity
;
you
ought
either
to
banish
him
your
presence
for
ever
,
or
render
it
less
mortal
to
him
.
The
Spirit
of
Julia
could
digest
neither
of
those
Propositions
.
My
conversation
was
a
diversion
to
her
;
the
languishing
countenance
of
my
love
rais'd
a
tender
compassion
in
her
breast
;
but
her
favors
never
extended
themselves
beyond
the
bounds
of
that
compassion
;
and
though
she
had
an
invincible
repugnance
to
deprive
her self
of
my
sight
,
she
had
likewise
no
less
to
grant
me
the
Suit
,
which
Sulpicia
was
my
Advocate
in
.
She
did
testifie
the
regret
she
had
,
for
not
being
capable
of
doing
me
a
more
acceptable
service
in
my
affairs
in
terms
so
obliging
,
that
I
thought
I
was
not
able
to
retaliate
her
kindness
no
other
way
,
than
by
making
an
offer
to
her
of
what
remain'd
of
my self
in
my
own
disposal
.
If
the
lovely
Sulpicia
,
said
I
to
her
,
could
be
capable
of
that
condescension
,
as
to
content
her self
with
the
second
rank
in
a
heart
,
where
the
Daughter
of
Caesar
sits
in
Throne
in
the
first
;
and
that
the
illustrious
Julia
would
not
consider
,
as
a
treason
committed
again
her self
,
that
submission
,
which
low
prostrate
at
your
feet
,
I
would
employ
to
plead
the
cause
of
my
misfortunes
;
the
deplorable
state
wherein
you
now
behold
me
,
and
which
has
already
excited
compassion
in
your
noble
breast
,
would
soon
be
sensible
of
a
glorious
alteration
.
Sulpicia
burst
forth
into
a
loud
fit
of
laughter
at
this
proposition
,
and
regarding
me
with
no
less
surprise
than
disdain
:
Have
you
an
art
then
,
said
she
,
to
divide
your self
so
exactly
,
that
neither
the
Princess
,
nor
Sulpicia
shall
have
cause
to
impeach
you
of
partiality
in
the
division
?
It
is
a
secret
I
must
confess
,
said
I
,
I
never
yet
put
in
practice
;
but
a
small
condescension
in
the
Soul
of
the
Princess
,
and
the
like
compassion
in
yours
,
would
encourage
me
to
make
the
experiment
:
For
example
,
went
I
on
,
suppose
your
self
wholly
ignorant
of
the
Amours
betwixt
the
Princess
and
my self
;
and
that
retiring
all
inflames
and
transports
from
the
Elysium
of
her
private
Caresses
,
I
should
throw
at
your
feet
a
heart
inspir'd
with
raptures
and
desires
as
violent
,
as
love
with
all
its
Magick
were
able
to
raise
in
it
,
would
you
judge
the
victim
unworthy
of
your
acceptance
?
No
,
reply'd
Sulpicia
,
if
the
cause
of
these
transports
and
desires
were
unknown
to
me
,
and
I
could
flatter
my self
with
the
thought
,
that
my
Beauty
had
kindled
the
flames
,
I
saw
so
visible
an
effect
of
.
Oh!
ye
gods
,
cry'd
I
,
presently
,
interrupting
her
,
must
I
then
be
culpable
and
unfortunate
,
because
the
Princess
has
made
you
her
Confident
?
You
deny
not
,
but
that
my
love
,
in
the
same
capacity
I
represent
it
you
,
both
should
,
and
ought
,
to
be
favourably
embrac'd
by
a
person
;
who
could
believe
her self
to
be
the
only
object
of
it
:
And
what
reason
can
there
be
then
,
that
I
should
receive
so
severe
correction
for
an
indiscretion
I
never
committed
?
Are
my
transports
less
transports
for
being
the
effects
of
the
Princess
,
irresistable
Charms
?
Or
should
I
bring
them
with
me
into
Sulpicia's
Chamber
heightned
with
all
those
raptures
she
knows
them
capable
of
,
would
my
Passion
be
a
less
amorous
Passion
for
having
deriv'd
its
birth
from
the
divine
eyes
of
the
incomparable
Julia
?
My
way
of
reasoning
was
thought
so
pleasant
by
Sulpicia
,
that
she
suddenly
left
me
,
to
run
and
make
the
Princess
a
Partaker
in
the
gallantry
of
it
:
I
endeavour'd
to
dissuade
her
,
but
could
not
.
I
judg'd
it
convenient
to
make
choice
of
a
fit
season
to
treat
of
so
delicate
and
tender
a
subject
;
when
I
was
most
agreeably
surpriz'd
to
understand
from
the
mouth
of
Sulpicia
,
that
the
singularity
it self
of
my
proposition
had
commended
it
to
the
Princesses
favor
,
who
express'd
a
great
satisfacti
-
for
the
advancing
an
Intrigue
so
admirable
,
and
new
.
About
that
time
I
had
made
a
Poem
,
Entituled
,
THE
GODDESS
OF
HEARTS
;
where
feigning
that
Cupid
seeing
that
his
Mother
Venus
had
a
greater
charge
upon
her
hands
than
she
could
well
manage
,
in
charming
Mortals
,
had
thought
it
expedient
for
her
to
assume
to
her
a
Co-partner
in
her
Empire
of
Love
,
and
by
the
name
of
The
Goddess
of
Hearts
,
had
created
the
Princess
Julia
,
here
Co-sovereign
in
swaying
the
AMOROVS
Scepter
of
the
Universe
.
The
Princess
,
through
an
indiscretion
,
which
I
never
took
the
presumption
to
charge
her
with
,
show'd
this
fancy
of
mine
to
Terentia
.
The
name
of
Julia
was
disguis'd
under
that
of
Corinna
;
but
the
Character
of
Corinna
did
so
perfectly
illustrate
the
Daughter
of
Augustus
,
that
Terentia
had
no
difficulty
to
discover
it
.
She
drew
me
one
evening
apart
in
the
Empresses
Apartment
,
and
showing
me
the
Verses
the
Princess
had
deliver'd
to
her
.
Sould
not
one
,
said
she
,
oblige
you
effectually
,
to
present
you
with
the
Key
of
this
Mysterious
Work
,
and
unlock
the
secret
of
it
to
the
Emperor
.
This
discourse
put
me
into
some
disorder
,
but
re-composing
my self
in
the
best
manner
I
could
:
I
cannot
think
,
Madam
,
reply'd
I
,
the
Emperor
will
concern
his
high
Thoughts
with
the
humble
Corinna
of
Ovid
;
and
if
he
were
pleas'd
to
stoop
them
so
low
to
Earth
,
the
Title
of
THE
GODDESS
OF
HEARTS
,
so
gloriously
suits
the
Charms
of
the
divine
Terentia
,
that
he
might
perhaps
interpret
her
to
be
of
the
object
of
this
fancy
,
and
cast
a
killing
eye
upon
Ovid
,
for
presuming
to
bring
the
illustrious
Wife
of
Mecaenas
upon
the
Theatre
of
an
Amour
.
You
have
more
ingenuity
than
sincerity
,
reply'd
Terentia
,
and
the
artificial
varnish
you
give
your
answer
,
ought
to
oblige
me
to
repay
treachery
with
treachery
;
but
I
have
an
esteem
for
you
,
and
desire
you
to
insert
me
in
the
first
Rank
of
your
friends
.
You
may
go
on
,
and
propose
to
your
Muse
the
Idea
of
Julia
,
for
her
Goddess
;
but
your
love
in
her
Mouth
speaks
intelligibly
;
and
her
language
is
easie
to
be
understood
by
persons
less
discreet
than
my self
,
and
who
perhaps
will
not
have
so
great
a
regard
to
the
interests
of
Ovid
,
as
Terentia
has
.
This
generous
proceeding
of
a
person
,
whom
the
credit
of
a
grand
Favourite
,
and
the
affections
of
the
Emperor
,
had
elevated
to
the
highest
sphear
of
authority
and
lustre
in
the
Empire
,
did
touch
me
with
the
sense
of
a
deep
acknowledgement
,
which
I
exprest
in
the
most
eloquent
terms
,
my
gratitude
could
prompt
to
me
;
and
from
that
day
I
consecrated
to
her
generosity
all
the
Raptures
of
my
Muse
,
which
either
my
Passion
for
the
Daughter
of
Augustus
,
or
my
esteem
for
Sulpicia
would
permit
me
to
borrow
from
her
more
Amorous
hours
.
About
that
time
Crassus
began
to
pay
his
Adorations
to
the
Shrine
of
this
resplendent
Star.
And
this
Amour
scarce
deceiv'd
the
knowledge
of
any
person
in
Rome
,
but
the
Emperors
,
and
her
brave
Husbands
.
He
had
observed
how
this
great
Lady
had
call'd
me
aside
;
and
it
was
easie
to
discover
by
the
motion
of
her
eyes
,
and
her
gesture
,
that
she
was
saying
some
obliging
thing
unto
me
:
He
drew
near
,
and
lent
his
curious
attention
;
but
we
spoke
so
low
,
that
he
could
frame
no
connexion
in
any
thing
he
heard
us
discourse
of
:
He
catch'd
only
at
some
scattered
and
broken
words
,
as
the
Title
of
GODDESS
OF
HEARTS
,
and
what
I
had
reply'd
to
the
first
speech
of
Terentia
;
which
being
but
an
innocent
piece
of
Gallantry
,
without
design
,
I
was
not
cautious
to
render
guilty
by
a
whisper
:
And
seeing
,
in
fine
,
that
I
pay'd
my
thanks
to
her
in
the
most
humble
posture
,
and
the
gratefull'st
terms
I
was
able
to
express
,
he
presently
apprehended
,
that
I
had
entertain'd
her
with
some
private
Love-adventure
,
which
she
gave
a
favorable
ear
to
;
and
this
fancy
begot
in
him
a
furious
jealousie
:
and
some
few
days
after
presented
him
with
an
occasion
to
confirm
it
:
I
was
walking
in
the
beautiful
Gardens
of
Lucullus
,
when
a
little
after
me
came
Terentia
thither
likewise
,
to
make
them
more
beautiful
,
led
by
the
Great
Agrippa
,
and
follow'd
by
Crassus
;
who
seem'd
to
be
a
shadow
inseparably
annex'd
to
each
motion
of
her
person
.
He
usher'd
the
young
Heluidia
,
Niece
to
Mecoenas
,
by
the
hand
;
and
endeavour'd
to
cast
a
blind
before
the
eyes
of
the
publick
,
by
persuading
them
,
that
it
was
either
this
Lady
,
or
the
young
Aurelia
,
who
were
usually
her
Attendants
,
that
with
their
Charms
did
daily
attract
him
into
the
company
of
the
fair
Terentia
;
but
more
piercing
sights
did
penetrate
into
the
Mistery
.
Terentia
by
accident
saw
me
cross
the
end
of
an
Alley
,
where
she
was
walking
:
She
sent
some
of
her
Servants
after
me
to
call
me
:
and
as
I
approach'd
her
,
Ovid
,
said
she
,
inclining
her self
a
little
towards
my
Ear
,
offers
a
Sacrifice
too
remarkable
to
his
Goddess
,
the
Grand-Courtiers
of
Heaven
begin
to
murmur
at
it
,
and
Jupiter
himself
is
offended
.
Can
Sacrifice
offend
the
Gods
Madam
?
said
I
,
walking
by
her
side
;
and
are
not
those
Holocausts
,
which
preserve
on
Earth
our
respect
and
veneration
to
the
Goddesses
,
sacred
and
pure
enough
to
be
offer'd
publickly
to
them
?
I
know
not
what
you
treat
of
,
said
Agrippa
,
smiling
,
but
were
I
a
Goddess
,
the
extraordinary
offers
of
men
,
would
cause
me
to
suspect
some
private
interest
,
or
design
,
in
the
intention
of
the
ambitious
offerer
:
And
I
do
not
find
,
that
it
is
natural
to
Mortals
of
Ovids
merit
,
to
make
always
pure
devotion
the
object
of
their
Sacrifices
.
I
am
of
your
opinion
,
reply'd
Terentia
,
a
person
of
Ovids
Principals
will
soon
become
as
formidable
to
the
Gods
of
the
Earth
,
as
the
Gyants
were
once
to
those
of
Heaven
:
wherefore
if
I
were
of
his
Council
,
I
would
advise
him
to
be
so
cautious
in
paying
his
worship
to
a
certain
Deity
,
that
none
of
the
Imperial
Court
above
,
should
be
sensible
of
it
,
but
herself
.
You
will
apprehend
,
by
what
you
have
heard
before
,
that
this
discourse
of
Terentia
,
was
only
a
prosecution
of
that
she
had
began
to
me
in
the
Empresses
Apartment
;
and
that
by
my
Goddess
,
and
the
displeasure
of
Jupiter
,
she
would
privately
suggest
to
me
my
love
to
Julia
,
and
advertise
me
,
that
the
Emperor
was
offended
with
my
frequent
visits
,
and
familiarity
with
that
Princess
:
But
Crassus
,
who
lent
a
diligent
attention
to
our
discourse
,
gave
it
another
interpretation
.
I
return'd
such
answers
as
I
thought
most
opposite
to
retort
the
flatteries
they
levelled
at
me
.
Our
Promenade
,
extended
it self
to
a
more
than
ordinary
length
;
which
I
supported
with
such
expressions
of
gallantry
and
pleasant
retorts
,
as
merited
to
be
honor'd
with
many
a
glorious
Compliment
and
Encomium
by
the
fair
Terentia
,
which
,
I
must
confess
did
bear
the
character
of
so
much
good
will
and
kindness
towards
me
,
as
would
have
startl'd
the
courage
of
any
bashful
Lover
.
The
Emperor
came
in
quest
of
his
illustrious
Mistress
into
the
Walks
;
as
soon
as
I
saw
him
I
retir'd
:
The
whole
Court
was
not
ignorant
that
he
desir'd
always
to
entertain
Terentia
in
private
,
and
Crassus
was
obliged
more
than
any
other
person
,
not
to
put
himself
in
the
circumstance
,
of
being
a
witness
to
their
Converse
;
he
withdrew
as
well
as
I
;
and
following
me
close
at
the
heels
,
overtook
me
upon
the
Terrass
that
bounds
the
Gardens
,
towards
the
River
Tyber
.
May
a
man
aspire
,
said
he
,
saluting
me
,
without
temerity
,
to
a
minutes
discourse
with
the
renown'd
Ovid
?
Does
not
the
spiritual
Terentia
,
and
the
great
Agrippa
,
beget
in
you
a
loathing
towards
persons
of
Plebeian
Capacities
?
'T
is
true
,
said
I
smiling
,
Ovid's
spirit
has
an
antipathy
against
all
base
and
sordid
conversation
;
and
thence
it
proceeds
,
that
he
is
so
ambitious
,
of
that
of
the
noble
Crassus
.
We
measur'd
the
length
of
the
Terrass
,
with
such
discourses
as
these
.
Crassus
gave
them
the
first
diversion
,
and
talking
a
while
of
things
indifferent
,
at
length
with
a
kind
of
affected
cenfidence
(
he
would
seem
to
repose
in
me
)
he
began
to
acquaint
me
with
the
design
he
had
to
gain
some
considerable
employ
in
the
Army
,
which
was
marching
for
Illyria
.
You
do
not
deal
with
me
,
added
he
,
with
that
candor
,
as
I
with
you
;
you
see
my
heart
meets
you
bare-fac'd
and
open
breasted
;
and
you
have
yet
never
honor'd
me
with
the
confidence
of
the
least
of
your
Secrets
.
My
heart
,
said
I
,
has
hitherto
been
the
Cabinet
of
very
few
Secrets
:
not
has
it
ever
been
engag'd
in
any
Intrigue
of
State
:
The
mystery
of
some
youthful
gallantry
has
yet
been
the
highest
Point
,
either
in
the
wheel
of
fortune
or
ambition
it
has
aspired
to
;
and
by
a
misfortune
,
which
my
fate
,
not
designs
have
drawn
upon
me
,
my
Love-adventures
do
tread
the
stage
of
the
World
so
publickly
,
that
it
were
a
high
piece
of
vanity
in
me
,
to
go
about
to
confide
them
,
to
a
person
of
Crassus's
intelligence
.
You
are
a
grand
dissembler
,
reply'd
Crassus
,
and
those
Adventures
you
abandon
to
the
publick
,
are
only
cast
before
their
eyes
like
a
juglers
Mist
,
to
dazle
them
so
,
that
they
may
not
through
that
thick
Cloud
discern
the
real
ones
:
nor
do
you
doubt
to
sacrifice
some
credulous
Dames
,
who
are
the
Stales
only
to
your
designs
,
to
the
safety
of
your
more
effective
Mistresses
.
And
as
we
saw
not
long
ago
with
what
artifice
you
made
young
Valerius
himself
,
for
two
years
together
,
the
Stalking-horse
to
his
Sisters
dishonor
.
I
'll
swear
the
open
feint
you
make
at
Sulpicia
must
include
a
sublime
and
intricate
Mystery
.
This
discourse
made
me
tremble
,
for
the
concern
I
had
for
Julia.
What
reason
have
you
to
deny
,
said
I
,
that
the
beauty
of
Sulpicia
ought
not
to
challenge
the
whole
Empire
of
a
heart
,
though
capable
of
never
so
boundless
a
Passion
?
I
will
not
prove
my self
guilty
of
so
great
an
arrogance
,
as
to
boast
my self
worthy
to
make
love
to
the
fair
Sulpicia
;
but
suppose
I
were
,
has
not
Sulpicia
think
you
,
Wit
and
Charms
enough
to
satiate
each
appetite
of
my
Soul
?
Let
her
have
all
the
Wit
and
Beauty
too
in
the
World
,
if
you
please
,
said
Crassus
;
I
will
not
endeavor
to
convince
your
supposition
;
but
I
shall
maintain
,
that
Sulpicia
is
not
the
Goddess
of
Ovid
;
you
understand
too
well
to
frame
your
applications
,
to
give
the
title
of
Goddess
to
the
Wife
of
Tisienus
.
Lovers
,
said
I
,
interrupting
him
,
attribute
the
name
of
Goddess
,
to
all
such
Objects
as
receive
from
them
the
Sacrifice
of
sighs
and
vows
;
neither
is
it
the
Rank
,
nor
the
Quality
of
any
of
the
Sex
,
that
can
snatch
this
Laurel
out
of
the
mouth
of
a
Lover
,
and
crown
their
own
temples
with
it
;
but
't
is
the
suitable
harmony
and
proportion
which
is
found
between
the
title
of
Goddess
,
and
the
adorations
of
the
Heart
,
that
does
fix
it
there
.
When
Paris
made
love
to
the
Shepherdess
of
Oenona
,
he
gave
her
the
same
title
he
afterwards
gave
to
the
Wife
of
the
Spartan
King.
But
you
do
not
ascribe
,
said
Crassus
,
interrupting
him
,
the
name
of
the
same
Goddess
of
Hearts
to
Sulpicia
,
as
you
do
to
a
Person
more
eminent
:
you
offer
up
your
feign'd
devotions
to
the
Wife
of
Tisienus
,
but
your
real
adorations
to
the
consort
of
Mecoenas
.
This
last
word
was
the
thread
to
guide
me
out
of
a
Labyrinth
of
confusions
;
for
all
that
Crassus
imputed
to
Sulpicia
,
might
so
aptly
be
apply'd
to
the
Daughter
of
Augustus
,
that
till
I
heard
the
Consort
of
Mecoenas
nam'd
,
I
thought
the
whole
Intrigue
had
been
discover'd
.
I
assum'd
courage
,
when
I
saw
my
fears
were
deluded
,
and
regarding
Crassus
with
a
brisk
air
in
my
countenance
;
I
understand
you
very
well
,
said
I
,
you
take
pleasure
to
introduce
a
discourse
of
the
subject
you
love
:
but
you
might
have
spar'd
your self
the
trouble
,
to
derive
its
streams
from
so
remote
a
head
;
I
am
complaisant
to
the
desires
of
my
friends
,
and
we
might
have
employ'd
the
time
of
our
conversation
to
better
advantage
,
if
I
had
thought
your
design
in
entring
into
discourse
with
me
,
had
been
only
to
interweave
it
with
that
of
the
divine
Terentia
.
The
intervention
of
Domitius
Aenobarbus
,
who
walk'd
likewise
upon
the
same
Terrass
,
prevented
Crassus
from
making
me
an
answer
:
he
was
upon
us
so
unexpectedly
,
that
we
were
forc'd
to
discontinue
our
Converse
.
You
are
acquainted
with
Domitius
;
he
is
one
of
the
persons
of
greatest
merit
in
the
Court
of
Augustus
;
and
had
married
one
of
the
Daughters
of
the
Princess
Octavia
.
We
could
not
decline
his
encounter
as
we
might
have
done
another
of
less
consideration
.
He
invited
me
to
Sup
with
him
;
and
as
soon
as
the
Moon
should
lend
us
her
silver
Torch
,
engag'd
me
to
wait
upon
him
to
a
noble
Palace
he
had
built
at
Picene
;
I
continued
there
three
days
,
which
my
absence
from
Julia
caused
to
appear
three
ages
to
me
.
Besides
the
pleasure
such
a
ravishing
object
would
have
afforded
me
,
I
was
impatient
to
communicate
to
her
,
the
advice
I
had
received
from
Terentia
in
the
Gardens
of
Lucullus
,
and
consult
her
about
the
best
means
to
elude
the
Emperors
suspition
.
As
soon
as
I
put
foot
out
of
stirrup
,
I
hasten'd
to
her
Apartment
.
She
was
in
her
Closet
with
Sulpicia
;
the
door
was
shut
,
but
I
had
ofttntimes
before
taken
the
liberty
to
interrupt
them
in
their
privacy
,
the
Princess
not
disapproving
it
:
Sulpicia
came
forth
when
she
saw
me
;
but
Julia
stood
with
her
face
turn'd
from
me
towards
the
Window
:
I
thought
I
discover'd
by
the
eyes
of
Sulpicia
,
that
something
of
discontent
hast
past
betwixt
the
Princess
and
her self
:
Julia
held
some
flowers
in
her
hand
,
which
she
snapt
off
,
and
threw
away
,
with
an
action
full
of
passion
and
indignation
:
I
approacht
her
with
all
humility
,
and
beg'd
her
to
let
me
know
wherein
those
innocent
Flowers
had
displeas'd
her
.
If
you
ever
see
her
more
,
said
she
,
without
giving
an
answer
to
my
demand
,
you
must
not
expect
to
see
me
again
as
long
as
you
live
.
How
,
reply'd
I
,
in
a
strange
surprize
,
must
I
never
see
my
Princess
more
?
What
Devil
shall
have
the
power
to
deprive
me
of
the
adorable
sight
of
my
Goddess
?
The
ill
advised
Sulpicia
,
said
the
Princess
.
It
seems
I
renounc'd
the
whole
stock
of
interest
I
had
in
you
,
when
I
gave
her
leave
to
claim
a
small
branch
in
it
;
nor
does
she
doubt
to
tell
me
to
my
face
,
that
her
share
in
you
is
more
considerable
than
mine
;
but
she
shall
not
long
have
cause
to
boast
of
these
advantages
;
for
if
I
may
pretend
to
any
power
over
you
,
she
shall
soon
see
herself
retrench'd
of
all
your
other
favors
,
but
indifferent
visits
.
I
leave
you
to
judge
to
what
a
pitch
of
joy
this
pretty
jealous
concern
of
the
Princess
did
elevate
my
Soul.
I
was
cautious
not
to
impart
to
her
the
advice
Terentia
had
given
me
;
it
had
come
seasonable
to
me
;
and
to
disoblige
Sulpicia
in
a
conjuncture
wherein
the
Emperors
emergent
suspitions
began
to
threaten
danger
to
our
affairs
,
had
been
to
hazard
a
greater
.
But
the
interest
of
Love
seldom
complies
with
the
rules
of
Prudence
.
I
heap'd
a
Million
of
Benedictions
upon
each
syllable
her
indignation
uttered
;
I
limn'd
to
her
a
division
in
Love
,
in
colors
,
which
exprest
it
in
all
the
shapes
of
horror
and
deformity
;
I
complain'd
of
the
injustice
she
had
done
all
those
faithful
devoirs
my
love
had
rendr'd
her
by
indulging
it
so
much
liberty
;
and
I
earnestly
conjur'd
her
by
a
most
strict
Edict
of
her
sovereign
displeasure
to
repeal
all
those
she
had
suffer'd
me
to
render
to
Sulpicia
.
The
Princess
gave
attention
to
all
I
said
,
but
answered
me
only
in
the
language
of
a
troubled
Meen
,
which
I
did
interpret
as
a
good
omen
.
I
ask'd
her
divers
questions
touching
the
vanities
of
Sulpicia
;
she
declar'd
some
of
them
to
me
,
and
lest
me
to
divine
the
rest
.
I
perceiv'd
that
Sulpicia
had
done
me
greater
services
by
her
indiscretion
,
than
her
counsels
;
and
by
magnifying
her
own
advantages
and
interest
,
had
not
a
little
advanc'd
mine
:
I
had
hopes
the
Sun
would
have
broken
forth
gloriously
upon
me
,
after
these
sweet
dawnings
of
my
Princesses
constancy
and
favor
towards
me
,
had
not
the
arrival
of
the
Prince
Marcellus
,
wholly
eclips'd
it
;
but
I
had
the
satisfaction
to
perceive
,
this
disappointment
was
as
unwelcome
to
the
Princess
,
as
my self
;
which
she
exprest
with
a
gesture
full
of
chagrin
and
discontent
;
and
inclining
herself
towards
my
ear
,
she
order'd
me
not
to
fail
to
attend
her
in
the
Flower-garden
,
which
the
windows
of
her
apartment
look
d
out
upon
,
as
soon
as
the
Emperor
was
gone
to
his
repose
.
We
will
decide
our
controversie
,
said
she
aloud
,
at
the
hour
appointed
;
this
time
is
not
proper
for
such
disputes
.
Marcellus
ask'd
her
,
What
the
dispute
was
?
Nothing
,
said
Julia
,
but
a
small
difficulty
I
have
started
to
Ovid
,
touching
his
Treatise
de
Arte
Amandi
;
and
taking
a
Manuscript
of
it
up
in
her
hand
,
which
by
accident
lay
before
her
upon
the
Table
in
her
Closet
,
she
surpriz'd
me
with
the
presence
of
her
sudden
wit
and
apprehension
:
And
ex
tempore
formed
a
dispute
with
such
ingenuity
and
solidity
of
Reasons
,
as
if
she
had
dedicated
the
study
and
premeditation
of
many
hours
to
the
contexture
of
so
elegant
a
discourse
;
and
by
uttering
a
thousand
things
,
which
plausibly
suiting
the
Subject
in
question
,
did
likewise
suit
with
what
had
past
,
before
the
Princes
arrival
,
she
struck
me
into
that
admiration
,
that
I
was
afraid
,
lest
the
unadvis'd
Effects
of
it
might
have
prov'd
Traytors
to
their
Sovereign
Princess
.
I
took
my
leave
,
and
went
to
prepare
the
appetite
of
my
Soul
for
that
divine
Treat
,
I
hop'd
that
night
would
afford
it
.
I
make
this
Relation
to
a
person
,
who
has
declar'd
himself
to
the
World
,
a
Nonconformist
in
the
Religion
of
Love
;
and
has
rather
chosen
the
barbarous
Isle
of
Thalassia
for
a
Mistriss
,
than
a
beautiful
Lady
for
a
Wife
;
and
therefore
is
incapable
to
judge
of
the
state
,
my
hope
and
impatience
reduc'd
me
to
.
I
was
possest
with
a
kind
of
amorous
distraction
,
which
render'd
both
solitude
and
company
equally
burdensom
to
me
.
Each
moment
seem'd
an
Age
to
me
in
my
Chamber
;
and
being
impatient
to
deceive
my
impatience
,
going
forth
to
divert
it
in
Augustus's
Palace
,
I
kept
continually
in
motion
,
and
with
large
paces
measuring
the
distance
between
one
Apartment
and
another
,
I
was
not
capable
of
making
a
serious
reflection
upon
the
subject
,
that
might
be
the
cause
of
so
restless
a
distemper
.
This
motion
,
at
length
,
like
all
others
,
was
terminated
in
its
centre
.
The
Emperor
,
at
that
time
,
was
enter'd
into
a
small
course
of
Physic
,
which
he
us'd
to
observe
every
Spring
.
The
Prince
Marcellus
,
and
Moecenas
,
came
into
Terentia's
Chamber
,
where
I
was
;
and
told
her
that
Caesar
was
retir
d.
It
was
not
yet
the
ordinary
hour
,
the
young
Prince
us'd
to
withdraw
to
his
Repose
:
He
made
a
Proposition
to
them
of
spending
an
hour
or
two
at
Play
:
Moecenas
agreed
to
it
;
and
a
Concern
either
for
one
side
,
or
other
,
had
engag'd
all
their
idle
Followers
.
I
threw
away
a
little
time
in
looking
upon
them
,
not
to
render
the
hastiness
of
my
departure
suspected
;
and
thinking
that
I
had
observ'd
all
the
necessary
Rules
of
Policy
,
I
took
my
time
,
and
stole
in
all
silence
away
from
them
;
when
,
unexpectedly
,
one
of
Terentia's
Women
came
after
me
,
and
told
me
,
her
Lady
had
some
business
with
me
,
and
desir'd
me
to
walk
into
the
next
Room
;
I
thought
,
at
first
,
to
have
deny'd
obedience
to
this
order
;
but
the
fear
I
had
,
lest
the
cause
of
my
disobedience
might
be
suspected
,
join'd
to
the
sincere
esteem
and
veneration
I
had
for
Terentia
,
caus'd
me
to
yield
an
unwilling
obedience
to
it
.
Terentia
had
a
desire
to
impart
to
me
the
design
of
a
piece
of
galantry
,
she
was
preparing
to
solemnize
on
the
birth
day
of
Augustus
,
which
was
then
near
at
hand
.
The
thing
intended
requir'd
no
great
premeditation
:
and
if
my
wits
had
been
in
my
own
possession
▪
a
quarter
of
an
hour
had
been
sufficient
to
have
dispos'd
the
whole
Scene
;
but
I
was
so
little
my self
,
that
I
scarce
took
notice
of
what
she
said
to
me
.
I
forc'd
her
to
repeat
one
thing
two
or
three
times
over
.
She
was
sensible
of
my
distraction
,
and
smiling
,
ask'd
me
,
If
I
had
not
been
that
day
at
some
Treat
?
You
know
,
very
well
,
Madam
,
answer'd
I
,
that
Bacchus
is
not
my
Deity
;
but
I
protest
that
my
wits
are
at
this
present
so
far
from
home
,
that
if
you
do
not
allow
me
this
night
to
compose
them
,
your
Mask
will
be
very
ill
regulated
.
Terentia
is
endow'd
with
one
of
the
sharpest
apprehensions
in
the
world
;
and
unfortunately
for
me
,
was
that
night
in
a
humor
of
Railery
.
She
conjectur'd
what
it
was
,
that
had
put
me
off
of
the
hinges
,
and
proposing
to
me
divers
questions
of
Wit
and
Gallantry
upon
the
subject
of
my
Amours
,
which
she
thought
would
most
oblige
me
,
she
detein'd
me
two
long
hours
,
maugre
all
the
attempts
I
could
make
,
to
disingage
my self
,
without
rudeness
,
from
her
importunities
.
Crassus
was
one
of
the
Spectators
,
when
Prince
Marcellus
,
and
Mecoenas
,
began
to
set
themselves
to
play
;
I
could
not
divert
his
jealousie
:
For
Domitius's
arrival
had
prevented
me
,
when
I
was
going
about
to
undeceive
his
ill
opinion
of
me
;
and
from
that
hour
I
had
alwayes
been
absent
from
Rome
,
or
in
some
occasion
or
other
,
which
gave
me
no
opportunity
to
renew
our
discourse
,
or
converse
.
He
observ'd
how
one
of
Terentia's
Women
,
had
come
to
me
,
and
commanded
my
stay
,
when
I
was
going
forth
;
he
saw
me
direct
my
course
,
towards
a
Chamber
,
whither
he
had
seen
Terentia
retire
a
little
before
;
he
stood
Sentinel
,
with
much
impatience
,
to
watch
for
my
coming
out
,
and
was
enrag'd
,
that
I
should
be
cloyster'd
up
two
hours
together
with
the
person
,
to
whom
he
had
sacrific'd
his
highest
adorations
.
His
jealousie
transported
his
fury
beyond
his
reason
,
which
caus'd
him
to
follow
me
out
of
Mecoenas's
apartment
;
and
to
conceal
the
cause
,
as
I
conjecture
,
of
his
resentment
,
from
those
eyes
,
which
were
then
upon
him
,
he
curb'd
the
effects
of
it
,
till
he
saw
me
just
at
the
Gate
of
Mecoenas's
Baths
,
which
opens
into
the
Garden
,
where
I
was
commanded
to
attend
.
Turn
again
,
Ovid
,
said
he
,
advancing
towards
me
with
his
Sword
in
his
hand
;
the
Blessings
Fortune
showrs
down
on
thy
glorious
head
,
is
worth
a
hazarding
an
inglorious
life
;
for
I
knew
the
voice
of
Crassus
,
and
apprehended
his
error
;
but
it
was
impossible
then
,
to
convince
him
of
it
;
he
attack'd
me
with
a
fury
,
which
would
not
allow
me
time
to
open
my
lips
to
undeceive
him
.
The
Prince
Marcellus
arriv'd
,
just
as
we
began
to
draw
blood
from
each
others
veins
;
and
separating
us
,
exprest
to
us
,
in
obliging
terms
,
the
concern
he
was
in
,
to
see
two
persons
of
so
much
honor
,
as
either
of
us
were
,
engaged
in
so
desperate
a
quarrel
.
Whil'st
the
Prince
was
endeavoring
to
part
us
,
a
Maid-slave
of
the
Princess
,
who
waited
for
me
at
the
Garden-door
,
to
conduct
me
to
a
close
Arbor
,
whither
her
Lady
was
retir'd
,
hearing
the
clashing
of
our
swords
and
voices
,
ran
hastily
to
advertise
her
of
our
combat
.
The
Princess
imagin'd
herself
to
be
the
cause
of
it
;
and
thinking
that
this
had
been
some
ambush
laid
for
me
to
chastise
my
audacity
,
she
came
running
to
the
place
,
in
a
mortal
distraction
,
betwixt
love
and
fear
.
Her
apprehension
had
rob
d
her
of
her
judgment
;
and
she
let
fall
some
unadvis'd
words
,
which
betray'd
our
intrigue
;
and
being
join'd
to
the
circumstance
of
that
unseasonable
hour
,
rais'd
that
suspition
in
the
breast
of
Augustus
his
Nephew
,
that
no
disguise
could
longer
conceal
from
him
.
Marcellus
was
a
Prince
of
great
honor
and
virtue
;
but
the
hopes
that
did
elevate
him
to
the
thoughts
of
aspiring
to
the
Marriage
of
Julia
,
had
stamp'd
a
new
character
upon
the
goodness
of
his
nature
.
He
address
d
his
complaints
to
the
Emperor
,
against
the
indiscretion
and
dishonourable
carriage
of
his
daughter
;
which
so
inflam'd
his
indignation
,
that
he
presently
sent
the
Princess
away
to
Tusculum
,
where
so
watchful
a
Guard
was
set
over
her
,
that
I
durst
not
hazard
any
attempt
either
to
purchase
a
sight
of
her
,
or
convey
a
Letter
to
her
;
and
in
a
short
time
after
,
I
receiv'd
the
Order
of
my
own
Banishment
.
The
generous
Terentia
employ'd
her
power
with
the
Emperor
,
to
qualifie
his
displeasure
;
but
the
information
,
which
the
malice
of
some
ill
Men
had
whisper'd
to
him
,
forc'd
him
to
return
her
a
denial
.
In
the
mean
time
Crassus
,
(
who
being
convinc'd
by
the
resentments
of
Prince
Marcellus
,
had
the
justice
to
think
,
that
a
person
grac'd
with
that
favor
by
the
daughter
of
Augustus
,
as
to
obtain
her
compliance
to
such
night-assignations
,
could
not
probably
be
embark'd
in
any
other
adventure
of
the
like
nature
)
believ'd
that
he
had
attack'd
me
without
reason
.
He
came
to
take
his
leave
of
me
,
the
same
morning
,
I
was
to
take
mine
of
Rome
;
when
he
inform'd
me
of
those
things
,
which
you
may
imagine
I
could
not
by
my self
arrive
to
the
knowledge
of
;
and
testify'd
his
trouble
and
grief
to
me
in
terms
so
passionate
,
that
they
wholly
disarm'd
my
indignation
.
But
his
too
late
repentanee
could
not
restore
me
my
Julia
again
:
In
adventures
of
this
nature
,
an
occasion
once
lost
,
is
never
to
be
retrieved
more
.
Whil'st
Ovid
was
making
this
Relation
of
his
secret
intrigue
with
Julia
,
the
Thalassian
Lady
,
to
whose
heart
the
blind
Archer
had
sent
one
of
his
most
invisible
darts
,
felt
the
real
effects
of
her
Friends
predictions
.
Ovid's
hopes
had
deceiv'd
him
,
when
he
was
willing
to
believe
,
that
the
fair
Roselina
,
was
the
private
Inamorata
:
But
the
knavish
Boy
took
delight
to
sport
with
the
severe
humor
of
the
daughter
of
Lepidus
,
and
it
was
she
,
who
was
become
amorous
of
the
reputation
of
the
famous
Ovid.
Oh!
cruel
Friend
,
said
she
to
Roselina
,
you
have
taught
my
heart
a
Lesson
,
it
ought
to
have
been
ignorant
of
.
It
is
too
manifest
a
truth
,
that
the
person
of
Ovid
has
ravish'd
from
me
that
esteem
,
which
I
thought
nothing
,
but
his
Works
had
been
capable
to
challenge
.
There
is
a
Magic
in
the
air
of
his
countenance
,
which
has
enchanted
me
at
the
first
sight
;
and
if
I
had
not
presently
retir'd
from
the
place
,
where
we
first
saw
him
,
I
believe
,
I
should
not
have
been
able
to
have
conceal'd
my
surprize
from
the
observation
of
the
Company
.
Alas
!
went
she
on
,
with
a
sigh
,
Love
takes
now
too
cruel
a
revenge
,
of
the
contempt
,
I
have
alwayes
hitherto
express'd
for
his
power
.
I
do
not
perceive
,
reply'd
Roselina
,
that
this
god
merits
that
character
of
Revenge
,
you
impose
upon
him
:
Ovid
bears
not
in
the
World
the
repute
of
a
cruel
person
;
and
I
am
deceiv'd
,
if
he
be
of
that
inhumane
temper
,
as
to
be
insensible
of
a
passion
,
which
is
dress'd
in
so
many
Charms
and
Beauties
,
as
Junia
is
Mistriss
of
.
Ah!
replied
Junia
,
my
heart
shall
never
betray
that
secret
to
him
:
Ovid
is
the
wild
Ranger
of
Cupid's
Chases
,
and
unconstant
by
profession
,
whom
all
the
Charms
,
Venus
herself
is
Mistriss
of
,
are
not
able
to
confine
to
one
Object
;
and
should
mine
,
as
inconsiderable
,
as
they
are
,
be
indued
with
that
miraculous
power
,
as
to
influence
a
constancy
upon
him
,
Tisienus
informs
me
,
that
the
cause
of
his
disgrace
,
is
only
a
jealousie
of
Augustus
:
And
Terentia's
interest
will
quickly
re-establish
him
in
the
Emperor's
favor
,
and
the
Banishment
of
Ovid
will
have
an
end
,
as
soon
as
she
shall
interpose
her
authority
between
him
and
Caesar's
indignation
.
Do
not
you
think
me
then
most
unfortunate
in
a
Passion
,
which
I
am
in
danger
to
give
entertainment
to
alone
;
and
were
its
reciprocal
,
would
be
alwayes
expos'd
to
the
terror
of
an
infallible
separation
?
Arimant
,
unhappy
Arimant
,
said
she
,
letting
some
tears
fall
,
I
now
undergo
a
rigorous
chastisement
for
all
the
injuries
,
I
have
done
thee
.
About
this
Season
,
Junia
was
accustomed
to
celebrate
the
Birth-day
of
her
Father
:
she
had
upon
other
Years
invented
divers
sorts
of
Games
and
Recreations
to
honor
that
solemn
day
,
and
for
this
,
she
had
design'd
a
Consort
of
Musick
upon
a
Lake
,
which
was
one
of
the
greatest
Wonders
,
that
illustrated
that
Island
.
Roselina
,
was
her
assistant
in
the
design
.
She
had
acquaintance
in
Mitilena
,
the
Metropolis
of
Lesbos
,
by
means
whereof
,
she
had
procur'd
a
Company
of
choice
Musitians
from
thence
.
They
came
the
same
night
,
that
Ovid
arriv'd
.
Junia
express'd
all
the
diligences
of
a
solicitous
Lover
,
to
regale
her
Ovid
with
a
Banquet
of
Music
,
for
his
first
welcome
to
Thalassia
;
and
as
the
intent
of
this
frolick
had
no
other
object
,
than
Ovid
,
she
gave
order
to
the
Musicians
to
tell
all
,
that
should
examine
them
,
that
Ovid
had
set
them
on
work
.
The
Inhabitants
were
much
surpriz'd
,
when
walking
in
the
evening
by
the
side
of
the
Lake
,
they
heard
the
noise
of
divers
voices
and
instruments
rebound
from
some
Boats
to
the
shore
,
which
were
purposely
prepar'd
for
that
Solemnity
.
Those
,
who
understood
not
the
mystery
look'd
upon
one
another
with
astonishment
,
and
enquir'd
,
Who
amongst
them
were
the
Authors
of
this
piece
of
Gallantry
?
Every
one
deny'd
it
;
you
will
perceive
presently
,
said
Ovid
smiling
,
that
we
ought
to
pay
our
thanks
to
Hortensius
for
it
.
He
has
an
intention
to
chastise
himself
for
a
fault
,
which
he
is
indebted
to
for
his
banishment
,
and
repealing
his
Error
,
dedicates
to
some
fair
Ilandress
this
public
testimony
of
his
conversion
.
These
false
Elogiums
,
reply'd
Hortensius
,
cannot
seduce
my
vanity
;
you
must
attack
me
by
some
more
subtle
stratagem
,
to
make
me
imitate
the
Crow
in
Aesop
:
And
I
shall
not
only
not
render
my self
guilty
of
dedicating
a
Treat
to
any
Thalassian
Lady
,
but
shall
esteem
the
suspition
,
or
thought
of
having
done
it
,
an
injury
,
I
will
not
say
to
the
honor
,
but
humor
,
of
Hortensius
.
This
is
only
a
glory
you
have
,
said
Junia
,
interrupting
him
,
to
make
the
vanity
of
your
ill
humor
,
more
conspicuous
.
I
do
not
think
it
worth
my
admiration
,
that
there
are
so
many
Souls
in
the
world
incapable
of
that
generous
Passion
;
the
Star
,
which
governs
the
sublunary
Empire
of
Love
,
is
doubtless
not
without
its
oppositions
;
and
the
Heavens
are
of
an
extent
vast
enough
to
comprise
two
contrary
influences
within
their
circumference
;
but
general
divertisements
are
the
innocent
effects
of
a
Gallantry
,
without
design
or
interest
,
and
like
the
Motto's
annex'd
to
honorable
Coats
of
Arms
,
may
be
practis'd
as
well
by
a
heart
wholly
unconcern'd
,
as
that
,
which
is
most
inflam'd
.
The
Spectacles
,
or
Games
,
reply'd
Hortensius
,
we
exhibit
to
the
People
,
or
the
Diversions
and
Recreations
we
present
to
our
Friends
,
may
bear
that
Motto
of
indifferency
,
you
have
character'd
to
us
;
but
those
which
are
wholly
consecrated
to
the
honor
of
Ladies
,
must
necessarily
include
a
design
to
please
and
oblige
the
Sex
,
which
I
never
was
,
nor
ever
shall
be
,
and
am
,
at
this
moment
,
in
despair
of
ever
being
capable
of
.
I
shall
pay
to
it
all
the
respects
,
a
person
of
honor
cannot
acquit
himself
from
without
incivility
;
and
if
any
one
of
them
should
be
reduc'd
to
that
streight
or
circumstance
,
which
should
call
upon
my
assistance
,
I
would
afford
it
her
with
as
much
fidelity
and
zeal
,
as
if
I
had
been
from
my
Cradle
a
profest
Lover
:
But
this
I
should
perform
,
by
a
principle
of
natural
compassion
,
which
is
capable
of
no
partiality
to
either
Sex
;
and
would
express
itself
with
as
much
concern
towards
the
most
unworthy
of
all
Men
,
as
the
fairest
of
all
Women
.
I
judge
this
indifferency
of
Hortensius
,
said
Roselina
,
may
be
a
vice
of
that
ill
temperament
,
which
nature
first
season'd
him
with
:
but
I
think
I
saw
another
way
,
to
derive
its
pedegree
:
the
aversion
he
has
for
our
Sex
,
is
too
violent
to
be
the
effect
only
of
an
antipathy
without
any
foundation
:
I
am
of
opinion
,
it
is
the
daughter
rather
of
Revenge
,
than
Nature
;
and
if
he
will
be
so
ingenious
,
as
to
avouch
the
truth
,
the
Memory
of
some
past
injuries
has
imprinted
this
character
in
his
Soul.
I
am
not
able
,
said
Lentulus
,
taking
up
the
discourse
,
to
satisfie
your
doubts
concerning
Hortensius
;
but
if
you
have
a
desire
to
be
resolv'd
of
those
concerning
the
Neptunian
harmony
,
I
can
assure
you
,
that
Ovid
is
the
Author
of
it
,
and
that
I
receiv'd
my
intelligence
from
the
Mouths
of
the
Musicians
themselves
.
This
News
surpriz'd
the
Company
with
wonder
,
which
could
not
sufficiently
admire
by
what
stratagem
Ovid
had
been
able
in
so
short
a
time
to
assemble
and
unite
,
in
one
body
,
the
various
parts
of
so
perfect
a
Consort
.
Some
call'd
him
Inchanter
,
others
desir'd
him
to
impart
some
of
his
Magick
to
them
,
and
every
one
render'd
him
the
subject
of
his
own
confusion
,
and
their
astonishment
.
He
had
set
foot
in
this
Island
,
in
a
humor
little
suiting
with
such
kind
of
diversions
:
He
was
scarce
thrown
ashore
,
when
he
encountred
his
two
Friends
,
and
since
that
Moment
Hortensius
had
never
been
out
of
his
company
;
he
desir'd
him
to
answer
for
his
innocence
,
and
free
him
from
those
undeserved
praises
,
they
charg'd
him
with
.
He
complain'd
of
Lentulus
for
having
been
the
Author
of
this
distasteful
Railery
,
and
conjur'd
him
,
not
without
a
little
passion
,
to
suppress
a
folly
which
had
sported
too
long
with
his
afflictions
,
and
was
so
disagreeable
a
Companion
for
them
.
His
Protestations
,
and
his
Complaints
,
were
not
regarded
,
but
as
the
effects
of
his
Modesty
;
and
whatever
he
could
alledge
in
his
excuse
,
the
honor
of
the
Pageant
was
fix'd
upon
him
.
He
was
troubled
to
be
made
the
Mask
to
anothers
disguise
:
which
caus'd
him
to
rise
very
early
the
next
Morning
,
to
find
out
the
Merchants
,
who
had
sold
their
lyes
and
labor
at
so
cheap
a
rate
:
He
could
not
speak
with
them
the
Evening
before
,
for
Lentulus
had
not
publish'd
what
they
had
told
him
;
till
after
the
Consort
was
ended
.
Ovid
hop'd
to
make
them
deny
,
what
they
had
said
,
and
discover
the
intrigue
of
this
pleasant
Mystery
,
but
his
most
diligent
search
could
not
retrieve
one
of
them
in
the
whole
Island
.
Junia
took
great
pleasure
in
the
success
of
her
innocent
Railery
and
to
give
herself
a
little
more
diversion
,
had
discharg'd
them
,
and
sent
them
away
,
who
by
break
of
day
embark'd
themselves
upon
a
Vessel
which
set
Sail
for
Bisantinus
.
Their
departure
much
displeas'd
Ovid
,
who
admired
,
that
Fortune
should
express
so
much
crossness
to
him
of
late
,
as
to
oppose
most
envious
obstacles
to
the
least
of
his
desires
:
and
these
reflexions
representing
him
to
the
feet
of
his
divine
Julia
in
her
private
Closet
,
brought
such
a
Melancholy
upon
him
,
that
he
could
not
in
that
condition
digest
the
thought
of
returning
to
Hortensius
.
He
took
his
walk
into
a
Meadow
,
which
his
wandring
fancy
conducted
him
to
:
where
he
had
scarce
measured
four
or
five
paces
,
when
he
perceiv'd
Roselina
tripping
over
the
farther
end
of
it
,
towards
a
Grove
of
Cypress
Trees
;
which
some
Outlaws
,
who
had
been
formerly
confin'd
to
the
place
,
had
probably
taken
pleasure
to
plant
there
.
Ovid
found
this
Stranger
so
charming
,
that
though
he
had
establish'd
Julia
in
the
throne
of
his
heart
,
for
the
sovereign
Empress
of
his
affections
,
yet
he
judg'd
he
should
not
turn
Traytor
to
the
principles
of
his
sworn
Loyalty
,
in
giving
a
slight
diversion
to
that
Mortal
discontent
,
which
for
her
absence
had
invaded
his
Soul.
He
followed
the
tract
of
Roselina
;
the
labyrinth
,
which
she
enter'd
into
,
had
been
design'd
for
a
solitary
retirement
;
where
the
paths
,
with
a
curious
artifice
interwoven
into
divers
innocent
knots
,
as
well
to
confound
each
other
,
as
the
unwary
Stranger
,
were
not
very
difficult
to
be
trac'd
through
all
their
implicite
Meanders
.
Ovid
,
with
a
little
trouble
,
was
guided
by
his
cautious
steps
,
to
a
green
square
,
encompass'd
round
with
flowry
banks
,
and
other
natural
seats
of
fragrant
verdure
,
which
seem'd
to
be
the
centre
of
this
pleasant
Wilderness
:
He
found
there
,
a
Guittar
and
Books
,
in
which
,
amongst
some
Musical
Notes
,
that
were
blur'd
and
torn
,
he
read
these
following
Verses
.
Shall
I
surrender
?
or
stand
to
my
arms
?
What
pow'r
is
able
to
resist
such
charms
?
Must
I
submit
then
tamely
to
my
fate
?
Perhaps
he
'll
such
an
easie
conquest
hate
.
Alas
!
poor
heart
,
methinks
I
hear
thee
say
,
Despair
to
hopes
has
dam'd
up
ev'ry
way
!
Whilst
thou
consultest
,
if
thou
ought'st
to
yield
,
Thou
hast
already
yielded
up
the
field
.
At
the
foot
of
these
Verses
,
there
were
divers
Cyphers
,
drawn
with
a
Pencil
,
wherein
the
Letters
,
that
compos'd
the
name
of
Ovid
,
were
easie
to
be
discern'd
.
He
flatter'd
himself
with
a
belief
,
that
his
secret
Mistriss
,
had
in
this
place
entertain'd
her
amorous
Passion
,
and
finding
the
method
,
by
which
she
exprest
it
,
very
ingenious
and
elegant
,
he
retorted
them
in
this
manner
.
You
must
surrender
,
and
lay
down
your
arms
;
You
need
to
use
no
other
,
than
your
charms
.
Y'
are
young
and
fair
;
then
doubt
not
but
your
fate
Will
make
us
a
quick
conquest
love
,
not
hate
:
And
since
my
heart
such
tender
things
does
say
,
To
make
't
despair
,
were
cruel
ev'ry
way
:
Whilst
y'
are
consulting
,
if
you
ought
to
yield
,
has
wholly
yielded
up
the
field
.
He
left
a
blank
for
his
name
,
as
well
not
to
hazard
an
indiscretion
,
as
to
oblige
the
Lady
,
to
explain
her self
first
;
and
skreening
himself
behind
a
bank
,
he
presently
saw
Roselina
enter
.
She
took
the
Guittar
,
which
she
touch'd
with
admirable
skill
and
sweetness
;
and
in
playing
,
cast
her
eyes
upon
the
Books
,
and
read
that
which
was
interlin'd
betwixt
the
Notes
,
as
one
would
read
a
thing
,
he
had
by
rote
before
.
She
was
present
,
when
Junia
made
those
Verses
that
morning
;
but
by
accident
throwing
down
the
Book
,
the
Leaves
turn'd
,
and
Roselina
discover'd
Ovid's
answer
to
them
.
She
read
it
over
more
than
once
,
and
stopping
at
the
place
,
where
Ovid
had
left
the
blank
for
his
name
,
she
seem'd
to
be
put
to
a
puzzle
,
to
find
out
something
to
fill
it
up
,
and
suddenly
casting
up
her
eyes
to
Heaven
,
and
clapping
her
hands
one
against
the
other
,
she
run
hastily
towards
the
track
,
which
guided
her
out
of
the
Labyrinth
.
She
need
not
have
done
any
more
,
to
assure
Ovid
,
that
his
desires
and
conjectures
had
not
deluded
him
.
He
made
not
the
least
scruple
,
but
that
Roselina
was
the
Party
,
whose
heart
his
Fame
had
led
in
triumph
after
him
;
and
congratulating
his
happy
Stars
for
this
their
benign
influence
,
he
resolv'd
to
make
it
the
diversion
of
his
banishment
.
Roselina
might
have
been
easily
overtaken
by
a
person
,
that
would
have
pursu'd
her
;
but
Ovid
,
was
an
experienc'd
Lover
,
and
knew
with
what
precaution
and
tenderness
he
ought
to
manage
the
bashful
Modesty
of
young
Ladies
,
and
leave
the
impression
of
the
first
attacks
,
to
receive
its
perfection
from
the
stamp
of
more
serious
reflexions
.
Roselina
commanded
as
much
liberty
to
retire
,
as
she
pleas'd
:
and
Ovid
quitted
not
his
post
,
till
he
thought
he
had
allow'd
her
sufficient
time
to
make
an
entire
retreat
:
when
all
transported
with
joy
,
that
he
had
made
so
happy
an
entrance
into
the
Temple
of
Venus
,
he
returned
to
Hortensius
,
where
he
found
Lentulus
,
who
willing
to
oblige
his
old
Friend
,
invited
him
to
dine
with
him
.
They
fell
again
upon
the
discourse
of
the
Musick
:
Ovid
renew'd
his
complaints
against
Lentulus
,
for
having
made
him
the
Subject
of
a
Railery
,
he
was
totally
ignorant
of
.
Lentulus
confirm'd
again
,
what
he
had
affirm'd
the
night
before
.
Ovid
seriously
protested
,
that
those
Musicians
had
told
him
a
great
untruth
;
adding
a
solemn
Oath
,
that
he
had
not
the
least
concern
,
or
knowledge
of
a
consort
,
as
miraculously
vanish'd
as
at
first
assembled
:
which
,
at
length
,
alter'd
the
opinion
of
Lentulus
;
and
at
the
same
time
the
gayetie
,
which
appear'd
before
,
in
his
countenance
.
Ovid
soon
took
notice
of
it
,
and
ask'd
him
the
cause
of
this
sudden
change
?
It
is
too
manifest
,
reply'd
Lentulus
,
that
I
am
betray'd
!
O
ye
gods
,
cry'd
he
,
fetching
a
deep
sigh
,
Is
it
possible
that
a
person
,
who
has
so
long
commanded
the
highest
adorations
of
my
Soul
,
should
be
capable
of
so
foul
a
treachery
?
We
shall
afford
you
our
advice
and
consolation
,
said
Hortensius
interrupting
him
,
as
soon
as
we
shall
be
informed
of
the
cause
of
these
extravagant
Exclamations
.
Alas
,
said
Lentulus
,
I
need
no
intreaties
to
satisfie
your
curiosity
:
A
person
in
my
condition
,
feels
a
greater
reluctancy
in
himself
,
to
conceal
a
secret
from
his
Friends
,
than
to
reveal
it
to
them
.
THE
HISTORY
OF
Lentulus
.
WHen
I
receiv'd
the
Emperors
Orders
to
march
the
second
time
against
the
Getes
,
and
reduce
them
to
their
Obedience
;
he
consider'd
this
Expedition
,
as
a
Work
only
of
some
few
Months
:
and
I
assure
you
,
I
my self
thought
it
not
of
that
importance
,
as
the
sequel
declar'd
it
.
I
was
acquainted
with
the
manner
of
fighting
,
the
military
Laws
and
Stratagems
of
that
People
:
This
experience
gave
me
great
advantages
over
them
.
Their
Revolt
was
yet
so
young
,
and
so
newly
crept
out
of
the
shell
of
Sedition
,
that
it
wanted
growth
and
age
to
establish
it
with
firmity
;
and
the
Troops
,
which
Caesar
committed
to
my
conduct
,
were
all
of
choice
and
select
men
.
In
the
mean
while
the
almost
inexpugnable
obstinacy
of
this
Nation
,
gave
me
more
trouble
and
laborious
exercise
,
than
I
could
have
imagin'd
:
and
prolong'd
a
War
for
two
whole
years
,
which
I
hop'd
to
have
concluded
in
less
than
one
Campagne
.
This
repugnance
provok'd
me
to
those
acts
of
severity
,
which
my
ordinary
temper
is
naturally
averse
from
.
I
sent
away
the
chief
Magistrates
of
some
of
their
Cities
,
to
plant
Colonies
in
the
desart
Islands
of
the
frozen
Sea
;
and
running
a
great
danger
of
my
life
in
an
Encounter
,
from
whence
the
Romans
were
forc'd
to
retire
with
loss
and
dishonor
,
I
cull'd
out
of
the
Prisoners
,
we
took
,
those
of
the
best
shapes
,
and
extraction
amongst
them
;
and
sent
them
,
as
a
Present
,
to
the
Officer
,
who
had
the
charge
of
the
Gladiators
.
This
revenge
was
the
most
rigorous
,
that
I
could
inflict
upon
those
obstinate
Getes
:
which
transported
them
to
that
rage
and
despair
,
that
a
few
dayes
after
I
had
taken
this
course
,
the
Sentinels
,
who
were
plac'd
round
my
Tent
,
took
a
young
Man
attempting
to
force
his
entrance
into
it
,
who
being
search'd
,
was
found
to
carry
a
dagger
conceal'd
about
him
.
He
was
brought
before
me
;
when
the
first
view
I
took
of
him
,
did
not
more
surprize
,
than
charm
my
admiration
.
He
seem'd
not
to
be
above
sixteen
,
or
seventeen
years
of
age
.
His
stature
scarce
reach'd
the
middle
size
of
Men
,
and
wanted
the
addition
of
some
years
to
give
it
its
just
proportion
:
but
yet
it
was
noble
and
of
generous
deportment
;
and
each
action
of
his
person
did
bear
the
stamp
and
character
of
a
charming
greatness
.
His
first
aspect
seem'd
,
by
a
secret
Magic
,
to
disarm
my
resolution
of
a
Revenge
,
to
the
rage
whereof
,
I
was
fully
bent
to
sacrifice
him
,
and
all
,
that
bore
the
name
of
Gete
.
I
ask'd
him
,
with
a
great
deal
of
sweetness
,
what
design
had
brought
him
into
my
Camp
?
and
for
what
intent
he
would
have
forc'd
an
entrance
into
my
Pavilion
?
To
have
kill'd
thee
,
if
it
had
been
possible
,
reply'd
the
fierce
Youth
;
my
rage
is
too
just
,
to
be
disown'd
;
and
the
only
regret
,
which
shall
attend
my
wretched
life
unto
those
infamous
tortures
,
to
which
I
know
,
thy
cruelty
will
soon
expose
it
,
is
to
outlive
the
effects
of
so
glorious
an
attempt
.
Alas
,
my
Friend
,
said
I
,
what
injustice
have
I
committed
against
thee
,
that
should
inspire
thy
fury
with
resentments
so
barbarous
and
so
criminal
?
Thou
hast
practis'd
,
said
he
,
against
me
,
one
of
the
most
sensible
acts
of
barbarism
,
which
was
in
thy
power
to
execute
upon
me
;
I
am
descended
of
a
blood
,
that
ought
to
be
of
some
consideration
amongst
the
Romans
.
Death
depriv'd
me
of
a
Father
and
a
Mother
,
at
an
age
,
when
I
was
only
capable
of
acknowledging
one
only
Brother
for
all
my
Relations
and
Parents
:
and
Barbarian
,
him
thou
hast
rob'd
me
of
;
and
being
insensible
of
the
charms
of
that
Youth
,
who
was
born
with
all
the
advantages
,
wherewith
nature
and
education
could
accomplish
him
,
hast
barbarously
added
him
to
the
number
of
the
Gladiators
,
for
a
worthy
spectacle
to
entertain
the
effeminacy
and
cruelty
of
the
Tyrant
of
Rome
:
and
the
first
,
perhaps
,
wherewith
he
designs
to
regale
the
lusts
of
the
Adultress
Livia
,
shall
be
exhibited
at
the
precious
expence
of
my
Brothers
life
.
Oh
ye
gods
,
went
he
on
,
(
whose
fury
this
reflexion
had
inflam'd
,
)
is
it
possible
,
that
after
an
act
of
such
inhumanity
,
I
should
tamely
look
upon
thee
with
calmness
,
speak
to
thee
,
and
not
revenge
upon
thy
loathed
person
,
the
injury
thou
hast
perpetrated
against
the
blood
of
Herennius
?
In
pronouncing
these
last
words
,
with
a
savage
fury
he
would
have
darted
himself
in
my
face
:
which
second
attempt
,
having
turn'd
the
points
of
more
than
twenty
javelins
upon
his
breast
,
had
soon
receiv'd
its
due
chastisement
,
had
not
I
interpos'd
my self
betwixt
him
and
the
indiscreet
zeal
of
those
,
that
were
ready
at
so
many
gaps
to
let
forth
his
desperate
life
.
I
pretended
,
I
would
wheedle
out
of
him
some
discoveries
,
which
might
concern
my
own
safety
;
and
I
gave
order
,
he
should
be
kept
under
a
strict
Guard
,
in
a
Chamber
near
mine
.
This
command
wanted
not
an
appearance
of
reason
;
because
it
was
not
improbable
,
but
that
he
might
have
some
Complices
:
And
supposing
I
had
an
intent
to
put
him
to
death
,
it
ought
to
be
such
a
death
,
as
might
strike
a
terror
,
into
all
such
,
as
might
be
engag'd
with
him
in
the
same
design
.
But
these
considerations
were
not
the
Motives
of
my
preserving
his
life
:
another
more
unknown
and
secret
instinct
render'd
it
as
dear
to
me
,
as
my
own
.
I
was
more
surpriz'd
,
than
he
himself
,
when
they
presented
their
Javelins
to
his
throat
;
and
if
my
voice
had
not
been
sufficient
to
avert
the
danger
,
which
threaten'd
him
,
I
think
I
should
have
oppos'd
my
own
breast
for
a
buckler
,
to
have
defended
his
.
When
I
found
my self
alone
,
and
enter'd
into
a
serious
reflexion
upon
the
subject
of
these
extravagant
sentiments
,
which
so
insensibly
incroach'd
upon
my
reason
,
I
impeach'd
it
of
weakness
and
effeminacy
;
and
was
ready
to
open
my
mouth
a
thousand
times
,
to
give
command
to
have
an
object
,
which
with
so
infamous
a
distemper
infected
my
judgment
,
remov'd
out
of
the
world
by
most
exquisite
tortures
,
but
I
had
never
the
power
,
to
pronounce
the
sentence
,
which
hung
upon
my
lips
.
Some
Demon
,
or
other
enemy
to
my
repose
and
glory
,
had
charm'd
my
tongue
,
and
allow'd
me
only
the
use
of
it
,
to
give
order
to
have
the
Criminal
brought
again
to
my
presence
.
I
said
,
and
believ'd
too
at
that
time
,
that
I
had
no
other
intent
in
causing
him
to
be
arraign'd
before
me
,
than
by
some
curious
questions
,
to
extort
an
humble
confession
from
him
:
But
as
soon
as
I
cast
my
eyes
upon
him
,
so
sudden
a
fear
possest
me
,
lest
he
should
answer
like
a
desperate
and
stubborn
wretch
,
and
by
that
obstinacy
provoke
me
to
a
necessity
of
inflicting
death
upon
him
even
against
my
will
,
that
I
did
not
dare
to
propose
one
question
to
him
:
I
pretended
generosity
;
and
told
some
Officers
,
whom
the
report
of
this
accident
had
brought
to
my
Tent
,
that
if
the
attempt
of
the
Gete
had
aim'd
at
any
of
their
persons
,
he
should
have
receiv'd
his
due
punishment
,
at
the
same
Moment
I
had
been
made
acquainted
with
it
;
but
since
it
was
only
level'd
at
mine
,
I
would
willingly
force
my
own
resentments
to
subscribe
to
the
ambition
I
had
,
to
try
all
manner
of
wayes
to
conquer
the
rigor
and
obdurateness
of
that
stiff
Nation
.
We
ought
to
make
an
experiment
,
said
I
,
whether
these
People
may
not
be
more
sensible
of
our
generosity
,
than
severity
.
I
will
give
this
young
Fellow
his
life
,
restore
to
him
his
Brother
,
oblige
him
with
Presents
,
and
send
him
away
with
his
liberty
,
to
proclaim
amongst
his
Countreymen
,
that
the
Romans
never
exercise
their
rigor
,
but
upon
the
obstinate
and
incorrigible
;
and
that
when
the
fortune
only
of
Mars
renders
them
Masters
of
their
Enemies
,
they
treat
them
,
like
Brothers
.
This
opinion
of
mine
found
but
few
assenters
amongst
them
;
and
those
,
who
oppos'd
it
,
were
doubtless
endu'd
with
most
judgment
and
reason
:
But
I
did
not
propose
it
to
them
,
as
if
I
ask'd
their
advice
in
the
case
,
but
as
if
I
had
done
them
the
favor
to
communicate
it
to
them
,
as
a
resolution
already
fix'd
and
establish'd
.
I
made
a
sign
to
the
Prisoner
to
draw
nearer
to
me
;
who
approaching
,
I
exhorted
him
never
to
attempt
base
and
indirect
wayes
,
to
revenge
himself
of
his
Enemies
;
and
after
a
long
discourse
,
wherewith
the
standers
by
seem'd
to
be
more
mov'd
,
than
the
sullen
Gete
,
I
concluded
by
declaring
to
him
,
that
I
granted
him
a
life
,
his
treason
had
forfeited
,
together
with
the
liberty
of
his
Brother
.
The
Youth
seem'd
to
be
transported
beyond
himself
with
a
rapture
of
joy
at
this
generous
effect
of
my
clemency
;
and
casting
himself
at
my
feet
,
with
a
stream
of
tears
,
(
which
seem'd
even
thorow
my
breast
to
have
found
a
channel
to
convey
themselves
to
my
heart
)
purling
down
his
cheeks
ah
!
Lentulus
,
said
he
,
a
Person
truly
worthy
to
bear
the
name
of
Roman
;
thou
hast
this
day
purchas'd
a
fame
,
which
shall
make
more
Nations
bow
to
the
Sceptre
of
Caesar
,
than
thy
most
victorious
Arms
could
ever
pretend
to
.
My
Brother
shall
employ
that
life
and
honor
,
thou
hast
here
preserv'd
,
to
render
himself
worthy
of
thy
matchless
generosity
.
As
for
my self
,
I
am
only
capable
of
offering
up
vows
and
oraisons
to
Heaven
for
the
augmentation
of
thy
glory
,
and
the
preservation
of
thy
precious
life
.
This
hand
the
gods
never
shap'd
for
Sword
or
Lance
,
it
was
fury
only
that
arm'd
it
;
and
to
disguise
nothing
from
a
Person
,
to
whom
I
owe
all
,
know
I
am
a
Woman
,
and
that
thou
hast
preserv'd
the
blood
of
a
renowned
Roman
,
in
preservation
of
my
Brother
,
and
my self
.
Imagine
in
your
thoughts
the
surprize
,
I
was
in
,
at
this
attestation
:
I
had
before
a
blind
inclination
to
protect
the
life
of
that
audacious
Youth
,
but
when
this
inclination
saw
it self
in
a
capacity
to
be
own'd
as
a
legitimate
Love
,
it
grew
like
a
Giant
,
as
I
may
say
,
in
the
Cradle
,
and
in
a
Moment
attain'd
to
that
Maturity
and
Strength
,
that
as
no
eloquence
in
the
Mouth
of
another
was
able
to
confute
it
,
so
none
in
my
own
,
is
capable
to
give
it
its
due
character
.
I
hastily
rais'd
the
fair
Counterfeit
,
I
a
thousand
times
beg'd
her
pardon
for
the
ill
treatment
she
had
receiv'd
both
from
me
,
and
my
People
:
The
confusion
of
my
countenance
and
discourse
,
more
clearly
discover'd
to
her
,
what
was
agitated
at
the
Counsel-Table
of
my
heart
,
than
the
most
flourishing
Rhetorick
,
was
able
to
have
express'd
.
She
soon
perceiv'd
it
;
and
if
I
may
allow
credit
to
the
asseveration
of
a
Woman
,
a
sense
of
gratitude
wrought
the
same
effects
in
her
fair
Soul
,
as
her
beauty
did
in
mine
.
I
understood
from
her
,
that
she
was
call'd
Herennia
,
and
descended
from
that
famous
Herennius
,
who
follow'd
Sertorius
into
Spain
at
the
time
of
the
Tyranous
Reign
of
Sylla
.
Herennia
was
not
the
own
proper
daughter
of
that
Herennius
,
she
was
too
young
;
but
she
was
the
daughter
of
a
son
of
that
illustrious
Proscript
:
who
,
after
his
Fathers
death
,
having
scatter'd
the
miserable
Relicks
both
of
his
own
,
and
his
Fathers
wandring
Errors
over
most
Parts
of
the
Universe
,
at
last
fix'd
his
Residence
amongst
the
Getes
;
and
had
by
a
Lady
,
of
an
incomparable
beauty
,
whom
he
had
espous'd
,
this
Herennia
,
and
the
young
Herennius
.
They
were
Twins
,
and
were
left
Orphans
,
almost
as
soon
as
they
fell
into
the
arms
of
the
wide
World
;
and
had
had
their
Education
under
a
Roman
,
a
Domestick
of
their
Grandfather
,
who
had
instructed
them
in
the
Latine
Tongue
.
Old
Herennius
did
after
the
death
of
Sertorius
retire
into
the
Baleare
Islands
,
whither
the
Tutor
to
the
two
young
Infants
follow'd
him
,
and
there
learn'd
the
Spanish
Tongue
,
which
he
afterwards
taught
his
Pupils
.
He
was
a
great
Master
in
divers
Arts
and
Sciences
,
which
were
requisite
for
the
accomplishment
of
Persons
of
Quality
;
nor
had
he
been
a
Niggard
in
imparting
them
to
the
two
Herennian
Orphans
;
and
finding
them
richly
indu'd
with
natural
capacities
,
had
render'd
them
two
Prodigies
,
of
Learning
,
Wit
and
Education
.
These
things
did
she
recount
to
me
with
an
excellent
grace
,
and
testifi'd
an
impatient
desire
of
seeing
the
Native
Countrey
of
her
Ancestors
.
I
promis'd
her
to
conduct
her
thither
,
as
soon
as
the
War
was
ended
;
and
ever
after
I
caus'd
her
to
be
treated
like
a
Roman
of
Quality
,
whose
Renowned
Predecessors
Fortune
had
before
as
unjustly
ravish'd
from
,
as
now
again
it
had
miraculously
restor'd
to
Italy
.
I
re-invested
her
likewise
in
those
Lands
,
which
belong'd
to
her
in
the
Territories
of
the
Getes
;
all
which
were
then
lately
fallen
into
the
power
of
the
Romans
:
I
made
a
distinction
betwixt
those
,
and
our
other
Conquests
;
and
appointed
certain
Troops
to
guard
them
,
as
if
they
had
been
a
part
of
the
Patrimony
of
the
Empire
.
The
young
Herennius
was
set
at
liberty
by
the
Captain
of
the
Gladiators
,
and
honor'd
with
such
Charges
,
as
his
age
was
capable
of
,
in
our
Army
;
but
he
did
not
continue
long
in
them
,
for
he
left
the
Camp
by
stealth
,
and
since
his
departure
,
we
could
never
gain
any
intelligence
of
him
.
The
favors
I
confer'd
upon
Herennius
,
and
those
wherewith
I
daily
studied
to
oblige
his
Sister
,
did
purchase
me
her
entire
good
will
,
and
as
she
was
of
a
candid
integrity
,
and
her
intentions
sincere
,
she
made
no
scruple
to
declare
to
me
,
the
real
sentiments
she
had
for
me
.
That
Summers
Campania
was
drawing
to
an
end
,
and
my
Troops
began
to
look
towards
their
Winter-quarters
;
Herennia
made
her
ordinary
Residence
in
a
House
,
not
far
distant
from
the
Camp.
I
entertain'd
all
the
leisure
my
duty
would
permit
me
to
steal
from
my
charge
,
in
her
conversation
:
I
promised
you
,
said
she
to
me
one
day
,
if
you
remember
,
only
oraisons
and
vows
in
exchange
,
for
the
life
you
gave
me
,
and
the
liberty
you
promis'd
my
Brother
:
And
since
your
generosity
has
not
confin'd
it self
to
the
limits
of
your
bare
word
,
my
gratitude
thinks
it self
oblig'd
too
,
not
to
contain
it self
within
the
bounds
of
a
single
acknowledgment
;
I
challenge
,
methinks
,
a
more
sensible
interest
in
all
that
relates
to
you
,
than
a
bare
sense
of
a
favor
is
capable
of
producing
.
I
ought
to
pay
you
a
respect
,
as
to
the
General
of
the
Romans
;
and
though
I
had
no
other
interest
in
your
Concerns
,
than
what
the
Memory
of
the
Obligations
I
owe
you
begets
in
me
,
your
preservation
and
felicity
ought
to
be
held
by
me
in
the
same
rank
with
mine
own
:
But
when
I
consider
you
within
the
reach
of
any
danger
,
those
Obligations
present
themselves
no
more
to
my
thoughts
,
but
the
preservation
only
of
the
person
of
Lentulus
,
which
I
prefer
before
the
devoir
of
an
acknowledgment
;
and
if
interest
moved
you
to
act
,
as
you
have
done
,
you
ought
to
repent
your self
,
that
you
have
oblig'd
me
:
for
,
methinks
,
the
sense
of
your
favors
,
have
no
alliance
at
all
with
the
sentiments
,
I
find
in
my
breast
for
you
.
O!
Adorable
Herennia
,
cry'd
I
,
may
you
ever
forget
in
that
manner
the
Obligations
,
for
which
you
think
your self
redevable
to
me
:
they
are
but
acts
of
justice
,
which
merit
not
a
place
in
your
thoughts
,
and
can
only
charge
me
with
the
praise
of
having
perform'd
my
devoir
:
But
may
you
ever
,
ever
remember
,
that
Lentulus
adores
you
;
that
the
terrible
shape
,
wherein
you
first
presented
your self
to
his
view
,
could
not
defend
his
heart
against
the
effects
of
your
charms
;
and
that
he
shall
love
you
to
the
last
Moment
of
his
Life
with
a
Passion
,
no
Lovers
heart
was
ever
yet
capable
of
.
That
which
you
would
have
me
forget
,
said
Herennia
interrupting
me
,
ought
perhaps
with
more
Reason
to
challenge
a
place
in
my
Memory
,
than
that
which
you
desire
I
should
retein
.
You
have
effectually
snatch'd
me
out
of
the
jaws
of
death
,
into
which
my
fury
would
have
precipitated
me
:
the
Liberty
of
my
Brother
,
is
an
essential
favor
;
the
Obligations
,
you
have
heap'd
upon
me
,
are
real
Obligations
,
and
your
Love
,
perhaps
,
may
not
have
the
same
solidity
:
It
is
a
Chimera
,
which
time
will
dissipate
without
your
permission
;
but
yet
by
a
Magick
,
which
my
strongest
Resolutions
cannot
conquer
,
this
Chimera
charms
my
Soul
with
a
more
real
delight
,
than
a
Verity
would
do
of
more
importance
.
There
is
no
necessity
that
I
should
farther
enlarge
my self
upon
this
subject
,
added
Lentulus
,
the
indifferent
Hortensius
will
dispense
with
a
more
tedious
recital
of
such
delicate
circumstances
;
and
the
Amorous
Ovid
comprehends
as
well
as
my self
,
the
Raptures
they
infus'd
into
my
Soul
,
which
did
banquet
upon
them
in
all
peace
and
tranquility
,
till
Tiberius
came
like
an
intruding
Guest
,
and
intrench'd
upon
the
bounds
of
my
felicity
:
He
envy'd
the
credit
and
favor
of
Marcellus
;
and
the
prudent
Livia
fearing
the
ill
consequences
of
his
Malice
,
had
persuaded
the
Emperor
to
dispatch
him
away
towards
me
,
with
some
new
Levies
he
had
made
,
to
reinforce
the
Getish
War
;
the
Orders
of
Tiberius
,
were
nothing
different
from
those
,
I
had
receiv'd
from
Caesar
;
and
it
appear'd
by
the
limitations
of
them
,
that
Tiberius
was
sent
to
me
rather
as
a
Collegue
,
than
a
General
:
But
I
in
him
regarded
the
Son
of
an
ambitious
Empress
,
and
without
any
repugnance
resign'd
to
him
the
honor
of
the
Supreme
Command
;
which
he
manag'd
at
first
with
moderation
enough
.
And
if
the
attempt
of
Herennia
had
never
been
known
to
him
,
I
believe
we
might
have
at
this
hour
held
a
fair
correspondence
together
:
but
the
report
of
it
being
convey'd
to
him
,
by
one
of
those
Tale-brokers
which
follow
Camps
,
as
well
as
Courts
,
he
consider'd
it
as
an
Adventure
so
singular
and
admirable
,
that
he
would
needs
see
her
.
A
secret
presage
within
my
Soul
rendred
this
curiosity
suspected
to
it
;
I
endeavour'd
to
divert
it
with
all
the
arguments
my
jealousie
suggested
to
me
but
being
able
to
frame
none
,
but
what
his
obstinacy
was
resolved
to
confute
.
Tiberius
would
not
be
convinc'd
▪
nor
could
I
excuse
my self
from
conducting
him
to
the
house
were
she
was
.
I
will
declare
so
much
in
the
honor
of
the
beautiful
Herennia
;
she
observ'd
those
precautions
in
all
her
actions
before
him
,
that
I
could
not
have
exacted
from
her
.
She
supprest
part
of
the
natural
vivacity
of
her
Spirit
,
and
only
suffer'd
him
to
discover
,
what
was
impossible
for
her
to
disguise
from
him
;
whilst
her
deportment
was
wholly
divested
of
that
gaity
and
all
which
gave
it
at
other
times
a
most
charming
grace
:
her
regards
were
modest
and
constrain'd
:
in
a
word
,
Hirennia
,
that
offer'd
her self
then
to
the
eyes
of
Tiberius
,
was
not
the
same
Herennia
,
that
in
our
private
Converse
us'd
to
present
her self
to
mine
;
but
yet
though
she
affected
to
appear
so
wholly
alter'd
from
her self
,
she
had
not
the
power
not
to
charm
Tiberius
.
This
Prince
is
one
of
the
greatest
dissemblers
in
the
Universe
;
for
a
while
he
disguis'd
his
thought
;
but
perceiving
,
in
some
visits
he
afterwards
made
to
Herennia
,
that
I
had
a
Passion
for
her
,
and
she
some
appearance
of
good
will
for
me
,
his
jealousie
for
that
time
became
his
Master
,
and
transported
him
beyond
the
Politicks
of
his
dissimulation
;
you
have
taken
your
leave
of
a
fair
opportunity
,
said
he
to
me
one
day
,
of
making
your
court
to
Caesar
,
by
giving
liberty
to
a
Daughter
of
the
Herennius's
;
you
might
have
made
a
onsiderable
Present
to
the
Emperor
in
the
person
of
this
Slave
;
and
if
you
will
bestow
her
upon
me
to
make
one
to
the
Empress
,
you
shall
in
exchange
command
any
thing
of
me
,
that
lies
in
my
power
to
oblige
you
.
I
Sir
,
cry'd
I
,
all
surpriz'd
,
Can
I
deliver
up
to
you
,
in
the
quality
of
a
Slave
,
a
young
Daughter
of
the
Blood
of
Herennius
?
Oh
Sir
!
said
I
,
are
you
ignorant
of
the
Prerogatives
which
like
so
many
Gems
in
an
Imperial
Diadem
,
incircle
the
glorious
name
of
a
Roman
?
Herennia
is
your
Compatriot
as
well
as
mine
;
if
the
Caprice
of
fortune
has
for
some
time
depriv'd
her
of
the
advantages
her
birth
gave
her
,
it
could
not
deprive
her
of
the
Rights
of
it
:
and
instead
of
rendring
a
service
to
the
Emperor
,
in
detaining
Herennia
in
slavery
,
I
am
convinc'd
,
that
Caesar
would
enter
into
Arms
to
protect
her
from
it
,
if
any
one
should
be
so
presumptuous
as
to
attempt
to
impose
unworthy
Chains
upon
her
liberty
.
The
Blood
of
Herennius
,
reply'd
Tyberius
,
is
not
so
recommmendable
to
Caesar
,
as
you
seem
to
persuade
your self
:
he
was
one
of
those
Rebels
disguised
,
who
under
pretence
of
establishing
Rome
in
a
liberty
which
she
is
too
fortunate
to
have
forfeited
now
to
so
glorious
a
Change
,
did
miserably
dilaniate
the
State
by
their
divisions
;
and
sacrificed
the
chief
of
the
Roman
Nobility
to
their
private
Lusts
and
Interests
.
The
persons
you
mention
Sir
,
said
I
,
were
never
branded
with
that
Title
,
but
by
the
enemies
of
the
publick
Liberty
.
None
dare
deny
but
that
the
Reign
of
Augustus
ought
to
be
preferr'd
before
that
Liberty
,
which
Sertorius
and
the
Grandfather
of
Herennia
did
with
such
pertinacy
defend
.
But
Sir
,
when
they
declared
themselves
the
Protectors
of
it
,
it
was
not
Caesar
that
invaded
it
.
And
I
doubt
not
but
they
would
have
unanimously
deferr'd
it
to
the
high
merit
of
Augustus
,
what
they
disputed
with
the
tyrannous
ambition
of
Sylla
:
And
though
Caesar
should
consider
them
no
otherwise
than
as
the
second
causes
,
which
Heaven
employ'd
to
wrest
the
Empire
out
of
the
hands
of
a
bloody
Marius
,
and
Sylla
,
to
conserve
it
for
the
Caesarian
Race
,
I
assure
my self
he
would
have
no
dis-esteem
for
their
memory
.
The
Emperor
has
too
much
reason
,
reply'd
Tiberius
,
not
to
entertain
a
just
resentment
for
all
such
,
as
oppos'd
the
establishment
of
the
Soverain
Power
;
he
is
sensible
that
the
same
persons
,
who
ran
counter
to
the
designs
of
Sylla
,
would
have
gloried
to
have
been
the
Assassins
of
the
Great
Julius
,
had
they
lived
in
his
Age.
They
were
a
company
of
opiniatre
and
ambitious
Spirits
,
who
judging
that
the
World
could
not
discover
sufficient
merit
in
them
to
elevate
them
to
the
Throne
of
Sovereign
Authority
,
would
like
so
many
bloody
Anatomists
,
dissect
it
into
variety
of
parts
,
that
each
one
might
possess
a
parcell'd
Empire
for
his
share
.
The
person
of
Marius
,
or
that
of
Sylla
,
or
that
of
Augustus
,
would
have
challeng'd
the
same
Rank
in
their
levelling
thoughts
.
It
is
a
Maxime
of
State
to
destroy
all
the
young
Sciens
of
that
Seditious
Race
:
If
Herennia
had
been
the
only
remaining
Branch
of
the
rebellious
Stock
of
Herennius
,
something
might
have
been
allow'd
to
her
Sex
;
but
she
has
a
Brother
,
who
has
lately
by
a
surreptitious
attempt
convey'd
himself
out
of
the
reach
of
our
Power
;
and
therefore
is
but
justice
,
that
his
Sister
should
remain
a
Pledge
for
him
;
and
if
you
persist
in
〈◊〉
defence
,
I
shall
be
forc'd
to
advertise
the
Emperor
of
your
obstinacy
,
and
cause
her
to
be
secured
till
I
receive
farther
Orders
from
Caesar
.
Upon
this
discovery
of
the
ill
intentions
of
Tiberius
.
I
thought
to
have
made
my
resentments
whisper
a
harsh
language
in
his
ear
;
but
I
was
afraid
to
create
any
division
in
the
Army
.
I
impos'd
a
great
constraint
upon
my self
,
to
avoid
an
inconvenience
of
that
importance
;
and
protesting
that
the
Person
of
Herennia
was
wholly
indifferent
to
me
,
I
only
represented
to
Tiberius
,
that
he
ought
to
consult
the
opinion
of
the
chief
Officers
,
touching
the
regard
due
to
the
sacred
name
of
a
Roman
.
Tiberius
readily
assented
to
this
proposition
:
he
doubted
not
,
but
that
the
title
of
the
Son
of
Livia
would
captivate
the
suffrages
of
the
whole
Council
to
his
own
desires
.
And
to
speak
the
truth
,
the
credit
of
the
Empress
was
so
formidable
to
the
greatest
part
of
the
Romans
,
that
Tiberius
had
perhaps
succeeded
in
his
design
,
had
I
allow'd
him
the
leisure
to
proceed
in
it
.
I
went
the
same
night
to
Herennia
,
and
giving
her
a
brief
account
of
what
had
happen'd
,
I
possest
her
with
such
an
horror
of
Tiberius's
intentions
,
that
she
protested
to
me
,
she
was
resolv'd
to
run
all
hazards
,
to
conserve
her
liberty
.
I
provided
her
a
faithful
guide
,
a
Captain
of
a
Cohort
,
in
whom
I
could
repose
at
entire
confidence
;
to
him
I
committed
her
conduct
;
and
allowing
her
only
one
of
her
Relations
to
accompany
her
,
who
was
desirous
to
share
in
her
fortune
,
I
convey'd
her
into
this
Island
,
to
attend
here
under
the
name
of
Roselina
,
a
more
favourable
destiny
,
than
that
the
Getish
Camp
presented
to
her
.
How
,
said
Ovid
,
interrupting
Lentulus
,
is
Roselina
that
same
Herennia
,
whose
History
you
here
recount
to
us
?
And
is
it
Roselina
,
of
whose
affections
,
you
so
confidently
assure
your self
?
Roselina
,
reply'd
Lentulus
,
is
the
very
same
person
,
who
captivated
my
affections
,
the
first
minute
I
beheld
her
under
the
name
of
Herennia
,
and
shall
command
them
to
the
last
moment
of
my
life
,
under
what
title
soever
she
shall
be
pleas'd
to
honor
the
World
with
her
disguise
:
But
oh
!
ye
gods
,
she
is
now
no
longer
that
Herennia
,
from
whom
amongst
the
Getes
I
receiv'd
such
tender
demonstrations
of
her
affection
.
Tiberius
was
not
advertised
of
the
departure
of
our
Fugitives
,
but
when
it
was
not
possible
for
him
to
retrieve
them
:
which
transported
him
to
the
highest
degree
of
rage
;
but
thinking
it
safe
for
him
directly
to
attack
my
Person
,
which
he
knew
was
in
good
esteem
with
the
Soldiery
,
he
vented
his
fury
upon
some
of
the
Cavalry
,
whom
I
had
made
choice
of
for
her
Convoy
.
He
laid
to
their
charge
the
Crime
of
Desertion
,
and
proceeded
against
them
as
Criminals
convicted
.
I
vigorously
oppos'd
my self
against
a
course
of
so
much
injustice
,
and
declar'd
,
that
they
had
not
left
the
Camp
,
but
by
my
leave
.
This
it
was
,
which
gave
him
a
fair
ope
at
me
,
as
he
imagin'd
:
whereupon
he
published
a
Remonstrance
against
my
Conduct
;
charg'd
me
with
holding
intelligence
with
some
principal
Getes
,
imputed
the
protraction
of
the
War
to
the
private
employs
,
upon
which
I
put
the
Imperial
Forces
,
and
dispatching
away
his
accusations
to
the
Emperor
,
he
engag'd
the
credit
of
Livia
so
powerfully
against
me
,
that
Augustus
caused
me
to
be
cited
before
the
Senate
,
to
render
an
account
of
my
proceedings
.
The
whole
Army
can
testifie
my
fidelity
;
and
though
the
reduction
of
the
Getes
requir'd
more
time
than
I
at
first
apprehended
,
yet
the
services
I
perform'd
against
those
Rebels
,
are
not
perhaps
unworthy
that
reputation
the
World
does
flatter
me
with
:
But
the
favor
of
Livia
was
not
to
be
ballanced
,
either
with
evidence
,
or
justice
.
I
left
the
Camp
,
as
if
I
had
addrest
my
journy
towards
Rome
;
but
as
it
is
never
safe
for
a
Subject
to
lay
his
head
at
the
foot
of
his
Sovereign
,
neither
was
it
any
longer
in
my
power
,
to
live
without
the
sight
of
Herennia
,
I
resolv'd
to
dedicate
all
the
time
my
friends
judg'd
necessary
for
the
quallifying
the
indignation
of
Caesar
,
to
my
charming
Amour
.
Cepion
only
,
who
is
my
particular
friend
,
is
acquainted
with
the
place
of
my
retreat
:
he
remains
still
in
the
Camp
,
from
whence
he
advertises
me
,
of
what
is
acted
against
my
interest
there
;
and
by
a
Correspondent
which
I
have
at
Lesbos
,
I
receive
certain
intelligence
what
state
my
affairs
are
in
at
Rome
.
The
reception
I
have
hitherto
received
from
Roselina
,
has
been
conformable
to
the
Sentiments
I
have
always
observed
in
Herennia
;
till
some
few
days
since
,
I
was
sensible
of
an
alteration
.
I
have
two
or
three
times
surprised
her
reading
some
Love-verses
,
whereof
she
refused
to
discover
the
Author
.
She
has
daily
some
secret
or
other
to
impart
to
Junia
,
wherein
she
will
not
do
me
the
honor
to
be
her
Confident
.
The
night
before
yesterday
,
a
little
after
your
arrival
,
she
dropt
some
Tablets
,
filled
with
the
amorous
Complaints
of
a
Heart
,
forc'd
〈◊〉
to
render
it self
to
the
violence
of
an
imperious
Passion
;
she
found
me
perusing
them
;
and
perceiving
they
gave
me
a
sensible
disquiet
,
instead
of
endeavouring
to
calm
it
,
she
strove
to
laugh
me
out
of
it
,
and
told
me
with
a
brisk
air
in
her
countenance
(
which
had
almost
plung'd
me
into
the
deepest
precipice
of
despair
)
that
the
assurance
of
a
reciprocal
love
,
transported
Lovers
into
an
Elysium
of
Joy
and
Content
;
and
that
it
was
no
small
satisfaction
to
her
,
to
see
that
mine
was
capable
of
fear
and
apprehension
.
When
I
desired
her
to
inform
me
who
it
was
,
that
Presented
her
with
those
amorous
Lines
,
I
daily
observ'd
in
her
hands
;
she
answered
me
,
I
was
too
inquisitive
,
and
protesting
that
she
could
not
impart
the
Secret
to
me
,
without
rendring
her self
unworthy
of
my
esteem
,
she
always
tyrannically
treats
me
with
a
scornful
reserve
,
Yesterday
,
when
I
came
to
inform
the
Company
,
what
I
had
learnt
from
the
mouths
of
the
Musicians
themselves
,
she
cast
her
eyes
upon
Junia
:
when
presently
with
their
wanton
smiles
they
began
a
Dialogue
betwixt
each
other
,
in
a
language
none
could
interpret
but
themselves
:
I
perceiv'd
they
made
a
rallery
of
my
error
,
and
understood
by
some
broken
words
they
whisper'd
to
each
other
,
that
that
Musical
Consort
included
a
Mystery
,
we
were
ignorant
of
.
I
am
doubtless
betray'd
;
Roselina
is
inconstant
;
but
oh
!
I
know
not
upon
whom
to
fix
the
suspition
of
her
infidelity
.
I
see
no
person
in
this
Island
,
who
deserves
the
character
of
my
Rival
.
Tisienus
is
an
ambitious
Reserve
,
whose
proceedings
pretend
to
no
conformity
with
the
effects
of
Love.
Hortensius
is
a
declar'd
Enemy
to
that
Passion
.
Ovid
,
whom
I
should
fear
more
than
all
the
World
besides
,
has
been
embarkt
but
two
days
in
this
our
Society
.
All
others
who
inhabit
this
wild
Solitude
,
are
either
employed
in
concerns
of
another
nature
,
or
else
not
worthy
to
have
any
with
Roselina
;
yet
in
the
mean
time
there
is
some
person
,
or
other
within
it
,
whom
she
affects
.
I
have
a
Rival
,
but
cannot
find
him
;
and
the
more
trouble
I
give
my self
to
discover
him
,
the
more
conceall'd
he
remains
from
me
.
Ovid
,
with
a
great
deal
of
delight
gave
ear
to
the
complaints
of
Lentulus
,
he
doubted
not
,
but
that
he
himself
was
the
secret
cause
of
this
alteration
of
Roselina
,
and
tickling
his
imagination
with
the
pleasing
fancy
of
being
made
the
Confident
of
his
Rival
,
there
was
no
kind
of
malitious
question
,
wherewith
,
as
with
a
picquant
sauce
,
he
did
not
endeavor
to
season
the
Banquet
,
which
fortune
,
as
he
thought
,
had
prepar'd
to
regale
his
wanton
palate
.
But
,
said
he
to
Lentulus
,
do
not
suffer
your self
to
be
abus
d
by
a
groundless
nicety
.
Roselina
is
perhaps
the
same
person
here
,
as
Herennia
was
amongst
the
Getes
:
It
is
nothing
,
but
a
caprice
of
jealousie
,
which
presents
her
now
to
your
thought
in
another
shape
.
Oh!
cry'd
Lentulus
,
I
am
neither
jealous
,
nor
capricious
;
I
enjoy'd
so
sweet
a
satisfaction
in
the
thoughts
of
being
lov'd
by
Herennia
,
that
if
my
heart
had
cause
to
fear
a
surprize
,
it
would
have
been
from
too
great
a
confidence
,
not
a
groundless
jealousie
,
of
the
affections
of
the
divine
Roselina
.
I
have
an
inclination
to
suffer
my self
to
be
deceived
,
and
was
willing
that
she
should
put
the
cheat
upon
me
;
but
the
ingrateful
One
will
not
afford
me
the
pity
to
be
cheated
by
her
.
I
met
her
yesterday
coming
forth
of
an
artificial
Wilderness
,
which
is
in
this
Island
,
and
which
doubtless
(
said
he
,
looking
upon
Ovid
)
you
have
not
yet
had
the
time
to
visits
she
held
some
Papers
in
her
hand
,
wherein
I
saw
her
read
something
;
I
askt
her
what
it
was
:
she
might
,
if
she
had
pleased
,
have
answered
,
that
it
was
a
trifle
not
worth
my
perusal
;
for
the
least
syllable
she
could
have
pronounc'd
,
might
have
challeng'd
an
absolute
authority
over
my
Soul
,
and
I
never
found
my self
more
dispos'd
,
than
at
that
time
,
to
give
credit
to
what
she
said
:
but
she
told
me
laughing
,
that
it
was
a
Mistery
of
Love
,
which
she
could
not
then
explain
to
me
;
and
leaving
me
suddenly
,
she
gave
me
cause
to
apprehend
,
that
she
had
some
affairs
in
hand
,
which
were
to
be
preferr'd
before
the
obligation
of
giving
me
satisfaction
.
Have
you
not
perceiv'd
heretofore
,
said
Ovid
,
that
her
levity
has
been
guilty
of
any
extravagant
or
chimerical
Passion
?
History
informs
us
,
that
a
certain
Lady
became
enamour'd
of
Alexander
,
only
upon
the
fame
and
reputation
of
his
great
Actions
,
and
sacrific'd
the
life
of
her
Husband
to
this
frenzie
.
Men
of
this
age
are
fram'd
of
the
same
Ingredients
which
compos'd
those
of
the
former
;
and
the
imbecilities
as
well
of
the
one
Sex
,
as
the
other
,
which
were
practis'd
in
the
time
of
Alexander
,
may
descend
to
the
Reign
of
Augustus
.
Herennia
has
a
solid
Judgment
,
reply'd
Lentulus
,
and
a
Soul
above
those
Chimera's
:
which
she
rarely
applies
to
the
cultivating
of
her
Beauty
,
that
care
she
casts
aside
amongst
the
most
unregarded
pieces
of
her
curiosity
;
and
the
ordinary
affectations
of
other
women
,
attract
her
contempt
,
not
esteem
:
And
though
I
am
sensible
that
she
once
affected
me
with
a
Passion
full
of
ardor
and
sincerity
,
yet
my
most
passionate
endeavors
were
never
able
to
debauch
it
to
the
least
degree
of
levity
,
or
weakness
.
A
Soul
of
this
temper
is
scarce
susceptible
of
the
impressions
of
an
irregular
imagination
.
But
,
added
he
,
checking
himself
suddenly
,
your
discourse
recalls
to
my
memory
,
that
some
days
since
,
speaking
of
the
extravagant
effects
of
Love
,
she
maintained
it
might
take
birth
in
a
heart
,
and
be
inflam'd
of
an
object
it
never
saw
;
and
that
she
could
alledge
an
example
of
what
she
asserted
:
And
may
not
she
be
that
example
her self
?
Oh!
ye
gods
,
Can
it
be
possible
,
that
a
heart
of
such
proof
against
the
attacks
of
Tiberius
,
should
suffer
it self
to
be
seduc'd
by
the
flatteries
of
a
Rhiming
Sophister
?
The
arrival
of
Tisienus
,
prevented
Ovid
from
proceeding
farther
in
his
malitious
design
:
there
had
been
no
great
correspondence
betwixt
him
and
Tisienus
,
whilst
they
were
in
Rome
;
but
people
of
the
same
Country
willingly
consort
together
,
when
they
meet
in
a
strange
Climate
.
Tisienus
had
not
been
inform'd
of
the
cause
of
Ovid's
disgrace
,
but
by
the
relation
of
persons
of
bad
intelligence
:
he
thought
that
the
too
eminent
favor
of
Terentia
had
drawn
it
upon
him
;
and
whereas
Mecoenas
had
discovered
the
Conspiracy
of
Marcus
Lepidus
,
in
which
Tisienus
was
involv'd
,
he
had
no
good
thoughts
for
that
worthy
Favorite
.
He
would
seem
in
a
Satyrical
Note
to
deplore
his
misfortune
,
in
having
so
unfaithful
a
Wife
;
Must
Caesar
have
Partners
,
said
he
,
in
the
Empire
of
Love
?
It
is
glorious
for
a
Subject
to
share
stakes
in
any
thing
,
with
his
Sovereign
;
but
for
Crassus
,
for
Ovid
,
and
perhaps
for
some
body
else
too
;
when
a
heart
has
made
the
first
step
upon
the
course
of
this
gallantry
,
it
seldom
stops
in
so
fair
a
road
.
To
speak
the
truth
,
this
is
to
put
the
Philosophy
of
Mecoenas
to
too
severe
a
Test
;
I
wonder
that
a
Man
of
so
powerful
a
credit
,
does
not
cause
a
new
Tribunal
to
be
erected
,
for
the
Trial
of
the
bold
Usurpers
of
Matrimonial
Rights
.
This
raillery
was
very
pleasant
in
the
mouth
of
Tisienus
:
Ovid
was
so
much
taken
with
it
,
that
he
could
not
suffer
it
to
pass
without
a
repartee
.
Husbands
,
said
he
,
whose
Merits
,
might
claim
oftentimes
chaster
Wives
,
than
Heaven
has
join'd
them
to
,
owe
grand
obligations
to
you
,
for
the
charitable
complaints
,
you
make
of
their
misfortunes
.
A
person
ought
to
be
assur'd
of
the
virtue
of
his
own
Wife
,
who
so
freely
glosses
upon
another
;
and
if
you
were
not
convinc'd
of
the
fidelity
of
Sulpicia
,
you
would
not
so
liberally
attack
that
of
Terentia
.
I
must
confess
,
reply'd
Tisienus
,
that
I
am
out
of
the
reach
of
out
of
those
forked
Darts
my self
,
which
I
level
at
the
Brows
of
others
;
for
Sulpicia
,
thanks
to
the
heavens
,
is
endued
with
a
Virtue
,
impregnable
to
all
attempts
;
but
though
I
were
my self
in
the
same
predicament
with
Mecoenas
,
I
could
not
forbear
to
rally
at
the
adventure
of
so
eminent
a
Politician
.
That
grand
Statesman
,
whose
vigilance
,
like
the
Monoculus
of
the
World
,
at
one
view
comprises
the
Empire
of
the
Universe
,
who
with
a
perspicacious
and
faithful
inspection
,
penetrates
into
the
secrets
of
Hearts
;
and
discovers
Conspiracies
against
Coesar
,
before
they
are
in
Rerum
Naturâ
,
is
insensible
of
those
which
are
daily
projected
against
himself
:
he
sleeps
in
a
high
security
,
when
he
ought
to
awake
for
the
defence
of
his
own
Honor
;
and
wakes
with
an
indefatigable
activity
,
to
terminate
the
affairs
of
Illiria
.
That
is
,
reply'd
Hortensius
,
because
he
is
convinc'd
,
that
a
man
should
wake
in
vain
,
to
divert
a
woman
,
from
what
she
is
resolv'd
to
do
.
The
care
and
vigilance
Mecoenas
dedicates
to
the
Illirian
War
,
may
perhaps
be
crown'd
with
a
glorious
success
;
but
had
he
as
many
Spies
,
as
Argus
Eyes
,
he
could
not
prevent
the
fortune
his
Wife
threatned
him
with
when
she
had
once
designed
it
in
her
pleasing
imagination
.
I
am
not
convinc'd
with
what
you
say
,
reply'd
Tisienus
,
the
care
of
a
Husband
contributes
much
to
the
prudent
conduct
of
a
Wife
:
when
he
carries
a
vigilant
eye
over
his
Family
;
confines
the
exorbitant
desires
of
a
young
person
within
the
bounds
of
moderation
;
obliges
her
to
be
at
home
at
good
hours
;
weans
her
with
prudence
and
sweetness
from
such
company
,
as
may
corrupt
her
innocence
:
By
this
means
a
man
may
dissolve
the
Gordian
Knot
of
all
ill
habits
;
and
placing
only
before
the
eyes
of
her
curiosity
a
Mirror
of
good
example
,
preserve
her
frailty
from
the
danger
of
all
dishonorable
condescensions
and
lapses
.
Behold
,
said
Ovid
,
with
a
grave
look
,
the
fair
documents
Tisienus
has
us'd
to
make
his
fair
Wife
so
great
a
Tygress
as
she
is
.
I
thought
that
she
had
ow'd
her
virtue
to
the
excellence
of
her
temper
;
but
now
I
perceive
by
the
Maxims
Tisienus
delivers
us
,
that
she
derives
it
from
another
source
;
and
doubtless
she
would
not
be
what
she
is
,
had
she
not
had
a
person
of
such
excellent
Principles
to
her
Husband
.
Hortensius
was
scarce
able
to
contain
himself
from
bursting
forth
into
an
open
laughter
at
this
reply
of
Ovid
;
and
fearing
he
should
not
be
able
to
be
the
Master
of
himself
,
if
the
Converse
continued
any
longer
,
he
made
a
proposition
to
them
,
to
go
and
take
a
walk
in
a
pleasant
Garden
he
had
lately
made
.
The
Isle
of
Thalassia
was
not
so
populous
,
as
many
others
,
wherewith
the
Egean
Sea
is
enricht
:
yet
it
was
not
wholly
destitute
of
necessaries
for
the
support
of
humane
life
.
The
neighborhood
of
Lesbos
did
furnish
it
with
all
sorts
of
skilful
Artificers
,
and
Hortensius
,
had
employed
them
,
to
charm
the
tedious
hours
of
his
Exile
:
his
house
,
though
Countrybuilt
,
was
uniform
and
regular
,
and
many
artificial
Walks
,
form'd
with
an
elaborate
curisioty
,
which
encompassed
it
,
seemed
to
correct
the
natural
wildeness
of
the
situation
.
Whilst
Hortensius
was
entertaining
the
three
Romans
with
the
Beauty
of
his
little
Thalassian
Villa
;
Roselina
,
who
naturally
affected
company
,
being
dissatisfied
with
their
long
absence
,
made
a
proposal
to
her
fair
Companions
to
go
and
surprize
them
,
where
they
were
.
Junia
expressed
a
coyness
at
the
motion
,
for
fear
it
might
blemish
her
modesty
.
But
Roselina
calling
her
a
formal
impertinent
,
and
telling
her
she
would
take
upon
her self
the
boldness
of
the
Visit
,
took
the
Daughter
of
Lepidus
in
one
hand
,
and
Adiamante
in
the
other
,
and
drew
them
after
her
towards
Hortensius
his
Garden
.
He
was
then
busie
in
showing
his
friends
some
rare
Simples
,
which
an
Arab
,
who
past
by
Thalassia
,
had
made
him
a
present
of
.
These
Plants
grew
within
a
private
square
;
and
the
Servants
of
Hortensius
,
who
went
to
advertise
their
Master
of
the
Ladies
arrival
,
forgot
to
look
there
for
him
:
they
hastily
run
over
all
the
Walks
examined
each
corner
of
a
Grove
of
Fir-trees
,
wherein
they
all
center'd
;
and
believing
that
Hortensius
was
gone
out
at
another
door
,
which
open'd
towards
the
Lake
,
they
came
and
gave
this
imaginary
information
to
the
three
Ladies
;
they
were
not
much
concerned
at
it
,
for
they
had
found
an
employment
,
to
divertise
themselves
in
the
place
,
where
they
were
;
which
was
the
Room
where
Ovid
was
lodged
:
he
had
forgot
to
shut
a
little
Cabinet
,
which
stood
upon
the
Table
;
and
their
curiosity
invited
them
,
to
take
an
Inventory
of
what
was
in
it
:
The
first
thing
they
laid
their
hands
upon
,
was
a
Picture
of
Julia
,
wherein
she
was
Pourtrated
under
the
Figure
of
Venus
.
A
little
Love
god
was
presenting
a
great
number
of
Hearts
to
her
;
and
the
Goddess
was
weaving
Chains
with
the
Tresses
of
her
Hair
,
to
captive
them
;
some
Links
whereof
,
which
seem'd
by
their
color
to
be
borrow'd
from
that
fair
Venus
,
serv'd
instead
of
a
Ribon
,
to
hang
a
rich
Carkanet
of
Hearts
at
,
which
were
set
within
a
sparkling
Case
of
Carbuncles
;
round
the
Borders
whereof
,
a
glorious
Devise
was
engraven
.
Many
Letters
of
different
Characters
were
in
the
same
Drawer
with
this
Picture
,
Roselina
open'd
one
,
and
read
it
.
When
I
could
not
comprehend
,
how
there
could
be
a
division
in
your
Adorations
and
your
Desires
,
I
was
ignorant
of
the
intention
of
those
unusual
Sacrifices
:
I
thought
you
had
only
offer'd
to
my
sincere
Passion
a
slight
one
of
roving
Thoughts
,
which
like
wandring
Pilgrims
,
made
every
Saint
the
object
of
their
devotion
,
and
wherein
each
common
Goddess
,
might
claim
a
share
as
well
as
Sulpicia
;
which
fluttering
abroad
into
every
place
upon
the
wings
of
Levity
,
or
Complaisance
,
are
rather
Antidotes
against
Love
,
than
a
sovereign
Cordial
for
it
.
But
I
must
now
confess
,
I
have
committed
an
injustice
both
against
your
transports
&
my
own
charms
.
Offer
up
your
adorations
daily
to
the
Princess
;
charm
her
with
your
tender
and
delicate
discourses
;
dedicate
the
raptures
of
your
Muse
to
her
Shrine
,
and
still
make
love
to
Sulpicia
,
in
the
manner
you
have
begun
;
I
shall
not
impeach
the
division
you
make
in
your
addresses
,
of
infidelity
;
for
I
have
so
firm
an
assurance
of
your
integrity
,
that
I
persuade
my self
Julia
will
have
the
greatest
cause
to
complain
of
it
.
See
here
an
incomparable
Epistle
,
said
Roselina
,
bursting
forth
into
a
loud
laughter
,
to
entertain
a
Lady
,
whose
Stars
should
destine
her
to
love
Ovid.
I
have
some
Verses
here
too
,
cry'd
Junia
,
which
will
not
be
improper
for
the
entertainment
you
speak
of
:
Roselina
cast
her
eyes
upon
them
,
and
found
the
following
Stanza
.
Dull
constancy
I
hate
,
which
cools
our
fires
,
And
only
blunts
the
edge
of
brisk
desires
;
Love
does
to
friendship
soon
degenerate
,
When
custom
once
its
pleasures
does
rebate
.
My
frolick
love
,
which
glories
still
to
be
The
Ape
of
Natures
Wise
Inconstancy
,
That
with
such
rich
variety
does
grace
Of
Beauty-spots
,
each
Seasons
alter'd
face
,
Does
love
with
it
to
change
her
own
.
The
Rose
Her
beauty
does
each
day
reveal
and
close
;
Th'
enamell'd
Fields
each
year
spring
,
and
decay
;
Leaves
drop
in
Autumn
,
and
revive
in
May
;
Choice
Beauties
,
like
the
Clouds
,
do
fleet
away
.
What
would
my
Love
not
give
the
gods
t'
inspire
It
with
immortal
,
but
no
constant
fire
?
I
do
not
understand
the
Latine
Tongue
so
well
,
said
Adiamante
,
to
explicate
word
by
word
the
Verses
,
which
are
fall'n
to
my
share
;
but
interpreting
them
,
according
to
what
I
am
capable
to
comprehend
of
the
sense
,
I
judge
them
to
be
a
counter-charm
against
those
you
have
already
read
;
Junia
received
them
from
the
hands
of
Adiamante
,
and
found
them
thus
exprest
.
Would
you
reclaim
my
wandring
Heart
?
Learn
here
A
way
to
keep
in
the
out-lying
Deer
.
Love
me
without
self-interest
,
or
art
,
Love
me
,
like
some
innocent
striplings
heart
:
Which
loves
,
'cause
it
in
love
delight
does
take
,
And
only
loves
to
love
,
for
lovings
sake
What
can
You
more
,
or
Love
,
require
of
me
,
To
make
me
love
with
faithful
constancy
?
But
oh
!
Corinna
,
you
a
Woman
are
,
And
though
a
Woman
,
All-divine
,
I
fear
,
You
so
much
kindness
ne'er
will
have
for
mine
,
As
home
the
wandring
Pilgrim
to
confine
.
This
is
an
admirable
piece
of
Courtship
of
Ovid
to
our
Sex
,
said
Roselina
,
when
Junia
had
read
out
the
Verses
,
to
impute
all
his
own
crimes
to
us
,
and
not
to
be
satisfi'd
only
to
betray
us
,
unless
he
likewise
render'd
us
guilty
of
his
own
treasons
.
Is
not
this
kind
of
injustice
,
reply'd
Junia
,
common
to
all
men
?
They
love
by
fancy
,
and
change
through
levity
.
When
they
have
made
us
the
subject
of
their
inconstancy
,
and
perceive
that
our
just
indignation
looks
with
a
scornful
eye
of
a
regardless
insensibility
upon
their
treacheries
,
they
presently
slander
it
with
the
title
of
levity
,
or
infidelity
;
and
seem
to
accuse
us
for
plucking
some
laurels
from
their
triumphs
,
when
we
gain
so
glorious
a
conquest
over
our selves
,
as
not
to
deplore
our
misfortunes
.
And
as
if
it
were
too
little
for
us
to
be
despis'd
,
to
inhance
their
vanity
,
the
Ingrates
envy
us
even
the
slight
satisfaction
of
concealing
from
the
Publick
,
the
effects
of
their
inhumanity
.
It
cannot
be
deny'd
,
said
Roselina
,
casting
up
her
eyes
to
Heaven
,
that
this
wicked
kind
of
creature
,
Man
,
is
an
enemy
to
our
repose
;
but
such
as
they
are
,
we
have
a
natural
inclination
,
to
wish
them
better
,
than
they
deserve
.
Experience
has
many
Ages
labor'd
in
vain
to
infuse
wisdom
into
us
;
the
Examples
of
so
many
Women
trepan'd
,
proves
no
caution
to
us
,
not
to
expose
our
weakness
to
the
like
danger
;
and
he
that
should
bring
us
all
to
our
Affidavits
,
would
find
,
that
we
had
rather
run
the
hazard
,
of
being
deceiv'd
ten
times
over
in
our
lives
,
than
to
be
debar'd
from
the
converse
of
those
Infidels
.
Whil'st
Junia
and
Roselina
were
discoursing
,
Adiamante
was
busie
in
examining
all
the
Avenues
of
the
Cabinet
:
she
found
there
Verses
of
different
measures
,
and
characters
;
and
an
Elegy
,
which
she
laid
aside
,
because
she
could
not
understand
it
;
she
also
encounter'd
with
a
noted
Song
,
and
amongst
all
this
,
some
fragments
of
that
famous
piece
,
intituled
,
The
Goddess
of
Hearts
,
which
Ovid
mention'd
in
his
own
History
.
Roselina's
eye
was
upon
Adiamante
,
when
she
open'd
the
Papers
,
and
taking
that
,
out
of
her
hand
,
wherein
those
fragments
were
contain'd
,
she
found
,
it
began
in
this
manner
.
One
day
of
the
Spring
so
pleasant
,
so
fair
,
When
Love
all
in
smiles
aray'd
,
did
repair
The
face
of
Nature
with
new
life
,
and
taught
The
am'rous
winds
a
gentle
Lovers
Note
;
The
god
perceiving
that
the
single
care
To
charm
Mankind
,
a
task
was
too
severe
And
weighty
for
his
Mother
,
did
resolve
—
Go
on
,
said
Junia
,
seeing
Roselina
make
a
stop
at
that
place
:
so
excellent
a
beginning
,
inflames
me
with
an
impatience
to
hear
the
conclusion
.
The
conclusion
shall
be
what
you
please
,
reply'd
Roselina
smiling
,
the
Author
has
allow'd
you
the
liberty
of
adding
what
conclusion
,
you
think
fitting
,
to
it
.
Junia
would
not
be
convinc'd
,
but
by
her
own
eyes
,
of
what
her
companion
told
her
,
and
taking
the
Paper
from
her
,
with
some
difficulty
pick'd
out
the
following
Verses
,
disorderly
scatter'd
,
betwixt
the
raz'd
,
and
blotted
lines
.
Severe
Philosophy
did
heretofore
Oppose
her
rigid
Maxims
'gainst
my
Pow'r
;
The
itch
of
Science
did
mine
quite
expel
,
And
made
all
hearts
against
my
Laws
rebel
.
In
an
old
Stoicks
breast
in
vain
I
strove
T'imprint
the
character
of
tender
Love
;
In
vain
I
strain'd
my
utmost
diligence
,
To
captivate
his
Reason
to
his
Sence
;
Which
Reason
still
out-braving
all
my
pow'r
,
Fresh
courage
to
th'
half
vanquish'd
did
restore
;
And
from
my
own
attacks
advantage
take
,
And
vanquishers
did
of
the
vanquish'd
make
.
My
Mother
then
had
all
her
practice
loss'd
,
Laws
,
Science
,
Arts
,
and
Politicks
engross'd
All
Vows
,
and
Worship
to
my
Altars
due
,
And
after
them
the
chief
of
Mortals
drew
.
But
new
those
dayes
,
bless'd
be
the
Fates
,
are
gone
,
And
Royal
sloath
does
re-ascend
her
Throne
;
The
Ignorant
assume
the
Stoicks
place
,
And
now
the
World
's
no
more
,
what
once
it
was
.
Junia
could
collect
but
these
few
Verses
out
of
her
blur'd
and
scribled
Papers
,
when
they
heard
a
noise
in
the
Hall
near
them
,
which
made
them
judge
,
that
the
Romans
were
return'd
from
their
Walk
:
They
hastily
plac'd
all
things
again
in
the
same
order
,
as
they
had
found
them
,
in
the
Cabinet
;
and
all
advancing
together
to
meet
Hortensius
,
and
his
Friends
,
Roselina
briskly
tax'd
them
for
the
little
respect
they
had
shewn
,
in
leaving
them
all
that
day
to
themselves
.
Their
company
was
diminish'd
by
the
retreat
of
the
no
less
jealous
,
than
amorous
Lentulus
,
whose
absence
was
not
displeasing
to
Ovid.
He
spoke
to
the
Ladies
a
thousand
delicate
and
ingenious
things
upon
the
Prerogatives
of
Necessity
.
If
the
Daughter
of
Lepidus
,
said
he
,
were
now
in
Rome
in
that
splendor
and
lustre
,
wherewith
the
Empire
of
the
Universe
beheld
not
long
ago
her
glorious
Family
invested
,
and
that
Roselina
and
her
fair
Cozen
were
now
with
their
beauty
illustrating
another
part
of
the
World
,
which
,
we
are
not
ignorant
,
paid
not
long
since
a
due
homage
to
their
glorious
Merit
,
the
Exiles
of
the
Thalassian
Island
,
would
not
be
regarded
,
as
capable
to
afford
them
any
diversion
;
Junia's
would
be
,
to
see
her
Father
distribute
Crowns
;
and
provide
Governors
for
the
third
part
of
the
Universe
:
And
Roselina
would
take
delight
,
to
see
her
Charms
captivate
the
heart
of
one
of
the
greatest
Princes
of
the
World.
I
know
not
what
Roselina
thinks
of
what
you
say
,
reply'd
Junia
,
but
as
to
my self
,
the
satisfaction
of
enjoying
the
company
of
the
famous
Ovid
,
seems
to
merit
a
preference
before
all
those
splendid
diversions
,
wherewith
you
would
flatter
my
vanity
.
I
never
had
yet
any
experience
,
what
pleasure
the
dignity
of
Lepidus
could
afford
me
;
I
came
not
into
the
World
,
till
after
he
had
made
his
retreat
out
of
it
;
nor
was
I
ever
acquainted
with
the
ancient
splendor
of
our
Family
,
but
by
the
loud
report
the
World
gives
of
it
.
But
with
what
regard
soever
I
consider
the
lustre
of
it
,
there
's
nothing
in
it
,
that
offers
it self
to
my
Ambition
,
which
I
should
not
be
ready
to
sacrifice
to
the
satisfaction
,
I
find
in
your
converse
.
Oh!
Madam
,
said
Ovid
,
now
I
perceive
my
company
is
not
so
agreeable
to
you
,
as
you
declare
;
if
it
were
,
you
would
not
be
so
prodigal
in
scattering
those
flowers
upon
me
,
which
with
their
flatteries
have
sealed
up
my
lips
;
I
dare
no
longer
regard
you
,
no
longer
discourse
you
;
the
too
meritorious
expressions
,
you
have
pronounc'd
in
my
favor
,
have
involv'd
me
in
a
confusion
,
which
must
render
me
a
Mute
for
ever
in
your
presence
.
I
will
be
her
Avoucher
,
reply'd
Roselina
interrupting
him
,
that
no
expression
of
hers
,
has
scatter'd
a
flattery
upon
you
;
and
that
the
desire
to
see
you
,
has
not
of
late
usurp'd
the
last
place
in
her
ambition
;
and
I
can
testifie
,
that
one
of
the
chiefest
regrets
;
which
invaded
her
,
at
the
fall
of
her
illustrious
house
,
took
its
birth
from
the
impossibility
she
conceiv'd
,
of
ever
seeing
the
renowned
Ovid
,
but
at
the
Court
of
Caesar
.
Ovid
was
surpriz'd
at
this
testimony
of
Roselina
;
he
remembred
,
that
he
had
heard
almost
the
same
words
,
at
the
private
Colloquy
,
he
had
not
long
before
been
a
stolen
witness
to
;
but
he
attributed
them
to
the
daughter
of
Herennius
,
though
they
might
as
well
suit
with
that
of
Lepidus
.
They
were
both
of
Roman
extraction
;
both
had
cause
to
deplore
the
ruine
of
a
Noble
Family
,
and
both
might
have
had
an
opportunity
of
seeing
Ovid
in
Rome
,
had
not
the
fatal
destiny
of
their
Parents
expell'd
them
,
and
all
their
glories
out
of
the
remotest
Territories
of
its
Dominions
.
What
you
relate
,
Madam
,
said
he
to
Roselina
does
not
surprize
me
with
its
Novelty
;
a
certain
Familiar
Genius
,
which
alwayes
prompts
me
with
intelligence
relating
to
my
destiny
,
inform'd
me
not
many
dayes
since
,
that
a
beautiful
Person
did
honor
me
with
some
good
will
,
who
never
saw
me
,
but
did
with
impatience
desire
to
see
me
;
and
testify'd
a
regret
,
very
consonant
to
those
,
you
have
express'd
:
But
if
my
officious
inteligencer
has
given
me
a
faithful
account
,
this
good
effect
of
my
Stars
does
not
make
its
point
towards
Junia
.
The
Familiar
you
speak
of
,
reply'd
Junia
smiling
,
has
had
his
Memory
charg'd
with
such
variety
of
Historical
Remarks
,
since
he
came
to
your
service
,
that
it
is
no
wonder
,
if
he
has
confounded
the
circumstances
of
some
of
them
.
Princesses
,
Lady-Favorites
,
Senators
daughters
,
Courtezans
,
and
Rural
Beauties
,
have
had
the
honor
(
and
often
too
)
in
their
turns
,
to
be
the
objects
of
your
gallantry
.
How
can
the
little
Genius
then
,
who
Registers
all
your
happy
Adventures
,
keep
an
exact
account
,
think
you
,
in
a
Mass
of
such
confusions
?
Whil'st
Ovid
and
the
Ladies
were
diverting
themselves
with
such
like
gallantries
,
Hortensius
was
giving
Orders
to
his
Family
for
the
entertainment
of
his
Noble
Guests
,
who
did
his
little
Villa
so
much
honor
;
and
Tisienus
was
busie
in
perusing
some
of
Homer's
Odes
,
which
he
found
upon
the
Table
.
Out
curious
Searchers
of
Ovid's
Cabinet
,
had
replac'd
what
they
had
taken
out
of
it
,
and
shut
it
again
with
so
much
haste
and
confusion
,
that
one
of
the
Papers
,
which
they
had
read
,
was
left
sticking
half
in
,
half
out
,
betwixt
the
shutters
.
Tisienus
,
by
accident
,
cast
his
eye
upon
it
,
and
without
being
perceiv'd
by
the
company
,
drew
it
quite
out
.
It
was
folded
up
like
a
Letter
,
and
Tisienus
knew
the
Cabinet
belong'd
to
Ovid
,
as
having
seen
it
at
his
first
landing
in
the
hand
of
one
of
his
Slaves
.
He
imagin'd
,
it
was
a
Letter
from
Terentia
,
but
it
had
no
superscription
;
which
is
the
most
usual
way
of
writing
a
Billet
Doux
.
Tisienus
thought
he
had
encountred
now
a
fair
occasion
of
exercising
those
resentments
,
he
had
long
fomented
against
Mecoenas
.
He
hastily
pocketed
the
Paper
,
with
a
resolution
to
examine
it
in
private
;
and
had
scarce
dispos'd
of
it
out
of
sight
,
when
Hortensius
came
into
the
room
;
he
had
prepar'd
a
Collation
,
as
noble
,
as
either
the
straitness
of
the
place
or
the
time
could
allow
,
which
he
had
order'd
to
be
serv'd
up
in
a
Gallery
,
adjoining
to
Ovid's
chamber
,
whither
he
invited
the
Ladies
.
This
Gallery
was
adorn'd
with
many
excellent
pieces
,
which
represented
the
memorable
Gests
of
the
most
Renowned
Grecian
Heroes
;
you
might
there
behold
the
triumph
of
Vlysses
over
Ajax
,
upon
the
dispute
of
Achilles's
Arms.
That
exultancy
of
joy
,
which
attends
a
triumphant
success
,
was
lively
express'd
in
the
haughty
meen
of
Vlysses
;
Ajax
,
on
the
contrary
,
bore
all
the
marks
of
a
furious
despair
,
which
wildly
stared
out
at
the
wide
casements
of
his
rowling
eyes
.
His
cheeks
were
swol'n
big
with
rage
,
his
brows
〈◊〉
clouded
,
as
it
were
,
with
a
sullen
Mist
,
his
eyes
sparkling
,
and
unfetled
:
and
at
a
distant
prospect
in
the
same
table
,
you
might
see
him
spend
his
revengeful
fury
upon
a
poor
tame
sheep
;
whose
innocence
the
ingenious
Pencil
had
so
lively
express'd
,
that
you
would
have
thought
,
you
had
heard
her
in
a
mournful
accent
implore
your
succor
,
whil'st
the
butcherly
Ajax
tearing
her
bowels
out
of
her
body
,
did
barbarously
revenge
upon
this
guiltless
Animal
,
an
outrage
,
it
had
never
committed
.
Consider
,
I
pray
,
these
illustrious
Heroes
said
Ovid
,
whom
Antiquity
has
commended
to
us
,
for
no
less
than
illustrious
Deitles
.
The
refusal
of
a
dead
Mans
Arms
,
an
adverse
success
of
a
combat
,
a
slight
check
of
fortune
,
a
small
contradiction
,
depriv'd
them
at
once
both
of
judgment
and
sense
;
and
made
them
convert
the
points
of
their
Swords
upon
their
own
breasts
;
which
they
should
have
turn'd
upon
their
Enemies
.
I
must
confess
,
that
the
titles
of
Divinity
,
were
pure
has'd
good
cheap
in
those
dayes
;
and
that
the
Demi-gods
in
the
Fable
were
very
happy
,
they
enter'd
the
World
before
us
;
for
few
of
them
,
I
suppose
,
would
have
receiv'd
from
us
the
honors
,
our
Forefathers
so
liberally
entail'd
upon
them
.
See
here
a
Man
,
said
Tisienus
,
pointing
to
the
Picture
of
Cymon
,
who
,
in
what
Age
soever
he
had
liv'd
,
would
have
attracted
to
himself
the
admiration
of
it
.
His
bravery
,
his
magnificence
,
and
his
virtue
,
was
the
wonder
of
all
the
precedent
.
And
do
you
seriously
believe
,
said
Ovid
,
interrupting
him
in
an
ironical
tone
,
that
this
virtue
,
this
bravery
,
this
magnificence
,
was
such
in
effect
,
as
Histories
report
it
.
Those
,
who
chronicled
the
actions
of
these
Heroes
,
were
their
own
Countreymen
;
and
the
glory
of
their
Countrey
,
was
inseparably
annex'd
to
that
of
the
Heroe
,
they
would
blazon
;
And
the
relation
of
their
Jests
was
rather
,
an
exercise
of
wit
and
eloquence
,
than
a
sincere
and
faithful
Narration
.
But
if
we
would
take
a
clear
prospect
of
things
,
let
us
consider
,
what
Greece
was
;
it
was
divided
into
10
or
12
Monarchies
,
and
5
or
6
Republicks
.
The
taking
of
a
Town
had
amongst
them
the
reputation
of
the
conquest
of
a
Kingdom
;
And
a
Man
that
was
so
brave
,
as
to
march
half
a
score
Miles
,
to
invade
the
Territory
of
his
Neighbor
;
and
by
surprize
,
or
force
,
sack'd
a
small
Hamlet
or
Village
,
had
presently
the
honor
of
a
triumph
and
title
of
Conqueror
,
given
him
.
The
same
Hyperboles
did
often
likewise
elevate
their
virtue
to
that
admired
height
,
you
speak
of
.
Epuminondus
was
impeach'd
before
the
Senate
of
Thebes
,
for
giving
the
Government
of
Myoenas
,
contrary
to
the
express
commands
of
the
Republick
,
to
young
Calist
benes
his
Favorite
;
and
yet
he
was
esteem'd
a
Person
of
the
greatest
virtue
amongst
the
Grecians
.
The
Spartan
Laws
,
which
purchas'd
such
a
reputation
to
Lycurgus
,
contain
more
Precepts
,
relating
to
the
ease
and
convenience
of
humane
life
,
than
the
Libertines
of
Rome
did
ever
practise
.
The
chiefest
care
of
the
Spartans
,
was
to
make
their
Republick
populous
;
and
if
a
feeble
and
decrepid
husband
found
himself
overmatch'd
in
a
young
and
sprightly
wife
,
he
was
oblig'd
to
provide
a
brisk
Gallant
for
her
,
and
own
all
the
children
of
so
excellent
a
commerce
for
legitimate
,
and
of
his
own
blood
.
You
make
us
new
Laws
for
Sparta
,
cry'd
Tisienus
,
this
pernicious
Maxim
,
was
never
yet
establish'd
in
any
civiliz'd
Nation
.
What
I
have
told
you
,
reply'd
Ovid
,
with
a
serious
countenance
,
is
a
real
truth
;
and
the
only
inducement
for
me
to
believe
,
that
the
first
Lacedemonians
might
with
some
justice
pretend
to
the
title
of
the
most
wise
and
judicious
Nation
of
the
World.
The
Collation
was
brought
in
just
as
Ovid
had
pronounc'd
these
last
words
.
If
you
will
take
my
Advice
,
said
Hortensius
,
as
he
was
placing
the
Ladies
,
let
us
hearken
no
longer
to
this
eloquent
Sophister
,
he
will
impose
a
new
sense
upon
the
best
establish'd
Laws
;
and
I
know
not
whether
he
will
not
find
out
a
way
,
ere
it
belong
,
by
his
subtle
chymistry
,
to
extract
the
principle
of
a
secret
Passion
,
out
of
the
indifferency
,
I
profess
.
Ovid
reserv'd
till
another
time
,
the
liberty
of
making
an
Answer
to
his
Friend
;
and
seating
himself
next
to
Roselina
,
he
apply'd
himself
,
during
the
repast
,
to
take
his
measures
from
the
regards
of
that
fair
one
,
and
Junia
,
to
discover
,
which
of
the
two
,
was
the
Person
,
that
had
those
conceal'd
inclinations
for
him
.
The
End
of
the
First
Part.
THE
ILLUSTRIOUS
EXILES
.
The
Second
Part.
TIsienus
,
with
impatience
,
attended
the
end
of
the
Collation
,
that
he
might
have
the
freedom
to
read
the
Letter
,
he
had
drawn
out
of
Ovid's
Cabinet
,
which
caus'd
him
to
steal
privately
away
from
the
Company
;
and
going
forth
at
the
door
,
which
open'd
towards
the
Lake
,
he
pull'd
the
Letter
out
of
his
Pocket
,
and
fix'd
his
eye
upon
it
with
a
curiosity
,
suitable
to
his
resentments
against
Mecoenas
:
But
he
was
strangely
surpriz'd
,
when
he
beheld
the
hand
and
character
of
Sulpicia
;
he
ragd
,
he
rub'd
his
eyes
as
if
there
had
been
a
Cloud
,
or
thick
Mist
,
before
them
;
he
read
,
and
read
over
again
this
terrible
Letter
,
before
he
could
be
convinc'd
of
the
truth
of
what
he
saw
:
but
he
found
it
one
,
still
as
constant
,
as
cruel
.
This
Letter
was
the
same
,
which
Roselina
had
read
some
hours
before
;
and
there
was
not
a
line
,
or
scarce
a
word
in
it
,
which
did
not
bring
,
or
confirm
,
to
the
unfortunate
Tisienus
,
the
most
unpleasing
News
his
Stars
could
send
him
;
that
distinction
of
Ovid's
desires
,
and
adorations
,
did
aggravate
the
crime
of
Sulpicia
.
Oh!
infamous
Strumpet
,
cry'd
Tisienus
,
transported
to
the
highest
rage
,
no
other
Amour
will
satisfie
her
,
than
that
she
robs
another
of
!
Ovid
has
not
seduc'd
her
by
any
finery
,
or
stratagem
;
but
has
engag'd
her
to
be
a
second
to
his
Treason
,
without
disguising
the
least
circumstance
from
her
.
From
this
Reflection
,
passing
to
that
of
the
Argument
,
he
had
so
lately
held
with
the
Paramour
of
his
Wife
,
that
malicious
joy
represented
it self
to
his
imagination
,
which
he
thought
Ovid
might
conceive
,
when
he
heard
him
speak
those
things
of
Mecoenas
,
which
he
might
have
apply'd
to
himself
;
especially
,
when
he
express'd
such
a
confidence
of
the
virtue
of
Sulpicia
,
before
a
person
,
who
was
able
to
have
produced
convincing
proofs
to
the
contrary
.
The
Ironical
Repartees
,
wherewith
Ovid
retorted
the
Raileries
Tisienus
had
made
upon
Mecoenas
,
recurr'd
word
by
word
to
his
Memory
.
He
shall
dye
,
said
he
,
that
infamous
Instrument
of
my
dishonor
,
shall
dye
.
Lentulus
,
who
not
long
before
had
absented
himself
from
the
Company
,
in
Hortensius's
Garden
,
happen'd
to
walk
,
to
divert
his
Melancholy
,
near
the
place
,
where
Tisienus
did
form
his
fatal
Resolutions
;
he
heard
the
sentence
,
he
had
pronounc'd
;
he
knew
his
voice
,
and
fetching
a
tour
about
a
small
plat
of
bushes
,
which
was
betwixt
them
,
Who
is
that
,
said
he
,
to
Tisienus
,
whom
you
have
condemn'd
to
dye
?
Have
you
any
Enemies
in
this
Island
?
Or
have
you
receiv'd
any
News
lately
,
which
gives
you
hopes
,
you
may
shortly
have
the
satisfaction
of
exercising
your
Revenge
,
upon
those
you
have
in
Rome
?
I
was
Musing
,
said
Tisienus
,
(
all
in
a
confusion
,
)
upon
a
place
of
Homer's
Iliads
,
and
recollecting
in
my
fancy
,
the
words
,
which
he
makes
Menelaus
speak
,
when
Paris
ravish'd
Helena
from
him
,
the
force
of
my
imagination
caus'd
me
to
break
forth
aloud
into
some
of
those
expressions
.
The
Misfortune
of
Menelaus
,
reply'd
Lentulus
with
a
smile
,
ought
to
have
made
a
strong
impression
upon
your
fancy
,
since
it
has
made
so
great
an
alteration
in
your
countenance
,
I
believe
it
is
rather
a
prosecution
,
of
what
you
so
lately
deliver'd
to
us
,
upon
the
destiny
of
Mecoenas
;
you
are
sensible
of
the
dishonor
of
abused
Husbands
.
The
enraged
Tisienus
finding
these
expressions
gave
a
fresh
alarum
to
his
disgrace
,
and
not
being
able
to
stand
his
ground
to
receive
a
second
,
left
Lentulus
abruptly
;
and
directing
his
hasty
steps
towards
his
his
own
house
,
made
such
a
precipitate
speed
in
his
walk
,
that
Lentulus
thought
himself
not
oblig'd
to
follow
him
.
His
sudden
departure
struck
him
with
admiration
,
he
could
not
apprehend
the
cause
of
it
;
he
knew
Tisienus
had
not
been
present
at
the
recital
,
Ovid
had
made
of
his
Love-adventures
:
whereupon
he
took
a
resolution
to
go
and
re-visit
Hortensius
,
to
inform
himself
if
any
thing
had
happen'd
in
his
absence
,
which
had
caus'd
this
disorder
in
Tisienus
;
but
he
was
prevented
by
one
of
his
servants
,
who
sought
him
,
and
brought
him
some
news
,
which
caus'd
him
to
return
home
in
haste
;
it
came
seasonably
to
favor
Ovid's
designs
.
He
led
Roselina
,
who
with
her
Companions
was
taking
a
walk
towards
the
Firr-tree
Grove
,
and
after
he
had
discover'd
to
her
the
passage
,
he
had
been
a
private
Witness
to
,
at
his
first
landing
in
Thalassia
,
the
Adventure
in
the
Labyrinth
,
and
many
other
remarkable
Encounters
,
she
was
concern'd
in
,
he
endeavor'd
to
persuade
her
,
that
he
had
,
the
first
Moment
he
saw
her
,
entertain'd
a
passion
for
her
,
not
inferior
to
that
,
which
he
believ'd
she
had
allow'd
a
place
to
in
her
breast
for
him
,
before
ever
she
saw
him
.
Roselina
was
faithful
as
well
to
her
Lover
,
as
her
Friend
;
and
had
no
design
to
advantage
herself
by
this
Error
of
Ovid
,
but
only
as
far
as
it
might
give
her
an
innocent
diversion
.
Methinks
,
said
she
,
you
have
reason
to
be
satisfi'd
with
the
hopeful
progress
,
your
Merit
has
already
made
;
you
have
not
been
here
above
five
or
six
dayes
,
and
you
are
not
ignorant
,
that
there
are
those
,
who
caress
you
not
in
the
meanest
of
their
thoughts
;
you
have
written
Love
Verses
,
which
you
are
assur'd
,
have
been
read
;
and
if
it
may
oblige
you
,
you
may
perhaps
assure
your self
too
,
that
those
,
who
have
read
them
,
have
taken
pleasure
in
reading
them
,
and
could
wish
,
that
they
contain'd
as
much
Sincerity
,
as
Eloquence
.
What
can
your
desires
aspire
to
more
?
you
must
allow
time
to
perfect
the
rest
.
Time
,
reply'd
Ovid
,
can
claim
no
title
to
any
Adventure
,
but
where
a
heart
is
to
be
besieg'd
by
the
slow
Approaches
of
long
services
,
and
dull
constancy
;
but
when
mutual
sympathy
has
already
made
the
breach
,
and
level'd
all
obstacles
,
the
first
Moment
,
that
Lovers
see
each
other
,
ought
to
be
the
last
of
all
diffidence
and
scrupulosity
.
How
?
said
Roselina
,
Do
you
think
it
then
a
matter
of
so
slight
a
consequence
,
to
wave
all
scruples
in
favor
of
a
Lover
,
of
Ovid's
temper
?
The
History
of
whose
Life
,
is
nothing
but
a
contexture
of
Love
Galantries
;
whose
heart
has
been
a
Rover
even
from
the
Sceptre
,
to
the
Sheep-crook
.
What
caution
,
or
security
,
would
you
give
a
Lady
,
that
she
should
not
be
put
into
the
Catalogue
with
Sulpicia
,
Virginia
,
Terentia
,
Julia
,
and
many
more
.
Oh!
Madam
,
cry'd
the
brave
Roman
,
I
shall
ask
no
more
,
whether
it
be
your self
,
or
Junia
,
who
honors
me
with
the
glory
of
some
good
wishes
;
you
could
not
have
been
so
well
vers'd
in
the
whole
course
of
my
life
,
had
you
not
had
a
curiosity
to
be
instructed
in
it
;
and
I
may
with
some
justice
presume
,
that
this
curiosity
is
the
Herald
,
to
blazon
that
disguis'd
Passion
,
which
I
am
assur'd
a
Lady
of
Thalassia
had
for
me
,
before
she
knew
me
.
Whereupon
being
fully
convinc'd
that
Roselina
was
the
Party
,
of
whom
he
was
affected
,
he
spoke
a
thousand
tender
and
passionate
things
,
to
obtain
of
her
a
private
Interview
.
Love
,
is
not
capable
of
expressing
it self
but
by
halves
,
said
he
,
before
Witnesses
,
grant
mine
,
I
beseech
you
,
that
liberty
it
stands
in
need
of
,
to
make
its
entire
declaration
;
my
transports
shall
give
you
the
caution
,
you
demand
;
which
will
express
themselves
with
such
ardor
,
that
it
would
be
an
injustice
to
you
,
to
demand
a
farther
security
.
It
is
either
Fortune
or
Inconstancy
,
which
you
ought
to
impute
the
multiplicity
of
my
Intrigues
too
:
I
never
had
had
but
one
in
the
whole
series
of
my
life
,
if
I
had
obey'd
the
natural
inclinations
of
my
heart
;
Pardon
those
few
extravagant
courses
,
which
necessity
forced
it
to
take
,
and
you
shall
not
find
it
has
been
guilty
of
being
common
;
it
is
the
same
it
was
,
when
the
first
Princess
of
the
Universe
did
not
disdain
the
humble
Sacrifices
,
it
daily
offer'd
to
her
Divinity
;
And
I
hope
,
that
because
it
has
been
so
much
consecrated
to
Love
,
you
will
not
allow
it
the
less
esteem
in
your
thoughts
;
since
it
will
prove
the
glory
of
your
Beauty
,
to
triumph
over
such
multitudes
of
others
.
Junia
,
who
accompanied
by
Adiamante
,
and
led
by
Hortensius
,
followed
Roselina
at
a
little
distance
,
was
something
concern'd
at
the
long
converse
,
her
Friend
held
with
Ovid.
Do
you
think
,
said
she
to
Roselina
,
that
the
Destinies
have
sent
Ovid
into
this
Island
,
for
your
conversation
only
?
Can
you
pretend
to
any
Prerogative
over
him
,
more
than
others
?
And
do
you
think
it
a
piece
of
justice
,
to
ingross
him
wholly
to
your self
,
and
allow
us
no
share
in
him
?
You
must
pardon
the
fault
,
reply'd
Roselina
,
if
the
Rules
of
Equity
are
forgotten
,
when
Ovid
is
present
;
but
I
shall
return
to
my
Devoir
,
said
she
,
making
a
stop
,
as
soon
as
I
am
admonish'd
of
it
;
and
I
here
resign
to
you
this
noble
Person
,
more
complacent
,
and
more
agreeable
,
than
I
receiv'd
him
.
These
last
words
did
strongly
confirm
the
presumptive
hopes
of
our
Illustrious
Exile
;
he
repeated
them
more
than
once
,
in
his
fancy
;
and
could
allow
them
no
other
interpretation
,
but
what
did
flatter
his
desires
;
and
finding
Roselina
most
infinitely
amiable
,
he
perceiv'd
,
that
the
raptures
her
presence
inspir'd
him
with
,
began
insensibly
to
deface
out
of
his
Memory
all
the
vanishing
Idea's
of
the
Court
of
Augustus
.
The
confidence
,
which
Lentulus
had
testifi'd
to
him
in
acquainting
him
with
his
Engagements
with
Herennia
,
did
sometimes
intrude
a
small
scruple
amongst
his
pleasing
transports
:
But
,
besides
that
your
Amorists
by
profession
are
not
very
scrupulous
in
intrenching
upon
the
borders
of
friendship
,
Ovid
was
not
unfurnish'd
with
reasons
,
to
authorize
his
proceedings
.
He
knew
,
a
Lady
in
Thalassia
had
a
passion
for
him
,
before
he
knew
Lentulus
had
one
for
Roselina
;
it
was
no
design
in
himself
,
but
the
capriciousness
of
his
Stars
,
which
had
render'd
him
his
Rival
;
if
his
reputation
had
acquir'd
him
a
Mistriss
,
could
he
prevent
it
?
Was
there
any
obligation
lay
upon
him
,
to
sacrifice
this
Mistriss
,
to
the
confidence
of
a
Friend
,
since
he
had
never
endeavor'd
to
force
out
of
his
Mouth
the
secret
of
his
Love
?
And
ought
he
to
refuse
this
glorious
Present
Fortune
now
makes
him
,
because
Lentulus
is
guilty
of
an
indiscretion
?
This
reasoning
having
imbroil'd
the
fancy
of
Ovid
most
part
of
the
night
,
and
at
last
calm'd
those
storms
,
(
which
he
concluded
a
virtue
out
of
season
had
rais'd
)
he
resolv'd
to
bend
all
his
endeavors
to
the
accomplishing
his
desires
.
He
had
observ'd
,
that
from
the
Gallery
,
where
the
Collation
was
held
the
night
before
,
there
was
a
fair
descent
by
a
pair
of
stony
Stairs
down
into
the
terrass
Walk
in
the
Garden
:
This
he
judg'd
was
the
most
compendious
and
most
commodious
passage
to
Roselina's
Lodgings
;
and
with
this
intention
he
came
out
of
his
Chamber
;
when
passing
through
the
same
Gallery
,
he
perceiv'd
Hortensius
,
with
his
hands
cross'd
over
his
breast
,
with
large
and
hasty
steps
measuring
the
length
of
it
.
Is
it
you
,
Hortensius
,
said
Ovid
,
who
walk
at
so
large
a
rate
?
I
had
thought
that
your
solitude
,
and
this
manner
of
walking
,
had
not
agreed
with
the
indifferency
you
profess
.
Ha!
my
dear
Ovid
,
reply'd
Hortensius
,
with
a
voice
quite
alter'd
from
its
usual
tone
,
I
am
plung'd
into
the
deepest
Abyss
of
Despair
:
you
believe
,
doubtless
,
with
all
the
World
,
that
by
a
principle
of
indifferency
,
I
refus'd
from
the
hand
of
Caesar
the
Wife
,
he
had
design'd
me
.
I
believ'd
indeed
,
reply'd
Ovid
,
that
either
having
an
aversion
for
the
person
of
Aurelia
,
or
against
Marriage
in
general
,
you
had
preferr'd
your
liberty
before
all
the
Advantages
,
which
were
propos'd
to
you
.
This
Maxim
of
Independency
is
commendable
amongst
the
ancient
Stoicks
,
but
amongst
us
Modern
Romans
is
a
perfect
Fanaticism
.
If
you
had
had
any
pre-engagements
,
to
which
the
offers
of
Caesar
were
either
repugnant
,
or
destructive
,
the
consideration
of
your
fidelity
might
perhaps
fix
a
moderate
censure
upon
your
proceedings
;
but
that
without
any
other
cause
,
but
out
of
a
meer
capricio
of
fancy
,
you
should
reject
such
considerable
Advantages
;
attract
the
indignation
of
Caesar
by
your
refusals
,
abandon
your
Native
Soil
,
to
inhabit
Rocks
and
Desarts
,
is
that
,
which
with
all
your
Friends
,
I
must
impute
to
you
as
a
Problem
of
unanswerable
folly
;
and
that
,
which
I
should
be
glad
,
you
were
able
to
justifie
to
the
World.
I
am
able
to
justifie
it
most
assuredly
,
reply'd
Hortensius
,
and
with
more
facility
to
a
person
,
who
is
not
insensible
of
the
effects
of
Love
,
than
to
any
other
.
Give
Attention
then
to
a
Secret
,
which
is
more
really
a
Secret
,
than
that
you
have
confided
to
me
.
I
have
a
most
sincere
kindness
for
you
,
and
I
find
my
grief
too
weighty
,
to
neglect
an
occasion
to
discharge
a
part
of
it
,
into
the
bosome
of
the
best
of
my
Friends
.
THE
HISTORY
OF
Hortensius
.
THE
Mother
of
the
great
Julius
,
whose
Neece
Aurelia
is
,
and
whose
Name
she
bears
,
was
descended
,
as
without
doubt
you
have
heard
,
of
the
Race
of
the
Hortensiuses
.
This
Alliance
did
allow
me
a
familiarity
with
Aurelia
from
my
infancy
:
And
whereas
this
familiarity
has
been
censur'd
by
some
,
to
have
been
the
Mother
of
that
Antipathy
,
which
the
World
judges
is
ingrafted
in
my
nature
against
the
person
of
Aurelia
,
it
has
on
the
contrary
prov'd
the
ground
of
a
most
immoveable
and
a
most
violent
passion
.
I
may
presume
to
publish
it
,
without
the
fear
of
a
displeasure
.
Aurelia
exprest
a
tender
respect
,
and
confidence
towards
me
;
and
I
assur'd
my self
,
that
her
Relations
would
embrace
my
honorable
Suit
;
but
my
Love
was
of
no
vulgar
stamp
,
and
character
:
It
ambition'd
to
bind
the
heart
of
Aurelia
to
its
faithful
services
,
and
her
own
choice
,
rather
than
to
the
Laws
of
her
Duty
.
My
ready
obedience
did
attend
each
nod
of
her
head
,
each
motion
of
her
person
;
which
I
disguis'd
,
under
the
notion
of
a
respect
and
diligence
,
our
Alliance
might
challenge
from
me
;
but
which
were
really
services
,
that
claim'd
a
near
Alliance
to
Love.
I
found
they
were
understood
in
their
right
sense
by
Aurelia
;
And
believing
,
that
the
happy
Moment
to
second
them
was
arriv'd
,
I
went
to
seek
her
with
that
intention
;
when
at
my
entrance
into
Lucullus's
Garden
,
where
I
heard
she
was
,
I
found
some
Tablets
drop'd
,
which
I
knew
belong'd
to
her
:
I
open'd
them
with
that
impatient
curiosity
,
which
every
one
has
for
the
concerns
of
the
person
,
they
love
,
where
I
found
these
Verses
:
Draw
to
the
life
the
Love-blind
god
;
his
face
,
His
hair
,
his
feature
,
lineaments
,
and
grace
;
Add
to
these
Charms
a
fierce
and
noble
air
,
Than
you
'll
,
th'
ingrate
,
I
love
,
find
present
there
.
Imagine
how
just
hopes
do
my
desires
inflame
;
Resign
my
reason
then
to
those
desires
,
I
name
;
Oppose
to
both
a
Soul
as
fierce
,
as
cold
,
And
you
'll
the
myst'ry
of
my
sighs
unfold
.
These
Verses
rais'd
a
tempest
in
my
thoughts
,
though
I
knew
no
cause
for
it
.
Aurelia
commanded
as
great
a
liberty
,
as
she
pleas'd
;
her
Mother
had
been
dead
a
long
time
,
and
she
was
under
the
tuition
of
an
Aunt
,
a
person
of
a
sweet
disposition
,
who
had
an
entire
confidence
in
the
virtue
of
her
Niece
.
By
this
her
manner
of
living
,
Aurelia
attracted
to
her
all
the
youthful
Gallantry
of
the
Court
;
but
I
could
not
perceive
,
that
any
of
those
,
who
visited
her
,
did
by
any
particular
services
endeavor
to
oblige
her
esteem
.
She
was
neither
of
that
rank
,
nor
merit
,
to
create
an
indifferency
in
the
object
of
her
desires
;
in
fine
,
I
could
see
no
cause
to
make
an
application
of
those
Verses
to
Aurelia
:
yet
notwithstanding
they
charg'd
my
thoughts
with
an
unusual
trouble
and
perplexity
,
I
sought
her
company
,
to
dissipate
it
;
and
having
in
vain
made
a
diligent
inquest
in
every
place
,
where
I
hop'd
to
find
it
,
I
was
guided
,
at
length
,
by
my
roving
thoughts
,
into
that
part
of
the
Cypress
Grove
,
which
borders
upon
the
Labyrinth
of
Myrtles
.
I
was
scarce
enter'd
two
or
three
paces
into
one
of
the
Walks
,
when
I
thought
I
heard
the
voice
of
Aurelia
from
an
Arbor
not
far
distant
from
me
;
I
gave
a
diligent
attention
:
for
there
is
no
Lover
,
who
would
not
be
desirous
to
rob
his
Mistriss
of
a
secret
,
if
he
could
do
it
so
,
as
the
Theft
might
not
be
discover'd
.
Those
,
who
attribute
such
an
unlimited
power
to
Virtue
,
said
Aurelia
to
another
person
,
are
as
ignorant
of
the
effects
of
that
,
as
of
Love.
Virtue
is
capable
to
give
a
bridle
to
our
passions
,
but
not
stifle
them
in
their
birth
;
it
has
forc'd
me
to
dissemble
those
sentiments
,
I
caress
for
my
Ingrate
,
but
it
cannot
effect
,
that
this
Ingrate
should
not
be
the
most
amiable
of
all
Men
;
that
my
eyes
should
not
think
him
so
,
and
that
maugre
his
indifferency
,
he
should
not
be
the
only
person
in
the
Universe
,
which
I
am
destin'd
to
love
.
Oh!
ye
Gods
,
what
shape
of
rage
and
jealousie
did
not
this
discourse
transform
me
into
?
I
thought
my
life
would
have
expir'd
betwixt
them
;
but
bridling
the
effects
of
both
,
that
I
might
live
to
gain
a
perfect
knowledge
of
all
the
circumstances
of
my
Misfortune
,
I
heard
a
person
,
whom
,
by
the
sound
of
her
voice
,
I
conjectur'd
to
be
Helvidia
,
Mecoenas's
Niece
,
make
this
Answer
:
Is
it
possible
that
a
person
of
so
much
reason
and
discretion
,
should
suffer
herself
to
be
charm'd
by
the
eye
?
Cepion
is
a
person
,
I
must
confess
,
of
a
good
presence
and
meen
,
but
the
superficial
parts
of
a
Man
,
shall
never
ensnare
my
heart
;
if
I
must
surrender
my
liberty
,
it
should
be
to
a
noble
passion
,
and
to
the
languishing
sighs
and
vows
of
a
no
less
noble
Lover
,
and
not
to
his
good
looks
,
or
modish
postures
.
Were
he
Master
of
all
the
beauties
and
charms
,
which
Painters
with
their
luxuriant
Pencils
have
bestow'd
upon
Adonis
;
if
he
were
not
passionate
,
humble
,
and
faithful
,
I
should
regard
those
other
exterior
varnishes
,
no
more
than
that
of
a
beautiful
Picture
;
and
all
,
which
that
artificial
Magick
should
be
able
to
charm
from
the
sense
of
my
tenderest
affectation
,
would
be
at
most
but
a
favorable
look
,
or
smile
.
And
what
I
have
hitherto
indulg'd
to
the
charms
of
Cepion
,
reply'd
Aurelia
,
has
been
no
more
:
And
so
much
they
are
able
to
command
from
all
,
that
see
him
.
I
thought
to
have
allow'd
him
no
more
,
than
what
the
most
indifferent
might
grant
him
;
but
I
perceiv'd
,
that
the
Idea's
,
which
enter'd
at
the
casements
of
my
eyes
,
did
insensibly
penetrate
into
the
cabinet
of
my
heart
.
I
oftentimes
imagin'd
I
saw
the
figure
of
Cepion
a
long
time
present
before
my
eyes
,
after
they
had
lost
the
noble
Object
:
He
was
all
day
the
business
of
my
thoughts
,
all
night
the
labor
of
my
fancy
.
I
suffer'd
these
slight
Preludium's
to
gather
strength
,
by
reposing
an
over-confidence
in
those
Maxims
,
you
just
now
deliver'd
:
for
how
could
I
suspect
,
my
heart
should
be
guilty
of
such
a
folly
,
as
to
have
a
Passion
for
a
Man
,
that
had
none
for
me
?
I
believ'd
with
you
,
that
a
woman
endu'd
with
common
sense
,
could
never
be
capable
of
yielding
up
her
Reason
to
the
Attacks
of
the
Senses
:
But
yet
I
did
so
;
and
though
I
perceiv'd
by
what
Arts
they
betray'd
me
,
yet
I
found
it
was
not
in
my
power
to
resist
the
effects
of
their
Treason
.
Oh!
just
Heavens
!
cry'd
I
out
aloud
,
is
it
possible
that
this
should
be
Aurelia
,
who
speaks
what
I
hear
,
and
that
Hortensius
should
be
so
unfortunate
to
hear
,
what
she
speaks
?
This
Exclamation
of
mine
,
caused
them
to
come
suddenly
forth
of
the
Arbor
,
where
they
were
.
I
leave
you
to
judge
,
what
a
look
Aurelia
darted
at
me
,
when
she
saw
her
secret
was
discover'd
:
Too
curious
,
and
ill-advised
Hortensius
,
said
she
,
with
an
inflamed
countenance
,
thou
hast
,
against
my
consent
,
stolen
from
me
the
confession
of
a
weakness
,
which
I
would
have
conceal'd
from
the
whole
World
:
But
,
if
thy
looks
do
not
deceive
me
,
I
shall
find
a
means
to
chastise
thy
indiscretion
.
I
command
thee
never
to
set
foot
more
within
my
Apartment
,
and
I
shall
take
such
caution
to
avoid
thy
Encounter
in
places
indifferent
,
that
thou
shalt
not
often
have
the
pleasure
to
upbraid
my
blusher
with
the
imbecility
of
my
Actions
.
Having
said
this
,
she
flung
away
from
me
,
and
left
me
in
a
confusion
,
I
am
not
able
to
express
.
I
had
scarce
recover'd
the
first
Fit
of
this
Extasie
,
when
I
saw
Cepion
approach
me
;
we
were
very
familiar
,
he
came
often
to
visit
Aurelia
,
and
it
was
my
custom
to
spend
six
or
seven
hours
every
day
in
her
company
.
What
makes
Hortensius
in
this
solitary
place
and
posture
,
said
he
to
me
?
Is
he
musing
upon
his
Amorous
Adventures
?
Does
he
solace
his
thoughts
with
the
pleasure
of
some
fortunate
Encounter
?
Or
put
them
into
Mourning
,
for
the
loss
of
his
Mistriss
?
I
believe
Cepion
had
no
other
intention
in
his
Railery
,
than
to
make
it
the
Subject
of
a
youthful
discourse
;
and
that
he
knew
not
,
how
near
it
lanc'd
me
to
the
quick
;
but
presuming
to
fix
such
an
interpretation
upon
his
words
,
as
I
borrow'd
from
the
circumstance
of
what
had
lately
happen'd
,
it
becomes
you
well
,
Cepion
,
said
I
,
to
insult
thus
over
my
Misfortunes
;
hug
your self
with
that
fancy
:
But
,
perhaps
,
you
may
be
defective
in
some
Article
of
your
conceited
felicity
,
if
thinking
to
rob
me
of
the
heart
of
Aurelia
,
you
shall
not
long
enjoy
the
satisfaction
of
glorying
in
my
disgrace
!
I
?
cry'd
Cepion
,
I
rob
you
of
the
heart
of
Aurelia
?
No
,
said
I
,
in
a
rage
,
you
do
not
rob
me
of
it
;
for
she
bestows
it
as
a
free
gift
upon
you
,
and
this
is
a
conquest
too
inglorious
to
boast
of
.
The
conquest
,
reply'd
Cepion
something
coldly
,
would
be
too
glorious
for
Cepion
;
and
I
must
avow
,
that
Aurelia
is
capable
to
charm
the
whole
World
:
but
yet
avouch
too
,
that
the
heart
of
Cepion
is
uncapable
to
receive
the
impression
,
which
the
Merit
of
Aurelia
,
has
power
to
dilate
through
the
Universe
.
The
charms
of
that
incomparable
beauty
,
would
require
a
heart
,
pregnant
with
fidelity
and
constancy
;
desires
,
which
can
acknowledge
no
other
Deity
,
but
herself
,
for
their
object
,
and
many
other
perfections
of
an
accomplish'd
Lover
,
which
my
Genius
was
never
endu'd
with
:
when
I
love
,
I
love
only
for
my self
;
and
the
Passion
,
I
entertain
for
Ladies
,
may
be
more
properly
call'd
a
youthful
diversion
,
than
a
real
Love.
I
am
not
so
credulous
,
said
I
,
interrupting
him
,
to
take
for
granted
,
what
you
affirm
.
You
act
a
subtle
part
,
under
the
disguise
of
the
indifferent
one
,
whilest
I
am
assur'd
,
that
Aurelia
complains
of
your
ingratitude
;
and
that
the
excess
of
her
love
,
or
jealousie
,
presents
you
to
her
eyes
in
the
shape
of
that
ungrateful
one
she
accuses
:
But
it
is
not
possible
you
should
be
so
,
towards
a
person
of
her
Merit
,
and
that
you
should
not
love
her
,
that
loves
you
.
You
surprize
me
with
Wonder
,
said
Cepion
smiling
,
to
see
you
take
so
much
pains
to
persuade
me
I
love
Aurelia
,
which
you
ought
to
take
to
dissuade
me
from
the
thoughts
of
it
,
if
I
had
so
much
presumption
,
as
to
entertain
any
to
that
effect
.
This
remark
of
his
,
began
a
little
to
recall
me
to
my self
;
I
was
sensible
,
that
I
was
guilty
of
an
Act
of
high
imprudence
,
in
endeavoring
thus
to
convince
my
Rival
of
his
good
fortune
.
I
suddenly
pretended
business
with
young
Paulus
Aemilius
,
who
cross'd
the
end
of
the
Walk
,
we
were
in
;
and
being
much
dissatisfi'd
with
my
Mistriss
,
Cepion
,
and
my self
,
I
hastily
retired
home
to
my
house
.
Though
I
ever
regarded
with
an
eye
of
scorn
and
contempt
the
servile
homage
,
the
greatest
part
of
your
Courtiers
,
pay
to
the
Favorites
of
Princes
,
yet
I
would
not
do
the
glory
of
the
great
Agrippa
that
injustice
,
as
to
rank
those
offices
,
the
Court
of
Augustus
render'd
him
,
in
the
same
form
.
I
saw
that
his
virtue
purchas'd
him
his
favor
;
and
I
endevor'd
,
by
all
the
services
I
was
capable
of
,
to
convince
him
,
that
I
had
a
most
real
and
candid
esteem
for
his
Merits
;
and
I
am
assur'd
,
he
held
me
in
the
number
of
his
most
particular
Friends
;
he
gave
me
a
signal
testimony
of
it
,
at
that
time
,
I
mention
:
which
you
are
not
a
stranger
to
,
though
perhaps
,
you
may
be
,
to
the
circumstances
.
A
deep
Melancholy
had
seiz'd
me
,
caus'd
by
the
unprosperous
success
of
my
amorous
designs
,
and
converted
all
the
gaiety
of
my
humor
into
a
sullen
chagrin
,
when
one
day
I
was
advertis'd
,
the
Emperor
commanded
my
presence
;
I
yielded
a
ready
obedience
to
his
commands
.
As
soon
as
he
saw
me
,
he
led
me
into
his
Closet
;
and
after
he
had
extoll'd
the
Nobility
of
my
Extraction
,
and
the
Merit
of
many
illustrious
Heroes
,
it
had
presented
to
the
Empire
;
I
consider
,
said
he
,
that
Fortune
treats
you
,
as
she
uses
to
treat
persons
of
higher
Virtue
;
she
belies
you
to
be
so
rich
in
your
own
,
that
the
thinks
she
should
offer
you
an
affront
,
to
make
you
a
Present
of
any
of
her
favors
.
I
see
many
Families
in
Rome
,
which
ought
to
acknowledge
an
inferiosity
to
yours
;
whose
Wealth
or
prosperous
Suits
,
have
elevated
them
to
the
highest
Dignities
.
I
will
not
suffer
this
injustice
to
insult
longer
over
you
.
The
Praetor
,
who
held
the
Government
of
Egypt
,
is
lately
dead
,
which
I
confer
upon
you
,
with
the
Praetorship
for
the
first
year
.
I
cast
my self
at
the
feet
of
Caesar
,
to
render
him
thanks
for
a
grace
so
unexpected
,
and
less
merited
by
me
.
Hold
,
said
Caesar
,
this
is
not
the
sole
one
,
Intend
you
;
Princes
are
accountable
to
none
but
the
gods
,
for
their
Actions
;
though
we
see
the
best
and
the
greatest
stand
in
need
of
the
suffrages
and
affections
of
the
meanest
of
their
Subjects
to
support
their
Soveraignty
.
There
is
not
one
of
all
my
Followers
,
who
can
aspire
with
more
justice
than
your self
to
the
employ
I
design
you
;
but
there
are
few
amongst
them
who
will
do
my
judgment
that
right
as
to
assent
to
it
;
for
every
one
is
apt
to
think
,
that
what
is
not
bestowed
upon
himself
,
is
detracted
from
his
merit
.
But
I
will
remove
this
stumbling
Block
out
of
their
way
,
by
colouring
the
Present
,
I
shall
make
you
,
with
the
title
of
Alliance
.
Aurelia
is
Niece
to
the
Mother
of
the
Great
Julius
,
my
Father
;
and
an
obligation
lies
upon
me
,
to
make
a
provision
for
her
establishment
;
wherefore
I
bestow
her
upon
you
in
Marriage
;
render
your
thanks
for
both
these
favors
to
Agrippa
;
for
he
is
the
person
who
has
reviv'd
in
my
memory
the
character
of
the
brave
Race
of
the
Hortensiuses
.
Consider
with
your self
,
I
beseech
you
,
as
well
the
trouble
,
as
surprize
,
this
Proposal
of
Caesar
brought
to
my
already
distracted
thoughts
:
If
he
had
declared
it
but
three
or
four
days
before
,
he
had
render'd
me
the
most
fortunate
person
of
the
Universe
:
I
passionately
lov'd
Aurelia
;
and
this
passion
was
the
first
impression
that
Love
ever
stampt
upon
my
heart
.
I
was
ready
to
make
my
acknowledgements
to
the
Emperor
,
and
offer
up
at
his
feet
all
the
thanks
so
unexampled
a
Grace
could
challenge
from
me
:
but
a
second
consideration
represented
to
my
confused
thoughts
the
violence
I
should
impose
upon
Aurelia
,
if
being
wholly
pre-ingaged
in
the
favor
of
my
Rival
,
I
should
be
an
envious
Instrument
in
compelling
her
to
receive
me
for
her
Husband
.
This
imagination
rais'd
a
civil
war
in
my
breast
;
I
could
not
resolve
to
owe
a
Concern
of
so
pretious
a
value
,
to
any
other
Orders
,
than
those
of
Love.
I
told
the
Emperor
,
that
I
could
not
tell
with
what
resentment
Aurelia
wou'd
receive
the
honor
,
his
bounty
was
pleas'd
to
confer
upon
me
;
that
I
was
sensible
of
its
just
estimate
;
and
that
I
should
be
prodigal
both
of
my
services
,
and
my
bloud
,
to
render
my self
worthy
of
it
;
but
withal
,
that
if
with
the
Government
of
Egypt
he
should
offer
me
the
moity
of
his
Empire
,
I
should
refuse
it
,
rather
than
hazard
to
force
the
inclinations
of
a
Lady
allied
to
the
Bloud
of
Caesar
.
The
Emperor
commended
as
well
my
discretion
,
as
modesty
;
and
telling
me
he
would
take
upon
himself
the
charge
of
obtaining
Aurelia's
consent
to
what
he
desired
,
he
left
me
,
and
went
towards
the
Empresses
Apartment
.
As
I
was
coming
out
of
Caesar's
Closet
,
I
met
Cepion
at
the
door
;
and
well
,
said
he
to
me
,
drawing
me
aside
to
a
window
,
Are
you
yet
of
the
opinion
,
that
I
am
your
Rival
?
Know
it
is
I
,
who
this
day
surrenders
the
possession
of
Aurelia
into
your
hands
.
I
waited
last
night
upon
Agrippa
in
his
Chamber
,
when
he
declar'd
to
divers
persons
there
present
,
the
glorious
fortune
the
Emperor
had
design'd
you
:
I
privately
inform'd
him
of
the
condition
,
Caesar
was
oblig'd
to
add
to
the
rest
of
his
favors
,
if
he
intended
to
compleat
your
felicity
:
And
is
this
a
service
consistent
with
the
designs
of
a
Man
,
that
had
an
intention
to
rob
you
of
the
heart
of
your
Mistress
?
All
that
you
have
done
,
answered
I
,
and
all
that
Caesar
is
able
to
do
,
cannot
assure
me
,
but
that
you
are
yet
my
Rival
:
That
assurance
is
only
lodged
in
the
heart
of
Aurelia
;
and
it
is
from
thence
,
that
I
must
draw
it
;
But
since
I
shall
not
be
capable
to
obtain
her
,
without
committing
a
Rape
upon
her
inclination
,
she
shall
remain
the
Mistress
of
Cepion
for
ever
,
and
Hortensius
shall
never
be
her
Husband
:
you
express
a
great
weakness
,
replyed
Cepion
,
in
harbouring
thus
an
imagination
,
that
Aurelia
has
that
kindness
for
me
,
which
I
could
never
yet
perceive
the
least
symptom
of
;
and
whereof
I
do
not
desire
a
clearer
evidence
:
for
were
it
true
,
that
she
should
honor
me
with
some
good
wishes
,
a
necessity
would
enforce
me
to
requite
them
with
an
ingrateful
insensibility
:
but
though
I
glory
in
the
expression
,
I
do
not
desire
to
purchase
amongst
Women
,
the
Title
of
Cruel
,
or
Ingrate
.
Repeal
this
fanatical
opinion
,
I
conjure
you
,
and
believe
,
that
there
is
no
person
in
the
Court
of
Augustus
,
who
shall
make
you
a
more
sincere
Congratulation
upon
your
glorious
Marriage
,
than
that
you
shall
receive
from
Cepion
.
A
great
Concourse
of
my
friends
,
who
came
pay
their
Congratulations
to
me
,
upon
the
report
of
those
honors
,
Caesar
had
heapt
upon
me
,
interrupted
our
longer
Converse
.
He
assur'd
himself
of
the
obedience
of
Aurelia
,
and
discoursed
publickly
of
our
Marriage
before
the
Empress
,
and
the
Charge
he
had
annext
to
it
,
as
of
a
thing
firmly
ratified
and
concluded
.
I
leave
you
to
judge
what
a
distraction
I
was
in
,
when
I
was
forced
on
all
sides
to
receive
the
Compliments
of
Mars
and
Hymen
:
I
was
sensible
of
an
obstacle
that
intercepted
the
way
to
my
felicity
,
which
none
of
them
had
a
jealousie
of
;
which
caused
me
to
receive
them
with
that
coldness
,
which
drew
admiration
from
all
that
knew
me
whilst
every
one
by
way
of
a
serious
kind
of
raillery
,
told
me
,
I
was
not
as
sensible
as
I
ought
to
be
,
of
the
Blessings
Heaven
had
showred
upon
me
.
I
was
expos'd
to
this
persecution
all
the
rest
of
the
day
;
and
as
I
walkt
forth
in
the
evening
,
to
disengage
my self
from
so
many
troublesome
Visitants
,
I
met
one
of
Aurelia's
Slaves
,
who
came
from
her
Lady
to
tell
me
,
that
she
had
some
business
with
me
,
and
desir'd
my
company
.
I
had
never
seen
her
since
the
day
she
had
forbidden
me
her
house
.
I
ran
to
present
my self
unto
her
with
that
confusion
and
haste
,
as
your
fancy
will
easily
comprehend
.
You
have
done
this
morning
,
said
she
to
me
,
as
I
approacht
her
,
an
act
of
the
highest
generosity
,
that
ever
man
could
yet
boast
of
:
I
am
acquainted
with
all
the
circumstances
of
so
glorious
an
action
;
It
is
not
sufficient
to
say
a
man
loves
,
to
convince
the
World
that
he
does
so
;
Effects
are
more
expressive
than
Words
,
and
I
do
not
doubt
but
that
you
have
a
real
passion
for
me
;
yet
notwithstanding
you
have
rejected
the
offers
of
Caesar
;
taken
into
your
compassionate
consideration
my
pre-ingagements
;
and
renouncing
the
title
another
would
have
given
you
over
my
Heart
,
sacrific'd
your
most
passionate
desires
to
a
generous
despair
,
for
fear
of
imposing
a
violence
upon
my
inclinations
:
Ha!
Hortensius
,
what
ought
not
my
gratitude
to
enterprise
,
to
compensate
thy
generosity
?
I
could
quarrel
with
my
Stars
for
your
sake
,
in
being
so
unkind
to
give
me
such
fatal
inclinations
.
Lend
me
your
assistance
to
conquer
them
;
redeem
my
heart
out
of
the
power
of
that
Ingrate
,
who
detains
it
prisoner
against
my
consent
;
you
have
a
spacious
field
granted
you
,
to
draw
up
all
your
forces
in
,
to
attack
his
unworthiness
;
compel
my
Soul
to
do
that
through
gratitude
,
which
through
the
influence
of
my
unfortunate
Stars
it
is
not
capable
to
do
by
inclination
.
After
divers
expressions
to
this
effect
,
which
I
answer'd
by
submissive
regards
,
and
deep
sighs
more
sensibly
than
by
words
;
we
agreed
,
that
to
indulge
me
time
to
induce
her
to
that
,
which
her
goodness
was
then
pleased
to
stile
her
duty
,
I
should
make
it
my
request
to
Agrippa
,
to
supplicate
Caesar
to
allow
me
a
short
space
to
consider
the
Proposals
,
he
had
made
me
.
Agrippa
was
surpriz'd
when
he
heard
me
;
You
do
not
seriously
reflect
upon
what
you
say
,
reply'd
Agrippa
:
the
Government
of
Egypt
is
the
most
considerable
that
Caesar
has
in
his
power
to
dispose
of
;
it
is
ambition'd
by
the
most
illustrious
Pretenders
about
the
Court
;
and
although
the
apprehensions
of
seeing
it
devolv'd
into
other
hands
should
not
oblige
you
to
press
the
Emperor
to
the
execution
of
his
promise
,
yet
the
possession
of
Aurelia
,
should
methinks
,
excite
you
to
prosecute
all
advantages
,
with
a
most
restless
impatience
.
The
possession
of
Aurelia
,
my
Lord
,
said
I
,
would
not
be
the
same
to
me
,
which
perhaps
it
might
be
to
another
.
I
must
be
excused
if
I
declare
no
more
to
you
at
present
;
but
without
examining
,
whether
I
have
reason
on
my
side
or
no
,
I
humbly
beg
in
the
name
of
that
friendship
you
are
pleased
to
honor
me
with
,
that
you
would
endeavor
to
retard
for
a
while
the
effects
of
Caesar's
generosity
towards
me
.
Agrippa
might
with
ease
,
satisfie
my
request
;
for
news
came
that
same
day
,
that
the
Praetor
,
who
commanded
in
Egypt
,
was
not
dead
;
that
he
was
past
hopes
of
recovery
,
and
that
his
distemper
was
accompanied
with
symtomes
,
which
were
judged
to
be
mortal
,
but
that
he
was
yet
alive
.
I
had
now
as
much
time
,
as
Aurelia
could
hope
for
,
to
accomplish
the
cure
,
she
desir'd
me
to
undertake
.
I
left
no
stone
unmov'd
to
effect
a
work
of
such
importance
;
and
Cepion
seem'd
to
second
me
with
his
faithful
endeavors
.
He
utter'd
things
in
the
presence
of
Aurelia
,
which
touch
me
sometimes
with
real
resentments
against
his
ingratitude
.
I
thank
Heaven
,
said
he
,
one
day
,
discoursing
upon
the
subject
of
the
deaths
of
Antony
and
Cleopatra
,
that
I
was
not
born
to
be
commended
to
Posterity
for
one
of
those
memorable
examples
:
I
am
incapable
of
that
honor
;
and
what
would
be
a
glorious
fortune
another
,
would
prove
to
me
the
greatest
of
misfortune
.
The
Ladies
are
so
fully
convinc'd
of
this
truth
in
me
,
that
they
think
it
not
worth
their
pains
to
level
their
Darts
at
so
impenetrable
a
Mark
,
as
my
Heart
;
and
I
am
much
oblig'd
to
them
for
their
discretion
;
for
if
any
one
of
them
should
either
out
of
inclination
,
or
any
other
motive
,
testifie
the
least
good
will
for
me
,
I
should
fly
her
company
,
as
one
would
fly
the
encounter
of
his
greatest
Enemy
.
These
discourses
did
oftentimes
produce
their
effect
:
The
Curtain
is
drawn
from
before
my
Eyes
,
said
Aurelia
to
me
,
Cepion
is
not
so
worthy
of
my
affection
,
as
his
flattering
appearances
would
falsly
persuade
me
.
I
must
aver
,
for
the
credit
of
my
own
judgment
,
that
there
are
few
men
in
the
World
,
in
whom
the
exteriour
Characters
shine
with
a
nobler
lustre
than
in
his
;
but
do
you
observe
the
pride
and
audacity
,
which
usurps
a
prerogative
over
all
his
other
qualifications
.
He
has
such
a
respect
for
himself
,
as
begets
in
him
a
contempt
and
dis-respect
of
all
others
.
He
looks
as
if
he
conceited
no
person
but
himself
were
worthy
of
his
own
esteem
.
This
self-love
from
his
person
,
passes
to
his
Spirit
and
Wit
;
he
is
enamour'd
of
his
own
opinions
;
and
esteems
it
a
point
of
honor
to
enter
the
Lists
,
and
sustain
them
against
Opponents
;
our
Sex
is
not
thought
worthy
to
have
the
liberty
of
offering
an
argument
in
its
own
defence
;
the
least
condescension
in
favor
of
it
,
he
accounts
a
blemish
to
his
high
erudition
,
and
thinks
he
should
wound
his
reputation
,
to
admit
a
Woman
to
enterprise
her
verdict
in
any
of
his
disputes
.
Ha!
generous
Hortensius
,
did
I
owe
you
no
other
acknowledgements
than
for
the
cure
you
have
effected
upon
those
contagious
errors
,
wherewith
that
arrogant
person
had
infected
my
judgment
,
I
should
die
deeply
in
your
debt
.
Madam
,
said
I
,
the
best
expedient
to
compleat
the
cure
you
mention
,
is
to
proscribe
that
Ingrate
both
from
your
thoughts
and
lips
;
I
believe
you
do
not
name
him
,
but
to
accuse
his
miscarriages
;
yet
this
is
always
to
entertain
him
in
your
thoughts
;
and
what
pretence
soever
it
be
,
that
revokes
him
to
your
memory
,
ought
to
be
suspected
to
have
a
tincture
of
love
in
it
.
That
tincture
,
thanks
to
the
gods
,
said
Aurelia
,
my
Soul
is
now
free
from
,
and
I
blush
to
think
it
should
ever
have
received
so
ignoble
an
impression
.
I
was
enchanted
without
doubt
,
and
the
Passion
I
had
for
a
man
who
requited
it
with
so
little
respect
,
or
complaisance
,
could
not
be
but
the
effect
of
a
magical
operation
.
Aurelia
was
not
long
fixt
to
this
opinion
;
one
obliging
expression
,
one
civil
regard
of
Cepion
,
would
re-entangle
her
again
as
fast
as
ever
in
the
snares
of
her
old
Amour
.
Sometimes
she
would
commend
the
noble
part
of
his
person
:
sometimes
the
color
and
elegancy
of
his
hair
;
when
any
one
discourses
before
her
of
any
features
or
charms
,
which
were
remarkable
in
the
face
of
another
,
and
had
a
resemblace
of
those
in
Cepion's
;
those
graces
,
would
she
say
to
me
,
with
a
sigh
,
can
pretend
in
no
other
person
in
the
World
to
those
advantages
,
they
find
in
my
Ingrate
.
Did
you
ever
see
a
blew
eye
sparkle
like
his
?
Nature
has
mixt
in
his
complexion
all
her
richest
colors
.
The
whiteness
of
his
teeth
,
makes
Ivory
it self
look
pale
for
envy
;
his
mouth
,
though
large
,
includes
in
its
circumference
a
thousand
charms
;
and
his
meen
breaths
I
know
not
what
;
so
gentile
and
noble
,
that
it
commands
both
respect
and
admiration
,
from
all
that
behold
him
.
This
levity
and
constancy
of
humor
,
did
more
than
half
distract
me
;
I
resolv'd
a
thousand
times
to
make
a
private
retreat
out
of
Rome
,
and
fly
so
far
from
the
noise
of
misfortunes
,
that
I
should
never
hear
more
the
names
of
Cepion
and
Aurelia
.
But
at
length
my
perseverance
seem'd
to
attract
upon
my
sufferings
some
compassion
from
Heaven
;
Aurelia
solemnly
protested
to
me
,
that
she
perceiv'd
the
hour
was
near
at
hand
,
wherein
her
distemper
should
receive
a
perfect
cure
;
and
all
her
actions
avoucht
her
expressions
.
She
could
see
Cepion
without
changing
color
;
she
testifyed
no
regard
of
any
thing
,
he
affected
to
say
to
her
.
She
scarce
took
notice
he
was
in
any
place
,
where
she
was
.
I
believe
this
alteration
in
Aurelia
produc'd
the
same
effect
in
the
Soul
of
my
Rival
,
as
the
like
might
do
in
the
thoughts
of
most
men
;
I
observ'd
that
he
followed
Aurelia
with
more
assiduity
and
ardor
than
before
;
he
was
always
whispering
some
little
secret
in
her
ear
,
and
I
oftentimes
discover'd
them
making
to
each
other
private
signs
of
intelligence
.
This
new
intrigue
involv'd
me
in
a
new
perplexity
,
and
I
could
not
conceal
it
from
Aurelia
.
You
do
my
sincerity
an
injury
,
said
she
to
me
;
I
have
ingenuously
confess'd
to
you
all
the
errors
of
my
weakness
;
which
you
ought
to
believe
I
have
long
since
repeal'd
,
since
you
have
my
solemn
protestation
for
it
;
Indulge
a
peace
to
your
troubled
thoughts
;
Cepion
shall
never
be
the
object
of
my
love
,
his
triumphs
have
seen
their
most
glorious
days
.
Why
then
,
Madam
,
said
I
,
are
there
so
many
visible
marks
daily
given
of
a
secret
combination
,
to
alarm
my
jealousie
?
That
which
alarms
your
suspition
,
reply'd
Aurelia
,
ought
to
assure
you
of
my
integrity
;
the
hatred
of
that
,
which
once
one
tenderly
affected
,
is
a
kind
of
destruction
,
which
wears
the
Vizard
Mask
of
a
kindness
.
I
will
not
suffer
one
spark
of
that
fire
to
harbor
it self
any
longer
in
my
heart
;
and
Cepion
is
now
grown
indifferent
to
me
,
to
that
degree
,
that
I
shall
always
place
him
in
the
first
rank
of
my
Friends
,
and
the
last
of
my
Lovers
.
This
kind
of
indifferency
did
not
at
all
relish
to
the
palate
of
my
Love
;
I
conjur'd
Aurelia
to
confine
her
disingagements
within
the
beaten
tract
of
others
;
and
not
expose
her self
to
those
dangerous
precipices
,
to
the
brink
whereof
her
nice
distinctions
must
necessarily
reduce
her
.
She
spoke
many
passionate
things
to
me
,
which
in
appearance
ought
to
have
convinc'd
my
jealousie
;
but
they
could
not
calm
it
:
I
observ'd
daily
the
familiar
carriage
of
her
,
and
my
Rival
;
but
too
much
for
my
repose
.
As
I
was
coming
one
night
out
of
Paulus
Aemilius
his
house
,
when
I
had
Supt
,
(
which
is
seated
,
as
you
know
,
in
a
place
of
little
Concourse
)
and
crossing
a
passage
,
which
leads
from
the
Garden
down
to
the
River
Tyber
,
I
discover'd
by
the
Moon-shine
,
the
glimps
of
a
person
,
which
seem'd
to
me
to
wear
the
Liverty
of
Aurelia
.
I
stopt
to
see
how
he
would
dispose
of
himself
;
when
presently
I
saw
him
go
directy
to
a
Man
,
who
about
thirty
paces
from
thence
,
stood
waiting
among
some
Trees
;
they
went
both
of
them
together
from
that
place
,
and
directed
their
course
towards
a
private
door
,
which
open'd
into
Mecoenas
his
Gardens
,
and
there
went
in
.
I
had
a
curiosity
to
be
inform'd
of
their
defign
,
which
caused
me
to
follow
them
.
I
had
scarce
got
into
one
of
the
Allies
,
which
first
offer'd
it self
to
my
silent
steps
,
when
I
thought
I
heard
Cepion's
Voice
from
the
other
side
of
a
Quickset-hedge
,
next
to
me
.
Did'st
thou
take
good
notice
of
the
place
where
thou
did'st
leave
her
?
said
he
,
Yes
,
my
Lord
,
reply'd
another
man
;
she
waits
for
you
in
the
Arbor
,
at
the
end
of
the
great
Terrass
,
which
is
covered
over
with
those
yellow
Flowers
which
came
out
of
Spain
.
My
dear
Boy
,
said
Cepion
,
what
rewards
do
I
not
owe
thy
zeal
and
fidelity
?
besides
thy
freedom
,
which
I
am
assur'd
I
can
beg
of
Aurelia
,
I
have
nothing
in
the
World
that
I
think
a
recompence
equal
to
this
service
,
thou
hast
done
me
.
Cepion
kept
walking
on
,
as
he
talkt
,
and
I
kept
at
an
even
distance
with
him
;
but
stopt
a
little
before
I
came
to
the
end
of
the
Walk
,
for
fear
of
meeting
him
;
I
saw
him
cross
over
a
green
square
,
and
perceived
distinctly
from
the
place
where
I
stood
,
that
it
was
the
same
person
,
I
had
seen
before
amongst
the
trees
,
and
that
the
Slave
that
followed
him
,
belong'd
to
Aurelia
.
I
am
able
to
convince
the
World
,
that
never
man
yet
died
of
grief
or
jealousie
,
since
I
surviv'd
that
fatal
sight
.
Shaking
and
trembling
I
crept
along
under
the
shelter
of
a
Pomegranatehedge
,
that
border'd
one
side
of
the
Terrass
,
which
my
Rival
ascended
;
and
stealing
softly
round
the
Arbor
the
Slave
had
describ'd
,
I
apply'd
my
ear
to
that
part
of
it
,
which
was
thickest
shaded
,
with
the
over-hanging
leaves
and
curling
flowers
.
Dispence
with
me
,
my
dear
Ovid
,
from
relating
to
you
what
I
then
heard
,
I
am
distracted
with
rage
and
jealousie
,
as
often
as
I
think
upon
this
abhorr'd
encounter
.
I
was
resolv'd
to
interrupt
the
felicity
of
this
too
happy
Rival
,
and
had
in
my
fury
washt
away
the
stains
of
the
affront
,
he
offer'd
my
love
,
with
his
Blood
;
but
my
Sword
being
entangled
in
some
of
the
boughs
,
forced
me
to
make
some
noise
to
disengage
it
;
which
struck
a
sudden
terror
into
the
fortunate
Lovers
.
The
Lady
committed
her
hasty
flight
to
the
dark
shades
;
and
Cepion
leaping
off
from
the
Terrass
into
the
Walk
under
it
,
conveyed
himself
away
with
such
speed
,
that
it
was
impossible
for
me
to
retrieve
him
amongst
those
intricate
Meanders
.
My
greedy
eye
made
a
strict
search
after
my
unfaithful
one
,
to
charge
her
treachery
with
my
just
reproaches
;
but
all
I
could
recover
of
her
was
a
glimps
at
a
great
distance
,
as
she
ran
into
the
house
,
with
her
Slave
at
her
heels
.
I
went
to
the
door
to
wait
for
her
coming
forth
,
with
a
resolution
to
impeach
her
of
her
Treason
;
but
she
returned
not
that
night
to
her
own
Lodgings
;
and
I
was
inform'd
by
her
Coachman
,
who
drove
home
her
Chariot
,
that
she
intended
to
lodge
with
Heluidia
.
You
are
a
Master
in
the
Art
of
Love
,
my
dear
Ovid
,
and
do
doubtless
comprehend
,
what
the
most
significant
expressions
,
would
be
too
dull
a
Pencil
to
depaint
to
you
.
I
past
the
whole
night
in
measuring
the
length
of
my
Chamber
over
and
over
with
my
large
paces
;
and
next
morning
Agrippa
did
me
the
honor
to
give
me
a
visit
.
I
know
not
what
more
,
said
he
,
approaching
me
,
to
alledge
to
Caesar
,
for
the
farther
retardment
of
his
Commands
.
Our
Praetor
is
now
infallibly
dead
;
and
last
night
Aurelia
advertis'd
the
Emperor
by
Terentia
,
that
his
designs
and
commands
in
your
favor
,
were
entirely
conformable
to
her
own
desires
.
Do
you
tell
me
,
my
Lord
,
said
I
,
interterrupting
his
discourse
,
that
Aurelia
has
assur'd
the
Emperor
,
she
gives
her
free
consent
to
our
Marriage
?
Yes
certainly
,
said
Agrippa
;
and
does
likewise
press
the
accomplishment
of
it
with
all
the
earnestness
,
her
modesty
can
dispence
with
.
I
am
much
oblig'd
to
her
,
answered
I
,
for
so
generous
a
complaisance
;
but
she
may
honor
some
other
with
it
,
if
she
pleases
;
for
Aurelia
shall
never
be
the
Wife
of
Hortensius
.
You
are
not
,
I
fear
,
in
your
right
understanding
,
reply'd
Agrippa
,
astonisht
at
my
repartee
,
What
can
you
desire
in
a
a
Woman
,
which
you
cannot
find
in
Aurelia
?
She
is
full
of
Youth
,
Beauty
,
Wit
,
and
allied
to
Coesar
,
who
presents
her
to
you
with
his
own
hand
,
and
for
a
Portion
,
the
most
eminent
Charge
in
the
whole
Empire
.
The
Emperor
may
Portion
her
with
the
whole
Empire
it self
,
if
he
pleases
,
said
I
,
but
Hortensius
shall
never
share
any
part
in
his
Bounty
.
Heavens
!
What
can
I
alledge
in
your
justification
,
reply'd
Agrippa
,
when
the
Emperor
shall
justly
resent
this
unexampled
contempt
of
his
most
gracious
favors
?
I
will
tell
him
,
said
I
,
that
I
am
resolv'd
never
to
marry
;
that
I
have
a
natural
antipathy
against
the
Sex
;
and
that
nothing
ought
to
be
more
free
to
a
Man
than
the
resignation
of
his
liberty
.
You
ought
to
have
declared
so
much
before
,
said
Agrippa
,
displeas'd
with
my
discourse
,
and
not
to
expose
a
Cosin-German
of
the
Great
Julius
to
the
publick
scandal
of
an
open
repulse
.
This
manner
of
proceeding
is
not
capable
of
any
excuse
;
your
friends
will
all
disown
your
interests
,
if
you
do
not
speedily
return
to
your self
;
and
do
that
with
a
ready
complaisance
,
which
you
cannot
refuse
to
do
,
without
drawing
upon
your self
,
together
with
an
inevitable
ruin
,
the
indignation
of
an
incensed
Emperor
.
I
was
furnish'd
,
but
with
too
many
and
too
convincing
reasons
,
which
I
might
have
offered
in
my
own
defence
,
but
a
too
just
respect
for
that
ingrateful
one
;
for
whom
I
ever
had
,
and
still
retain
an
honourable
Passion
,
hindred
me
from
publishing
her
infamy
.
She
thought
perhaps
to
put
this
consideration
to
the
extremity
of
the
Test
;
or
whether
it
were
that
she
imagin'd
it
was
not
in
my
power
to
withdraw
it
,
from
the
object
,
it
had
been
so
long
setled
upon
,
or
that
being
really
ignorant
of
the
true
cause
of
my
resentments
,
she
was
desirous
to
clap
a
specious
Mask
over
the
visage
of
her
foul
fac'd
Intrigue
,
she
counterfeited
a
most
extreme
grief
,
for
the
repulse
,
I
had
given
her
solemn
declarations
.
She
sent
me
Letters
,
to
confute
that
Capricio
of
mine
,
as
she
term'd
it
,
sugar'd
over
with
expressions
,
as
would
certainly
have
seduc'd
me
,
had
it
been
possible
for
artifice
to
have
done
it
.
I
was
transported
beyond
all
patience
at
this
last
testimony
of
her
treachery
;
and
I
think
I
should
scarce
have
commanded
the
impetuosity
of
my
rage
,
had
I
had
an
opportunity
to
have
vented
it
;
but
Caesar
,
discovering
nothing
in
my
proceedings
,
but
what
bore
the
character
of
Arrogance
and
Ingratitude
,
sent
a
party
of
his
Guards
to
me
,
with
a
Commission
to
Convoy
me
out
of
Italy
,
and
an
express
command
likewise
to
forbid
me
to
return
,
till
he
was
pleas'd
to
recal
me
.
You
are
now
acquainted
with
the
secret
of
that
Adventure
,
which
with
so
much
injustice
,
has
fixt
upon
me
the
title
of
Indifferent
.
But
,
my
dear
Ovid
,
see
the
capriciousness
of
my
destiny
:
the
Image
of
Aurelia
is
scarce
yet
defac'd
out
of
my
Soul
;
rage
and
contempt
ought
to
have
banisht
it
out
of
all
her
dominion
,
the
very
instant
I
discover'd
her
Treasons
;
but
a
heart
condemned
by
heaven
to
a
rigorous
fate
of
constancy
,
is
deaf
to
all
admonitions
,
and
insensible
of
all
advantages
,
which
are
offered
for
its
disingagement
.
I
must
avouch
,
to
the
shame
of
my
judgment
,
that
I
am
not
yet
possest
with
a
due
resentment
of
Aureliaes
ingratitude
;
I
conserve
neither
a
Love
,
nor
an
esteem
for
her
;
but
that
despight
,
which
now
usurps
the
place
of
both
,
is
a
greater
Tyrant
to
my
repose
,
than
those
ever
were
:
And
could
you
imagine
what
object
malitious
fortune
should
now
present
to
this
despight
?
Cepion
,
that
very
Cepion
,
who
is
the
Author
of
all
my
misfortunes
,
and
from
whom
I
have
deriv'd
so
many
fatal
injuries
,
is
at
this
hour
in
the
Isle
of
Thalassia
.
You
tell
me
a
wonder
,
said
Ovid
,
What
design
has
invited
him
to
visit
this
inhumane
Climate
?
I
know
not
,
reply'd
Hortensius
,
but
he
landed
yesterday
in
the
evening
;
and
lodged
last
night
at
Lentulus
his
quarters
;
I
fancy'd
I
saw
Cepion
afar
off
walking
with
him
,
as
I
return'd
from
waiting
upon
Ladies
to
their
Lodgings
;
but
the
little
probability
of
such
a
truth
lessening
the
credit
of
my
eyes
at
such
a
distance
,
I
could
allow
none
to
so
strange
a
Vision
.
Whereupon
I
sent
one
of
my
Servants
to
be
inform'd
of
the
reality
of
it
,
who
affirms
that
which
my
eyes
did
make
a
doubt
of
;
Cepion
is
in
this
Island
,
and
I
must
either
be
forc'd
to
endure
the
sight
of
a
person
I
hate
above
all
the
World
,
or
desert
a
Solitude
,
which
I
begin
to
take
delight
in
,
and
have
expended
too
much
cost
and
time
in
cultivating
it
,
to
leave
it
without
a
sensible
regret
.
As
Hortensius
was
speaking
this
,
he
espy'd
Lentulus
at
the
other
end
of
the
Galery
,
and
with
him
his
Rival
,
whose
sight
he
so
much
abhorred
.
Hortensius
could
not
Master
the
first
motions
of
his
horror
;
he
ow'd
a
respect
to
the
place
,
which
something
reflected
upon
the
person
,
who
was
in
his
own
house
;
and
never
did
man
more
religiously
maintain
the
Laws
of
hospitality
,
or
the
devoirs
of
civility
;
but
at
this
time
,
being
incapable
of
observing
either
,
he
hastily
rush'd
into
Ovid's
Chamber
,
and
shut
the
door
after
him
.
Lentulus
had
a
particular
kindness
for
Cepion
,
from
whom
he
had
received
an
important
advice
,
which
nearly
concern'd
his
safety
;
&
this
sole
motive
had
brought
him
into
Thalassia
.
Lentulus
was
toucht
to
the
Soul
,
to
see
in
what
manner
he
was
treated
by
Hortensius
,
What
frenzie
has
invaded
your
friend
?
said
he
to
Ovid
:
Is
he
subject
to
these
distempers
?
Or
is
it
our
fight
,
that
has
brought
them
upon
him
?
Cepion
is
able
to
resolve
your
doubt
,
reply'd
Ovid
,
smiling
upon
Lentulus
:
he
of
the
three
is
the
person
,
whom
this
proceeding
,
I
presume
,
does
least
surprise
.
I
swear
to
you
,
said
Cepion
,
I
am
no
less
surpriz'd
at
it
,
than
either
of
you
can
be
.
Hortensius
has
been
formerly
of
an
opinion
,
that
a
certain
person
exprest
too
great
a
kindness
for
me
in
a
circumstance
he
was
not
capable
to
digest
:
I
thought
I
had
not
omitted
any
thing
to
undeceive
him
of
his
error
:
But
he
has
since
testified
so
scornful
a
contempt
for
the
Lady
,
who
was
the
subject
of
that
contest
,
that
though
he
thought
himself
not
oblig'd
to
credit
my
proceedings
,
yet
his
own
mutability
in
deserting
his
Mistress
,
ought
to
have
dissipated
those
clouds
of
jealousie
,
which
hung
so
long
over
his
head
.
You
relate
to
us
nothing
but
false
appearances
,
said
Ovid
;
he
that
would
satisfie
his
credulity
with
them
,
would
conclude
Hortensius
were
in
a
fault
;
you
could
not
prevent
any
persons
having
a
kindness
for
you
;
you
did
not
endeavor
to
improve
that
kindness
;
nay
you
contributed
all
that
lay
in
your
power
to
extinguish
it
.
But
Cepion
,
but
the
Moon-light
Adventure
in
the
Garden
of
Mecoenas
;
the
Assignation
in
the
Arbor
at
the
end
of
the
Great
Terrass
,
pray
tell
us
,
does
it
deserve
in
your
opinion
the
thanks
,
or
embraces
of
Hortensius
?
Cepion
stood
mute
for
a
while
at
this
reproach
of
Ovid
;
then
suddenly
lifting
up
his
hands
and
eyes
to
Heaven
;
Oh!
ye
just
gods
,
cry'd
he
out
,
What
is
this
,
I
hear
?
How
?
said
he
,
fixing
his
eyes
intentively
upon
Ovid
;
Is
Hortensius
acquainted
with
the
Encounter
of
the
Grand
Terrass
?
So
well
,
reply'd
Ovid
,
that
he
was
even
an
ear-witness
to
it
.
It
was
he
who
made
that
noise
,
and
gave
you
the
Alarm
,
that
forc'd
you
to
leap
over
the
Terrass
;
and
it
was
that
assurance
of
your
felicity
,
which
caus'd
him
to
judge
it
would
not
be
any
discretion
in
him
,
to
disturb
it
,
by
marrying
the
person
,
who
was
proposed
to
him
.
With
that
Cepion
walkt
towards
the
door
,
whereat
he
had
seen
Hortensius
enter
.
Grant
me
the
liberty
,
I
beseech
you
,
said
he
,
to
confute
the
most
unjust
opinion
that
ever
suspition
yet
harbor'd
in
her
jealous
Brain
.
Aurelia's
virtue
is
unblemisht
with
the
crimes
with
which
you
charge
it
;
she
affects
you
most
passionately
;
and
supports
all
your
reproaches
with
a
goodness
,
that
merits
your
highest
adorations
.
Ovid
wisely
imagin'd
that
Hortensius
would
be
desirous
to
convince
Cepion
of
an
error
,
or
be
convinc'd
by
him
of
his
own
;
and
judging
that
Lentulus
would
be
a
sufficient
Umpire
in
the
case
,
he
silently
stole
from
them
,
and
slipt
undiscover'd
out
at
the
door
,
which
descends
into
the
Garden
.
He
was
scarce
out
of
the
house
when
a
young
Slave
,
who
waited
on
Roselina
,
came
from
his
Mistress
to
enquire
for
him
.
Lentulus
spy'd
the
Boy
,
at
the
entrance
of
a
door
,
which
Hortensius
his
Servants
had
open'd
.
to
look
into
the
Room
for
Ovid.
He
run
to
him
,
to
ask
him
his
business
.
I
have
brought
a
Note
from
Roselina
,
said
the
Slave
,
to
a
Roman
,
who
lodges
here
.
Give
it
me
,
said
Lentulus
,
and
I
will
deliver
it
to
Ovid.
The
Boy
knowing
that
Lentulus
was
a
particular
friend
of
his
Mistress
,
made
no
difficulty
to
give
him
the
Ticket
he
brought
.
Lentulus
walkt
a
little
aside
,
that
the
Slave
might
not
see
him
open
it
,
and
with
an
earnest
curiosity
casting
his
eyes
upon
it
,
he
found
these
expressions
.
Your
Thalassian
Mistress
is
resolved
to
grant
you
the
private
interview
,
you
beg'd
of
her
.
Fail
not
to
render
your self
this
night
at
the
same
Wilderness
where
you
writ
the
Verses
,
you
know
of
;
all
things
shall
be
so
disposed
,
that
you
shall
enjoy
your
desired
satisfaction
without
disturbance
.
Herennia
did
not
declare
her self
in
the
Billet
to
be
the
Lover
,
it
spoke
of
;
but
jealousie
would
not
suffer
Lentulus
to
doubt
it
could
be
any
other
.
He
saw
her
,
as
she
came
out
of
the
Wilderness
,
which
the
Ticket
made
mention
of
;
and
found
her
reading
something
,
which
he
judg'd
to
be
the
Verses
,
it
specifi'd
;
and
she
her self
had
told
him
,
that
what
she
was
reading
,
did
treat
of
a
Love-intrigue
.
He
is
now
fully
convinc'd
,
that
Herennia
is
not
only
unfaithful
,
but
that
Ovid
too
is
the
secret
Rival
,
he
seeks
after
.
Whereupon
he
resolves
to
render
himself
at
the
appointed
Rendezvous
,
instead
of
the
new
Lover
;
and
after
he
had
returned
an
answer
to
the
Slave
,
by
one
of
Hortensius's
Servants
,
That
Ovid
would
not
fail
to
obey
the
orders
which
were
sent
him
,
he
went
forth
in
a
furious
rage
,
and
left
Cepion
and
Aureliaes
Lover
the
liberty
to
entertain
each
other
without
Witnesses
,
or
constraint
.
The
amorous
Ovid
had
nothing
less
in
his
thoughts
,
than
what
was
projecting
against
him
.
He
was
ignorant
of
the
Rape
,
Tisienus
had
committed
upon
the
Letter
of
Sulpicia
;
he
knew
not
what
a
Monster
was
hatching
in
the
jealous
breast
of
Lentulus
,
and
thinking
upon
nothing
but
the
charms
of
Roselina
,
and
the
pleasant
Intrigue
he
was
like
to
be
embarkt
in
,
he
sacrific'd
to
this
Divinity
all
his
designs
and
adorations
.
He
found
not
his
fair
Goddess
at
her
own
Temple
,
and
was
told
by
her
Servants
,
that
she
was
gone
forth
to
take
the
Air
in
the
Wood
,
which
border'd
upon
:
the
shoar
.
He
run
thither
with
all
the
speed
,
the
Wings
of
his
desires
could
carry
him
,
that
he
might
not
loose
the
opportunity
of
Lentulus
his
absence
.
He
searcht
all
the
beaten
tracts
,
nor
left
he
those
unvisited
,
which
were
least
frequented
,
but
could
not
retrieve
the
fair
Game
:
He
hunted
back
again
upon
the
foil
;
and
despairing
at
last
to
gain
a
view
of
it
,
he
was
ready
to
return
to
Roselinaes
Lodgings
,
to
see
whether
she
were
to
come
back
thither
,
or
no
;
when
several
loud
cries
gave
his
astonish'd
ears
the
alarm
from
the
neighboring
shoar
.
He
run
with
a
precipitate
haste
to
the
place
,
from
whence
he
thought
those
cries
were
sent
;
where
he
saw
a
young
Lady
of
exquisite
Beauty
,
strugling
by
violence
to
disengage
her self
from
a
man
in
whose
Arms
she
was
detained
an
unwilling
prisoner
;
who
,
having
perforce
gain'd
her
liberty
,
came
running
to
Ovid
for
succor
:
he
interpos'd
himself
immediately
betwixt
the
Lady
,
and
the
man
that
pursu'd
her
,
and
catching
him
by
the
Arm
;
Whatever
you
are
,
said
he
to
him
,
who
offer
this
unmanly
violence
to
this
young
Lady
;
you
have
made
choice
of
an
ill
place
to
execute
your
foul
designs
in
.
This
Island
is
inhabited
by
many
noble
Heroes
,
who
have
an
entire
veneration
for
this
fair
Sex
;
and
will
all
sacrifice
their
lives
at
their
feet
,
before
any
one
of
them
should
suffer
the
least
injury
The
unknown
employ'd
no
other
language
than
a
profound
sigh
,
to
return
an
answer
to
Ovid's
discourse
,
and
sinking
down
upon
the
Sands
,
gave
cause
to
the
Roman
to
judge
,
both
by
the
paleness
of
his
countenance
,
and
the
tracts
of
blood
,
which
in
divers
places
distain'd
his
cloaths
,
that
he
had
received
some
dangerous
wound
.
Whereupon
Ovid
chang'd
his
design
from
the
opposing
,
to
the
relieving
a
person
in
so
ill
a
condition
.
He
ran
towards
the
Sea
for
some
Water
to
refresh
him
;
when
a
little
farther
he
discover'd
two
men
more
,
engag'd
in
a
mortal
Combat
,
whereof
one
,
before
he
could
come
to
them
,
fell
dead
at
the
feet
of
the
other
.
He
that
remain'd
victorious
,
appear'd
so
charming
to
the
eyes
of
Ovid
,
that
he
consider'd
him
as
something
more
than
Mortal
.
He
retired
a
pace
or
two
backwards
,
and
surveying
him
with
admiration
,
he
was
going
to
express
the
wonder
of
his
thoughts
in
the
best
of
his
language
;
but
the
fierce
unknown
would
not
allow
him
the
time
;
and
not
so
much
as
vouchsafing
him
a
look
,
rudely
lanc'd
himself
forth
in
the
pursuit
of
the
fair
Fugitive
.
Ovid
thought
himself
not
oblig'd
to
interrupt
his
pious
intent
,
to
follow
a
Man
of
so
little
civility
;
wherefore
he
continued
on
his
course
towards
the
Sea
;
where
he
found
a
Shallop
anchored
on
the
shoar
,
and
in
her
a
Man
,
who
seem'd
to
be
her
Pilot.
Ovid
askt
him
,
if
he
could
not
furnish
him
out
of
some
of
his
Casks
with
a
little
fresh
Water
,
to
relieve
a
person
,
who
lay
gasping
for
breath
,
at
the
entrance
of
the
next
Wood.
The
Mariner
gave
him
to
understand
by
signs
,
that
he
was
both
deaf
and
dumb
;
but
by
a
quick
ghess
comprehended
his
demands
,
drew
a
little
Bottle
out
of
his
Pocket
,
fill'd
it
with
water
,
and
follow'd
him
to
the
place
,
Ovid
had
endeavor'd
by
signs
likewise
to
describe
to
him
.
They
both
employ'd
their
utmost
skill
to
recall
the
Soul
back
again
of
the
breathless
Youth
;
which
was
fled
from
its
ancient
Harbor
;
but
what
Ovid
at
first
thought
only
to
be
a
swooning
Fit
,
prov'd
in
the
end
,
a
real
Death
.
The
Mute
made
a
horrid
kind
of
bellowing
and
confused
noise
at
the
sight
of
so
dismal
an
object
.
Ovid
pointed
to
the
place
likewise
,
where
the
other
dead
Man
lay
,
and
leaving
him
to
exercise
his
charity
about
their
Corps
,
was
resolv'd
to
gain
some
clearer
evidence
of
so
strange
an
Encounter
:
and
pursuing
the
tract
,
he
had
seen
the
unknown
Lady
take
,
he
discover'd
her
in
the
great
Road
,
which
past
thorough
the
mid'st
of
the
Wood
;
and
the
strange
Youth
,
whose
excellent
Meen
had
surprised
him
so
much
before
,
upon
his
knees
at
her
feet
;
who
by
the
signs
,
he
saw
him
express
at
a
distance
,
seem'd
to
be
an
earnest
Suiter
to
her
for
her
stay
:
But
she
seem'd
neither
to
be
mov'd
with
his
Charms
,
nor
his
Intreaties
,
and
angrily
flinging
out
of
his
Arms
,
kept
on
her
way
upon
the
Road
she
was
in
.
Ovid
by
a
cross
cut
gain'd
the
advantage
of
her
speed
,
and
overtook
her
,
just
as
her
weariness
forc'd
her
to
fit
down
upon
the
ground
,
to
ease
her
delicate
limbs
.
Forbear
,
sweet
Stranger
,
said
he
to
her
,
to
afflict
your self
in
this
manner
;
you
are
here
in
a
Sanctuary
of
safety
;
and
you
shall
find
in
this
Island
four
or
five
Romans
,
who
will
as
freely
lay
down
their
lives
,
if
an
honorable
occasion
shall
call
upon
them
,
in
your
defence
,
as
in
their
own
;
I
am
very
much
oblig'd
to
your
generosity
,
reply'd
the
Lady
,
in
a
kind
of
corrupt
Latin
;
I
have
no
more
Enemies
,
whose
violence
I
fear
;
and
though
the
persecution
I
now
sustain
,
invirons
my
Soul
with
greater
horror
,
than
that
the
Heavens
have
so
lately
deliver'd
me
from
,
yet
I
do
not
think
that
it
will
compel
me
to
have
recourse
to
the
famous
Arms
of
the
Romans
.
No
,
Divine
Agaritha
,
(
said
the
beautiful
Youth
following
the
Lady
at
a
distance
,
who
fled
from
him
)
you
need
employ
no
other
Arms
,
than
your
inflamed
eyes
,
to
destroy
the
unfortunate
Herennius
.
Ovid
fixed
his
eyes
intentively
upon
him
,
when
he
heard
him
pronounce
the
name
of
Herennius
;
are
you
,
said
he
,
the
Son
of
Herennius
,
who
followed
Sertorius
into
Spain
,
at
the
time
of
Sylla's
tyranny
?
Yes
,
Sir
,
reply'd
the
Youth
,
I
am
the
same
,
you
mention
.
Do
you
know
Lentulus
,
said
Ovid
,
who
commanded
the
Roman
Forces
in
the
last
Expedition
against
the
Getes
?
I
have
great
reason
to
know
the
person
,
you
name
,
answered
Herennius
,
since
he
may
challenge
not
the
least
share
in
the
first
misfortunes
of
my
life
.
You
are
arriv'd
in
a
place
,
where
you
have
more
friends
perhaps
,
than
you
imagine
,
reply'd
Ovid
;
give
me
leave
to
be
your
Guide
to
a
House
not
far
distant
from
hence
,
where
I
shall
present
you
with
a
view
of
some
persons
,
whose
sight
,
I
suppose
,
may
requite
the
pains
you
shall
take
in
going
to
them
.
He
requested
the
fair
Stranger
,
to
give
them
the
favor
of
her
company
too
;
which
she
granted
,
Ovid
lent
her
his
hand
to
raise
her
from
her
humble
Seat
,
and
to
conduct
her
likewise
towards
the
house
of
Hortensius
:
The
brave
Herennius
offered
to
take
her
by
the
other
hand
;
but
she
rudely
thrusting
him
aside
,
How
dar'st
thou
approach
me
Traitor
?
said
she
;
aspire
no
more
to
the
honor
of
touching
that
hand
,
which
I
have
given
thee
but
too
often
for
my
repose
,
and
thy
glory
.
Is
it
possible
,
Agaritha
,
reply'd
Herennius
,
that
so
many
humble
Petitions
for
a
Pardon
offer'd
up
,
so
many
Tears
shed
at
your
feet
,
so
many
times
my
Life
hazarded
in
your
service
,
and
this
day
especially
against
your
most
mortal
Enemies
,
should
not
have
the
power
to
deface
out
of
your
thoughts
,
the
memory
of
a
weakness
,
so
often
expiated
by
an
unfeined
repentance
?
Is
it
a
Crime
unpardonable
in
a
person
of
my
age
,
to
give
ear
or
credit
to
the
flattering
discourses
of
the
first
Princess
of
the
Universe
;
which
to
have
entertained
with
scorn
,
would
certainly
have
been
judg'd
an
unpardonable
rudeness
in
me
?
I
believ'd
(
though
too
soon
)
you
were
dead
:
and
my
submission
to
the
Charms
of
a
Princess
,
who
subjugates
to
her
Laws
all
Hearts
,
that
dare
approach
her
,
cannot
properly
be
term'd
an
inconstancy
,
but
,
in
the
worst
sence
;
a
too
hasty
oblivion
only
of
your
Death
.
Go
perfidious
wretch
,
said
the
enraged
fair
One
,
interrupting
him
,
excuse
not
thy
levity
in
the
opinion
of
my
death
;
the
solemn
protestations
of
thy
Love
,
and
the
memory
of
thy
infinite
misfortunes
fortunes
that
treacherous
Love
has
involv'd
me
in
,
ought
to
have
induc'd
thee
to
examine
strictly
each
particular
of
a
report
,
which
ought
so
nearly
to
have
concern'd
thee
.
But
thou
wert
pleased
doubt
of
my
life
,
because
it
opposed
an
obstacle
to
thy
new
Amours
:
thou
did'st
fear
my
reproaches
would
have
alarm'd
thee
,
from
which
my
death
would
have
secur'd
thee
;
and
thou
did'st
flatter
thy self
with
the
pleasing
thoughts
of
that
,
which
thy
inconstancy
persuaded
thee
to
hope
for
.
The
name
of
the
first
Princess
of
the
Universe
,
had
raised
a
Contest
betwixt
a
paleness
and
a
blush
in
Ovid's
Face
;
he
thought
no
person
had
any
right
to
that
Title
,
but
the
Daughter
of
Augustus
.
He
was
about
to
ask
Herennius
,
who
that
Princess
was
,
he
spoke
of
;
but
the
fear
of
rendring
his
curiosity
too
remarkable
,
caus'd
him
to
defer
it
to
a
fitter
opportunity
.
Whil'st
Ovid
was
framing
a
thousand
conceits
to
himself
in
his
suspitious
fancy
upon
the
Words
of
Herennius
,
and
the
young
Lover
by
an
ingenious
confession
and
submission
excusing
his
error
to
his
incensed
and
irreconcileable
Mistress
;
Hortensius
received
from
the
Mouth
of
Cepion
the
Relation
of
a
Mistery
,
which
after
the
turbulent
agitation
of
so
long
a
storm
,
brought
a
gentle
calm
to
his
thoughts
.
THE
RELATION
OF
Cepion
.
YOU
made
a
right
judgment
,
said
Cepion
to
Hortensius
,
my
insensibility
was
nothing
but
a
dext'rous
faint
;
but
this
faint
had
not
for
its
object
,
the
person
,
you
ascrib'd
to
it
.
I
have
lov'd
Helvidia
since
the
first
hour
,
my
Soul
was
capable
of
an
impression
of
love
;
and
I
got
a
particular
friend
of
mine
to
sound
the
intentions
of
Mecoenas
concerning
the
disposal
of
his
Neece
,
whose
beauty
began
to
eclipse
the
lustre
of
the
resplendent
Terentia
,
who
much
desir'd
to
see
her
cloyster'd
up
in
a
Convent
of
Vestals
.
Helvidia
is
not
design'd
for
Marriage
,
(
reply'd
Mecoenas
to
my
friend
,
who
,
without
naming
me
,
endevor'd
to
gain
a
clear
intelligence
of
his
resolves
)
and
whosoever
shall
go
about
to
inspire
her
with
contrary
sentiments
,
shall
not
at
all
oblige
me
.
Your
resolution
surprizes
me
,
said
my
friend
,
I
see
all
other
persons
,
whom
their
Princes
favor
has
plac'd
in
an
eminent
Orb
,
aspire
to
contract
themselves
alliances
,
whil'st
is
in
its
Zenith
,
to
support
their
interest
in
the
World
,
if
it
should
happen
to
decline
.
My
Maxims
are
opposite
to
those
of
ordinary
Favorites
,
reply'd
Mecoenas
,
I
am
not
ambitious
to
receive
for
the
full
benefit
of
Caesar's
favor
towards
me
,
the
pleasure
only
of
flattering
my self
with
the
fancy
of
it
:
A
Roman
,
who
perhaps
on
terms
of
equality
would
esteem
himself
honor'd
by
my
alliance
,
will
think
he
offers
a
glorious
Sacrifice
to
my
favor
,
in
demanding
my
Neece
of
me
.
I
will
not
charge
my
honor
with
so
scrupulous
a
vanity
,
and
that
I
may
not
render
my self
suspected
of
an
ambition
or
forecast
,
whereof
my
soul
is
uncapable
,
I
would
remove
from
the
Court
,
or
inclose
within
the
grates
of
a
vestal
Cloyster
,
all
such
young
Ladies
as
shall
be
under
my
protection
.
This
Declaration
produc'd
,
in
the
heart
of
Helvidia
,
those
effects
in
my
favor
,
which
many
years
services
might
have
despair'd
of
meriting
:
It
mutiny'd
,
and
thought
it
lawful
to
revolt
against
the
tyranny
which
was
impos'd
upon
its
liberty
;
and
as
I
am
naturally
bold
,
and
ambitious
of
enterprizing
difficulties
,
that
which
render'd
Helvidia
propitious
to
my
desires
,
made
them
soar
a
pitch
likewise
above
the
highest
flight
of
ordinary
Lovers
.
Yet
we
judg'd
it
a
part
of
discretion
,
to
conceal
our
Amour
under
the
securest
disguise
we
could
invent
for
it
.
Mecoenas's
credit
commanded
a
great
power
with
the
Emperor
,
and
he
might
have
suppress'd
me
by
open
force
,
had
I
attempted
to
justle
it
.
We
agreed
,
the
better
to
delude
the
Argus-ey'd
.
World
,
to
make
Love
,
as
I
may
say
,
by
cross
purposes
:
And
then
I
began
to
affect
that
insensibility
,
wherewith
a
long
time
Aurelia
herself
was
deceiv'd
she
was
then
a
friend
of
Helvidia
,
but
not
her
confident
:
And
Helvidia
was
us'd
to
say
,
that
the
infallible
way
to
preserve
a
secret
from
being
betray'd
,
was
alwayes
to
be
the
Mistriss
of
it
herself
:
I
saw
her
oftner
at
Aurelia's
apartment
,
than
Mecoenas's
;
and
this
private
disguise
I
put
upon
my
visits
,
allow'd
me
the
liberty
to
make
them
with
more
frequency
and
security
.
I
was
much
indebted
at
that
time
to
the
generous
proceedings
of
Aurelia
;
she
was
ignorant
of
the
cause
that
so
often
invited
me
to
her
Lodgings
,
and
she
is
naturally
of
a
sweet
and
affable
disposition
;
but
I
perceiv'd
,
that
this
sweetness
and
this
affability
,
insensibly
gave
place
to
their
opposite
qualities
.
Helvidia
perceiv'd
it
,
as
well
as
I
;
and
without
seeming
to
take
a
particular
notice
of
it
,
she
ask'd
her
the
cause
.
Can
you
ask
me
such
a
question
,
said
Aurelia
?
Have
you
eyes
,
and
do
not
see
,
after
what
manner
that
young
Insolent
treats
me
?
He
seems
to
have
made
choice
of
me
for
a
Subject
,
to
exercise
all
his
incivilities
on
;
he
disdains
to
give
me
his
hand
to
lead
me
in
publick
;
he
opposes
all
I
say
,
or
do
;
and
it
is
sufficient
to
cast
him
into
a
humor
of
contradiction
,
if
I
but
open
my
mouth
in
any
place
,
where
he
is
.
Helvidia
gave
me
information
of
the
complaints
were
fram'd
against
me
;
but
though
I
could
not
allow
them
to
be
just
,
yet
I
began
to
carry
my self
with
that
respect
towards
Aurelia
,
as
I
was
accustom'd
to
do
,
when
she
was
best
satisfi'd
with
my
proceedings
.
You
must
force
your self
,
said
Helvidia
,
in
a
circumstance
of
this
importance
,
to
act
a
part
contrary
to
your
inclination
.
We
must
make
use
of
the
house
of
Aurelia
,
for
the
place
of
our
interviews
:
affect
a
complaisance
to
all
her
desires
,
speak
all
the
obliging
things
to
her
,
a
real
Amour
could
dictate
.
Oh!
Madam
,
said
I
,
interrupting
her
,
you
do
not
well
consider
what
you
command
me
;
it
so
ill
becomes
a
person
of
honor
to
act
the
Lover
,
when
he
is
nothing
less
,
that
I
know
not
how
to
express
the
disorder
of
my
thoughts
to
you
;
and
you
are
sensible
,
that
the
same
disorder
in
the
thoughts
of
another
,
generally
derives
its
source
from
the
Motions
of
the
heart
;
and
all
reasonable
creatures
,
have
not
alwayes
the
reason
to
be
the
Masters
of
them
.
Helvidia
laugh'd
at
my
suspicions
,
and
gave
me
a
little
check
for
the
presumption
I
had
of
my
own
Merits
.
My
Friend
,
said
she
,
is
too
prudent
to
love
first
;
and
that
which
I
interpreted
a
disorder
in
the
heart
,
was
only
a
point
of
nicety
,
which
she
conjur'd
me
to
wave
,
and
satisfie
her
request
;
I
obey'd
it
,
and
endeavor'd
to
make
the
will
of
Aurelia
,
the
square
of
all
my
actions
.
I
was
diligent
in
paying
all
those
little
services
to
her
commands
,
which
can
bear
the
construction
of
nothing
but
ordinary
civilities
towards
a
person
,
one
has
not
a
passion
for
;
but
do
assume
another
character
,
when
Love
enters
on
the
Theatre
.
I
applauded
all
she
said
,
I
often
took
occasion
to
extoll
her
beauty
.
About
this
time
the
Emperor
took
a
progress
to
Tusculum
,
and
as
Terentia
was
alwayes
the
glorious
Planet
,
which
was
fix'd
to
the
motion
of
the
Court
,
Helvidia
was
oblig'd
to
attend
her
.
I
discontinu'd
my
usual
visits
to
Aurelia's
apartment
in
its
absence
;
but
one
evening
having
the
honor
to
conduct
some
young
Ladies
,
and
Aurelia
amongst
them
,
to
take
the
air
on
the
pleasant
banks
of
Tyber
,
they
began
to
reproach
me
with
my
pretended
insensibility
;
and
this
railery
was
the
subject
of
the
greatest
part
of
our
conversation
.
I
took
great
pleasure
in
acting
the
part
of
a
faithful
Lover
,
under
the
person
of
the
indifferent
;
which
seem'd
to
be
a
private
sacrifice
offer'd
up
to
the
shrine
of
my
absent
Mistriss
;
I
perceiv'd
that
Aurelia
did
often
change
colour
,
and
when
I
presented
her
my
hand
to
conduct
her
to
her
chariot
,
she
seem'd
as
if
she
had
taken
no
notice
of
my
civility
,
and
so
in
a
regardless
manner
refus'd
me
hers
:
But
I
judg'd
it
no
policy
to
draw
upon
me
the
indignation
of
more
than
Aurelia
,
at
that
time
,
for
having
unadvisedly
declar'd
before
,
that
I
suspected
Aurelia
had
had
a
kindness
for
me
,
I
had
been
revil'd
by
them
,
as
a
young
Fellow
puffed
up
with
vanity
and
self-conceit
;
I
durst
not
discover
my
thoughts
,
but
endeavor'd
to
seem
satisfi'd
,
that
Aurelia
had
not
really
seen
me
,
when
I
offer'd
her
my
hand
.
The
Emperor
return'd
to
Rome
the
day
after
.
Helvidia
came
to
visit
Aurelia
,
as
soon
as
she
was
disingag'd
from
Terentia
;
she
found
her
in
her
Bed
,
and
her
voice
so
alter'd
,
that
she
judg'd
her
to
be
dangerously
ill
;
which
put
her
into
such
a
fright
,
that
she
was
scarce
able
to
ask
her
,
what
her
distemper
was
?
The
effect
,
said
Aurelia
,
of
the
most
malign
influence
,
that
ever
the
Heavens
produc'd
.
Ask
me
no
more
,
for
I
will
rather
dye
,
than
make
a
larger
confession
of
my
Misfortunes
.
How
?
my
Dear
,
reply'd
Helvidia
,
can
Aurelia
keep
any
secret
from
Helvidia
?
Can
you
offer
so
unkind
an
injury
to
our
friendship
?
I
deal
with
our
friendship
,
said
Aurelia
,
as
I
wish
I
could
deal
with
my self
;
would
the
Gods
were
pleas'd
,
that
at
the
expence
of
my
life
,
I
could
conceal
that
from
my self
,
which
I
refuse
to
reveal
to
you
;
let
it
suffice
,
that
I
am
the
most
unfortunate
of
Women
.
Helvidia
could
gain
no
other
answer
from
her
that
day
,
but
one
or
two
after
she
conjur'd
her
with
such
vehemency
to
confide
a
secret
to
her
,
which
so
much
perplex'd
her
thoughts
,
that
Aurelia
suffer'd
her
obstinacy
to
be
conquer'd
by
it
.
You
will
doubtless
accuse
Helvidia
of
some
injustice
,
seeing
with
what
earnestness
she
urg'd
a
freedom
from
Aurelia
,
which
she
refus'd
to
practise
herself
;
but
she
had
violent
presumptions
of
the
truth
,
and
supposing
them
to
be
well
grounded
,
they
might
authorize
a
small
dissimulation
.
Aurelia
drew
some
Tablets
out
of
her
Pocket
,
and
having
studied
a
little
time
to
digest
her
conceit
,
she
writ
the
Verses
I
shall
here
recite
to
you
.
Cepion
began
to
repeat
the
same
Verses
,
which
Hortensius
had
found
before
in
the
Gardens
of
Lucullus
;
but
Hortensius
interrupting
him
after
two
or
three
words
,
I
am
as
well
acquainted
with
those
Verses
,
as
your self
,
said
he
,
and
I
think
I
have
them
still
in
my
possession
.
You
have
them
not
,
said
Cepion
:
Oh!
would
it
had
so
pleas'd
the
Gods
,
that
you
had
kept
them
.
Helvidia
had
a
strong
presumption
,
that
I
was
the
Ingrate
,
those
Verses
decyphred
;
they
gave
a
character
of
my
person
,
such
as
it
could
not
merit
;
but
the
esteem
,
wherewith
the
goodness
of
Aurelia
was
pleas'd
to
honor
me
,
did
doubtless
render
her
too
partial
a
Judge
in
my
favor
.
She
propos'd
a
thousand
questions
to
Aurelia
,
to
draw
from
her
a
clear
confirmation
of
her
suspicions
.
Aurelia's
amorous
distractions
had
reduc'd
her
to
that
critical
minute
,
(
so
fam'd
amongst
Lovers
)
wherein
the
high
swelling
tyde
of
Passion
,
will
not
suffer
the
heart
to
keep
any
thing
conceal'd
within
its
centre
.
She
made
to
her
a
sincere
declaration
of
the
Love
she
had
for
me
,
and
in
terms
so
passionate
,
that
the
heart
of
Helvidia
was
transfix'd
with
a
tender
compassion
of
her
sufferings
.
She
gave
me
an
account
of
their
converse
the
same
day
,
in
a
Garden
,
where
she
was
waiting
upon
the
Empress
,
as
she
was
taking
the
air
,
when
I
was
so
happy
to
receive
her
hand
;
and
as
nothing
can
compare
with
the
sweetness
of
her
nature
,
it
is
a
great
trouble
to
me
,
said
she
,
to
see
this
poor
Lady
in
that
condition
you
have
reduc'd
her
to
:
what
she
has
told
me
,
even
pierces
my
very
Soul
;
and
I
conjure
you
,
by
that
respect
you
protest
you
have
for
me
,
to
afford
some
relief
to
the
afflictions
she
labors
under
.
How
?
Madam
,
said
I
,
not
a
little
surpriz'd
and
startled
,
at
her
expression
,
are
you
weary
of
my
heart
,
and
willing
to
turn
it
out
of
your
service
?
Will
you
transfer
to
Aurelia
,
the
title
and
right
you
have
acquir'd
over
it
?
I
have
no
such
intention
,
reply'd
Helvidia
,
your
heart
is
,
and
ever
shall
be
most
precious
to
Helvidia
;
but
if
without
infringing
my
right
to
that
heart
,
you
could
by
some
small
compliances
flatter
a
little
the
passion
of
Aurelia
,
I
assure
you
,
you
would
lay
a
sensible
obligation
upon
me
.
Ha!
Madam
,
said
I
,
disturb'd
with
the
thoughts
of
such
an
obligation
,
I
have
express'd
already
but
too
much
of
that
compliance
,
you
would
now
again
condemn
me
to
.
If
from
the
first
Moment
,
I
was
sensible
of
the
weakness
of
Aurelia
,
I
had
combated
it
with
all
my
power
,
whil'st
it
was
young
,
I
had
doubtless
suppress'd
it
;
but
your
commands
compell'd
me
to
caress
,
and
suffer
it
to
gather
strength
;
the
services
,
your
orders
enjoin'd
me
to
render
her
,
have
given
that
encouragement
to
her
distemper'd
fancy
,
that
she
doubted
not
,
as
you
know
,
to
express
it
under
her
own
hand
.
To
violent
diseases
your
Physicians
are
us'd
to
apply
remedies
of
the
same
nature
.
I
think
,
I
understand
Aurelia
perfectly
well
;
she
has
a
heart
susceptible
of
the
tenderest
impressions
of
an
amorous
Passion
;
she
has
courage
,
and
firmity
of
resolution
;
and
if
once
the
first
has
taken
a
full
possession
of
her
Soul
,
it
will
be
impossible
to
remove
it
;
and
therefore
the
best
expedient
would
be
,
to
pluck
it
up
,
and
crush
it
,
before
it
has
taken
too
deep
a
root
.
Do
not
think
upon
so
violent
a
course
,
said
Helvidia
;
time
will
cure
Aurelia's
distemper
,
without
the
help
of
so
rough
a
Physitian
.
She
has
virtue
;
she
understands
,
that
from
Caesar
she
must
expect
a
husband
;
and
I
do
not
desire
you
,
to
flatter
her
Passion
out
of
any
doubt
I
have
,
that
she
will
not
be
able
to
surmount
it
without
your
assistance
;
but
because
I
apprehend
,
the
visible
marks
of
your
neglect
do
inflame
and
exasperate
the
wound
,
she
has
unfortunately
receiv'd
.
I
would
have
you
allow
her
virtue
time
to
act
according
to
its
own
dictates
,
and
owe
the
conquest
to
its
self
.
I
objected
many
things
more
to
Helvidia
,
to
make
her
sensible
of
the
danger
,
to
which
her
compassion
expos'd
us
,
but
all
my
remonstrances
were
to
no
effect
:
She
carry'd
me
the
next
day
to
Aurelia
,
and
charg'd
me
with
greater
apprehensions
of
her
danger
,
than
I
had
conceiv'd
before
;
she
made
a
sign
to
me
with
her
eye
,
to
maintain
that
in
my
discourse
,
which
she
thought
convenient
to
advance
in
hers
;
and
when
she
perceiv'd
I
was
refractory
to
her
commands
,
she
testify'd
,
by
the
sudden
alteration
of
her
countenance
,
a
displeasure
,
which
had
almost
congeal'd
my
blood
within
my
veins
;
and
like
a
sullen
cloud
,
totally
eclips'd
the
usual
serenity
of
her
smiling
affability
even
to
the
very
day
,
you
had
that
long
conference
with
the
Emperor
.
You
may
judge
by
what
I
tell
you
to
day
,
that
I
told
you
no
untruth
then
,
when
I
assur'd
you
,
that
I
had
employ'd
my
utmost
endeavors
to
invest
you
in
the
possession
of
Aurelia
.
I
was
so
persecuted
with
the
importune
compassion
of
Helvidia
,
that
I
could
have
given
any
thing
that
was
most
dear
to
me
in
the
world
,
besides
herself
,
to
have
purchas'd
a
short
truce
from
it
.
It
was
from
the
Mouth
of
Helvidia
,
that
your
Mistriss
first
understood
that
act
of
generosity
your
express'd
in
her
favor
to
the
Emperor
,
Helvidia
being
then
with
Terentia
,
when
Caesar
reported
it
to
her
.
Oh!
cruel
Gods
!
exclaim'd
Aurelia
,
in
a
dolorous
Note
(
when
the
Niece
of
Mecoen●s
inform'd
her
of
your
proceedings
)
is
it
not
enough
to
satiate
the
cruelty
of
my
destiny
,
that
I
am
forc'd
to
love
that
,
I
ought
to
hate
;
but
that
I
must
likewise
be
guilty
of
an
inexpiable
ingratitude
towards
that
,
I
ought
to
love
?
Oh!
cruel
Hortensius
,
(
went
she
on
,
with
a
torrent
of
tears
flowing
from
her
eyes
)
why
art
thou
so
unkind
,
to
intrude
such
bitter
resentments
in
amongst
those
insupportable
afflictions
,
which
already
overcharge
me
?
These
resentments
may
not
be
unprofitable
,
reply'd
Helvidia
,
if
you
would
but
a
little
consult
your
reason
,
Hortensius
is
a
person
,
in
whom
Merit
and
Love
contend
for
the
nobler
title
;
and
if
the
generous
resignation
,
he
has
made
of
his
own
desires
unto
yours
,
has
on
his
part
protected
you
from
a
husband
,
opposite
to
the
inclinations
of
your
own
will
,
you
will
not
be
able
to
protect
your self
long
from
one
,
whom
anothers
will
shall
impose
upon
them
.
Caesar
is
oblig'd
to
offer
a
husband
to
the
Cousin
German
of
the
great
Julius
,
and
it
is
not
probable
,
that
he
will
cast
his
regards
upon
Cepion
,
to
honor
him
with
that
alliance
.
The
charges
and
dignities
,
which
he
will
annex
to
the
possession
of
your
person
,
will
require
a
Man
of
more
experience
to
support
their
weight
and
lustre
,
than
the
Ingrate
,
you
love
,
is
capable
of
.
Ought
not
the
violence
,
you
will
be
forc'd
sooner
or
later
to
impose
upon
your
inclinations
,
to
seem
less
cruel
to
you
on
the
part
of
a
generous
person
,
whose
adorations
you
have
often
before
receiv'd
at
your
feet
,
than
on
that
of
some
proud
morose
stranger
,
you
never
saw
?
Go
on
,
my
Dear
,
said
,
the
languishing
Aurelia
to
Helvidia
,
go
on
,
and
made
me
understand
what
I
owe
to
the
generosity
of
Hortensius
:
I
with
scorn
entertain'd
that
Love
,
he
has
given
me
so
many
glorious
proofs
of
;
I
forbid
him
my
house
,
and
in
the
height
of
all
these
ill
treats
he
has
receiv'd
from
me
,
he
has
refus'd
to
take
a
just
revenge
of
my
abuses
:
make
me
sensible
what
care
and
regard
he
had
of
my
honor
,
when
I
had
so
little
for
it
my self
.
He
might
have
discover'd
to
the
Emperor
,
the
passion
I
had
for
his
Rival
;
he
knew
it
,
and
my
carriage
towards
him
,
did
not
oblige
him
to
conceal
it
,
yet
he
never
gave
him
the
least
intimation
of
it
.
Ovid
came
in
,
as
Cepion
was
in
this
part
of
his
Relation
;
See
,
said
he
to
Hortensius
,
presenting
to
him
the
two
strangers
,
if
I
do
not
deserve
the
honor
of
being
sent
forth
upon
all
expeditions
for
discoveries
?
Have
you
ever
seen
a
nobler
couple
,
than
here
I
bring
before
you
?
Hortensius
,
with
much
impatience
,
defir'd
to
hear
the
end
of
Cepion's
discourse
,
and
Ovid
had
not
oblig'd
him
,
by
coming
to
interrupt
it
:
But
as
he
was
a
person
of
the
greatest
civility
in
the
world
to
strangers
,
and
those
which
were
presented
to
him
being
of
that
quality
,
as
to
attract
his
chiefest
consideration
,
he
receiv'd
them
with
all
the
demonstrations
of
a
courteous
welcom
.
You
observe
,
and
doubtless
not
without
admiration
,
said
Ovid
to
Hortensius
,
addressing
a
Salute
to
the
Brother
of
Roselina
,
that
this
young
unknown
is
a
Masculine
Beauty
in
our
Sex
:
you
need
but
cast
your
eyes
upon
him
,
to
confirm
your
remark
;
for
the
first
fight
of
him
was
like
to
have
made
me
turn
Idolater
,
and
offer
incense
to
an
unknown
Deity
.
But
your
admiration
will
be
greater
,
when
I
shall
tell
you
,
that
it
is
not
his
person
only
which
ought
to
render
him
thus
worthy
of
your
consideration
;
you
behold
in
him
that
young
Herennius
,
the
apprehension
of
whose
ignominy
,
caus'd
the
fair
Herennia
to
attempt
so
audacious
an
enterprize
.
Cepion
presently
knew
Herennius
to
be
the
same
,
whom
Ovid
spoke
of
,
he
gave
him
a
thousand
caresses
;
and
the
three
Romans
thought
it
convenient
to
send
for
Lentulus
,
to
take
his
part
in
so
fortunate
an
encounter
.
Hertensius
order'd
a
Servant
to
go
to
him
,
and
to
inquire
privately
likewise
,
if
Roselina
were
at
home
.
I
shall
be
asham'd
to
look
that
great
General
in
the
face
,
said
Herennius
to
Cepion
;
the
manner
whereby
I
reb'd
him
by
my
flight
of
a
Prisoner
,
(
whom
the
Laws
of
Mars
had
consign'd
into
his
power
,
and
his
generosity
accumulated
with
his
favors
)
carries
with
it
the
too
just
Marks
of
an
ingratitude
;
which
would
inviron
me
with
shame
and
confusion
,
did
not
the
cause
of
my
offence
plead
its
own
excuse
.
Behold
there
,
Sir
,
said
he
,
shewing
him
the
fair
stranger
,
behold
the
Motive
,
which
summon'd
me
from
your
Camp
,
to
give
my
attendance
in
another
place
;
my
first
chains
discharg'd
me
of
your
second
;
and
I
had
a
Master
to
whose
commands
my
liberty
was
engaged
,
before
the
fortune
of
War
had
captivated
it
to
yours
.
I
must
be
forc'd
to
acknowledge
before
this
company
,
said
the
Lady
,
interrupting
him
,
that
thou
hast
a
great
opinion
of
my
discretion
,
or
a
very
small
one
of
thy
own
,
since
thou
dost
presume
with
such
confidence
to
boast
of
the
injuries
I
have
receiv'd
from
thee
.
Thou
hopest
perhaps
that
the
presence
of
these
persons
,
whom
I
know
all
to
be
Romans
,
will
impose
a
constraint
upon
my
just
resentments
,
but
when
they
know
their
character
,
as
well
as
thou
dost
,
they
will
conclude
them
to
be
too
full
of
equity
,
to
bear
a
Moderation
.
I
will
speak
,
I
will
utter
all
that
a
just
despight
can
prompt
to
the
Soul
of
a
Lover
unworthily
betray'd
;
and
violating
the
Laws
of
silence
,
as
thou
hast
done
those
of
honor
and
fidelity
,
I
shall
be
more
excusable
,
as
a
Grecian
,
in
publishing
to
the
World
the
shame
of
Caesar
,
than
thou
,
as
a
Roman
by
extraction
,
in
dishonoring
the
house
of
thy
Emperor
.
These
words
were
like
so
many
fiery
darts
,
that
carry'd
flames
of
jealousie
and
distraction
into
the
breast
of
Ovid
;
his
suspicions
would
indulge
no
quiet
to
his
restless
thoughts
;
I
am
better
read
in
Love
,
than
you
,
said
he
to
Herennius
,
(
who
was
ready
to
reply
to
the
reproaches
of
the
fair
Greek
;
)
you
ought
never
to
attempt
to
conquer
the
rigor
of
your
Mistriss
by
a
contentious
dispute
,
we
must
allow
all
Women
in
general
the
liberty
of
their
smart
Repartees
,
and
to
those
,
we
love
,
a
prerogative
in
that
nature
,
above
those
,
who
are
indifferent
to
us
.
Give
me
leave
to
give
some
instructions
to
the
beauteous
Agaritha
,
and
do
you
second
them
by
a
respectful
silence
,
which
perhaps
may
prove
a
better
Orator
in
your
cause
,
than
your
tongue
.
In
saying
this
,
he
took
Agaritha's
hand
,
and
led
her
up
to
a
Terrass
,
which
afforded
a
pleasant
prospect
to
the
Sea
,
hoping
by
some
curious
questions
to
gain
from
her
a
discovery
of
the
subject
of
her
indignation
;
but
Herennius
understanding
from
the
two
Romans
,
that
the
person
who
had
made
that
discourse
to
him
,
was
the
famous
Ovid
,
he
foliow'd
him
up
to
the
Terrass
.
You
are
a
Judge
too
renowned
in
the
case
of
Love-differences
,
said
he
to
him
,
not
to
be
fear'd
by
the
guilty
;
and
therefore
I
cannot
give
my
consent
,
that
my
fair
Enemy
should
preingage
you
in
favor
of
her
cause
;
but
if
you
must
understand
what
the
crimes
are
wherewith
the
charges
,
me
,
and
whereof
in
effect
I
am
partly
chargeable
,
I
had
rather
make
an
ingenuous
confession
of
them
my self
,
than
suffer
her
to
aggravate
them
in
the
recital
.
That
which
you
are
now
going
to
make
,
said
Ovid
,
is
too
criminal
a
secret
,
I
fear
,
to
find
a
favorable
Judge
.
Sit
you
down
upon
that
stony
bench
,
(
added
he
,
in
causing
him
to
sit
)
and
make
a
sincere
confession
to
us
of
all
your
faults
,
and
perhaps
we
may
prove
so
fortunate
Advocates
for
you
to
this
fair
one
,
as
to
obtain
your
pardon
;
and
your
story
will
be
the
most
agreeable
diversion
,
we
can
pass
the
time
with
,
till
the
arrival
of
those
persons
,
whose
company
we
have
sent
to
beg
,
to
honor
yours
.
Herennius
would
not
give
them
the
trouble
of
an
important
intreaty
,
and
Hortensius
thinking
that
his
Relation
would
be
soon
interrupted
by
the
coming
of
Lentulus
,
was
satisfi'd
to
defer
the
sequel
of
Cepion's
till
a
little
longer
time
;
the
company
being
all
plac'd
upon
the
Terrass
,
the
charming
Herennius
began
his
discourse
in
this
manner
.
THE
HISTORY
OF
Herennius
and
Agaritha
.
THis
illustrious
Lady
,
said
he
,
pointing
to
Agaritha
,
has
honor'd
the
Isle
of
Lesbos
with
her
birth
,
and
is
descended
in
a
direct
masculine
Line
from
the
first
Princes
of
Greece
.
I
learnt
my
exercises
in
the
Capitol
City
of
this
Island
,
where
the
Father
of
Agaritha
made
his
ordinary
residence
.
I
saw
Agaritha
,
and
as
it
is
scarce
possible
to
see
her
,
and
not
love
her
,
my
youthful
heart
without
resistance
yielded
up
its
liberty
to
the
first
of
her
regards
.
The
Nobility
of
her
descent
borrows
no
support
from
the
favors
of
Fortune
,
which
has
endow'd
it
but
with
small
possessions
,
and
this
did
facilitate
the
Suit
I
made
to
her
Parents
for
their
consent
.
Our
Marriage
was
concluded
,
and
my
felicity
was
no
longer
to
be
defer'd
,
than
to
the
happy
Minute
,
I
should
be
able
to
make
good
what
I
had
propos'd
.
I
took
one
of
Agaritha's
chief
Relations
along
with
me
to
the
Frontiers
of
the
Getes
,
where
the
scatter'd
relics
of
all
that
small
wealth
,
the
Misfortunes
of
our
House
had
left
me
,
was
deposited
.
I
fell
sick
in
this
journey
,
but
as
I
had
propos'd
nothing
,
but
what
truth
could
attest
for
me
,
the
Parents
of
Agaritha
thought
her
so
well
bestow'd
upon
me
,
that
they
employ'd
all
imaginable
diligence
to
hasten
the
consummation
of
my
felicity
.
The
weakness
my
sickness
had
left
upon
me
,
would
not
permit
me
to
return
to
Lesbos
,
as
soon
as
the
impatience
of
my
love
desir'd
;
whereupon
the
Grecian
,
I
had
in
my
company
,
seeing
the
will
of
the
Gods
themselves
,
had
dispens'd
with
my
duty
in
so
fatal
an
occasion
,
conjur'd
by
my
ardent
intreaties
,
engag'd
his
faith
to
me
,
to
re-instate
me
in
the
possession
of
my
Mistriss
:
she
had
been
solemnly
betroth'd
to
me
before
;
and
I
on
my
part
renew'd
to
him
all
the
most
sacred
assurances
,
I
was
in
that
circumstance
capable
to
make
.
Upon
this
intelligence
,
my
Mistriss
did
me
the
honor
to
leave
Lesbos
,
to
come
to
the
place
where
the
Malice
of
my
distemper
forc'd
me
to
attend
her
.
Her
short
Sea-Voyage
was
fortunate
;
I
advanc'd
,
as
well
as
I
was
able
to
meet
her
,
and
hop'd
in
a
few
dayes
to
join
her
;
when
I
understood
that
a
Party
of
the
Roman
Army
had
surpriz'd
her
,
and
carry'd
her
away
Prisoner
amongst
many
others
,
on
whom
they
impose
the
infamous
title
of
Slaves
.
I
leave
you
to
judge
,
what
a
relapse
this
news
reduc'd
me
to
.
I
sent
to
the
Captain
of
the
Slaves
,
to
petition
him
that
Agaritha
might
be
expos'd
to
ransom
,
and
I
would
have
redeem'd
her
at
the
expence
of
all
that
Fortune
had
left
me
in
the
world
.
But
my
Mistriss
was
a
treasure
above
a
ransom
;
she
was
design'd
for
the
Emperor
,
and
a
Convoy
was
ready
to
conduct
her
to
Rome
.
This
barbarous
inhumanity
heighten'd
my
former
distemper
to
a
perfect
phrensie
.
I
put
my self
in
the
head
of
some
revolted
Getes
,
and
forgetting
I
was
of
Roman
blood
,
I
atchiev'd
such
honor
against
the
Army
,
Lentulus
commanded
,
that
I
render'd
the
name
of
Roselin
,
(
which
I
assum'd
,
and
was
the
name
of
my
Uncle
by
my
Mothers
side
,
I
both
famous
,
and
redoubted
to
the
Romans
.
Love
and
Revenge
inspiring
me
with
courage
,
I
out-braved
temerity
itself
.
I
attempted
to
set
the
Prisoners
at
liberty
,
they
were
hurrying
away
to
Rome
;
in
which
audacious
enterprize
,
I
was
taken
my self
,
and
design'd
for
one
of
those
memorable
Examples
by
which
Lentulus
hop'd
to
conquer
the
obstinacy
of
the
rebellious
Getes
.
You
have
heard
by
what
means
I
was
deliver'd
from
that
danger
;
and
how
Lentulus
,
who
is
really
endu'd
with
a
brave
Soul
,
vigorously
embrac'd
that
opportunity
,
to
reduce
those
Opiniatres
by
the
principles
of
a
generous
Magnanimity
.
He
restor'd
to
me
the
name
of
my
Ancestors
,
to
extinguish
that
of
a
Gladiator
out
of
my
thoughts
,
which
I
was
ready
to
be
branded
with
.
He
offer'd
me
Employs
in
his
Army
;
and
if
I
had
been
only
a
Rebel
,
I
might
have
been
the
inseparable
companion
of
his
fortune
and
glory
;
but
I
was
a
Lover
,
and
resolv'd
to
sacrifice
a
thousand
Lives
,
had
I
been
Master
of
them
,
or
free
Agarithas
from
the
ignominious
chains
of
her
slavery
.
I
durst
not
impart
my
design
to
Lentulus
,
who
pretended
a
great
respect
for
my
sister
;
and
I
was
afraid
,
that
the
kindness
he
express'd
to
me
,
would
have
caus'd
him
to
have
oppos'd
a
bar
against
my
dangerous
resolutions
.
Whereupon
I
privately
deluded
the
obliging
care
,
Lentulus
had
of
me
,
and
stealing
in
disguise
out
of
his
Camp
,
sometimes
committing
my
flight
to
Sea
,
sometimes
to
Land
,
according
to
the
best
conveniences
I
could
meet
with
for
speedy
travel
,
I
at
length
arriv'd
at
the
Suburbs
of
Rome
,
and
had
by
my
diligence
prevented
the
slow
Motions
of
the
Slaves
,
who
were
not
yet
come
;
nor
suffer'd
to
take
long
Journies
,
for
fear
of
impairing
their
Beauty
,
and
Complections
,
by
the
laborious
toils
of
his
disorderly
Travel
.
The
name
of
Herennius
was
not
yet
defac'd
out
of
the
memory
of
true
Romans
,
and
I
had
Relations
in
Italy
,
who
I
hop'd
,
would
not
disown
their
own
Blood
;
I
besides
repos'd
great
confidence
in
the
favor
of
Lentulus
,
if
I
should
have
occasion
to
make
use
of
it
;
and
above
all
,
I
assur'd
my self
of
the
Justice
and
Equity
of
Caesar
.
I
entertain'd
my self
with
these
pleasing
fancies
all
the
way
betwixt
Tusculum
and
Rome
,
which
was
the
Road
,
by
which
the
Slaves
were
to
make
their
triumphal
Entry
into
the
City
;
when
I
discover'd
coming
forth
of
the
Suburbs
thereof
a
rich
and
magnificent
Chariot
,
with
a
proud
Guard
attending
it
:
I
stopt
to
take
a
view
of
it
,
when
a
glorious
young
Lady
,
who
was
seated
in
it
,
putting
her
Head
by
accident
out
of
the
door
,
on
the
side
that
I
was
of
,
happen'd
to
cast
her
eye
upon
me
from
whence
she
did
not
remove
it
in
a
good
space
;
and
then
expressing
a
gesture
of
admiration
,
I
assure
you
,
said
she
to
another
Lady
,
who
was
with
her
,
that
this
is
the
original
of
my
excellent
Peice
,
I
value
so
much
.
At
thse
words
she
commanded
,
the
Chariot
to
stop
,
and
making
me
a
Sign
to
come
to
her
,
askt
me
who
I
was
.
I
am
a
Roman
,
Madam
,
said
I
,
though
fortune
has
made
me
and
my
Country
long
Strangers
to
each
other
.
What
profession
are
you
of
?
reply'd
she
.
I
ought
to
profess
the
Honor
of
a
Roman
Knight
,
said
I
,
but
through
some
misfortunes
,
the
recital
whereof
would
require
too
long
an
Audience
;
my
profession
at
present
is
that
of
a
Knight
really
Errant
,
who
fears
he
shall
never
arrive
to
a
happy
end
of
his
Adventures
.
A
Cavalier
,
who
seem'd
to
have
the
conduct
of
the
party
that
convoy'd
her
,
approach'd
the
Chariot
with
a
low
and
respectful
bow
,
and
humbly
entreated
the
Lady
who
spoke
to
me
,
to
consider
,
that
he
should
incur
the
Emperors
displeasure
,
if
he
did
not
conduct
her
to
Tusculum
in
good
time
;
whereupon
,
with
an
obliging
bow
of
her
head
,
taking
as
it
were
her
leave
of
me
,
she
commanded
her
Coachman
to
drive
on
.
I
went
to
some
Slaves
,
who
run
by
the
Chariot
side
,
to
inform
my self
who
the
Lady
was
,
that
had
discoursed
with
me
.
Who
is
she
?
answered
they
,
with
looks
expressing
an
admiration
of
my
ignorance
;
Do
you
not
know
the
Emperors
Daughter
?
you
have
all
seen
the
Princess
Julia
;
you
know
what
dazeling
Rayes
she
darts
from
her
eyes
into
those
of
all
such
as
behold
her
;
the
complaisant
sweetness
of
her
carriage
,
and
the
mellifluous
Charms
which
with
her
Words
flow
from
her
Lips.
What
concern
,
said
I
to
my self
,
can
the
Daughter
of
Caesar
,
have
with
thee
,
a
Passenger
,
whom
she
accidentally
meets
upon
a
common
Road
?
Why
should
she
make
a
stop
to
talk
to
thee
?
Why
should
she
ask
what
Country
or
Profession
thou
wert
of
?
It
was
not
Julia
certainly
,
thou
did'st
see
,
it
was
a
Vision
without
doubt
;
and
what
thou
did'st
take
to
be
a
real
Encounter
,
was
nothing
but
a
deluding
Dream
.
I
understood
by
mine
Host
where
I
lodged
,
that
the
Emperor
had
commanded
the
Princess
his
Daughter
to
retire
to
Tusculum
upon
a
difference
,
which
she
had
had
with
the
Prince
Marcellus
,
whom
both
himself
and
the
whole
Empire
designed
for
her
Husband
.
And
a
few
days
after
I
was
inform'd
by
common
report
,
that
the
same
Prince
had
cast
himself
at
Augustus
his
Feet
,
to
obtain
a
repeal
of
those
Commands
;
and
that
the
same
day
the
Princess
was
to
return
to
the
Court.
I
had
a
desire
to
see
her
make
her
entry
,
and
out
of
an
itch
of
vanity
,
or
more
properly
infidelity
,
which
I
have
a
thousand
times
since
accus'd
with
an
unfeined
grief
and
repentance
,
I
took
care
to
appear
more
splendid
and
conspicuous
than
ordinary
.
As
she
alighted
out
of
her
Chariot
,
the
Prince
Marcellus
gave
her
his
hand
,
to
conduct
her
to
her
Chamber
.
I
pressed
amongst
others
to
see
her
;
she
again
took
notice
of
me
,
and
made
the
like
Sign
to
me
,
as
she
had
done
before
,
upon
the
Road
to
Tusculum
.
This
excess
of
Civility
in
the
first
Princess
of
the
Universe
,
and
towards
a
person
of
no
Consideration
,
nor
Note
,
struck
me
with
an
admiration
,
I
am
not
capable
to
express
.
I
insinuated
my self
into
the
acquaintance
of
one
of
her
Attendants
,
who
was
a
Kinsman
of
mine
Host
,
and
he
promised
me
to
admit
me
to
to
the
sight
of
the
Princess
,
at
the
next
convenient
opportunity
:
and
one
day
,
when
she
was
walking
by
the
River
Tyber
,
with
no
other
Company
than
her
Maids
of
Honor
,
he
came
and
advertis'd
me
of
it
.
I
hastn'd
thither
with
speed
,
and
us'd
all
my
endeavors
to
render
my self
remarkable
to
her
;
which
was
not
difficult
to
be
effected
.
Julia
,
as
you
know
,
has
an
action
very
airy
and
free
,
and
her
eyes
,
like
Harbingers
to
her
Greatness
,
take
up
all
places
where
she
is
,
for
their
entertainment
:
They
had
soon
found
me
,
and
their
Princess
askt
me
,
if
I
were
not
the
person
,
whom
she
had
seen
upon
the
way
,
as
she
was
going
to
Tusculum
.
Yes
,
Madam
,
said
I
,
I
am
the
same
,
who
charm'd
with
your
Bounties
All-divine
,
would
willingly
sacrifice
my
despicable
life
to
the
just
acknowledgments
,
my
meanness
shall
always
be
oblig'd
to
pay
to
them
.
Preserve
your
life
for
some
worthier
occasion
,
reply'd
the
Princess
,
smiling
upon
me
,
I
am
no
lover
of
bloody
Sacrifices
,
and
it
would
be
a
great
loss
to
the
World
,
that
a
person
of
your
Meen
and
Composure
,
should
be
snatcht
out
of
it
in
the
flower
of
his
Youth
.
She
seem'd
to
be
sensibly
toucht
with
all
the
passionate
passages
of
my
Relation
,
and
interrupting
me
,
as
I
was
repeating
that
of
my
Sisters
bold
Enterprize
;
I
cannot
applaud
,
said
she
,
this
Masculine
Bravery
in
Women
;
it
is
so
just
a
Propriety
of
the
other
Sex
,
that
methinks
,
it
is
always
an
unnatural
usurpation
in
ours
,
what
pretence
soever
you
color
it
with
.
But
,
I
cannot
deny
,
but
the
action
of
Herennia
has
I
know
not
what
of
heroick
in
it
,
which
infinitely
pleases
me
;
and
I
will
serve
you
for
your
Sisters
sake
.
Come
see
me
to
morrow
,
added
she
,
seeing
the
Prince
Marcellus
at
a
distance
,
who
was
coming
to
wait
upon
her
.
I
solemnly
protest
,
and
too
often
have
I
made
this
solemn
protestation
to
the
jealous
and
revengeful
Agaritha
,
that
the
supernatural
Graces
of
that
Princess
,
did
with
their
lustre
,
dazle
and
charm
all
the
faculties
of
my
Soul.
But
I
call
the
Divinity
of
Love
to
witness
,
who
is
,
and
ever
was
,
my
most
adored
Deity
,
that
all
the
time
I
mention
,
I
never
had
any
other
regard
for
this
Princess
,
but
as
I
hop'd
by
her
favor
to
arrive
at
a
means
to
obtain
the
liberty
of
Agaritha
;
but
I
oon
had
cause
to
believe
,
that
the
Heavens
envyed
me
the
pleasure
I
took
in
the
thoughts
of
that
hopeful
design
;
for
I
was
told
at
the
Slave-Office
,
which
I
visited
every
hour
of
the
day
and
night
,
that
those
which
were
expected
from
the
Getish
Camp
,
were
Shipwrackt
;
and
that
so
inconsiderable
a
number
of
them
had
escap'd
,
that
it
was
not
thought
worth
the
trouble
of
sending
them
to
Rome
.
I
askt
with
symtoms
of
a
deathful
despair
in
my
countenance
,
whether
a
beautiful
Grecian
,
named
Agaritha
,
were
in
the
Catalogue
of
the
living
,
of
the
dead
.
The
names
are
not
yet
known
of
the
●ne
,
nor
the
other
,
reply'd
a
person
,
who
belong'd
to
the
Office
;
but
if
that
Agaritha
,
you
mention
,
be
handsom
,
as
you
say
,
she
is
certainly
perisht
.
I
thought
this
dismal
News
would
have
put
a
period
to
my
life
;
the
conformation
whereof
a
day
or
two
after
,
had
almost
induc'd
me
to
employ
my
Sword
to
effect
what
my
grief
was
too
slow
in
executing
.
This
fatal
accident
had
totally
rais'd
the
character
of
Juliaes
Charms
out
of
my
memory
;
I
had
no
other
thoughts
than
of
restoring
to
my
Sister
an
unfortunate
Brother
,
who
was
now
the
sole
support
and
Guardian
of
her
Orphan
Beauty
,
and
I
left
my
melancholy
quarters
to
seek
a
convenience
for
my
journy
,
when
passing
through
the
Piazza
,
which
is
before
the
Pantheon
,
I
saw
the
Princess
,
who
was
then
come
out
of
that
Temple
,
walking
under
some
Trees
,
which
in
pleasant
Walks
,
are
rang'd
before
it
.
She
discover'd
me
almost
,
as
soon
as
I
had
her
;
and
commanding
her
Servants
to
call
me
unto
her
;
What
is
the
reason
,
said
she
,
you
did
not
come
to
me
,
as
I
order'd
you
?
Alas
,
Madam
,
answer'd
I
,
with
tears
ready
to
start
out
of
my
eyes
,
I
have
no
more
need
of
the
protection
,
you
did
me
the
honor
to
promise
me
;
Agaritha
,
for
whom
alone
I
thought
to
have
taken
the
presumption
to
have
beg'd
it
,
is
no
longer
in
the
World.
Is
it
possible
,
reply'd
the
Princess
,
that
any
body
should
be
so
much
concern'd
for
the
death
of
a
person
,
they
defign'd
for
a
Wife
?
You
have
not
had
time
to
practice
with
Agaritha
one
of
those
Intrigues
,
which
gives
Love
that
firmity
of
settlement
in
the
Soul
of
Lovers
;
you
demanded
her
in
Marriage
upon
the
very
first
motions
of
your
Love
;
and
obtained
her
upon
the
first
of
your
demands
,
did
you
not
,
of
her
Parents
?
Yes
,
Madam
,
said
I
,
interrupting
her
,
with
more
transport
than
respect
;
but
the
injurious
Heaven
forbid
the
Banes
of
my
felicity
.
That
's
nothing
,
said
the
Princess
,
you
have
not
had
sufficient
proof
,
or
knowledge
of
her
,
to
desire
her
possession
with
that
vehemency
and
ardor
,
you
pretend
;
Do
not
leave
Rome
,
for
Heaven
seem'd
to
charge
me
with
your
protection
and
conduct
,
when
it
offer'd
you
to
my
view
upon
the
Road
to
Tusculum
;
we
want
not
fair
Ladies
here
,
to
whom
you
may
devote
your self
,
without
the
consent
or
displeasure
of
Hymen
.
But
,
Madam
,
said
I
,
if
I
may
dare
to
presume
to
be
of
an
opinion
repugnant
to
yours
,
I
should
affirm
,
that
you
impose
upon
me
the
most
rigorous
Law
,
that
Man
is
capable
of
being
bound
to
:
For
can
a
Lover
be
confin'd
to
a
destiny
more
severe
,
than
an
irrefragable
despair
,
of
ever
possessing
his
Mistress
?
You
are
dull
of
apprehension
,
said
Julia
,
I
wish
you
nothing
less
,
than
a
rigorous
destiny
;
stay
in
Rome
,
I
tell
you
;
and
if
you
please
,
you
may
add
your self
to
the
number
of
divers
young
Gentlemen
,
who
without
the
stipend
of
a
mercenary
Service
,
are
entertain'd
in
my
Family
.
I
embrac'd
the
offer
,
she
made
me
,
with
all
the
●…arks
of
an
humble
joy
and
respect
;
and
the
chiefest
employ
of
those
places
,
was
to
exhibit
an
obsequious
diligence
and
assidnity
towards
her
person
.
The
first
day
that
I
was
to
give
my
attendance
,
I
was
struck
with
wonder
to
find
in
the
Princesses
Closet
the
Portraiture
of
a
Cupid
,
which
I
had
procured
to
be
drawn
by
an
exquisite
hand
at
Lesbos
,
and
deliver'd
to
my
Mistresses
.
She
observ'd
my
admiration
;
you
know
this
Piece
,
I
see
,
said
she
to
me
;
and
I
believ'd
the
first
moment
I
saw
you
,
that
you
could
not
be
a
Stranger
to
it
.
I
know
it
most
assuredly
,
Madam
,
said
I
,
but
cannot
imagine
how
it
should
come
to
the
honor
of
being
in
the
place
,
where
I
see
it
.
If
the
person
that
plac'd
it
here
,
said
a
Lady
,
interrupting
our
discourse
(
whom
the
Princess
had
a
particular
respect
for
,
and
I
knew
afterwards
to
be
Sulpicia
)
had
imagin'd
it
would
have
produc'd
the
effects
it
has
done
,
would
have
been
better
advis'd
,
than
to
have
brought
it
hither
.
These
words
dy'd
the
Princess
Cheeks
with
a
scarlet
blush
,
and
casting
an
angry
look
upon
her
,
Must
you
always
be
talking
of
that
Man
?
said
she
to
her
;
are
you
not
satisfi'd
,
that
he
has
occasion'd
a
quarrel
already
?
But
you
will
have
him
as
well
present
as
absent
,
create
a
new
one
betwixt
us
.
Ha!
my
dear
Princess
,
reply'd
Sulpicia
,
in
a
rallying
tone
,
if
that
which
I
say
to
day
,
attracts
your
displeasure
upon
me
,
it
must
be
for
some
cause
far
different
from
that
,
which
would
have
attracted
it
some
days
ago
.
Who
can
forbear
,
went
she
on
smiling
,
to
smile
a
little
sometimes
at
the
pleasant
manner
,
whereby
we
see
Love
play
with
the
Policy
of
Lovers
?
This
person
of
so
eminent
experience
makes
you
a
present
of
a
Picture
of
Love
,
to
the
end
,
says
he
,
that
the
representation
of
the
God
of
Love
,
should
preserve
in
your
thoughts
the
memory
of
the
Lover
:
And
for
this
cause
he
conjures
you
to
cast
your
eyes
often
upon
the
Picture
;
and
because
you
have
too
often
comply'd
with
his
desires
,
you
how
grow
quarrelsome
with
me
.
You
will
never
leave
this
idle
raillery
,
said
Julia
,
clapping
her
hand
before
Sulpiciaes
Mouth
;
let
us
talk
no
more
neither
of
the
effects
it
has
produc'd
,
nor
the
party
that
gave
it
us
.
The
Relation
of
Herennius
was
here
interrupted
by
one
of
Ovid's
Slaves
,
who
came
running
up
the
Terrass
with
a
more
than
ordinary
speed
.
Oh!
ye
good
and
mighty
gods
,
cry'd
he
out
,
I
give
you
thanks
,
that
the
News
is
not
true
—
Of
what
News
talk
you
?
said
Ovid
;
and
what
makes
you
interrupt
us
in
this
rude
manner
?
Sir
,
reply'd
the
Slave
,
pardon
me
,
for
I
am
yet
quite
besides
my self
.
I
went
along
close
by
the
Sea-shore
,
to
see
if
I
could
discover
any
Marks
of
a
Combat
,
which
I
was
told
,
had
been
newly
fought
there
;
where
I
found
Tisienus
,
who
,
methoughts
had
something
of
dismal
and
horrid
in
his
countenance
;
he
knew
me
to
belong
to
you
.
Go
boy
,
said
he
,
and
bury
thy
Masters
body
,
who
has
now
receiv'd
the
just
r
ward
of
all
his
Crimes
.
I
was
not
able
for
a
while
to
stir
any
limb
I
had
,
at
the
apprehension
of
these
mournful
words
,
and
seeing
Tisienus
make
hastily
away
from
me
,
after
he
had
spoke
them
,
I
endeavoured
to
follow
him
,
to
gain
a
clearer
understanding
of
them
;
but
he
went
so
fast
,
and
my
surprize
had
so
disarm'd
my
legs
of
their
strength
,
that
I
could
not
possibly
overtake
him
.
Fortune
guided
me
hither
,
where
,
thanks
to
Heaven
,
I
find
,
that
Tisienus
has
only
made
a
trial
of
my
love
to
my
Master
.
Hortensius
and
Ovid
lookt
one
upon
another
at
this
Relation
of
the
Slave
;
which
included
more
than
one
Mystery
,
but
they
could
not
on
a
sudden
penetrate
into
the
consequence
;
for
one
of
Hortensius
his
Servants
came
all
in
a
fright
,
to
tell
him
,
that
Lentulus
was
newly
murder'd
in
one
of
the
Walks
of
the
Wilderness
,
and
carried
home
to
his
house
.
Cepion
ran
thither
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Company
followed
him
;
where
they
found
Herennia
,
Adiamante
,
and
Junia
,
at
the
foot
of
the
Stairs
.
The
young
Herennius
knew
his
Sister
by
the
light
of
the
Torches
,
which
display'd
a
glorious
day
over
all
the
house
;
he
was
agreeably
surpriz'd
at
so
much
a
desir'd
,
but
little
expected
Encounter
.
He
ran
to
her
with
open
Arms
,
and
incircling
her
in
his
tender
embraces
:
Herennia
,
said
he
,
my
dear
Sister
,
have
I
found
you
in
this
barbarous
Island
!
Herennia
was
startled
at
the
action
of
her
Brother
,
but
coming
to
know
him
,
and
the
name
of
Sister
,
which
he
pronounc'd
,
confirming
the
report
of
her
eyes
,
Ah!
Herennius
!
Oh!
my
dear
Brother
,
said
she
,
bedewing
his
Cheeks
with
her
overflowing
Tears
,
in
what
a
deplorable
condition
do
you
find
me
?
Her
redoubled
fighs
would
not
suffer
her
to
utter
a
word
more
.
They
all
went
up
together
to
the
Chamber
of
the
wounded
Lentulus
.
He
had
then
fortunately
with
him
a
very
skilful
Surgeon
,
whom
he
had
brought
from
the
Getish
Camp
:
This
man
with
such
good
success
employ'd
his
Art
,
that
in
a
short
time
he
reduc'd
him
out
of
an
(
almost
)
mortal
swound
,
into
which
his
great
loss
of
blood
had
cast
him
.
He
searcht
a
deep
wound
,
which
he
had
a
little
above
his
Heart
,
and
was
judg'd
by
him
to
have
been
given
with
a
Ponyard
,
Herennia
assisted
his
labor
with
a
sorrowful
diligence
,
which
reduc'd
her
to
a
weakness
almost
equal
,
to
that
,
of
the
expiring
Lentulus
;
and
thinking
that
in
the
countenance
of
the
Surgeon
,
she
had
discover'd
the
wound
to
be
mortal
,
she
gave
a
loud
shreek
,
and
was
dropping
in
a
swound
into
the
Arms
of
Adiamante
.
Lentulus
turn'd
his
languishing
eyes
towards
the
place
,
from
whence
the
cry
was
sent
;
and
seeing
Herennia
ready
to
drown
her
labouring
Soul
in
a
torrent
of
her
own
tears
;
It
is
not
to
me
,
Madam
,
said
he
,
with
a
feeble
Voice
,
that
you
sacrifice
those
pretious
tears
,
but
to
the
despight
of
having
been
disappointed
of
a
more
pretious
assignation
.
Herennia
redoubled
her
cries
at
this
reproach
of
her
Lover
,
and
turning
her self
towards
Junia
,
see
,
said
she
,
at
how
dear
a
rate
I
purchase
your
friendship
.
When
I
understood
by
the
return
of
my
Slave
,
that
the
Ticket
,
I
writ
to
Ovid
,
came
to
Lentulus
his
hand
,
I
apprehended
some
dismal
effect
of
our
folly
.
I
sought
after
Lentulus
all
day
,
to
free
him
from
the
disquiet
,
I
fear'd
that
Billet
would
beget
in
him
:
But
alas
!
I
could
not
find
him
,
till
his
fury
had
fore-stall'd
my
designed
prevention
.
But
tell
me
,
cruel
one
,
said
she
,
casting
a
tender
regard
upon
her
wounded
Lover
,
tell
me
,
has
the
character
of
my
Love
left
no
impression
in
thy
Heart
,
able
to
ballance
this
weak
shadow
of
an
infidelity
?
What
have
I
done
?
What
have
I
said
,
since
the
first
moment
thou
hast
known
me
,
that
should
induce
thee
to
believe
,
that
it
is
so
easie
for
my
heart
to
turn
Traitor
,
and
abjure
its
first
principles
?
Ovid
,
who
as
soon
as
he
heard
himself
nam'd
,
had
advanc'd
towards
them
,
to
inform
himself
on
what
occasion
his
name
was
introduc'd
into
the
Scene
,
addrest
his
Suit
to
the
disconsolate
Herennia
;
but
she
turning
her
head
away
on
the
other
side
,
and
thrusting
him
from
her
with
her
hand
,
retire
out
of
my
sight
,
I
beseech
you
,
Ovid
,
said
she
;
your
presence
does
exasperate
my
afflictions
;
ask
Junia
an
account
of
what
you
desire
to
know
.
Lentulus's
Surgeon
finding
that
these
discourses
disturb'd
that
repose
,
which
was
necessary
for
him
,
desir
d
those
,
that
were
engaged
in
them
,
to
defer
them
to
a
more
seasonable
opportunity
.
All
on
a
sudden
were
silent
,
and
withdrew
into
another
Chamber
,
where
they
resolv'd
to
spend
the
night
,
being
unwilling
to
remove
farther
from
the
brave
Lentulus
in
the
condition
they
saw
him
.
The
end
of
the
Second
Part.
THE
ILLUSTRIOUS
EXILES
.
The
Third
Part.
IT
was
not
only
in
Thalassia
,
where
the
famous
Ovid
had
an
influence
over
all
the
great
Concurrents
,
which
ennobled
that
before
inhospitable
Climate
;
but
the
Court
of
Augustus
it self
was
governed
by
his
Genius
,
and
though
an
Exile
,
as
he
was
,
and
like
a
Planet
shot
from
his
glorious
Orb
,
there
were
few
actions
of
importance
exhibited
upon
that
grand
Theatre
,
wherein
Fortune
did
not
assign
him
one
of
the
principal
Parts
.
The
Emperor
had
for
some
days
so
totally
dedicated
his
disquiet
thoughts
to
his
resentments
against
his
Daughter
Julia
,
that
he
had
not
time
to
make
any
serious
reflection
upon
the
Combat
of
Crassus
and
Ovid.
He
regarded
it
at
first
,
as
the
effect
only
of
some
private
quarrel
;
but
a
more
intense
consideration
afterwards
representing
to
his
memory
the
hour
and
place
of
that
nocturnal
Encounter
,
persuaded
him
,
that
nothing
but
Love
could
have
so
ill
contriv'd
the
circumstances
thereof
.
These
thoughts
possest
him
with
a
furious
indignation
;
for
he
imagin'd
,
that
if
Love
oblig'd
them
both
to
draw
their
Swords
,
both
were
equally
guilty
of
an
audacious
presumption
,
in
making
love
to
the
Daughter
of
their
Emperor
:
And
not
being
able
to
digest
the
affront
,
a
Subject
should
put
upon
him
,
in
daring
to
cross
a
design
,
he
had
form'd
in
favor
of
Marcellus
:
he
gave
command
that
Crassus
should
be
secur'd
,
and
all
his
Papers
and
Writings
seiz'd
,
and
brought
to
him
:
They
gave
him
no
information
of
what
he
thought
to
have
found
in
them
;
but
they
discover'd
some
other
things
of
an
equal
concernment
to
his
repose
.
Amongst
a
great
many
Papers
of
Love-verses
,
which
Crassus
had
dedicated
to
Terentia
,
he
found
some
fragments
of
a
Letter
,
wherein
he
read
the
following
Lines
.
Employ
all
your
possible
endeavors
to
cure
your
friend
of
his
Passion
;
The
Heart
of
Terentia
is
fixt
upon
an
object
,
from
which
no
power
is
able
to
remove
it
.
I
dare
not
commit
his
name
,
to
the
hazard
of
Paper
;
but
let
it
satisfie
you
,
that
though
I
do
not
declare
him
to
be
the
party
you
suspect
,
it
is
one
than
whom
the
Earth
cannot
present
a
worthier
to
her
affection
.
The
Emperor
was
highly
inflam'd
at
the
sight
of
these
Lines
;
he
could
not
apply
to
himself
the
expression
of
a
Lover
,
or
worthy
to
be
belov'd
:
for
his
Passion
for
Terentia
was
now
no
Secret
;
and
it
could
not
be
said
of
him
,
that
he
was
not
one
of
those
Lovers
,
which
might
be
suspected
.
He
went
musing
,
and
biting
the
Lip
into
one
of
the
Gardens
of
his
Palace
,
whither
he
commanded
Agrippa
to
follow
him
;
and
after
some
moments
of
a
silence
,
which
seem'd
to
bespeak
an
awful
attention
,
Did
you
never
love
any
thing
,
Agrippa
,
said
he
;
and
is
the
indifference
,
you
profess
towards
Women
,
as
sincere
,
as
you
pretend
?
Agrippa
blusht
,
and
willing
to
divert
the
discourse
,
The
care
of
the
Universe
,
Sir
,
said
he
,
employs
your
great
thoughts
too
much
,
to
leave
a
place
there
to
entertain
such
a
curiosity
:
Judea
and
Capadocia
petition
you
for
Kings
;
Armenia
is
dissatisfied
with
theirs
;
and
we
are
inform'd
by
the
Parthian
Embassadors
—
Let
us
refer
the
Affairs
of
the
Empire
to
another
season
,
reply'd
Caesar
,
interrupting
him
,
Terentia
has
betray'd
me
.
Some
young
fellow
or
other
,
who
brings
no
other
Charms
with
him
,
than
the
variety
of
a
new
Lover
,
has
made
this
ingrateful
One
forget
what
she
owes
to
the
Master
of
the
World
;
which
corrodes
my
Heart
with
mortal
resentments
;
and
it
is
a
second
trouble
to
me
to
be
destitute
of
a
person
,
to
whom
I
may
communicate
them
;
and
I
could
wish
to
find
in
Agrippa
a
Soul
so
sensible
of
the
Passion
,
his
Emperor
labors
under
,
that
he
might
judge
him
worthy
of
that
confidence
,
he
is
willing
to
repose
in
him
I
hope
,
Sir
,
reply'd
Agrippa
,
that
it
is
not
so
absolutely
necessary
for
Agrippa
to
be
verst
in
all
the
Mysteries
of
Love
,
that
without
those
Maxims
his
Emperor
cannot
judge
him
worthy
of
any
confidence
:
But
,
Great
Sir
,
grant
me
your
permission
to
tell
you
,
that
you
do
an
injustice
to
the
Wife
of
Mecoenas
;
that
she
never
lov'd
any
person
but
Caesar
;
and
that
all
appearances
opposite
to
her
fidelity
,
are
either
Chimera's
,
or
Forgeries
.
Read
this
,
said
the
Emperor
,
giving
Agrippa
the
Paper
,
which
had
so
much
embroil'd
his
thoughts
;
and
when
you
have
perus'd
it
,
tell
me
,
if
I
have
done
Terentia
an
injury
in
suspecting
her
fidelity
.
The
sight
of
it
put
Agrippa
to
the
blush
the
second
time
,
who
standing
a
while
,
as
if
he
had
been
in
suspence
what
to
answer
;
but
at
last
assuming
courage
,
I
am
entring
perhaps
into
a
way
,
Sir
,
said
he
,
to
hazard
the
total
ruin
of
that
credit
,
you
are
pleas'd
to
honor
me
with
:
for
the
Hearts
of
Sovereigns
,
are
places
so
tender
and
delicate
,
that
he
that
presumes
to
touch
them
,
incurs
an
emiment
danger
of
his
own
head
;
but
Agrippa
will
rather
renounce
his
life
,
than
behold
his
Emperor
involv'd
in
a
perplexity
,
which
in
a
few
syllables
he
is
able
to
dissipate
;
I
must
therefore
beg
your
pardon
,
Sir
,
a
second
time
,
to
tell
you
,
that
you
unjustly
suspect
the
loyalty
of
Terentia
.
And
that
you
may
not
doubt
the
reality
of
what
I
aver
,
I
am
the
person
whom
this
Paper
advises
to
cure
himself
of
his
Passion
.
You
the
person
?
said
the
Emperor
.
Yes
,
Sir
,
reply'd
Agrippa
,
I
am
the
same
person
;
And
perhaps
this
temerity
may
plead
before
your
Greatness
,
its
justification
in
a
moments
discourse
,
if
you
shall
be
pleas'd
not
to
disdain
it
an
Audience
;
Which
was
of
too
sensible
a
concern
to
Caesar
to
be
deferr'd
.
Wherefore
entring
into
a
Grot
that
was
near
him
,
he
signified
to
Agrippa
,
that
he
could
not
too
soon
dissipate
the
sullen
Cloud
,
which
hung
over
him
;
when
Agrippa
began
his
discourse
in
this
manner
.
THE
HISTORY
OF
Agrippa
.
I
Shall
not
,
Sir
,
justifie
before
you
my
Passion
for
the
Wife
of
Mecoenas
:
he
is
my
friend
;
he
merits
the
particular
esteem
of
all
whom
he
honors
with
his
friendship
;
and
though
nothing
could
render
him
worthy
of
it
,
but
the
favor
,
wherewith
you
dignifie
him
,
that
alone
ought
to
attract
to
him
the
respect
and
veneration
of
the
whole
Empire
:
But
,
Sir
,
you
are
sensible
your self
of
the
Charms
of
Terentia
,
you
are
not
ignorant
of
the
effects
they
produce
,
and
how
much
a
Miracle
it
would
be
not
to
forget
in
her
presence
all
considerations
that
ought
to
balance
the
power
of
her
Beauty
.
Ovid
first
caus'd
my
Soul
to
take
a
particular
cognisance
of
that
,
which
it
had
always
endeavor'd
to
conceal
from
it self
.
We
were
one
evening
walkking
by
the
Tyber
side
,
where
Ovid
produc'd
a
new
Work
of
his
composure
,
and
was
reading
it
to
me
;
when
Terentia
,
who
with
divers
other
Ladies
,
had
made
choice
likewise
of
her
Walk
on
the
same
side
,
past
by
us
.
Oh!
that
divine
Creature
,
said
Ovid
,
transfixt
as
it
were
with
admiration
,
those
enchanting
eyes
,
that
sweet
air
,
those
tempting
lips
,
that
charming
countenance
,
in
fine
,
that
perfect
contexture
,
and
epitome
of
all
Beauty
.
You
pay
but
half
a
Sacrifice
to
that
Divinity
,
said
I
,
interrupting
him
,
you
ought
to
have
spoken
of
the
vivacity
of
her
Wit
,
that
ingenious
and
pleasant
raillery
,
wherewith
she
seasons
the
most
serious
Affairs
;
that
elegance
of
Speech
,
and
that
Eloquence
,
which
without
study
,
and
sometimes
her
own
knowledge
,
flows
from
her
lips
,
with
that
natural
grace
,
that
our
greatest
Orators
may
gather
from
them
the
chiefest
Flowers
,
which
embellish
their
Art.
It
is
very
pleasant
methinks
,
said
Ovid
,
smiling
in
my
face
,
to
see
you
add
so
glorious
a
varnish
to
the
first
draught
of
my
rude
Pencil
;
and
I
have
believ'd
a
long
time
,
that
a
person
of
the
temper
of
Agrippa
,
could
not
every
day
converse
with
the
Wife
of
Mecoenas
,
and
not
resign
to
her
Charms
the
greatest
part
of
his
liberty
.
You
let
your
suspitions
fly
too
far
at
random
,
said
I
,
I
am
so
sensible
that
Terentia
is
the
Wife
of
Mecoenas
,
that
I
dare
not
be
sensible
of
any
Charm
in
her
,
inconsistent
with
that
quality
.
The
same
reason
,
reply'd
Ovid
,
which
you
oppose
to
your
love
of
Terentia
,
would
be
the
chiefest
motive
to
induce
me
to
attempt
it
.
Mecoenas
is
a
person
worthy
of
Love
,
he
married
Terentia
for
Love
,
and
he
is
most
passionately
enamour'd
of
her
;
And
these
,
upon
a
just
balance
,
are
the
true
dispositions
,
which
a
Man
of
Merit
ought
to
desire
in
a
Mistriss
;
and
methinks
a
temptation
should
invade
the
sacred
Augustus
himself
,
whose
Soul
is
so
susceptible
of
the
impressions
of
Love
,
to
experience
the
pleasures
of
unthroning
a
Subject
of
Mecoenas
his
Merit
.
Let
us
speak
of
Caesar
,
said
I
,
interrupting
his
bold
discourse
,
but
with
that
veneration
we
speak
of
the
Gods
,
without
all
prophane
applications
.
The
inclinations
we
remark
in
him
,
agree
so
well
with
the
characters
of
an
heroick
virtue
,
that
we
ought
to
reverence
them
in
him
,
as
some
of
its
noblest
Properties
;
but
that
which
oftentimes
in
a
Subject
may
pass
for
a
blameless
action
,
in
a
Prince
assumes
another
Character
;
and
for
the
former
to
contain
himself
within
the
bounds
of
security
,
he
ought
not
to
suffer
his
Tongue
to
touch
any
action
of
his
Sovereign
,
which
it
may
prophane
by
an
irreverence
of
expression
.
Ovid
had
too
much
apprehension
to
prosecute
a
discourse
any
farther
,
which
I
had
given
such
a
check
to
;
and
so
for
a
while
,
we
diverted
it
to
another
subject
,
and
ended
our
conversation
for
that
day
;
but
my
thoughts
remained
so
full
of
those
Idea's
,
his
discourse
had
imprinted
in
them
,
that
it
was
impossible
for
me
to
banish
them
from
thence
.
The
great
Merit
of
Mecoenas
,
which
had
serv'd
till
then
for
a
Bridle
to
curb
the
exorbitancy
of
my
desires
,
did
now
begin
to
spur
them
on
,
and
indulge
them
a
loose
Reine
.
I
with
impatience
expected
the
hour
,
wherein
I
might
see
Terentia
,
and
having
by
chance
surpriz'd
her
,
as
she
was
bestowing
some
Caresses
upon
her
Husband
,
who
left
her
,
and
was
going
forth
,
to
wait
upon
your
Majesty
;
I
grew
so
jealous
,
that
I
could
not
forbear
to
begin
a
quarrel
with
her
upon
it
.
You
do
not
consider
,
with
what
you
reproach
me
,
said
she
,
smiling
upon
me
;
A
Woman
is
so
unfortunate
,
when
she
is
forc'd
to
counterfeit
a
Love
,
she
is
not
really
sensible
of
;
that
for
her
own
interest
,
she
ought
to
strain
all
the
powers
of
her
Soul
,
to
ingraft
that
real
sensibility
in
it
.
Why
counterfeit
Love
,
Madam
,
said
I
,
wise
Ladies
exempt
themselves
from
that
trouble
,
and
confine
the
duty
they
owe
their
husbands
,
within
the
bounds
of
an
honorable
complaisance
.
A
complaisance
!
said
Terentia
,
what
then
without
Love
,
and
out
of
the
sole
compliment
of
a
pure
complaisance
,
must
a
Woman
tranfact
all
the
precious
Minutes
of
her
Life
with
a
Man
,
receive
his
Caresses
,
and
—
No
,
no
,
Agrippa
,
these
thoughts
diffuse
horror
through
all
my
veins
;
a
Woman
must
either
have
a
Love
for
her
husband
,
or
resolve
to
sacrifice
the
whole
content
of
her
life
,
to
the
tortures
of
a
racking
despair
and
inquietude
.
These
two
extremes
,
Madam
,
said
I
,
may
have
a
medium
;
a
Wife
places
an
esteem
upon
that
,
in
a
husband
,
which
may
really
challenge
her
esteem
:
she
may
allow
him
a
Love
too
,
if
you
will
,
such
as
we
attribute
to
the
Merits
of
a
faithful
Friend
:
But
as
that
kind
of
friendship
does
generally
leave
a
vacuum
in
the
heart
,
she
may
make
choice
of
a
discreet
and
prudent
Lover
to
fill
it
up
,
who
balancing
all
concerns
betwixt
her
and
her
husband
,
may
convert
that
ceremonious
complaisance
,
you
made
so
ingenious
an
observation
upon
,
into
another
species
;
and
though
different
from
Love
,
yet
bearing
as
near
a
resemblance
to
it
,
as
it
acts
without
constraint
,
or
repugnance
.
Madam
,
I
speak
of
the
heart
only
,
said
I
,
seeing
Terentia
in
some
concern
;
and
when
one
assigns
that
for
the
limit
of
his
conceptions
,
he
may
without
temerity
allow
them
a
large
Field
to
expatiate
in
.
The
arrival
of
some
Ladies
interrupted
our
farther
converse
,
but
Terentia
gave
me
to
understand
two
dayes
after
in
the
Princess
Julia's
apartment
;
that
she
had
revolv'd
the
effects
of
it
in
her
curious
thoughts
.
Some
Persons
were
pleas'd
to
think
well
of
the
endeavors
I
employ'd
for
the
re-instating
the
Princess
Scribonia
in
the
good
grace
of
the
Empress
.
I
told
them
,
they
deserv'd
as
little
praise
,
as
they
had
cost
me
trouble
.
A
little
counsel
,
which
the
Princess
did
me
the
honor
to
believe
,
was
faithful
and
sincere
,
had
accomplish'd
that
great
work
.
Your
counsels
,
said
Terentia
,
are
of
great
force
,
and
Heaven
seems
to
entail
success
upon
them
.
That
same
Heaven
,
Madam
,
I
fear
,
reply'd
I
,
fixing
an
intentive
regard
upon
her
,
would
check
my
vanity
,
should
I
presume
to
entail
a
belief
upon
your
curious
remarks
.
For
is
it
possible
,
that
my
counsels
are
capable
of
the
effects
,
you
attribute
to
them
?
I
know
not
,
reply'd
Terentia
,
if
in
all
other
things
besides
,
your
endeavors
may
be
so
happy
,
as
they
have
been
in
reconciling
the
Empress
to
Scribonia
;
but
be
it
fortune
,
or
design
,
I
know
by
my
own
experience
,
that
your
counsels
imprint
a
deep
character
in
some
hearts
,
that
give
ear
to
them
.
Who
would
not
have
believ'd
,
Sir
,
that
these
words
were
design'd
to
encourage
my
hopes
?
I
retir'd
my self
,
to
digest
them
at
liberty
,
into
the
Gardens
of
Lucullus
,
where
I
found
Ovid
,
who
ask'd
me
,
if
I
had
not
encounter'd
some
Ladies
in
my
walk
.
I
had
not
seen
any
;
and
instead
of
an
answer
,
I
ask'd
him
the
reason
of
his
question
;
The
reason
is
,
said
he
,
because
I
have
just
now
found
a
Letter
in
the
Cittron-Grove
,
which
some
Lady
or
other
has
drop'd
;
and
in
saying
so
he
gave
it
me
,
where
I
read
the
following
Lines
:
The
more
I
combat
my
Enemy
,
the
more
I
despair
of
Victory
,
my
dear
Tullia
;
The
reflections
,
which
ought
to
infuse
courage
into
my
Soul
,
disarm
it
of
all
resolution
;
and
if
the
arrival
of
some
Ladies
had
not
interrupted
the
converse
,
which
I
had
yesterday
with
Agrippa
,
I
bad
reveal'd
to
him
all
the
secrets
of
my
heart
.
I
must
abandon
it
to
its
own
inclination
,
which
proposes
nothing
to
me
but
a
glorious
fall
;
but
yet
I
hope
to
preserve
my self
so
secure
from
the
danger
of
the
real
Precipice
,
that
I
shall
need
to
fear
no
other
reproaches
,
than
those
which
my
virtue
or
loyalty
shall
raise
against
me
;
And
if
those
should
be
seconded
at
last
by
a
just
remorse
,
could
that
give
me
more
distraction
or
trouble
,
than
the
resistance
I
have
hitherto
made
with
so
much
glory
and
fidelity
?
Judge
,
Sir
,
I
beseech
you
,
what
the
imaginations
were
,
that
invaded
my
thoughts
,
at
the
sight
of
this
Paper
.
I
had
oftentimes
seen
Terentia's
writing
,
and
I
believ'd
it
was
her
character
.
Are
you
,
said
Ovid
,
who
perceiv'd
a
disturbance
in
my
countenance
,
the
Party
,
who
sustain
the
attacks
of
the
combat
,
this
Letter
mentions
?
Or
had
it
already
succeeded
to
your
glory
?
I
know
not
,
my
dear
Ovid
,
reply'd
I
;
but
the
Party
,
who
writ
it
,
is
the
only
Person
in
the
Universe
,
I
ever
lov'd
,
or
ever
shall
love
.
I
do
not
ask
you
,
who
that
Person
is
,
said
Ovid
with
a
smile
,
for
I
know
you
will
name
her
to
me
without
my
importunity
,
and
not
deprive
a
friend
of
so
slight
a
satisfaction
.
I
am
endu'd
with
all
the
qualifications
,
requisite
in
a
real
Confident
;
I
am
inur'd
to
all
the
most
delicate
intrigues
of
Love
;
I
participate
in
the
sufferings
of
Lovers
,
and
my
brains
are
luxuriant
in
invention
.
Why
do
you
therefore
scruple
to
acquaint
me
with
the
secret
?
I
know
not
how
to
set
an
estimate
upon
my self
,
and
I
expect
you
should
make
it
your
request
to
me
,
to
lend
my
attention
to
the
curiosity
you
have
to
impart
to
me
.
It
is
hard
for
a
Lover
,
Sir
,
to
wave
the
occasion
of
discoursing
of
his
Love
:
I
discover'd
to
Ovid
all
the
Cabinet-counsels
of
my
heart
.
Your
condition
is
more
happy
,
said
he
,
than
you
apprehend
it
to
be
;
Tullia
entertains
some
good
will
for
me
;
and
since
it
appears
by
this
Letter
,
she
is
a
Confident
of
Terentia's
,
I
dare
promise
you
an
assurance
of
a
faithful
intelligence
.
Let
us
first
said
I
,
in
order
to
the
intelligence
you
mention
,
endeavor
to
discover
who
that
fortunate
Lover
may
be
,
in
whose
favor
Terentia
declares
herself
.
Ovid
would
persuade
me
,
it
was
my self
;
but
I
durst
not
flatter
my
hopes
with
so
erroneous
a
presumption
.
We
recall'd
to
our
thoughts
each
individual
,
person
,
that
seem'd
to
affect
a
diligence
or
devotion
to
the
service
of
Mecoenas
;
and
not
being
able
to
fix
our
judgments
upon
any
one
in
particular
,
I
referr'd
the
resolution
of
our
incertitude
to
the
reports
of
Tullia
.
I
conjur'd
Ovid
to
give
her
a
visit
the
same
day
,
and
went
my self
to
give
order
for
the
Just
,
which
about
that
time
I
caus'd
to
be
solemniz'd
in
memory
of
your
Victories
over
the
bloody
Assassins
of
the
great
Julius
.
The
Victor
was
to
receive
the
prize
of
the
Course
from
the
fair
hand
of
Terentia
,
by
the
order
of
Mecoenas
,
by
whom
all
occasions
of
signalizing
your
glory
,
were
no
less
ambition'd
,
than
by
my self
:
Never
did
his
divine
spoil
charm
the
eyes
of
Rome
with
so
dazling
a
lustre
.
Divers
Kings
,
and
Sons
of
Kings
,
who
assisted
at
that
Triumph
,
cry'd
out
aloud
,
That
the
sole
wonder
of
Rome
,
was
the
glorious
Wife
of
Mecoenas
.
I
had
the
honor
to
reconduct
her
back
to
her
Apartment
,
charg'd
with
all
the
Transports
of
Love
and
Lovers
Raptures
,
and
at
my
coming
forth
,
I
met
Ovid.
Methought
he
endeavor'd
to
avoid
me
,
and
seem'd
troubled
at
my
encounter
.
How
now
?
Ovid
,
what
means
this
strangeness
,
said
I
,
presenting
my self
to
him
.
Have
you
any
bad
news
,
of
which
you
fear
to
be
the
Author
?
Neither
good
,
nor
bad
,
answer'd
he
,
but
only
that
Tullia
and
my self
have
had
a
small
quarrel
;
and
I
cannot
wheedle
the
secret
out
of
her
,
wherein
you
are
concern'd
.
You
have
begun
this
quarrel
very
unseasonably
,
said
I
;
And
if
you
had
had
any
respect
for
me
,
you
would
have
manag'd
a
Person
with
more
prudence
,
on
whose
interest
,
you
know
,
mine
have
so
necessary
a
dependance
.
I
must
confess
,
I
am
in
a
fault
,
reply'd
Ovid
,
and
that
was
the
reason
,
I
was
desirous
to
shun
you
;
but
you
now
begin
to
have
a
sensible
apprehension
of
Love
,
I
have
a
most
passionate
one
for
the
daughter
of
Cicero
,
and
I
suspect
her
to
be
guilty
of
a
treachery
towards
me
;
and
you
cannot
be
so
void
of
judgment
your self
,
as
not
to
comprehend
,
that
such
a
suspition
is
able
to
deprive
me
of
it
.
I
was
forc'd
to
take
this
excuse
for
full
payment
,
and
content
my self
with
casting
some
reproaches
upon
my
destiny
.
But
the
next
day
after
the
Empress
gave
a
Ball
,
which
was
treated
with
a
Noble
Collation
;
where
I
perceiv'd
that
Ovid
was
not
upon
such
ill
terms
with
Tullia
,
as
he
had
persuaded
me
.
I
discover'd
them
making
Love
to
each
other
by
private
signs
;
Tullia
passing
by
him
,
gave
him
a
secret
pinch
on
the
arm
;
which
Ovid
observing
I
had
taken
notice
of
,
took
notice
himself
of
the
stolen
favor
;
but
in
a
Moment
after
,
his
subtlety
gave
place
to
his
Love
;
for
when
Tullia
came
to
take
him
out
to
dance
,
he
could
not
forbear
,
by
a
passionate
gesture
,
to
return
her
thanks
for
the
honor
of
that
obliging
expression
of
her
kindness
towards
him
.
I
could
refrain
no
longer
,
then
at
the
end
of
the
Assembly
,
to
exhibit
unto
him
,
the
Indictment
I
had
drawn
up
in
my
distracted
thoughts
,
against
his
treason
.
I
did
not
importune
you
for
your
assistance
,
said
I
to
Ovid
;
it
was
you
your self
,
who
without
my
sollicitation
,
made
a
voluntary
offer
of
it
to
me
.
If
you
had
had
any
private
reason
to
repent
your self
of
so
generous
an
action
,
you
might
with
the
same
freedom
have
repeal'd
it
,
and
I
would
have
return'd
it
back
again
to
you
,
and
not
impos'd
upon
you
a
necessity
,
of
offering
me
so
unworthy
an
abuse
;
but
I
fathom
the
Mystery
.
You
have
taken
your self
the
advice
,
you
not
long
since
so
frankly
gave
me
,
to
love
Terentia
;
Her
charms
have
made
a
conquest
of
your
heart
,
and
for
that
reason
alone
you
have
thought
fit
to
make
a
friend
of
my
integrity
,
the
subject
of
your
Perfidy
.
You
do
me
a
great
deal
of
honor
,
reply'd
Ovid
,
with
a
flattering
kind
of
smile
,
to
regard
me
with
an
eye
of
jealousie
;
but
yet
as
great
as
it
is
,
it
cannot
seduce
my
vanity
,
I
am
in
despair
of
ever
meriting
it
;
and
for
no
other
cause
did
I
pretend
a
quarrel
with
Tullia
,
than
that
I
might
not
be
the
Herald
of
such
unwelcom
News
,
as
I
assur'd
my self
that
would
be
,
which
should
denounce
to
you
an
Emperor
for
your
Rival
.
An
Emperor
?
cry'd
I
,
starting
back
.
Yes
,
said
Ovid
,
an
Emperor
;
Augustus's
greatness
is
inthron'd
in
the
centre
of
Terentia's
heart
;
and
you
have
not
a
Man
for
your
Rival
,
who
would
sacrifice
his
life
at
your
feet
,
rather
than
dispute
that
glory
with
you
.
But
,
Ovid
,
said
I
,
has
Augustus
ever
express'd
any
inclinations
for
the
Wife
of
Mecoenas
?
All
Rome
is
inform'd
,
he
has
fix'd
them
in
another
place
.
The
Emperor
,
reply'd
Ovid
,
owes
only
to
his
own
Merit
the
Passion
,
he
has
given
birth
to
;
which
he
has
neither
improv'd
,
nor
cultivated
yet
by
any
particular
address
;
nay
,
he
is
wholly
ignorant
of
its
effects
,
and
it
is
believ'd
that
Terentia
herself
would
more
than
half
die
with
confusion
,
did
she
suspect
,
he
were
the
least
sensible
of
them
.
See
here
what
Tullia
writ
to
me
the
same
day
,
you
sent
me
to
employ
her
to
gain
the
secret
from
Terentia
.
The
Letter
,
which
I
found
in
the
Gardens
of
Lucullus
,
and
you
read
,
was
lost
by
Cicero's
daughter
;
and
since
this
other
,
which
you
may
here
peruse
,
I
have
had
some
converse
with
her
,
who
gave
me
a
full
account
of
all
I
have
here
represented
to
you
;
having
said
this
,
he
produc'd
a
Letter
,
of
which
the
fragment
that
fell
into
your
hands
,
Sir
,
was
a
part
.
Ye
great
Gods
!
What
do
you
tell
me
?
said
Caesar
,
Can
I
believe
you
?
And
can
it
be
possible
,
that
I
made
my self
the
object
of
my
own
jealousie
?
You
may
judge
,
Sir
,
reply'd
Agrippa
,
by
the
sequel
of
what
I
have
to
say
,
of
the
truth
of
my
report
.
I
could
not
acquiesce
in
the
sole
testimony
of
Tullia
;
and
as
I
endeavor'd
to
purchase
a
clearer
evidence
of
my
Misfortune
,
I
am
able
to
render
your
greatness
a
clearer
assurance
of
your
felicity
.
Revolve
in
your
Royal
imagination
,
I
beseech
you
,
Sir
,
the
deplorable
condition
,
the
discourse
of
Ovid
reduc'd
me
to
:
I
consider'd
you
as
my
Master
,
and
glorious
Patron
,
but
still
as
an
envy'd
Rival
in
my
Mistrisses
favor
:
And
as
under
one
of
these
forms
you
might
with
Justice
command
me
to
revoke
my
presumptuous
Love
;
under
the
other
you
banish'd
out
of
my
thoughts
the
Memory
of
all
respect
and
obligations
I
ow'd
you
,
I
darted
a
thousand
reproaches
,
a
thousand
imprecations
at
my
Stars
,
ten
thousand
Murmurs
against
Heaven
for
having
form'd
you
so
amiable
:
I
do
not
fear
to
declare
these
extravagances
to
you
,
since
I
have
now
surmounted
them
;
and
the
more
violent
my
transports
were
,
the
duty
which
triumph'd
over
them
,
will
,
I
hope
,
merit
a
more
favorable
censure
in
your
August
thoughts
.
Ovid
would
not
leave
me
all
that
night
;
and
though
he
were
most
sensibly
touch'd
with
my
afflictions
,
yet
he
did
combate
them
with
such
discourses
,
that
it
might
be
wish'd
for
the
delight
of
Rome
,
that
he
had
still
conserv'd
a
due
Respect
and
Memory
of
them
.
What
do
you
think
,
said
he
,
to
oppose
against
the
Merit
of
your
Emperor
the
coldness
,
which
he
yet
entertains
for
the
beauty
of
Terentia
?
Alas
!
do
you
imagine
,
that
this
coldness
will
be
still
proof
against
that
tender
Passion
,
which
Terentia
will
not
be
able
long
to
disguise
under
the
Mask
of
so
violent
a
Constraint
?
She
is
the
admired
beauty
of
the
Empire
,
and
Caesar
has
a
piercing
judgment
;
she
cannot
long
remain
expos'd
to
the
destiny
of
loving
by
herself
:
And
perhaps
,
at
this
very
Moment
,
we
are
now
discoursing
,
the
cloud
,
which
must
of
necessity
be
shortly
transparent
,
may
be
remov'd
from
Caesar's
eyes
.
He
tells
her
the
Universe
has
no
fitter
object
for
Caesar's
Love
,
than
the
immortal
charms
of
the
Divine
Terentia
:
Then
your
designs
,
which
hitherto
may
pass
only
for
innocent
attempts
,
will
become
unpardonable
crimes
.
Be
advis'd
in
time
,
and
do
not
dispute
the
title
of
Terentia's
Love
,
with
the
Master
of
the
Universe
,
whose
heart
ought
to
be
sacred
to
you
,
since
it
is
stamp'd
with
the
image
of
Caesar
;
and
the
least
forfeit
you
shall
make
of
that
obedience
you
owe
him
,
will
be
chastis'd
as
a
criminal
ingratitude
in
a
person
of
Agrippa's
quality
.
Ovid
shew'd
himself
but
too
true
a
Prophet
in
his
Predictions
;
you
have
been
pleas'd
to
tell
me
since
,
that
it
was
at
that
Just
,
where
Terentia
first
began
to
charm
you
:
but
as
I
was
ignorant
of
any
such
matter
,
and
my
wound
too
new
,
to
receive
a
cure
from
the
hand
of
reason
,
I
had
no
regard
to
his
too
real
Divinations
.
I
tormented
my self
all
night
with
such
restless
distractions
,
and
being
inform'd
the
next
day
,
by
some
Spies
,
which
I
alwayes
maintain'd
about
Terentia
,
that
she
was
to
go
to
the
Temple
,
you
gave
me
leave
to
dedicate
unto
Neptune
,
I
posted
thither
with
an
impatient
speed
.
The
Sacrifice
was
not
begun
,
and
whil'st
it
was
preparing
,
Terentia
diverted
herself
by
a
walk
under
the
Trees
,
which
in
many
pleasant
Groves
are
rank'd
about
that
Fane
.
You
need
not
ask
,
said
she
,
as
soon
as
she
saw
me
,
what
kind
of
devotion
has
invited
Agrippa
hither
;
he
knew
that
Caesar
is
preparing
for
his
Voyage
into
Asia
,
and
is
come
to
offer
Sacrifice
to
the
God
of
the
Caerulean
Empire
,
to
purchase
calm
weather
for
his
own
Emperor
.
And
,
Madam
,
said
I
,
are
you
come
to
purchase
Storms
and
Tempests
!
I
am
too
good
a
Roman
,
reply'd
she
with
a
surprizing
blush
,
to
offer
up
to
the
Gods
such
sacrilegious
Vows
.
And
too
clear-sighted
,
Madam
,
said
I
,
to
regard
the
glory
of
Caesar
with
ah
eye
of
that
indifferency
,
as
perhaps
some
other
good
Romans
do
.
Terentia
was
so
discompos'd
with
this
little
reproach
,
that
it
was
a
long
time
before
she
could
frame
an
Answer
;
but
at
length
recomposing
her
self
,
you
have
attack'd
me
more
than
once
,
reply'd
she
,
with
such
mysterious
discourses
:
your
Advice
against
what
I
owe
to
Mecoenas
,
your
flattering
character
,
and
your
diligence
,
cause
me
to
suspect
,
some
private
end
is
the
Mark
,
they
are
level'd
at
.
You
now
make
your
reflections
upon
Augustus
,
and
may
it
not
be
possible
,
that
great
Caesar
may
honor
with
a
generous
compassion
the
innocent
inclinations
of
his
humble
Handmaid
?
I
was
now
so
disorder'd
my self
at
this
question
,
that
for
a
quarter
of
an
hour
,
I
lost
the
total
use
of
my
tongue
,
when
Terentia
with
a
serious
look
making
a
descant
upon
the
distraction
,
she
saw
me
in
,
you
are
surpriz'd
,
I
see
,
said
she
,
to
hear
me
propose
,
so
unexpected
a
Problem
to
you
.
And
perhaps
you
will
say
,
that
my
late
Manner
of
conversing
with
you
,
has
not
prepar'd
you
to
entertain
it
:
But
Agrippa
,
the
Passion
I
have
for
Augustus
,
has
something
in
it
of
so
noble
and
so
pure
,
that
I
can
own
it
without
the
reproach
of
a
guilty
blush
:
And
I
shall
confess
that
my
heart
receiv'd
the
image
of
Caesar
from
my
tender
years
,
that
this
impression
has
grown
with
me
,
and
that
the
Emperor
has
no
engagements
either
in
War
,
or
Love
,
wherein
it
does
not
challenge
a
private
concern
.
And
does
he
entertain
the
like
for
me
?
Speak
,
and
do
not
keep
my
Soul
any
longer
in
suspence
;
The
purity
of
my
intentions
ought
to
leave
no
impure
suspitions
in
yours
.
I
love
Caesar
,
as
we
love
the
Gods
;
and
I
should
believe
,
I
should
be
guilty
of
an
impiety
against
them
,
should
I
love
him
otherwayes
.
Speak
,
Agrippa
,
and
give
me
a
clear
explanation
of
that
which
the
muteness
of
your
tongue
,
and
the
eloquence
of
your
eyes
,
gives
me
some
apprehensions
of
.
Oh!
Madam
,
cry'd
I
,
my
eyes
and
my
tongue
are
but
the
too
fatal
interpreters
of
my
thoughts
.
Terentia
did
without
doubt
penetrate
the
sense
of
this
Exclamation
;
she
blush'd
,
and
pretending
the
Sacrifice
was
ready
to
begin
,
she
took
the
occasion
,
and
enter'd
briskly
into
the
Temple
,
leaving
me
without
the
power
to
follow
her
.
I
had
discover'd
in
her
eyes
,
a
kind
of
,
I
know
not
what
despite
;
mix'd
with
a
reservedness
and
disdain
,
which
I
was
no
longer
able
to
support
.
I
went
home
to
my
house
,
where
I
found
your
Orders
to
summon
me
to
your
presence
;
With
a
feeble
and
languishing
motion
I
paid
obedience
to
your
commands
,
and
I
thought
that
day
would
have
put
a
mortal
period
to
the
cause
of
it
;
for
,
Sir
,
you
commanded
my
attendance
for
no
other
,
than
to
confide
to
me
the
secret
of
your
new
Amour
.
I
did
not
render
my self
guilty
of
a
treasonable
Crime
in
opposing
it
,
but
I
told
you
at
the
same
time
,
that
I
was
deceiv'd
,
if
Terentia
did
not
embrace
it
with
all
the
concerns
of
a
reciprocal
Passion
:
But
this
constraint
was
so
repugnant
to
my
nature
,
that
it
ever
apprehended
with
horror
the
necessity
of
often
renewing
it
.
A
little
after
I
made
my
Expedition
into
Sicily
,
on
which
the
contemplative
Judges
of
other
Mens
Actions
took
the
liberty
to
spend
their
verdicts
at
their
pleasure
;
And
I
am
return'd
,
thanks
to
the
great
Gods
,
so
perfectly
cur'd
of
my
folly
,
that
I
hope
they
will
inspire
more
dutiful
principles
into
me
,
than
to
dispute
the
Justice
or
Merits
of
my
Cause
,
with
my
glorious
Emperor
.
I
had
several
times
resolv'd
to
declare
to
you
the
secret
Crime
,
my
Love
tempted
me
to
commit
against
you
;
but
as
that
declaration
would
have
only
serv'd
to
have
assur'd
you
of
your
felicity
,
(
and
that
I
found
you
had
an
undoubted
assurance
of
before
)
I
judg'd
it
unnecessary
.
My
Crime
,
Sir
,
is
now
ceas'd
with
my
Love
,
and
therefore
they
both
cease
to
be
longer
silent
;
and
here
you
have
the
whole
secret
of
that
fragment
,
which
so
much
disquieted
your
Royal
thoughts
,
most
faithfully
unmask'd
before
you
.
Judge
now
,
Sir
,
I
beseech
you
,
if
your
reason
tells
you
,
you
have
done
Terentia
justice
,
in
suspecting
her
of
infidelity
.
The
Emperor
attributed
an
entire
confidence
to
the
Relation
of
Agrippa
,
which
perfectly
reconcil'd
his
jealousie
to
his
doubts
concerning
the
Paper
,
which
had
come
to
his
hand
;
but
there
was
another
,
no
less
important
,
still
inherent
in
his
inquiet
imagination
.
The
discovery
of
a
new
Rival
ever
begets
a
new
trouble
in
our
fancy
;
and
though
in
the
height
of
its
capriciousness
he
exhal'd
complaints
,
when
suited
only
with
the
resentments
of
a
Lover
abus'd
,
yet
he
was
not
assur'd
if
he
had
not
,
since
the
first
birth
of
his
jealousie
,
some
just
grounds
to
harbor
a
contrary
belief
.
He
imparted
all
his
thoughts
to
Agrippa
,
who
endeavor'd
to
calm
them
,
with
the
best
arguments
he
was
capable
of
,
he
had
made
a
most
diligent
inspection
into
all
the
concerns
of
Terentia
,
from
the
first
Minute
he
had
entertain'd
any
for
her
himself
;
And
the
love
of
Crassus
had
not
deluded
it
,
and
therefore
he
conjur'd
Caesar
to
believe
,
that
he
had
purchas'd
no
other
advantage
with
all
his
assiduities
,
than
a
disdainful
repulse
of
his
rejected
suit
.
The
Emperor
,
whose
Love
,
was
as
unquiet
,
as
passionate
,
and
desired
only
to
find
repose
,
was
willing
,
to
be
convinc'd
by
the
reasonings
of
Agrippa
:
and
testify'd
no
less
acknowledgments
to
him
,
for
this
conquest
he
had
made
of
his
jealousie
,
than
he
had
done
before
,
when
by
those
he
had
made
of
his
most
redoubted
Enemies
,
he
had
establish'd
him
in
the
Imperial
Throne
of
the
Universe
:
And
hastening
to
the
Apartment
of
Terentia
,
he
was
inflam'd
with
impatience
,
till
he
had
forced
his
unjust
suspicions
to
beg
a
submissive
pardon
of
her
injur'd
Loyalty
;
but
he
was
disappointed
of
his
design
,
for
she
was
gone
to
visit
Tullia
,
at
her
delicate
Villa
,
which
her
Father
Cicero
had
left
her
near
Tuseulum
.
When
these
two
Confidents
saw
themselves
in
a
,
capacity
of
enjoying
each
others
conversation
with
freedom
,
Terentia
declar'd
to
Tullia
the
disgrace
of
Crassus
;
and
that
she
was
inform'd
by
some
persons
,
whom
she
privately
entertain'd
near
the
Emperor
,
that
he
had
utter'd
some
expressions
before
them
,
which
his
jealousie
seem'd
to
have
forc'd
from
him
.
You
know
,
said
she
,
whether
this
jealousie
has
any
solid
ground
,
or
no
to
support
it self
;
and
whether
I
am
not
able
to
apply
an
infallible
remedy
to
his
imaginary
distemper
,
but
he
will
not
vouchsafe
to
have
recourse
to
it
.
He
caus'd
Crassus
to
be
arrested
;
he
commanded
all
his
Papers
to
be
brought
to
him
,
and
examin'd
them
,
without
imparting
to
me
the
least
inkling
of
his
designs
.
What
could
he
have
done
more
,
had
I
been
convicted
of
a
criminal
compliance
?
Oh!
how
unjust
are
Men
?
The
most
accomplish'd
among
them
become
either
Ingrates
,
or
Tyrants
,
as
soon
as
they
imagine
they
have
gain'd
the
least
interest
in
our
affections
,
you
do
not
consider
,
said
Tullia
,
interrupting
her
,
at
what
Mark
you
level
your
complaints
.
Jealousie
is
the
infallible
Herald
of
a
violent
Passion
,
and
I
should
have
had
a
greater
for
Ovid
,
than
I
now
have
,
if
when
I
put
his
to
the
test
,
I
had
found
it
of
the
same
temper
with
Caesars
.
I
must
confess
,
reply'd
Terentia
,
that
a
little
jealousie
is
inseparable
from
a
great
love
;
but
do
you
understand
,
with
what
kind
of
jealousie
I
would
have
Augustus
possest
?
I
would
have
him
jealous
of
his
own
Imperial
Grandeur
;
that
he
should
fear
,
lest
that
should
have
a
more
powerful
influence
upon
my
inclinations
,
than
the
Merits
of
his
Person
;
and
that
being
exagitated
without
intermission
by
that
active
suspicion
,
he
should
employ
the
greatness
it self
,
as
an
humble
Suiter
to
me
,
to
lend
him
my
assistance
to
destroy
it
:
yet
all
this
should
not
make
me
forget
the
respect
I
owe
to
the
grandeur
of
his
Soul
,
and
the
illustrious
character
of
his
generosity
;
but
elevating
my
own
Meanness
to
meet
his
Greatness
at
the
point
,
to
which
he
should
be
pleas'd
to
debase
himself
be
low
his
own
sphere
,
we
would
form
a
concurrence
of
spiritual
desires
,
that
should
prevent
the
Lethargy
of
long
and
languishing
Passions
.
But
alas
!
it
is
not
this
noble
kind
of
jealousie
,
but
a
sordid
and
injurious
one
,
which
Caesar
is
guilty
of
,
and
with
which
he
has
already
alarum'd
the
ears
of
the
World
,
without
vouchsafing
to
think
mine
worthy
to
receive
from
him
the
least
whisper
of
it
,
and
believing
me
to
be
light
,
ingrateful
,
treacherous
—
He
believes
you
to
be
no
such
thing
,
reply'd
the
daughter
of
Cicero
,
interrupting
her
,
he
only
fears
lest
the
Merit
;
or
Assiduities
of
a
new
Lover
should
make
a
breach
in
your
heart
;
and
as
it
is
to
that
heart
only
,
to
which
he
has
confin'd
his
pretensions
,
the
least
impression
,
any
other
should
make
there
,
he
interprets
,
as
an
usurpation
upon
his
own
Prerogative
.
If
you
had
not
limited
your
favors
to
so
narrow
a
circumference
,
Augustus
would
have
thought
himself
more
secure
.
There
are
certain
Marks
and
Pledges
of
Love
,
after
which
a
Lover
cannot
suspect
his
Mistriss
of
unconstancy
,
without
committing
a
mortal
offence
against
her
:
But
the
gift
of
the
heart
,
is
not
of
that
number
;
there
is
no
particular
value
to
be
set
upon
it
,
but
in
the
fancy
of
the
Lover
only
,
who
thinks
himself
possess'd
of
it
;
and
as
a
Woman
is
seldom
tempted
more
than
once
,
to
make
a
free
donation
thereof
,
and
seldom
wants
the
temptation
of
often
violating
it
,
she
leaves
alwayes
an
apprehension
in
a
sensible
Lover
,
lest
she
should
be
mov'd
by
some
powerful
Motive
,
to
embrace
the
latter
,
as
being
most
obvious
.
Oh!
Tullia
,
cry'd
the
Wife
of
Mecoenas
,
I
could
be
angry
to
see
you
frame
such
gross
conceits
on
so
delicate
a
Subject
;
the
gift
of
the
heart
is
so
far
from
leaving
any
just
scruple
in
the
Souls
of
those
that
love
,
that
it
is
only
capable
to
assure
their
repose
.
All
Pledges
of
Love
,
which
are
not
included
within
it
,
are
the
effects
of
a
weakness
,
which
I
think
none
ought
to
be
guilty
of
,
if
they
can
avoid
it
,
and
that
one
may
be
guilty
of
more
than
once
,
since
it
is
not
voluntary
and
unconstrain'd
.
But
that
Love
,
whereof
all
the
Passions
acknowledge
the
Empire
of
reason
,
has
I
know
not
what
in
it
of
so
noble
,
and
so
pure
,
that
it
will
not
admit
the
allay
of
any
base
or
ignoble
thought
,
and
would
make
a
greater
scruple
of
the
least
infidelity
,
than
your
Libertine
Ladies
do
of
the
greatest
Crimes
.
As
Terentia
had
with
these
last
words
concluded
her
delicate
distinctions
,
a
Servant
came
and
advertis'd
Tullia
,
that
Varentilla
and
Fulvia
,
attended
by
Horace
,
Virgil
,
and
Cornelius
Gallus
,
the
Praetor
of
Egypt
,
were
come
from
Rome
to
wait
on
her
.
Terentia
was
come
thither
to
entertain
her
unquiet
thoughts
with
that
pleasant
solitude
,
and
was
not
then
in
a
fit
humor
for
a
general
converse
.
But
the
Train
was
compos'd
of
too
many
illustrious
Persons
,
not
to
be
receiv'd
with
all
the
demonstrations
of
an
obliging
respect
and
welcom
.
Fulvia
was
daughter
to
that
renowned
Tutor
of
Augustus
,
whose
glories
with
himself
were
buried
in
the
common
ruines
of
the
bloody
Triumvirate
:
And
the
Emperor
desirous
to
repair
in
her
the
Misfortunes
of
her
Father
,
made
but
little
difference
in
appearance
betwixt
her
,
and
the
Princess
his
daughter
.
Varentilla
was
her
Kinswoman
,
and
had
married
the
Head
of
the
Claudian
Family
,
which
has
since
given
Caesars
to
the
Empire
;
and
it
is
thought
,
that
she
preceded
Terentia
in
the
heart
of
Augustus
.
The
two
Friends
went
forth
of
their
flowry
Cabinet
,
where
their
converse
was
,
and
advanced
to
give
a
reception
to
the
noble
company
.
They
found
them
in
a
Basse-Gallery
,
which
open'd
with
a
stately
Portal
,
and
was
wainscoted
with
cedar
,
and
hung
round
with
divers
rich
pieces
,
representing
the
most
Memorable
Actions
of
her
Fathers
life
.
His
famous
pleading
for
Roscius
,
which
oblig'd
him
to
flie
into
Greece
,
to
substract
himself
from
the
fury
of
Sylla
;
the
applauses
and
congratulations
,
he
receiv'd
at
Athens
;
his
triumphant
return
into
his
own
Countrey
,
and
his
honor
for
preserving
it
from
the
bloody
attempts
of
Cataline
:
His
journey
towards
Pompey
,
and
that
barbarous
death
he
sustained
,
which
branded
with
an
eternal
ignominy
the
Posterity
of
those
that
inflicted
it
.
Had
the
Painter
,
said
Virgil
,
upon
the
survey
of
those
pieces
,
consulted
my
Memoires
,
he
had
not
omitted
the
adventure
of
Milo.
I
caus'd
it
not
to
be
here
inserted
,
reply'd
Tullia
,
because
I
have
heard
some
reports
,
that
in
that
encounter
,
the
artifice
of
Hortensius
triumph'd
over
the
eloquence
of
my
Father
.
It
is
a
Fiction
,
said
Virgil
,
he
did
not
gain
that
cause
,
though
he
gain'd
no
small
honor
by
it
;
you
were
not
in
the
World
,
when
it
was
a
witness
to
that
grand
tryal
;
and
therefore
you
are
ignorant
doubtless
,
of
the
circumstances
of
it
;
which
I
shall
give
you
a
faithful
account
of
,
when
you
please
to
command
it
;
and
by
it
convince
you
,
that
your
renowned
Father
,
never
did
any
thing
more
remarkable
and
glorious
.
The
time
was
never
unseasonable
to
lend
attention
to
what
Virgil
had
to
say
.
Terentia
,
with
an
obliging
expostulation
,
complain'd
of
his
unkindness
,
for
designing
to
reserve
that
Relation
for
Tullia
only
.
And
Virgil
,
who
understood
very
well
the
extent
of
that
complaisance
,
we
ought
to
exhibit
to
our
Sovereigns
in
the
person
of
those
,
they
have
an
esteem
for
,
told
her
she
might
command
what
she
pleas'd
,
and
he
was
ready
to
obey
.
The
Company
mov'd
towards
a
Walk
,
which
represented
a
continued
Arbor
,
or
green
Vmbrella
,
under
which
in
the
most
scorching
heats
of
Summer
,
you
could
not
be
incommoded
by
the
Sun.
Virgil
plac'd
himself
betwixt
the
four
Ladies
:
And
Horace
and
Cornelius
guarded
the
end
of
each
Wing
,
and
so
marching
all
a-breast
,
Virgil
began
his
recital
in
this
manner
.
A
MEMORABLE
ACT
OF
Cicero
.
IT
is
not
so
long
,
since
the
famous
Cicero
dy'd
,
but
that
his
glorious
Memory
may
be
yet
present
,
to
the
thoughts
,
and
almost
the
eyes
,
of
the
persons
,
that
honor
me
with
their
attention
.
Few
are
ignorant
,
I
suppose
,
how
Claudius
having
been
surpriz'd
in
a
female
disguise
in
the
Palace
of
the
great
Julius
,
Cicero
publickly
censur'd
this
licentious
Audacity
;
and
that
Claudius
being
since
elected
Consul
,
omitted
no
occasion
to
exercise
a
Mortal
Revenge
upon
him
for
this
Affront
.
He
persecuted
him
both
in
his
estate
and
reputation
,
forc'd
him
to
turn
Exile
,
and
flie
to
Dirachium
,
and
had
perhaps
made
his
Fury
the
bloody
Executioner
of
his
Malice
,
had
not
Milo
put
a
period
to
his
rage
,
by
putting
one
to
his
life
.
Milo
had
committed
this
Homicide
in
the
just
defence
of
his
own
Life
,
and
the
Laws
of
all
Nations
,
pleaded
a
Pardon
for
him
;
and
to
support
the
justice
of
his
Cause
,
he
had
made
it
a
Client
to
Cicero
.
At
that
time
there
was
in
Rome
a
fair
Athenian
,
celebrated
there
under
the
name
of
Plautia
,
to
whom
the
Orator
Hortensius
dedicated
both
his
love
and
eloquence
;
and
who
by
the
excellence
of
her
wit
,
and
a
thousand
other
admirable
qualities
and
charms
,
had
purchas'd
the
Fame
of
a
matchless
Prodigy
in
her
Sex.
Hortensius
told
her
,
for
a
piece
of
pleasing
News
,
that
he
was
chosen
to
sustain
the
Accusation
against
Milo.
Do
you
not
tremble
,
said
Plautia
to
him
,
at
the
thoughts
of
encountring
an
eloquence
,
which
has
so
often
been
victorious
?
It
is
not
the
first
time
,
reply'd
Hortensius
,
that
I
have
enter'd
the
Lists
against
it
.
There
are
few
causes
of
note
,
which
are
not
divided
betwixt
Cicero
and
my self
;
I
pleaded
against
him
for
Antony
,
for
Asinius-Pollio
,
and
divers
others
.
We
were
Antagonists
in
the
Tryals
of
Lucius-Murena
,
and
if
I
may
without
the
opinion
of
vanity
,
repeat
what
Rome
herself
has
publish'd
,
it
was
not
Cicero
,
whom
her
loud
acclamations
proclaim'd
the
Victor
.
That
was
,
reply'd
Plautia
,
because
in
those
encounters
,
you
did
not
plead
for
the
condemnation
of
the
Murderer
of
Claudius
.
Cicero
will
paramount
himself
,
and
think
it
a
supreme
glory
,
to
wrest
out
of
the
hands
of
Justice
so
notorious
a
Criminal
;
and
if
you
will
be
advis'd
by
a
Friend
,
wave
,
if
you
can
,
so
hazardous
an
engagement
.
I
neither
can
,
nor
ought
to
wave
it
,
reply'd
Hortensius
;
I
am
chosen
to
demand
satisfaction
for
the
blood
of
Claudius
,
I
should
betray
it
if
I
should
be
silent
;
and
besides
,
our
profession
has
that
advantage
over
all
others
,
that
it
may
gain
reputation
,
but
lose
none
,
though
it
lose
a
cause
.
If
I
should
surmount
the
eloquence
of
Cicero
,
I
should
purchase
immortal
honor
;
and
should
mine
receive
a
foile
from
his
,
it
would
receive
no
blemish
in
the
overthrow
;
our
ardor
and
zeal
supply
the
place
of
a
prosperous
success
,
and
never
Orator
yet
was
charg'd
with
the
partiality
or
petulancy
of
a
biassed
Judge
.
I
am
not
of
that
opinion
,
reply'd
Plautia
,
there
are
some
qualities
,
which
a
person
of
honest
principles
ought
to
dedicate
his
whole
life
to
the
acquisition
of
;
the
labour
they
cost
,
ought
not
to
deter
us
from
the
pursuit
of
them
;
and
it
is
more
glorious
to
miscarry
in
that
,
than
to
think
we
can
live
with
honor
without
them
.
But
Eloquence
is
not
of
that
predicament
,
which
has
no
motives
to
compel
us
to
addict
our selves
to
its
profession
.
It
neither
inspires
us
with
honesty
,
nor
equitable
thoughts
,
nor
constancy
or
resolution
in
Adversities
;
but
on
the
contrary
,
it
may
corrupt
and
vitiate
the
candid
temper
of
an
ingenuous
Soul.
For
an
Orator
does
oftentimes
make
it
his
sport
and
recreation
to
patronize
an
unjust
cause
,
and
hopes
he
may
easily
persuade
others
to
believe
,
what
he
seems
to
believe
himself
.
It
is
therefore
nothing
,
but
the
choice
of
the
Will
;
and
when
it
turns
to
the
confusion
of
him
that
made
it
,
it
leaves
him
convinc'd
of
his
own
ignorance
,
the
baseness
of
his
spirit
,
and
the
weakness
of
his
judgment
.
These
words
,
pronounc'd
by
a
person
Hortensius
most
ardently
affected
,
made
so
strong
an
impression
in
his
thoughts
,
that
leaving
Plautia
,
he
went
in
haste
to
find
out
Cicero
.
You
are
a
Person
of
too
honorable
Principles
,
said
he
to
him
,
not
to
approve
of
the
preference
of
Justice
,
before
all
the
advantages
one
might
hope
to
obtain
by
force
of
a
vigorous
Eloquence
.
And
it
is
a
glorious
one
for
me
,
to
be
thought
worthy
of
the
honor
of
arguing
an
opinion
against
you
:
If
mine
should
be
convincing
,
what
immortal
Laurels
would
Fame
plant
upon
my
Temples
?
And
should
you
refute
it
,
I
should
learn
by
my
defeat
,
to
assure
my self
of
Victory
in
other
encounters
with
the
same
arms
which
gave
it
me
.
But
Cicero
,
the
advantageous
success
wherewith
you
see
,
I
might
flatter
my
thoughts
,
ought
not
to
efface
out
of
them
that
just
remorse
,
which
would
certainly
attend
it
.
Claudius
was
a
vicious
Man
,
and
Milo
has
oblig'd
all
good
Men
,
by
freeing
Rome
from
so
corrupt
a
Member
,
by
an
action
he
was
forc'd
to
commit
in
the
just
defence
of
his
life
.
I
will
not
plead
for
his
condemnation
;
and
either
the
error
or
partiality
of
the
Judges
,
may
,
perhaps
,
over-rule
the
force
of
your
reasons
:
I
would
not
have
you
therefore
expose
Milo
to
that
danger
;
he
stands
justify'd
already
in
my
thoughts
,
and
I
shall
be
ready
to
declare
,
that
on
the
examination
of
the
Fact
,
Justice
oblig'd
me
to
pronounce
him
innocent
.
The
Enemies
of
Cicero
pretend
,
that
an
itch
of
Ambition
would
not
suffer
him
to
embrace
this
offer
.
He
had
already
made
some
laborious
reflections
upon
th●
Cause
,
and
assur'd
himself
of
a
victorious
success
;
and
would
not
,
say
they
,
lose
neither
his
labour
,
nor
the
fruits
he
expected
to
reap
from
it
.
But
I
know
,
that
was
not
the
Motive
;
he
apprehended
,
that
he
might
be
accus'd
of
some
juggle
,
or
underhand
dealing
,
if
in
the
face
of
Justice
,
where
the
Murderer
of
Claudius
was
brought
to
a
publick
Tryal
,
the
Advocate
for
the
dead
Person
,
should
observe
a
wilful
and
suspected
silence
;
and
therefore
he
was
resolv'd
to
plead
;
and
Hortensius
,
who
fear'd
the
reproaches
of
Plautia
,
and
saw
himself
supported
by
the
credit
of
Cato
,
to
whom
the
dead
Person
was
Nephew
,
us'd
so
much
artifice
,
that
,
as
Tullia
exprest
it
,
he
triumph'd
that
day
over
the
Eloquence
of
Cicero
.
He
caus'd
false
informations
to
be
given
to
the
Senate
,
which
oblig'd
them
to
send
some
armed
Bands
to
keep
the
People
within
the
bounds
of
their
duty
:
These
Soldiers
being
gain'd
by
Hortensius
,
did
by
their
insolencies
so
disturb
and
interrupt
Cicero
in
the
most
material
parts
of
the
cause
,
that
Milo
was
not
only
condemn'd
to
banishment
,
and
a
severe
mulct
set
upon
his
head
,
but
likewise
expos'd
to
an
eminent
danger
of
his
life
.
I
made
my
return
just
about
that
time
from
Sicily
,
where
the
generous
bounty
of
the
illustrious
Mecoenas
had
grac'd
me
with
a
considerable
Employ
.
The
reputation
of
Cicero
was
not
unknown
to
me
,
I
had
an
ardent
ambition
to
have
the
honor
of
being
inroll'd
in
the
number
of
his
Friends
,
and
Manlius
presented
me
to
him
the
very
same
day
,
wherein
he
had
lost
his
cause
for
Milo.
Whence
come
you
?
said
he
to
me
,
as
soon
as
he
understood
who
I
was
;
Go
build
your self
a
Cabin
upon
the
ruines
of
Mantua
,
and
turn
Heardsman
there
to
some
wealthy
Grasier
,
if
you
want
ability
to
keep
one
your self
;
and
bury
your
glory
in
the
smoaking
ruines
of
your
Countrey
,
rather
than
breathe
the
corrupted
Air
of
this
pernicious
City
;
which
triumphs
now
in
nothing
,
but
treachery
and
injustice
.
The
Senate
,
that
once
renowned
Assembly
,
now
tamely
receives
its
decrees
from
the
Usurpers
of
Supreme
Authority
,
wherewith
it
oppresses
the
innocent
,
and
justifies
the
guilty
:
Flie
,
flie
,
wise
stranger
,
from
a
Climate
so
barbarous
and
inhumane
.
Manlius
had
heard
what
had
arriv'd
to
him
;
what
?
Cicero
,
said
he
,
does
your
animosity
against
Claudius
,
survive
the
date
of
his
life
?
And
do
you
imprecate
Rome
,
because
an
unexpected
revenge
has
honourably
entomb'd
his
ashes
in
the
Urn
?
It
is
not
Claudius
,
when
I
now
consider
,
reply'd
Cicero
;
for
had
he
been
the
dearest
of
my
friends
,
the
revenge
of
his
death
notwithstanding
would
never
have
appear'd
to
me
the
less
unjust
.
Then
he
briefly
summon'd
up
to
us
the
Points
upon
which
the
justification
of
Milo
ought
to
have
been
establish'd
,
and
how
Hortensius
himself
made
a
scruple
to
sustain
the
Accusation
against
him
:
What!
said
Cicero
,
the
Accuser
of
the
pretended
Criminal
declares
him
innocent
,
and
shall
the
authority
of
Cato
have
the
power
to
pronounce
him
Guilty
?
Hortensius
could
not
find
amongst
all
the
querks
and
jingles
of
his
profession
,
a
pretence
sufficient
to
render
the
death
of
Claudius
punishable
:
And
because
he
was
Nephew
to
Cato
,
the
Senate
denounces
it self
the
mortal
Enemy
of
his
Murderer
?
Ha!
my
dear
Manlius
,
what
Age
do
we
live
in
?
I
have
just
now
sent
Milo
a
Sum
to
discharge
the
weight
of
his
unreasonable
Fine
:
which
honor
obliges
me
to
pay
,
since
he
owes
his
condemnation
to
the
sole
ambition
I
had
to
expose
the
equity
of
his
cause
to
the
judgment
of
the
world
.
Had
I
been
silent
,
he
had
been
free
;
and
the
ardor
,
I
express'd
,
to
vindicate
his
innocence
,
has
condemn'd
it
.
I
will
retire
to
some
Desart
,
to
expiate
amongst
dumb
Animals
,
the
crime
of
my
Loquacity
;
and
Rome
shall
no
more
behold
me
in
her
Pulpits
,
till
she
become
again
what
she
was
in
the
dayes
of
our
Fathers
,
which
is
as
much
as
to
say
,
she
shall
never
behold
me
more
.
Our
Vices
have
exasperated
Heaven
;
it
has
averted
from
us
these
benign
influences
,
which
formerly
render'd
us
virtuous
,
just
and
sincere
;
desolate
Rome
draws
near
her
ruine
,
since
the
Gods
permit
her
to
draw
upon
her
crimes
their
indignation
;
and
I
shall
speedily
prepare
an
Elegy
to
deplore
her
Catastrophe
with
more
reason
,
than
Virgil
has
at
this
day
to
deplore
the
desolation
of
his
Mantua
.
Manlius
combated
,
with
all
the
Arguments
he
could
frame
,
this
obstinate
resolution
of
his
Friend
;
and
though
I
was
not
so
well
known
to
him
,
to
assume
the
presumption
of
giving
him
counsel
,
yet
I
could
not
forbear
to
use
these
expressions
;
Sir
,
said
I
,
the
more
vicious
you
judge
Rome
,
the
more
reason
you
have
to
make
your self
a
President
not
to
abandon
her
.
What
will
become
of
her
,
if
all
the
brave
and
honest
Romans
you
are
acquainted
with
,
should
put
on
the
same
resolutions
as
you
do
,
to
proscribe
themselves
from
their
Countrey
,
and
leave
her
a
prey
to
so
many
devouring
Monsters
?
It
is
the
duty
of
the
vertuous
,
to
protect
her
,
when
publick
Vices
attack
her
;
and
you
must
give
an
accompt
to
the
Gods
for
the
impunity
,
to
which
your
absence
shall
expose
the
crime
of
Libertines
.
Cicero
was
pleas'd
to
accept
in
good
part
my
Remonstrances
,
and
honor
them
too
with
expressions
they
could
not
merit
.
But
besides
,
that
he
was
immoveably
fix'd
to
his
resolutions
,
he
had
so
much
incommoded
himself
by
the
liberal
disbursment
he
had
made
for
Milo
,
that
he
had
reduc'd
his
condition
to
a
necessity
of
spending
some
time
in
a
Country
retirement
.
He
withdrew
to
this
place
,
which
was
not
then
what
his
own
industry
,
and
the
curiosity
of
his
worthy
daughter
have
render'd
it
since
.
Alas
!
I
had
cause
to
oppose
my
most
powerful
reasons
against
this
retreat
,
which
has
cost
me
so
many
sighs
,
and
melancholy
hours
;
and
my
divining
Soul
seem'd
before-hand
,
to
give
me
an
ill-relishing
taste
of
the
various
misfortunes
it
prepar'd
for
me
.
These
last
words
of
Virgil
inflam'd
the
curiosity
and
attention
of
those
that
heard
him
,
which
would
have
oblig'd
him
to
a
second
Relation
,
had
they
not
seen
appear
at
the
end
of
the
Walk
,
the
Emperor
,
the
Princess
Julia
,
the
Prince
Marcellus
,
and
the
Illustrious
Agrippa
.
Tullia
hasten'd
to
present
her self
unto
them
;
and
wholly
surpriz'd
with
that
unexpected
honor
,
testifi'd
her
acknowledgments
by
a
confusion
in
her
countenance
,
which
express'd
as
much
eloquence
,
as
one
of
her
Fathers
most
studied
Orations
could
have
done
.
The
Emperor
was
naturally
affable
and
courteous
,
and
had
his
thoughts
been
less
perplex'd
and
incumber'd
,
would
,
in
obliging
terms
,
have
retaliated
that
obliging
Air
of
satisfaction
and
joy
,
which
Tullia
express'd
in
his
reception
.
But
they
were
wholly
fix'd
upon
the
Wife
of
Mecoenas
;
when
discovering
her
at
the
farther
end
of
the
Walk
,
who
partly
out
of
surprize
,
and
partly
disdain
,
had
not
advanc'd
to
receive
him
,
he
left
Julia
with
the
Daughter
of
Cicero
,
and
like
a
complaisant
Lover
,
mov'd
his
condescending
Greatness
towards
her
.
The
Air
of
the
Campagne
,
Madam
,
said
he
,
approaching
her
,
has
already
,
methinks
,
render'd
you
singular
,
you
take
no
delight
to
follow
the
company
;
and
had
I
follow'd
your
example
,
I
had
this
day
in
vain
left
Rome
,
to
purchase
yours
.
I
know
,
the
duty
and
distance
I
owe
my
Emperor
,
reply'd
Terentia
coldly
;
and
I
shall
not
assume
the
confidence
to
approach
him
,
without
his
special
command
.
Ha!
Madam
,
said
Caesar
,
interrupting
her
,
it
is
not
such
a
cold
respect
you
owe
him
,
but
one
of
a
little
more
love
,
and
a
little
more
sincerity
.
Forget
he
is
Master
of
the
Universe
,
but
remember
that
he
has
given
you
his
whole
heart
,
that
you
owe
him
all
yours
;
and
that
you
cannot
acquit
your self
of
your
obligations
towards
him
,
as
long
as
you
entertain
the
addresses
of
Crassus
,
and
encourage
them
by
constituting
him
the
Guardian
of
your
choicest
secrets
.
I
never
consider'd
the
addresses
of
Crassus
,
reply'd
Terentia
,
but
as
an
office
of
friendship
,
whereof
your
bounteous
favors
for
Mecoenas
,
and
my self
,
have
given
Presidents
to
the
whole
Empire
;
and
if
they
are
level'd
at
any
other
mark
,
I
scorn
to
give
them
entertainment
in
my
thoughts
.
You
are
the
most
spiritual
of
all
Women
,
Madam
,
reply'd
the
Emperor
;
and
it
is
not
hard
for
you
to
captivate
as
well
the
understanding
,
as
you
have
done
the
heart
,
of
a
Prince
,
over
whom
you
reign
as
Sovereign
Empress
.
But
,
Madam
,
said
he
,
(
shewing
her
the
Verses
he
had
taken
from
Crassus
)
were
these
confecrated
to
you
without
your
knowledge
?
and
if
you
accepted
the
Sacrifice
,
could
you
without
a
crime
flatter
the
audacious
fancy
of
a
Rival
to
Caesar
?
Terentia
was
surpriz'd
at
the
view
of
these
effects
of
Crassus's
love
:
she
thought
it
had
not
been
so
durable
,
as
to
cause
him
to
make
such
passionate
reflections
.
I
know
not
,
said
she
,
whither
these
Verses
were
compos'd
for
me
,
I
never
saw
them
before
;
and
I
really
believe
,
some
other
Person
to
be
the
Subject
of
them
.
But
,
Sir
,
though
it
were
true
,
that
a
young
inconsiderate
Person
should
be
guilty
of
the
folly
of
entertaining
a
Passion
for
me
,
could
Caesar
fear
a
Rival
of
so
small
consideration
?
Upon
what
grounds
,
Sir
,
do
you
raise
your
apprehensions
?
Upon
the
preference
,
the
Merits
of
Crassus
may
challenge
over
Caesars
?
Upon
the
propensity
,
you
have
found
in
me
,
to
violate
either
my
word
,
or
my
duty
?
Upon
my
natural
levity
,
or
the
character
of
my
amorous
inclinations
?
Oh!
Sir
,
can
you
know
me
,
can
you
esteem
me
,
and
yet
be
capable
of
such
injurious
suspitions
?
Caesar
was
willing
to
be
convinc'd
of
his
error
,
and
hastily
gave
credit
to
all
,
Terentia
was
pleas'd
to
have
him
believe
:
and
whil'st
he
was
pleading
a
Pardon
for
the
injustice
he
had
committed
against
her
innocence
,
in
framing
an
unworthy
suspicion
of
it
,
Agrippa
was
retir'd
into
the
same
Grove
,
where
a
little
before
Terentia
and
Tullia
had
entertain'd
their
private
converse
.
There
he
broke
open
a
Letter
,
which
was
deliver'd
him
upon
the
Road
,
and
he
knew
to
come
from
Ovid.
Horace
,
who
had
follow'd
him
,
found
him
reading
the
Contents
of
it
,
which
advis'd
him
to
an
action
which
he
had
often
had
a
design
to
execute
.
A
Man
may
know
that
Tullia
is
taken
up
with
some
extraordinary
affairs
,
said
he
to
Horace
;
if
you
could
have
commanded
the
freedom
of
her
conversation
,
you
would
not
have
done
me
the
honor
,
at
this
present
,
to
have
sought
after
any
other
.
I
apprehend
you
,
reply'd
Horace
;
you
railly
me
upon
my
libertine
humor
;
and
you
ingeniously
reproach
me
,
that
Love
is
not
the
Divinity
I
sacrifice
to
.
A
Person
,
reply'd
Agrippa
,
who
should
only
become
acquainted
with
you
by
the
voice
of
publick
Error
,
would
be
apt
,
perhaps
,
to
cast
that
reproach
upon
you
;
but
an
intimate
Friend
to
Ovid
,
knows
how
to
give
you
your
due
character
.
I
am
not
ignorant
of
any
of
your
Triumphs
,
and
I
can
testifie
,
that
you
are
not
less
favor'd
by
Love
,
than
any
other
of
the
Diety
.
Ovid
is
a
great
Master
in
the
Art
of
Metamorphosing
,
reply'd
Horace
with
a
smile
,
and
doubtless
he
took
me
for
the
River
Alpheus
,
or
the
Nymph
Salmacis
,
when
he
character'd
me
for
an
Amorist
.
He
took
you
,
said
Agrippa
,
for
his
dangerous
Rival
,
and
he
has
found
so
few
that
merit
that
title
,
that
he
could
not
confound
them
in
summing
them
up
.
I
know
you
have
stolen
from
him
the
heart
of
Tullia
,
and
that
she
being
seduc'd
by
the
gayety
of
your
humor
,
has
made
the
charming
Ovid
understand
,
that
he
was
not
born
to
be
alwayes
the
first
to
dissolve
the
bands
of
an
amorous
intrigue
.
You
relate
to
me
a
pleasant
Fable
,
Sir
,
reply'd
Horace
;
and
you
doubtless
forget
,
that
it
is
a
famous
Debauche
,
who
has
the
honor
to
talk
to
you
.
To
punish
you
for
your
dissimulation
,
said
Agrippa
,
making
him
sit
down
by
him
,
you
shall
recount
to
me
without
excuse
,
or
delay
,
the
particulars
of
your
Amour
,
which
I
was
never
perfectly
inform'd
of
by
Ovid
;
who
,
I
observ'd
,
could
never
discourse
of
it
without
trouble
;
and
therefore
I
was
willing
to
indulge
his
vanity
that
satisfaction
,
as
not
to
press
him
to
so
unpleasing
a
recital
:
But
since
I
know
,
you
are
able
to
surmount
all
troubles
incident
to
tender
Lovers
,
I
shall
not
observe
that
Punctilio
with
you
.
I
know
upon
what
occasion
the
Emperor
is
come
hither
,
and
we
may
have
the
liberty
of
discoursing
above
an
hour
without
interruption
.
Agrippa's
Merits
might
so
justly
challenge
the
respect
of
the
whole
Empire
,
and
Horace
stood
indebted
to
them
for
so
many
favors
,
that
it
would
have
been
a
piece
of
rude
ingratitude
in
him
,
to
have
oppos'd
the
least
delay
to
his
desires
.
He
told
him
by
way
of
a
gallantry
,
that
he
was
so
inur'd
to
Victory
,
that
he
conquer'd
all
he
attack'd
;
and
by
the
command
of
Agrippa
,
keeping
the
Seat
he
had
plac'd
him
in
,
he
began
in
this
manner
.
THE
HISTORY
OF
Horace
.
THE
World
has
incurr'd
an
error
in
judgment
,
my
Lord
,
in
that
it
has
made
of
me
;
which
believes
that
good
cheer
is
the
sole
Deity
I
idolize
:
who
have
neither
gust
,
nor
desires
,
but
to
delicious
Novels
;
and
only
regard
Love
,
as
an
intermess
,
or
preparative
to
quicken
their
appetite
for
the
better
relishing
voluptuous
varieties
of
a
luxurious
Table
.
This
draught
does
nothing
at
all
resemble
me
.
Liberty
is
that
I
seek
at
Feasts
,
more
than
the
delicacies
of
their
entertainments
;
and
if
a
Man
in
the
whole
course
of
his
life
were
endu'd
with
a
Soul
so
brutish
,
that
it
were
capable
of
no
other
inclinations
,
than
what
a
gourmandizing
appetite
should
inspire
into
it
,
I
should
be
found
oftner
at
the
private
Tables
of
my
Friends
,
than
in
their
Halls
at
their
publick
Banquets
.
These
practices
may
divert
a
Mans
thoughts
from
more
serious
Reflections
,
or
Employs
,
but
cannot
divest
them
of
all
propensity
to
generous
actions
,
or
noble
and
tender
Passions
:
And
his
reason
is
the
more
refin'd
by
them
,
since
he
does
not
associate
himself
with
his
Friends
,
but
to
make
a
more
open
profession
of
it
:
And
a
Man
is
so
far
from
falling
into
those
Vices
,
which
infect
his
nature
with
brutality
,
by
this
frank
overture
,
that
a
Man
is
really
more
a
Man
,
when
his
Soul
is
totally
unmask'd
of
that
dissimulation
,
which
is
generally
practis'd
by
Persons
of
a
more
reserv'd
converse
.
I
had
made
some
remarks
upon
these
distinctions
in
an
Ode
I
compos'd
in
the
praise
of
a
magnificent
Banquet
,
made
by
the
generous
Mecoenas
;
and
this
Poem
was
receiv'd
with
so
much
applause
,
that
a
Critick
ought
to
have
been
very
audacious
,
that
durst
have
censur'd
it
.
Ovid
glory'd
to
be
that
audacious
One
;
and
being
one
day
in
the
presence
of
the
Princess
Julia
,
he
omitted
no
kind
of
Raillery
wherewith
he
did
not
play
upon
me
,
for
dedicating
my
genius
wholly
to
Bacchanalian
Revels
and
Triumphs
.
What
do
you
find
in
it
so
ridiculous
,
said
I
to
him
?
Is
not
the
fertile
Vine
,
which
is
Mother
to
the
delicious
Falernian
Grape
,
as
worthy
of
the
noblest
Idea's
of
a
Poet
,
as
the
Flowers
,
you
combine
into
an
odoriferous
Posie
,
and
therein
present
us
with
a
Clita
,
or
an
Hippolita
?
This
Allegory
,
reply'd
Ovid
,
has
relation
to
a
passion
of
the
Soul
,
much
nobler
than
that
of
a
gluttonous
appetite
;
and
it
is
more
glorious
for
a
Poet
to
teach
Lovers
the
gentile
Art
of
Loving
,
than
Debauchees
,
the
most
ingenious
method
of
improving
their
Debaucheries
.
Love
,
said
I
,
surprizes
the
frolick
spirit
amidst
the
jollity
of
his
Cups
and
Banquets
,
as
it
attacks
the
Melancholy
in
his
solitary
and
sullen
retirements
.
The
delight
a
boon
Companion
takes
in
being
regal'd
,
and
a
Lover
in
being
lov'd
,
have
nothing
of
incompatibility
betwixt
them
.
It
is
only
a
going
in
quest
after
Pleasure
more
than
one
way
,
and
arriving
at
it
by
two
different
Roads
.
They
are
two
different
Roads
indeed
,
reply'd
Ovid
,
and
no
Man
can
ever
so
deceive
himself
,
as
to
believe
,
that
to
arrive
at
the
Elizium
of
Love
,
he
must
travel
through
the
sordid
Vail
of
a
brutish
voluptuousness
.
It
is
a
rare
way
indeed
to
charm
a
Lady
,
to
accost
her
with
those
nauseous
and
brain-sick
Raptures
,
wherewith
the
drowsie
Souls
of
the
boon
Companions
,
you
mention
,
are
alwayes
intoxicated
?
Would
it
not
be
a
commendable
excuse
,
think
ye
,
when
a
Lady
should
desire
her
servant
to
pay
a
double
assiduity
and
diligence
to
her
service
,
to
oppose
to
her
commands
,
a
necessity
of
going
to
a
Bacchanalian
Rendevouz
?
And
do
you
think
,
she
would
not
have
great
reason
to
be
highly
satisfi'd
with
this
obliging
Compliment
,
I
shall
not
see
you
to
morrow
;
I
must
spend
the
whole
day
in
drinking
with
my
Friends
:
where
I
shall
encounter
a
thousand
pleasures
,
which
as
you
are
not
capable
to
give
me
,
you
are
not
like
to
share
with
me
;
and
some
pleasant
Table
discourse
,
or
other
diversions
,
will
abundantly
supply
the
want
of
your
company
.
This
satyrical
raillery
of
Ovid
,
which
he
heightned
by
his
drolling
way
of
delivering
it
,
and
the
Princess
Julia's
seeming
passionately
to
espouse
his
quarrel
against
me
,
did
so
nettle
me
,
that
I
was
resolv'd
to
study
a
revenge
.
I
knew
he
affected
Tullia
,
and
I
found
her
a
Person
most
worthy
to
be
affected
.
I
design'd
,
if
it
were
possible
,
to
disappoint
him
of
the
heart
of
that
fair
one
.
I
was
not
ignorant
how
sensible
he
would
be
of
such
a
loss
;
and
I
was
ambitious
to
demonstrate
to
him
by
convincing
reasons
,
that
ingenious
Debauchery
is
not
inconsistent
with
the
charms
of
Love.
I
was
acquainted
with
the
Daughter
of
Cicero
,
as
one
is
acquainted
with
Persons
of
Quality
,
whom
they
see
in
the
Court
either
about
the
Empress
,
or
the
Princesses
.
I
apply'd
my self
with
all
diligence
to
gain
a
more
particular
acquaintance
with
her
.
I
endeavor'd
to
oblige
her
by
my
ready
services
,
and
the
first
occasion
I
encounter'd
,
was
at
the
Feast
of
the
Bacchanales
,
which
was
that
year
govern'd
by
my
directions
;
I
made
all
the
Parts
of
it
allude
to
that
Proverb
of
Cicero
,
Sine
Baccho
Friget
Venus
;
Without
the
help
of
lusty
Bacchus
,
Love
Grows
cold
,
and
cannot
our
dull
spirits
move
.
And
allegorizing
to
the
sense
of
the
Proverb
,
I
caus'd
a
Cupid
to
be
plac'd
upon
one
side
of
Bacchus
his
Statue
,
and
both
of
them
to
be
mounted
upon
one
triumphal
Chariot
.
They
seem'd
to
have
made
mutual
Presents
to
each
other
;
Cupid
was
crown'd
with
clusters
of
Grapes
,
and
carried
a
great
Glass
in
his
hand
,
instead
of
his
Bowe
;
and
a
great-belly'd
Bottle
serv'd
him
for
a
Quiver
,
for
his
Arrows
,
and
Bacchus
wore
the
Quiver
and
Bowe
,
which
Cupid
wanted
.
Divers
young
Maids
,
habited
like
Painters
,
representing
the
Menades
and
Graces
,
mix'd
one
among
another
,
followed
the
Chariot
,
and
with
a
disorderly
kind
of
order
exchang'd
employs
with
each
other
.
The
Menades
distributed
amongst
the
People
,
those
Gallantries
,
which
it
only
belong'd
to
Love
to
bestow
;
and
the
Graces
,
officiously
offer'd
,
to
fill
up
full
Glasses
to
any
,
that
would
receive
them
.
You
were
then
upon
your
Voyage
towards
Sicily
,
my
Lord
,
and
since
Ovid
has
not
related
to
you
the
particulars
of
our
Cor-rival-ship
,
you
are
ignorant
perhaps
of
that
,
which
happen'd
at
that
Feast
.
Tullia
publickly
declar'd
,
that
she
was
oblig'd
to
me
,
for
giving
so
glorious
a
revive
to
the
memory
of
her
Father
;
and
whether
Ovid
was
desirous
to
put
a
flurr
upon
this
favor
of
hers
towards
me
or
no
,
or
only
to
railly
me
,
I
know
not
,
but
he
compos'd
a
Poem
,
intituled
,
LOVE
IN
A
RAGE
.
Where
feigning
,
that
that
God
had
fram'd
Complaints
against
my
Sacrilege
,
he
made
him
thunder
out
severe
Menaces
and
Imprecations
against
me
.
He
had
carried
this
piece
of
Gallantry
to
Tullia's
house
,
when
she
happen'd
not
to
be
at
home
;
and
had
left
it
upon
a
Table
in
her
Chamber
,
that
she
might
find
it
at
her
return
.
I
came
thither
a
little
after
Ovid
was
gone
;
a
young
Slave
,
whom
I
had
gain'd
to
my
interests
,
told
me
,
he
had
lately
been
there
,
and
shew'd
me
the
Paper
he
had
left
behind
him
.
The
indignation
I
conceiv'd
to
see
my self
so
much
abus'd
,
rais'd
the
choler
of
my
Muse
,
and
snatching
up
Pen
and
Paper
,
upon
the
same
Title
of
Love
in
a
Rage
,
I
drew
a
draught
of
Ovid's
inconstancies
.
I
folded
up
my
Satyr
,
in
the
same
form
he
had
done
his
;
I
laid
it
upon
the
same
Table
;
and
just
as
I
had
finish'd
my
Cheat
,
Tullia
came
in
.
Ovid
usher'd
her
,
and
had
told
her
by
the
way
,
as
they
came
,
that
he
had
left
in
her
Chamber
,
a
new
emergency
of
his
extravagant
fancy
.
She
thought
to
have
found
,
what
he
spoke
of
,
in
the
Paper
,
which
lay
in
the
place
of
the
other
,
and
snatching
it
up
hastily
,
began
to
read
,
Love
in
a
Rage
,
Come
Rage
and
Fury
,
bring
your
flaming
darts
,
Your
Chains
,
your
Arrows
dy'd
in
bleeding
hearts
,
All
the
immortal
Tortures
,
which
you
forge
In
your
dire
Shops
,
the
Crimes
of
Men
to
scourge
,
And
arm'd
with
all
th'
offensive
tools
of
Fate
,
The
honor
of
my
Altars
vindicate
.
A
thousand
just
complaints
each
hour
invade
My
tender
ears
,
by
youthful
Beauties
made
Against
th'
Ingrate
—
These
first
seven
Verses
were
copy'd
word
by
word
out
of
Ovid's
Paper
,
which
he
quietly
gave
attention
to
,
but
interrupted
her
at
the
eighth
.
You
do
not
read
right
,
Madam
,
said
he
,
it
is
not
My
tender
ears
by
youthful
Beauties
made
,
It
is
,
My
ears
,
and
Heav'ns
,
by
Youth
and
Beauty
made
,
To
see
themselves
a
Homage
forc'd
to
pay
To
Bacchus
,
and
his
Rendevouz
obey
.
Read
it
your self
,
said
Tullia
interrupting
him
,
and
tell
me
,
which
most
needs
correction
,
your
Memory
,
or
my
Eyes
.
He
took
the
Paper
,
and
finding
the
Verses
chang'd
,
was
so
surpriz'd
,
that
he
knew
not
what
to
say
.
Are
you
now
satisfi'd
,
said
Tullia
,
whether
your
Memory
or
my
Eyes
are
most
treacherous
?
Your
Eyes
are
faithful
Judges
,
reply'd
Ovid
,
and
my
Memory
has
not
betray'd
me
;
but
here
is
a
Mystery
,
which
I
cannot
unriddle
.
These
words
inflam'd
the
curiosity
of
Tullia
,
and
taking
the
Paper
out
of
his
hand
,
she
began
again
to
read
:
Come
Rage
and
Fury
,
bring
your
flaming
darts
,
Your
chains
,
your
arrows
,
dy'd
in
bleeding
harts
,
All
the
immortal
tortures
,
which
you
forge
In
your
dire
shops
,
the
crimes
of
Men
to
scourge
,
And
arm'd
with
all
th'
offensive
tools
of
Fate
,
The
honor
of
my
Altars
vindicate
.
A
thousand
just
complaints
each
hour
invade
My
tender
ears
by
youthful
Beauties
made
Against
th'
Ingrate
;
who
being
the
forlorn
And
doleful
Objects
of
his
treach'rous
scorn
,
Do
'fore
my
Altars
the
sad
Victimes
lie
Of
broken
Vows
,
and
martyr'd
Constancy
:
So
many
pow'rful
Charms
did
I
impart
To
this
Ingrate
,
that
the
most
stony
heart
Was
forc'd
with
melting
sighs
and
flames
to
meet
The
perjur'd
Vows
,
he
laid
down
at
its
feet
.
The
doctrine
of
my
School
refin'd
his
wit
,
And
in
his
Soul
ingrafted
Maxims
,
fit
To
make
it
capable
to
be
the
Owner
Of
all
true
principles
of
Love
and
Honor
:
The
pleasure
of
the
senses
,
the
transports
Of
wit
and
mirth
,
the
smartness
of
retorts
;
An
endless
Mine
of
amorous
desires
,
A
flame
,
to
light
,
and
quench
,
a
Vestal's
fires
:
In
fine
I
all
my
talents
to
him
lent
;
And
how
has
he
so
vast
a
treasure
spent
?
He
by
his
black
Inconstancy
has
made
A
thousand
false
Apostates
in
the
Trade
;
A
thousand
wav'ring
hearts
revolt
from
me
,
By
the
example
of
his
treachery
.
Each
injur'd
Beauty
now
does
fearful
grow
,
And
ev'ry
Lover
for
a
Traytor
go
.
My
name
it self
a
terror
does
infuse
.
How
did
not
his
disloyalty
abuse
?
The
matchless
bounties
of
a
glorious
Belle
,
Whose
name
I
for
some
reasons
shall
conceal
.
[
The
Princess
Julia
,
What
have
not
Fulvia
,
Corynna
,
rare
Floricia
,
and
Emilia
the
Fair
;
Valeriu's
two
Sisters
,
Creon
the
Slave
,
Done
to
oblige
this
most
perfidious
—
?
Who
catch'd
all
in
the
snares
of
harmless
Love
,
Did
the
effects
of
his
foul
treason
prove
.
When
to
an
object
(
he
designs
t'
ensnare
)
Such
solemn
Vows
he
of
his
Faith
does
swear
,
Of
Homage
,
and
of
Love
,
that
you
would
say
,
Eternity
,
before
it
,
would
decay
,
As
if
of
Janus
,
or
of
Proteu's
race
,
Into
two
diff'rent
shapes
he
parts
his
face
.
One
side
does
represent
unto
your
eye
The
zealous
Picture
of
sincerity
.
The
other
,
like
slie
Renard
,
on
you
smiles
,
To
see
what
Fools
Love
catches
in
his
toils
.
Then
in
the
cheat
he
triumphs
,
and
his
wit
;
Nor
fearing
my
scorn'd
pow'r
,
does
judge
it
fit
,
(
As
well
as
us
)
for
nothing
but
to
be
The
scourge
of
Amorous
Credulity
.
Oh!
worthy
to
the
Rack
to
be
condemn'd
,
To
which
I
all
unworthy
Lovers
send
:
May
Malice
,
Rage
,
and
Jealousie
invent
Daily
new
tortures
for
his
punishment
.
May
he
lie
languishing
,
and
ever
mourn
At
Beauties
feet
,
for
nothing
,
but
its
scorn
.
May
nothing
,
but
deluding
hopes
controul
His
best
designs
,
and
tantalize
his
Soul
:
And
to
complete
all
his
misfortunes
,
may
All
Objects
,
which
his
smooth-tongu'd
baits
betray
,
Knowing
their
error
,
breake
th'
enslaving
chain
,
And
nothing
ever
from
this
hour
retain
For
the
Ingrate
,
but
horror
and
disdain
.
It
is
not
without
cause
,
said
I
,
when
Tullia
had
finish'd
the
reading
the
Verses
,
that
Love
is
so
much
enrag'd
against
that
Lover
,
since
he
appears
to
be
guilty
of
so
many
enormous
crimes
.
Those
,
reply'd
Ovid
,
briskly
intertupting
me
,
who
impose
this
Rage
upon
Love
,
are
so
little
capable
of
understanding
him
,
that
none
ought
to
judge
of
his
opinion
upon
their
inconsiderable
testimonies
.
They
were
without
doubt
in
an
elevated
vein
,
when
they
belched
forth
this
Satyr
,
which
is
the
froth
rather
of
the
giddy
fumes
of
a
stumm'd
bottle
,
than
a
just
reproach
to
Love.
I
know
not
what
the
persons
are
,
you
speak
of
,
said
I
,
without
seeming
at
all
to
be
mov'd
,
but
methinks
they
have
delineated
so
lively
a
draught
of
ingratitude
,
that
they
cannot
be
ignorant
of
the
opposite
virtue
,
that
they
have
Souls
capable
of
noble
passions
;
and
that
if
they
have
found
so
ingenious
a
way
to
divert
a
Mistriss
,
and
destroy
a
Rival
,
the
froth
of
the
bottle
,
which
has
inspir'd
this
Art
into
them
,
seems
to
me
to
deserve
a
place
amongst
the
most
politick
stratagems
of
Love.
To
divert
a
Mistriss
,
and
destroy
a
Rival
?
said
Ovid
,
Heavens
!
Can
that
sort
of
People
aspire
to
so
vain-glorious
a
conceit
?
Do
they
not
understand
,
that
living
only
for
themselves
,
Women
know
not
whether
there
are
any
such
Animals
in
the
World
or
no
:
That
they
regard
their
pretensions
to
Gallantry
,
but
like
vanishing
Dreams
hatch'd
in
the
capricio
of
an
elevated
brain
;
and
that
a
tender
Lover
,
would
think
he
could
not
injure
his
Mistriss
more
,
than
to
suspect
,
she
could
have
the
least
complaisance
for
a
person
of
that
stamp
.
Be
he
of
that
stamp
,
or
any
other
,
said
Tullia
interrupting
him
,
I
agree
with
you
,
that
a
Lady
,
who
has
a
pre-engagement
upon
her
,
will
not
easily
yield
a
complaisance
to
a
new
Amour
;
but
if
I
had
a
Lover
,
I
should
not
love
to
see
him
so
much
an
Opiniator
,
as
to
think
,
nothing
else
could
please
me
:
I
would
have
him
suspicious
of
every
thing
,
be
jealous
of
the
ingenuity
of
these
Verses
,
apprehensive
of
some
secret
design
in
them
,
and
in
fine
create
to
himself
a
thousand
little
cares
and
dangers
upon
Subjects
of
the
least
moment
or
probability
.
No
Man
upon
earth
,
Madam
,
reply'd
Ovid
,
comprehends
the
use
and
force
of
the
cares
and
inquietudes
you
mention
,
better
than
my self
.
But
a
Lover
,
Madam
,
becomes
oftentimes
more
criminal
,
in
applying
them
ill
,
than
in
not
resenting
them
at
all
.
We
ought
to
understand
the
temper
of
the
heart
,
we
endeavor
to
charm
;
and
if
it
be
true
,
that
Love
derives
its
generous
birth
from
the
sympathy
of
Souls
,
the
Person
I
suspect
to
be
the
Author
of
those
Verses
,
I
shall
never
triumph
over
a
passionate
and
sensible
Lover
.
I
could
then
neither
refute
this
Prophecy
,
nor
comprehend
what
Tullia
thought
of
it
;
two
or
three
of
the
Ladies
,
who
were
cited
in
the
Verses
,
came
to
give
Tullia
a
visit
,
who
made
an
earnest
sign
to
us
,
not
to
mention
a
word
of
the
premises
before
them
.
But
the
day
after
,
my
little
Intelligencer
came
and
brought
me
a
Letter
,
which
she
had
gain'd
by
surprize
from
a
young
Grecian
,
who
serv'd
Tullia
,
and
by
whom
she
sent
it
to
Ovid
;
I
open'd
it
,
and
read
the
following
Contents
.
I
begin
now
to
be
inroll'd
in
the
number
of
your
Cast
Mistrisses
,
your
inconstancy
makes
those
ordinary
toures
;
and
you
cannot
longer
love
me
,
since
Horace
cannot
make
you
jealous
.
My
Women
inform'd
you
,
that
he
was
two
hours
alone
in
my
Chamber
during
my
absence
;
and
you
ought
to
have
suspected
,
that
he
employ'd
them
in
changing
your
Verses
;
and
so
apparent
a
design
to
undermine
you
in
your
negligent
security
you
regard
only
as
a
Poetical
vanity
.
Was
it
your
part
to
make
so
weak
a
remark
?
and
are
you
not
asham'd
to
be
fool'd
into
so
easie
a
persuasion
of
that
,
which
it
is
mine
,
to
employ
a
thousand
cares
and
stratagems
to
beget
in
you
?
I
thought
it
not
expedient
to
allow
Tullia
the
leisure
of
making
in
Person
these
Reproaches
to
my
Rival
;
I
was
doubtful
of
the
success
.
Whereupon
I
beg'd
the
favor
of
Cepion
,
who
was
our
common
Friend
,
but
much
more
mine
,
than
Ovids
,
to
take
him
along
with
him
to
Domitius's
house
,
where
he
had
design'd
a
Treat
both
of
Munificence
and
Pleasure
to
entertain
his
Friends
:
and
at
this
time
,
Tullia
leaving
Rome
to
spend
some
dayes
at
this
Villa
where
now
we
are
,
I
seconded
the
resentments
which
she
had
already
conceiv'd
against
him
,
with
a
declaration
of
my
own
Passion
for
her
.
I
had
by
a
small
gift
or
two
above
a
month
before
,
engag'd
the
Artificer
to
me
,
that
made
her
Chariots
;
and
I
had
experience
of
his
Fidelity
not
long
after
;
for
,
by
design
,
her
Chariot
broke
at
the
entrance
into
the
Wood
,
which
lies
upon
the
right
hand
,
as
you
come
hither
.
I
had
caus'd
a
commodious
Tent
to
be
pitcht
in
that
Wood
,
and
prepar'd
a
Treat
in
readiness
not
improper
for
the
occasion
,
which
was
attended
with
a
Set
of
choice
Musick
;
and
all
things
falling
out
as
successfully
as
I
could
desire
,
I
was
there
at
hand
to
help
Tullia
out
of
the
perplexity
she
was
embroil'd
in
.
She
was
surpriz'd
to
meet
on
the
Road
with
so
unexpected
an
assistance
.
I
told
her
,
this
was
a
preparation
for
one
of
those
pleasant
Debauches
,
which
Ovid
so
often
upbraided
me
with
,
that
I
waited
for
some
of
my
Friends
,
with
whom
I
had
design'd
to
recreate
my self
that
day
;
but
that
I
was
highly
oblig'd
to
them
for
their
negligence
,
since
the
Gods
had
sent
me
now
much
more
agreeable
company
to
supply
their
places
;
and
just
as
I
utter'd
these
last
words
,
the
Collation
was
serv'd
in
.
Tullia
commended
the
elegancy
of
it
,
and
told
me
,
that
if
we
made
no
other
Debauches
than
those
,
Ladies
might
be
proud
to
participate
of
them
;
we
pretend
,
Madam
,
said
I
,
so
much
to
the
honor
of
their
companies
at
them
,
that
they
can
afford
us
no
real
satisfaction
,
or
gust
,
without
them
.
But
Ovid
is
an
Heretick
in
our
Mysteries
,
who
never
understood
them
in
their
purity
.
I
have
an
ambition
to
present
you
with
a
true
draught
of
them
,
which
you
will
find
far
different
from
that
you
have
already
receiv'd
from
him
.
I
gave
a
sign
to
the
Musick
to
strike
up
;
which
they
obey'd
by
an
harmonious
,
yet
brisk
preludium
,
that
much
reviv'd
the
spirits
of
Tullia
,
after
her
little
disaster
upon
the
Road
,
and
was
followed
with
a
Consort
of
divers
voices
,
which
sung
these
Verses
:
A
train
of
Servants
trouble
does
create
,
Who
with
their
eyes
devour
us
,
and
our
meat
,
Staring
upon
us
like
starv'd
Harpy-Elves
;
Be
gone
,
and
let
us
eat
our
meat
our selves
.
What
?
think
ye
,
cannot
we
without
a
Spie
Vpon
us
,
eat
,
or
drink
?
Avant
,
for
I
Love
Secrecy
as
much
at
bords
,
as
beds
;
Bacchus
,
as
well
as
Love
,
makes
jealous
heads
.
My
Servants
were
order'd
before
to
retire
upon
this
Sign
,
and
the
Musick
went
on
:
Oh!
how
their
absence
,
does
our
hearts
revive
!
Their
greedy
eyes
,
which
look'd
,
as
they'rd
etrieve
Each
bit
we
eat
,
devour'd
us
up
alive
.
Let
's
speak
,
we
are
alone
,
let
's
freely
vent
Our
thoughts
,
our
secret
Love
,
or
Discontent
,
And
banish
Fear
;
for
Bacchus
must
excuse
All
those
,
who
frolick
at
his
Rendevouz
.
Tullia
seem'd
to
be
a
little
startled
,
when
she
saw
all
my
Servants
withdraw
,
and
the
sense
of
the
last
two
couplets
confirming
her
surprize
;
Oh!
cry'd
she
out
,
I
have
now
a
clear
prospect
of
your
intentions
;
the
hazard
I
now
run
of
my
reputation
,
and
the
breaking
of
my
chariot
,
are
too
much
to
be
suspected
,
not
to
give
me
a
just
apprehension
of
some
design
.
Oh!
Madam
,
suspected
of
what
?
said
I
,
of
an
innocent
design
,
of
making
you
a
passionate
declaration
of
Love
:
Is
this
an
attempt
,
which
you
ought
to
have
a
fearful
apprehension
of
?
You
abuse
the
confidence
,
Horace
,
said
Tullia
,
I
was
willing
to
repose
in
your
Generosity
;
and
had
not
I
ingeniously
suffer'd
my self
to
be
deceiv'd
,
when
I
was
brought
hither
,
you
had
not
had
now
the
opportunity
of
making
Discourses
to
me
,
so
void
of
discretion
,
or
sincerity
.
Madam
,
I
call
the
Gods
to
witness
,
said
I
,
I
never
made
any
in
my
life
,
so
full
of
ingenuity
and
candor
;
and
if
you
vouchsafe
not
to
understand
them
so
,
you
will
do
their
Author
a
great
injustice
,
who
loves
you
more
,
than
ever
any
person
yet
could
pretend
to
love
you
.
Neither
the
Corrivalship
of
so
fam'd
an
Opposite
,
as
Ovid
,
nor
the
Prerogative
he
may
plead
to
Antiquity
,
have
power
to
discourage
me
in
so
glorious
an
attempt
.
It
is
a
whole
Month
,
since
I
have
snatch'd
at
all
opportunities
of
opening
this
presumptuous
Declaration
at
your
feet
;
but
the
assiduity
of
my
Rival
has
always
countermined
mine
:
till
now
Fortune
has
at
last
be-friended
my
languishing
impatience
,
with
this
blest
one
out
of
his
presence
.
Receive
then
the
humble
Petition
of
my
Love
,
without
rigor
,
or
disdain
;
my
Rival
only
comes
to
make
repetitions
with
you
,
of
what
he
has
preach'd
in
the
Closets
of
all
the
Ladies
of
Rome
.
His
method
of
making
Love
can
pretend
now
no
longer
to
the
charms
of
a
surprize
,
or
the
glory
of
a
first
offering
,
which
are
advantages
mine
comes
attended
with
into
your
service
;
and
though
you
had
no
other
design
in
allowing
it
a
small
apartment
in
some
bie-corner
of
your
heart
,
than
presenting
an
Associate
,
to
Love
,
of
my
qualifications
,
he
has
presented
you
with
Graces
enough
,
to
merit
from
you
so
generous
an
acknowledgment
.
Just
as
I
had
ended
my
Discourse
,
Ovid
surpriz'd
us
with
his
unexpected
arrival
,
who
having
met
(
as
he
was
coming
from
Domitius's
)
Tullia's
Coachman
,
who
was
return'd
to
Rome
to
provide
another
Carriage
(
for
that
which
was
broken
)
for
his
Coach
,
was
inform'd
by
him
of
the
accident
which
had
happen'd
to
his
Mistriss
,
and
he
was
now
come
to
compliment
her
escape
.
The
circumstances
he
found
her
in
,
could
not
choose
but
give
him
an
unkind
welcome
.
The
Pavilion
,
under
which
we
were
,
seem'd
to
be
imboss'd
all
over
with
the
embroidery
of
divers-colour'd
flowers
;
which
joining
their
natural
Perfumes
with
many
other
rich
essences
,
wherewith
divers
curious
Jarrs
and
Caskets
were
fill'd
,
and
plac'd
in
odoriferous
ranks
about
it
,
seem'd
to
render
it
an
Elizium
,
almost
equal
to
that
he
had
in
his
own
Wo●ks
prepar'd
for
happy
Lovers
.
The
Musick
was
some
of
the
choicest
,
that
belong'd
to
the
Emperor
;
and
the
relicks
of
our
Collation
declar'd
,
that
without
vanity
it
might
pretend
both
to
Magnificence
and
Curiosity
.
But
Ovid
,
who
was
not
accustom'd
to
lose
the
possession
of
a
heart
,
wherein
he
once
had
gain'd
an
interest
,
imagin'd
that
the
passion
he
had
for
Tullia
,
was
a
sufficient
security
to
assure
him
of
the
right
he
claim'd
in
hers
:
And
when
he
understood
she
had
receiv'd
no
hurt
by
the
accident
of
her
Chariot
,
he
seem'd
to
have
no
more
concern
for
any
thing
else
,
than
when
he
us'd
to
find
her
alone
in
her
Chamber
:
I
was
not
wanting
to
make
Tullia
sensible
of
this
coldness
and
insensibility
of
his
;
you
see
,
Madam
,
said
I
softly
in
her
ear
,
that
the
Protestations
of
Love
,
which
are
render'd
you
at
a
Debauch
,
are
more
sincere
than
those
you
are
wont
ro
receive
in
your
private
Closet
;
your
Chariot
broke
by
an
accident
,
which
only
expos'd
you
to
the
hazard
of
honouring
this
place
a
few
hours
with
your
glorious
presence
;
and
the
Gods
,
by
a
special
Providence
,
design'd
me
for
your
assistance
.
Ovid
has
surpriz'd
us
together
,
and
is
not
jealous
;
but
I
,
Madam
,
I
am
of
his
shadow
only
;
and
would
willingly
purchase
at
the
too
inconsiderable
value
of
all
that
I
am
worth
,
the
felicity
of
entertaining
you
one
moment
longer
without
such
envious
witnesses
.
Be
you
then
,
Madam
,
an
impartial
Judge
,
and
declare
,
which
in
your
opinion
,
merits
the
character
of
the
most
sincere
and
the
most
passionate
Lover
.
This
discourse
exasperated
the
thoughts
of
Tullia
,
which
were
already
dispos'd
to
harbor
a
prejudice
against
Ovid
,
who
had
return'd
no
answer
to
her
last
Letter
;
and
as
she
was
ignorant
of
the
cause
,
she
imputed
that
to
him
as
a
crime
,
which
was
only
an
artifice
of
my
Love.
She
beg●n
to
railly
upon
him
after
a
manner
,
which
could
not
choose
but
trouble
him
,
and
I
perceiv'd
at
that
instant
he
was
scarce
able
to
digest
it
with
patience
.
But
he
has
since
told
Cepion
(
who
related
it
to
me
again
)
that
he
conquer'd
that
impulse
of
his
disdain
,
as
a
frensie
,
which
he
thought
would
call
his
reason
in
question
,
to
have
shewn
himself
capable
of
it
.
How
?
said
he
to
my
Friend
,
could
I
imagine
that
a
Soul
,
who
had
been
train'd
up
by
my
Maxims
to
the
Mysteries
of
Love
,
should
be
debauch'd
by
Horace
?
The
Gods
seem'd
never
to
suffer
me
to
awake
in
a
Morning
,
but
to
recount
to
my
Mistriss
the
dreams
they
inspir'd
into
my
fancy
at
Night
,
she
finds
that
the
devotion
I
have
for
her
,
causes
me
to
pay
a
daily
one
to
the
temple
she
frequents
.
She
neither
makes
a
visit
,
nor
takes
walk
,
whereat
my
diligent
observance
does
not
attend
her
.
My
regards
,
my
discourses
,
the
happy
raptures
of
my
Muse
,
all
offer
sacrifice
to
my
Love
;
I
neither
think
,
nor
act
,
but
to
improve
its
interest
with
her
.
Horace
is
a
Libertine
,
whose
whole
life
,
like
a
Comical
Representation
,
is
divided
only
into
divers
Scenes
,
of
Play
,
Banquets
,
Revels
,
Publick
Spectacles
,
and
other
leud
diversions
.
What
leisure
could
he
find
to
cultivate
a
Love-intrigue
?
or
what
frensie
or
capricio
could
invade
Tullia
,
to
prefer
such
a
Rival
before
me
?
This
capricio
,
if
it
might
be
call'd
one
,
deriv'd
its
birth
from
the
converse
of
that
day
,
I
now
mention
.
Tullia
has
told
me
since
,
that
she
found
the
declaration
of
my
Love
very
singular
;
which
I
found
means
afterwards
likewise
to
illustrate
,
with
two
or
three
Gallantries
more
,
as
unexpected
,
as
the
Treat
in
the
Wood.
We
accompanied
Tullia
home
to
this
Villa
;
for
I
understood
,
that
her
Chariot
would
return
so
late
from
home
,
that
such
a
Convoy
would
not
be
unwelcome
to
her
.
At
a
convenient
place
upon
the
Road
,
she
was
encounter'd
with
a
Troop
of
counterfeit
Shepherds
and
Shepherdesses
,
with
the
sound
of
divers
Countrey
Instruments
,
with
a
kind
of
rustick
triumph
,
conducted
her
home
to
her
house
;
and
some
of
them
disguiz'd
like
Gypsies
,
danc'd
before
her
after
the
Gypsie-manner
;
and
these
divertisements
employing
her
time
before
Supper
,
a
Set
of
Comedians
,
who
pretended
they
had
lost
their
way
,
and
beg'd
entertainment
there
that
night
,
took
up
most
part
of
it
,
in
representing
the
furies
of
Ajax
.
I
counterfeited
the
ignorant
,
and
made
protestations
that
I
was
surpriz'd
at
these
comick
Novelties
;
but
this
was
too
course
a
spun
web
,
to
delude
a
judgment
of
Ovids
perspicacity
.
He
rag'd
,
he
reproach'd
Tullia
,
and
interpreting
her
denial
of
having
given
the
least
consent
,
or
encouragement
to
these
rustical
diversions
a
criminal
dissimulation
,
he
was
almost
arriv'd
to
that
point
of
jealousie
,
as
Tullia's
wishes
could
have
exacted
from
him
;
but
as
her
innocence
was
wholly
unworthy
of
his
accusations
,
and
he
thought
he
discover'd
the
real
marks
of
it
in
the
motions
of
her
countenance
,
he
relaps'd
into
his
old
Lethargy
,
of
a
calm
security
and
repose
.
We
return'd
both
together
to
Rome
,
where
some
commands
of
Mecoenas
detain'd
him
much
against
his
will
,
at
the
time
of
Tullia's
sojourn
in
the
Countrey
.
My
diligence
was
not
wanting
to
give
that
the
colour
of
a
negligence
,
which
I
knew
to
be
a
bare
necessity
;
and
redoubling
my
bounty
and
instructions
to
the
Slave
I
had
gain'd
to
my
devotion
,
I
played
my
game
so
well
,
that
Ovid
had
no
opportunity
of
justifying
his
long
absence
,
nor
Tullia
of
receiving
any
Letter
from
him
;
but
was
absolutely
convinc'd
,
that
he
was
the
most
cold
and
tepid
Lover
in
the
world
.
As
this
error
and
remissness
of
Ovid's
Love
gain'd
strength
daily
in
the
imagination
of
Tullia
to
his
prejudice
,
I
endeavor'd
as
firmly
to
fix
in
it
an
opposite
character
of
my
own
.
There
did
not
a
day
pass
,
during
her
absence
from
Rome
,
wherein
I
did
not
regale
her
with
some
novel
diversion
,
or
other
.
I
found
out
a
young
Grecian
,
who
had
a
most
excellent
voice
and
method
in
singing
,
and
I
presented
her
to
her
.
I
understood
she
had
design'd
a
day
of
hunting
with
two
or
three
Ladies
more
her
Neighbours
,
I
met
them
,
as
by
accident
,
at
their
Rendevouz
,
with
a
Pack
of
Hounds
,
whose
beauty
and
harmony
far
excell'd
any
they
had
with
them
;
and
having
entertain'd
them
with
that
sport
,
in
a
greater
perfection
than
they
expected
,
I
gave
them
a
noble
Treat
,
to
refresh
the
pleasant
toils
they
had
undergone
in
the
pursuit
of
it
.
These
obliging
Services
,
my
Letters
,
my
discourses
,
and
the
resentments
of
Tullia
,
which
neither
the
presence
,
nor
diligence
of
Ovid
endeavor'd
to
qualifie
,
wrought
the
effect
I
desir'd
.
In
fine
,
my
Lord
,
my
suit
was
not
displeasing
to
her
;
and
the
first
alarum
Ovid
took
of
it
,
was
from
two
or
three
Strophes
,
I
had
compos'd
in
the
transports
of
a
little
debauch
,
which
Tullia
was
pleas'd
to
honor
with
her
presence
.
I
shall
repeat
them
to
you
,
and
you
shall
judge
whither
he
had
not
some
cause
to
be
disturb'd
.
Inchanting
Circe
,
Bacchus's
Queen
divine
,
In
whose
fair
hand
a
sparkling
glass
of
Wine
Such
charms
creates
,
as
ravish
with
delight
The
glutted
sence
of
humane
appetite
.
What
a
rich
tincture
(
that
does
far
outvie
The
Ostrean
purple
,
or
the
Tyrian
die
)
The
juyce
of
the
Falernian
Grape
does
fix
Vpon
the
lustre
of
those
glorious
cheeks
!
Oh!
how
those
Eyes
out-sparkle
that
?
And
dart
Two
flaming
Globes
into
my
scorch'd-up
heart
!
And
teach
us
too
that
Bacchus
has
his
Charms
,
As
well
as
Love
;
and
does
with
pow'rful
Arms
In
his
Debauches
,
frolick
Beauty
store
,
To
conquer
what
,
it
but
attack'd
before
.
I
could
wish
,
my
Lord
,
you
had
been
an
eye-witness
of
the
astonishment
of
Ovid
,
when
by
the
indiscretion
of
one
of
my
Guests
,
he
arriv'd
to
the
knowledge
of
these
Verses
,
and
that
Tullia
was
the
Subject
of
them
.
He
went
immediately
to
give
her
a
visit
,
and
being
neither
able
to
give
credit
to
the
report
of
his
own
senses
,
nor
even
the
testimony
it self
of
our
Mistriss
;
How
,
Madam
?
said
he
to
her
,
Is
Tullia
the
Object
of
Horaces
intoxicated
fancies
?
Did
she
command
him
to
write
Madrigalls
for
her
?
Was
she
sent
,
at
the
Bacchanalian
Ceremony
,
when
his
Good-fellow
Muse
was
dub'd
her
Laureate
?
In
a
word
,
Does
she
love
Horace
?
What
Mystery
have
you
discover'd
in
this
adventure
,
so
worthy
your
admiration
,
reply'd
Tullia
?
Have
not
the
Gods
been
prodigal
enough
of
their
bounties
towards
Horace
,
to
render
him
an
Object
amiable
in
the
eye
of
our
Sex
?
And
am
I
the
first
of
Women
,
whom
his
charms
have
surpriz'd
?
But
,
Madam
,
reply'd
my
Rival
,
I
have
long
lov'd
the
adorable
Tullia
,
and
you
have
given
me
leave
to
believe
,
that
I
was
not
hated
of
her
:
But
,
said
Tullia
,
you
neither
exprest
a
concern
,
nor
jealousie
towards
your
Rival
;
and
Love
cannot
lodge
in
a
breast
,
out
of
which
those
two
sensible
Guests
are
banish'd
.
Ah!
Madam
,
exclaim'd
that
afflicted
Lover
,
if
that
were
the
only
reason
you
could
alledge
for
a
ground
of
this
extravagant
severity
,
it
would
have
long
since
vented
it self
in
a
thousand
reproaches
,
and
so
ill-humor'd
a
converse
have
had
its
abortive
birth
long
before
this
unhappy
Minute
:
But
you
never
lov'd
me
,
a
real
Love
does
never
terminate
in
so
excentrick
a
Point
;
no
,
no
,
you
are
not
unconstant
,
this
pretended
levity
,
is
only
the
vizard-mark
to
your
real
dissimulation
.
What
?
have
I
studied
hearts
so
long
,
to
be
ignorant
of
their
character
?
Can
a
Mistriss
,
like
a
Bird
out
of
its
Cage
,
flie
from
me
,
and
I
not
see
which
way
she
takes
her
flight
?
Love
,
ungrateful
Love
,
get
thee
another
Panegyrist
,
provide
thee
another
Historian
,
I
am
no
longer
able
to
trace
thee
through
thy
mysterious
Meanders
,
which
are
as
blind
as
thy self
;
or
,
I
should
more
properly
say
,
that
thy
chiefest
Mysteries
,
are
nothing
now
,
but
mystick
Chimera's
.
It
is
in
Horace's
power
to
leave
Ovid
destitute
of
a
Mistriss
;
thou
hast
no
longer
established
Laws
to
govern
by
,
since
Fortune
sits
at
the
Helm
,
and
steers
at
her
pleasure
the
Fate
of
Mortals
.
Agrippa
found
this
Exclamation
so
pleasant
,
that
he
was
forc'd
to
interrupt
Horace
with
a
loud
Fit
of
laughter
;
I
am
so
well
acquainted
,
said
he
,
with
Ovid's
transports
,
that
,
as
much
a
Friend
as
I
am
to
his
concerns
,
I
believe
,
as
you
say
,
his
affliction
would
have
prov'd
my
diversion
,
had
I
been
a
witness
to
it
.
It
is
not
possible
,
my
Lord
,
reply'd
Horace
,
to
represent
to
you
the
pleasant
extravagancy
of
it
.
He
thought
that
the
whole
Adventure
,
had
been
only
the
abortion
of
a
delusive
Dream
;
he
came
to
me
,
and
ask'd
me
seriously
,
if
it
were
true
,
that
Tullia
lov'd
me
;
and
whether
it
were
not
only
a
Project
to
render
me
more
obsequious
and
circumspect
for
the
future
;
but
when
,
by
the
air
of
my
countenance
,
and
the
cold
reception
he
found
from
her
,
he
was
convinc'd
,
that
I
had
usurp'd
the
Throne
,
he
had
been
so
long
in
possession
of
,
he
vented
his
rage
in
such
vollies
of
imprecations
,
as
better
deserv'd
to
be
inserted
in
his
Work
,
than
all
his
Elegies
.
Horace
could
no
longer
dilate
himself
on
the
circumstances
of
his
triumphs
;
for
one
of
Agrippa's
Servants
came
to
advertise
his
Lord
,
that
he
thought
the
Emperor
expected
his
attendance
.
They
found
him
with
the
Ladies
in
a
spacious
Meadow
,
whose
flowry
head
reposing
it self
betwixt
two
chrystal
Arms
of
Tyber
,
was
crown'd
with
a
rich
Ballister
of
white
Marble
.
The
Emperor
had
purposely
drawn
all
the
company
to
that
place
,
to
the
end
they
might
not
discover
,
that
which
was
preparing
to
entertain
them
in
another
;
and
having
detain'd
them
there
until
the
evening
,
he
on
a
sudden
surpriz'd
them
with
the
most
delightful
object
their
eyes
were
capable
of
.
All
Tullia's
house
seem'd
to
be
inclos'd
in
a
case
of
stars
,
compos'd
by
an
infinite
number
of
torches
,
which
cover'd
it
over
,
that
it
resembled
a
Flaming
Castle
,
rais'd
there
extempore
,
by
the
force
of
some
Magical
Enchantment
.
The
inter-spaces
betwixt
the
lights
were
form'd
with
red
canvas
,
stamp'd
with
divers
figures
,
which
by
the
reflexion
of
torches
plac'd
behind
it
,
represented
so
many
flaming
Prospects
.
The
Walk
of
the
Gardens
were
fill'd
with
Pyramids
,
and
Figures
,
rais'd
by
the
same
artifice
.
And
from
the
top
of
a
high
Turret
,
which
crown'd
the
House
,
at
a
certain
sign
the
Emperor
caus'd
to
be
given
,
a
thousand
hissing
Dragons
and
Serpents
took
their
flight
into
the
clouds
,
which
on
every
side
presented
,
to
the
astonish'd
eyes
of
the
Spectators
,
the
glorious
name
of
Terentia
in
characters
of
fire
and
flames
.
But
yet
this
Wonder
was
no
Miracle
.
The
power
of
Monarchs
,
as
great
as
it
is
,
must
subscribe
to
the
Laws
of
Impossibility
:
For
Caesar
had
only
apply'd
that
to
this
occasion
,
which
he
had
long
before
prepar'd
for
another
;
But
the
Mystery
being
unknown
to
the
Ladies
,
Oh!
Sir
,
cry'd
Terentia
,
the
Heavens
employ
themselves
on
all
occasions
to
work
Miracles
for
you
,
and
they
have
certainly
some
supernatural
design
in
this
they
here
represent
unto
us
.
It
is
rather
you
,
Madam
,
reply'd
the
amorous
Caesar
,
who
are
so
precious
to
the
care
of
the
Gods
,
as
being
the
greatest
Miracle
in
the
whole
Catalogue
of
their
Works
,
who
has
oblig'd
them
to
Present
us
with
this
Scene
of
Wonders
.
The
Gods
,
reply'd
Terentia
,
do
indeed
accumulate
with
their
favors
,
when
the
hands
of
the
mighty
Caesar
vouchsafe
to
distribute
them
to
me
.
These
discourses
,
or
the
like
,
having
entertain'd
them
,
till
they
came
to
a
large
Portal
,
which
conducted
them
into
a
fair
Hall
,
they
past
into
it
under
an
odoriferous
Arch
fram'd
with
the
beautifullest
Flowers
,
and
richest
Greens
the
Universe
could
afford
,
where
a
Table
attended
them
,
laden
with
the
variety
of
the
choicest
rarities
,
wherewith
nature
could
furnish
it
.
A
Ball
,
worthy
the
Magnificence
of
Caesar
,
concluded
this
Royal
Treat
,
perform'd
by
that
illustrious
Company
in
a
Room
wainscoted
all
round
with
Looking-glasses
of
the
purest
Chrystal
,
which
multiplying
the
Gallantry
of
so
many
noble
Objects
,
exhibited
divers
representations
of
that
,
which
at
that
time
was
singular
in
the
Universe
.
The
unexpected
Arrival
of
Aurora
,
who
,
ambitious
to
be
a
Spectatrix
of
so
glorious
a
Triumph
,
peep'd
in
upon
them
at
the
Window
,
prorogued
this
illustrious
Convention
:
Ten
or
twelve
light
Chariots
richly
gilt
and
figur'd
,
convey'd
them
back
to
Rome
;
Caesar
and
Terentia
mounted
one
:
The
Princess
and
Marcellus
,
by
his
command
,
were
plac'd
in
another
:
Tullia
,
(
who
would
wait
upon
her
noble
Guests
to
the
Gates
of
the
City
)
Fulvia
,
Varentilla
,
Agrippa
,
Horace
,
the
Princesses
Maids
of
Honor
,
and
the
Officers
of
Caesar's
Train
,
sorted
themselves
,
either
according
to
their
quality
or
inclination
,
whil'st
Virgil
alone
,
preferring
the
devoires
of
an
entire
friendship
,
before
all
the
triumphs
and
delights
Tullia's
house
could
satiate
him
with
,
follow'd
Cornelius
to
Tusculum
,
whither
the
presence
of
Caesar
had
oblig'd
him
to
retire
.
He
was
fallen
into
disgrace
with
Caesar
,
and
had
receiv'd
a
command
from
him
,
to
absent
himself
from
his
presence
for
ever
.
He
went
to
Rome
to
make
an
humble
Address
,
and
was
desirous
to
interest
Terentia
in
his
Suit
:
And
to
confer
with
her
,
he
had
follow'd
her
to
Tullia's
Villa
;
but
the
Emperors
Arrival
had
prevented
his
design
;
and
oblig'd
him
,
as
I
said
before
,
to
retire
to
some
neighbouring
place
.
When
he
saw
Virgil
,
he
began
to
oppose
himself
,
as
earnestly
as
he
could
,
against
this
demonstration
of
his
generosity
and
friendship
.
Return
,
return
,
said
he
,
my
dear
Virgil
,
to
the
place
where
I
thought
I
had
left
you
;
and
affect
not
the
company
of
an
unfortunate
Wretch
,
whose
disgrace
may
prove
contagious
.
Sovereigns
love
to
see
the
Acts
of
their
Indignation
authoriz'd
by
the
Suffrages
of
Persons
of
Honesty
and
Honor
;
and
you
cast
a
reproach
upon
Caesar
,
when
you
conserve
a
kindness
for
a
Man
,
whom
his
displeasure
has
condemn'd
to
his
eternal
hatred
.
Virgil
is
not
a
person
so
considerable
in
the
Empire
,
reply'd
Virgil
,
as
to
deserve
to
have
Spies
to
attend
his
Actions
,
or
Excursions
.
The
Policy
,
you
speak
of
,
concerns
only
such
,
as
either
by
their
Birth
,
or
Employs
,
are
destin'd
to
stand
,
as
living
Examples
,
before
the
People
.
And
what
in
a
Person
of
that
Remark
and
Quality
would
be
held
for
a
necessary
Prudence
,
would
be
condemn'd
as
a
ridiculous
Vanity
in
one
of
mine
.
Your
Honor
is
dazled
by
your
Modesty
,
said
Cornelius
,
and
you
are
doubtless
more
considerable
in
the
Opinion
of
Caesar
,
than
your
own
.
The
Fame
of
a
Poet
is
oftentimes
as
necessary
to
signalize
the
glory
of
Heroes
,
as
their
own
virtue
;
And
those
,
who
now
admire
the
Valor
of
Achilles
,
had
perhaps
never
heard
of
his
Name
,
had
not
the
Pen
of
Homer
eterniz'd
it
.
These
kind
of
Flatteries
,
said
Virgil
,
intoxicates
the
Reason
,
and
by
asses
the
Pens
of
the
greatest
part
of
Authors
;
who
fansie
themselves
to
be
the
Authors
indeed
of
the
Fate
and
Destiny
of
Heroes
and
Princes
,
and
murmur
against
the
small
regard
the
World
has
of
their
Merits
,
as
a
most
criminal
Injustice
.
But
to
frame
a
right
judgment
of
things
,
what
do
we
serve
for
?
In
what
are
Princes
oblig'd
to
us
?
There
was
never
yet
a
Poet
so
audacious
,
as
to
arraign
the
Vices
of
his
Prince
living
,
and
with
his
Scepter
in
his
hand
,
at
the
Bar
of
Parnassus
;
and
the
justest
Praises
he
bestows
upon
him
,
are
suspected
of
flattery
and
vain-glory
.
The
contempt
,
or
approbation
of
great
Ones
,
does
either
depress
,
or
elevate
our
works
;
and
we
sing
in
vain
their
glorious
Gests
,
if
the
Publick
Memoires
give
us
the
Lye.
These
considerations
alone
,
ought
in
my
judgment
,
to
degrade
a
flattering
Scribler
of
all
Favor
with
his
Prince
,
who
may
acquire
more
true
glory
,
than
his
purest
Ink
can
fix
upon
him
,
by
rewarding
him
for
those
good
intentions
he
stands
in
no
need
of
.
I
would
have
a
Person
of
Integrity
be
just
to
himself
in
the
first
place
,
give
each
action
its
due
character
,
and
without
shaping
one
,
as
much
for
his
own
advantage
,
as
his
Princes
,
consider
,
that
he
stands
accountable
for
the
Power
,
the
Gods
have
invested
him
with
,
to
none
but
themselves
,
from
the
first
Minute
they
rank'd
him
amongst
Crowned
Heads
.
Would
it
had
pleased
Heaven
,
cry'd
Cornelius
,
to
have
imprinted
this
Maxim
in
my
Soul
!
I
had
then
still
been
in
possession
of
my
Emperors
good
grace
,
and
the
Government
he
honor'd
me
with
.
But
the
lustre
of
my
place
,
from
whence
I
stood
towring
over
the
heads
of
other
Mortals
,
did
so
dazle
the
eyes
of
my
understanding
,
that
I
could
not
discern
the
track
,
by
which
I
climb'd
the
dangerous
Precipice
:
and
without
considering
,
that
not
like
the
Sun
,
I
was
my self
the
Author
of
those
Rayes
,
which
my
Greatness
darted
from
its
glorious
Orb
,
it
appear'd
so
boundless
to
me
,
that
I
persuaded
my self
it
was
absolute
and
independent
.
And
whil'st
a
just
apprehension
contain'd
me
within
the
limits
of
my
duty
,
I
set
such
a
value
upon
my
services
,
and
esteem'd
them
so
important
,
that
I
fancy'd
they
might
challenge
that
injustice
for
their
reward
,
which
was
the
sole
effect
of
Caesar's
bounty
.
But
,
said
Virgil
,
interrupting
him
,
what
caus'd
you
to
commit
so
grand
an
oversight
?
The
Emperor
has
alwayes
testify'd
so
great
a
kindness
for
you
,
that
though
the
Gods
had
not
destin'd
him
both
for
yours
,
and
the
Worlds
Master
,
a
Maxim
of
pure
gratitude
only
ought
to
have
fix'd
all
your
endeavors
to
his
service
.
THE
HISTORY
OF
CORNELIVS
GALLVS
.
LOVE
,
my
dear
Virgil
,
reply'd
Cornelius
,
is
a
weakness
,
which
has
always
triumpht
over
the
strongest
resolutions
of
the
greatest
Heroes
:
That
alone
has
been
the
Author
of
my
Crime
;
and
from
what
alone
I
hope
a
pardon
.
You
have
heard
me
discourse
formerly
of
a
fair
Slave
,
which
belonged
to
the
Philosopher
Volumnius
,
and
was
made
free
by
him
,
named
Cytheris
,
whom
you
celebrated
,
in
one
of
your
Ecclogues
,
under
the
name
of
Licoris
;
and
who
,
I
told
you
,
accompanied
Mark
Antony
,
when
the
Male-content
took
his
last
farewel
of
Rome
.
I
have
often
since
declar'd
to
you
,
with
what
an
incredible
grief
I
entertain'n
the
news
of
her
flight
;
and
you
your self
were
so
sensibly
toucht
therewith
,
that
in
one
of
your
Poems
,
you
made
your
Muse
the
chief
Mourner
of
the
dolorous
obsequies
of
my
Love
;
which
ought
not
in
justice
to
have
been
so
effeminate
,
since
I
was
only
depriv'd
of
the
sight
of
an
Object
,
which
I
could
not
choose
,
but
adore
;
for
as
to
a
passion
,
or
inclination
towards
any
other
person
,
she
was
wholly
incapable
of
it
;
and
her
Soul
was
as
insensible
of
the
Flames
of
Antony
,
as
of
mine
.
But
yet
my
jealousie
could
not
be
convinc'd
of
the
contrary
;
and
the
scorn
and
indignation
,
I
conceiv'd
at
the
thoughts
of
anothers
being
preferr'd
before
me
,
join'd
to
the
busie
Employs
of
the
charge
Caesar
had
conferred
upon
me
,
in
a
short
time
banisht
the
Idea
of
Cytheris
so
perfectly
out
of
my
breast
,
that
methought
no
part
of
it
lurkt
behind
to
keep
an
unquiet
possession
.
She
was
now
longer
the
grief
of
my
eyes
,
or
of
my
thoughts
.
I
eagerly
followed
my
Sports
and
Recreations
,
and
without
distraction
,
dedicated
my self
to
the
employs
of
my
Charge
.
Which
one
day
oblig'd
me
to
assist
in
person
at
a
Survey
,
which
was
taken
along
the
Nilus
,
for
the
the
facilitating
the
famous
inundation
of
its
fertile
Streams
:
when
one
of
my
people
came
to
me
,
and
told
me
,
that
in
one
of
the
inhabitable
Islands
,
with
which
that
River
is
chequer'd
all
over
,
was
heard
the
accent
of
an
human
Voice
;
and
askt
me
if
it
were
my
pleasure
,
that
some
one
or
other
,
should
go
and
inform
himself
of
the
truth
of
it
.
The
person
that
brought
me
this
intelligence
,
wanted
not
ability
for
a
more
important
employ
;
but
a
secret
curiosity
,
the
cause
whereof
I
was
ignorant
of
,
possest
me
with
a
desire
,
to
go
and
make
it
my self
.
I
took
a
Bark
,
and
boarded
the
Island
;
when
I
was
strangely
surpriz'd
,
for
the
first
Object
my
eyes
were
fixt
on
,
was
to
encounter
that
same
Cytheris
,
for
whom
I
had
had
so
ardent
and
so
ineffectual
a
Passion
.
She
was
a
little
impair'd
in
her
Beauty
;
and
five
or
six
years
space
,
wherein
I
had
not
seen
here
,
is
able
to
change
the
air
of
any
countenance
;
but
my
Heart
,
through
my
eclips'd
Eyes
,
discover'd
her
.
A
sudden
transport
of
joy
and
fear
,
which
at
the
same
moment
invaded
my
Soul
,
suggested
to
me
,
that
it
was
Cytheris
,
whom
I
beheld
.
What
new
Theseus
?
cry'd
I
out
,
or
rather
what
inhuman
Tyger
,
has
abandon'd
you
in
this
inhospitable
Desart
?
Durst
Mark
Antony
commit
so
barbarous
a
Crime
?
Or
Cleopatra
so
imperious
a
cruelty
,
as
to
lay
such
commands
upon
her
effeminate
Paramour
.
And
could
the
tame
Gods
hold
their
revengeful
Thunder
in
their
hands
,
and
behold
the
Sacriledge
?
Mark
Antony
,
reply'd
Cytheris
,
interrupting
me
with
a
fair
look
,
has
not
been
the
Arbiter
of
my
destiny
;
I
effected
it
my self
,
and
shall
pursue
it
to
the
uttermost
period
of
my
life
.
Ah!
Cytheris
,
said
I
,
ingratude
never
merited
before
such
glorious
expressions
.
It
was
enough
for
you
to
play
the
cruel
thief
,
to
rob
me
of
my
Heart
,
and
carry
it
in
triumph
after
that
Ingrate
,
without
interdicting
me
the
just
liberty
of
reproaching
his
infidelity
.
Yqu
never
had
a
perfect
knowledge
of
me
,
reply'd
Cytheris
coldly
;
and
your
suspitions
now
are
as
imperfect
,
as
that
was
before
.
I
did
not
follow
Mark
Antony
;
he
did
not
abandon
me
;
and
if
I
had
been
capable
of
such
a
weakness
for
one
of
the
two
,
perhaps
I
should
not
have
manifested
it
in
his
favor
:
But
a
certain
repugnance
,
which
at
first
seem'd
to
have
no
real
foundation
,
and
which
since
I
have
discover'd
too
just
grounds
for
,
caus'd
me
to
regard
the
prosecution
of
your
Amour
,
as
a
most
troublesome
persecution
.
It
was
that
I
fled
from
;
against
that
did
I
endeavor
to
find
a
Sanctuary
.
Come
,
my
Lord
,
Come
and
take
a
view
of
that
,
the
gods
have
here
assigned
me
,
and
suffer
me
quietly
to
enjoy
without
the
distra●…ion
,
or
turbulent
cares
of
the
restless
World
;
which
consideration
may
perhaps
convince
you
,
that
the
love
of
Wisdom
is
the
sole
Passion
my
Soul
has
been
sensible
of
.
As
she
uttered
these
last
words
,
she
conducted
me
by
a
little
path
,
to
the
most
pleasant
solitude
I
ever
beheld
.
The
Trees
of
one
continued
Wood
,
which
extending
their
spacious
Arms
to
each
other
,
like
one
large
Umbrella
,
cover
over
the
surface
of
the
whole
Island
,
seem
on
purpose
to
open
them
in
in
this
place
,
to
frame
a
delightful
Walk
for
Natures
diversion
;
which
declining
by
an
insensible
descent
,
invites
you
into
a
pleasant
Meadow
,
equally
divided
in
the
middle
by
the
rapid
streams
of
a
Christal
Torrent
.
Flora
,
which
seem'd
to
have
chosen
it
for
her
rustick
Nursery
,
had
enamell'd
it
all
over
with
a
sort
of
wild
,
yet
beautiful
Flowers
,
not
common
in
those
parts
of
Egypt
;
and
the
industry
of
a
certain
old
Man
,
who
with
Cytheris
,
and
one
person
more
,
were
both
the
Subjects
,
and
Sovereign
of
this
charming
Desart
,
had
furnish'd
it
with
all
necessaries
for
the
support
of
human
life
.
There
were
two
or
three
Cabins
,
which
seeming
to
be
built
,
more
by
advice
of
Nature
than
Art
,
with
green
Boughs
and
Branches
,
made
but
a
weak
resistance
against
the
inclemency
of
the
Air.
There
were
likewise
Beasts
both
wild
and
domestick
;
and
a
small
Tract
of
Land
,
which
cleansed
from
Weeds
,
and
other
trash
,
furnish'd
this
little
Family
with
Corn
,
and
all
other
Field
,
and
Garden
Provisions
.
I
fancied
my self
to
be
in
one
of
those
inchanted
places
,
describ'd
by
the
Poets
;
and
looking
sometimes
upon
Cytheris
,
and
then
upon
the
old
Man
(
who
taking
no
notice
of
me
,
follow'd
,
I
know
not
what
pudling
employment
he
was
then
about
)
I
began
to
rub
my
eyes
,
like
one
,
who
would
endeavor
to
clear
them
of
some
cloud
or
mist
,
that
was
before
them
.
You
seem
to
be
surpriz'd
,
my
Lord
,
said
Cytheris
,
observing
my
astonishment
,
to
see
that
a
treasure
as
this
,
lying
even
in
the
centre
of
your
Government
,
and
almost
at
the
Gates
of
Alexandria
,
should
escape
your
knowledge
;
To
enjoy
this
without
disturbance
or
contradiction
,
was
it
,
that
I
renounc'd
the
pompous
slavery
,
you
offer'd
me
at
Rome
,
and
not
to
follow
your
Rival
.
Here
neither
the
rise
nor
the
fall
of
Empires
,
creates
in
my
Soul
the
passions
of
joy
or
sadness
.
Here
my
liberty
is
neither
attackt
by
fortune
,
nor
love
,
and
I
breath
the
air
of
this
●nhospitable
Climate
,
perhaps
with
more
true
satisfaction
,
than
you
in
all
your
glory
,
do
that
of
Alexandria
.
Here
I
make
a
sweet
experiment
,
that
the
Gods
with
a
prodigal
hand
shower
down
all
those
blessings
upon
Man
,
that
may
render
him
happy
,
when
man
is
so
prudent
,
as
to
limit
his
desires
within
the
bounds
of
of
their
liberality
.
This
excellent
discourse
begat
in
me
such
transports
of
love
and
admiration
,
that
I
had
not
the
power
to
Master
them
.
I
gave
her
a
thousand
tender
embraces
within
my
incircling
Arms
;
And
oh
!
most
divine
Creature
,
said
I
,
worthy
the
adorations
of
the
whole
Universe
,
Come
and
restore
to
it
that
Miracle
,
this
solitude
has
unjustly
rob'd
it
of
.
You
merit
all
the
Empires
of
the
World
,
but
the
Emperor
,
who
has
the
power
to
Inthrone
you
in
them
,
wanting
the
perfect
knowledge
of
that
Virtue
,
which
may
entitle
you
to
them
;
Come
at
least
and
represent
in
Alexandria
the
person
of
a
glorious
Empress
;
Come
and
reign
an
absolute
Sovereign
over
him
,
who
reigns
with
absolute
authority
over
the
Subjects
of
the
Ptolomies
.
No
,
no
,
said
Cytheris
to
me
,
thrusting
me
from
her
with
her
hand
,
If
the
pleasure
of
the
gods
had
design'd
me
for
the
place
,
you
propose
,
they
would
have
elevated
me
to
it
themselves
;
and
so
establish'd
my
Ancestors
in
it
,
that
a
just
descent
should
have
conferr'd
it
upon
me
,
had
they
not
judged
this
condition
more
happy
for
me
,
to
which
they
have
now
reduc'd
me
.
I
have
spoken
to
you
only
yet
in
the
quality
of
a
Lover
,
answer'd
I
,
but
now
you
compel
me
to
speak
to
you
,
in
the
quality
of
the
Praetor
of
Egypt
;
which
obliges
me
to
see
Justice
duly
executed
in
this
Province
;
and
I
should
infringe
this
duty
,
should
I
suffer
a
barbarous
Island
to
entomb
alive
a
person
,
whose
virtues
declare
to
me
,
that
she
came
into
the
World
only
to
command
it
.
Both
as
a
Lover
and
a
Praetor
,
said
Cytheris
,
interrupting
me
,
you
ought
to
submit
to
my
will
.
Love
is
never
unaccompanied
with
submission
,
and
the
Praetor
of
Egypt
has
no
jurisdiction
over
a
person
of
my
Birth
.
I
was
very
importunate
with
Cytheris
to
draw
her
out
of
her
Solitude
,
or
at
least
a
clearer
discovery
out
of
her
,
of
her
intentions
.
But
I
was
not
able
to
move
her
to
grant
either
of
my
requests
:
she
desir'd
me
to
return
again
to
Alexandria
,
whither
I
carry'd
my
new
re-inkindled
Flame
,
which
broke
forth
with
such
violence
,
out
of
the
embers
it
had
bhen
so
long
smothered
in
,
that
it
was
impossible
for
me
to
stay
there
above
a
day
or
two
,
without
taking
a
second
Voyage
to
see
her
.
She
shew'd
me
all
the
ordinary
employs
with
which
she
did
divert
herself
.
Volumnius
,
as
you
know
,
is
a
person
generally
accomplisht
with
all
Sciences
:
who
finding
the
Soul
of
Cytheris
capable
to
receive
all
those
noble
tinctures
,
he
had
a
desire
to
infuse
into
it
,
he
had
render'd
her
an
absolute
Mistris
in
all
Philosophical
erudition
.
It
was
this
,
which
I
found
so
charming
in
her
,
when
first
I
began
to
have
a
passion
for
her
;
and
which
oblig'd
Volumnius
to
enfranchise
her
.
To
this
excellent
ornament
she
had
many
others
;
and
had
as
great
a
care
of
her
education
,
as
if
her
Birth
had
been
known
to
him
.
She
spoke
naturally
the
Greek
Tongue
;
play'd
gracefully
upon
two
or
three
instruments
;
limm'd
and
embroder'd
in
perfection
;
And
the
old
Man
that
was
with
her
,
had
procur'd
all
necessaries
for
her
,
to
keep
those
admirable
Talents
in
practice
.
Do
you
not
think
,
said
she
to
me
,
that
these
employs
are
sufficient
to
entertain
with
satisfaction
and
delight
the
whole
course
of
that
momentary
being
,
allow'd
us
here
on
Earth
?
And
do
you
believe
,
that
the
glories
and
pleasures
of
your
Rome
,
or
Alexandria
,
are
more
really
pleasures
and
glories
,
than
those
I
enjoy
in
this
solitude
?
Worldly
diversions
are
the
same
to
the
Soul
,
that
shows
,
or
spectacles
are
to
the
Eyes
.
They
draw
it
after
them
,
tire
it
,
but
not
revive
it
;
they
always
leave
a
vacuum
in
it
,
which
they
cannot
fill
;
and
as
they
continually
distract
it
with
new
desires
,
so
do
they
banish
from
it
all
peace
and
tranquility
.
But
,
Cytheris
,
cry'd
I
,
transported
with
an
admiration
of
her
virtue
,
how
could
you
,
being
both
of
a
Sex
and
Age
so
tender
,
arrive
so
early
to
considerations
so
solid
?
And
having
attain'd
them
,
cultivate
them
in
so
wild
a
School
as
this
is
?
Every
person
,
reply'd
the
discreet
Cytheris
,
has
inherent
in
himself
those
necessary
principles
,
by
which
he
may
attain
to
Wisdom
.
The
skilfullest
Artificer
commits
faults
enough
in
his
Art
,
to
convince
him
,
he
is
not
infallible
;
yet
those
faults
themselves
lead
him
to
perfection
.
Allow
a
man
of
that
degree
,
modesty
,
and
a
desire
of
knowledge
,
and
you
shall
render
him
wise
in
his
Element
.
All
other
sttates
of
life
,
furnish
those
,
that
are
in
them
,
with
the
like
advantages
.
For
my
own
particular
,
I
have
experienced
two
or
three
different
conditions
;
I
was
born
a
Slave
,
nor
knew
I
,
till
after
my
Enfranchisement
,
hew
far
my
birth
ought
to
have
been
remov'd
from
so
inglorious
an
obscurity
.
From
whence
I
learnt
,
that
slavery
is
no
real
evil
,
since
I
supported
it
without
regret
;
and
an
illustrious
descent
no
real
good
,
since
I
possest
it
,
and
yet
was
not
sensible
of
it
.
Antonies
love
was
a
long
time
the
sole
felicity
of
Cleopatra
,
but
not
of
Cytheris
:
And
why
?
because
that
kind
of
love
has
no
real
commerce
with
true
felicity
:
if
it
had
,
it
would
have
wrought
its
effects
in
me
,
as
well
as
in
the
Egyptian
Queen
;
but
the
extravagant
imagination
and
fancy
of
that
Princess
,
caus'd
her
to
regard
that
,
as
a
great
good
,
which
mine
represented
to
me
,
as
a
greater
evil
;
and
those
kind
of
imaginations
do
create
the
greatest
part
of
the
felicity
,
or
infelicity
incident
to
Mortals
.
Possess
them
with
the
charming
sweetness
of
a
private
life
,
and
this
▪
mediocrity
shall
render
them
more
happy
than
the
dazling
lustre
of
Crowns
and
Scepters
:
Place
before
them
for
their
Object
,
Honors
and
Dignities
,
and
they
shall
become
the
prey
of
an
insatiable
Ambition
.
I
have
made
it
a
long
time
my
chief
study
,
to
combat
within
my self
this
capricious
folly
,
and
I
find
,
that
a
Sovereign
Power
,
is
not
so
real
a
felicity
,
as
a
power
within
ones
self
,
to
regard
the
loss
of
it
without
regret
.
Ah!
Madam
,
said
I
,
(
for
I
made
no
scruple
now
to
give
her
that
title
)
tell
me
I
beseech
you
,
from
what
glorious
height
you
have
stoopt
to
this
humble
disguise
,
that
I
may
pay
my
due
adorations
to
that
virtue
,
which
causes
you
to
despise
it
.
The
state
of
my
present
being
,
is
subject
to
great
revolutions
;
fortifie
it
therefore
with
some
eminent
example
,
that
if
occasion
should
require
,
may
prove
an
Antidote
for
me
against
the
envious
Malice
of
never
constant
fortune
.
I
judg'd
by
the
motion
of
Cytheris
her
countenance
,
that
she
was
about
to
satisfie
my
curiosity
,
when
her
companion
came
in
haste
to
tell
her
,
that
Ambiorix
(
which
was
the
old
Mans
name
)
was
stung
with
a
venemous
Serpent
:
and
that
from
the
knowledge
he
had
of
such
kind
of
wounds
,
he
concluded
he
had
not
two
hours
to
live
.
Cytheris
grew
pale
,
and
running
with
great
distraction
to
the
Cabin
of
Ambiorix
(
whither
I
follow'd
her
)
Oh!
my
dear
Father
,
said
she
to
him
,
What
misfortune
has
arriv'd
to
you
?
Is
it
as
fatal
as
Phila
causes
me
to
apprehend
?
And
is
it
possible
the
gods
will
deprive
me
of
your
assistance
and
conduct
?
What
name
was
that
I
heard
you
pronounce
,
my
Lord
?
said
Virgil
,
interrupting
him
;
Was
it
not
the
name
of
Phila
?
I
,
reply'd
Cornelius
,
the
person
,
who
together
with
Cytheris
and
Ambiorix
,
inhabited
that
Island
,
was
so
call'd
.
Oh!
my
Lord
,
added
Virgil
,
speak
I
beseech
you
,
Was
not
this
Maid
an
Athenian
?
And
did
not
the
Orator
Antiochus
her
Father
,
to
elude
the
effect
of
some
predictions
,
which
were
denounc'd
to
him
,
cause
her
to
be
privately
convey'd
into
Sicily
;
And
did
she
not
under
the
name
of
Plautia
,
make
some
sojourn
in
Rome
?
She
is
the
same
,
you
speak
of
,
reply'd
Cornelius
,
and
whom
you
so
lately
mention'd
in
your
recital
of
Milo's
Adventure
.
She
gain'd
an
acquaintance
with
Cytheris
in
the
house
,
from
whence
we
lately
came
;
where
Cicero
detain'd
her
,
as
a
prisoner
,
to
force
her
consent
to
marry
him
;
and
near
which
,
his
neighbor
Volumnius
had
another
.
Cytheris
putting
on
resolutions
,
to
quit
Rome
,
for
the
considerations
before-named
;
Plautia
conjur'd
her
to
give
her
leave
to
accompany
her
.
They
came
into
Egypt
;
and
this
conformity
of
their
fortunes
,
has
combin'd
them
together
in
the
bonds
of
so
firm
an
Amity
,
that
they
are
still
together
in
some
part
of
the
World
,
which
my
most
curious
search
cannot
discover
.
Oh!
my
Lord
,
cry'd
Virgil
,
let
us
travel
the
whole
Universe
in
quest
of
this
place
.
I
can
no
longer
lend
attention
to
your
discourse
;
and
can
enjoy
no
felicity
in
any
part
of
my
life
,
but
that
I
shall
dedicate
to
the
search
of
Phila.
Would
it
might
please
the
Gods
,
said
Cornelius
,
pursuing
his
discourse
,
that
at
the
expence
of
never
seeing
my self
more
in
the
good
grace
of
Caesar
,
I
might
hope
for
a
fortunate
success
of
so
glorious
a
quest:
I
would
this
very
minute
commence
it
;
but
it
has
cost
me
already
so
many
toilesome
and
unprofitable
steps
,
that
I
dare
not
any
more
attempt
it
.
Yet
I
request
you
,
not
to
defer
to
declare
the
reasons
you
have
to
express
so
tender
a
concern
for
Phila
;
and
I
shall
willingly
refer
the
rest
of
my
Relation
to
another
season
.
Finish
it
,
I
pray
you
,
my
Lord
,
reply'd
Virgil
,
I
beg
your
pardon
for
having
interrupted
it
;
I
was
not
Master
of
my
sudden
transport
;
but
my
reason
has
now
re-assumed
its
Seat
,
and
I
entreat
you
to
tell
me
,
what
became
of
the
wound
of
Ambiorix
.
It
prov'd
mortal
,
as
he
himself
foresaw
,
said
Cornelius
;
and
before
it
wrought
its
last
inevitable
effect
,
he
made
a
declaration
to
Cytheris
,
which
,
though
it
charm'd
not
my
Love
,
yet
it
charm'd
my
Ears
:
I
shall
not
represent
to
you
,
Madam
,
said
he
,
that
your
birth
challeng'd
for
your
Grandfather
,
the
renowned
King
Viridomare
,
which
so
long
defended
the
liberty
of
the
Gaules
,
against
the
usurpation
of
the
Roman
Tyranny
:
These
considerations
infuse
generally
more
vanity
than
true
wisdom
;
and
he
can
entitle
himself
to
essential
Virtue
,
that
can
only
claim
it
from
his
Ancestors
.
But
I
conjure
you
to
remember
,
that
the
Gods
have
endu'd
you
with
a
firmity
of
courage
,
and
a
solidity
of
judgment
above
the
ordinary
capacity
of
your
Sex
:
That
they
have
bestow'd
this
Blessing
upon
you
,
not
without
mystery
or
design
;
and
that
they
will
exact
from
you
a
severe
account
of
the
Talents
,
they
have
given
you
.
I
made
a
faithful
promise
to
the
last
of
the
Race
,
of
the
Viridomares
,
your
Father
,
and
my
Master
,
to
instill
into
your
tender
Soul
,
these
laudable
Principles
.
And
now
I
shall
dye
with
satisfaction
,
since
I
have
so
fortunately
acquitted
my self
of
my
devoir
;
but
yet
I
have
done
nothing
,
unless
you
crown
it
with
a
glorious
perseverence
.
Establish
the
repose
of
my
Soul
after
my
death
,
by
an
invincible
magnanimity
;
conserve
your self
always
in
such
a
state
of
Virtue
,
that
you
may
be
always
a
glory
and
satisfaction
to
your self
;
And
above
above
all
,
Remember
to
keep
this
Maxim
for
ever
engrav'd
in
the
center
of
your
Heart
,
that
you
ought
to
be
the
Heir
of
the
Sacred
,
and
inveterate
hatred
of
the
Viridomares
against
the
barbarous
Romans
;
and
that
upon
this
condition
,
and
no
other
,
you
receiv'd
from
your
dying
Father
,
that
Benediction
,
which
Heaven
has
decreed
should
propagate
the
felicity
of
Children
upon
Earth
.
These
last
words
concluded
his
life
,
and
cast
Cytheris
into
an
affliction
,
scarce
to
be
imagin'd
,
much
less
expressed
.
The
eminent
danger
to
which
this
misfortune
expos'd
her
,
alone
,
destitute
of
all
relief
,
or
succor
,
in
a
wild
Desart
;
and
the
suggestions
of
Phila
,
who
represented
to
her
,
that
after
the
death
of
Ambiorix
,
she
ought
not
to
make
a
longer
sojourn
in
it
,
without
calling
her
discretion
and
honor
in
question
,
caus'd
her
to
embrace
a
resolution
of
seeking
another
Sanctuary
.
I
invited
her
to
a
house
of
pleasure
,
which
some
of
the
Ptolemean
Kings
had
built
some
few
miles
distant
from
Alexandria
,
and
the
Governors
of
Egypt
had
preserv'd
for
their
own
.
There
I
learnt
of
her
,
that
after
the
death
of
King
Viridomare
,
who
was
slain
by
Marcellus
in
a
single
Combat
,
the
Prince
his
Son
,
whose
Daughter
she
was
,
had
rov'd
a
long
time
from
Kingdom
to
Kingdom
,
to
implore
their
aid
to
recover
his
own
;
and
seeing
that
he
courted
it
in
vain
,
he
had
,
contrary
to
the
custom
of
that
Nation
,
apply'd
himself
to
the
study
of
Philosophy
;
That
he
had
made
choice
of
Egypt
for
his
retirement
;
because
learning
flourish'd
no
where
then
,
but
in
Greece
and
Egypt
,
and
he
was
too
well
known
in
the
first
of
the
two
.
That
his
Queen
,
who
was
then
great
with
Child
,
travelling
under
the
Conduct
of
Ambiorix
,
to
find
him
out
,
had
been
encountred
by
a
party
of
the
Roman
Troops
,
who
made
her
a
Slave
,
and
sold
her
to
Volumnius
.
That
her
Father
had
arriv'd
to
the
knowledge
of
her
death
,
without
knowing
any
thing
of
her
being
safely
discharged
of
the
Burden
she
went
with
;
and
that
being
most
most
sensibly
toucht
with
this
last
misfortune
,
he
had
confin'd
the
mournful
Relicks
of
his
life
to
that
Solitude
,
from
whence
I
had
lately
drawn
Cytheris
.
That
a
few
days
before
his
death
,
he
had
been
inform'd
by
a
Slave
,
which
Volumnius
us'd
oftentimes
to
send
to
search
the
Islands
of
Nilus
,
for
Plants
,
whose
Virtue
he
was
desirous
to
experiment
,
That
his
Wife
had
left
a
Daughter
behind
her
,
and
that
Volumnus
had
caus'd
her
to
be
educated
with
great
care
and
affection
;
and
that
dying
,
he
had
strictly
charg'd
Ambiorix
to
omit
no
endeavors
for
the
regaining
his
Daughter
out
of
the
power
of
the
Romans
.
Ambiorix
had
with
fidelity
acquitted
himself
of
this
Commission
,
as
I
have
told
you
;
and
fortune
so
ordering
it
,
that
Cytheris
should
take
her
secret
flight
out
of
Rome
,
the
same
day
that
Mark
Antony
left
it
,
swelling
with
revenge
and
discontent
,
I
was
possest
with
a
jealousie
,
that
Cytheris
had
accompany'd
.
I
am
oblig'd
hourly
to
pay
the
Gods
a
million
of
thanks
,
Madam
,
said
I
to
her
,
when
she
had
ended
her
discourse
,
that
the
veneration
and
zeal
,
you
express
for
executing
the
last
commands
of
your
Father
,
has
conducted
you
into
a
Province
,
where
my
duty
obliges
me
to
reside
,
and
gives
me
now
the
opportunity
to
beg
your
leave
to
make
a
new
Present
to
you
of
that
fidelity
and
service
,
I
devoted
to
you
from
the
first
minute
I
beheld
you
.
The
veneration
,
said
Cytheris
,
which
you
interpret
to
be
so
favourable
to
you
,
includes
more
than
one
consideration
;
and
if
that
which
chac'd
me
out
of
Rome
,
flatters
your
desires
;
that
which
fixes
me
to
a
due
resentment
of
my
Fathers
Commands
,
forbids
me
to
accept
the
faith
of
a
Roman
.
You
have
made
too
admir'd
a
progress
,
Madam
,
said
I
,
in
the
School
of
Science
,
to
be
ignorant
,
that
such
resentments
are
unjust
.
Hate
the
memory
of
Marcellus
,
who
,
in
giving
that
mortal
wound
to
the
King
your
Grandfather
,
gave
the
first
to
your
dishonor
:
Hate
the
name
of
Julius
Caesar
,
who
in
conquering
the
Gaules
,
depriv'd
you
of
the
succor
of
all
your
Allies
.
But
what
Crime
have
I
perpetrated
?
I
that
was
not
in
being
,
when
those
Wars
began
,
&
who
have
ever
ador'd
you
with
a
most
pure
and
ardent
Passion
?
This
Passion
,
reply'd
Cytheris
,
cannot
work
a
Miracle
,
and
make
you
no
Roman
,
nor
me
not
a
Princess
of
the
Gaules
;
these
two
qualifications
include
a
formal
contradiction
to
all
your
desires
.
The
same
contempt
your
Senate
affects
for
the
alliance
of
Queens
,
do
I
harbor
for
all
that
is
not
of
a
Blood
Royal.
The
contempt
you
harbor
,
answer'd
I
,
ought
now
to
be
extinct
,
in
all
the
Nations
of
the
earth
.
For
as
now
there
are
none
,
that
do
not
acknowledge
the
Power
of
the
Roman
Eagles
,
there
are
none
,
that
have
not
espoused
the
Maxims
of
their
Empire
,
and
we
see
more
Kings
sollicite
now
for
the
honor
of
her
Adoption
,
than
we
saw
before
dispute
her
Sovereignty
.
Those
Kings
did
not
descend
from
Viridomare
,
said
Cytheris
;
if
they
had
,
they
would
have
held
their
Authority
and
Honor
more
sacred
.
And
if
you
desire
from
me
a
sincere
declaration
of
my
thoughts
,
I
have
alwayes
had
an
esteem
for
your
person
;
I
am
not
insensible
of
the
proofs
and
marks
of
your
affection
;
and
but
too
sensible
of
the
despicable
state
,
to
which
Fortune
has
reduc'd
me
,
to
fansie
my self
in
a
capacity
to
reject
the
meanest
dignity
;
yet
Royal
Blood
can
never
forget
the
channel
from
whence
it
flows
;
and
I
should
disdain
the
Nephew
of
Augustus
himself
,
should
he
be
offer'd
me
,
under
the
title
of
a
simple
Citizen
.
These
words
,
were
so
many
mortal
wounds
,
both
to
my
Fortune
,
and
my
Reason
;
and
though
Cytheris
pronounc'd
them
,
to
no
other
end
,
than
to
extinguish
my
ambitious
hopes
,
yet
I
imagin'd
they
taught
me
the
infallible
way
to
triumph
over
her
.
I
caus'd
my self
to
be
serv'd
in
the
same
state
,
as
formerly
the
ancient
Kings
of
Egypt
had
been
;
I
assum'd
their
Habit
,
I
commanded
my
Statue
to
be
erected
in
divers
places
of
the
City
,
and
in
fine
,
committed
all
those
Follies
,
which
have
so
justly
irritated
Caesar's
indignation
against
me
.
Cytheris
beheld
the
first
Sallies
of
my
extravagancies
with
grief
,
and
employ'd
all
her
power
to
restrain
them
.
But
the
first
error
was
succeeded
by
a
second
.
I
saw
her
so
sensible
of
the
danger
,
into
which
I
precipitated
my self
,
that
I
hop'd
she
would
endeavor
its
prevention
,
by
favoring
my
desires
:
and
intoxicated
with
this
frenzy
,
I
gave
an
effuse
rein
to
my
criminal
audacities
.
Cytheris
observing
how
I
daily
run
from
one
extravagancy
into
another
,
was
willing
,
I
suppose
,
to
stop
the
mouth
of
all
censures
,
that
might
impeach
her
,
of
having
contributed
to
them
;
and
so
stole
one
night
privately
away
with
Phila
,
and
left
me
plung'd
into
the
deepest
abyss
of
despair
.
I
demanded
her
from
those
that
could
not
restore
her
,
and
threatned
such
as
I
suspected
,
had
convey'd
her
away
.
I
employ'd
in
her
quest
that
diligence
and
authority
,
Caesar
himself
would
not
have
made
use
of
,
but
on
some
special
occasion
for
the
service
of
the
Empire
;
I
exercis'd
unjust
cruelties
upon
such
,
as
I
sent
after
her
,
and
did
not
bring
her
back
to
me
.
What
shall
I
express
more
to
you
,
my
dear
Virgil
?
I
lov'd
even
to
distraction
,
and
I
have
lost
for
ever
the
glorious
object
of
my
hopes
.
My
passion
is
not
unknown
to
Caesar
,
and
perhaps
when
he
shall
understand
by
Terentia
,
that
Love
alone
has
been
the
Author
of
my
Offences
,
he
may
grant
it
a
Pardon
,
for
what
a
formal
and
design'd
Rebellion
could
not
expect
one
.
The
end
of
Cornelius's
Relation
,
had
brought
them
just
to
the
Gates
of
Tusculum
;
where
he
importunately
sollicited
Virgil
to
acquaint
him
with
the
cause
of
that
transport
he
had
observ'd
in
him
,
when
he
nam'd
Phila
in
his
discourse
.
But
such
important
Concerns
occur
to
us
in
Rome
,
that
they
summon
us
thither
;
and
we
must
awhile
defer
to
make
it
appear
,
that
Virgil
did
not
discourse
of
Love
with
such
eloquence
,
without
having
had
some
experience
of
its
effects
.
The
End
of
the
Third
Part.
THE
ILLUSTRIOUS
EXILES
.
The
Fourth
Part.
SOvereigns
are
no
less
sensible
of
the
offences
,
which
touch
the
Heart
,
than
of
those
,
which
wound
their
Honor
,
and
Authority
:
And
Crassus
was
as
criminal
in
the
eye
of
Caesar
,
as
the
Lover
of
Terentia
,
as
he
would
have
been
,
as
a
Lover
of
Julia.
He
banish'd
him
out
of
all
places
,
his
presence
was
requir'd
in
;
and
that
he
might
not
want
a
pretence
to
leave
Mecoenas
behind
him
at
Rome
,
whil'st
he
went
to
visit
Tullia
at
her
Countrey
Villa
,
he
commanded
him
to
see
Crassus
depart
the
City
,
before
he
return'd
to
it
.
Mecoenas
was
naturally
obliging
,
and
he
receiv'd
Caesar's
Command
with
an
inward
repugnancy
;
but
not
daring
to
disobey
it
,
he
endeavor'd
the
best
he
could
to
sweeten
the
bitterness
of
it
.
He
went
himself
to
find
him
out
,
with
an
intention
to
comfort
him
with
all
the
real
assurances
of
his
faithful
service
.
But
Crassus
,
whose
breast
was
the
Aetna
of
its
own
flames
,
attributing
the
sight
of
Mecoenas
to
another
cause
,
prevented
his
civility
by
this
rough
Preface
.
You
may
spare
your self
the
trouble
,
my
Lord
,
said
he
to
him
,
to
declare
to
me
the
reasons
of
this
visit
,
my
small
skill
in
Augury
can
divine
them
.
Caesar
,
who
designs
to
give
me
a
severe
chastisement
,
for
the
presumptuous
Crime
I
have
committed
,
in
aspiring
to
the
Love
of
Terentia
,
has
commission'd
you
to
be
my
Judge
.
But
,
my
Lord
,
when
you
shall
understand
,
by
what
artifice
I
was
trepan'd
,
and
by
what
an
Ignis
Fatuus
led
to
the
top
of
this
lubricious
Precipice
,
on
which
I
now
stand
,
you
will
doubtless
express
more
Compassion
,
than
Passion
,
for
my
deluded
indiscretion
;
I
must
avow
,
I
had
not
the
power
not
to
adore
an
Object
,
the
Gods
had
made
so
Adorable
,
that
this
Passion
inspir'd
me
with
desires
,
that
these
desires
were
to
be
read
in
my
languishing
eyes
;
and
that
both
my
eyes
,
and
my
tongue
,
have
often
pleaded
the
cause
of
my
Love
before
her
.
But
I
should
have
confin'd
it
within
these
limits
,
and
perhaps
have
conquer'd
it
too
,
had
not
some
encourag'd
it
by
the
flattery
of
vain
hopes
and
assurances
.
Mecoenas
was
extremely
surpriz'd
with
this
discourse
;
The
Emperor
had
not
told
him
any
thing
positively
of
Crassus's
Love
for
Terentia
,
doubting
he
might
have
too
jealous
an
apprehension
for
the
Concern
he
should
express
for
it
,
but
had
made
only
some
slight
reflections
upon
the
circumstances
of
the
Combat
betwixt
him
and
Ovid.
He
chang'd
colour
,
when
through
the
indiscretion
of
Crassus
,
he
came
to
understand
,
that
either
Caesar
had
been
misinform'd
,
or
deluded
his
credulous
sincerity
.
And
not
knowing
on
the
sudden
how
to
deport
himself
,
whether
he
had
best
,
like
a
prudent
Husband
,
to
pretend
he
did
not
well
apprehend
him
,
or
else
to
take
the
advantage
of
his
error
,
and
endeavor
to
draw
a
clearer
discovery
out
of
it
,
of
what
so
nearly
concern'd
him
,
he
continued
silent
for
a
while
;
but
at
last
his
curiosity
surmounting
all
other
considerations
,
he
suffer'd
this
anxious
Lover
to
believe
,
that
in
effect
the
Emperor
had
totally
resign'd
him
up
to
his
just
resentments
,
and
that
nothing
but
a
candid
and
ingenuous
declaration
could
qualifie
them
.
THE
HISTORY
OF
Crassus
.
YOU
need
not
employ
either
Promises
,
or
Menaces
,
reply'd
Crassus
,
to
oblige
me
to
make
the
Declaration
you
desire
;
for
perhaps
my
concern
and
impatience
is
no
less
to
publish
it
,
than
yours
to
hear
it
.
I
shall
not
entertain
you
,
with
the
repetition
of
the
first
beginnings
of
my
Love
,
which
is
as
ancient
,
as
my
Reason
,
and
has
been
devoted
to
Terentia
from
the
first
moment
my
eyes
,
or
it
,
were
capable
of
being
Judges
of
Beauty
:
but
my
Admiration
never
took
its
just
Measures
,
till
at
the
Marriage
of
Domitius
.
You
remember
,
doubtless
,
that
it
was
celebrated
at
Preneste
,
where
the
Emperor
treated
the
whole
Court
three
dayes
together
:
you
withdrew
your self
one
evening
from
the
rest
of
the
Company
,
and
came
to
take
the
Air
with
Terentia
into
a
Garden
,
where
,
of
one
of
the
closest
Walks
I
was
possest
before
your
Arrival
,
I
did
not
understand
your
first
discourse
,
but
as
you
pass'd
under
a
thick
quick-set
,
which
did
separate
us
,
I
heard
you
say
to
Terentia
.
You
do
me
wrong
,
I
never
lov'd
you
more
,
than
at
this
present
;
but
do
you
not
know
that
all
things
have
their
season
?
This
,
too
day
,
is
justly
due
to
the
visible
transports
of
Domitius
:
and
he
would
commit
an
offence
both
against
Caesar
,
and
common
custom
,
should
he
on
the
day
of
his
Marriage
with
the
Daughter
of
Octavia
,
express
a
coldness
or
indifferency
.
A
few
dayes
hence
the
same
custom
will
oblige
him
to
another
deportment
,
not
but
that
he
might
be
the
Master
hereafter
of
as
much
real
Love
,
as
at
the
present
,
but
he
could
not
again
have
the
same
opportunity
to
signalize
and
applaud
the
manifestation
of
it
;
And
nothing
is
more
scandalous
to
the
eyes
of
indifferent
Persons
,
than
to
see
a
Husband
,
who
might
command
all
seasons
to
testifie
his
kindness
to
his
Wife
,
affect
to
make
choice
of
the
Publick
.
Why
this
Policy
,
and
why
these
Precautions
,
said
Terentia
,
interrupting
him
;
Is
Conjugal
Love
a
Monster
?
And
is
it
not
a
Crime
that
deserves
the
loudest
reproach
,
to
see
a
Husband
draw
a
Curtain
betwixt
the
eyes
of
the
World
,
and
his
kindness
for
his
Wife
,
and
open
it
to
let
in
that
of
anothers
?
And
ought
that
Love
,
which
both
Heaven
and
Honor
render
legitimate
,
to
be
more
shamefac'd
,
than
that
which
both
Honor
and
Heaven
declare
to
be
impudent
?
No
,
no
,
Mecoenas
,
we
ought
not
to
accuse
Custom
for
so
grand
an
Abuse
:
The
levity
of
Husbands
is
fed
from
a
Spring
,
which
〈◊〉
within
the
Confines
of
their
own
Leudness
;
and
〈◊〉
they
establish
those
Laws
at
one
time
,
which
they
abolish
at
another
,
it
is
because
their
imaginations
inspire
them
with
those
Idea's
before
possession
,
which
vanish
as
soon
as
their
appetites
are
surfeited
.
You
labor'd
,
as
I
remember
,
by
a
thousand
endearing
Arguments
to
refute
her
jealousie
,
and
using
a
thousand
Caresses
to
plead
for
you
,
that
her
reproaches
were
unjust
,
you
drew
from
her
expressions
so
tender
,
and
so
passionate
,
that
like
Parthian
Darts
,
flying
backwards
,
they
wounded
the
heart
they
were
not
level'd
at
.
I
felt
unusual
motions
,
and
being
seiz'd
at
the
same
instant
both
with
a
trouble
and
transport
,
I
had
never
been
acquainted
with
before
,
I
stay'd
a
long
time
after
you
in
the
Garden
,
out
of
which
I
came
the
most
Amorous
of
all
Men
living
.
You
encourag'd
this
Phrensie
the
next
day
,
in
a
Treat
you
dedicated
to
the
same
Domitius
,
and
the
most
noble
of
the
young
Roman
Knights
;
I
was
one
of
the
number
,
and
I
could
not
forbear
to
express
my
admiration
,
that
Terentia
had
the
goodness
to
honor
it
and
us
with
her
presence
.
Pray
do
not
name
a
Wife
,
at
this
time
,
said
you
to
me
,
and
call
to
our
Memory
those
Devoirs
,
which
the
liberty
of
this
Assembly
ought
to
efface
out
of
it
.
When
I
am
amongst
you
,
I
imagine
,
that
what
is
permitted
you
,
is
not
prohibited
me
.
I
give
the
rein
to
my
Frolicks
,
I
speak
and
act
without
constraint
:
And
your
expressions
admonish
me
,
that
I
ought
to
be
more
reserv'd
.
What
injury
does
my
Mirth
do
you
?
Alas
!
why
do
you
endeavor
to
put
it
out
of
humor
,
by
upbraiding
it
with
the
names
of
Husband
and
Wife
?
●…was
not
the
sole
Person
in
the
Company
,
that
●…us'd
her
quarrel
against
you
,
and
told
you
,
that
such
a
Wife
as
Terentia
,
ought
alwayes
to
be
the
fixed
Object
of
your
thoughts
.
This
opposition
exasperated
you
,
and
you
made
a
Satyrical
Invective
against
Marriage
and
its
dependences
.
Not
one
of
your
Arguments
escap'd
my
memory
;
and
the
next
day
I
fram'd
a
Dialogue
in
Verse
,
which
I
intituled
,
THE
JVSTIFIY'D
WIFE
;
wherein
I
demonstrated
,
that
the
tepidity
of
Husbands
did
authorize
and
justifie
the
levity
and
infidelity
of
their
Wives
towards
them
.
I
never
pretended
to
a
Talent
in
writing
,
but
that
of
Poetry
,
is
one
of
the
first
Miracles
,
Love
works
in
us
.
Terentia
finding
these
Verses
in
one
of
her
Pockets
,
into
which
I
had
privately
convey'd
them
,
and
reflecting
that
Ovid
had
the
day
before
sustain'd
the
same
Maxims
at
Sulpicia's
,
conceited
him
to
be
the
Author
of
them
.
She
found
him
at
the
Princess
Julia's
Apartment
,
whither
I
had
the
honor
to
wait
upon
her
;
where
she
told
him
railingly
,
that
he
was
formidable
enough
to
Husbands
in
the
merit
of
his
own
Person
,
without
the
addition
of
his
poysonous
Maxims
.
Ovid
,
who
call'd
to
mind
the
late
conversation
he
held
at
Sulpicia's
,
was
oblig'd
to
make
a
direct
Answer
to
Terentia's
imputation
:
which
,
the
more
it
was
prest
upon
him
,
the
greater
confusion
it
involv'd
him
in
:
For
the
same
Morning
he
had
sent
Sulpicia
a
Copy
of
Verses
on
the
same
Subject
.
And
thinking
that
she
had
lent
them
to
Terentia
,
satisfy'd
himself
to
tell
her
pleasantly
,
that
he
was
glad
to
see
Ladies
applaud
Lovers
in
the
method
of
their
Addresses
.
This
owning
of
a
Work
,
which
I
thought
Ovid
was
oblig'd
to
deny
,
fill'd
me
with
indignation
.
May
a
Man
presume
,
Madam
,
said
I
to
Terentia
,
to
beg
a
sight
of
Ovid's
Maxims
?
I
am
yet
but
a
Novice
in
the
Art
of
Persuasion
,
and
should
be
happy
to
receive
the
first
Rudiments
of
that
glorious
Science
,
from
so
famous
a
Master
.
Let
Ovid
,
said
Terentia
interrupting
me
,
give
you
what
instructions
he
pleases
;
but
you
must
excuse
me
,
if
you
receive
them
not
from
my
hands
;
and
I
have
put
my self
out
of
a
capacity
of
committing
the
obligation
you
desire
;
for
I
have
committed
the
Verses
already
to
flames
,
you
beg
the
sight
of
.
You
must
give
me
leave
,
Madam
,
reply'd
Ovid
,
to
doubt
the
reality
of
what
you
express
;
for
had
you
destin'd
them
to
that
punishment
,
you
would
have
inflicted
another
upon
your self
,
which
was
not
to
divulge
it
;
and
one
is
seldom
guilty
of
burning
that
,
which
he
religiously
cherishes
in
his
thoughts
and
memory
.
This
conversation
was
urg'd
so
far
,
and
its
intricate
obscurity
found
my
spirit
so
ill
dispos'd
,
that
it
extracted
poyson
out
of
every
flower
of
it
.
I
fancy'd
Ovid
was
my
Rival
;
and
that
he
had
prevented
me
in
my
design
of
persuading
Terentia
to
turn
a
fair
Rebel
to
conjugal
Sovereignty
.
A
thousand
actions
,
which
till
then
I
regarded
with
an
eye
of
indifferency
,
and
in
effect
were
no
other
,
now
represented
themselves
to
me
in
another
shape
.
Ovid
could
not
exhibit
her
the
least
testimony
of
a
respect
,
which
I
did
not
interpret
as
a
testimony
of
Love
:
nor
could
she
allow
him
a
favourable
word
,
which
I
did
not
construe
for
a
remarkable
favor
,
one
day
in
the
grand
Cirque
he
drop'd
a
piece
of
a
Letter
,
which
I
catch'd
up
;
wherein
I
imagin'd
I
read
that
,
which
certainly
was
not
there
,
I
could
not
disguise
the
rage
this
error
ingrafted
in
my
jealous
thoughts
.
I
became
his
opposite
in
all
things
;
I
spoke
as
little
good
of
him
,
as
ill
will
could
afford
:
And
when
I
raillied
him
,
I
did
it
with
that
vehemency
and
roughness
,
which
fail'd
but
little
sometimes
of
being
the
rude
Ushers
of
a
quarrel
.
Terentia
took
notice
of
it
;
and
one
day
coming
forth
of
the
Empresses
Apartment
,
as
I
was
leading
her
to
her
Chariot
,
Are
you
,
said
she
to
me
,
Ovid's
Rival
?
Or
is
there
some
other
cause
for
the
animosity
,
I
observe
,
you
have
,
for
him
?
You
pike
him
upon
things
the
most
indifferent
;
and
alwayes
make
your
contradictions
,
the
answer
to
all
his
assertions
.
I
beg
your
pardon
,
Madam
,
said
I
,
there
is
one
assertion
I
never
yet
durst
contradict
,
and
we
both
agree
that
you
are
the
most
glorious
beauty
of
the
Universe
.
It
was
not
a
piece
of
Gallantry
,
I
demanded
of
you
,
reply'd
Terentia
,
but
the
cause
of
your
contests
with
Ovid.
You
have
divin'd
it
,
Madam
,
said
I
,
we
are
Rivals
.
And
may
one
make
so
bold
,
as
to
ask
,
reply'd
Terentia
,
who
this
beauty
is
,
that
is
worthy
to
be
the
object
of
so
noble
a
Rivalship
?
The
most
glorious
of
the
Universe
,
Madam
,
said
I.
This
phrase
is
familiar
to
all
Lovers
,
answer'd
your
beautiful
Spouse
,
who
persuade
themselves
,
that
the
common
opinion
ought
to
be
led
in
triumph
after
theirs
;
and
ascribe
the
highest
attributes
of
beauty
,
to
that
,
which
they
Idolize
in
their
own
imaginations
.
But
that
I
may
be
the
more
capable
of
judging
,
whether
your
Mistriss
does
really
merit
that
title
,
or
whether
you
do
not
take
a
prospect
of
her
perfections
through
the
optick
of
fancy
only
,
I
pray
acquaint
me
with
her
name
.
I
have
nam'd
her
already
,
Madam
,
said
I
;
and
the
distinction
I
made
of
that
,
wherein
I
agreed
or
disagreed
with
Ovid
,
has
imparted
you
the
whole
secret
.
Terentia
had
a
piercing
judgment
and
my
languishing
regards
were
no
fit
Sophisters
,
to
delude
it
,
She
on
a
sudden
eclips'd
the
lustre
of
those
divine
looks
with
a
frown
,
which
as
often
yet
as
I
think
upon
it
,
darts
a
horror
thorow
all
my
veins
;
and
briskly
mounting
into
her
Chariot
,
left
me
in
such
an
agony
and
confusion
,
that
I
had
not
the
power
to
move
out
of
the
place
.
You
came
a
little
after
,
and
surprized
me
in
my
extasie
:
and
seeing
me
in
that
posture
,
leaning
against
a
Pillar
,
my
countenance
changed
,
and
my
body
almost
as
immoveable
as
the
Marble
,
that
supported
me
.
You
did
me
the
honor
to
ask
me
,
what
it
was
,
that
had
reduc'd
me
to
that
condition
.
I
know
not
what
answer
I
made
you
,
but
it
was
doubtless
a
very
extravagant
one
;
for
you
presently
burst
forth
into
a
loud
laughter
,
and
ask'd
of
some
persons
about
you
,
if
you
had
not
the
Mine
of
a
very
cruel
Lady
.
These
words
recall'd
my
reason
;
and
fearing
I
had
inconsiderately
divulg'd
the
whole
secret
,
I
follow'd
you
towards
the
Emperors
Lodgings
,
with
an
intent
,
if
possible
,
to
repair
so
dangerous
a
fault
:
when
I
soon
perceiv'd
by
the
air
of
your
countenance
,
that
you
had
not
discover'd
it
.
You
began
to
raillie
me
with
a
liberty
,
you
could
not
have
dispens'd
with
,
had
my
indiscretion
betray'd
my
offence
to
you
,
and
in
obliging
terms
begging
the
honor
,
that
I
would
make
you
my
Confident
,
you
made
me
a
tender
of
your
faithful
service
.
Alas
!
I
had
need
enough
of
it
;
for
never
Lover
was
treated
with
such
rigor
,
as
I
experienc'd
from
the
incomparable
Terentia
:
She
intercepted
from
me
all
opportunities
of
speaking
to
her
;
she
avoided
all
occasions
of
giving
me
her
hand
.
I
follow'd
her
to
the
Temples
,
to
the
Gardens
,
to
the
Empresses
,
to
the
Princesses
Apartments
.
I
could
not
surprize
one
regard
from
her
;
and
if
at
any
time
forgetting
herself
,
she
so
much
relax'd
of
her
severity
,
as
to
suffer
her
eyes
to
bestow
a
glance
upon
me
,
she
would
dart
such
flashes
of
indignation
and
disdain
from
them
into
mine
,
that
now
the
best
of
my
hopes
wander'd
but
like
wild
Borderers
,
on
the
brinks
of
despair
.
Phedra
perceiv'd
the
visible
marks
of
it
,
and
gave
me
to
understand
,
they
had
not
escap'd
her
curiosity
.
She
would
put
her
hand
before
my
eyes
,
when
she
saw
them
too
intentively
fix'd
upon
her
fair
Mistriss
.
She
would
speak
things
before
me
,
which
I
might
apply
,
as
counsels
to
my self
.
One
night
Terentia
having
lost
at
the
Princess
Octavia's
Lodgings
a
Diamond-button
,
which
her
train
hung
in
;
Restore
it
,
if
you
have
it
,
said
Phedro
to
me
in
my
ear
;
every
thing
that
belongs
to
Terentia
,
participates
of
the
Magick
of
her
eyes
;
and
you
need
not
add
another
dose
,
to
the
effects
of
their
powerful
charms
.
These
overtures
of
an
ingenuous
confidence
,
engag'd
mine
.
I
was
one
day
in
the
Temple
of
Concordia
,
where
your
fair
Spouse
did
offer
Sacrifice
.
Phedra
,
who
attended
her
,
pretending
that
the
Sun
incommoded
her
,
came
and
plac'd
herself
by
me
,
and
ask'd
me
softly
,
If
I
were
come
thither
to
supplicate
the
Goddess
,
to
reconcile
the
difference
which
was
betwixt
my
heart
and
my
reason
.
They
are
not
at
variance
,
said
I
:
And
my
reason
is
so
far
from
controuling
the
desires
of
my
hear
,
that
it
daily
more
and
more
convinces
me
,
that
the
glorious
Terentia
is
the
onely
person
in
the
world
,
worthy
of
its
Adorations
.
These
are
glorious
words
,
reply'd
Phedra
with
a
smile
;
but
amongst
persons
of
sound
judgment
,
they
weigh
but
little
.
When
a
Love
disquiets
the
repose
,
changes
the
countenance
,
and
may
,
perhaps
,
ruine
the
Fortune
of
a
Man
,
Reason
does
not
approve
it
.
Alas
!
How
●…ould
it
?
Are
you
ignorant
,
what
Terentia
is
?
What
the
Merit
?
What
the
Credit
of
Mecoenas
?
Ovid
is
ignorant
of
none
of
this
,
said
I
interrupting
her
,
and
yet
he
presumes
to
love
Terentia
;
and
,
if
I
am
not
deceiv'd
,
is
not
hated
by
her
.
Ovid
?
reply'd
Phedra
,
surpriz'd
with
a
seeming
astonishment
.
I
,
Ovid
,
said
I
,
Lovers
are
linx-ey'd
;
and
the
felicity
of
that
Rival
may
triumph
over
my
stars
,
but
not
my
knowlege
:
It
is
for
him
,
that
I
am
despis'd
;
it
is
to
him
,
that
my
despair
is
sacrific'd
.
I
could
not
proceed
any
farther
in
my
complaints
,
the
Ceremony
ended
,
and
Phedra
was
oblig'd
to
attend
Terentia
;
but
I
retriev'd
her
again
the
same
evening
upon
the
banks
of
Tyber
,
where
the
Empress
,
and
the
whole
Court
,
were
diverting
themselves
,
for
the
benefit
of
the
fresh
air
.
Your
jealousie
is
not
without
reason
,
said
she
to
me
,
as
soon
as
I
approach'd
her
.
Ovid
is
belov'd
of
Terentia
,
and
this
obstacle
will
accompany
all
others
,
your
Love
shall
encounter
.
I
thought
this
morning
to
have
acquianted
you
with
some
circumstances
,
but
since
you
could
reap
no
advantage
by
them
,
I
forbore
to
mention
them
:
serve
your self
of
this
,
I
now
offer
you
;
and
handle
it
,
as
the
most
useful
weapon
,
to
vanquish
your
Passion
.
Vanquish
it
!
said
I
,
Oh?
Phedra
,
it
is
invincible
.
I
have
not
delay'd
till
now
,
I
have
long
since
summoned
all
my
Forces
together
to
combat
it
;
there
is
nothing
another
could
say
to
me
,
which
I
have
not
said
to
my self
.
But
after
a
thousand
attempts
,
a
thousand
effects
upon
my self
,
one
look
,
one
word
,
one
thought
of
Terentia
,
has
in
an
instant
baffled
all
my
strongest
resolutions
.
And
I
find
,
that
the
Gods
have
given
me
a
Soul
to
no
other
end
,
than
to
make
it
her
Slave
and
Vassal
to
the
last
moment
of
my
〈◊〉
.
Has
Terentia
then
,
said
Phedra
,
ingross'd
to
herself
alone
all
the
charms
of
her
Sex
!
She
has
beauty
;
and
he
that
should
deny
it
,
would
forfeit
his
reason
:
But
do
you
think
,
that
agreeableness
of
humor
,
vivacity
of
wit
,
and
gayety
of
converse
,
are
to
be
found
in
none
of
the
Sex
but
her
?
I
know
not
,
said
I
,
what
may
be
found
in
another
,
but
in
Terentia
alone
my
heart
expects
to
find
its
intire
repose
and
felicity
.
Assist
it
,
generous
Phedra
,
assist
it
,
to
atchieve
it
,
added
I
,
pressing
her
hand
tenderly
betwixt
mine
;
you
have
both
address
and
credit
,
employ
them
,
I
,
beseech
you
,
to
save
the
life
of
an
unfortunate
,
wretch
,
who
resigns
himself
up
wholly
to
the
auspiciousness
of
your
conduct
.
All
that
I
sue
for
at
the
Shrine
of
that
adorable
Deity
,
is
only
a
permission
to
Love
,
and
to
declare
it
.
Let
her
confine
this
Love
to
the
most
scrupulous
terms
,
the
narrowest
bounds
,
rigor
can
invent
.
Let
it
lie
and
languish
at
her
feet
in
vain
,
after
the
meanest
favors
;
it
shall
consent
to
any
thing
,
so
it
may
be
licens'd
only
to
own
it self
before
her
.
Is
this
a
grace
of
too
high
a
merit
,
to
be
implor'd
?
And
must
I
despair
ever
to
obtain
it
?
I
observ'd
that
Phedra
chang'd
colour
oftentimes
during
my
discourse
,
which
at
this
place
she
interrupted
with
a
deep
sigh
,
and
not
able
to
suppress
some
rebellious
tears
,
which
against
her
consent
started
in
a
showr
of
Pearls
out
of
her
eyes
;
you
are
an
Ingrate
,
said
she
to
me
,
with
a
voice
quite
altered
from
its
ordinary
accent
;
and
you
might
have
perceiv'd
,
how
improper
a
person
I
am
for
the
Employ
you
design
me
.
I
should
not
have
presum'd
to
have
pry'd
into
your
Love
for
Terentia
,
nor
endeavor'd
to
have
gain'd
the
opinion
of
deserving
to
be
made
your
Confident
,
had
you
been
so
indifferent
to
me
,
as
to
oblige
me
to
have
lent
you
the
assistance
you
desir'd
.
Recall
to
your
memory
my
words
and
my
actions
;
take
a
re-survey
of
my
languishing
eyes
,
and
my
distracted
countenance
;
and
reflecting
with
shame
upon
your
past
insensibility
,
employ
me
no
more
,
but
in
what
you
may
oblige
me
,
as
I
have
endeavor'd
to
oblige
you
.
How
?
cry'd
Mecoenas
aloud
,
was
it
Phedra
that
made
you
these
forward
overtures
of
Love
?
do
you
not
misname
her
for
another
?
and
may
I
give
an
entire
credit
to
your
words
?
Reserve
your
admiration
,
my
Lord
,
said
Crassus
,
for
its
due
season
and
place
;
you
are
not
yet
arrived
to
that
,
which
ought
more
justly
to
challenge
your
exclamations
.
These
astonishing
expressions
,
which
I
could
not
in
reason
be
accus'd
for
not
foreseeing
,
surpriz'd
me
with
so
much
confusion
,
that
it
imprinted
its
lively
effects
in
Phedra's
cheeks
,
who
observ'd
it
in
mine
.
She
left
me
with
eyes
inflam'd
with
shame
and
despite
too
,
as
I
imagin'd
;
and
adding
herself
to
the
company
of
some
Ladies
of
the
Empresses
train
,
abandon'd
me
to
the
liberty
of
ruminating
upon
my
adventure
:
which
I
consider'd
as
environ'd
with
so
many
perplexities
and
dangers
,
that
I
knew
not
what
course
to
steer
,
to
avoid
the
rocks
that
threatned
my
shipwrack
.
I
was
not
ignorant
either
of
the
credit
,
Phedra
held
in
your
Family
,
or
what
a
monstrous
species
of
fury
,
a
Womans
malice
,
that
sees
her
Love
despis'd
,
does
swell
to
.
I
apprehended
some
funest
effect
of
her
revenge
;
and
yet
I
was
neither
capable
to
entertain
,
or
counterfeit
a
passion
,
that
might
secure
me
from
it
:
These
various
reflections
did
for
four
or
five
days
tyrannize
over
my
distracted
Soul.
And
seeing
Terentia's
cruelty
and
disdain
daily
increase
,
I
had
a
desire
to
try
,
if
absence
might
not
prove
a
cure
,
or
at
least
an
antidote
,
against
so
many
contagious
evils
.
This
design
was
no
sooner
fram'd
,
but
assaulted
on
all
sides
with
mournful
suggestions
,
doubts
,
and
incertitudes
.
My
reason
had
no
sooner
said
,
I
will
,
but
my
heart
answer'd
,
I
will
not
.
I
could
harbor
no
rest
in
my
eyes
,
no
quiet
in
my
breast
:
But
reason
at
length
triumph'd
over
irresolution
,
and
I
gave
the
necessary
Orders
for
my
departure
;
when
,
as
I
was
going
to
beg
the
Emperors
leave
to
accompany
Lentulus
to
the
Getish
War
,
a
Moorish
Slave
,
who
I
knew
belong'd
to
Phedra
,
came
and
deliver'd
me
a
Billet
from
her
.
I
imagin'd
it
had
been
fraught
with
new
and
troublesom
declarations
of
her
Passion
;
and
not
willing
to
answer
it
,
I
thought
to
have
return'd
it
,
without
reading
:
But
a
consideration
of
the
respect
which
was
due
to
a
person
of
Phedra's
Sex
,
qualifying
all
others
,
I
open'd
it
,
and
found
these
Lines
.
Will
you
go
,
you
too
hard-hearted
,
and
too
charming
Ingrate
?
Is
neither
the
consideration
of
my
tender
passion
of
the
pleasures
it
is
capable
to
afford
you
,
nor
that
of
my
death
,
which
shall
certainly
follow
you
,
able
to
divert
your
sullen
resolutions
?
Alas
!
I
must
change
my
bottom
,
and
steer
a
new
course
.
I
promise
you
all
my
interest
,
all
my
credit
,
with
Terentia
.
Allow
them
that
time
only
,
which
shall
be
necessary
for
them
to
operate
their
effects
in
.
This
will
be
a
dangerous
enterprize
,
and
cost
me
dear
,
but
yet
your
absence
would
be
a
much
dearer
purchase
to
me
.
And
I
had
rather
for
ever
endure
the
malignant
aspects
of
your
ingratitude
with
the
enjoyment
of
your
sight
,
than
hope
to
forget
them
,
by
being
depriv'd
of
it
.
Was
there
ever
any
resolution
,
my
Lord
,
so
firm
,
that
such
an
attach
would
not
shake
the
foundation
of
?
I
ran
to
the
chamber
of
Phedra
,
and
said
to
her
,
all
that
either
my
Love
,
or
my
Acknowlegments
could
dictate
:
I
cannot
promise
you
said
I
,
that
your
rare
goodness
has
conquer'd
my
passion
;
I
should
be
guilty
of
a
grand
untruth
,
should
I
flatter
you
with
the
hopes
of
such
a
Miracle
:
But
I
assure
you
of
a
friendship
so
pure
and
so
tender
,
that
were
there
a
veil
drawn
before
the
secrets
of
my
heart
,
you
would
mistake
it
for
Love.
The
amorous
heats
of
persons
of
my
age
,
are
generally
,
like
Passengers
,
fix'd
no where
;
and
draw
after
them
a
train
of
more
real
discontents
,
than
pleasures
.
Let
you
and
I
combine
our
hearts
in
the
solid
link
of
a
more
durable
union
.
You
shall
ever
be
the
object
of
my
whole
esteem
,
and
honor
me
alwayes
with
yours
.
This
is
the
only
Love
,
which
is
neither
subject
to
discontent
,
or
change
.
Phedra
blush'd
,
and
with
her
languishing
eyes
seem'd
to
beg
another
kind
of
union
;
but
again
confirm'd
the
promises
,
she
had
made
me
in
the
Ticket
she
sent
me
,
and
I
had
a
few
dayes
after
some
ground
to
believe
,
that
she
was
just
both
to
them
,
and
me
.
I
found
Terentia's
eyes
disarm'd
of
their
flaming
darts
;
she
suffer'd
me
to
pay
my
attendance
on
her
in
the
Gardens
of
Lucullus
:
she
address'd
some
discourse
to
me
,
which
though
it
treated
only
of
things
indifferent
,
did
transport
me
beyond
my self
with
joy
and
content
.
What
Miracles
have
you
wrought
already
?
My
dear
Phedra
,
said
I
,
when
I
had
the
opportunity
to
discourse
her
in
private
:
The
Gods
have
blest
your
generous
designs
,
and
the
most
obdurate
rigor
of
Terentia
,
is
not
able
to
hold
out
a
two
dayes
siege
against
your
batteries
.
What
am
I
able
to
perform
,
that
may
merit
a
service
of
this
importance
?
Do
not
intercept
from
me
the
means
of
continuing
it
,
reply'd
Phedra
;
you
were
never
yet
well
acquainted
with
the
humor
of
Terentia
;
it
includes
as
many
Mysteries
,
as
her
Person
Beauties
:
you
must
discover
nothing
to
her
,
but
give
her
leave
to
conjecture
your
intentions
.
And
this
was
the
track
,
by
which
Ovid
arriv'd
at
that
favor
,
he
aspired
too
:
which
you
must
likewise
take
,
if
you
hope
to
attain
to
it
:
Let
your
Love
employ
all
its
faculties
,
but
its
tongue
,
and
leave
to
me
the
care
of
interpreting
your
silence
not
to
your
disadvantage
.
This
counsel
was
the
more
difficult
for
me
to
obey
,
in
regard
Terentia
re-assuming
her
former
frankness
and
gayety
of
humor
in
conversing
with
me
,
furnish'd
me
with
a
thousand
occasions
of
breaking
the
uneasie
bonds
of
my
imposed
silence
.
But
Phedra
,
whose
eyes
were
two
watchful
Spies
over
me
,
disappointed
them
all
.
She
would
cast
terrible
frowns
at
me
;
she
would
interrupt
me
,
upon
a
bare
apprehension
,
that
I
was
going
to
give
my
tongue
liberty
to
discover
my
thoughts
;
and
never
suffering
me
to
be
the
Master
of
my
own
conduct
,
would
force
me
to
observe
the
Laws
she
had
prescrib'd
me
,
maugre
all
my
attempts
to
violate
them
.
I
fram'd
a
complaint
one
day
of
the
violence
she
offer'd
me
in
a
passionate
Letter
to
Terentia
,
which
I
deliver'd
to
Phedra
for
her
,
which
she
assur'd
me
she
had
oblig'd
her
to
read
;
I
seconded
that
with
another
,
to
which
I
receiv'd
a
Billet
of
three
or
four
lines
in
answer
.
Phedra
promis'd
me
,
that
in
a
little
time
she
would
effect
greater
things
for
me
.
And
a
little
after
,
a
Ticket
was
directed
to
me
,
which
summon'd
me
to
a
nocturnal
assignation
.
Phedra
brought
it
,
and
when
I
had
read
it
,
Well
,
said
she
,
have
I
not
now
,
think
you
,
dearly
purchas'd
your
stay
in
Rome
?
And
do
you
not
comprehend
,
that
at
the
rate
I
have
bought
it
,
how
precious
a
value
I
have
for
it
?
I
never
yet
doubted
your
goodness
,
my
dear
Phedra
,
answer'd
I
;
and
I
conjure
you
to
believe
,
that
there
are
no
acknowledgments
within
my
power
,
which
I
shall
not
sacrifice
to
it
.
Dispose
of
my
life
and
fortune
;
exact
the
strongest
proof
imaginable
from
a
friendship
,
which
ambitions
nothing
more
,
than
so
glorious
a
test
.
But
,
my
Lord
,
reply'd
she
,
interrupting
me
with
a
languishing
look
,
do
you
think
that
this
friendship
,
as
perfect
as
you
decipher
it
,
is
capable
to
enable
me
to
serve
you
,
as
I
do
,
with
tranquility
and
repose
?
You
employ
my
diligence
,
you
require
convincing
proofs
of
it
;
and
from
my
hand
you
receive
an
assignation
,
from
her
you
adore
;
what
could
your
revenge
,
or
your
hatred
,
commit
more
barbarous
,
or
more
cruel
?
My
dear
Phedra
,
said
I
,
sensibly
touch'd
with
this
reproach
,
Would
Heaven
had
given
me
the
same
command
of
my
heart
,
as
it
has
given
you
of
yours
,
I
should
then
have
sacrific'd
it
to
the
same
Deity
you
do
.
But
alas
!
I
am
an
unfortunate
wretch
,
who
has
no
power
left
him
,
but
to
fill
your
ears
with
complaints
against
the
severity
of
his
destiny
;
to
arraign
himself
before
you
of
ingratitude
,
and
offer
up
his
life
too
,
if
you
require
it
,
in
expiation
of
his
crime
.
You
offer
but
little
,
reply'd
Phedra
,
with
a
sigh
,
in
offering
so
much
;
and
you
are
assur'd
,
that
your
life
is
but
in
small
danger
,
if
that
be
the
onely
sacrifice
you
intend
to
offer
to
the
Deity
you
mention
.
In
saying
this
,
she
led
me
to
the
Cypress
Walk
;
into
one
end
whereof
,
there
is
a
private
descent
by
a
back
pair
of
Stairs
out
of
Terentia's
Closet
.
She
told
me
,
that
when
you
were
gone
at
night
to
wait
upon
the
Emperor
in
his
Bed-chamber
,
one
should
come
for
me
,
when
she
left
me
;
and
by
the
Stairs
I
nam'd
,
conduct
me
to
the
Room
,
where
Terentia
should
honor
me
with
the
interview
,
I
so
much
desir'd
.
Do
not
disturb
your self
,
my
Lord
,
said
Crassus
,
seeing
Mecoenas
change
colour
;
for
nothing
was
perform'd
,
of
what
was
promised
.
I
stood
Sentinel
two
long
hours
at
the
foot
of
a
Cypress
Tree
;
the
least
motion
whereof
,
made
me
shake
,
like
the
trembling
leaves
over
my
head
,
and
struck
a
panic
terror
into
my
Soul
:
when
at
length
there
came
one
to
me
,
and
told
me
,
that
you
were
engag'd
at
Play
with
Prince
Marcellus
;
that
you
did
not
go
that
night
to
wait
upon
the
Emperor
,
and
that
our
Assignment
was
to
be
adjourned
to
the
next
day
.
I
laid
a
thousand
imprecations
upon
the
first
Inventors
of
Gaming
,
and
the
practice
of
it
.
I
threw
as
many
more
at
my
Stars
,
and
went
raving
towards
the
place
,
where
you
were
at
play
,
hoping
at
least
to
purchase
a
view
of
Terentia
in
publick
,
which
was
deny'd
me
in
private
.
This
expectation
was
no
more
successful
,
than
the
former
.
Terentia
was
retir'd
,
and
I
was
scarce
entred
,
when
one
of
her
Slaves
came
,
and
whispering
Ovid
aside
,
who
was
looking
upon
the
Gamesters
,
conducted
him
to
her
Ladies
Chamber
.
I
am
well
acquainted
with
all
the
transactions
of
that
night
,
reply'd
Mecoenas
;
and
if
you
take
your
measures
from
thence
,
your
suspitions
are
chimerical
,
and
you
ought
to
efface
them
out
of
your
thoughts
.
They
are
effac'd
already
,
my
Lord
,
said
Crassus
,
and
I
am
as
well
satisfi'd
at
the
present
,
as
your self
,
touching
the
design
for
which
Terentia
sent
that
night
for
Ovid
;
but
I
was
then
ignorant
of
it
;
and
only
apprehended
,
that
he
was
favour'd
with
the
Assignation
,
which
was
promised
me
:
that
the
appointment
was
broken
with
me
,
to
befriend
him
;
and
that
my
just
resentments
of
so
inhumane
an
affront
was
design'd
only
to
advance
the
triumph
of
my
Rival
.
I
went
to
seek
out
Phedra
,
to
make
my
complaint
to
her
;
but
I
could
find
her
neither
in
her
own
Chamber
,
nor
in
any
of
her
Companions
;
I
thought
she
might
have
been
gone
into
the
Garden
,
to
look
after
me
,
and
advertise
me
of
what
had
fallen
out
.
I
hastened
thither
,
after
I
had
made
many
turns
in
vain
about
it
,
at
last
I
perceiv'd
Ovid
descending
by
those
Stairs
,
which
I
had
been
told
,
was
the
private
Road
of
favour'd
Lovers
.
Can
you
wonder
,
my
Lord
,
if
I
retain'd
not
the
least
spark
of
sound
judgment
or
reason
,
in
a
circumstance
so
capable
to
deprive
me
of
it
;
and
if
I
endeavour'd
to
revenge
upon
Ovid
,
a
treachery
,
which
I
could
not
call
Terentia
to
an
account
for
.
Phedra
writ
to
me
the
next
morning
,
and
highly
blaming
me
for
the
rude
alarm
,
I
had
given
her
Ladies
honor
,
assur'd
me
that
it
would
utterly
ruine
me
in
her
good
opinion
;
and
that
I
should
despair
hereafter
of
ever
receiving
the
least
favor
from
her
:
Did
it
not
become
me
,
either
to
cast
out
Complaints
,
or
Menaces
?
That
a
real
Love
was
always
attended
with
a
zealous
fear
and
submission
.
I
ran
to
Phedra's
Chamber
,
to
conjure
her
either
to
obtain
a
pardon
for
me
,
or
a
sentence
of
death
:
She
was
gone
to
Helvidia's
,
and
her
Moorish
Slave
left
me
in
hers
,
whilst
she
went
to
call
her
.
I
was
not
then
in
an
humor
to
delude
either
my
time
or
thoughts
,
with
the
search
after
Curiosities
;
but
,
I
know
not
what
secret
impulse
mov'd
me
to
cast
my
eyes
upon
an
Escritoire
,
which
stood
open
by
me
;
I
examin'd
it
,
and
found
in
it
a
Letter
,
which
at
the
first
sight
,
I
imagin'd
to
be
Terentia's
writing
.
I
opened
it
:
But
my
Lord
,
How
great
was
my
astonishment
,
when
by
the
Stile
,
and
the
Subscription
,
I
found
it
to
be
Phedra's
.
She
gave
therein
an
account
of
a
Suit
the
Lacedemonians
had
then
depending
at
Court
,
which
I
knew
,
had
been
recommended
to
her
.
She
magnifi'd
it
in
the
favors
you
honor'd
her
with
,
her
credit
,
her
expectations
;
and
in
fine
,
gave
her self
so
natural
a
character
,
that
I
had
never
known
her
before
,
but
through
a
disguise
.
I
pulled
the
Ticket
and
Letter
out
of
my
Pocket
,
which
I
imagin'd
Terentia
had
sent
me
,
I
compar'd
it
with
that
I
had
in
my
hand
.
The
Writing
was
much
like
;
and
to
evince
all
my
scruples
,
I
found
in
the
same
Cabinet
,
an
Order
to
Phedra
,
written
with
your
Wives
own
hand
,
which
spoke
in
the
language
of
a
Mistress
to
a
Servant
,
and
convinc'd
me
by
the
difference
of
the
Character
,
that
it
was
none
but
Phedra
,
who
had
written
to
me
.
What
a
Thunder-clap
was
this
to
a
man
,
who
was
totally
absorpt
in
a
deluge
of
Love
,
and
believed
himsef
to
be
fixt
in
his
Mistresses
favor
.
Oh!
Phedra
,
cry'd
I
,
as
soon
as
I
saw
her
enter
,
you
have
trepan'd
me
,
by
a
horrid
act
of
treachery
.
See
here
irrefragable
testimonies
to
cast
you
;
that
under
a
pretence
of
an
unfeigned
Passion
,
which
you
suborn'd
to
delude
me
,
have
expos'd
my
credulity
to
the
rude
treats
of
your
Malice
.
I
was
able
to
say
no
more
to
her
;
for
the
confusion
I
saw
her
in
,
had
converted
all
my
suspitions
into
certitude
;
which
rais'd
mine
own
to
such
an
height
,
that
it
even
conglutinated
my
Tongue
to
the
Palate
of
my
Mouth
.
When
the
first
pangs
of
this
Agony
were
past
,
and
from
a
Marble
Pillar
that
propt
me
up
,
I
cast
a
glance
upon
the
eyes
of
Phedra
,
which
by
the
torrent
of
their
tears
,
and
their
dejected
bashfulness
,
confirmed
the
Sentence
of
my
misfortune
;
False
and
ingrateful
Phedra
,
said
I
to
her
,
outrag'd
with
grief
,
What
inhumane
crime
am
I
guilty
of
towards
you
,
that
you
should
reduce
me
to
the
most
deplorable
state
,
that
humanity
it self
was
ever
forced
to
groan
vnder
?
Was
I
culpable
,
because
your
eyes
thought
me
charming
?
Did
I
abuse
your
facility
?
Did
I
encourage
your
passion
,
or
expose
it
to
publick
scorn
?
In
fine
,
What
barbarism
have
I
committed
,
that
could
induce
you
to
commit
so
many
Treasons
against
me
?
You
would
have
left
me
,
reply'd
she
,
and
I
had
not
resolution
enough
to
support
your
absence
.
I
borrow'd
the
credit
of
Terentia
,
where
I
saw
mine
own
insufficient
.
The
invisible
Powers
above
,
are
my
Witnesses
,
that
I
have
not
been
wanting
to
any
one
particular
of
those
devoirs
,
I
engag'd
to
you
;
and
that
repugnant
to
the
impulse
of
my
own
forcible
inclinations
,
I
would
have
sacrific'd
them
to
your
felicity
,
had
it
center'd
in
me
.
But
Terentia
was
inexorable
,
and
you
resolv'd
to
leave
Rome
:
What
could
an
unfortunate
Woman
do
?
who
,
influenc'd
by
the
fatality
of
her
Stars
,
regarded
your
absence
as
the
most
cruel
of
all
torments
.
But
,
said
I
,
Terentia's
rigor
is
mollifyed
,
she
speaks
to
me
,
and
denies
me
no
marks
of
a
visible
esteem
.
To
what
Magick
,
or
Fancy
,
do
I
owe
this
?
To
a
Fancy
,
reply'd
Phedra
,
I
have
suggested
to
her
,
that
you
had
withdrawn
your
love
,
and
rendring
your self
to
my
importunities
,
addrest
those
Vows
to
me
,
which
were
so
displeasing
to
her
.
And
I
my self
conceived
the
vain
hope
to
induce
you
one
day
to
approve
so
chimerical
a
change
.
I
flattered
my self
with
the
thoughts
of
obtaining
that
by
a
sense
of
gratitude
and
compassion
,
which
your
inclination
could
not
grant
me
;
and
to
gain
time
to
accomplish
my
design
,
I
made
use
of
the
dexterity
,
I
have
,
in
writing
two
different
hands
.
And
seeing
the
more
Sacrifice
my
Love
offered
to
you
,
the
less
sensible
you
were
of
it
,
I
resolv'd
to
owe
that
to
a
Stratagem
,
which
I
could
arrive
to
by
no
other
means
.
I
would
have
supply'd
the
place
of
Terentia
,
at
the
appointed
Assignation
,
and
in
order
to
it
,
had
disposed
all
things
for
the
best
advantage
to
deceive
you
.
I
would
have
spoken
to
you
from
within
a
Glass
Alcove
;
from
which
you
should
have
been
plac'd
at
such
a
distance
,
that
you
should
not
have
been
sensible
of
the
cheat
.
But
Love
,
tyrannick
Love
,
deny'd
me
even
that
imaginary
satisfaction
,
of
raising
your
transports
under
the
notion
of
another
.
For
Terentia
had
cloyster'd
her self
up
all
the
time
in
that
unlucky
Closet
,
which
I
had
design'd
for
our
Converse
.
What
severer
punishment
could
you
wish
Heaven
to
inflict
upon
me
,
than
that
whereof
I
my self
am
the
fatal
Instrument
?
I
love
,
without
hopes
of
being
lov'd
again
.
I
have
betray'd
the
confidence
of
a
Lady
,
which
has
highly
oblig'd
me
.
I
have
hazarded
her
reputatition
,
the
honor
of
Mecoenas
,
your
own
life
and
fortune
.
And
I
have
purchas'd
nothing
in
compensation
of
so
many
Crimes
,
but
the
assurance
of
being
loathsome
and
odious
to
you
.
Cruel
one
!
can
you
so
much
forget
Man
,
and
receive
a
Tyger
in
your
Bosom
,
as
to
object
to
me
yet
your
unworthy
reproaches
?
And
is
the
antipathy
,
you
have
conceiv'd
against
me
,
so
inveterate
,
that
the
sence
of
my
sufferings
will
never
be
able
to
extinguish
it
?
I
scarce
heard
these
last
passionate
expressions
,
for
I
turn'd
hastily
away
from
her
,
to
go
seek
out
Terentia
:
and
imagining
that
nothing
could
be
of
more
tragical
consequence
to
me
,
than
the
errors
,
Phedra
had
treacherously
involv'd
her
in
,
I
would
have
run
all
hazards
,
to
have
dispossed
her
of
it
.
But
since
my
encounter
with
Ovid
,
she
has
always
so
sedulously
addicted
her self
to
Caesar
,
to
calm
his
indignation
,
that
I
could
never
gain
a
moments
time
to
entertain
her
,
I
judge
that
Phedra
has
not
neglected
,
that
,
that
I
allow'd
her
;
and
considering
,
what
an
opportunity
,
I
had
to
ruine
her
,
has
prevented
me
.
But
,
my
Lord
,
let
her
not
triumph
over
my
misfortune
,
and
in
her
glorious
Treason
.
Alas
!
without
its
artifice
,
I
had
design'd
to
remove
my self
from
Terentia's
presence
;
and
to
go
into
the
Field
,
and
there
oppose
the
effeminate
attacks
of
Venus
with
the
rough
Arms
of
Bellona
;
nor
ever
to
see
Rome
more
,
till
Mars
had
been
my
Physitian
,
and
cur'd
my
distemper
.
But
the
fraudulent
Phedra
has
traversed
my
design
;
and
to
satisfie
the
fancy
of
her
capricious
Love
,
which
her
Reason
ought
to
have
surmounted
,
gave
the
occasion
of
that
tumult
and
disorder
,
you
saw
the
Court
in
.
It
was
she
,
who
by
fomenting
my
jealousie
against
Ovid
,
was
the
instrument
of
that
great
Persons
banishment
.
But
time
has
at
length
convinc'd
me
,
that
my
suspitions
were
groundless
,
and
that
Phedra
did
only
raise
them
,
to
be
an
obstacle
to
my
Passion
:
But
had
they
not
been
unfortunately
confin'd
by
my
encountring
Ovid
in
the
Garden
,
that
Noble
Personage
might
have
been
at
this
hour
in
Rome
;
Caesar
free
from
all
resentments
of
jealousie
,
or
revenge
,
and
Marcellus
in
repose
;
and
you
,
your self
,
my
Lord
,
ignorant
perhaps
of
the
secret
designs
,
I
form'd
,
to
attack
the
Royal
Fort
of
Terentia's
heart
.
Guard
your self
from
a
fury
so
fertile
in
fatal
inventions
,
and
assuring
your self
,
that
she
may
act
one
day
as
much
against
your
interest
,
as
you
see
,
she
has
done
of
late
against
mine
,
preserve
Terentia
and
your self
from
the
Artifices
of
so
deluding
a
Sorceress
.
This
discovery
and
preadmonition
had
already
produc'd
the
most
cruel
effects
in
the
heart
of
Mecoenas
,
as
it
was
capable
to
comprehend
.
He
passionately
affected
Phedra
;
and
his
Love
was
the
more
violent
,
in
that
he
conceal'd
it
as
a
secret
,
from
the
eyes
of
the
world
.
He
resented
with
an
incredible
dissatisfaction
,
the
injury
his
Passion
had
receiv'd
from
the
ingratitude
of
this
false
one
.
And
more
enrag'd
against
Crassus
,
for
the
innocent
attempt
he
had
made
upon
the
heart
of
his
Mistriss
,
than
the
criminal
one
he
had
form'd
against
that
of
his
Wife
,
he
executed
Caesar's
Orders
with
a
rigor
not
sutable
to
the
sweetness
of
his
natural
temper
.
Crassus
was
astonish'd
,
and
could
not
forbear
to
tell
him
,
that
he
ought
either
to
treat
him
with
less
mildness
,
or
execute
his
Commission
with
less
authority
.
Mecoenas
would
not
vouchsafe
to
return
him
an
answer
;
and
understanding
that
Phedra
had
not
accompany'd
Terentia
to
Tullia's
Villa
,
he
ran
,
transported
with
jealousie
,
towards
the
Chamber
of
that
ungrateful
one
;
but
was
intercepted
by
the
way
by
the
Philosopher
Volumnius
,
who
was
a
Man
in
high
reputation
for
his
learning
and
wisdom
,
and
in
particular
esteem
with
Mecoenas
,
whom
he
acquainted
,
that
he
was
come
not
only
to
wait
upon
him
,
but
likewise
to
entertain
him
with
a
Novelty
of
importance
.
They
retir'd
together
into
a
Closet
,
and
when
they
were
alone
,
what
an
Age
do
we
live
in
?
My
Lord
,
said
the
Philosopher
,
the
debauchery
of
Wit
and
Manners
,
triumphs
over
all
Laws
,
contemns
the
counsels
and
advice
of
wisdom
,
and
converts
into
tears
of
compassion
the
unregarded
documents
of
Prudence
.
Ovid
,
who
has
receiv'd
so
many
graces
both
from
Caesar
,
and
you
;
Ovid
so
capable
of
all
excellent
notions
and
knowledge
,
if
he
would
apply
himself
to
them
;
Ovid
,
in
a
word
,
to
whom
I
have
been
so
prodigal
of
my
richest
instructions
,
has
betray'd
both
Natures
designs
,
and
mine
.
Behold
here
,
my
Lord
the
Legacy
he
bequeath'd
me
some
few
dayes
before
his
Thalassian
journey
,
and
banishing
all
spirits
of
this
character
from
the
Court
,
acquit
your self
with
honor
of
the
trust
,
Caesar
has
repos'd
in
yours
.
Finishing
these
words
,
he
put
into
Mecoenas's
hand
a
little
Cabinet
of
Cedar
,
which
Ovid
,
coming
from
Domitius's
house
had
left
behind
him
,
rather
through
oblivion
,
than
design
of
his
.
Mecoenas
open'd
it
,
and
the
first
Paper
that
came
to
his
hand
,
contain'd
the
following
Verses
.
An
Explication
of
the
Pictures
which
adorn
the
Gallery
of
Domitius
.
For
LIVIA
.
Out-braving
Marriage-Faith
,
and
Sacred
Laws
,
I
triumph
over
Hymen
with
applause
,
And
with
the
reins
of
an
unbridled
Pow'r
Commanding
Rome
,
and
Romes
great
Emperor
,
What
she
,
though
ne're
so
virtuous
,
or
so
fair
,
Is
that
,
who
dares
herself
with
Me
compare
?
For
JULIA
.
You
see
in
Livia
,
what
Grandeur
can
do
;
Commit
grand
faults
,
and
justifie
them
too
.
But
Fate
,
whose
maxims
ne're
comply
with
time
,
Has
new
State-principles
for
me
in
store
,
And
has
decreed
it
for
my
greatest
crime
,
To
be
the
Daughter
of
an
Emperor
.
For
TERENTIA
.
Sculptors
,
Historians
,
Painters
,
Poets
,
cease
T'
employ
your
Pens
,
or
Pencils
,
to
express
My
Fortune
,
Charms
,
or
Life
:
the
world
you
know
,
Does
seldom
prove
so
just
,
as
to
bestow
An
equal
character
,
on
what
so
rare
,
And
worthy
of
its
envy
,
does
appear
.
For
VARENTILLA
.
My
Charms
were
once
so
pow'rful
,
and
my
Wit
,
I
hop'd
t'
have
made
the
Vniverse
submit
Vnto
my
Laws
;
but
those
I
'd
heretofore
,
Have
now
no
more
their
lustre
,
nor
their
pow'r
.
For
TULLIA
.
The
Author
nothing
has
to
say
of
me
,
But
that
for
to
be
brief
,
he
'll
silent
be
.
For
SULPICIA
.
Spectator
,
if
thou
dost
desire
to
see
The
Portraicture
of
Romes
austerity
,
Cast
on
some
other
,
and
not
this
,
thy
eye
;
But
if
thou
hast
the
curiosity
,
To
find
the
Soul
here
of
a
Man
of
honor
,
This
is
the
peece
:
fix
thy
regards
upon
her
.
What
manner
of
speaking
is
this
,
said
Volumnius
?
Is
the
Soul
of
a
Man
of
Honor
capable
to
make
a
Woman
of
Honor
?
That
which
the
World
entitles
a
Man
of
Honor
,
does
glory
to
be
gallant
,
and
favored
of
Ladies
;
but
contrariwise
,
a
Woman
of
Honor
declines
the
intrigues
of
Gallantry
,
and
regards
Chastity
and
Modesty
as
the
two
Pillars
that
support
all
the
other
virtues
of
her
Sex.
What
can
Ovid
mean
by
the
expression
then
?
but
that
Sulpicia
ambitioning
only
the
qualities
of
a
Man
of
Honor
,
did
not
pretend
to
those
of
a
Woman
of
Honor.
What
Licentiousness
?
What
Malice
is
this
?
I
will
wager
,
that
Ovid
would
not
have
said
this
of
the
Wife
of
Tisienus
,
but
in
revenge
of
that
severity
,
which
of
all
virtues
in
a
Woman
,
he
ever
exprest
the
least
esteem
for
.
Whil'st
Volumnius
was
intent
upon
his
Philosophical
Ratiocinations
,
Mecoenas
was
not
less
on
his
Poetical
diversions
:
And
after
divers
Copies
of
Verses
of
the
same
character
,
he
lighted
upon
a
piece
of
Prose
,
the
first
leaf
whereof
he
could
not
read
without
smiling
,
and
ask'd
Volumnius
whether
he
had
well
examin'd
the
Papers
he
had
brought
him
.
I
examine
them
?
My
Lord
,
reply'd
the
Philosopher
,
the
Gods
defend
me
from
blasting
my
soul
or
my
eyes
,
with
reading
such
no
less
dangerous
,
than
scurrilous
vanities
;
I
only
lightly
perus'd
the
Verses
which
concern'd
the
Empress
,
and
seiz'd
with
the
horror
of
their
blasphemies
,
came
in
haste
to
deliver
the
Criminals
up
into
your
hands
.
I
have
supply'd
the
defect
of
your
curiosity
,
reply'd
Mecenas
,
smiling
all
the
time
;
and
that
your
zeal
may
not
want
its
just
recompence
,
I
will
teach
you
how
far
it
has
transported
you
:
and
in
saying
this
,
he
began
to
read
the
Paper
out
aloud
.
OVID's
Apology
.
I
here
pronounce
the
Sentence
of
Condemnation
upon
all
,
the
Publick
lays
to
my
charge
.
I
ingenuously
confess
,
that
I
have
alwayes
abandon'd
my
Soul
to
its
own
licentious
inclinations
,
dedicated
all
the
faculties
thereof
to
the
enjoyment
of
the
voluptuous
pleasures
of
Love
:
And
as
the
full
satisfaction
of
the
senses
does
smother
and
extinguish
the
light
of
reason
,
the
charms
of
Love
caus'd
me
to
forget
and
slight
the
due
consideration
I
ought
to
have
had
of
the
indispensable
Laws
:
but
nature
and
my self
are
not
guilty
alone
of
this
crime
,
Men
have
contributed
more
to
it
than
the
Stars
;
and
the
false
wisdom
of
Volumnius
did
inoculate
the
first
grafts
of
this
folly
into
my
Soul.
How
?
my
Lord
,
interrupted
Volumnius
,
has
that
scandalous
Satyrist
assign'd
me
a
place
too
in
his
Sessions
?
What
matter
is
't
,
answer'd
Mecoenas
gravely
,
a
great
Philosopher
as
you
are
,
ought
not
to
be
moved
at
the
liberty
of
a
Poetical
extravagance
,
and
continuing
his
reading
,
All
the
world
,
(
went
he
on
)
knows
this
Volumnius
:
I
entertain'd
an
esteem
for
him
upon
the
report
Fame
publish'd
of
his
wisdom
;
and
being
prepossest
with
his
character
,
I
had
a
sensible
esteem
likewise
for
all
,
that
he
express'd
in
relation
to
me
.
I
could
not
without
trouble
digest
his
Censures
upon
my
Treatise
,
de
Arte
Amandi
:
I
went
to
visit
him
,
with
design
to
have
some
conference
with
him
.
What
would
you
have
with
me
,
said
he
,
as
soon
as
he
knew
my
name
:
I
am
the
scourge
of
the
voluptuous
,
the
censurer
of
worldlings
,
and
the
confounder
of
the
proud
.
Have
these
qualities
any
Alliance
with
yours
?
And
can
it
be
possible
,
that
one
Bond
of
commerce
or
friendship
,
can
combine
Ovid
and
Volumnius
together
?
It
is
so
possible
,
reply'd
I
,
without
seeming
to
be
mov'd
,
that
if
you
were
not
what
you
are
,
and
that
I
were
not
what
I
am
,
I
would
have
nothing
to
do
with
you
;
what
need
have
those
,
who
are
in
perfect
health
,
of
a
Physician
?
And
who
would
address
himself
to
the
wise
,
if
he
could
furnish
himself
with
those
Maxims
and
Instructions
he
comes
to
demand
of
them
?
It
is
my
part
,
who
am
wholly
destitute
of
those
Goods
and
Riches
,
to
beg
a
supply
of
them
from
you
.
Vouchsafe
then
to
impart
some
of
them
to
me
,
and
declare
to
me
,
if
you
please
,
by
what
Arguments
you
pretend
to
extirpate
Pride
and
Voluptuousness
out
of
the
World.
By
reason
,
reply'd
Volumnius
with
a
serious
gravity
,
I
shall
need
to
borrow
none
but
from
her
,
to
convince
a
reasonable
Creature
of
their
brutality
;
and
that
alone
I
grounded
my
Thesis
on
,
when
I
demonstrated
,
that
your
Art
of
Loving
,
was
a
contexture
of
pernicious
Maxims
,
an
Academy
of
all
Vice
,
and
a
visible
depravation
of
the
Faculties
of
the
Soul.
I
rais'd
my
voice
at
this
definition
,
and
looking
upon
Volumnius
with
an
eye
of
admiration
,
how
?
said
I
,
Is
the
Art
of
reducing
into
practice
the
reason
of
a
Man
,
an
Art
opposite
to
reason
?
And
do
I
deprave
the
Faculties
of
the
Soul
,
when
I
teach
Men
the
perfect
practice
of
that
,
which
is
the
visible
mark
of
their
Being
?
The
visible
mark
of
their
Being
,
exclaim'd
Volumnius
:
Do
you
call
that
a
Being
,
which
according
to
your
own
Maxims
,
has
no
existence
but
in
another
?
Do
not
you
engage
a
Lover
to
live
more
in
that
,
which
inspires
him
with
a
Passion
,
than
in
that
,
which
inspires
him
with
a
Being
?
Do
not
you
make
his
health
,
his
joy
,
his
repose
,
and
oftentimes
his
honor
,
to
depend
upon
the
person
he
loves
?
And
has
not
a
Being
a
more
noble
dependance
than
this
?
And
have
not
I
then
reason
to
conclude
,
that
your
Art
of
Loving
,
teaches
a
Man
the
Art
to
return
again
to
his
first
Nothing
,
from
whence
the
Gods
have
been
pleas'd
to
draw
and
extract
him
?
This
way
of
reasoning
,
as
extravagant
as
it
was
,
seem'd
to
me
very
pleasant
and
subtile
;
and
caus'd
me
to
have
an
esteem
for
his
wit
,
though
I
could
not
relish
his
Maxims
.
I
pray'd
him
to
infuse
into
me
as
sensible
a
gust
of
his
Maxims
,
as
they
had
done
already
an
esteem
of
his
Learning
.
But
I
am
afraid
you
will
find
it
,
said
I
ingenuously
,
a
talk
of
more
difficulty
than
you
apprehend
;
for
I
never
yet
found
any
solid
pleasure
or
satisfaction
in
any
thing
,
but
a
reciprocal
Love
,
which
hitherto
I
have
only
regarded
,
as
a
subject
worthy
to
captivate
all
the
Faculties
of
a
Soul
the
Gods
have
accomplisht
with
the
greatest
perfections
.
I
beseech
you
to
manage
this
passion
by
your
prudence
for
my
best
advantage
:
And
since
it
is
not
capable
to
byass
my
Soul
,
and
divert
it
from
the
secret
inclination
it
has
to
Love
,
let
it
endeavor
to
choose
objects
for
it
most
worthy
its
consideration
.
Volumnius
was
ready
to
caper
for
joy
,
when
he
heard
me
make
this
Proposition
,
and
promis'd
me
to
sacrifice
all
his
elucubrations
for
a
happy
success
;
and
I
,
for
my
own
part
,
assur'd
him
of
all
the
assiduity
and
diligence
he
could
require
of
me
.
In
fine
,
we
became
inseparable
.
And
the
beginning
of
this
Amity
charm'd
my
Soul
with
a
thousand
pleasures
and
delights
.
He
has
a
spirit
embellish'd
with
all
curious
literature
:
And
does
not
affect
the
common
method
of
teaching
,
practis'd
in
the
Schools
,
but
aspires
to
a
more
noble
one
.
Her
reasons
upon
the
principles
of
things
,
has
made
divers
experiments
of
curiosity
,
and
did
discover
to
me
a
thousand
new
secrets
in
Philosophy
,
and
the
Liberal
Sciences
:
But
when
from
these
artificial
qualifications
,
we
descended
to
the
reason
upon
those
of
Nature
;
Alas
!
how
great
Strangers
did
I
find
the
sophystical
Subtilties
of
this
sage
one
,
to
these
Notions
?
And
how
great
a
grief
did
I
conceive
in
my
mind
,
that
I
had
sacrific'd
so
much
time
and
study
to
so
empty
a
vanity
?
We
one
day
,
I
know
not
how
,
fell
into
a
discourse
of
the
Reign
of
Augustus
,
and
the
merit
of
his
Favorites
.
Are
you
one
of
those
Sycophants
too
,
said
he
,
who
are
accountable
to
the
Gods
for
the
dissoluteness
of
the
Age
?
And
encourage
it
by
your
Applause
.
What
do
you
find
so
dissolute
in
the
Age
,
said
I
,
interrupting
him
,
Men
labor
to
live
with
convenience
and
satisfaction
in
it
.
Will
you
not
allow
,
that
every
one
ought
to
render
to
the
Gods
an
Account
of
those
Goods
he
has
receiv'd
from
their
liberal
hands
?
And
if
you
had
given
one
of
your
servants
a
piece
of
Land
to
improve
,
would
you
be
pleased
if
he
should
leave
one
half
of
it
cover'd
over
with
bushes
and
bryars
,
and
other
trumpery
?
Men
are
properly
the
Trustees
of
Nature
.
It
is
for
them
,
that
she
daily
labors
,
and
is
,
as
I
may
say
,
brought
to
Bed
of
such
variety
of
Productions
:
And
they
ought
to
use
them
with
all
grateful
moderation
.
The
Sea
offers
us
Fish
,
and
we
must
employ
our
industry
to
catch
it
;
the
Earth
presents
us
with
Fruits
,
and
we
must
take
the
pains
to
gather
them
.
Every
Element
,
every
Season
furnishes
a
Man
with
varieties
,
to
render
his
life
pleasant
and
delicious
.
Behold
the
Maxims
,
cry'd
out
Volumnius
in
a
passion
,
upon
which
the
vanity
and
gluttony
of
the
Age
are
establish'd
.
From
the
source
of
such
Epicurean
Arguments
,
spring
so
many
unbridled
desires
,
so
many
licentious
debaucheries
.
It
is
by
this
fanatical
pretence
of
indulging
themselves
the
use
of
Natures
bounty
,
that
Men
would
oblige
the
Gods
to
create
every
day
a
new
Sea
,
and
a
new
Earth
,
if
the
insatiability
of
Worldlings
,
were
as
omnipotent
,
as
it
is
boundless
.
Here
throwing
the
loose
reins
on
the
neck
of
his
satyrical
humor
,
he
committed
more
unpardonable
Errors
in
one
hours
discourse
,
than
one
of
Venus's
profest
Idolaters
would
have
done
in
a
ten
years
Love-intrigue
.
No
state
,
no
condition
of
life
escaped
the
lash
of
his
rage
.
He
tax'd
the
Senate
of
remissness
,
the
People
of
blindness
,
the
Court
of
debauchery
,
and
the
Soldiers
of
effeminacy
.
There
was
nothing
so
sacred
,
which
his
tongue
did
not
profane
;
Ladies
of
the
severest
virtue
were
accus'd
by
him
of
dissimulation
,
the
Priests
of
hypocrisie
,
and
even
the
purity
it self
of
Vestals
,
blemish'd
by
the
imparity
of
his
Censures
.
What
,
said
I
to
him
,
Are
these
the
fruits
of
that
wisdom
you
make
so
glorious
a
profession
of
?
Are
detraction
,
disrespect
and
contempt
of
your
Neighbor
,
the
Basis
,
on
which
you
have
rais'd
to
your self
that
splendid
Title
of
a
Reverend
Sage
?
And
to
demonstrate
your self
to
be
a
reasonable
Animal
,
do
you
accuse
all
the
rest
of
the
World
of
brutality
and
folly
?
Ho!
What
is
the
World
,
reply'd
he
,
but
a
confus'd
Mass
,
and
contexture
of
brain-sick
follies
?
Does
the
Lawyer
,
who
consumes
his
litigious
dayes
in
deciding
Controversies
,
wherein
he
is
seldom
concern'd
,
merit
the
Title
of
a
wise
Man
?
Does
not
the
Courtier
,
who
makes
himself
the
Ape
of
all
new
fashions
,
and
sacrifices
his
repose
,
his
health
,
and
his
estate
,
to
the
capricio
of
every
new
Mode
,
deserve
to
be
enroll'd
in
the
Catalogue
of
Fools
?
Does
not
the
Madam
,
who
by
a
thousand
affected
vanities
spins
her self
the
web
,
wherein
the
painted
Butterflie
ensnares
her
own
liberty
and
honor
,
deserve
to
be
called
a
Mad-ame
,
or
Mad
Soul
indeed
?
And
is
not
the
Lover
,
who
lies
whining
at
the
feet
of
this
Lady
Foolish
,
as
great
a
Fool
himself
?
Who
is
then
,
said
I
,
interrupting
him
,
a
wise
Man
in
your
opinion
?
My self
,
reply'd
Volumnius
,
with
a
starch'd
gravity
of
countenance
;
who
free
from
the
engagements
and
tumults
of
the
world
,
center
in
my self
my
own
repose
,
and
my
own
felicity
:
Alas
,
said
I
,
do
you
call
that
chagrin
and
those
virulent
dregs
of
a
flegmatick
Soul
,
which
you
so
peevishly
vent
against
all
other
Men
,
a
true
repose
?
Does
that
satyrical
humor
,
which
has
even
devour'd
up
in
you
all
sense
of
humanity
;
which
will
not
suffer
my
Muse
quietly
to
addict
herself
to
the
Noble
Art
of
Loving
,
without
attacking
her
with
loud
reproaches
,
which
represents
the
Universe
to
you
,
in
the
shape
of
a
Monster
,
compos'd
of
nothing
but
honor
and
deformity
;
and
which
under
the
pretence
of
a
petulant
censure
,
does
,
without
intermission
,
hound
you
on
upon
all
Mankind
,
does
all
this
,
I
say
,
deserve
the
name
of
a
calm
tranquility
of
spirit
?
No
,
no
,
Volumnius
,
you
do
not
carry
a
calm
,
but
a
tempest
in
your
breast
;
and
the
frothy
effects
of
it
flie
up
into
your
brain
,
and
intoxicate
your
reason
.
The
opinion
,
you
cherish
,
of
your
own
wisdom
,
is
an
Arrogance
,
more
insupportable
than
that
,
of
which
you
impeach
the
proudest
Worldlings
;
and
they
need
not
so
strong
an
Antidote
to
preserve
themselves
from
the
dangerous
contagion
of
those
soft
pleasures
,
to
which
you
declare
your self
a
mortal
enemy
,
as
they
do
from
the
venom
of
your
injurious
Censures
.
A
Lover
concerns
himself
with
nothing
but
what
concerns
his
Love.
All
the
Evils
,
which
his
Passion
is
the
Author
of
,
flow
both
to
and
from
himself
;
And
he
esteems
himself
so
much
oblig'd
to
those
,
who
give
no
disturbance
to
his
innocent
Amours
,
that
in
recompence
of
the
obligation
,
he
gives
a
free
pardon
to
all
the
miscarriages
of
the
Age
;
you
on
the
contrary
,
being
partial
to
your self
,
and
obnoxious
to
all
others
,
think
to
avoid
the
imputation
of
a
private
ignominy
and
weakness
,
by
a
licentious
inveighing
against
the
glory
and
authority
of
other
Men.
Believe
me
,
Volumnius
,
you
were
never
wise
.
Wisdom
is
more
modest
,
and
more
prudent
.
You
are
more
a
slave
to
your
passion
,
than
the
voluptuous
Man
,
whose
scourge
you
glory
to
call
your self
,
is
to
his
:
And
to
obey
their
peevish
instigations
,
you
brand
the
Actions
of
Virtue
and
Innocence
it self
;
and
repose
that
pleasure
and
satisfaction
in
this
,
which
another
finds
in
the
regaling
of
his
senses
.
Volumnius
confirm'd
all
by
his
ungovern'd
passion
,
that
I
had
alledg'd
against
him
:
and
scorning
to
acknowledge
himself
convinc'd
,
he
broke
out
of
the
lists
of
the
dispute
,
and
launching
himself
forth
into
a
wild
Ocean
of
bitter
invectives
,
he
possess'd
me
with
a
greater
contempt
of
his
vanity
,
than
report
had
done
before
,
with
an
esteem
for
his
virtue
.
We
parted
ill
satisfied
with
one
another
.
And
ever
since
that
day
,
he
has
us'd
so
zealous
a
diligence
in
snatching
at
all
opportunities
of
doing
me
an
injury
,
employ'd
in
the
effecting
it
,
Instruments
so
base
and
unworthy
,
and
I
have
found
his
Soul
so
susceptible
of
all
sordid
and
mechanical
impressions
,
that
he
has
convinc'd
me
,
that
a
truly
wise
Man
,
is
one
diametrically
opposite
to
Voluminus
.
I
have
alwayes
profest
as
great
a
respect
and
esteem
for
the
counsels
of
my
Friends
,
as
he
has
obstinacy
to
have
fix'd
me
to
his
blind
Errors
:
He
has
endeavor'd
to
make
me
feel
the
malicious
effects
of
his
revenge
,
and
I
have
generously
pardon'd
all
his
mischievous
intentions
:
He
thinks
himself
the
only
person
in
the
world
,
worthy
of
its
admiration
and
praise
,
and
I
receive
those
,
as
a
favor
,
it
flatters
me
with
;
and
so
by
a
consequent
series
of
the
like
oppositions
,
I
have
consecrated
all
the
Faculties
of
my
Soul
,
to
the
charms
of
that
divine
passion
,
against
which
Volumnius
professes
so
inhumane
an
antipathy
and
horror
.
It
was
to
have
been
wish'd
for
the
diversion
of
Mecoenas
,
that
this
Comick
Scene
had
preceded
the
Tragical
Relation
of
Crassus
;
it
would
have
afforded
a
very
pleasant
one
to
any
person
whose
thoughts
had
not
been
embaras't
with
other
cares
and
distractions
.
The
mistaken
Saga
swelling
with
inward
rage
and
despight
,
and
not
daring
to
give
them
vent
,
chang'd
his
colour
as
often
,
as
the
Apology
did
its
stile
.
He
gave
himself
some
secret
Applauses
,
for
having
forc'd
Ovid
to
attribute
a
few
to
him
in
his
discourse
,
and
dy'd
his
flaming
cheeks
in
their
own
blushes
,
when
he
consider'd
in
others
,
how
severely
he
was
handled
by
him
:
And
conjecturing
by
the
frequent
smiles
of
Mecoenas
,
which
he
could
not
retain
,
that
his
shame
was
his
diversion
,
he
would
suddenly
grow
as
pale
,
as
Envy
could
paint
him
,
with
grief
and
confusion
.
But
the
illustrious
witness
of
these
reciprocal
Agitations
,
was
scarce
in
a
capacity
to
remark
them
.
His
Soul
,
which
like
a
Shipwrackt
Vessel
,
was
sinking
in
the
turbulent
billows
of
its
own
cares
,
had
no
leisure
to
interest
it
self
in
the
concerns
of
another
.
He
took
his
leave
of
Volumnius
,
and
telling
him
,
in
an
ironical
complement
,
that
he
would
acquaint
the
Emperor
with
the
promptitude
and
parity
of
his
zeal
to
serve
him
,
he
went
hastily
to
the
Chamber
of
Phedra
.
He
found
her
in
a
condition
capable
to
disarm
his
choler
:
she
had
been
inform'd
of
Crassus's
disgrace
;
she
accus'd
her self
of
being
the
chief
instrument
of
it
:
And
this
grief
being
join'd
to
that
of
seeing
her
Love
disdain'd
,
involv'd
her
in
a
deluge
of
mortal
resentments
.
Her
eyes
,
whose
lively
sparkling
is
generally
one
of
the
most
powerful
charms
of
beauty
,
were
seiz'd
with
a
languishing
dulness
,
and
seem'd
to
implore
the
compassion
of
all
they
were
fix'd
upon
.
Her
body
,
whose
elegant
proportion
might
challenge
the
title
of
one
of
the
most
beautiful
Structures
in
the
world
,
was
negligently
extended
upon
a
Couch
;
which
by
her
posture
and
dejectedness
,
she
seem'd
to
have
chosen
for
her
tomb
.
Mecoenas
regarded
her
awhile
,
without
being
discover'd
;
and
his
heart
,
which
Nature
had
made
the
seat
of
compassion
,
not
able
long
to
harbor
so
unnatural
a
Guest
,
as
his
new-conceiv'd
indignation
,
he
began
insensibly
to
yield
to
the
soft
impressions
of
the
first
:
But
then
again
in
the
same
instant
recollecting
his
thoughts
,
and
reflecting
,
that
it
was
a
consideration
for
his
Rival
,
and
not
for
himself
,
that
had
reduc'd
her
to
that
condition
,
unfaithful
one
,
cry'd
he
out
aloud
,
how
darest
thou
testifie
so
many
visible
marks
of
an
affection
,
which
both
a
just
gratitude
,
and
the
solemn
engagement
of
so
many
perjur'd
vows
,
ought
to
have
surmounted
,
or
at
least
conceal'd
from
the
surmises
of
the
whole
world
.
Phedra
turning
her
languishing
eyes
to
that
side
,
from
whence
the
voice
came
,
and
considering
Mecoenas
less
,
as
an
exasperated
Lover
,
then
a
powful
Favourite
of
Caesar
.
Ha!
my
Lord
,
said
she
to
him
,
What
will
you
do
with
Crassus
?
Shall
he
be
banished
,
imprisoned
,
or
treated
with
more
rigor
?
He
shall
not
want
punishment
,
since
thou
hast
so
much
ingratitude
,
reply'd
Mecoenas
,
Thy
love
has
pronounc'd
his
condemnation
;
and
thou
would'st
doubt
whither
ever
I
lov'd
thee
,
or
no
,
if
after
what
I
know
,
and
what
I
am
able
to
do
,
the
Crime
of
Crassus
should
scape
unpunish'd
.
He
has
receiv'd
the
punishment
,
he
merits
,
in
me
already
,
reply'd
the
weeping
Phedra
,
and
the
Gods
could
not
make
me
more
unhappy
,
then
in
having
made
me
the
unhappy
instrument
of
your
revenge
.
Consider
me
,
my
Lord
,
both
as
what
I
am
,
and
what
I
ought
to
be
;
you
love
me
,
you
are
one
of
the
most
charming
,
and
most
eminent
persons
of
the
Empire
:
To
you
I
owe
my
liberty
,
and
to
you
I
might
have
ow'd
all
,
that
your
high
credit
commands
all
within
the
extent
of
its
Dominions
:
I
do
not
love
you
;
and
I
love
an
Ingrate
,
who
draws
upon
me
as
many
maligne
effects
of
your
favor
,
as
I
might
have
hop'd
for
benigne
ones
from
it
.
What
can
your
revenge
ambition
more
?
Am
I
not
punished
enough
in
my
own
person
,
but
I
must
suffer
too
in
that
of
Crassus
?
But
unjust
and
treacherous
Phedra
interrupted
Mecoenas
,
What
services
,
what
obligations
have
ingrafted
Crassus
so
deeply
in
your
Soul
?
How
has
he
merited
,
to
see
himself
the
object
of
all
your
love
,
whil'st
I
am
the
subject
of
all
you
ingratitude
?
How
,
has
Terentia
,
merited
my
Lord
,
answered
Phedra
,
to
be
only
the
subject
of
your
cold
Caresses
,
whilst
a
poor
Bond-slave
is
the
object
of
all
your
real
Flames
?
You
have
not
always
had
these
considerations
,
ingrateful
one
,
reply'd
Mecoenas
:
I
have
not
always
lov'd
Crassus
,
my
Lord
,
said
Phedra
,
and
as
long
as
this
Passion
did
not
combat
that
,
I
nourisht
for
you
,
my
devoir
oblig'd
me
to
observe
all
your
desires
,
as
a
most
inviolable
Law
;
but
since
I
have
chang'd
the
prospect
,
and
with
other
eyes
regard
them
,
I
find
them
not
more
legal
and
just
than
my
own
.
What
reproach
can
you
object
to
me
for
loving
Crassus
?
You
that
impute
none
to
your self
,
for
preferring
me
before
the
most
resplendent
Beauty
of
the
Empire
?
Oh!
ingrateful
Creature
,
said
Mecoenas
,
interrupting
her
,
you
turn
those
weapons
upon
me
,
which
you
ought
to
convert
upon
your self
:
for
since
I
have
preferr'd
you
before
Terentia
,
you
ought
to
have
preferr'd
me
before
all
the
persons
in
the
World.
And
calling
to
mind
the
Sacrifices
,
I
have
formerly
offer'd
to
all
your
desires
,
they
ought
to
convince
you
of
the
injustice
of
these
,
you
now
cherish
in
opposition
to
me
.
Alas
!
my
Lord
,
reply'd
the
amorous
Phedra
,
as
they
were
too
powerful
to
be
convinc'd
by
me
,
so
the
power
they
acted
by
they
did
not
derive
from
me
.
And
do
you
think
,
that
I
expected
a
detachement
from
your
reproaches
,
before
I
summoned
all
the
forces
of
my
Devoir
into
the
Field
?
No
,
my
Lord
,
if
the
strongest
opposition
could
have
conquered
this
Passion
,
it
should
not
have
led
the
unfortunate
Slave
Phedra
through
Rome
in
triumph
after
it
.
I
have
represented
all
the
engagements
,
I
have
to
you
,
with
all
their
heightning
circumstances
,
to
the
consideration
of
my
gratitude
;
and
scorning
to
entertain
such
mean
thoughts
of
your
love
,
as
to
believe
that
that
forced
you
to
do
for
me
,
what
you
did
,
I
stampt
the
character
of
an
obligation
upon
the
least
of
your
favors
.
But
,
my
Lord
,
the
most
endearing
obligations
cannot
alter
Decrees
of
the
Stars
;
and
though
I
must
always
acknowledge
you
for
a
most
illustrious
Benefactor
,
yet
cannot
cherish
the
same
tender
esteem
for
you
,
as
I
do
for
the
the
too
ingrateful
and
too
charming
Crassus
.
This
discourse
forced
so
many
mournful
complaints
from
the
amorous
Mecoenas
,
that
he
had
not
ended
them
before
he
was
inform'd
of
the
Emperors
return
:
and
being
unwilling
to
be
surpriz'd
in
Phedra's
Chamber
,
he
retired
out
of
it
in
as
much
confusion
as
he
had
first
entred
into
it
:
he
could
not
resolve
to
digest
the
bitter
Pill
,
he
had
been
forced
to
swallow
;
nor
so
far
renounce
all
his
hopes
of
reducing
the
ingrateful
false
One
back
to
her
devoir
,
as
to
alarm
the
Court
with
the
so
exotick
a
Novelty
.
He
calmed
,
as
well
as
he
could
,
his
thoughts
,
and
his
countenance
:
gave
some
minutes
attendance
upon
Augustus
in
his
Chamber
;
and
not
judging
it
seasonable
to
publish
yet
the
secret
of
this
Intrigue
,
he
retired
to
his
own
Apartment
;
where
leaving
him
and
the
rest
of
the
Court
to
their
repose
,
we
will
return
again
to
Tusculum
,
to
examine
what
passes
there
betwixt
the
disgraced
Cornelius
,
and
his
noble
friend
Virgil.
They
were
no
sooner
in
a
capacity
to
unbosome
with
freedom
their
thoughts
to
each
other
,
when
Cornelius
calling
the
beautiful
Phila
to
his
remembrance
,
conjur'd
Virgil
to
relate
to
him
the
particulars
of
the
Intrigue
,
which
had
been
betwixt
them
.
Lovers
use
willingly
to
talk
of
their
amorous
Advenventures
;
wherefore
Virgil
suffered
no
long
importuning
;
and
deducing
his
discourse
from
a
somewhat
remote
head
.
THE
HISTORY
OF
Virgil.
AN
illustrious
descent
,
said
he
,
is
a
gift
of
Fortune
,
which
entails
no
hereditary
glory
upon
the
receivers
;
it
costs
them
neither
study
,
nor
labor
,
and
it
is
so
far
from
deserving
the
title
of
Merit
,
that
it
is
oftentimes
an
obstacle
to
the
acquiring
it
:
But
yet
,
my
Lord
,
it
ought
to
be
confest
,
that
though
it
be
not
the
reward
,
it
is
the
lustre
of
Virtue
,
and
that
illustrious
qualities
shine
not
in
their
native
splendor
and
orb
,
but
in
a
Subject
of
an
illustrious
Title
.
I
labor'd
a
long
time
under
this
injustice
of
Fate
,
and
it
was
that
which
caus'd
me
to
take
my
leave
of
my
Countrey
,
more
than
the
flaming
ruines
of
delightful
Mantua
.
It
s
destruction
destroy'd
none
of
my
riches
,
nor
my
dignities
:
My
losses
by
the
Fire
were
not
so
great
,
but
that
a
small
Cott
was
able
to
repair
them
:
But
the
obscurity
of
my
birth
,
eclips
d
all
the
lustre
of
my
Talents
;
and
as
I
valu'd
my self
more
upon
the
nobleness
of
my
deserts
,
than
of
my
descent
,
I
was
very
willing
to
exchange
my
native
Air
for
any
other
,
where
my
person
might
be
better
known
,
than
my
extraction
.
You
know
,
my
Lord
,
how
this
design
succeeded
;
I
was
favor'd
by
Mecoenas
,
and
presented
by
him
to
the
Emperor
;
and
within
a
short
time
,
obtain'd
the
place
of
Supervisor
,
for
the
transportation
of
wheat
,
and
all
other
grain
,
wherewith
the
Isle
of
Sicily
supplies
Rome
.
I
was
ambitious
to
shew
my self
worthy
of
the
Employ
I
was
honor'd
with
;
and
I
not
only
dedicated
all
my
cares
and
diligence
to
advance
the
fruitful
harvests
of
every
season
,
but
likewise
to
improve
them
to
an
advantage
,
that
Island
had
never
before
been
sensible
of
.
I
taught
the
Inhabitants
a
new
,
and
more
beneficial
way
of
tillage
;
I
gave
them
many
wholesom
Precepts
for
the
increase
of
the
health
and
fecundity
of
their
Cattle
:
This
method
,
which
no
man
had
taught
,
or
practis'd
before
me
in
that
place
,
render'd
me
familiar
and
in
high
esteem
with
persons
of
that
calling
.
They
would
come
and
consult
me
upon
all
their
affairs
,
and
I
have
a
thousand
times
admir'd
,
to
see
what
pleasure
Nature
takes
to
repair
in
them
by
ingenuity
and
industry
,
the
injustice
Fortune
has
done
them
by
a
blind
partiality
.
My
Lord
,
sayes
an
old
Man
,
in
whose
innocent
converse
I
took
great
delight
,
one
day
to
me
,
What
is
this
Fortune
,
of
which
I
have
heard
you
discourse
so
often
;
you
call
Her
sometimes
unjust
and
capricious
,
and
at
other
times
you
reverence
Her
,
as
a
Goddess
;
and
,
in
effect
,
you
have
inroll'd
her
in
the
Catalogue
of
your
Deities
,
and
dedicated
Temples
to
Her
in
Rome
?
Tell
me
,
I
pray
you
what
Authority
has
She
over
Mortals
?
Does
She
send
them
into
the
world
?
Can
She
take
them
out
of
it
?
Or
maintain
them
in
health
in
it
?
She
does
not
do
any
of
all
this
,
said
I
,
she
cann●…
destroy
the
World
;
but
she
furnishes
it
with
Commodities
,
without
which
,
it
would
be
less
to
be
desired
,
than
death
it self
.
But
,
reply'd
the
old
man
,
she
has
furnish'd
me
with
none
of
the
Commodities
,
you
speak
of
;
my
labour
,
is
the
only
Commodity
,
I
subsist
by
;
which
is
scarce
able
to
feed
and
cloath
me
,
and
yet
I
live
contented
.
If
you
live
contented
,
said
I
,
you
are
one
of
fortunes
Favourites
,
and
she
has
given
you
all
that
she
can
give
you
.
But
,
reply'd
he
,
all
that
she
has
given
me
,
would
not
render
another
perhaps
,
so
contented
,
as
I
am
.
Young
Coridon
,
who
is
so
handsom
,
and
who
has
so
many
Commodities
,
is
always
mumuring
against
Fortune
.
His
rich
Unkle
Melibeus
,
dotes
on
him
,
and
maintains
him
like
a
Lord
;
and
yet
how
comes
it
to
pass
,
that
he
,
who
has
every
thing
that
I
have
,
should
continually
be
making
complaints
;
and
that
I
,
who
have
not
half
of
what
he
has
,
should
live
contented
with
my
condition
?
How
?
said
I
,
From
hence
that
he
to
the
abundance
,
he
has
,
covets
more
;
and
that
the
little
you
have
does
fully
satisfie
your
desires
.
It
is
not
fortune
then
,
reply'd
the
old
man
,
which
is
able
to
create
either
out
discontents
,
or
our
joys
;
we
need
not
court
her
either
in
Heaven
,
or
upon
Earth
;
we
need
not
raise
Altars
,
or
Temples
to
her
;
since
all
our
felicity
consists
in
being
contented
,
with
what
the
Gods
have
bestow'd
upon
us
.
I
am
glad
I
have
learnt
so
excellent
a
Lesson
to
day
:
I
shall
remember
it
,
when
I
hear
Coridon
make
his
complaints
,
and
I
shall
not
fail
to
tell
him
,
that
he
ought
to
attribute
to
himself
,
not
to
fortune
,
the
dissatisfaction
he
finds
in
his
condition
.
This
Coridon
had
addicted
himself
to
a
very
solitary
course
of
life
;
and
though
he
liv'd
in
a
near
neighbouring
Village
to
my
house
,
I
had
never
seen
him
.
I
had
a
curiosity
to
understand
,
what
it
was
,
that
oblig'd
him
,
to
frame
those
continual
complaints
.
He
came
one
evening
with
some
of
his
Companions
into
a
Meadow
,
where
I
was
walking
:
and
as
soon
as
I
saw
him
,
I
was
convinc'd
,
that
it
was
not
without
reason
,
that
they
call'd
him
,
Coridon
the
Fair
;
for
I
had
never
beheld
a
more
charming
Beauty
.
I
askt
him
,
that
since
he
was
only
born
a
Peasant
,
and
yet
commanded
all
conveniences
such
a
life
could
furnish
him
with
,
Why
he
was
always
railing
against
Fortune
?
You
ask
me
a
great
Secret
,
my
Lord
,
said
he
,
fetching
a
deep
sigh
,
and
if
I
could
impart
it
to
you
,
it
would
much
lighten
the
burden
of
these
afflictions
,
I
groan
under
.
His
Unkle
came
to
us
,
as
he
had
finisht
those
last
words
;
and
desiring
me
not
to
give
ear
to
his
idle
discourse
,
made
a
sign
to
him
,
to
retire
:
Why
do
you
chase
him
away
?
said
I
to
Melibeus
;
you
should
have
suffer'd
him
to
tell
me
,
what
it
is
that
troubles
him
.
Perhaps
I
could
administer
him
some
wholesom
Physick
for
his
distemper
:
Alas
!
my
Lord
,
reply'd
his
Unkle
,
What
can
he
tell
you
?
He
is
a
Lunatick
,
who
is
neither
capable
of
declaring
to
you
the
cause
of
his
complaint
,
nor
of
any
advice
that
can
be
given
to
moderate
them
.
He
spent
his
first
years
at
Athens
,
where
he
apply'd
himself
to
nothing
but
the
reading
of
Fables
and
Romances
,
which
have
deprav'd
his
judgment
.
He
hatches
strange
Chimera's
in
his
fancy
,
and
nourishes
them
up
in
his
folly
;
and
seeing
me
refuse
to
flatter
his
brain-sick
humors
,
he
will
oftentimes
go
and
address
his
complaints
to
Rocks
and
Trees
,
as
if
they
were
capable
to
understand
and
relieve
him
.
This
frensie
of
this
beautiful
Youth
,
mov'd
me
to
compassionate
him
.
I
sent
to
a
famous
Grecian
,
who
profest
Physick
in
Syracusa
,
for
his
advice
,
and
desir'd
him
to
employ
the
best
of
his
skill
,
to
reduce
his
distemper'd
Brain
to
its
native
strength
and
vivacity
.
The
Grecian
return'd
me
a
learn'd
and
satisfactory
answer
;
prescrib'd
the
use
of
certain
Simples
,
and
assur'd
me
of
a
favourable
success
.
I
went
to
find
Melibeus
,
to
communicate
his
advice
to
him
;
and
as
I
was
in
the
midst
of
a
little
Wood
,
which
I
was
to
pass
thorough
to
go
to
the
house
of
that
good
man
;
I
thought
I
heard
my self
nam'd
;
I
lent
a
diligent
attention
,
and
heard
one
say
;
Consider
into
what
a
gulf
of
dangers
you
would
have
precipitated
your self
,
had
not
I
,
by
the
suborn'd
disguise
of
an
imaginary
folly
,
found
a
means
to
preserve
you
from
it
.
Virgil
has
a
curious
and
piercing
judgment
;
he
would
have
soon
discover'd
the
secret
,
you
are
so
much
oblig'd
to
conceal
:
And
that
perhaps
may
be
the
misfortune
,
which
they
have
possest
your
Father
with
so
strong
an
apprehension
of
:
And
if
Heaven
had
not
opportunely
sent
me
to
your
relief
,
one
moment
of
indiscretion
might
have
render'd
the
precautions
and
care
of
eight
entire
years
,
wholly
ineffectual
,
Oh!
cruel
precautions
,
answered
the
person
,
to
whom
the
other
spoke
;
I
am
able
no
longer
to
enslave
my self
to
them
.
This
base
disguise
,
the
prolongation
of
my
banishment
,
the
rustick
employment
to
which
I
am
forc'd
to
apply
my self
,
and
the
secret
repugnance
and
antipathy
I
have
against
them
,
accomplish
the
the
Prophesie
,
which
they
endeavor
to
avert
from
me
;
they
advanc'd
it
,
in
seeking
thus
to
preserve
me
from
the
menaces
of
it
;
and
the
disasters
,
which
the
Stars
threaten
me
,
are
not
so
much
to
be
apprehended
by
me
,
as
those
,
wherein
the
provident
care
,
as
you
term
it
,
of
Antiochus
,
does
daily
involve
me
.
It
is
strange
,
reply'd
he
,
who
had
begun
the
discourse
,
that
the
prudence
and
affection
of
a
tender
Father
,
such
as
Antiochus
is
,
should
be
suspected
by
you
,
of
cruelty
,
and
indiscretion
.
Do
you
think
,
that
he
has
not
maturely
weighed
the
reasons
and
consequences
of
his
proceedings
?
Your
resignation
has
hitherto
been
his
joy
and
his
glory
;
And
I
wonder
,
that
having
not
above
five
or
six
months
to
suffer
,
those
should
become
more
insupportable
to
you
,
than
all
the
former
years
of
your
confinement
.
My
tender
age
,
reply'd
this
person
,
and
the
hopes
I
had
to
enjoy
in
a
short
time
my
enlargement
,
did
,
as
it
were
,
skreen
its
horror
from
my
eyes
;
but
since
Antiochus
declar'd
to
me
in
his
last
Voyage
,
that
it
was
to
be
continued
to
the
seventeenth
year
of
my
age
,
I
was
seiz'd
with
such
violent
transports
of
grief
and
impatience
,
as
my
firmest
constancy
,
was
not
able
to
triumph
over
.
The
liberty
which
the
young
Shepherds
,
with
whom
I
am
forc'd
to
consort
,
licentiously
indulge
themselves
;
the
amorous
persecutions
of
old
Nerysa
,
and
the
tender
complaints
of
young
Daphne
,
expose
it
every
moment
to
the
extreamest
Test
.
I
am
not
able
Melibeus
,
any
longer
to
keep
my
tongue
prisoner
,
as
you
keep
my
person
;
and
it
is
time
now
that
the
World
should
hear
me
speak
that
under
the
notion
of
Phila
,
which
you
force
me
oftentimes
to
utter
amongst
our
Shepherds
under
the
name
of
Corydon
.
I
was
so
attentive
to
this
discourse
,
that
the
same
Nerysa
,
which
Corydon
had
just
then
spoken
of
,
came
to
the
place
where
I
stood
,
and
was
within
two
or
three
paces
of
me
,
before
I
discover'd
her
.
I
laugh
oftentimes
,
when
I
think
of
this
Creature
.
She
was
the
Widow
of
Pollio
,
whom
you
knew
,
at
your
first
coming
into
the
World
;
and
having
retir'd
her self
into
Sicily
,
where
she
had
a
fair
Dowry
,
she
became
so
besotted
with
the
Charms
of
Corydon
,
that
she
both
forgot
her
age
and
her
honor
,
to
become
a
young
Votary
of
Cupid
.
She
went
drest
like
a
young
Country
Girl
.
She
made
one
at
all
youthful
Sports
and
Pastimes
of
the
Shepherds
and
Shepherdesses
:
and
crowning
with
Garlands
of
Flowers
that
head
,
which
she
had
thatcht
for
many
years
with
purchast
Hair
:
She
would
play
as
wantonly
with
little
Dogs
and
Monkies
,
as
if
she
were
just
then
stept
into
that
age
,
wherein
such
childish
gallantries
may
pass
for
an
ornament
.
She
askt
me
what
curiosity
had
invited
me
thither
,
and
what
it
was
that
I
leant
so
diligent
an
ear
to
?
To
your
praises
,
Madam
,
said
I
,
which
declare
,
that
in
this
Habit
,
you
would
force
the
youthful
Paris
to
pay
a
homage
to
your
Charms
;
and
serve
for
an
original
to
copy
forth
the
beautiful
Shepherdess
Enona
by
.
You
are
a
Flatterer
,
said
she
,
with
a
smile
(
which
envy
would
have
been
apt
to
call
a
grin
)
I
do
not
aim
by
this
dress
,
to
attract
the
admiration
,
or
envy
of
my
neighbors
;
but
one
knows
not
otherways
,
how
to
divert
themselves
in
the
Country
;
and
besides
,
I
owe
this
slight
complaisance
,
to
the
kindness
of
the
Shepherds
,
I
live
amongst
,
who
with
so
much
care
and
respect
,
solemnize
yearly
the
day
of
my
birth
.
So
giving
me
her
hand
,
and
leading
me
to
a
Castle
,
towards
which
the
Wood
,
we
were
then
in
,
by
a
pleasant
Walk
conducted
us
,
she
entreated
me
to
stay
,
and
be
a
witness
of
the
innocent
diversions
,
which
her
neighbors
were
preparing
for
her
.
We
enter'd
into
a
Hall
,
which
was
suddenly
fill'd
with
young
Fellows
,
and
Country-wenches
,
who
brought
every
one
a
small
Present
,
suitable
to
his
ability
;
and
attended
with
divers
rustical
instruments
,
presented
us
with
a
very
pleasant
Ball
after
their
Country
fashion
.
The
young
Daphne
,
Niece
to
Nerysa
,
(
whom
Corydon
had
mention'd
before
in
the
discourse
,
I
had
over-heard
)
had
by
the
command
of
her
Aunt
,
rankt
her self
amongst
them
,
and
chosen
two
or
three
young
Girles
for
her
Companions
,
whose
pretty
simplicity
and
innocence
,
might
have
rais'd
emulation
even
in
the
most
admired
Beauties
of
Augustus
his
Court
;
but
both
my
eyes
and
my
attention
were
so
eager'y
fixt
upon
the
counterfeit
Corydon
,
that
I
had
no
more
left
me
,
to
bestow
upon
any
other
Object
.
Never
did
Beauty
receive
less
advantage
by
address
,
nor
address
more
glory
from
Beauty
,
than
in
this
incomparable
person
.
I
admir'd
,
how
that
being
a
Girl
,
she
was
able
with
such
dexterity
to
perform
the
exercises
of
the
contrary
Sex
:
and
in
a
moment
after
,
I
wonder'd
as
much
,
how
in
the
disguise
of
a
Boy
,
she
could
preserve
the
glory
of
her
own
,
with
so
much
sweetness
and
modesty
.
The
old
Nerysa
devour'd
her
with
her
eyes
;
and
pregnant
with
a
Passion
,
that
every
action
seem'd
to
labor
to
be
deliver'd
of
;
she
askt
me
with
a
transported
countenance
,
if
that
Youth
did
not
merit
a
Fortune
more
noble
,
than
his
birth
;
and
what
I
would
say
of
that
person
,
who
to
repair
the
injustice
,
fate
had
done
him
,
should
raise
him
to
one
worthy
of
himself
?
I
would
say
,
said
I
,
that
that
person
would
give
a
most
excellent
testimony
of
his
judgment
;
and
that
if
I
were
born
a
Prince
,
and
could
find
a
simple
Shepherdess
,
accomplish'd
with
so
many
Charms
and
Perfections
in
her
Sex
,
as
Corydon
is
in
his
,
I
should
make
no
scruple
,
to
make
her
a
Princess
.
Nerysa
hugg'd
me
in
her
Arms
for
this
answer
,
and
highly
extolling
it
,
for
a
rare
principle
of
equity
in
me
;
I
have
the
same
sentiments
,
said
she
,
as
you
have
;
and
were
it
not
out
of
a
chimerical
apprehension
,
that
I
should
incur
the
censure
of
the
scandalous
World
,
I
swear
,
I
had
long
since
invested
him
with
all
my
possessions
.
It
shall
be
so
yet
,
went
she
on
;
as
if
she
had
finally
determin'd
it
:
your
learned
discourses
have
quite
non
plus't
all
my
scruples
;
and
you
shall
see
in
a
short
time
what
a
veneration
and
respect
,
I
have
for
them
:
Not
that
I
was
ever
fond
of
Marriage
from
a
Girl
;
nor
had
I
ever
enter'd
into
it
,
but
by
the
express
command
of
my
Father
;
and
I
had
a
natural
aversion
to
co-habit
with
Pollio
in
any
other
way
than
as
a
Sister
with
a
Brother
;
But
I
make
a
conscience
of
suffering
Corydon
to
be
bury'd
in
the
obscurity
,
wherein
he
was
born
;
and
I
shall
hereby
demonstrate
to
the
World
,
that
it
is
oblige
men
to
the
practise
of
such
acts
of
justice
,
that
the
Gods
have
created
such
differences
in
their
fortunes
.
I
could
have
deriv'd
a
pleasant
diversion
from
her
extravagant
follies
,
had
not
I
began
to
feel
in
my self
an
incroaching
Passion
,
which
fill'd
my
Breast
with
chagrin
and
disquiet
.
I
attempted
several
times
,
dancing
the
Dance
,
to
draw
the
counterfeit
Corydon
aside
,
and
discover
some
of
my
thoughts
to
her
;
but
old
Melibeus
,
did
watch
her
so
narrowly
,
that
I
could
gain
no
opportunity
of
speaking
to
her
,
but
in
his
presence
.
I
fetcht
many
a
deep
sigh
for
grief
;
and
seeing
all
the
rural
Squadron
retire
,
and
I
not
able
to
effect
my
design
,
I
return'd
in
a
melancholly
humor
towards
my
own
House
,
thorough
the
same
Wood
,
by
which
I
had
come
before
;
when
I
could
hear
old
Nerysa
in
a
furious
tone
,
thundring
out
terrible
menaces
against
her
young
Niece
Daphne
.
I
desir'd
her
to
tell
me
what
it
was
,
that
had
provok'd
her
to
so
much
indignation
.
What
is
it
?
said
she
,
staring
upon
me
,
like
a
Woman
half
distracted
,
this
young
Slut
,
which
I
have
bred
up
from
the
Cradle
,
as
tenderly
as
if
she
had
been
a
Daughter
of
my
own
,
and
to
whom
,
thanks
to
the
Gods
,
I
have
ever
given
nothing
,
but
examples
of
virtue
,
prefers
her
own
giddy-brain'd
inclinations
,
before
my
virtuous
Precepts
.
I
found
her
just
now
making
a
thousand
Caresses
to
Melibeus
his
young
Nephew
.
For
Heavens
sake
tell
me
my
Joy
,
went
she
on
,
giving
the
Girl
no
time
to
make
her
an
answer
,
which
of
my
actions
does
authorize
you
to
live
with
me
in
this
debauchery
?
I
do
not
disallow
of
innocent
Recreations
;
and
being
not
yet
arriv'd
to
those
years
of
gravity
,
as
to
renounce
the
pleasures
of
Society
,
I
profess
,
I
cannot
reconcile
the
gaity
of
my
humor
to
that
air
of
severity
,
which
entombs
many
women
alive
at
the
age
of
four
times
ten
within
their
own
houses
,
as
in
a
Vestal
Cloyster
;
but
Virtue
,
you
know
,
my
Lord
,
will
shine
in
what
Orb
soever
you
fix
it
.
I
consecrate
my self
wholly
to
solid
and
essential
diversions
:
Take
example
by
me
,
foolish
Girl
,
to
comport
your self
,
and
force
me
not
by
your
impudence
to
send
you
back
again
to
the
Wilderness
,
from
whence
I
took
you
.
I
endeavour'd
the
best
I
could
to
appease
the
fury
of
this
old
Tygress
,
and
being
conscious
to
my self
that
Daphne
could
not
be
guilty
,
but
in
intention
only
;
I
desir'd
,
Nerysa
not
to
suffer
her
affection
to
her
Neece
to
be
seduc'd
by
vain
surmises
.
Vain
surmises
!
cry'd
she
out
;
I
am
neither
distracted
,
nor
blind
.
I
saw
with
these
eyes
this
young
Minion
follow
Corydon
,
as
he
went
out
of
my
house
;
I
had
a
curiosity
to
see
what
they
intended
;
I
stole
softly
after
them
;
and
I
heard
Daphne
reproach
him
,
because
in
the
Dance
he
had
not
vouchsaf'd
to
cast
one
look
upon
her
;
call
him
ingrateful
,
and
beg
his
Heart
of
him
,
with
expressions
,
that
cause
me
to
blush
at
the
very
thoughts
of
them
.
That
famous
Fabler
,
had
a
great
deal
of
reason
on
his
side
,
when
by
his
tale
of
the
Cat
transformed
into
a
Woman
,
he
demonstrated
to
us
,
that
Nature
will
be
always
Mistress
.
Corydon
was
born
upon
the
Dunghil
of
a
Country
Village
,
and
will
smell
of
it
as
long
as
he
lives
:
He
has
no
sence
of
a
generous
ambition
,
and
instead
of
endeavouring
to
please
me
,
or
reach
at
Riches
,
Glory
,
or
Dignities
,
he
runs
creeping
after
this
young
Slattertaile
,
which
has
not
a
penny
,
but
what
my
charity
will
bestow
upon
her
.
It
is
not
for
her
Beauty
,
(
run
she
on
,
giving
a
fresh
loose
in
the
fury
of
her
Carreer
)
set
aside
a
little
snout-fair
Paint
of
youth
,
which
will
sooner
or
later
decay
,
and
a
little
breeding
and
bonne
grace
,
which
my
care
and
charges
have
purchast
her
,
I
have
without
vanity
a
more
mature
judgment
,
and
am
more
desirable
than
she
.
I
applauded
all
she
said
,
and
being
touch'd
with
compassion
for
poor
Daphne
,
who
was
with
so
much
injustice
suspected
of
a
crime
,
she
was
not
capable
of
committing
,
I
offer'd
all
the
reasons
to
the
rage
of
the
old
Vixon
,
which
I
thought
might
appease
it
.
Corydon
came
to
understand
what
I
had
done
,
and
acknowledging
my
generosity
,
came
to
give
me
thanks
for
the
good
office
.
It
was
not
a
bare
point
of
generosity
,
lovely
Shepherd
,
said
I
to
her
,
but
a
Motive
more
powerful
,
that
commanded
those
small
services
,
you
set
so
high
a
value
on
;
and
I
shall
expect
for
all
others
,
I
shall
consecrate
to
you
hereafter
,
a
recompence
worthy
of
their
Merit
.
Alas
!
My
Lord
,
reply'd
the
pretended
Corydon
,
with
a
sigh
,
what
recompence
can
you
expect
from
a
poor
Shepherd
,
which
Fortune
has
chosen
to
be
the
object
of
her
scorn
,
and
who
being
as
destitute
of
wealth
,
as
of
credit
,
is
capable
to
pay
no
other
recompence
for
a
favor
receiv'd
,
than
that
of
impotent
vows
and
acknowledgments
?
The
acknowledgment
you
offer
,
fair
Corydon
,
said
I
,
is
not
so
inconsiderable
,
as
you
imagine
it
;
you
have
a
heart
in
your
power
to
dispose
of
,
and
I
would
purchase
it
at
the
whole
price
of
my
Soul
,
if
you
would
impose
no
higher
upon
it
.
The
fair
disguiz'd
,
dy'd
her
cheeks
in
scarlet
,
and
stepping
back
two
or
three
paces
,
seem'd
by
that
eloquent
motion
to
tell
me
I
had
forgot
,
to
whom
I
address'd
my
discourse
.
Moderate
your
astonishment
,
said
I
,
Beauty
can
challenge
no
particular
Sex
for
its
object
;
and
though
you
really
were
,
what
you
seem
to
be
,
I
might
usurp
the
priviledge
without
exception
,
to
admire
that
,
which
Nature
has
fram'd
so
admirable
.
But
,
charming
Corydon
,
you
are
conscious
to
your self
,
that
I
have
a
more
solid
foundation
to
raise
a
Temple
on
to
the
Divinity
of
Love
:
and
without
giving
a
clearer
explanation
to
my
thoughts
,
I
constitute
your self
the
Judge
to
denounce
,
whether
the
Divinity
,
I
mention'd
,
may
not
claim
the
sacrifice
of
my
heart
,
with
as
much
justice
,
as
if
he
were
the
most
resplendent
Beauty
of
the
Grecian
Empire
.
A
Courier
arriving
from
Mecoenas
with
private
Orders
,
whom
I
was
oblig'd
to
dispatch
in
haste
,
interrupted
our
longer
converse
;
but
I
omitted
no
stratagem
,
nor
assiduity
,
for
the
renewing
it
again
with
the
first
opportunity
.
Love
is
a
subtile
poyson
,
which
in
a
moment
passes
through
our
senses
to
our
heart
.
I
spoke
,
I
urg'd
,
I
discover'd
to
her
what
I
knew
of
her
condition
,
and
how
miraculously
I
came
to
the
knowledge
of
it
.
In
fine
Corydon
,
or
I
should
rather
now
say
,
Phila
,
told
me
,
that
a
learned
Astrologer
came
to
Athens
,
when
she
was
not
above
seven
years
old
,
had
gain'd
the
acquaintance
of
her
father
,
and
assur'd
him
,
that
if
he
did
not
conceal
her
from
the
eyes
of
the
whole
world
,
till
she
had
attain'd
to
the
17th
year
of
her
age
,
her
life
should
be
unfortunate
,
and
inviron'd
with
innumerous
disasters
;
and
on
the
contrary
,
if
he
observ'd
the
precaution
he
gave
him
,
he
should
see
his
daughter
one
of
the
most
fortunate
persons
that
ever
came
into
the
world
.
Antiochus
persuading
himself
that
these
Predictions
were
infallible
,
(
added
the
fair
Phila
)
caus'd
a
rumor
to
be
spread
abroad
of
my
death
;
and
having
committed
me
to
the
charge
of
old
Melibeus
,
who
had
formerly
been
one
of
his
Servants
,
he
has
conceal'd
me
for
these
nine
years
in
this
Island
,
in
the
disguise
you
now
see
me
:
And
I
,
perhaps
,
should
have
supported
it
with
more
constancy
,
if
the
loath'd
caresses
of
old
Nerisa
,
and
the
continual
expostulations
of
young
Daphne
,
had
not
quite
exhausted
my
patience
.
I
abhor
that
old
amorous
piece
of
decrepidness
,
and
I
tenderly
affect
her
deluded
Niece
.
Hatred
and
disdain
sollicite
me
to
expose
one
to
open
confusion
,
and
love
and
friendship
privately
to
undeceive
the
other
:
But
I
dare
not
obey
either
of
these
temptations
.
Melibeus
is
continually
suggesting
to
me
,
that
the
felicity
,
or
infelicity
of
my
life
,
depends
upon
my
secrecy
:
he
has
so
often
inculcated
this
to
me
,
that
I
have
now
no
power
to
doubt
it
;
and
I
give
as
sacred
a
belief
to
the
predictions
of
that
Astrologer
,
as
I
should
do
to
the
voice
of
Jupiter
himself
:
And
I
tremble
with
ho●…or
,
to
think
,
that
as
I
am
now
speaking
to
you
with
so
much
frankness
,
I
perhaps
advance
that
cruel
destiny
,
which
they
so
carefully
study
to
avert
from
me
.
I
encourag'd
Phila
against
the
vanity
of
her
apprehensions
,
and
finding
a
heart
in
her
,
which
as
unpractis'd
and
as
young
as
it
was
,
might
easily
be
induced
to
receive
the
impressions
of
a
passion
,
I
endeavor'd
to
manage
this
favorable
conjuncture
of
Beauty
and
innocence
to
the
best
advantage
.
I
insinuated
my self
into
the
good
opinion
of
Melibeus
.
I
never
spoke
to
his
Nephew
in
his
presence
,
but
my
discourse
was
an
absolute
harangue
of
virtue
,
and
obedience
to
Parents
;
And
though
I
oftentimes
took
up
this
theam
as
much
by
accident
,
as
design
,
it
so
strongly
enchanted
the
fancy
of
the
old
Man
,
that
he
would
send
Phila
purposely
to
me
for
my
instructions
;
and
assur'd
himself
that
she
was
in
as
great
security
under
my
conduct
and
charge
,
as
in
his
own
.
Oh!
ye
Gods
!
what
an
age
of
felicity
did
every
moment
then
of
my
life
include
!
It
was
in
those
auspicious
dayes
,
that
I
compos'd
those
passionate
Eglogues
,
which
you
took
so
much
delight
to
read
;
the
laws
of
my
duty
comply'd
then
with
the
desires
of
my
heart
;
and
I
receiv'd
as
much
applause
from
Mecoenas
,
for
my
Government
in
Sicily
,
as
I
did
satisfaction
in
the
actions
by
which
I
purchas'd
it
.
The
day
approach'd
,
when
the
disguised
Phila
was
to
pull
off
that
Vizard-Mask
,
which
had
so
long
clouded
from
the
eyes
of
the
world
her
native
splendor
;
and
my
estate
,
I
now
thought
,
was
grown
considerable
enough
,
to
challenge
the
assent
of
Antiochus
.
But
blind
Love
does
oftentimes
want
the
foreseeing
eyes
of
prudence
;
and
we
did
not
weigh
in
her
impartial
scales
,
the
dangers
to
which
the
vigilance
of
our
watchful
Spies
might
expose
us
.
The
flames
of
Nerisa
seem'd
to
borrow
new
supplies
daily
from
the
coldness
of
Corydon
:
she
persecuted
him
with
a
Love
,
that
at
length
degenerated
into
an
open
fury
;
and
finding
that
he
grew
every
day
more
and
more
rebellious
to
her
raging
desires
,
she
imagin'd
that
my
counsels
blew
the
coals
both
of
his
disdain
,
and
her
own
shame
.
I
carried
my self
,
as
a
person
indifferent
,
towards
the
rural
Beauties
of
our
Neighborhood
:
And
as
none
could
divine
,
that
the
counterfeit
Corydon
had
caus'd
in
me
this
indifferency
,
all
interpreted
that
a
default
of
Love
in
me
,
which
was
properly
the
excess
of
it
.
Nerisa
believ'd
that
I
instill'd
pernicious
Maxims
into
the
Soul
of
Corydon
;
and
acting
the
old
Dragon
,
who
was
the
Keeper
of
the
Hesperian
Garden
,
she
with
never-sleeping
eyes
watch'd
this
golden
fruit
of
her
heart
;
and
one
evening
surpriz'd
us
at
a
private
Cabal
,
which
we
held
under
the
overspreading
Canopy
of
a
thick
quickset
Hedge
,
that
prov'd
a
treacherous
Skreen
,
to
intercept
from
us
the
sight
of
that
old
Dragoness
:
Ha!
my
Lord
,
What
think
you
,
was
the
discourse
,
we
entertained
those
few
blessed
minutes
with
,
of
such
importance
,
that
Nerysa
could
not
have
expected
any
of
so
great
?
I
was
blaming
Phila
,
for
not
forcing
her
inclination
to
express
a
little
more
complaisance
for
the
error
,
she
saw
her
involv'd
in
.
She
may
do
us
a
displeasure
,
said
I
to
her
;
she
has
a
great
interest
in
this
place
;
and
Melibeus
Rents
the
Estate
of
her
,
he
lives
in
;
for
which
you
ought
to
pay
her
the
small
acknowledgement
of
a
little
fein'd
complaisance
.
Make
all
her
fantastick
discourses
and
addresses
,
your
sport
and
diversion
.
Ha!
Virgil
,
said
she
,
I
shall
never
be
able
to
extort
from
my self
that
complaisance
,
you
plead
for
.
I
could
heretofore
with
more
equity
,
and
less
trouble
,
digest
the
follies
of
Nerisa
;
and
as
long
as
her
discourses
,
only
invaded
my
modesty
,
and
reason
,
I
suffer'd
them
with
patience
enough
:
But
since
now
they
begin
to
invade
the
confines
too
of
my
fidelity
,
they
are
become
wholly
insupportable
to
me
.
I
know
,
that
my
heart
is
not
suspected
to
be
what
it
is
;
and
if
you
frame
a
right
judgment
of
the
state
of
it
,
Nerysa
cannot
properly
be
call'd
your
Rival
;
but
she
is
really
so
in
intention
,
though
not
in
effect
:
and
mine
are
so
pure
and
so
delicate
,
that
even
the
blind
error
Nerysa
cherishes
in
her
abused
thoughts
,
seems
to
blemish
and
asperse
them
.
Would
to
the
Gods
,
it
were
lawful
for
the
World
,
said
I
,
most
beautiful
Shepherd
(
for
I
would
not
use
my self
to
call
her
Phila
in
private
,
for
fear
of
being
surpriz'd
with
the
mistake
in
publick
)
to
pay
to
your
Idea
,
the
homage
and
adorations
,
it
owes
it
,
under
what
form
soever
,
it
shall
design
to
represent
it self
:
The
excess
of
your
fidelity
,
give
me
leave
,
to
call
my
injury
;
since
my
whole
stock
of
love
is
incapacitated
thereby
,
to
repay
one
half
of
the
debt
,
it
imposes
upon
me
;
and
should
Cupid
Mortgage
all
his
Demains
to
supply
my
inability
,
I
should
still
be
in
arrear
to
so
matchless
a
Bounty
.
Converse
with
Nerisa
with
the
same
innocence
,
you
did
,
before
I
knew
you
.
And
the
minutes
of
bliss
,
she
will
rob
me
of
,
shall
furnish
me
with
a
sum
of
vexations
,
that
I
beg
you
to
accept
in
part
of
payment
of
that
infinite
one
,
for
which
I
stand
indebted
to
you
;
and
as
then
you
shall
take
care
not
to
decline
all
diversions
,
to
enjoy
my
company
alone
,
I
shall
be
able
to
impute
a
tender
reproach
to
you
,
that
you
did
not
that
for
me
,
which
I
would
have
done
for
you
.
Oh!
most
ingrateful
person
,
reply'd
the
generous
Phila
,
Do
you
think
,
that
those
vexations
,
which
you
account
to
me
in
part
of
payment
of
the
debt
you
boast
of
,
will
cost
me
nothing
?
Is
not
your
absence
,
think
you
,
as
insupportable
to
Corydon
,
as
Corydon's
is
to
you
?
And
do
you
judge
,
though
the
unequal
temper
of
our
hearts
should
not
render
us
both
of
one
weight
in
those
Scales
,
that
the
company
of
Nerisa
ought
to
be
obtruded
on
me
,
for
a
diversion
?
This
Nerisa
,
I
say
,
who
many
lusters
ago
prun'd
up
with
all
the
advantages
and
charms
of
youth
,
durst
scarce
pretend
to
the
title
of
Tolerable
;
and
who
at
an
age
;
wherein
the
most
radiant
Beauties
suffer
a
total
Eclipse
,
and
become
types
of
ugliness
and
horror
,
imagines
Heaven
has
blest
her
with
the
supernatural
Gift
of
enchanting
all
that
look
on
her
.
Did
you
ever
behold
anything
more
extravagant
,
than
the
Habits
and
Dresses
she
affects
?
I
am
ready
to
fancy
sometimes
,
that
those
insensible
things
are
indu'd
with
reason
;
and
to
be
reveng'd
of
her
for
depriving
them
of
that
right
and
priviledge
,
they
enjoy
in
all
others
,
by
a
malicious
kind
of
artifice
increase
her
natural
deformity
.
Are
the
apish
toyes
and
vanities
,
wherewith
she
endeavors
to
disguise
her
decripedness
;
the
scandalous
inclination
of
her
heart
,
which
ready
to
take
leave
of
the
World
,
and
drop
into
the
Urn
,
cannot
yet
take
leave
of
youthful
desires
;
and
that
insatiable
rage
,
which
causing
her
to
forget
the
respect
she
owes
to
the
memory
of
Pollio
,
makes
her
stoop
to
her
own
disgrace
,
and
in
the
face
of
the
whole
World
,
infamously
court
a
poor
contemptible
Shepherd
?
Are
these
,
I
say
,
qualities
,
to
induce
me
to
regard
these
hours
,
as
a
pleasure
and
diversion
,
I
should
dedicate
to
the
loath'd
Amour
of
Nerisa
?
Phila
had
scarce
pronounc'd
these
last
words
,
when
I
thought
I
heard
a
noise
very
near
us
,
and
indeed
it
was
Nerisa
;
who
having
listn'd
to
our
discourse
,
and
not
able
any
longer
to
be
Mistress
of
her
patience
,
flung
away
in
a
fury
;
which
alarm'd
us
with
the
effects
of
it
.
I
made
haste
to
discover
,
what
it
was
;
but
being
forc'd
to
fetch
a
great
circumference
round
,
before
I
could
find
a
place
to
look
over
the
Hedge
,
Nerisa
had
convey'd
her self
away
with
such
speed
,
that
I
could
not
catch
a
sight
of
her
.
She
sent
that
very
day
for
Melibeus
;
and
having
severely
checkt
him
for
a
criminal
negligence
,
or
consent
,
related
to
him
the
amorous
Dialogue
,
which
had
past
betwixt
us
.
This
intelligence
did
not
produce
in
the
spirit
of
Melibeus
the
effect
she
expected
;
He
knew
,
I
might
love
Corydon
without
violating
the
laws
of
nature
;
but
judging
that
I
could
not
be
inamour'd
with
the
counterfeit
Shepheard
,
but
I
must
be
made
acquainted
with
the
secret
,
which
so
much
concern'd
her
,
and
by
that
means
frustrate
all
the
precautions
of
Antiochus
,
he
dispatcht
away
an
Express
to
advertise
him
of
what
had
happen'd
.
Antiochus
made
all
hast
imaginable
to
come
and
snatcht
his
daughter
out
of
the
jaws
of
those
imminent
disasters
,
which
he
apprehended
her
to
be
threatned
with
:
He
arriv'd
privately
at
the
house
of
the
old
Shepheard
;
and
whilst
I
was
taking
a
progress
to
Syracusa
,
whither
Caesar's
orders
had
commanded
me
,
he
rob'd
me
of
my
felicity
,
and
Sicily
of
its
glory
,
by
conveying
her
out
of
it
.
Consider
the
destruction
I
was
seiz'd
with
,
when
I
was
inform'd
of
this
cruel
Rape
,
which
Antiochus
had
committed
more
upon
my
repose
,
then
the
inclinations
of
his
Daughter
.
I
presently
sent
for
Melibeus
,
and
omitted
neither
intreaties
,
nor
menaces
,
to
extort
a
real
confession
of
the
truth
from
him
:
But
he
with
with
an
obstinate
loyalty
conceall'd
the
fatal
secret
,
and
making
several
solemn
protestations
,
with
a
dissembled
frankness
which
deluded
me
,
that
he
was
both
innocent
,
and
ignorant
of
any
design
relating
to
Phila
,
possest
me
with
a
strong
apprehension
,
that
Nerisa
,
had
by
violence
secur'd
her
in
some
place
or
other
.
I
run
to
her
,
and
demanded
her
of
her
,
in
terms
that
neither
had
respect
to
her
Sex
nor
Quality
;
and
arraigning
her
lustful
Ardors
,
and
Designs
,
before
the
Tribunal
of
her
Modesty
and
Honor
,
I
rais'd
her
impatience
to
the
highest
pitch
of
fury
.
She
had
the
same
jealousie
and
suspition
of
me
,
as
I
had
of
her
;
and
thundring
them
forth
in
my
ears
in
vollies
of
reproaches
,
as
extravagant
,
as
unjust
,
upbraided
me
with
that
,
which
none
was
able
to
do
,
but
her self
.
Melibeus
,
said
she
,
has
doubtless
checkt
his
Nephew
for
effecting
so
unnatural
a
correspondence
with
thee
,
and
thou
fearing
that
his
sharp
reprehensions
should
dissolve
that
shameful
Intrigue
,
has
convey'd
him
away
thy self
;
and
in
the
mean
time
with
an
audacity
and
impudence
,
which
merits
the
chastisement
of
the
Gods
,
does
charge
me
with
a
violence
,
infinitely
more
justifiable
on
my
side
,
than
on
thine
.
This
erronious
frenzie
of
Nerisa
,
drew
some
sighs
from
me
;
and
I
had
suddenly
after
a
fresh
subject
to
renew
them
.
Melibeus
receiv'd
intelligence
that
Antiochus
dy'd
in
his
return
with
his
Daughter
to
Athens
;
and
his
death
having
advanc'd
on
him
with
such
speed
and
violence
,
that
it
allow'd
him
not
the
time
to
write
to
Melibeus
,
he
knew
not
in
what
part
of
the
World
to
begin
his
search
for
her
.
This
misfortune
triumph't
over
all
the
glory
of
his
former
discretion
and
prudence
;
he
complain'd
of
the
cruelty
of
his
destiny
,
and
made
an
open
declaration
of
that
,
he
had
till
then
conceal'd
with
so
much
care
,
and
fidelity
.
This
Novelty
surpriz'd
all
Sicily
,
and
attracted
upon
me
so
many
mournful
condolements
,
that
I
was
not
able
to
support
them
,
whereupon
I
resolv'd
to
exchange
that
now
unpleasing
Climate
,
for
another
,
that
might
not
recal
the
memory
of
Phila
so
often
to
my
thoughts
,
as
the
objects
would
do
,
that
I
should
behold
there
.
I
came
to
Rome
,
where
I
grew
familiar
with
Cicero
,
as
I
told
Tullia
yesterday
:
He
was
well
pleas'd
I
should
come
and
visit
him
in
his
voluntary
Exile
,
I
came
one
day
to
see
him
,
and
being
told
by
his
Servants
,
that
he
was
gone
forth
to
take
a
walk
in
that
same
Wood
,
out
of
which
you
saw
his
Daughter
and
Terentia
come
to
receive
us
,
I
hastned
thither
;
and
with
an
eager
curiosity
,
examining
all
places
to
find
him
,
I
happen'd
to
cast
an
accidental
glance
upon
a
young
Pine-tree
,
as
I
past
by
it
;
and
fixing
my
eye
more
intentively
upon
it
,
I
discover'd
some
Cyphers
engrav'd
on
the
Bark
of
it
,
which
were
,
methought
,
of
too
youthful
and
too
amorous
a
character
,
to
intrude
themselves
into
the
solitude
of
Cicero
.
I
read
them
,
and
as
soon
as
I
had
found
him
,
I
begin
now
to
believe
,
said
I
to
him
,
that
the
reports
which
fly
about
Rome
,
have
something
of
truth
in
them
,
and
that
you
do
not
court
this
Retirement
for
your
Mistress
,
but
in
reference
to
some
other
.
Cicero
seem'd
to
be
a
little
troubled
at
my
Compliment
;
but
presently
recomposing
himself
;
These
are
Fables
of
my
Wives
invention
,
said
he
;
who
willing
to
cast
a
blemish
upon
the
just
reasons
,
I
had
to
repudiate
her
,
alledges
a
chimerical
Amour
for
the
ground
and
colour
of
her
reproaches
.
Was
it
to
give
a
colour
to
this
Fable
?
answered
I
,
smiling
,
that
your
Wife
came
hither
privately
to
carve
Cyphers
upon
your
Trees
,
intermixt
with
crost
Darts
,
and
other
Gallantries
,
which
I
find
so
ingenuously
flourish'd
upon
your
young
Pines
?
Cicero
seeming
to
take
no
notice
of
what
I
shewed
him
,
confessed
his
guilt
by
a
sudden
blush
;
and
this
second
surprize
,
confirming
what
the
first
had
hinted
to
me
,
he
thought
,
I
believe
,
that
it
would
be
to
no
purpose
for
his
lips
to
deny
that
,
which
his
eyes
had
declared
to
me
already
.
It
is
not
to
be
deny'd
,
Virgil
,
said
he
,
with
as
much
tenderness
as
confusion
,
that
my
age
,
study
,
and
my
vexatious
resentments
for
the
publick
disorders
,
have
not
the
power
to
secure
from
me
the
invasions
of
that
passion
,
wherewith
you
reproach
me
.
Love
neither
respects
the
gravity
of
years
,
nor
the
juncture
of
affairs
;
and
as
long
as
we
possess
Hearts
animated
by
Life
,
we
ought
to
fear
,
that
we
may
be
rob'd
of
them
by
Love.
I
repos'd
a
most
entire
presumption
in
the
Maxims
of
Nature
;
nor
could
I
believe
,
that
at
the
years
of
that
discretion
,
werewith
the
number
of
them
ought
to
have
inspir'd
me
,
I
could
have
been
capable
of
the
wanton
flames
of
Youth
.
But
I
find
that
the
Politicks
of
age
,
transcend
those
of
Eloquence
;
which
causes
the
Soul
to
participate
of
the
weakness
of
the
Body
:
And
methought
,
that
in
the
vigor
of
my
youthful
years
,
I
had
one
of
greater
courage
and
proof
,
than
I
have
now
,
against
the
attack
of
that
Passion
.
I
was
too
sensible
my self
of
the
power
of
Love
,
to
wonder
at
the
effects
it
produc'd
in
Cicero
.
I
attributed
all
the
applauses
,
he
could
desire
,
to
his
aged
frensie
;
and
this
approbation
winning
his
confidence
,
he
invited
me
to
see
his
Mistress
.
But
,
my
Lord
,
how
incredible
do
you
think
,
was
my
astonishment
,
when
I
saw
it
was
the
same
Phila
,
whom
I
so
passionately
affected
?
The
ripest
wisdom
,
or
the
firmest
courage
would
have
wanted
resolution
to
encounter
such
a
surprize
.
I
made
a
loud
exclamation
,
which
was
able
to
make
a
clear
discovery
of
my
heart
.
Phila's
admiration
was
not
inferiour
to
mine
,
and
Cicero's
being
as
great
,
as
that
of
either
of
us
both
,
he
gave
us
the
liberty
of
entertaining
one
another
with
a
long
discourse
,
not
having
the
power
to
interrupt
us
.
How
Phila
?
said
I
to
her
;
Are
you
become
the
absolute
Mistress
of
your
own
disposal
?
Is
the
prolongation
of
your
disguise
expir'd
?
Were
you
not
inform'd
I
was
in
Rome
?
Were
you
so
near
it
,
and
would
not
send
to
acquaint
me
with
the
place
of
your
residence
?
I
neither
knew
of
your
being
in
Rome
,
reply'd
the
fair
Phila
;
nor
,
had
I
imagin'd
it
,
would
it
have
been
possible
for
me
to
have
sent
to
you
.
The
restraint
I
am
confin'd
to
will
scarce
suffer
me
to
believe
,
that
there
is
any
such
place
as
Rome
in
the
World
:
and
you
ought
to
acknowledge
that
Love
has
wrought
a
great
Miracle
in
your
favor
,
that
you
have
obtained
the
priviledge
of
seeing
me
,
or
speaking
to
me
.
It
shall
never
work
such
another
,
since
this
is
so
little
in
mine
,
interrupted
Cicero
;
and
whereas
this
first
intrigue
of
my
confidence
,
has
prov'd
so
fatal
,
I
renounce
for
ever
all
temptations
of
exposing
it
to
a
second
:
And
having
said
this
,
he
made
a
sign
to
an
old
Woman
,
who
was
Guardian
over
her
,
to
withdraw
her
into
an
Arbor
,
which
was
near
us
;
and
measuring
the
Walks
with
long
and
hasty
paces
,
exprest
so
much
grief
and
vexation
in
all
the
motions
of
his
person
and
countenance
,
that
I
began
to
fear
some
funest
effect
of
his
rage
.
How
?
Cicero
,
said
I
,
is
it
you
that
inveigh
with
such
zeal
and
violence
against
all
invasions
of
the
publick
liberty
,
and
commit
one
of
such
horror
and
barbarism
your self
?
What
prerogative
can
you
challenge
over
this
person
?
And
by
what
authority
do
you
pretend
to
usurp
a
right
to
enslave
her
to
this
unworthy
condition
?
By
the
authority
,
which
Parents
may
usurp
over
their
Children
,
reply'd
Cicero
:
Antiochus
dying
,
with
his
last
breath
,
bequeath'd
me
all
he
was
ever
Master
of
:
and
since
the
Prerogative
,
he
has
given
me
over
her
,
is
become
so
incompatible
with
your
desires
,
I
advise
you
,
as
a
friend
,
to
use
your
early
endeavors
to
suppress
them
.
Phila
is
my
right
only
;
I
receiv'd
her
as
a
Legacy
from
her
Father
;
and
that
you
may
not
suspect
,
that
I
tyrannically
usurp
a
power
,
which
I
have
no
title
to
,
see
here
,
said
he
,
drawing
a
Paper
out
of
his
Pocket
,
the
last
Will
and
Desires
of
that
good
man
.
I
read
the
Writing
he
put
into
my
hands
,
and
found
that
Antiochus
,
after
he
had
magnified
by
many
endearing
expressions
,
the
friendship
contracted
betwixt
himself
and
Cicero
,
during
his
sojourn
in
Athens
,
in
the
time
of
Sylla's
Tyranny
,
declar'd
,
That
he
consign'd
wholly
to
him
the
tuition
and
guardianship
of
his
only
Daughter
;
advertis'd
him
where
he
should
find
her
in
Rome
under
the
name
of
Plautia
,
and
desir'd
him
to
take
her
to
Wife
,
since
his
divorce
from
his
own
,
gave
him
the
liberty
of
a
second
Marriage
;
or
else
to
choose
a
Husband
for
her
,
with
the
same
freedom
and
authority
,
as
he
should
have
us'd
himself
,
had
Heaven
conserv'd
his
life
.
Do
you
judge
now
,
went
he
on
,
that
whither
after
what
I
told
you
,
at
the
beginning
of
our
converse
,
I
shall
not
take
care
to
see
the
last
Will
of
my
dying
Friend
executed
with
all
fidelity
?
Can
you
be
so
vain
,
to
conceive
any
hopes
of
ravishing
Phila
out
of
my
hands
,
or
the
power
of
my
desires
?
And
do
you
imagine
,
that
if
I
could
have
been
able
to
have
subdu'd
them
,
I
would
not
have
done
it
long
since
for
my
own
consideration
,
rather
than
now
for
yours
.
I
combated
the
design
of
Cicero
,
with
all
the
vehemency
,
and
all
the
eloquence
,
love
could
inspire
me
with
;
and
not
that
day
only
,
but
many
more
following
also
.
I
omitted
neither
intreaties
,
nor
arguments
to
oblige
him
to
restore
Phila
to
her
native
liberty
,
and
that
of
choosing
a
Husband
for
her self
.
Methought
,
they
began
to
make
some
impression
upon
his
relenting
obstinacy
;
Great
Souls
will
always
at
last
re-assume
their
own
character
;
and
the
first
weakness
,
they
are
capable
of
,
are
but
,
as
sudden
storms
,
which
as
suddenly
pass
.
But
the
flight
of
Phila
destroy'd
in
a
moment
all
these
glorious
hopes
;
and
though
,
to
do
Cicero
justice
,
I
am
oblig'd
to
say
,
that
he
was
ready
in
favor
of
my
inclinations
to
impose
a
violence
upon
his
own
,
yet
I
must
likewise
declare
,
that
he
has
been
the
fatal
author
of
all
the
calamities
and
discontents
,
my
life
has
ever
since
been
forced
to
groan
under
.
It
is
not
Cicero
alone
,
whom
you
ought
to
make
the
subject
of
your
accusations
,
said
Cornelius
,
I
am
acquainted
with
all
the
particulars
of
Phila's
flight
;
and
though
she
always
conserv'd
that
which
concern'd
you
,
as
a
most
nice
secret
,
from
my
knowledge
,
I
have
some
cause
to
apprehend
,
that
a
Rival
who
lay
conceall'd
,
has
done
you
more
injury
,
than
that
which
openly
professed
himself
to
be
so
.
Cornelius
could
not
have
the
opportunity
of
explaining
this
Mystery
to
Virgil
;
for
the
arrival
of
Crassus
(
who
having
taken
his
last
leave
of
Rome
,
and
understanding
that
this
Praetor
,
who
was
his
particular
friend
,
was
to
lodge
in
Tusculum
that
night
,
had
taken
it
in
his
way
)
interrupted
their
farther
discourse
.
They
comforted
each
other
in
their
disgrace
and
sufferings
;
and
projected
those
designs
,
which
a
little
after
sent
them
both
away
to
visit
their
Fellow-Heroes
in
the
Isle
of
Thalassia
.
FINIS
.