The
French
Iudith
.
HEre
we
must
beware
of
a
bad
Calculation
by
our
Fancy
,
and
of
a
mistake
in
our
sight
;
if
we
believe
them
in
this
point
,
we
are
in
the
Age
of
Nabuchodonosor
,
and
in
Judea
:
And
the
Tragick
▪
Action
we
behold
,
is
the
death
of
Holyfernes
,
and
the
victory
of
Judith
.
Nevertheless
we
are
far
remote
from
that
time
,
and
see
indeed
another
Countrey
,
and
other
things
.
It
is
not
credible
that
Holyfernes
is
returned
so
many
years
after
his
Death
.
It
is
also
less
credible
that
Judea
hath
removed
from
Asia
into
Europe
.
If
whole
Races
,
and
even
the
Ages
themselves
do
not
revive
;
if
Cities
change
not
Regions
,
and
cross
the
Seas
,
assure
your self
there
is
nothing
in
this
of
the
Adventure
of
Bethulia
.
Know
then
,
that
you
are
in
France
,
and
upon
the
Territories
of
Gontran
King
of
Burgundy
:
and
that
this
Maid
which
you
see
with
a
naked
and
bloody
sword
in
her
hand
,
is
a
Native
of
Champaigne
.
Do
not
ask
me
concerning
her
Birth
:
This
well
beseeming
Anger
,
and
this
modest
and
composed
Fierceness
will
confirm
you
better
then
my self
,
that
she
must
be
of
a
good
Family
:
And
though
her
Phisiognomy
may
not
induce
us
to
believe
it
,
her
blood
must
needs
be
as
noble
as
her
countenance
.
As
for
this
man
who
looseth
his
blood
through
two
great
wounds
,
which
will
be
perchance
more
beneficiall
then
they
are
honourable
to
him
;
his
Domestiques
,
who
hasten
to
his
●yde
,
ca●l
him
Duke
Amolon
.
I
dare
not
tell
you
that
he
is
〈◊〉
a
French
man
:
there
is
too
much
of
savageness
in
his
manners
and
saith
.
And
it
would
be
too
great
a
shame
for
France
,
which
is
so
noble
a
Mother
,
so
Generous
,
so
Civilized
,
and
to
Christian
,
to
bring
forth
Scythians
and
Tartars
;
and
that
under
so
temperate
a
Climate
,
and
so
benign
Planets
,
there
should
be
found
souls
of
the
same
temper
with
those
which
are
born
under
the
Pole
.
But
let
him
be
a
French
man
by
birth
,
and
a
Tartar
or
Scythian
by
nature
,
it
doth
not
hunder
Vertue
,
which
playes
the
principall
part
in
this
Action
,
from
being
French
.
And
this
second
Judith
will
one
day
more
honour
her
Country
,
then
this
second
Holyfernes
could
disgrace
it
.
You
see
the
boldness
of
her
Countenance
,
and
the
Vertue
of
her
Face
.
There
is
much
of
Judith
in
both
.
But
there
is
more
then
the
Look
and
Face
;
more
then
the
boldness
and
Vertue
of
Judith
:
It
is
no
common
chaste
woman
you
see
:
It
is
a
Virgin
,
nay
a
victorious
Virgin
which
newly
fought
,
even
to
the
effusion
of
her
blood
.
And
by
these
two
features
wherein
she
transcends
Judith
,
the
French
Copy
exceeds
the
Originall
lew
,
and
the
Modern
obscures
the
Ancient
Judith
.
After
a
long
and
obstinate
battle
fought
against
this
Tyrant
,
she
was
carryed
away
by
his
people
,
and
laid
with
violence
upon
his
Bed
:
but
this
was
no
longer
his
Bed
,
but
a
Sca●●old
made
of
Silk
and
Feathers
:
it
was
the
place
ordained
for
the
end
of
his
Tyrannie
,
and
for
the
punishment
of
his
Crimes
.
Wine
and
Sleep
had
already
closed
up
his
eyes
,
and
tyed
his
hands
,
and
there
wanted
but
a
Sword
and
an
Executioner
to
make
a
great
and
celebrious
example
of
him
.
His
Arms
being
near
at
hand
,
the
chaste
French
woman
,
inspired
by
the
same
Angel
who
inspired
the
chaste
Iew
,
took
advantage
of
the
Sleep
and
Sword
of
her
enemy
,
and
made
of
Amolon
an
Holyfernes
.
The
two
great
wounds
which
you
see
in
his
head
,
were
given
by
that
fair
and
chaste
Hand
.
Pain
awakened
his
bound
up
,
and
benummed
Reason
:
and
the
first
drops
of
his
blood
extinguished
the
dishonest
fire
which
the
Tears
and
Prayers
of
this
innocent
Maid
had
enkindled
.
He
is
no
longer
the
same
brutish
and
furious
person
as
before
.
The
wanten
flames
of
his
heart
,
and
the
impure
imaginations
of
his
head
are
all
fallyed
forth
at
his
wounds
:
Iudgement
and
Respect
are
entred
in
their
Room
:
you
would
say
that
he
awakes
with
new
eyes
.
Those
at
least
retained
no
longer
any
thing
of
that
sulphure
which
was
enkindled
by
the
smallest
Rayes
of
Beauty
,
and
which
was
set
on
fire
by
every
lovely
glance
which
issued
from
it
.
He
seems
to
endure
with
torment
the
sight
of
his
chaste
and
couragious
Enemy
:
He
suffers
it
nevertheless
,
and
his
confusion
mixed
with
astonishment
,
his
shame
accompanied
with
reverence
,
make
a
silent
Declaration
upon
his
face
,
by
which
he
justifies
the
attempt
,
and
acknowledges
it
for
a
lawfull
Victory
:
He
doth
consider
that
the
same
person
is
in
his
power
who
had
newly
plunged
him
in
blood
,
and
who
had
heretofore
inflamed
him
;
who
had
pierced
his
heart
,
and
newly
wounded
his
head
:
He
no
longer
remembers
his
Love
,
he
resents
not
his
injury
.
His
eyes
and
mind
are
too
much
dazled
by
something
,
I
know
not
what
,
of
Lummous
,
which
di●●uleth
it self
from
the
countenance
of
this
beautifull
Maid
.
I
cannot
inform
you
whether
it
be
an
Impression
of
the
Angel
who
stands
by
her
,
whether
it
be
a
Diadem
〈…〉
left
to
her
,
by
the
ardour
of
her
Prayer
,
whether
〈…〉
and
spirituall
flame
which
her
soul
did
〈…〉
lence
of
her
last
Attempt
.
But
whatsoever
〈…〉
upon
it
with
a
kind
of
worship
and
relig●●●
〈…〉
doubt
not
,
but
being
dazled
by
this
armed
〈…〉
Beauty
,
he
takes
it
either
for
an
exterminat
〈…〉
by
God
,
or
for
divine
Iustice
it self
,
which
his
Crimes
had
drawn
upon
him
,
and
which
is
descended
from
Heaven
in
person
with
a
revenging
Sword
,
to
make
him
an
Example
.
However
I
much
fear
that
this
Imagination
of
Amolon
may
not
be
powerfull
enough
to
protect
our
Judith
,
if
we
do
not
defend
her
against
those
furious
Attendants
,
whom
their
Masters
blood
hath
irritated
.
I
see
her
in
eminent
danger
,
if
she
be
only
guarded
by
her
Graces
,
and
the
light
which
environs
her
.
These
people
do
not
acknowledge
the
Graces
:
and
the
fire
of
anger
which
they
have
in
their
eyes
,
diverts
their
sight
from
his
light
.
They
stretch
out
their
arms
against
this
innocent
Woman
,
and
before
they
touch
her
,
they
tear
her
in
pieces
afar
off
with
frightful
cryes
and
gestures
,
por●ending
Cruelty
.
You
would
say
,
that
their
looks
would
be
first
with
the
prey
;
And
that
they
had
a
minde
to
tast
it
with
their
teeth
and
nails
.
This
precipitated
and
barbarous
fury
,
doth
astonish
you
.
It
would
amaze
bolder
men
then
you
are
:
But
this
confidence
of
minde
,
and
this
Heroick
Constancy
in
a
Maid
,
is
to
me
a
far
greater
astonishment
,
and
Posterity
which
shall
read
her
History
will
be
no
less
amazed
.
The
former
Complacencies
and
Offers
begot
much
more
fear
in
her
,
then
the
present
Cryes
and
Threats
.
And
because
her
Honour
is
now
in
safety
,
and
that
her
life
is
onely
assaulted
,
she
conceives
the
danger
wholly
past
,
and
that
all
this
tumult
threatens
some
other
Person
.
Having
heard
of
the
victorious
Virgins
and
Martyrs
of
Chastity
,
she
regards
not
the
mischief
these
furious
People
intend
against
her
.
Her
thoughts
are
only
fixed
on
the
good
she
may
receive
from
their
fury
;
and
looks
upon
them
as
People
,
who
will
bestow
upon
her
a
second
Crown
.
Zeal
,
Boldness
,
and
Modesty
,
are
,
I
know
not
how
,
either
associated
,
or
confounded
upon
her
Brow
and
Cheeks
.
It
is
indeed
rather
a
confusion
then
a
superficial
Alliance
.
But
it
is
a
pleasing
and
luminous
confusion
;
and
a
fire
reflects
from
thence
,
like
that
which
streams
from
the
richest
Scarlet
.
Will
you
not
believe
that
it
is
from
this
fire
the
Chamber
is
enlightned
,
and
that
the
splendor
of
those
branched
Lights
,
pendant
from
the
seeling
,
is
overcome
thereby
?
It
seems
also
that
some
Rayes
are
fallen
from
thence
,
which
give
a
new
lustre
to
this
Sword
,
and
which
are
as
it
were
a
recompence
for
the
service
it
hath
rendred
in
this
danger
to
forsaken
and
unarmed
Vertue
.
The
astonishment
and
respect
of
Amolon
increased
,
and
being
more
confirmed
then
before
in
his
first
idle
fancies
,
he
gives
a
sign
to
his
people
to
convert
their
anger
into
Religion
,
and
to
adore
her
,
whom
they
desire
to
tear
in
pieces
.
But
it
is
to
require
too
much
of
furious
men
:
Let
them
withdraw
their
hands
and
fury
:
Let
them
offer
no
violence
to
Innocence
,
and
we
will
discharge
them
of
their
Religion
and
Worship
.
SONNET
.
ORonta
weeps
,
her
bleeding
mouth
appears
To
mingle
Corall
with
her
Christal
Tears
;
Her
sad
Heart
powers
it self
into
those
streams
,
Lest
Amolon
should
scorch
it
with
his
flames
.
On
this
rich
Bed
now
snores
the
Tyrant
,
blind
with
her
bright
Rayes
,
and
to
her
Griefs
of
mind
:
Here
Wine
and
Sleep
into
a
Stock
have
turn'd
That
sparkling
Brand
whom
lust
full
ardors
burn'd
.
Oronta
hear
Instructions
of
concern
;
Thy
Angel
tels
thee
this
proud
Holyfern
Must
have
a
Iudith
;
that
the
case
requires
To
arm
thy self
with
Steel
against
his
fires
.
The
Virgin
B●e
can
sling
,
and
valour
show
;
If
then
thou
causest
not
the
blood
to
flow
From
this
Inglorious
Head
,
no
other
Art
Can
quench
the
Coal
of
his
Ignoble
Heart
.
Elogy
of
the
French
Judith
.
THis
Picture
is
of
a
Iudith
,
but
of
a
Virgin
Iudith
,
and
born
in
France
.
History
which
hath
conserved
so
many
scandalous
names
,
and
made
so
many
Portraictures
of
ill
Example
,
might
at
least
leave
us
the
name
of
this
Heroesse
,
which
France
may
oppose
to
all
the
valiant
Women
of
〈◊〉
and
Italy
.
All
the
certainty
we
know
of
her
,
is
,
that
she
lived
under
the
R●●gn
of
〈◊〉
,
which
was
a
Raign
alike
famous
for
great
Vertues
and
〈◊〉
:
That
Nobility
,
Beauty
,
and
Vertue
had
an
equall
share
in
her
;
and
that
she
was
born
in
〈◊〉
,
which
hath
shewn
by
the
Birth
of
this
〈◊〉
,
and
the
Maid
of
〈◊〉
,
that
this
Province
was
reckoned
amongst
the
number
of
the
Heroick
Mothers
:
And
that
it
had
a
more
generous
〈◊〉
●●ndity
,
then
the
Territory
of
the
ancient
Amazons
.
This
Virgin
innocently
,
and
against
her
will
inkindled
love
in
Duke
Amolon
,
and
the
Duke
received
it
greedily
,
and
to
his
ruin
.
He
pursued
her
by
all
manner
of
ways
,
and
by
what
way
soever
he
followed
her
,
he
found
himself
still
the
further
off
.
He
sent
her
magnificent
Presents
,
accompanied
with
far
more
magnificent
Offers
.
And
his
Presents
were
turn'd
back
with
his
Offers
.
Irritated
to
see
his
Services
rejected
,
and
his
Magnificence
despised
,
he
had
recourse
to
open
Violence
,
and
resolved
to
force
that
Vertue
which
he
could
not
corrupt
▪
But
he
assaults
a
place
which
was
not
to
be
taken
by
Force
no
more
then
by
Composition
:
And
his
threats
had
as
little
Success
as
his
Courtships
.
Despair
and
Rage
succeeding
his
Love
,
he
let
loose
his
People
upon
her
:
And
the
outrages
which
were
done
her
by
his
Servants
,
found
her
as
immovable
as
did
the
Presents
which
had
been
offered
her
by
the
Master
.
Her
heart
is
not
softned
at
all
,
nor
doth
it
wast
away
with
her
blood
;
her
minde
doth
not
so
much
as
suffer
by
the
wounds
of
her
body
:
Her
very
sighs
,
as
if
they
feared
to
be
suspected
of
weakness
,
remain
within
her
mouth
.
These
barbarous
Villains
wea●●ed
with
her
Constancy
,
cast
her
all
bloody
and
half
dead
upon
〈◊〉
bed
,
and
〈◊〉
.
The
Tyrant
was
no
longer
in
a
condition
to
do
her
harm
:
〈◊〉
and
sleep
had
boun●
〈◊〉
fast
enough
:
And
to
make
an
end
of
this
second
〈◊〉
,
there
wants
nothing
but
the
arm
of
our
second
Iudith
▪
Inspired
from
God
,
she
lifts
up
her
eyes
to
Heaven
,
and
〈…〉
sword
hanging
neer
his
bed
;
Thou
insensible
Instrument
,
saith
she
)
〈◊〉
up
in
blood
and
Murthers
,
to
day
at
least
thou
shalt
perform
an
act
of
Justice
and
Piety
.
Thou
shalt
free
me
from
thy
〈◊〉
,
and
preserve
〈…〉
either
by
his
death
,
or
by
my
own
.
〈…〉
a
sho●●
and
〈…〉
to
her
words
:
and
drawing
〈…〉
which
〈◊〉
followed
her
generous
hand
,
and
received
as
〈…〉
from
the
fire
of
〈…〉
and
Courage
;
she
〈◊〉
with
all
her
〈◊〉
upon
the
head
of
〈…〉
The
blow
which
was
both
Mortal
and
beneficial
,
awa●●
〈…〉
to
his
sen●es
before
it
took
away
his
life
.
He
acknowledged
his
fault
,
commended
the
vertue
of
his
Murtheress
,
and
commanded
her
to
be
set
at
Liberty
.
She
went
to
cast
her self
at
the
feet
of
〈◊〉
,
who
was
ravished
with
so
extraordinary
a
Vertue
,
and
treated
her
more
like
a
Conque●ess
then
a
Criminal
.
He
honoured
her
with
Prai●●
and
Presents
,
and
in
lieu
of
the
Pardon
she
required
,
caus'd
an
〈…〉
composed
of
her
,
which
was
of
greater
value
then
a
Crown
.
MORAL
REFLECTION
.
THose
understand
not
Chastity
who
give
it
a
place
amongst
the
vertues
of
〈◊〉
No
vertue
is
more
〈◊〉
no●
ought
to
be
more
Warlike
.
There
is
not
any
to
〈…〉
and
Courage
are
more
〈◊〉
And
to
my
〈◊〉
,
the
〈…〉
armed
and
full
of
prickles
,
is
a
more
true
and
natural
Symbole
of
〈…〉
which
hath
only
a
whitness
without
weapons
〈…〉
we
must
keep
to
Custom
,
and
leave
the
〈…〉
have
one
,
since
Custom
will
have
it
so
But
let
it
be
〈…〉
mentioned
in
the
〈◊〉
let
it
be
a
●●lly
〈…〉
signifying
that
Chastity
will
be
always
armed
.
Our
French
〈◊〉
was
one
of
these
〈…〉
as
well
as
the
Hebrew
〈◊〉
And
all
chaste
Women
who
〈◊〉
willing
to
imitate
them
,
have
need
of
a
Warlike
Spirit
,
and
of
a
resolute
Soul
disposed
for
War
,
even
for
an
obstinate
War
,
without
〈◊〉
,
saith
St
〈◊〉
for
a
War
where
Neutrality
hath
no
place
,
and
where
one
must
necessarily
either
overcome
,
or
be
vanquished
▪
The
War
which
Tyrants
,
and
Executioners
have
made
against
●aith
,
was
〈◊〉
on
with
more
State
and
Pomp
:
It
was
done
with
more
noise
and
preparations
of
Engines
and
Punishments
:
Nevertheless
it
was
not
so
dangerous
,
and
though
Tertullian
said
,
that
a
head
accustomed
to
precious
stones
and
pearls
,
hardly
exposeth
it self
to
the
sword
:
Yet
some
have
been
seen
,
who
have
fought
less
happily
for
their
Chastity
then
for
their
Faith
;
And
having
been
overcome
by
an
Enemy
who
only
assaulted
them
with
flowers
,
God
hath
shewed
them
the
favour
to
rise
again
,
and
overcome
Tyrannie
and
Cruelty
,
armed
with
all
their
Engines
.
There
must
be
nothing
saint
or
weak
in
a
chaste
Soul
;
there
must
be
nothing
of
Languishment
or
●ffeminacy
:
But
there
must
not
be
the
least
〈◊〉
o●
ostentation
,
there
must
be
nothing
lo●ty
or
savage
Her
courage
ought
to
be
modest
without
oftentation
;
her
resolution
tempered
with
sweetness
and
Civilitie
:
And
in
a
word
to
draw
her
Picture
,
she
must
resemble
a
Rose
which
is
bashful
and
armed
,
which
defends
it self
with
blushes
,
and
p●●cks
only
those
that
rudely
touch
it
.
MORAL
QVESTION
.
Whether
more
Resolution
and
Courage
be
required
to
make
a
Man
Valiant
,
then
to
make
a
Woman
Chaste
.
WHo
will
believe
that
Chastity
is
more
vigorous
then
Valour
,
and
that
to
make
a
chaste
Woman
,
more
Courage
〈◊〉
needful
,
then
to
make
a
valiant
Man
▪
The
Valiant
will
believe
it
,
they
perswade
themselves
that
there
is
no
true
Courage
but
then
own
,
and
that
Resolution
cannot
act
but
by
their
hands
,
nor
have
any
right
imployment
but
in
War
.
Then
perswasion
nevertheless
〈…〉
from
Truth
,
and
were
it
not
so
dangerous
to
meddle
with
〈…〉
I
might
say
to
them
,
that
they
are
deceived
.
One
might
well
agree
with
them
,
that
courage
is
a
Vertue
fit
for
the
●●eld
,
and
that
it
is
by
the
assistance
thereof
,
Towns
are
taken
,
Battel●
fought
,
Crowns
gain●d
,
and
inlarg'd
▪
But
they
ought
to
confess
also
▪
that
this
courage
doth
not
always
act
amids
Fire
and
Sword
;
that
all
the
occasions
thereof
are
not
bloody
,
though
they
be
all
laborious
:
and
that
there
are
Domestick
Combats
,
in
which
the
Victory
is
more
difficult
,
&
requires
more
labour
then
in
the
Field
.
The
conflicts
of
Chastity
are
of
that
〈◊〉
though
they
be
not
perform'd
like
those
of
Valour
with
a
shew
of
terro●●●
,
and
preparations
formidable
to
the
eye
,
yet
are
they
not
less
to
be
feared
,
not
less
dangerous
;
And
if
we
set
aside
the
address
and
to●ls
of
the
body
,
and
this
〈◊〉
appearance
which
makes
a
noise
and
astonisheth
.
●here
remains
nothing
which
hinders
us
from
concluding
,
that
to
●ender
a
Man
valiant
,
less
resolution
and
courage
is
〈◊〉
,
then
to
●ender
a
Woman
chaste
.
There
are
many
solid
and
weighty
Reasons
,
which
should
perswade
it
▪
And
to
begin
with
the
Enemies
against
whom
Chastity
and
Valour
are
to
fight
,
it
is
certain
that
those
of
Chastity
are
stronger
,
and
more
numerous
,
then
those
of
Valour
.
It
seems
to
〈◊〉
that
Chastity
is
a
〈◊〉
quiet
vertue
,
because
ordinarily
it
hath
only
to
do
with
passions
which
seem
sweet
and
pleasing
▪
But
these
sweet
and
pleasing
passions
are
harder
to
overcome
,
then
the
●ough
and
formidable
:
Whether
by
reason
we
less
distrust
them
,
and
that
the
senses
and
Nature
hold
Intelligence
with
them
▪
Whether
because
then
●a●ed
sweetness
and
Artifice
〈◊〉
their
entry
into
the
heart
▪
Whether
in
respect
that
no
passion
being
established
to
resist
them
,
Reason
is
left
single
to
contest
against
them
▪
And
Reason
which
is
not
upheld
by
passions
,
fights
faintly
,
and
without
vigour
▪
It
is
not
〈◊〉
with
these
troublesom
passions
,
which
are
enemies
to
Valour
.
They
〈◊〉
finde
Nature
upon
her
guard
:
The
Senses
cannot
grow
familiar
with
them
,
nor
fashion
themselves
to
their
rudeness
.
They
would
not
know
how
to
enter
into
the
heart
,
but
openly
,
and
with
violence
▪
And
the
proper
Function
of
anger
,
which
is
a
Warlike
passion
,
being
to
serve
Reason
against
them
,
War
with
them
cannot
be
neer
so
painful
as
with
〈◊〉
,
not
the
Victory
so
difficult
and
doubtful
.
We
see
also
,
that
the
number
is
far
greater
of
brave
Spirits
,
who
have
overcome
Fear
,
then
of
valiant
chaste
Women
who
have
vanquished
Love
.
And
amongst
so
many
Heroes
whom
Poesie
hath
made
,
and
History
●ound
out
:
We
can
hardly
name
three
or
four
who
have
not
been
Mastred
by
it
:
Some
one
will
say
,
that
this
comes
home
to
the
Fable
of
the
●●on
,
who
was
vanquished
by
a
Wasp
:
but
whether
Love
be
a
Wasp
or
〈…〉
leave
that
Dispute
to
others
.
It
sufficeth
me
,
that
those
People
who
were
subduers
of
Monsters
,
have
been
vanquished
by
Love
.
And
I
cannot
〈◊〉
more
ancient
Authors
to
give
Credit
to
the
power
of
pleasing
pas●ions
,
and
to
conclude
in
sequel
,
that
Chastity
,
whose
part
it
is
to
overcome
them
,
ought
to
be
more
Resolute
and
Couragious
then
Valous
.
More●●er
the
strength
of
Passions
,
of
what
Order
soever
they
be
,
proceeds
from
the
〈◊〉
of
those
Objects
which
irritate
them
.
Now
the
goods
which
provoke
Love
and
Desire
,
and
fight
Externally
against
Chastity
,
are
more
hard
to
overcome
then
●●vils
which
beget
fear
and
dispair
,
and
are
opposite
to
Valour
.
This
at
first
sight
appears
incredible
:
And
the
Ignorant
will
suspect
it
for
a
Paradox
and
an
Hyperbole
.
It
i●
true
nevertheless
,
and
the
proof
will
be
easie
to
those
who
know
the
different
Impressions
of
Good
and
Bad
,
and
the
several
instincts
of
the
Will.
The
first
Action
of
Good
is
like
that
of
the
Loadstone
;
it
attracts
the
Will
,
and
forcibly
fastens
it self
to
it
:
It
doth
yet
more
;
it
Dilates
the
Will
which
it
hath
fastened
to
its
self
;
and
penetrates
it
with
a
pleasing
and
violent
sweetness
,
which
hath
wherewith
to
gain
and
overcome
it
.
Nevertheless
,
it
hath
no
need
of
violence
against
the
Will
:
She
renders
her self
up
freely
to
what
is
Good
,
and
expects
not
to
be
forced
from
it
.
She
embraceth
all
that
resembleth
it
:
She
ever
gapes
after
the
Odour
and
Shadow
thereof
.
And
her
happiness
consisting
in
being
united
to
it
,
she
cannot
repel
it
without
suppressing
or
suspending
her
instinct
,
without
acting
against
her self
,
and
offering
violence
to
Nature
.
Her
instinct
and
disposition
in
respect
of
Evil
,
are
far
different
from
the
other
.
As
it
is
an
Object
of
Terror
,
which
woundeth
by
〈…〉
presence
,
the
Will
also
cannot
endure
the
Reproaches
of
it
▪
She
flies
eagerly
,
even
from
the
appearances
and
presages
thereof
▪
and
for
this
she
needs
neither
new
vigour
nor
force
but
her
own
instinct
contrariwise
she
would
have
need
of
a
second
vigour
more
powerfull
then
the
first
;
and
it
would
be
necessary
that
she
should
offer
violence
to
her
instinct
:
If
she
were
,
I
do
not
say
,
to
follow
Evil
,
but
even
to
expect
it
quietly
,
and
to
suspend
the
hatred
she
bears
it
.
It
is
then
more
easie
to
fight
against
Evil.
and
to
overcome
it
by
a
propense
and
natural
resistance
,
then
to
repell
Good
,
and
obtain
such
a
forced
victory
over
it
,
as
is
offensive
to
Nature
,
and
constrains
her
Inclinations
.
And
this
truth
being
supposed
,
I
leave
unto
others
to
judge
,
whether
the
Combats
of
Valour
be
more
hazardous
and
painfull
,
then
those
of
Chastity
:
And
whether
to
support
Nature
,
and
to
repulse
with
her
by
joynt
Forces
a
danger
which
affrights
and
threatens
her
,
it
be
necessary
to
imploy
more
Vigour
and
Constancy
,
and
act
more
couragiously
,
and
with
more
resolution
,
then
to
force
her
Inclinations
to
suppress
her
instinct
and
desires
;
to
snatch
from
her
a
Good
which
is
Interiour
,
and
Adherent
to
her
;
a
pressing
and
obstinate
Good
;
a
Good
,
which
is
supported
by
many
other
Goods
,
which
are
her
Solicitors
and
Agents
,
which
render
it
valuable
and
sustains
it
.
This
is
a
third
Reason
,
which
much
increaseth
the
dangers
of
Chastity
▪
and
the
need
she
hath
to
be
wel
armed
with
courage
&
warlike
Discipline
.
She
is
not
only
to
defend
her self
from
voluptuousness
,
which
is
an
obstinate
and
pressing
Enemy
:
And
which
can
hardly
be
vanquished
,
either
by
open
force
,
diversion
,
or
stratagem
.
But
she
is
likewise
to
overcome
Avarice
,
Vanity
,
and
Ambition
:
She
is
to
resist
Engines
of
Gold
and
Silver
,
Batteries
of
Diamonds
and
Pearls
,
and
generally
all
the
Assaults
which
a
potent
Love
,
assisted
by
Fortune
is
able
to
give
.
Some
Men
go
about
to
Debauch
even
Reputation
and
Honour
from
the
service
of
Chastity
,
and
to
imploy
them
some
times
against
her
with
better
Success
then
Pleasure
and
Riches
;
nay
,
then
death
it self
and
punishments
,
as
it
hapned
in
the
fall
of
〈◊〉
.
Now
it
is
certain
that
Gold
and
Silver
are
the
Engines
which
overcome
all
things
;
with
them
Towns
are
taken
which
have
held
out
against
Canons
and
Mines
:
By
them
Armies
have
been
defeated
,
which
had
resisted
Fire
and
Sword
,
the
injuries
of
Weather
,
and
the
fury
of
the
Elements
:
And
a
Woman
hath
need
of
far
greater
force
then
that
of
the
Heroes
,
to
maintain
a
Battery
,
which
hath
broken
whole
Legions
,
and
overthrown
C●tadels
.
There
are
also
but
too
many
of
them
who
surrender
to
it
.
And
in
these
sorts
of
Combats
,
Victories
are
daily
gain'd
with
Gold
and
Pearl
.
Nevertheless
that
which
is
remarkable
,
even
Riches
,
Honors
,
Presents
and
Hopes
,
which
have
so
much
power
to
weaken
Chastity
,
are
helps
which
incourage
valour
,
and
Fortifie
it
:
And
the
valiant
raise
themselves
great
and
resplendent
Fortunes
,
out
of
the
same
things
,
which
turne
chaste
Women
.
There
is
much
more
then
this
;
And
as
if
Chastity
had
not
enemie●
enough
of
her
own
,
she
is
to
contest
with
those
of
Valour
and
Constancy
.
She
is
not
onely
assaulted
by
voluptuousness
,
and
battered
with
pieces
of
Gold
,
and
Silver
,
with
Presents
and
Offers
,
with
Weapons
which
wound
the
soul
by
〈◊〉
the
senses
,
and
vanquish
the
heart
by
delighting
the
Body
But
she
is
also
assaulted
by
Tyrants
and
Executioners
with
a
preparation
of
〈◊〉
and
Engines
of
Punishments
:
And
the
〈◊〉
which
they
propose
to
her
is
not
a
resplendent
and
specious
death
,
and
Honorable
and
Glorious
death
,
like
that
of
valiant
Men
,
but
a
hideous
and
Tragick
Death
▪
a
Death
accompanied
with
Torments
,
and
like
those
which
are
bewailed
upon
Theaters
.
The
chief
thing
is
,
that
she
is
not
to
contend
with
this
death
,
and
these
Torments
by
resistance
,
and
by
repelling
them
with
the
Sword
,
as
in
War
:
This
Combat
would
be
easie
,
and
Nature
would
both
side
with
her
,
and
support
her
.
But
she
must
overcome
by
Patience
,
and
in
suffering
all
that
an
Irritated
passion
and
become
furious
,
can
make
one
suffer
.
And
Nature
,
to
which
sufferance
is
averse
,
not
assisting
her
in
this
kinde
of
fight
:
She
must
have
a
strong
resolution
,
and
a
very
Heroick
Courage
to
resist
all
alone
Fire
and
Sword
,
and
hold
out
against
the
Rack
and
Tortures
.
Those
are
truly
to
be
esteemed
,
who
expose
themselves
freely
to
so
many
Deaths
as
there
be
Grains
of
Lead
,
and
Pikes
of
Iron
in
the
Army
of
an
Enemy
;
who
remain
firm
before
artificial
Thunders
which
strike
at
a
greater
distance
,
and
cause
more
Murthers
then
those
of
Nature
.
But
the
end
of
those
Persons
,
how
resolute
soever
they
be
,
is
not
to
put
back
the
Goods
which
are
offered
them
,
and
less
also
to
abandon
themselves
to
the
Evils
which
appear
and
threaten
them
:
She
is
to
acquire
all
that
they
see
of
Riches
and
Crowns
in
the
hands
of
Victory
:
She
is
to
retort
death
upon
their
Enemies
,
and
with
Death
,
all
the
evils
which
accompany
it
,
as
well
as
those
that
follow
it
.
Chastity
hath
Objects
and
Pretensions
quite
opposite
to
these
:
And
it
is
her
duty
to
vanquish
equally
things
delightful
and
formidable
:
The
delightful
,
by
a
generous
refusal
;
the
formidable
,
by
an
immoveable
Patience
,
and
both
by
an
Heroick
Magnanimi●●
.
The
couragious
Susanna
was
to
fight
and
overcome
all
these
sorts
of
Enemies
,
drawn
together
against
her
in
one
single
Occasion
.
She
vanquished
Pleasure
,
which
hath
put
so
many
Heroesses
under
the
yoke
,
and
so
many
Conquerers
in
chains
.
She
overcame
Infamy
,
which
is
the
great
Bug-Bear
of
her
Sex
:
She
overcame
Death
,
even
the
Death
due
to
Sacriledges
;
And
that
which
exceeds
all
Expression
:
She
chose
rather
to
undergo
innocently
the
shame
and
punishment
of
Adulterers
,
then
to
preserve
her
Life
and
Honour
by
a
Stain
easie
to
be
washed
out
,
and
far
easier
to
be
concealed
.
Certainly
the
Victories
of
Sampson
,
though
Heroick
and
Miraculous
,
if
compared
with
these
,
will
pass
but
for
May-Games
,
and
Fictions
:
And
whatsover
is
said
of
it
,
he
shewed
less
strength
in
tearing
up
Pillars
,
and
bearing
the
fall
of
a
Ruined
House
,
then
Susanna
did
in
offering
her self
to
the
snares
which
were
prepared
for
her
.
Let
us
add
now
Example
to
Discourse
;
and
to
Inculcate
also
to
the
Understanding
the
advantage
which
the
courage
of
Chaste
Women
hath
above
that
of
Valiant
Men
,
let
us
present
here
to
publick
view
the
Picture
of
a
Warlike
and
vertuous
Chastity
.
EXAMPLE
.
Blanche
of
Rossy
.
THat
Mezentius
whose
Memory
even
at
this
day
is
exemplarily
punished
,
was
peradventure
but
a
Fiction
of
Virgil
,
made
to
chastise
(
in
Effigie
at
least
)
both
Tyrannie
and
Cruelty
;
and
to
read
a
Lesson
of
Justice
and
Clemency
to
Princes
.
Nevertheless
this
Fiction
so
notoriously
punished
,
and
cryed
down
for
so
many
Ages
,
hath
not
wanted
bad
Imitators
,
who
have
drawn
Copies
of
it
so
much
the
more
deformed
as
they
more
resembled
the
Original
.
And
not
to
produce
others
here
,
which
belong
to
other
Subjects
:
Accidin
was
in
flesh
and
bone
,
in
minde
and
action
,
what
Mezentius
was
but
in
Paper
and
Figure
.
This
Exterminator
who
was
sent
about
the
end
of
the
twelfth
Age
,
to
chastise
insolent
and
debauch●d
Italy
,
renewed
all
the
ancient
Cruelties
,
and
abolish●d
Punishments
;
And
verified
all
that
was
strange
in
Fables
,
all
that
was
seen
Tragical
,
and
surprising
upon
Theaters
.
His
Cruelty
extended
so
far
,
that
to
lengthen
the
punishment
and
impatience
of
those
wretched
men
whom
he
tormented
,
he
caused
them
to
be
laid
upon
half
putrified
bodies
,
to
the
end
the
dead
might
by
little
and
little
stifle
the
living
,
that
they
might
be
eaten
up
by
their
Worms
,
and
become
corrupted
by
their
Putrifaction
.
This
Cruelty
of
Accidin
was
accompanied
with
a
barbarous
and
brutish
Incontinency
.
And
albeit
tenderness
and
sweetness
be
a
Natural
Ingredient
to
Voluptuousness
;
His
nevertheless
was
ordinarily
Savage
,
stain'd
with
Blood
,
and
like
a
Fury
.
It
appeared
such
during
the
whole
course
of
his
life
,
and
particularly
in
the
Sacking
of
Boss●●●
,
which
he
took
by
Storm
.
〈◊〉
Baptista
of
〈◊〉
,
who
was
either
the
Governour
or
Lord
of
the
Place
,
having
been
slain
upon
the
Wall
,
Blanche
of
Rossy
his
Wife
,
who
fought
compleatly
armed
by
his
side
,
after
a
long
resistance
,
and
Heroick
Endeavors
,
was
taken
and
led
in
Triumph
before
the
Tyrant
,
as
the
most
rare
and
precious
piece
of
his
Conquest
.
Certainly
also
she
had
in
her self
alone
wherewith
to
merit
the
enterprise
and
labours
of
three
just
Conquerors
.
And
the
famous
Grecian
who
was
so
often
stoln
away
,
and
for
whom
so
many
Battels
had
been
fought
,
was
but
a
third
part
of
this
Italian
Lady
.
Her
Beauty
was
no
solitary
Beauty
,
and
ill
attended
like
the
others
.
It
was
accompanied
with
all
the
Vertues
which
make
the
Honour
of
her
Sex
;
and
even
those
which
Honour
ours
,
were
not
wanting
in
her
.
She
was
very
Beautiful
,
but
far
more
Chaste
,
and
little
less
Valiant
.
She
had
Charms
and
accomplished
Graces
:
but
those
Charms
were
Innocent
,
and
without
Affectation
:
those
Graces
were
Continent
and
Military
:
And
generally
in
all
her
Attractives
,
there
appeared
a
tincture
of
Modesty
,
and
Spirits
mix'd
with
bashfulness
and
courage
.
As
soon
as
Acc●din
had
viewed
her
thus
gracefully
set
forth
in
Armour
,
covered
over
with
a
certain
dust
steeped
in
sweat
,
which
appeared
like
a
Military
painting
,
and
such
as
they
give
to
Victory
:
A
black
and
violent
flame
suddenly
seized
on
his
heart
:
And
the
smoke
thereof
ascending
to
his
head
,
extinguished
all
that
was
found
there
of
light
.
It
was
neither
Affection
nor
●steem
;
it
was
neither
Inclination
nor
true
Love
.
Flames
of
this
Nature
do
not
fasten
on
all
sorts
of
matter
:
And
although
the
Sun
doth
illuminate
Comets
as
well
as
the
Planets
;
yet
it
is
not
from
the
fire
of
Planets
that
he
illuminates
the
Comets
.
The
relation
which
was
made
him
of
the
Valour
and
Chastity
of
Blanche
,
added
new
fire
to
his
brutish
Concupiscence
;
he
was
likewise
by
Nature
one
of
these
lustful
Devils
,
who
are
less
lascivious
by
an
appetite
they
cannot
have
,
then
by
the
inclination
they
have
to
defile
and
corrupt
.
Rapes
and
all
debauchery
,
injurious
to
Vertue
,
were
most
pleasing
to
him
;
And
he
took
a
particular
delight
in
spoiling
those
Flowers
which
were
Consecrated
to
her
.
At
first
he
constrain'd
his
Humour
,
and
took
upon
him
a
flattering
and
complacent
Countenance
;
but
this
look
was
a
very
improper
Mask
:
And
his
rude
and
forc'd
complacences
were
far
from
softning
the
Vertue
of
Blanche
.
She
knew
very
well
that
Tygers
never
grow
familiar
in
good
earnest
with
their
Prey
,
and
that
though
they
hide
their
teeth
and
clawes
,
yet
they
seldom
make
much
of
them
,
without
scratching
or
biting
them
.
Afterwards
he
discovers
himself
,
and
declares
to
her
his
passion
with
arrogant
intreaties
,
and
in
a
stile
of
Command
.
His
intreaties
,
though
violent
,
finding
not
themselves
powerful
enough
,
he
came
to
armed
threats
,
full
of
death
and
tortures
:
And
his
threats
,
with
all
their
weapons
,
proved
as
weak
as
his
Intreaties
.
There
nothing
remain'd
to
try
but
force
:
And
as
he
prepared
himself
for
it
,
the
Chaste
and
Couragious
Blanche
slipt
out
of
his
hands
;
got
into
the
window
,
and
transported
by
her
Vertues
and
Courage
,
and
perchance
also
by
her
good
Angel
,
she
precipitated
her self
from
thence
.
This
boldness
astonish'd
all
that
were
present
:
And
even
Accidin
acknowledg'd
himself
overcome
by
the
fall
of
his
Captive
:
They
that
were
sent
to
help
her
,
believed
her
dead
:
She
was
only
in
a
swound
,
and
had
one
shoulder
out
of
joynt
,
and
an
arm
broken
.
She
being
come
to
her self
,
there
was
neither
care
not
remedies
spar'd
for
her
Cure
:
But
as
she
apprehended
more
her
Cure
then
death
,
the
same
Remedies
which
asswaged
the
pain
of
her
body
,
augmented
the
grief
of
her
minde
▪
and
every
moment
she
prayed
against
the
Vertue
of
Remedies
,
and
bewailed
the
ease
which
she
received
by
them
.
The
Remedies
had
notwithstanding
more
Vertue
then
either
her
Prayers
or
Tears
:
They
restored
her
health
,
and
the
restauration
thereof
proved
the
Crysis
of
her
misfortune
.
Accidin
no
sooner
saw
her
recovered
,
but
he
presently
renewed
his
pretensions
and
pursuits
.
He
assaulted
her
Soul
in
every
part
,
where
it
might
be
assaulted
.
Having
in
vain
contested
against
hope
,
he
contested
against
fear
;
And
caused
far
greater
Threats
to
succed
larger
Offers
.
But
this
second
Assault
found
not
a
more
prosperous
Success
then
the
former
.
His
great
Menaces
and
Offers
were
tendred
without
effect
;
and
there
was
sound
nothing
base
or
weak
in
this
great
Soul
.
Perswasion
not
prevailing
with
her
,
he
used
a
Tyrannical
and
Barbarous
Violence
;
and
not
being
able
to
gain
upon
the
Spirit
of
Blanche
,
he
caused
her
body
to
be
fastened
upon
a
Table
,
which
was
more
detestable
to
her
then
a
Torturing
Wheel
.
This
action
only
sullied
the
Tyrant
who
did
it
;
The
Vertue
of
the
Patient
,
who
endured
it
with
so
much
regret
,
was
not
defaced
by
it
:
Her
very
Name
received
not
any
stain
thereby
:
Nevertheless
being
transported
with
pain
,
and
become
odious
,
and
almost
unknown
to
her self
;
she
withdrew
to
the
place
in
which
her
Husband
Interr'd
:
Where
having
discovered
what
remained
of
his
body
:
where
having
made
a
short
and
interrupted
,
yet
Couragious
and
Manly
Complaint
to
his
Ghost
;
and
where
having
besought
him
to
come
and
deliver
her
soul
out
of
a
Prison
stain'd
by
Accidin
;
she
cast
her self
upon
these
dear
and
pittiful
Reliques
:
And
in
this
state
,
able
to
beget
Emulation
in
all
the
Vertuous
Women
of
Antiquity
,
she
rendred
up
her
Soul
,
not
upon
the
Body
of
her
Husband
,
(
who
was
no
more
)
but
upon
his
Shadow
and
Memory
.
ISABELLE
de
Castille
su●e
le
●enin
et
le
peril
de
la
playe
de
son
Mary
desesperé
des
〈…〉
par
sa
●ueris●n
que
l'Amour
est
le
Maistre
de
la
vie
et
de
la
mort
〈…〉
Eleonor
of
Castile
Princess
of
wales
.
ALL
England
is
dangerously
sick
upon
this
Bed
with
Prince
Edward
.
The
Fortune
of
the
Publike
being
wounded
to
the
heart
by
the
wound
he
brought
from
the
Holy
War
,
endures
the
same
Convulsions
as
he
feels
:
And
the
Physitians
give
them
but
one
day
of
life
,
if
God
send
not
an
Angel
,
and
a
Miracle
to
cure
them
.
Surely
it
is
very
strange
that
the
hearts
of
a
whole
Nation
should
be
wounded
by
one
blow
,
and
that
one
shaft
which
hath
hurt
but
one
Body
,
should
draw
Blood
from
so
many
Soules
.
But
such
is
the
condition
,
and
as
it
were
the
destiny
of
good
Princes
:
They
have
a
heart
and
soul
in
every
one
of
their
Subjects
:
Their
blood
and
veines
disperse
themselves
throughout
all
the
parts
of
their
Dominions
,
and
their
least
wounds
are
followed
by
publike
Symptomes
,
and
popular
Maladies
.
Prince
Edwards
wound
is
one
of
those
:
The
King
his
Father
,
and
all
his
Subjects
lament
it
,
and
their
Tears
are
the
Blood
of
their
Soules
,
which
have
been
wounded
by
his
Body
.
You
will
believe
notwithstanding
,
that
in
this
generall
sickness
,
and
amidst
these
common
lamentations
,
the
Princess
his
wife
is
the
most
sick
,
and
most
to
be
lamented
.
There
is
also
a
good
half
of
the
Prince
in
her
;
and
reciprocally
more
then
a
good
half
of
her
in
the
Prince
.
Her
love
at
least
is
there
intire
;
and
with
her
love
there
is
more
of
her
Life
,
and
more
of
her
Soul
then
is
left
behind
.
Though
far
remote
from
the
fight
,
yet
she
was
wounded
there
to
death
with
him
:
Her
heart
found
it self
just
in
the
offended
part
:
and
ever
since
her
soul
and
life
have
issued
forth
by
the
same
wound
with
her
Husbands
blood
.
At
present
hope
is
returned
to
her
,
but
it
is
a
dolefull
hope
,
and
such
as
may
come
from
despair
.
The
Physitians
have
declared
to
her
,
that
the
Prince
might
yet
be
cured
,
and
that
to
cure
him
,
it
was
necessary
to
seek
out
some
affectionate
and
couragious
person
,
who
would
expose
himself
to
take
in
his
Death
by
sucking
the
poyson
out
of
his
wound
.
Her
Love
,
which
was
present
at
the
Consult
of
the
Physitians
,
perswaded
her
that
this
affection
could
not
be
expected
but
from
a
woman
,
nor
this
Courage
but
from
a
Princes
:
That
this
fatall
wound
could
not
have
a
more
soveraign
Salve
then
her
Tongue
:
and
that
if
it
were
her
Husbands
destiny
to
receive
a
second
Life
,
he
could
owe
it
to
no
other
then
her
Spirit
and
Mouth
.
This
inspiration
greedily
received
by
her
heart
,
drew
from
thence
this
bold
and
vigorous
heat
,
and
this
tincture
of
hope
and
joy
which
you
see
in
her
Face
.
There
appears
in
her
Countenance
something
,
I
know
not
what
,
of
fierce
and
stately
,
which
seems
to
require
respect
,
and
yet
begets
affection
.
It
is
peradventure
a
certain
Ayr
of
Spain
which
passed
the
Seas
with
her
,
and
followed
her
into
England
.
It
is
perchance
a
visible
expression
of
her
Heroick
thoughts
,
and
an
exteriour
sign
by
which
her
Soul
declares
what
she
newly
concluded
.
For
whatever
this
little
fierceness
may
be
taken
,
and
what
name
soever
they
give
it
;
it
sets
a
harmless
edge
upon
the
sweetness
of
this
Princess
:
It
is
to
her
Beauty
and
Graces
a
modest
and
well-becoming
boldness
:
It
is
as
it
were
a
reflection
of
her
Heart
upon
her
Face
,
and
as
a
demonstration
of
the
greatness
and
vigour
of
her
Soul
.
But
whether
it
proceed
from
the
greatness
and
vigour
of
her
Soul
,
or
from
the
force
and
greatness
of
her
affection
,
she
valueth
not
death
,
to
which
she
is
going
to
expose
her self
,
nor
is
affrighted
at
this
great
train
of
Terror
which
the
people
set
before
her
;
She
considers
,
and
hearkens
to
nothing
but
her
Love
,
which
calls
her
to
an
action
which
will
equall
Spain
to
ancient
Greece
,
and
old
Italy
;
which
will
efface
the
glory
of
renowned
men
and
women
;
and
infuse
jealousie
into
both
Sexes
:
which
will
be
the
honour
of
this
Age
,
and
the
admiration
of
Posterity
;
and
will
manifest
that
Charity
no
less
then
Faith
hath
the
gift
of
Cures
,
and
the
vertue
of
Miracles
.
Her
Imagination
was
full
of
these
great
Objects
.
But
her
Husband
is
the
main
one
,
and
approacheth
nearest
to
her
heart
:
In
her
mind
she
renounceth
Reputation
and
Glory
:
and
by
an
express
Oath
taken
upon
the
name
and
picture
of
the
Prince
,
which
you
see
in
her
hand
;
She
dedicates
her self
to
his
Cure
,
and
obligeth
her self
to
suck
in
her
own
Death
,
or
to
give
him
Life
.
Let
us
accompany
her
to
the
Execution
of
this
business
,
and
place
our selves
behind
this
piece
of
Arras
with
the
Princes
servants
,
who
observe
her
in
silence
,
and
with
gestures
of
astonishment
.
Vertue
cannot
have
too
many
witnesses
in
like
Enterprizes
.
And
this
would
merit
that
time
past
should
return
,
and
the
future
advance
to
convey
to
her
Spectators
of
all
Ages
.
Behold
her
already
upon
the
Princes
Bed
,
and
couched
upon
the
wound
she
hath
discovered
.
You
would
say
that
her
Soul
to
accomplish
the
Transport
she
hath
vowed
,
and
to
pass
from
the
subject
she
animates
,
to
that
she
loveth
,
flows
away
by
her
Eyes
with
her
Tears
,
and
drop
by
drop
penetrates
the
Body
of
the
sick
Prince
.
Do
not
fear
that
these
Tears
should
inflame
his
wound
;
or
that
the
Ardour
of
his
Feavour
be
augmented
by
them
.
These
Tears
indeed
are
very
warm
,
and
come
from
a
scorching
spring
:
but
they
are
gentle
and
benigne
;
and
I
believe
that
not
a
Tear
doth
fall
,
which
carryeth
not
with
it
some
part
of
the
Princesses
Soul
,
and
some
drop
of
her
Life
distilled
therein
.
What
do
you
think
of
this
Love
,
who
exhorts
her
with
his
very
looks
and
action
?
Doth
he
not
seem
to
be
newly
come
out
of
her
Heart
to
declare
himself
the
Author
of
this
great
Design
,
and
to
enjoy
it
neerer
and
in
an
open
way
?
He
is
not
one
of
these
Interested
and
Propriatory
Ones
that
will
ingross
all
to
themselves
,
and
aym
meerly
at
their
own
private
satisfaction
.
Less
also
is
he
one
of
those
Discontented
and
Contentious
Ones
,
who
are
armed
on
all
sides
with
teeth
and
nails
;
who
carry
not
a
Flower
which
is
not
accompanied
with
Thornes
;
who
make
not
so
much
cleer
fire
,
as
they
do
noise
and
smoke
.
You
see
no
Shafts
nor
Torch
about
him
,
because
he
is
a
Saving
and
no
Tyrannical
Love
:
He
is
come
to
cure
an
old
wound
,
and
not
to
make
new
ones
:
And
there
entreth
nothing
but
a
pure
Spirit
and
Light
into
the
Flames
which
he
inkindles
.
He
is
not
of
the
Country
of
Romances
,
nor
of
the
Region
of
Fables
:
His
Origen
is
from
Heaven
,
even
from
the
most
Luminous
,
and
highest
part
of
Heaven
.
He
is
next
to
God
the
Mediator
of
holy
Marriages
,
and
well
united
Pairs
:
He
is
the
common
Spirit
of
Christian
Sympathyes
,
and
the
Moderator
of
Chaste
Agreements
,
and
Vertuous
Harmonies
.
Such
an
Exhorter
is
most
powerful
,
and
his
Inspirations
leave
nothing
to
be
acted
by
Reason
.
However
he
is
not
the
sole
perswader
of
the
Princess
.
Her
Husband
though
fast
asleep
,
is
no
less
Perswasive
nor
Eloquent
them
he
.
If
Prince
Edward
speaks
not
with
his
mouth
,
he
speaks
by
the
paleness
of
his
face
:
He
speaks
from
the
Ardour
of
his
Feaver
,
and
the
Palpatation
of
his
heart
.
He
speaks
from
his
wound
which
hath
a
Voice
of
Blood
and
words
of
Passion
.
In
silence
the
Princess
yields
attention
to
this
Voice
and
to
these
Words
:
And
Answereth
them
with
her
Sighs
and
Tears
,
which
are
no
less
Eloquent
,
nor
less
Passionate
.
And
ere
long
when
she
shall
thrust
her
Tongue
and
Mouth
into
this
Wound
,
her
Heart
will
descend
upon
her
Lips
to
bid
the
last
adieu
to
the
Princes
Heart
,
and
to
transmit
into
it
her
last
Flame
,
together
with
her
Life
.
But
fear
nothing
in
her
behalf
:
This
Love
her
Inciter
,
will
preserve
them
both
.
He
put
a
secret
Antidote
in
to
her
Mouth
,
and
gave
her
Spirit
the
gift
of
Healing
.
Her
Lips
which
he
purified
with
a
Spiritual
and
Sacred
Fire
,
will
Exorcise
Death
,
and
dispossess
it
of
this
Body
,
without
taking
it
into
her
own
:
And
one
day
,
Edward
Cured
,
and
Eleonor
Preserved
,
will
be
reckoned
amongst
the
miracles
of
Heroick
Charity
.
SONNET
.
ON
some
Exploit
,
Prince
Edward
,
Dreaming
lyes
,
With
Death
in
's
Wound
,
and
slumber
in
his
Eyes
:
His
Spouse
,
to
Cure
him
,
is
resolv'd
to
Dy
,
With
Heart
like
those
of
her
brave
Ancestry
.
Love
,
more
then
Nature
,
skill'd
in
Life's
repairs
,
Makes
him
a
precious
Balsome
of
her
Tears
:
Whose
Soul
already
heals
him
in
Designe
,
And
,
at
his
Wound
,
do's
with
his
Soul
conjoyne
.
Approach
thy
Mouth
and
Heart
couragious
Wife
,
'T
is
that
must
save
thy
gallant
Edwards
life
;
That
Heart
of
thine
,
with
true
Affection
Crown'd
,
Shall
make
thy
Tongue
a
Plaister
for
his
Wound
.
To
Cure
thy
Prince
,
employ
no
other
Skill
;
The
Fire
,
the
Blood
,
the
Spirits
that
Distill
From
thy
fair
Soul
,
shall
from
his
Body
drive
Th'
empoyson'd
Wound
,
and
keep
thy
Prince
alive
.
Elogy
of
Eleonor
.
HEroick
Vertue
doth
not
alwaies
Kill
;
not
imploys
Fire
and
Sword
in
all
she
takes
in
hand
.
All
her
Exploits
are
not
stained
with
Blood
:
she
knows
how
to
perform
them
of
more
then
one
fashion
and
colour
;
and
acts
not
everywhere
with
Noise
,
though
in
every
place
with
Force
.
There
are
Obscure
victories
without
witnesses
,
wherein
she
hath
need
of
no
less
boldness
,
then
in
those
which
are
gained
in
the
view
of
whole
Nations
,
and
with
the
noise
of
Canons
and
Trumpets
.
The
victorie
represented
in
this
Picture
,
is
one
of
these
.
Edward
,
Prince
of
Wales
,
was
come
back
from
the
Holy
Land
,
with
a
wound
he
had
received
from
an
Impoysoned
Arrow
.
The
Physitians
had
allayed
all
their
speculations
and
practises
,
and
all
those
ways
having
been
unprofitably
tryed
,
they
declared
to
him
,
that
he
could
not
be
cured
but
by
the
destruction
of
some
Person
who
might
have
the
courage
to
suck
in
death
with
the
poyson
of
his
wound
.
Being
condemned
by
this
Declaration
,
he
prepares
himself
to
dye
,
resolving
not
to
preserve
life
,
by
the
death
of
another
,
nor
to
make
a
remedy
of
an
Impoysonment
.
The
Princess
his
Wife
,
Daughter
unto
the
King
of
Castile
,
conceiving
her self
condemn'd
by
the
same
sentence
,
received
it
,
as
if
love
it self
had
pronounced
it
to
her
:
And
seeing
her self
necessitated
to
dye
,
either
by
the
death
or
cure
of
her
Husband
;
She
resolved
to
chuse
of
these
two
deaths
,
that
which
seemed
to
her
the
most
Honourable
,
and
least
bitter
;
and
which
ought
of
the
two
moyties
of
her
life
to
conserve
to
her self
,
that
which
was
most
dear
and
precious
.
This
resolution
taken
with
her
love
,
she
defers
the
Execution
to
the
next
night
;
And
as
soon
as
the
Prince
was
prepared
for
it
by
rest
,
she
gently
discovers
his
wound
,
and
begins
to
cure
it
by
the
purest
blood
of
her
soul
,
which
she
pours
into
it
with
her
Tears
:
That
done
,
she
set
her
mouth
to
the
wound
,
and
with
her
tongue
plunged
her
heart
into
it
:
By
little
and
little
she
sucks
out
the
Poyson
,
and
so
seasonably
casts
it
forth
,
as
she
drew
from
thence
all
that
was
Mortal
,
without
ret●●ning
any
part
thereof
to
her self
.
Whether
that
this
malignant
humour
were
consumed
by
the
subtile
and
penetrating
fire
,
which
her
heart
diffused
by
her
mouth
:
Or
whether
God
,
who
is
Life
and
Charity
,
had
laid
his
Spirit
upon
her
lips
,
she
preserved
her
Husbands
life
without
loosing
her
own
;
and
by
one
act
cured
two
sick
Persons
,
and
wrought
two
Miracles
.
MORAL
REFLECTION
.
THere
is
a
large
〈◊〉
in
this
Picture
;
and
an
excellent
lesson
for
married
Women
This
couragious
Spaniard
added
to
the
Romans
,
Greciams
,
and
even
to
those
Barbarians
,
who
dyed
for
their
husbands
,
will
speak
Eternally
for
the
constancy
and
fidelity
of
their
Affections
:
And
wil
highly
prove
,
and
in
an
Heroick
fule
,
that
the
loving
portion
of
the
heart
is
more
vigorous
and
couragious
in
their
Sex
,
then
in
Ours
.
But
she
will
also
prove
for
their
instruction
,
that
nothing
is
impossible
to
well
ordered
Charity
:
That
her
hands
have
the
gift
of
Cures
,
and
that
the
vertue
of
Miracles
resides
on
her
Lips
:
That
she
single
and
unarmed
,
hath
more
Force
then
Death
with
all
his
swords
and
poysons
:
and
that
Barbarous
and
heathenish
Love
,
which
knew
onely
how
to
dye
vainly
,
and
with
Audacity
,
was
but
an
impatient
and
desperate
Love
,
compared
to
a
Chaste
One
,
which
knows
how
to
save
in
dying
,
and
to
reap
benefit
even
by
its
Dangers
and
Losses
.
But
this
saving
and
Wonder-working
Love
,
ought
not
to
be
a
busie
and
Effeminate
Love
,
or
a
Love
of
Interest
and
propriety
.
It
must
be
a
Philosophick
and
Couragious
Love
,
Extatick
and
Prodigal
;
Elevated
above
all
that
pleaseth
and
affrights
.
This
Torch
must
be
like
that
,
represented
in
the
Canticles
,
not
a
wandring
and
Volatile
fire
,
but
a
fire
ever
Equal
and
Active
;
A
fire
which
consumes
all
the
little
threds
of
Interests
;
all
Forraign
tyes
;
all
Chains
and
Fetters
;
even
those
precious
Chains
which
Fortune
frames
;
nay
,
those
very
Fetters
which
are
more
worth
then
Diadems
,
and
which
fasten
Princes
on
Thrones
.
Some
will
have
it
,
that
it
consumes
even
the
tyes
of
the
Soul
and
Body
;
And
alleadge
that
place
of
the
Canticles
,
where
the
power
of
Love
is
equalled
with
that
of
Death
.
This
point
is
both
important
,
and
instructive
:
And
because
one
might
be
dangerously
mistaken
therein
,
it
is
fit
to
make
a
Question
of
it
apart
.
MORAL
QVESTION
.
Whether
it
appertains
to
the
Duty
and
Fidelity
of
Women
,
to
expose
themselves
to
Death
for
their
Husbands
.
IF
in
this
point
we
believe
Antiquity
,
Conjugal
Love
was
heretofore
very
Tyrannical
:
And
married
Women
,
who
subjected
themselves
to
it
,
ought
to
be
well
resolved
.
It
was
not
satisfied
,
that
they
should
bear
with
the
ill
humours
,
and
bad
Fortunes
of
their
Husbands
,
but
it
would
have
them
sick
of
their
Maladies
,
&
die
of
their
Deaths
:
And
as
if
it
had
not
been
sufficient
to
make
them
slaves
,
&
undergo
the
yoke
,
It
made
them
also
Sufferers
and
Victims
,
and
put
ordinarily
either
a
rope
about
their
necks
,
or
a
dagger
in
their
throats
:
The
chief
thing
is
,
that
there
was
a
necessity
of
taking
that
course
to
acquire
the
title
of
a
gallant
Woman
:
And
such
as
were
able
to
endure
life
after
the
death
of
their
Husbands
,
could
not
pretend
to
the
acclamations
of
their
present
Age
,
nor
to
the
Eternity
of
History
.
Besides
,
even
in
these
dayes
this
cruel
Custom
is
used
in
some
parts
of
the
Indie
:
No
Widows
are
seen
in
those
Countries
:
And
Families
are
not
prejudiced
there
by
Dowries
which
issue
out
of
them
:
A
Father
of
a
Family
being
dead
,
the
Law
of
the
Country
ordains
,
that
he
be
put
in
an
Equipage
for
the
other
World
:
And
that
such
things
as
had
been
most
dear
unto
him
,
should
be
burn'd
with
him
.
The
best
beloved
of
his
Wives
hath
this
advantage
by
his
last
Will
,
and
the
Right
which
Custom
allows
her
.
She
dresseth
her self
more
richly
,
and
with
more
care
for
death
,
then
she
had
done
for
her
Wedding-Feast
:
The
whole
Kindred
in
Festival
Garments
,
and
adorned
like
her
,
Conducts
her
Solemnly
and
in
Pomp
to
the
flaming
Pile
:
And
there
she
suffers
her self
to
be
burnt
in
Ceremony
,
and
with
a
more
Natural
and
less
affected
Constancy
then
did
the
〈◊〉
Philosopher
,
who
would
counterfeit
Hercules
dying
;
And
presented
a
Spectacle
of
his
death
to
the
Army
of
Alexander
.
I
know
indeed
that
this
Superstitious
,
and
regular
Cruelty
of
the
Indians
;
And
that
other
tumultuary
and
precipitated
Despair
of
the
Romans
and
Grecians
,
are
equally
reproved
by
the
Laws
of
Christianity
.
But
I
am
not
ignorant
also
that
conjugal
Love
hath
its
Meritorious
and
Vertuous
Deaths
:
And
there
is
some
ground
to
doubt
whether
such
kinde
of
deaths
may
happen
by
way
of
obligation
,
and
concern
the
Duty
of
a
good
Wife
.
To
this
Question
,
which
is
not
of
meer
Curiosity
,
but
Instructive
and
Profitable
:
I
answer
,
First
,
that
desperate
and
passionate
Women
,
who
kill
themselves
to
follow
their
deceased
Husbands
,
transgress
against
conjugal
Love
,
and
violate
the
Fidelity
they
owe
them
.
This
Proposition
draws
neer
to
a
Paradox
;
Yet
exceeds
not
its
bounds
;
and
Truth
is
there
well
ballanced
.
One
or
two
Reasons
may
Justifie
it
,
and
draw
the
assent
of
the
most
devoted
to
the
Memory
of
the
Pant●●●●●
and
the
Porcia's
.
In
the
first
place
it
will
be
granted
me
,
that
the
prime
care
of
Lovers
should
be
to
nourish
their
fire
,
and
to
keep
it
still
in
heat
and
action
;
To
delend
it
from
all
that
might
extinguish
it
:
And
the
least
neglects
therein
are
Temptations
:
Doubts
are
Dispositions
to
change
and
commenced
Infidelities
.
Now
this
fire
is
smother'd
in
blood
,
and
by
the
violence
of
desperate
Widows
.
It
is
a
great
folly
to
believe
that
nothing
remains
after
death
:
The
earth
of
Church-yards
is
too
cold
to
preserve
a
single
spark
thereof
:
An
such
as
thunder
out
so
great
Oaths
,
that
their
Ashes
will
retain
everlastingly
the
heat
thereof
,
are
highly
guilty
of
Perjury
,
unless
they
vent
them
by
way
of
Poesie
.
And
if
it
be
an
act
of
Infidelity
by
tract
of
time
,
and
by
piece-meal
to
suppress
ones
love
from
day
to
day
,
and
to
deprive
it
by
degrees
of
nourishment
,
what
will
it
be
to
smother
it
violently
and
on
a
sudden
;
not
to
leave
it
a
single
spark
which
may
inkindle
it
?
I
know
not
how
they
will
take
what
I
have
to
say
in
this
particular
.
It
is
true
nevertheless
,
and
must
be
spoken
,
in
what
sense
soever
it
may
be
taken
Conjugal
Fidelity
is
more
hainously
violated
,
and
the
dead
are
far
more
injured
by
the
delusive
Courage
of
the
falsely
Constant
Women
that
destroy
themselves
,
then
by
the
weakness
of
those
which
will
open
their
hearts
to
new
Affections
,
and
run
to
second
Marriages
.
These
at
least
preserve
the
Memory
of
their
Husbands
;
They
still
retain
their
Rings
on
their
Fingers
▪
They
keep
their
Pictures
in
their
Closets
and
Hearts
:
And
the
second
fire
which
●●●●eth
on
them
is
not
so
incompatible
,
nor
so
much
an
enemy
to
the
first
,
that
it
permits
not
some
sparks
thereof
,
and
a
little
heat
in
the
remaining
Ashes
.
On
the
contrary
,
furious
and
despairing
Widows
in
what
manner
soever
they
voluntarily
die
,
reserve
nothing
of
their
first
fire
:
They
destroy
it
even
to
the
Matter
,
to
the
very
Ashes
and
Harth
:
And
their
Husbands
,
who
might
live
long
and
quietly
in
their
hearts
,
perish
a
second
time
by
the
impetuosity
of
their
Despair
,
or
by
the
obstinacy
of
their
Grief
.
Hence
I
infer
a
second
Reason
against
the
Falsity
of
impatient
and
despairing
Love
.
It
is
an
opinion
generally
received
,
and
supported
both
by
the
Sense
and
Nature
,
as
well
as
by
Speculation
and
Philosophy
:
That
Persons
beloved
have
a
particular
Being
,
and
as
it
were
a
second
Existency
in
the
Imagination
,
in
the
Soul
and
Heart
of
the
Persons
that
love
them
.
They
live
there
intellectually
,
and
by
their
Images
:
And
those
Images
are
not
dead
Figures
,
nor
Impostures
of
a
deceiving
Art
.
They
have
Life
and
Spirit
;
they
are
true
and
Natural
:
They
possess
all
the
Perfections
and
Graces
of
their
Originals
,
and
have
neither
the
Defects
nor
stains
of
Matter
.
Now
a
Woman
who
kills
her self
out
of
a
blinde
and
precipitious
fury
,
or
who
consumes
her self
with
an
obstinate
and
voluntary
Affliction
,
takes
from
her
Husband
this
second
Existency
;
and
this
intellectual
Being
and
Love
,
by
which
he
surviv'd
himself
She
voluntarily
annihilates
,
and
violently
destroys
that
which
death
had
left
her
:
And
if
she
ought
to
make
a
scruple
of
defacing
his
Picture
,
with
what
colour
and
pretence
can
she
justifie
the
violence
she
offereth
to
an
Image
,
which
was
her
second
Life
and
Felicity
in
this
World
?
It
is
evident
thereby
that
Constancy
is
not
furious
,
and
that
Fidelity
is
another
thing
then
Despair
:
That
the
greatest
Love
is
not
that
which
makes
the
most
haste
to
poysons
and
precipices
:
That
Wives
cannot
more
Religiously
keep
the
Faith
they
owe
to
their
Husbands
,
not
give
them
stronger
proofs
of
their
Affection
,
then
in
rendring
their
Fidelity
,
and
Love
,
durable
and
lasting
:
Then
in
procuring
them
in
their
minde
a
life
full
of
tranquillity
and
satisfaction
:
Then
in
espousing
their
Memory
,
and
making
a
new
Contract
with
their
Images
:
Then
in
carefully
preserving
those
things
which
have
been
dear
unto
them
:
And
if
they
be
good
Wives
,
they
will
not
doubt
but
they
were
more
dear
to
them
then
any
Worldly
treasure
.
Let
it
not
be
said
,
that
this
Philosophy
is
too
remiss
and
indulgent
:
That
it
pleads
the
cause
of
Nice
and
Effeminate
Dames
;
That
it
gives
credit
and
authority
to
self
Love
.
This
cannot
be
spoken
but
rashly
,
and
at
random
;
And
surely
as
one
may
kill
himself
out
of
self
Love
,
and
through
an
excess
of
tenderness
;
so
one
may
preserve
his
own
life
for
the
Love
of
another
,
and
by
a
particular
Effort
of
Courage
.
Seneca
affirms
,
that
for
this
much
Vertue
is
required
:
and
that
the
bravest
men
ought
to
employ
therein
,
the
whole
vigour
of
their
Souls
.
And
this
Stoack
,
who
was
as
severe
by
his
own
inclination
,
as
by
the
Genius
of
his
Sect
;
who
had
been
inured
to
the
Axioms
,
and
opinions
of
the
strongest
Philosophy
;
who
had
so
frequent
trials
of
himself
against
grief
and
death
,
freely
confesseth
,
and
in
good
earnest
,
that
he
was
become
a
thrifty
dispoler
of
his
bad
remainders
;
and
had
spared
the
dirt
and
dreggs
of
his
Old
Age
,
to
the
end
he
might
preserve
the
Spirit
and
youth
of
Paul●●s
,
who
lived
in
him
.
To
this
first
Decision
,
Which
allows
not
to
Women
the
use
of
poyson
,
and
Steel
;
and
imposeth
an
absolute
necessity
on
them
to
survive
their
husbands
;
I
add
a
second
,
which
replaceth
them
in
the
freedom
,
even
in
the
Right
and
Duty
of
dying
for
them
:
And
the
strength
of
this
second
Decision
,
is
not
repugnant
to
the
moderation
of
the
former
.
I
say
then
,
that
albeit
the
Law
,
which
forbids
murther
,
and
especially
all
self-murther
,
be
express
and
general
:
Yet
in
a
perilous
occasion
,
where
the
life
of
a
husband
should
be
in
danger
,
his
wife
would
be
obliged
to
expose
her self
for
him
to
this
hazard
,
and
to
give
her
own
life
for
the
preservation
of
his
,
if
there
were
an
occasion
of
making
this
exchange
.
I
do
not
ground
this
obligation
upon
the
right
of
Common
Justice
,
nor
on
the
Duties
of
Charity
in
general
.
Common
,
and
Universal
Charity
,
doth
not
extend
so
far
:
I
ground
it
upon
the
Right
and
Duties
of
Conjugal
Love
,
which
is
of
greater
rigour
,
then
the
most
rigorous
justice
,
and
imposeth
more
Obliging
and
strict
Laws
,
then
the
strictest
Charity
.
And
to
begin
with
what
is
more
particular
and
essential
:
We
know
that
the
proper
effect
,
&
the
specifical
Function
of
Conjugal
Love
,
is
to
reunite
two
Moyties
,
which
the
Creation
hath
severed
:
and
to
reassemble
Man
and
Woman
into
one
body
.
Moreover
we
see
in
all
Natural
bodies
,
that
the
less
Noble
parts
expose
themselves
by
instinct
to
fire
and
sword
,
in
the
defence
of
the
Nobler
.
We
see
that
the
Arms
and
Hands
stuffen
and
extend
themselves
to
meet
the
danger
which
menaceth
the
head
;
to
receive
the
blows
directed
against
it
:
To
protect
it
even
by
their
wounds
,
even
by
their
death
and
torture
,
What
our
Members
do
by
this
instinct
,
which
is
a
more
ancient
duty
then
all
Laws
&
Law
makers
,
which
is
a
blinde
Love
,
and
a
Natural
Charity
without
merit
;
a
married
Woman
ought
to
do
it
freely
,
and
by
election
,
through
the
duty
of
this
strict
and
rigorous
Charity
,
which
Conjugal
Love
imposeth
on
her
.
She
is
but
the
second
part
of
the
body
,
composed
by
marriage
.
Man
,
to
whom
the
Command
belongs
,
is
the
Head
thereof
:
and
the
Law
which
from
the
begining
was
imposed
upon
Woman
,
to
apply
her self
to
this
Head
,
not
onely
ordains
her
to
take
light
and
Conduct
from
thence
,
but
also
wils
,
that
to
preserve
this
principle
of
her
Conduct
,
and
this
source
of
her
light
,
she
should
lay
aside
the
care
of
her
own
safety
,
and
repose
:
that
she
should
take
upon
her self
his
dangers
and
wounds
;
and
even
save
him
by
her
death
,
if
it
will
be
received
in
Exchange
.
Besides
,
Love
of
its
own
Nature
is
a
general
Alienation
of
the
whole
Person
that
loveth
.
It
is
a
Transport
without
Contract
or
Hope
of
a
Return
,
by
which
one
gives
himself
all
entire
,
and
makes
a
free
Donation
of
all
that
he
hath
,
and
is
,
to
the
Person
he
affects
.
Now
if
this
Alienation
and
Transport
may
be
valid
and
of
force
in
any
kinde
of
love
,
it
is
doubtless
in
Conjugal
Love
,
which
leaves
no
right
of
reserve
in
Married
Persons
▪
Which
takes
from
them
even
the
free
use
of
their
Bodies
,
and
engageth
them
in
a
mutual
Dependency
.
And
this
Dependency
is
yet
more
strict
and
indispensible
on
the
Wives
part
,
who
owes
unto
her
Husband
even
the
hairs
of
her
Head
,
and
the
very
Dreams
and
Fancies
which
are
within
it
:
Whether
by
Reason
the
subjection
is
greater
,
and
the
Duties
more
Natural
and
necessary
of
the
Body
towards
the
Head
,
and
of
the
Accessory
toward
the
Principal
,
then
of
the
Head
towards
the
Body
,
and
the
Principal
towards
the
Accessory
;
or
whether
because
Wives
give
themselves
with
less
reserve
,
and
love
more
Sincerely
,
and
with
more
Fidelity
then
Men
This
Alienation
,
when
it
is
free
and
compleat
,
doth
not
only
establish
on
a
Husband
a
just
Title
over
all
the
Cares
and
Affections
of
his
Wife
;
but
it
also
establishes
in
him
,
a
new
Right
over
her
Blood
and
Life
.
And
albeit
,
this
Right
cannot
be
exacted
by
Justice
,
yet
it
may
be
done
by
Love
,
which
is
a
far
less
severe
and
vexatious
Exacter
,
but
yet
more
pressing
and
more
efficatious
then
Justice
.
Nevertheless
this
Exacter
ought
to
know
,
that
he
cannot
make
use
of
this
Right
but
in
the
Extremity
of
Hope
,
and
after
the
Tryal
of
all
other
Remedies
.
An
arm
of
a
Man
is
not
cut
off
to
cure
him
of
Rhume
and
Head-ach
:
And
one
may
say
truly
,
that
this
kinde
of
Love
would
play
the
Tyrant
,
and
Executioner
,
and
even
cut
the
throat
of
a
Wife
,
to
make
a
Bath
for
her
Husband
,
sick
of
the
Sciatica
or
the
Stone
.
In
the
third
place
,
Love
is
a
true
and
sensible
Transmigration
of
the
Soul
,
or
as
some
define
it
,
grounded
on
the
Doctrine
of
St.
De●ys
:
It
is
an
Extasie
by
which
the
Soul
ceaseth
to
live
in
the
Body
,
which
she
animates
,
to
live
in
that
which
she
Loves
.
Upon
which
it
is
not
necessary
to
make
a
Commentary
in
this
place
;
nor
to
say
by
way
of
gloss
,
that
the
Word
to
live
ought
not
to
be
understood
of
the
first
and
Substantial
,
but
of
the
second
and
Active
Life
;
of
this
sweet
and
sensible
Life
,
which
affords
Gust
and
Delight
to
the
first
.
Every
one
ought
to
know
,
that
Love
is
the
Original
,
and
,
as
it
were
,
the
Fountain
of
Joy
,
Pleasure
and
Satisfaction
,
and
of
whatsoever
hath
a
share
in
the
sweetness
of
Life
:
And
therefore
the
sweet
life
of
Lovers
cannot
subsist
,
but
in
the
place
where
they
love
:
Their
minds
are
sick
and
languishing
,
every
where
else
:
All
their
thoughts
,
which
tend
not
thither
,
are
heavy
and
Terrestrial
;
are
Melancholy
and
burthened
with
Anxiety
:
Their
Musings
and
their
Cares
can
follow
no
other
Track
:
And
of
those
Souls
,
it
may
well
be
said
that
they
are
Aliens
,
and
Incommodated
at
home
;
And
that
their
Bodies
are
to
them
as
bad
Innes
,
nay
Prisons
and
Sepulchres
.
Hence
it
grows
,
that
it
doth
not
only
belong
to
the
Duty
,
but
also
to
the
Interest
and
Repose
of
a
good
Wife
,
to
Sacrifice
her
own
life
for
her
Husband
;
and
that
the
gain
which
may
be
made
thereby
,
is
by
two
thirds
greater
then
the
loss
.
Thereby
she
only
hazards
the
most
unquiet
and
worst
part
of
her
two
lives
.
She
exposeth
nothing
but
her
Sorrows
and
Vexations
,
for
the
preservation
of
her
Joyes
and
Pleasures
.
Of
the
two
places
where
her
Soul
lives
,
she
only
forsakes
that
which
is
sad
and
Melancholy
:
And
by
the
ruine
of
her
Prison
,
she
secures
her
Palace
.
And
that
by
the
choice
of
a
death
which
lasts
but
a
moment
,
and
is
sweetned
and
purified
by
Love
;
She
avoids
a
Widow-hood
,
which
is
to
Lovers
a
long
and
bitter
death
;
A
death
of
the
Heart
and
Minde
;
a
death
which
endures
and
makes
it self
felt
as
long
as
it
lasteth
.
Thereby
in
fine
,
her
Love
enjoys
the
purest
and
highest
satisfaction
whereof
it
is
capable
:
Which
is
to
produce
it self
entire
:
To
fill
up
the
whole
Extent
that
lies
open
to
it
;
to
pass
even
to
the
utmost
bounds
,
and
to
the
last
Tryals
.
Now
so
long
as
it
advanceth
not
so
far
as
death
,
there
still
remains
a
great
Vac●●●●
before
it
.
And
the
most
important
and
perswasive
point
is
yet
wanting
to
Tryals
.
Being
assured
by
the
Testimony
of
Holy
Writ
,
that
Perfect
and
Consummated
Love
,
is
only
found
in
such
as
Sacrifice
their
Lives
for
those
who
are
dear
unto
them
.
Moreover
this
last
and
Supream
Duty
which
Conjugal
Love
imposeth
on
Wives
,
and
which
it
may
also
impose
on
Husbands
,
is
not
one
of
those
Duties
in
〈◊〉
and
Speculation
,
whereof
no
Example
is
seen
but
in
Romances
.
The
Couragious
Spanish
Princess
,
whose
Picture
I
have
newly
drawn
,
was
not
a
Fantome
of
that
Country
:
And
so
many
others
,
so
well
known
in
true
History
,
were
not
born
in
the
same
Places
as
the
〈◊〉
and
〈◊〉
I
leave
the
Ancient
and
Forreign
Dames
to
seekers
of
far-fetched
Curiosities
:
The
French
Lady
,
whom
I
am
to
produce
,
is
of
a
Family
,
good
and
rich
enough
to
be
an
Honour
to
her
Country
,
and
Age
:
And
such
as
treat
of
Modern
Vertues
,
as
of
the
younger
b●ood
,
will
learn
at
least
by
this
Example
,
that
the
younger
Daughters
of
France
are
nothing
inferiour
to
the
eldest
Daughters
of
Greece
and
Rome
.
EXAMPLE
.
Margaret
of
Foixe
Dutchess
of
Espernon
.
IT
is
no
new
thing
to
hear
me
Discourse
of
the
bad
Intelligence
which
is
between
Friendship
and
Fortune
It
hath
always
been
believed
that
Greatness
was
too
much
Interessed
,
and
Propriatory
,
to
love
really
;
and
that
it
had
a
certain
Pride
and
Rigour
,
which
left
no
room
for
Tenderness
and
soft
Passions
.
It
hath
been
said
,
that
Love
and
Majesty
never
dwell
together
:
That
it
rather
affects
a
mean
and
quiet
Condition
,
then
an
elevation
exposed
to
Winds
and
Tempests
.
And
they
that
have
resembled
it
to
a
Bird
,
have
not
made
it
flie
with
Eagles
,
nor
placed
it
upon
the
top
of
Cedars
,
and
the
summet
of
Mountains
.
They
have
ranked
it
amongst
Bees
,
which
are
Armed
,
and
live
like
it
,
of
the
quintiscence
of
●owers
,
and
of
the
pure
Spirit
of
the
Planets
.
They
have
lodgd
it
amongst
Rose
Trees
,
where
there
is
Fire
and
Thorns
like
its
own
.
But
whatever
hath
hitherto
been
believed
or
said
,
Friendship
and
Vertue
are
not
equally
at
variance
with
all
great
Fortunes
:
There
are
Grandeurs
very
Affectionate
and
wel-Natured
,
as
well
as
Rude
and
Intractable
.
And
if
the
Lizard
,
which
walks
only
upon
his
hands
,
as
Solomon
saith
,
be
so
bold
as
to
ascend
even
to
the
Palaces
of
Kings
,
and
to
dwell
with
them
as
their
Domestique
:
We
must
not
believe
that
Love
,
which
is
Nobly
Descended
,
and
to
whom
so
excellent
wings
are
given
,
is
only
born
for
Cottages
.
There
are
no
Houses
shut
against
it
:
And
it
shall
appear
by
this
Example
,
into
what
House
soever
Vertue
introduceth
it
,
there
is
no
Greatness
which
gives
not
place
to
it
,
nor
any
Interest
which
obeys
it
not
.
The
Fort●ne
of
the
deceased
Duke
of
Esper●on
hath
been
long
admir'd
throughout
all
France
:
It
was
likewise
Extraordinary
and
Wonderful
;
and
there
was
not
only
colour
in
the
pieces
which
composed
it
,
but
also
Force
and
Solidity
;
they
were
all
great
and
Illustrious
.
In
my
Judgement
nevertheless
the
decealed
Lady
his
Wife
,
was
the
greatest
and
most
Illustrious
of
all
those
pieces
;
nay
,
the
strongest
and
most
solid
,
though
it
lasted
not
so
long
as
the
rest
This
great
Lady
possessed
in
an
eminent
degree
all
the
Qualities
which
may
conduce
to
the
glory
of
a
Family
,
and
the
happiness
of
a
Husband
.
Her
Nobility
was
of
the
first
rank
:
And
I
know
not
whether
in
all
Europe
there
were
any
Soveraign
Title
or
Crown
wherein
she
had
not
a
share
.
But
there
is
a
Nobility
which
is
proud
and
insolent
;
yet
hers
was
Modest
and
Civil
:
The
Titles
of
her
House
did
not
puff
up
her
Mind
And
the
Crowns
of
her
Allies
and
Predecessors
made
her
not
receive
others
with
scorn
.
To
this
Nobleness
of
Blood
was
added
the
Nobleness
of
her
Countenance
,
and
that
Soveraignty
of
Natural
Right
and
Ancient
Descent
,
which
begets
Majesty
in
Beautiful
Persons
;
but
she
was
not
of
those
fair
Ones
who
erect
their
Soveraignty
into
Liberty
and
Tyranny
:
Hers
still
remained
within
the
limits
of
a
lowly
and
exemplar
Sobriety
.
Detraction
,
which
is
so
bold
in
lying
,
and
findes
out
stains
in
the
most
Beautiful
Planets
,
had
not
one
word
to
say
against
her
.
Nevertheless
,
her
Vertue
was
no
sullen
Vertue
;
she
was
none
of
those
curst
ones
,
who
have
not
a
drop
of
good
nature
;
who
know
onely
how
to
scratch
and
bite
:
She
was
naturally
milde
,
and
cultivated
by
study
▪
and
the
Graces
had
so
well
tempered
what
might
perchance
have
been
over
tart
in
her
,
as
she
gave
content
even
where
she
was
severe
.
But
all
these
rare
qualities
do
not
concern
the
subject
we
now
treat
of
:
my
Question
is
about
Conjugal
Love
:
and
the
deceased
Dutchess
of
Espernon
hath
given
an
Example
thereof
,
which
equals
the
force
of
ancient
Models
There
are
even
in
these
days
Illustrious
,
and
Remarkable
witnesses
,
which
speak
not
of
it
but
in
terms
of
Praise
.
But
what
ever
they
say
of
her
Esteem
,
and
respects
of
her
Obedience
and
Cares
;
of
her
good
Offices
and
Complacences
;
though
they
speak
nothing
thereof
which
is
not
Great
and
Exemplar
,
yet
it
leaves
not
so
high
an
Idea
of
this
Love
,
as
the
action
of
Angou●●●●
.
In
that
General
Revolution
which
happened
at
Court
in
the
year
1588.
The
Heads
of
the
Leag●t
raised
all
their
Engines
against
the
Duke
of
Espern●●
;
and
used
both
openly
and
privately
,
all
sorts
of
endeavours
to
destroy
him
.
However
,
he
was
not
shaken
;
so
that
these
Engines
did
onely
assault
the
favour
and
good
will
of
his
Prince
.
But
as
soon
as
Calumny
took
hold
of
his
Fidelity
,
and
that
he
was
accused
for
holding
intelligence
with
the
King
of
N●varre
,
his
good
Master
,
who
till
then
had
defended
his
own
benefits
,
and
interpos'd
between
his
Work
and
those
envious
Persons
who
designed
his
ruin
;
withdrew
his
Protection
,
and
consented
to
the
Plot
which
was
laid
to
seiz
on
him
in
Ango●leme
.
The
enemies
which
he
had
in
the
Cabinet
Councel
,
entended
the
Kings
consent
even
to
his
destruction
:
And
Orders
were
sent
from
the
Court
to
the
Magistrates
of
Ango●leme
,
to
bring
him
alive
or
dead
:
The
execution
of
this
dangerous
Plot
was
defer'd
till
the
tenth
of
August
,
and
that
day
the
Magistrate
,
who
was
not
ignorant
how
hard
a
chase
he
had
to
follow
presented
himself
with
two
hundred
selected
and
armed
men
to
seiz
on
the
Duke
at
the
hour
he
should
go
forth
to
hear
Mass.
I
know
not
whether
one
ought
to
believe
what
is
spoken
of
his
good
Fortune
:
but
indeed
I
have
heard
say
,
That
she
was
more
diligent
about
him
,
then
the
most
diligent
of
his
Guards
:
And
that
his
enemies
never
laid
any
s●ares
to
catch
him
,
which
she
did
not
break
asunder
;
that
they
never
prepared
a
Pitfall
for
him
,
over
which
she
laid
not
a
Plank
.
However
it
were
,
it
is
certain
,
there
had
been
an
end
of
him
that
day
,
if
she
had
not
caused
dispatches
to
arrive
to
him
,
which
busied
him
very
happily
all
the
morning
,
and
diverted
him
from
going
forth
to
expose
himself
to
death
,
which
was
prepared
for
him
.
The
occasion
passing
over
with
the
morning
,
the
Conductors
of
the
Enterprize
resolved
to
begin
by
the
seisure
of
a
rich
pawn
;
and
to
secure
the
Dukes
Person
,
by
laying
hold
on
the
good
Lady
,
his
Wife
,
who
was
at
Mass.
Mean
while
,
one
of
the
Magistrates
,
accompanied
with
twelve
resolute
and
stout
men
,
entered
the
Castle
:
Their
Arms
were
hid
under
their
Cloaks
;
but
their
bad
Intention
being
easie
to
be
discovered
by
their
ill
looks
,
one
of
his
Guards
had
some
distrust
of
them
,
and
ran
to
shut
the
Gate
against
those
that
followed
to
second
them
:
the
party
began
hotly
to
discharge
their
Pistols
before
the
Dukes
Chamber
:
some
of
his
friends
overpowred
with
number
,
were
slain
in
the
place
:
but
his
Domesticks
and
Guards
hasting
to
the
noise
,
and
he
himself
appearing
with
a
Sword
in
his
hand
,
the
end
of
the
Pray
proved
as
unhappy
for
the
Assailants
,
as
the
beginning
.
The
Magistrate
,
and
one
of
the
boldest
amongst
his
Troop
,
made
Payment
for
the
attempt
,
with
their
persons
;
and
the
rest
who
were
not
resolved
to
lose
so
much
,
rendred
up
their
Arms
,
and
abandoned
the
party
.
This
first
Troop
being
defeated
,
the
Duke
was
not
for
all
that
out
of
danger
.
He
was
enforced
to
defend
the
two
Gates
of
the
Castle
against
fire
and
the
Pe●ard
;
and
then
to
repulse
those
who
began
to
Scale
it
.
His
greatest
danger
,
nevertheless
,
was
in
the
Church
,
where
furiously
entred
an
armed
,
and
incensed
multitude
,
which
seized
on
the
Dutchess
.
Her
quality
and
Sex
deserved
at
least
some
respect
:
but
qualities
are
not
distinguished
in
a
Tumult
;
and
no
Sex
is
Priviledged
against
Fury
.
Of
two
Gentlemen
that
led
her
,
one
was
killed
at
her
feet
,
and
the
other
being
dangerously
wounded
,
was
in
little
better
condition
.
This
Barbarous
Act
did
not
affright
her
:
the
bloud
which
sprinkled
her
Gown
,
and
Death
it self
,
which
passed
over
her
,
wrought
no
change
in
her
Countenance
.
Her
soul
was
alwaies
Erect
,
and
Elevated
above
danger
;
She
conserved
even
the
comliness
of
her
gesture
,
and
the
dignity
of
her
looks
,
even
words
of
Authority
,
and
tone
of
Command
:
and
whereas
another
less
Couragious
Woman
,
might
have
submitted
to
Insolency
,
and
have
flattered
Fury
▪
She
treated
them
with
Command
,
like
a
Mistress
,
astonishing
Audacity
it self
by
her
Constancy
.
They
advertise
her
that
she
was
Arrested
for
her
Husband
;
and
that
if
she
had
a
mind
to
live
,
and
preserve
Him
,
she
must
consider
of
disposing
him
to
remit
his
Person
and
Cittadel
into
the
hands
of
the
Magistrate
.
At
this
Declaration
,
which
was
made
to
her
with
threats
,
and
a
dagger
at
her
throat
,
she
answered
,
That
she
would
not
enter
into
any
Treaty
with
Murtherers
:
That
she
knew
not
how
to
give
ill
Counsels
:
nor
in
what
terms
a
Wise
may
perswade
her
Husband
to
be
a
Coward
:
that
it
troubled
her
she
had
but
one
life
to
expose
for
the
honour
and
safety
of
his
:
that
she
was
so
far
from
lending
them
her
prayers
and
tears
against
him
,
that
she
would
joyfully
shed
even
the
last
drop
of
her
bloud
,
if
that
might
add
either
a
moment
of
new
lustre
to
his
reputation
,
or
half
a
days
space
to
his
life
:
And
therefore
let
their
fury
finish
on
her
,
what
it
had
begun
.
That
nothing
of
weakness
should
proceed
either
from
her
mouth
or
hands
,
that
they
too
well
accorded
with
her
heart
;
and
that
it
would
better
please
her
to
dye
at
the
Castle
Gate
for
her
Husband
,
then
to
live
without
him
upon
a
Throne
.
She
made
large
promises
;
she
found
her self
also
as
well
disposed
to
make
good
what
she
promised
;
and
her
Constancy
being
put
to
the
Test
,
was
found
as
great
and
vigorous
as
her
words
.
I
learned
from
an
Illustrious
Person
,
and
who
hath
narrowly
looked
into
the
affairs
of
that
time
,
that
she
was
brought
before
the
Castle
;
and
that
they
might
there
take
the
Husband
by
the
fear
and
danger
of
the
Wife
,
the
same
Propositions
were
renewed
to
her
,
with
the
same
Threats
and
Violencies
.
The
Couragious
Woman
reduced
to
this
Extremity
,
considered
nothing
but
the
danger
of
her
husband
;
and
had
no
fear
,
but
of
his
Affection
and
Tenderness
.
She
was
not
ignorant
that
all
his
weakness
lay
on
that
side
:
and
that
there
was
no
place
so
strong
,
which
would
not
be
hard
for
him
to
defend
against
her
tears
:
She
also
cryed
out
unto
him
,
the
better
to
fortifie
this
weak
part
:
That
she
came
not
to
perswade
him
to
a
dangerous
Piety
;
and
to
betray
him
by
her
Intreaties
:
That
she
came
rather
to
make
her
Body
serve
him
for
a
new
Barricado
against
his
Enemies
.
That
if
he
loved
her
truly
,
and
had
a
desire
to
save
her
,
he
should
love
and
preserve
what
was
of
her
in
him
;
that
on
him
depended
her
safety
and
danger
;
her
good
and
bad
Fortune
:
that
out
of
him
,
she
could
have
neither
life
nor
death
,
nothing
to
hope
or
fear
;
that
he
should
take
heed
of
trusting
Traytors
,
who
assaulted
his
head
by
his
heart
:
who
would
soften
it
to
his
overthrow
,
and
raise
a
Compassion
in
him
,
to
gain
his
life
at
a
cheaper
rate
:
that
he
should
beware
of
listening
to
the
suggestions
of
a
Timerous
and
Apprehensive
Love
:
that
he
should
rather
give
ear
to
that
Affection
which
spake
to
him
by
her
mouth
:
that
it
were
lost
labour
to
preserve
her
,
if
he
lost
himself
:
that
it
would
be
of
no
advantage
to
his
Enemies
to
destroy
her
,
if
he
were
safe
:
that
in
despight
of
them
,
and
what
death
soever
they
should
make
her
suffer
,
she
should
always
live
most
happy
,
as
long
as
she
should
live
in
his
remembrance
.
She
pronounced
these
words
with
so
Graceful
a
Confidence
,
and
so
Noble
and
Generous
a
Tone
,
as
it
clearly
appeared
,
that
at
this
instant
her
heart
ascended
to
her
mouth
to
express
it self
by
its
own
Language
.
This
eminent
Vertue
dazel'd
the
furious
Souldiers
,
who
environed
her
,
and
made
their
Weapons
fall
out
of
their
hands
.
The
Duke
was
relieved
by
his
frinds
,
who
came
thither
from
Xaintes
,
and
Ca●gnae
:
And
the
Capitulation
being
concluded
between
him
and
the
Inhabitants
,
the
Dutchess
,
impatient
to
see
him
again
,
could
not
expect
till
the
Castle
Gate
was
cleared
,
but
commanded
a
Ladder
whereby
to
enter
at
the
window
.
Certainly
after
so
Illustrious
and
Glorious
a
Victory
,
it
had
been
fit
the
Gate
should
have
been
thrown
down
before
her
,
and
that
she
should
have
entred
the
Castle
in
Triumph
,
and
by
a
Breach
.
〈…〉
The
Maid
of
Orleans
.
HAD
you
known
that
this
day
was
to
be
a
day
of
Miracle
and
Safety
to
France
;
and
that
you
should
have
assisted
at
the
most
Heroick
action
which
hath
been
ever
seen
,
since
Sieges
and
Battles
have
been
in
use
;
you
would
be
sorry
to
have
come
too
late
:
But
here
is
yet
enough
to
give
you
a
right
prospect
thereof
.
The
adventure
is
wonderfull
in
all
its
Parts
;
there
is
something
great
and
prodigious
in
all
its
Circumstances
:
And
that
which
remains
for
us
to
see
,
exceeds
by
much
,
whatever
can
be
regularly
imagined
,
and
with
any
true
resemblance
.
You
are
no
strangers
to
this
Country
,
and
need
not
learn
from
me
to
know
Orleans
by
her
Steeples
,
and
the
circumference
of
her
Walls
.
Likewise
you
are
not
ignorant
of
the
Constancy
and
Fidelity
which
this
great
City
had
shewed
,
when
it
was
besieged
by
the
English
,
and
reduced
to
the
extremity
of
hope
.
But
that
which
you
do
not
yet
know
,
and
what
no
man
dares
hope
for
,
is
,
that
in
despite
of
the
English
,
and
in
the
very
sight
of
their
Camp
and
Works
,
Succours
,
safety
and
liberty
hapned
to
enter
into
this
Place
,
under
the
Conduct
of
a
Maide
.
Not
only
hope
was
not
so
bold
as
to
advance
so
far
;
but
even
belief
it self
,
fortified
by
the
sight
,
hath
much
ado
to
reach
unto
it
.
Yea
as
a
Maide
,
even
a
Country
Maide
,
and
a
Sheperdess
,
hath
wrought
this
so
little
expected
Miracle
.
The
importance
is
,
that
this
Country
Maide
is
a
Prophetess
;
and
that
this
yesterdayes
Sheperdess
is
to
day
the
Generall
of
an
Army
,
and
will
be
to
morrow
a
Conqueress
.
The
same
God
who
loosned
from
the
Mountain
the
little
Stone
wherewith
the
great
Colossus
was
overturned
,
who
drew
from
amidst
stocks
of
Sheep
a
youth
victorious
over
Lions
and
Gyants
,
made
choice
of
this
Maide
to
force
France
out
of
the
hands
of
strangers
,
and
sent
her
to
the
King
loaden
with
Warlike
Commands
,
and
promises
of
Victory
.
The
King
,
by
the
advice
of
his
Counsell
,
after
an
exact
and
juridicall
Inquisition
into
her
life
and
words
,
furnished
her
with
Arms
and
Troops
,
to
chase
away
the
English
before
Oreleans
.
She
but
now
forced
their
Camp
with
two
hundred
Lances
:
and
behold
her
already
with
Victory
and
safety
at
the
Gates
of
the
City
.
This
first
prosperous
Action
is
an
efficacious
and
famous
justification
of
her
Innocence
;
It
is
a
powerfull
and
victorious
answer
to
false
Rumours
,
and
passionate
Calumny
:
And
suddenly
the
Coronation
of
the
King
followed
by
the
totall
defeat
of
the
Enemy
,
will
be
a
more
solemn
and
authenticall
proof
of
the
authority
of
her
Mission
,
and
of
the
verity
of
her
Prophesies
.
I
could
wish
that
we
had
seen
her
in
the
heat
of
Fight
handle
her
first
Arms
by
Efforts
of
consummated
Valour
.
But
if
we
are
come
too
late
to
be
spectators
of
this
Valour
,
to
behold
the
lightnings
,
and
impetuosity
of
this
Heroick
fire
,
which
gave
an
action
so
lively
to
her
Arms
,
and
so
sudden
motions
to
her
whole
Body
;
we
may
at
least
discern
the
light
thereof
upon
her
Face
;
and
a
remnant
of
hear
which
still
excites
not
with
so
much
violence
as
before
,
but
with
more
dignity
and
due
proportion
.
Combat
and
Victory
have
left
a
pleasing
mixture
of
a
scarlet
dye
upon
her
Cheeks
,
and
on
her
Brow
:
and
the
spirits
of
boldness
receive
a
kind
of
sweetness
from
thence
,
and
a
new
Grace
from
the
spirits
of
joy
,
which
were
mingled
with
them
.
Nothing
of
the
ayr
of
her
Birth
,
nor
of
the
manners
of
her
Education
is
seen
in
her
.
There
is
nothing
even
in
her
Countenance
but
appears
Noble
and
Warlike
:
And
this
sudden
Metamorphosis
which
is
made
in
her
,
from
a
Sheperdess
into
an
Amazon
,
hath
something
,
I
know
not
what
,
which
resembles
an
Illusion
,
and
savors
of
a
Prodigy
and
Fable
.
Would
you
say
that
the
very
thoughts
of
grazing
,
and
the
inclinations
of
a
Sheperdess
had
ever
entred
into
this
head
,
which
is
so
free
and
gracefull
under
an
Helmet
?
Would
you
say
that
the
Sheep-hook
had
hitherto
the
charge
and
imployment
of
these
hands
which
handle
so
vigorously
,
and
with
so
much
dexterity
the
Banner
and
Sword
?
Would
you
not
say
that
she
is
born
in
a
Magazine
of
Arms
,
and
that
she
is
trained
up
in
a
Camp
?
That
she
is
come
to
us
from
the
Countrey
of
Amazons
?
That
she
is
animated
with
the
same
Spirit
which
animated
heretofore
the
Hipolita's
,
the
Rodoguna's
,
and
the
Zenobia's
?
Beware
of
saying
it
.
This
were
to
praise
her
injuriously
,
and
to
dishonour
her
in
handsome
Termes
:
This
were
to
scandalize
Innocence
,
and
prophane
a
Person
whom
God
hath
particularly
Consecrated
.
The
Spirit
which
possesseth
her
is
another
Spirit
then
that
of
the
Zenobiars
,
and
Rodoguna's
:
It
comes
farther
off
then
the
Countrey
of
Amazons
:
It
is
of
a
much
purer
and
higher
Region
.
You
have
heard
some
discourse
of
that
double
Spirit
which
inspired
Debora
with
Truth
and
Valour
,
and
equally
replenished
the
two
parts
of
her
double
Ministery
:
Of
this
double
Spirit
,
which
was
a
Spirit
of
Fire
to
David
a
Conquerour
,
and
a
Spirit
of
Light
to
David
a
Prophet
.
It
is
the
same
Spirit
which
descended
upon
our
Maide
;
which
filled
her
with
his
Light
and
Heat
;
which
gave
her
the
science
of
Predictions
,
and
the
vertue
of
Victories
.
The
Sword
which
you
see
in
her
hand
,
makes
me
remember
that
Meteor
with
two
Faces
,
that
famous
and
mysterious
Fire
which
an
Angel-conducter
carryed
before
the
People
of
God
.
Like
that
Meteor
,
it
is
luminous
,
and
stained
with
Blood
;
like
that
Meteor
,
it
summons
on
the
one
side
safety
and
liberty
,
and
on
the
other
side
it
threatens
death
and
destruction
.
Nevertheless
it
hath
not
like
that
a
light
only
for
shew
;
Its
splendor
is
not
presaging
:
It
were
inconsiderable
,
if
like
Lightning
,
it
wounded
nothing
but
the
sight
;
it
ruines
and
destroyes
like
Thunder
:
And
they
say
also
,
that
like
Thunder
,
it
was
drawn
out
of
the
bosome
of
the
Earth
.
For
this
Sword
,
if
you
know
it
not
,
is
a
fatal
Sword
,
and
resuscitated
by
Miracle
:
It
belonged
to
another
Age
then
this
:
And
the
Maide
divinely
inspired
,
caused
it
to
be
taken
out
of
an
ancient
Tomb
,
where
it
rested
quietly
with
the
Ashes
of
its
old
Master
.
Scarce
had
it
felt
the
vertue
of
this
glorious
hand
,
but
the
agedness
thereof
fell
off
with
its
Rust.
It
hath
received
a
new
lustre
,
which
gives
it
a
new
force
,
and
a
second
life
:
and
behold
it
already
stained
with
the
Blood
of
strangers
,
and
throughly
heated
with
this
first
prosperity
.
Two
hundred
Lanciers
march
bravely
,
and
in
an
handsome
order
after
this
Maide
.
Had
Fortune
her self
,
or
Victory
led
the
Party
,
they
could
not
have
done
more
gallantly
,
nor
given
more
terror
to
the
Enemy
.
To
behold
the
confidence
and
boldness
of
their
looks
:
To
behold
this
Noble
and
couragious
joy
,
which
appears
on
their
Faces
,
and
in
all
their
motions
,
you
would
not
say
that
they
intend
to
cast
themselves
into
a
beleagured
City
,
but
that
they
rather
march
to
some
Triumph
.
The
enemies
still
affrighted
by
the
impetuosity
wherewith
they
passed
along
,
retreated
disorderly
into
their
Forts
,
conceiving
that
it
would
not
be
safe
for
them
to
remain
in
their
Tents
.
Nevertheless
the
number
of
those
that
have
no
longer
any
need
of
Tents
or
Works
,
is
great
enough
.
And
apparently
,
if
the
landed
Troops
had
given
on
at
the
same
time
upon
all
sides
,
this
dayes
work
had
put
an
end
to
the
Siege
:
And
this
so
stately
Camp
,
which
had
been
for
seven
moneths
the
Prison
of
Orleans
,
would
become
at
present
the
Sepulchre
of
a
good
part
of
England
.
But
so
great
a
work
well
deserved
to
be
shewn
distinctly
and
at
leisure
:
And
to
the
end
this
imprisoned
and
despairing
City
might
behold
all
the
Valour
of
its
Deliveress
,
it
was
necessary
that
its
Prison
should
not
be
broken
but
by
track
of
time
,
and
by
parcels
.
This
happy
beginning
is
a
certain
presage
of
a
far
more
fortunate
Issue
.
And
the
Earl
of
Dunois
,
whom
you
see
under
the
Gate
with
Lahire
and
the
other
Commanders
,
is
gone
forth
to
congratulate
with
her
aforehand
.
Peradventure
you
may
have
never
seen
the
face
of
this
young
Prince
:
You
have
never
then
beheld
the
greatest
Ornament
of
this
Age
,
and
the
fairest
hope
of
Posterity
.
Take
time
to
observe
him
well
;
Behold
his
gracefull
carriage
,
and
the
dignity
of
his
whole
Person
;
Behold
those
Rayes
of
Majesty
,
which
have
something
,
I
know
not
what
,
of
Royal
,
and
are
dyed
with
the
Purple
of
his
Blood
.
Behold
the
Nobleness
of
Aspect
,
and
ayr
of
a
Warriour
,
which
demonstrates
his
exteriour
Courage
,
and
his
remarkable
Valour
,
and
acknowledge
that
he
adds
much
to
the
name
of
Orleans
,
and
worthily
supports
the
Greatness
and
Fortune
thereof
.
It
is
hoped
that
his
Vertues
will
not
die
with
him
:
They
will
serve
for
other
Ages
,
and
under
other
Reigns
:
And
all
Predictions
are
false
,
and
Physiognomy
is
deceitfull
,
or
Princes
shall
be
born
from
him
,
who
will
be
Heroes
by
Race
,
and
Valiant
from
Father
to
Son
;
who
will
be
one
day
the
Honour
of
their
Family
,
by
rendring
Honour
to
France
.
SONNET
.
The
PUCELLE
speaks
.
FAtal
to
England
,
Fortunate
to
France
;
Of
th'
one
I
curb'd
the
surly
Arrogance
;
And
with
my
Lance
the
tott'ring
Throne
sustain'd
Of
th'
other
Realm
,
whose
Freedome
I
regain'd
.
The
smoakie
Ordures
of
the
burning
Pile
Could
not
my
spotless
Innocence
defile
;
And
my
opprobrious
Death
more
mischief
brought
To
those
that
caus'd
it
,
then
my
Arm
that
fought
.
With
Heart
which
did
Heroickly
aspire
,
I
under
verdant
Laurels
kept
entire
My
Body's
flow'r
,
and
not
unlike
the
Bee
,
Was
rich
in
Courage
,
and
in
Chastitie
.
On
th●
English
Lions
I
did
boldly
press
,
And
chac'd
them
oft
,
a
Virgin
Conqueress
;
And
gallantly
defended
with
my
Lance
,
The
Flowr-de-Luce
,
which
Crowns
our
Kings
of
France
.
Elogy
of
Pucelle
.
HISTORY
,
which
causeth
it self
to
be
stiled
true
and
exact
,
scatters
nothing
almost
in
every
place
,
but
far
fetch'd
Falshoods
,
and
Fables
Magnificently
set
forth
,
and
with
Pomp.
It
only
proposeth
Pictures
exceeding
Natural
Proportion
,
nothing
but
Colosseses
,
which
seem
to
be
made
only
to
affright
the
belief
of
Readers
,
and
weary
their
sight
.
There
is
nothing
here
of
this
Model
or
Statute
:
All
pure
and
naked
Truth
,
without
exaggeration
;
and
ornament
is
here
more
taking
then
these
Fables
,
more
magnificent
and
stately
then
these
Colosseses
.
The
Maid
of
Orleans
is
not
the
Work
of
an
Inventive
and
Deluding
Fancy
.
She
is
not
composed
of
the
same
Matter
with
those
Valiant
Women
set
forth
in
Romances
,
and
by
Poets
.
Her
Vertue
was
Sensible
and
Substantial
:
She
really
effected
in
the
Field
all
that
others
have
done
in
Picture
,
and
in
the
brain
of
their
Inventors
:
Her
Victories
have
not
been
like
theirs
which
spake
only
by
black'd
Paper
,
and
spilt
Inke
.
The
same
Spirit
which
called
from
the
Sheepfold
the
Conquerour
of
Gelia
;
which
chose
a
weak
and
unarmed
Woman
to
defeat
the
Assyrians
broken
into
Iudea
,
and
to
tear
its
People
out
of
the
claws
of
Holifernes
,
took
this
Maid
from
amidst
the
Flocks
,
and
sent
her
Fortified
by
his
Vertue
,
to
raise
up
ruined
France
,
and
to
free
it
from
the
bondage
of
Strangers
,
who
would
have
dishonoured
that
Kingdom
,
after
they
had
pillag'd
it
.
He
infused
into
her
a
Prophetick
Spirit
,
and
a
Conquering
Heart
:
He
made
a
Deb●●●
and
Iudith
of
her
:
And
heap'd
together
in
her
life
all
that
in
the
time
of
Miracles
appeared
most
rare
and
●●●ustrious
.
It
did
not
suffice
him
to
give
her
Courage
and
Conduct
:
He
sent
her
an
Angel
who
laid
his
hands
on
her
;
and
this
Imposition
of
hands
was
to
her
what
the
Ceremony
of
Instaulment
is
to
new
made
Knights
:
He
instructed
her
in
all
the
Exercises
of
War
,
and
taught
her
more
in
a
moment
then
〈◊〉
and
Pot●●●
had
learnt
from
Occurtences
and
Fortune
.
The
English
also
stood
not
before
her
:
Their
Fortune
,
which
conceived
it self
already
Victorious
,
gave
way
to
her
Angel
;
and
what
forcible
endeavours
soever
they
used
to
hinder
her
entry
into
Orleans
,
she
entred
it
in
despite
of
them
,
and
deprived
them
of
France
by
taking
this
City
from
them
.
After
several
Fights
,
wherein
she
was
still
Victorious
,
she
fell
into
the
hands
of
her
Enemies
,
who
treated
her
as
a
Criminal
both
in
point
of
Religion
and
State
,
and
made
her
undergo
the
punishment
of
Hereticks
and
Sorcerers
.
God
was
pleased
thus
to
permit
it
,
to
the
end
she
might
accomplish
all
the
Duties
of
a
gallant
Woman
,
and
finish
that
part
of
a
perfect
Heroesse
,
which
she
had
begun
:
That
she
might
overcome
by
her
Patience
as
she
had
done
by
her
Valour
;
And
that
the
English
might
be
no
less
defeated
by
her
Death
then
by
her
Victories
.
Besides
,
this
barbarous
Injustice
heightened
their
sins
,
and
drew
upon
them
the
wrath
of
God
,
the
Avenger
of
oppressed
Innocence
.
The
Spirit
of
the
Maid
,
and
her
good
Angel
re-inkindled
the
War
after
he
death
.
Ever
since
the
English
had
them
on
their
backs
,
they
were
vanquished
by
them
in
all
Battels
,
and
beaten
off
in
all
Sieges
.
And
in
fine
to
preserve
themselves
from
these
exterminating
Spirits
,
they
were
inforced
to
quit
all
that
they
〈◊〉
●●vaded
.
MORAL
REFLECTION
.
THere
is
a
great
difference
between
the
Judgements
of
God
,
and
those
of
Men
:
And
we
see
few
places
where
this
difference
is
more
expresse
,
and
better
marked
out
,
then
in
the
History
of
the
Maid
of
Orleans
.
God
drew
her
out
of
a
Village
,
to
inform
us
,
that
he
makes
no
distinction
either
of
places
or
names
:
that
he
esteems
not
men
for
their
Coats
of
Arms
,
and
ancient
Titles
:
that
the
blood
of
a
Prince
and
a
Shepherd
,
are
of
the
same
colour
and
matter
:
That
a
Sheep-hook
in
his
sight
,
is
of
the
same
value
as
a
Scepter
:
And
that
both
high
and
low
,
as
well
as
the
Palme
and
Bush
,
spring
from
the
same
Earth
.
He
chose
her
out
of
a
weak
Sex
;
because
he
hath
ever
loved
to
overcome
Pride
by
Weakness
;
to
throw
down
Colosseses
with
grains
of
Sand
,
to
fell
Giants
with
Reeds
.
He
would
manifest
,
that
the
weakest
and
least
Warlike
hands
are
able
to
defend
Scepters
,
and
support
Thrones
when
he
hath
blessed
them
:
that
the
safety
of
States
depends
upon
his
Providence
,
and
not
in
the
hands
of
Armies
,
nor
on
the
heads
of
their
Ministers
.
And
to
teach
Conquerours
,
that
Victories
are
gained
more
by
his
Favour
then
by
their
Forces
,
it
was
his
good
pleasure
that
a
Shepherdesse
,
who
had
never
handled
but
a
Sheep-hook
,
should
give
more
then
ten
times
chase
to
above
ten
thousand
Lances
.
In
fine
,
God
was
pleased
that
a
Maid
,
bred
up
in
a
Village
,
should
perform
all
the
Functions
of
Heroick
Vertue
:
that
she
should
undergo
all
the
Trials
,
and
obtain
all
the
Crowns
thereof
.
And
thereby
he
hath
taught
us
,
that
this
sublime
Vertue
is
not
always
found
in
elevated
Fortunes
,
nor
still
lodged
in
Palaces
:
That
no
body
is
received
by
her
for
his
own
Condition
:
That
no
body
is
rejected
by
reason
of
his
Name
or
his
Countenance
:
that
she
only
considers
the
heart
which
hath
its
Sex
apart
,
and
Qualities
differing
from
these
of
the
Body
:
And
that
Women
,
who
are
more
then
Women
by
their
Courage
,
can
ascend
as
high
,
and
approach
as
neer
to
Vertue
as
Men.
This
Verity
is
important
,
and
very
useful
;
And
the
ensuing
Question
,
which
I
am
going
to
defend
,
must
needs
Instruct
,
with
Delectation
and
benefit
,
by
way
of
Divertisement
.
MORAL
QVESTION
.
Whether
Women
may
pretend
to
Heroick
Vertue
.
THE
Heroes
,
of
whom
there
is
so
much
mention
made
in
History
,
were
not
of
the
Gyants
Race
:
And
their
strength
reached
not
so
far
as
to
root
up
Trees
,
and
remove
Mountains
.
Common
people
nevertheless
,
who
can
comprehend
no
other
greatness
then
that
which
tires
the
sight
;
who
know
no
other
force
then
what
begets
noise
and
ruines
,
frame
Colosseses
in
their
imaginations
,
when
we
speak
to
them
of
those
persons
who
are
called
Extraordinary
:
And
because
they
hear
that
men
esteem
their
strength
,
and
prize
their
valour
,
they
believe
in
good
earnest
that
these
persons
had
Arms
of
Steel
,
and
●egs
of
Brass
;
and
that
with
their
Fists
they
did
beat
down
the
Walls
of
such
Towns
as
they
had
a
mind
to
take
.
I
think
it
necessary
to
reform
this
imagination
of
the
Vulgar
,
and
to
reduce
it
to
a
more
just
proportion
.
It
is
not
the
heighth
of
Statute
,
nor
the
strength
of
the
Body
which
makes
Heroes
:
It
is
the
greatness
and
elevation
of
the
Soul
:
It
is
the
Courage
and
Resolution
of
the
minde
:
And
there
may
be
very
elevated
Souls
,
and
of
the
first
Magnitude
,
in
little
Bodies
;
a
mind
extreamly
vigorous
may
be
found
in
very
infirm
flesh
.
On
that
side
then
there
is
nothing
which
can
diminish
the
right
of
Women
,
or
hinder
them
from
pretending
to
Heroick
Vertue
.
And
finally
,
to
render
this
right
of
Women
more
perspicuous
,
and
to
support
the
pretensions
of
such
as
shall
have
the
courage
to
raise
themselves
to
that
Pitch
;
It
is
to
be
supposed
that
Heroick
Vertue
,
to
define
it
rightly
,
is
but
an
excellent
Vertue
,
and
elevated
above
common
Vertues
.
This
excellency
arises
to
her
,
first
from
the
Dignity
and
Eminency
of
her
object
,
which
is
Good
,
considered
in
the
highest
elevation
it
may
have
.
Secondly
,
it
is
derived
to
her
,
from
the
perfection
of
the
Faculties
by
which
she
acts
:
and
these
Faculties
receive
their
perfection
from
a
spiritual
and
penetrating
Fire
,
which
inlightens
and
purifies
the
Intellectual
part
,
which
warms
and
transports
the
Appetitive
.
Thirdly
,
it
arrives
to
her
from
the
Nobleness
of
her
principal
functions
,
which
are
to
act
vigorously
,
and
with
resolution
,
and
to
suffer
couragiously
,
and
with
constancy
.
And
because
Action
,
how
vigorous
and
resolute
soever
it
be
,
even
the
most
couragious
and
constant
sufferance
,
cannot
attain
to
this
eminent
and
prime
Good
,
but
by
a
certain
transport
of
the
Soul
;
which
the
Grecians
call
Enthusiasme
,
this
Transport
is
the
fourth
Cause
,
which
produceth
the
Excellency
of
Heroick
Vertue
.
Let
us
say
also
,
to
leave
nothing
unsaid
,
that
the
most
beautifull
and
excellent
form
which
Heroick
Vertue
gives
to
Love
and
Anger
,
is
a
fifth
Cause
,
which
addes
to
her
a
fifth
degree
of
Excellency
.
I
speak
here
according
to
the
opinion
of
the
Ancients
,
who
believed
that
Love
and
Anger
were
the
predominant
Passions
of
Heroes
:
whether
because
they
are
of
a
more
subtile
and
combustible
matter
,
and
that
there
enters
more
interiour
fire
into
their
temper
,
then
into
that
of
other
men
:
Whether
because
these
two
Imperious
and
Soveraign
Passions
cannot
be
well
purified
but
by
a
more
Soveraign
and
Imperious
Vertue
then
themselves
,
nor
can
receive
elsewhere
,
and
by
an
ordinary
effort
their
last
perfection
,
and
the
fair
forms
whereof
they
are
capable
.
All
these
conditions
contribute
to
the
dignity
of
Heroick
Vertue
,
and
raise
it
to
a
superiour
Order
,
where
common
Vertues
are
not
admitted
.
This
Order
nevertheless
is
seated
in
a
place
to
which
one
may
approach
from
all
the
conditions
of
life
:
All
great
Souls
are
equally
summoned
to
it
:
On
what
side
soever
one
ascends
,
Women
may
ascend
thither
as
well
as
Men.
〈◊〉
,
the
most
Eminent
and
Soveraign
gallantry
,
which
is
the
proper
object
of
Heroick
Vertue
,
is
not
out
of
their
sight
,
and
cannot
be
above
their
Pretensions
Nature
hath
not
assigned
them
an
end
beneath
That
:
There
is
no
bound
beyond
which
,
they
are
exempted
from
cares
,
and
abandoned
to
their
own
sense
.
There
is
no
space
wherein
Good
may
not
be
to
them
more
Good
;
wherein
Duty
cealeth
to
oblige
them
;
wherein
Vertue
looses
the
rights
she
hath
over
them
.
The
Careir
of
Honour
is
to
Them
as
great
as
to
Us
:
And
in
this
Careir
there
is
not
one
single
place
which
is
not
marked
out
,
in
which
it
may
be
permitted
them
to
make
a
false
step
;
to
suffer
themselves
to
be
overcome
;
to
abandon
Gallantry
,
to
reject
a
Crown
.
Moreover
they
are
called
to
perfection
as
well
as
we
:
And
the
Son
of
God
,
who
proclaims
to
the
Saints
and
Just
,
that
they
must
not
grow
weary
in
sanctifying
themselves
;
and
that
they
ought
every
day
to
adde
some
new
lustre
to
their
Righteousness
,
hath
not
discharged
Women
from
this
labour
,
nor
marked
them
out
bounds
,
beyond
which
they
may
be
unjust
,
and
far
from
Saints
.
Not
only
then
this
Eminent
and
Soveraign
Gallantry
,
at
which
Heroick
Vertue
aimeth
,
is
not
out
of
their
reach
,
but
is
within
the
limits
of
their
right
,
and
enters
into
their
duties
:
And
there
may
be
occasions
found
which
will
not
leave
them
the
freedome
of
adhering
to
an
inferiour
Good
.
Such
Encounters
and
Enemies
may
come
in
the
way
,
as
will
excite
them
even
to
the
last
degree
of
Vertue
,
or
cause
them
to
fall
into
Vice
.
As
for
what
concerns
the
perfection
of
the
Intellectual
,
and
Appetitive
portion
,
which
is
as
it
were
the
head
and
heart
of
Heroick
Vertue
:
It
is
certain
that
these
faculties
are
not
different
where
there
is
diversity
of
Sex
.
They
have
everywhere
the
same
matter
,
and
are
capable
of
the
same
forms
.
The
lights
which
descend
into
mens
minds
,
are
not
purer
,
or
of
a
higher
Sphear
then
those
that
descend
into
the
Souls
of
Women
:
And
from
these
equal
lights
,
derived
from
the
same
spring
,
a
like
fire
,
and
of
the
same
force
,
may
be
kindled
in
the
heart
of
them
both
.
There
are
some
men
who
have
not
so
much
as
the
first
glimmerings
of
sound
judgement
.
You
would
swear
that
they
had
been
made
out
of
the
Lees
and
Dregs
of
Matter
:
You
would
say
that
not
one
single
spark
of
this
Coelestiall
Fire
is
entred
into
their
Constitution
:
And
their
souls
are
so
burthened
,
the
rinde
which
incompasseth
them
is
so
obscure
and
thick
,
as
no
light
can
penetrate
them
with
on
single
Ray
of
Truth
,
which
can
give
them
a
beginning
of
any
vertuous
heats
.
On
the
contrary
,
there
are
some
Women
who
seem
to
be
onely
made
out
of
the
pure
Extraction
of
rectified
matter
.
The
superiour
portion
of
their
souls
is
so
pure
,
and
so
lively
reflects
all
the
luminous
impression
it
receives
,
the
Inferiour
hath
two
so
noble
fires
,
and
moves
so
regularly
,
and
with
so
measured
and
just
a
swiftness
,
that
it
would
not
savor
of
flattery
to
compare
them
to
those
fair
Compounds
,
which
are
formed
of
the
Intelligences
and
Planets
.
It
is
not
then
the
difference
of
Sex
,
which
makes
any
difference
in
the
faculties
of
a
soul
:
and
since
they
have
the
same
perfection
both
in
Man
and
Woman
:
since
both
may
be
imbued
with
the
same
light
,
and
penetrated
by
the
same
fire
,
let
us
descend
freely
step
by
step
to
the
consequence
to
which
this
discourse
leads
us
;
and
let
us
agree
,
that
Women
may
be
disposed
by
this
light
and
fire
,
to
the
principal
Functions
of
Heroick
vertue
.
History
is
as
knowing
and
perswasive
in
this
point
as
Philosophy
:
and
the
Examples
she
alledges
are
as
just
and
formal
demonstrations
,
as
those
which
are
framed
according
to
the
Rules
of
Logick
.
If
it
be
shewed
by
these
Examples
,
that
Women
are
capable
of
the
most
vigorous
and
illust●ous
Actions
,
it
is
consequently
,
and
of
necessity
proved
by
the
same
Instances
,
that
they
are
also
capable
of
an
Heroick
Transport
of
this
Enthusiasme
,
without
which
we
cannot
pass
beyond
the
bounds
which
Moral
Philosophy
hath
prescribed
to
common
Vertues
.
Iudith
indeed
must
needs
have
been
transported
with
this
Enthusiasme
,
when
she
ran
the
hazard
of
her
Life
and
Honour
;
when
she
passed
over
Walls
and
Trenches
;
when
she
cast
her self
single
and
unarmed
into
the
midst
of
more
then
one
hundred
thousand
Combatants
to
redeem
Iudea
out
of
their
hands
,
to
take
off
their
Generals
Head
by
one
blow
of
a
Sword
.
Susanna
must
needs
have
been
stimulated
by
the
same
Enthusiasme
,
when
being
sollicited
to
her
Dishonour
,
by
Pleasure
and
Fear
,
she
couragiously
rejected
them
both
,
and
hastened
to
her
Duty
through
〈◊〉
,
and
Death
,
and
a
whole
storm
of
stones
heaped
up
against
her
.
There
must
needs
have
been
much
of
this
Transport
and
Enthusiasme
,
in
the
Mother
of
the
〈◊〉
,
when
she
exposed
her self
to
Hatchets
,
and
burning
●●●drons
;
when
she
marched
over
the
skins
,
and
bloody
limbs
of
her
●●ead
and
dilacerated
children
;
when
she
gave
up
her
heart
and
entrals
,
her
soul
and
spirit
unto
seven
different
Deaths
,
to
gain
the
eight
,
which
was
worthy
the
memory
of
the
〈◊〉
,
and
sutable
to
the
Reputation
of
her
Race
.
But
without
going
so
far
from
our
Age
,
and
Modern
History
;
was
there
not
a
Transport
in
that
Maid
of
Agria
,
who
preparing
her self
to
fight
upon
a
breach
,
by
which
the
Turks
endeavoured
to
bring
fire
and
sword
into
the
bosom
of
her
Country
,
when
her
Mother
joyning
in
the
same
duty
with
a
great
stone
upon
her
head
,
was
born
away
by
a
Canon
shot
,
appeared
no
waies
surprized
with
this
Accident
,
&
quitted
neither
her
resolution
not
post
▪
Her
heart
did
not
so
much
as
tremble
at
the
blood
,
which
might
have
demolished
even
the
strongest
wall
;
and
with
unchanging
countenance
she
took
up
this
stone
,
still
warm
with
the
blood
and
death
of
her
Mother
,
and
rolled
it
upon
the
heads
of
the
first
that
entred
the
brea●h
.
Was
there
not
an
Enthusiasme
in
the
action
which
a
young
Woman
of
the
same
Town
performed
at
the
same
Siege
?
She
fought
compleatly
armed
between
her
husband
and
mother
:
and
when
her
husband
after
a
long
and
obstinate
fight
was
killed
by
her
side
,
her
mother
advising
her
to
withdraw
,
and
render
him
her
last
duties
:
God
defend
me
,
replyed
she
,
from
so
unseasonable
a
piety
.
Now
is
the
time
to
revenge
his
death
,
and
not
to
deplore
it
:
his
●uneral
may
be
well
performed
afterwards
,
if
we
live
,
and
if
it
be
ordained
for
me
to
dye
upon
his
body
,
mine
will
be
a
Tombe
glorious
enough
for
him
;
and
my
blood
mixt
with
his
,
will
do
him
more
honour
then
my
tears
.
These
couragious
words
were
followed
by
a
far
more
glorious
action
.
She
threw
away
her
own
sword
,
and
took
up
that
of
her
husbands
;
whether
she
esteemed
it
better
then
her
own
,
and
most
accustomed
to
overcome
:
or
whether
she
thought
it
might
have
retained
some
remnant
of
his
Valour
and
dexterity
,
which
would
fight
with
her
,
and
bring
her
good
fortune
:
And
fortified
by
this
imagination
,
she
cast
her self
fiercely
,
and
with
order
upon
those
enemies
that
were
the
farthest
advanced
;
She
killed
t●ree
with
her
own
hand
;
made
the
rest
give
back
;
and
that
done
,
she
retired
with
her
husbands
body
,
and
the
satisfaction
to
have
revenged
his
death
,
which
was
to
her
as
just
and
manly
a
satisfaction
,
as
that
which
is
sought
in
a
spruce
and
flaunting
mourning
in
a
sorrow
as
Ambitious
and
Vain
as
the
Excesse
.
Besides
this
Transport
,
which
is
a
visible
and
commendable
excess
of
Valour
and
Constancy
,
there
is
another
kinde
of
excess
which
Magnificence
seeks
in
its
actions
,
&
which
also
appertain
to
Heroick
vertue
And
we
must
not
forget
to
affirm
by
the
way
,
that
Women
have
gone
as
far
,
and
raised
themselves
as
high
as
Men
by
this
second
kinde
of
Excess
.
One
cannot
speak
without
vast
terms
of
the
Egyptian
Pyramides
:
And
the
abreviated
draughts
which
Antiquity
hath
left
us
of
them
,
do
even
tire
our
sight
.
Nevertheless
,
the
highest
and
most
stately
of
these
Pyramides
,
were
built
by
the
boldness
and
Magnificence
of
Women
.
The
Ma●sol●um
exhausted
the
skill
of
all
Architects
,
and
of
all
the
Sculptors
of
Greece
;
and
left
neither
Marble
not
precious
stones
in
Asia
and
this
Monument
was
the
invention
and
enterprize
of
a
Woman
.
The
pendent
Gardens
of
Babylon
,
and
those
Walls
so
famous
for
their
matter
and
structure
,
were
the
work
of
a
Woman
:
And
this
self
same
person
who
was
filled
with
nothing
but
vast
thoughts
,
and
unlimited
designs
,
resolving
to
have
her
Statue
erected
in
a
place
where
she
had
gained
a
battel
,
caused
it
to
be
made
out
of
a
whole
Mountain
cut
out
into
a
humane
Figure
,
and
seated
upon
a
Throne
.
And
because
it
would
not
have
been
decent
to
see
a
Queen
alone
,
she
commanded
the
Artist
to
dispose
the
outward
and
superfluous
pieces
of
the
Mountain
with
so
much
Art
,
as
there
might
be
wherewith
to
make
out
of
them
half
a
dozen
of
Guards
.
Without
dis-interring
ruins
,
buried
under
so
many
Ages
,
there
are
in
France
sumptuous
proofs
enough
of
the
Heroick
Magnificence
of
Women
.
But
being
exposed
as
they
are
to
publick
view
,
it
is
not
necessary
to
exhibite
them
in
this
Place
,
my
Designe
not
being
to
Write
for
Strangers
or
blinde
men
.
As
for
what
concerns
these
two
Soveraign
and
predominant
Passions
,
which
are
the
Noblest
matter
Heroick
Vertue
can
employ
,
the
Constancy
and
Force
of
Conjugal
Love
,
even
the
Transport
and
last
Perfection
thereof
,
will
never
be
brought
in
Dispute
against
Women
by
any
man
that
hath
entertained
himself
but
for
one
quarter
of
an
hour
in
History
.
They
are
not
less
capable
of
making
good
use
of
anger
,
of
purifying
its
fire
by
a
more
spiritual
fire
,
of
guiding
it
to
the
supream
degree
of
Honour
,
by
an
Heroick
transport
.
And
to
conclude
this
point
by
a
single
Example
,
but
a
remarkable
and
crowned
one
;
you
will
finde
nothing
but
Blood
,
Sallies
,
and
a
hasty
and
precipitate
Impetuosity
in
all
that
is
related
of
those
Heroesses
whom
we
know
,
if
compared
to
what
Semiramis
did
in
this
kinde
.
A
Province
which
she
had
newly
conquered
,
having
chased
away
her
Lieutenants
,
and
shaken
off
its
yoke
by
a
publick
Revolt
;
The
news
of
it
being
brought
to
her
at
the
instant
her
head
was
dressing
,
She
did
not
presently
Proclaim
that
Ropes
and
Gibbets
should
be
prepared
,
as
some
Princes
have
done
in
like
occasions
;
But
without
the
least
raising
of
her
voice
,
or
uttering
one
tart
Word
;
without
making
shew
of
my
alteration
or
surprisal
,
she
took
an
oath
that
they
should
never
finish
the
dressing
of
her
head
,
till
she
had
chastised
these
Rebels
▪
This
Oath
taken
with
a
tone
of
Rallery
,
and
with
a
Majestical
and
graceful
sternness
,
she
commanded
her
Women
to
lock
up
her
perfumes
and
jewels
;
sent
for
her
Arms
,
and
gave
out
Orders
for
the
marching
of
her
Troops
;
Took
horse
with
her
hair
half
pin'd
up
,
and
half
discheveld
:
And
the
not
only
began
,
but
finished
the
War
in
this
posture
.
And
if
my
memory
fail
me
not
,
it
was
after
the
end
of
the
War
,
she
caused
that
vast
and
stupendious
Statue
to
be
erected
,
which
I
formerly
mentioned
.
Let
us
acknowledge
,
that
there
was
much
of
Magnaminity
and
Gallantry
in
this
Transport
▪
Let
us
confess
that
this
half
dress'd
head
,
was
upheld
by
a
great
heart
▪
That
there
was
not
a
stronger
nor
a
more
capable
One
:
And
that
a
Crown
could
not
be
found
too
great
or
too
glorious
for
it
.
Hitherto
I
have
taken
Heroick
Vertue
by
lights
purely
humane
,
and
have
scarce
spoken
of
any
other
then
That
which
hath
been
known
to
Philosophers
.
But
if
the
Question
be
concerning
an
Heroick
Vertue
which
is
Christian
,
and
sanctified
by
Grace
;
which
hath
been
illuminated
by
the
Rayes
of
Iesus
Christ
;
which
hath
been
imbr●●
by
his
blood
,
and
penetrated
by
the
Spirits
thereof
upon
Mount
Calvery
;
which
is
called
to
that
Divine
and
Soveraign
Good
,
which
is
of
a
degree
infinitely
raised
above
all
the
goods
of
Nature
,
there
can
be
no
doubt
but
that
Women
may
pretend
to
it
as
well
as
we
;
and
that
their
Pretentions
are
as
Lawful
,
and
grounded
upon
as
good
Right
as
ours
.
Iesus
Christ
hath
given
his
Blood
and
Spirit
in
common
.
He
cals
us
in
common
to
the
participation
of
his
Cro●●
,
and
to
Mount
Calvery
.
And
it
is
particularly
noted
,
that
when
he
was
there
in
Person
,
many
women
,
&
but
one
single
man
ascended
thither
after
him
.
I
am
unwilling
to
say
that
there
was
some
Presage
in
this
,
and
that
it
prefigured
what
was
to
come
▪
I
will
only
say
,
that
ever
since
they
have
been
seen
to
ascend
thither
in
greater
numbers
,
and
with
greater
ardour
then
we
;
and
to
throng
more
about
the
Cross
,
which
is
the
〈◊〉
Throne
of
Heroick
Vertue
.
There
have
been
Heroesses
then
,
according
to
all
forms
,
and
in
all
the
degrees
of
Heroick
Vertue
;
in
the
degree
of
Patience
,
in
the
degree
of
Magnificence
,
in
the
degree
of
Magnanimity
,
in
the
degree
of
Courage
and
Valour
:
And
without
further
inlarging
our
Reasons
,
the
Example
I
am
going
to
produce
,
will
be
an
universal
and
abb●●●●ated
proof
thereof
.
EXAMPLE
.
Isabella
Queen
of
Castile
.
THe
Design
of
the
Monarchy
of
Spain
is
not
of
Plates
time
,
nor
according
to
the
Model
of
his
Republick
.
It
is
Modern
,
and
even
within
the
Memory
of
our
Fathers
.
Nevertheless
the
Author
thereof
is
not
known
so
generally
;
And
even
at
this
day
men
Dispute
it
,
as
they
would
do
about
a
half
defaced
piece
of
Antiquity
.
Some
attribute
this
●nterprise
to
Ferdinand
,
who
was
a
Politick
,
yet
Timerous
and
Sedentary
Prince
,
who
managed
not
Affairs
,
but
with
his
Minde
and
Counsel
;
and
acted
all
by
the
hands
of
his
Captains
and
Lieutenants
.
Others
on
the
contrary
,
will
have
it
to
be
set
a
foot
by
Charl●
the
Fift
,
that
Fortunate
and
bold
Workman
,
who
was
as
good
for
the
Field
as
for
Councel
;
who
put
his
own
hand
to
the
Work
,
together
with
his
Fortune
,
who
was
both
the
Con●●●
and
Undertaker
of
his
Designes
.
But
whatever
may
be
alledged
on
either
side
,
This
so
vast
and
enormous
Designe
,
to
speak
the
truth
,
〈◊〉
neither
of
a
Timerous
Person
,
nor
of
a
Conquerour
:
It
is
neither
of
the
Head
of
Ferdinand
,
nor
of
the
Arm
of
Charls
:
it
springs
from
the
War
and
Courage
of
Isabella
of
Castile
.
This
single
word
serves
her
for
a
great
abbreviated
Elogy
:
It
is
the
abridgement
of
a
long
History
,
and
the
subject
of
many
Volumes
:
And
the
Heroick
Vertue
of
this
great
Queen
cannot
have
a
more
magnificent
and
ample
proof
,
then
a
Structure
which
hath
the
extent
of
two
Hemisphears
,
and
comprehends
as
well
Nature
already
discovered
,
as
that
which
is
to
be
discovered
.
This
so
great
an
Enterprise
was
of
a
far
greater
Soul
,
and
assisted
by
all
the
en●●oent
Vertues
;
Such
as
ingeniously
Project
,
such
as
consult
with
Prudence
;
such
as
execute
with
address
,
and
such
as
act
with
force
,
laboured
therein
conjoyntly
with
her
.
Nothing
but
Great
and
Heroick
,
was
observed
in
all
the
parts
of
her
life
:
All
her
days
were
days
of
labour
,
or
preparatives
to
it
:
And
before
she
arrived
to
the
Age
of
overcoming
by
Action
she
learnt
to
overcome
by
Sufferance
.
Divine
Providence
having
made
choice
of
Her
to
manifest
to
these
last
Ages
,
how
far
a
great
Vertue
,
assisted
by
efficacious
Grace
,
may
Advance
,
deprived
her
early
both
of
Father
and
Mother
,
and
placed
her
single
and
without
support
in
the
way
of
Vertue
,
as
soon
as
she
could
support
her self
.
It
was
no
●mall
advantage
to
her
to
have
been
severed
so
soon
from
softning
Tendernesses
,
and
corrupting
Pleasures
.
At
least
she
resembled
thereby
the
Ancient
Heroes
,
and
to
use
the
terms
of
that
Age
,
There
was
less
of
the
Milk
,
then
Marrow
of
the
●●on
,
in
her
nourishment
.
Her
Childhood
also
was
Disciplined
,
and
became
the
sooner
Active
thereby
.
She
was
Serious
and
Discreet
,
Temperate
and
Severe
,
from
the
Age
of
Childish
Toyes
and
Pastimes
:
And
when
other
Maids
play
with
Babbies
,
or
are
flattered
by
their
Nurses
,
Adversity
made
her
Warlike
,
and
taught
her
to
vanquish
Fortune
.
This
Severe
and
Disciplined
Childhood
,
was
followed
by
a
Youth
full
of
Storms
and
Troubles
:
And
God
,
who
would
not
suffer
her
to
have
other
then
grave
Satisfactions
,
and
solid
Contentments
,
permitted
that
the
first
Roles
of
her
Marriage
should
be
overspred
with
Thorns
.
She
had
made
choice
of
Ferdinand
Prince
of
Aragon
,
and
King
of
Sicily
,
before
Alph●●s●
King
of
P●●tugal
,
and
Charles
Duke
of
●uiev●●
,
brother
to
Lewis
the
Eleventh
:
And
this
Choice
,
wherein
Inclination
was
fortified
by
Interest
,
had
been
generally
approved
by
all
the
high
Degrees
of
this
Kingdom
.
The
King
her
Brother
,
who
ought
to
be
the
first
in
purchasing
Honours
to
his
Crown
and
House
,
singly
opposed
this
general
Approbation
,
and
blasted
the
publick
joy
by
the
sharpness
of
a
private
Grudge
.
He
spred
snares
of
all
sorts
upon
the
ways
of
his
Sisters
Innocence
:
He
used
a
great
deal
of
Art
to
dissolve
the
knot
of
her
Marriage
.
He
endeavoured
to
break
it
by
violence
:
But
this
Tye
not
being
to
be
broken
or
loo●ened
;
and
his
snares
being
too
visible
,
and
too
grosly
laid
to
catch
the
prey
which
he
pursued
;
he
turned
his
forces
and
anger
upon
the
Places
which
belonged
to
the
Patrimony
of
Isabella
:
And
if
his
malice
had
been
more
prosperous
and
better
conducted
;
if
Defenders
of
the
Right
of
Innocence
had
not
risen
up
,
he
would
have
turned
her
naked
out
of
the
Kingdom
.
But
God
,
who
delights
in
defeating
the
Designs
of
Iniquity
and
tyes
up
at
his
pleasure
the
hands
of
Usurpers
,
did
not
permit
that
Injustice
,
though
Powerfull
,
and
assisted
by
Authority
,
should
prevail
against
disarmed
Right
,
and
forsaken
Innocence
.
He
was
pleased
to
make
use
of
Henry
to
exercise
Isabella
,
as
Nature
makes
use
of
Wind
to
fasten
young
Palms
:
as
Artists
imploy
Fire
and
Iron
to
purifie
Gold
,
and
to
give
a
kinde
of
Soveraignty
with
the
Image
of
the
Prince
.
And
after
that
the
Vertue
of
Isabella
made
Warlike
,
and
Fortified
,
Instructed
and
Beautified
by
this
exercise
,
had
received
the
last
form
of
Heroick
Vertue
;
he
sent
death
which
snatched
the
Crown
from
the
spiteful
and
usurping
Brother
,
and
placed
it
upon
the
head
of
the
Sister
,
ordained
to
the
glory
of
Spain
,
and
to
the
discovery
of
the
new
World
.
It
cannot
be
said
with
what
Designs
she
ascended
the
Throne
;
with
what
Dextenty
and
Force
,
with
what
Purity
of
Intention
,
and
Capacity
of
Minde
she
set
her
hand
to
the
Helm
.
Policy
was
never
more
able
,
nor
more
found
,
or
better
Designed
;
Reason
of
State
was
never
more
extended
,
or
powerful
:
the
Graces
were
never
more
vigorous
,
nor
efficacious
then
in
this
Princess
.
She
was
the
Domestick
Oracle
of
Ferdinand
,
and
the
visible
Intelligence
of
his
Councel
;
The
Wise
and
Speculative
of
his
Kingdom
received
from
Her
their
purest
Lights
:
They
deliberated
of
nothing
but
in
her
presence
,
and
by
the
clarity
of
her
Minde
.
And
ordinarily
the
uncertainty
and
doubts
of
Consultation
were
not
cleared
but
by
her
Councels
,
which
dis-intangled
confused
opinions
;
which
Fortified
the
Timerous
and
Irresolute
;
which
gave
the
being
and
consistency
to
Affairs
.
She
held
likewise
the
Place
of
the
first
Cause
and
principal
Agent
in
the
conduct
of
this
great
Engine
:
And
the
History
of
Spain
acknowledgeth
that
Ferdinand
,
I
say
,
that
able
and
wise
Ferdinand
,
did
act
nothing
but
by
the
direction
,
and
as
subaltern
to
Isabella
.
Her
first
care
was
to
rally
the
parts
of
the
State
,
which
the
past
troubles
had
dis-joynted
.
Having
rallyed
them
,
she
used
much
Art
to
link
them
together
.
And
her
Art
was
so
efficacious
and
successful
,
as
she
set
them
all
in
their
former
places
,
and
rendred
to
every
one
their
first
Settlement
and
Natural
Functions
.
Scarce
had
she
restored
Health
and
Repose
to
this
great
Body
,
but
she
was
necessitated
to
put
her self
in
Arms
to
defend
it
.
Alphons●
King
of
Portugal
invited
by
Disgusted
and
Factious
People
,
invaded
Castile
with
great
Forces
,
and
greater
Pretences
.
Certainly
the
fire
must
needs
be
great
which
was
stirred
by
Domesticks
,
and
inkindled
by
Strangers
▪
Isabella
hastened
to
the
noise
and
smoke
,
and
did
not
return
till
she
had
quench'd
it
with
the
blood
of
those
who
had
prepared
either
the
Bait
or
Matter
of
it
▪
Her
Crown
being
setled
,
she
applied
her
thoughts
to
the
Expedients
,
how
to
inlarge
it
,
and
to
adde
new
Howers
and
Titles
thereunto
.
And
because
there
are
no
Conquests
more
Just
,
more
Illustrious
,
nor
more
Heroick
then
those
which
inlarge
the
bounds
of
the
Church
,
and
Religion
,
and
give
new
Subjects
and
Kingdoms
to
Iesus
Christ
;
She
undertook
the
destruction
of
the
Empire
of
the
Moo●s
,
who
for
so
many
Ages
had
been
the
Dishonour
,
Scandal
,
and
Yoke
of
Spain
.
It
is
true
that
this
Enterprise
was
her
Master
piece
.
She
performed
therein
all
that
an
exact
and
expert
Commander
could
have
done
with
all
his
Wit
and
Understanding
.
She
was
alwaies
present
in
the
Field
:
she
assisted
at
the
taking
of
principal
Places
:
And
after
many
years
of
Toyl
and
Agitation
,
she
caused
that
great
Col●●●us
to
●all
,
which
so
many
Ages
and
hands
had
raised
;
and
returned
with
〈◊〉
added
to
her
Crown
,
and
the
Title
of
Catholique
,
which
she
●cquired
to
her self
,
and
the
Kings
her
Successors
.
Not
content
to
raign
in
a
known
World
,
and
to
overcome
by
the
sun
of
Europe
,
she
desired
to
vanquish
and
raign
in
another
World
,
and
under
other
Planets
.
For
this
end
she
contributed
with
her
Courage
and
Treasure
,
to
the
resolution
and
designs
of
Columba
:
She
sent
her
Fortune
with
him
in
quest
of
a
concealed
Heaven
,
and
of
an
unknown
Nature
.
And
if
Europe
at
present
be
enriched
with
Gold
,
and
precious
Stones
out
of
new
Countries
:
if
the
new
found
Lands
be
enlightened
by
the
Faith
and
Religion
of
Europe
,
both
Europe
and
the
new
Discovered
lands
ought
to
serve
as
an
Ornament
and
Lustre
to
the
Magnanimity
of
Couragious
Isabella
.
This
Understanding
and
Magnanimity
,
were
accompanied
with
an
exact
and
severe
,
an
incorruptible
and
Disinterelled
Justice
.
Whereupon
I
call
to
minde
that
being
sollicited
to
pardon
a
Criminal
of
quality
,
who
offered
a
very
considerable
summ
for
the
maintainance
of
some
Troops
which
marched
against
the
Moors
;
She
made
these
Solliciters
fully
understand
,
that
she
was
not
raised
to
the
Throne
to
make
Traffick
of
Favours
and
Pardons
,
and
to
set
Impunity
and
Crimes
to
sale
And
to
the
end
there
might
not
seem
to
be
any
thing
of
Interest
in
her
Integrity
,
or
that
she
aimed
at
the
Confiscation
of
the
Criminals
Estate
,
she
gave
it
all
entire
to
his
Children
,
and
would
not
suffer
their
Succession
to
be
in
the
least
measure
diminished
by
it
.
So
far
was
she
from
grating
upon
Crimes
and
Penalties
;
so
far
was
she
from
laying
up
in
her
Coffers
the
price
of
blood
,
and
the
revenue
of
tears
;
that
this
good
Princess
took
no
greater
pleasure
then
in
giving
with
liberall
hands
;
then
in
making
men
rich
and
happy
.
She
measured
the
felicities
of
her
Kingdome
by
the
extent
of
her
good
deeds
:
She
counted
her
Revenues
by
the
gratifications
which
issued
forth
of
her
Exchequer
;
and
her
chief
stock
,
her
most
dear
and
precious
Treasure
,
consisted
in
the
hearts
and
affections
of
her
people
.
Never
were
any
liberalities
more
natural
nor
less
restraind
,
more
obliging
,
or
better
disposed
then
hers
.
Never
did
Magnificence
act
more
gallantly
,
nor
after
a
more
Heroick
manner
,
then
in
her
hands
:
it
was
never
more
universal
,
nor
extended
to
more
uses
,
nor
to
a
larger
compass
.
Her
Profusions
did
not
slide
away
in
unprofitable
&
transitory
Pomps
:
They
were
not
like
Torrents
which
are
onely
for
shew
,
and
last
but
a
day●
They
resembled
Rivers
,
which
are
fertile
and
durable
:
they
afforded
sta●e
and
solid
riches
,
and
brought
happiness
to
Nations
,
and
plenty
to
Ages
:
And
to
say
nothing
of
those
which
remained
in
Spain
,
where
they
are
still
looked
upon
with
astonishment
:
The
great
Bible
of
〈◊〉
,
which
hath
been
so
long
the
most
ample
and
rich
spectacle
of
learned
men
;
the
most
profitable
and
stately
Ornament
of
our
Libraries
,
is
no
less
the
work
of
Isabella
,
then
of
Cardinal
Ximenes
her
Councellor
.
This
Eminent
Princess
first
advanced
this
great
enterprize
;
and
furnished
of
her
own
stock
to
those
preparations
which
were
requisite
,
long
before
the
Work
was
begunne
.
But
as
there
hath
never
been
so
bold
an
Undertaker
,
who
hath
not
had
more
bold
Successors
then
himself
;
and
besides
,
as
the
same
Time
which
ruins
on
the
one
side
the
works
of
art
,
doth
perfect
them
on
the
other
;
so
the
Bible
of
〈◊〉
having
raigned
near
upon
threescore
year
,
and
held
the
first
〈◊〉
in
〈◊〉
,
was
deposed
of
its
place
by
the
Royal
Bible
,
which
〈◊〉
the
second
caused
to
be
printed
at
Antwerp
:
And
very
newly
the
Royall
happened
to
be
degraded
by
that
which
Monsieur
Le
lay
after
the
labour
of
thirty
years
hath
published
with
the
generall
Applause
of
all
the
learned
▪
It
is
true
also
,
that
this
enterprize
was
not
the
undertaking
of
a
particular
Person
,
and
of
a
mean
Fortune
:
It
was
of
a
Monarch
,
nay
,
of
a
sumptuous
Monarch
,
and
addicted
to
Noble
expences
:
It
was
of
a
Soveraign
and
Magnificent
Fortune
.
And
if
this
great
Body
of
seven
Languages
remains
〈◊〉
to
be
shewn
all
intire
to
Posterity
;
I
know
not
whether
the
most
credulous
Posterity
will
ever
believe
that
a
single
private
Person
of
this
Kingdom
,
assisted
onely
by
his
Revenue
and
Generosity
,
hath
affected
more
then
a
King
of
Spain
with
all
his
Mountains
of
Silver
,
and
Springs
of
Gold
,
with
all
his
Mines
and
Indies
.
But
great
Souls
,
not
great
Estates
,
are
the
things
which
perform
great
Actions
▪
It
was
requisite
that
the
Regency
of
Anne
of
Austria
should
have
〈◊〉
advantage
above
the
Raign
of
Isabella
,
and
Philip
her
Predecessor
:
It
was
necessary
that
a
moderate
Fortune
should
give
Emulation
and
Instruction
to
all
the
great
Fortunes
of
Europe
;
and
that
Princes
and
then
Ministers
should
learn
from
a
Private
Person
,
to
be
Christianly
Magnificent
,
with
the
Benediction
of
God
and
Men.
Isabella
was
not
onely
Wise
and
Couragious
,
Magnanimous
,
Just
,
and
Magnificent
:
But
her
Publick
and
Active
Vertues
were
accompanied
with
other
Domestick
and
Peaceable
Ones
,
which
were
not
the
less
vigorous
for
making
the
less
noise
;
and
had
not
the
less
merit
in
being
less
Regarded
.
I
set
down
her
Devotion
in
this
Last
,
which
had
been
remarkable
in
a
Religious
Woman
:
her
modestie
and
Civility
,
which
savoured
nothing
of
the
height
of
her
quality
:
her
Patience
,
which
might
have
made
a
Heroess
in
a
private
Fortune
.
Her
Court
was
a
School
of
Piety
,
Purity
,
and
Modesty
for
the
Maids
of
Honour
which
were
Educated
near
her
Person
.
She
was
an
Academy
of
Spirit
,
and
Honour
for
Cavaliers
:
And
from
this
Academy
came
that
famous
Gonzales
of
〈◊〉
,
to
whom
Spain
,
so
liberal
in
Titles
and
Elogies
,
gave
the
name
of
Great
Captain
,
as
a
reward
for
driving
the
Fortune
of
France
out
of
the
Kingdom
of
Naples
.
Besides
,
her
Vertue
was
not
one
of
those
Stage
Vertues
which
act
not
handsomly
but
before
the
World
,
and
in
the
eyes
of
men
.
It
was
not
one
of
those
Mercenary
and
Interessed
Vertues
,
which
serve
not
but
upon
good
Terms
,
and
for
great
Wages
and
Pawn
:
It
was
likewise
sincere
,
and
acted
as
soveraignly
,
and
with
as
much
order
in
Private
,
as
in
the
eyes
of
the
Publick
It
was
likewise
steddy
,
as
well
during
a
storm
as
in
a
calm
,
and
had
not
a
different
Countenance
and
Heart
in
Affliction
,
then
in
Prosperity
.
It
hath
been
known
by
the
report
of
her
Attendants
,
that
in
all
her
Child
beds
,
the
pain
of
Delivery
,
which
is
the
Natural
Torture
of
their
Sex
,
did
never
force
a
word
of
Complaint
from
her
mouth
:
Marvellous
was
the
Moderation
which
made
her
suffer
with
the
death
of
her
Son
,
the
death
of
her
Name
,
and
the
Extirpation
of
her
Race
:
And
certainly
since
there
is
no
Tree
which
doth
not
bend
and
complain
when
a
Branch
is
torn
off
from
it
by
a
Tempest
;
though
it
be
a
wilde
Tree
;
though
the
Branch
which
is
taken
off
be
half
rotten
:
How
much
courage
were
necessary
for
a
Mother
,
not
to
be
cast
down
by
the
blow
which
deprived
her
of
such
a
Son
;
which
tore
from
her
so
noble
a
shoot
,
and
of
so
great
hope
:
A
shoot
which
was
to
have
extended
it self
to
new
Worlds
,
and
a
new
Nature
.
She
was
so
far
from
being
dejected
by
this
Accident
,
that
it
●earce
g●ve
her
the
least
disquiet
:
The
gallant
Woman
prevailed
in
her
minde
above
the
good
Mother
▪
And
the
news
of
this
deplorable
death
being
brought
her
in
the
Eve
of
her
Daughter
Isabella's
Marriage
with
〈◊〉
King
of
Portugal
,
she
knew
so
well
how
to
seal
up
her
heart
;
She
so
handsomly
fitted
her
Countenance
to
an
Action
,
for
which
so
great
Preparations
were
made
,
that
not
a
sigh
escaped
out
of
her
Heart
,
not
a
Tear
fell
from
her
Eyes
,
which
might
cloud
the
Serenity
of
the
Feast
.
Her
Constancy
appeared
no
less
by
bearing
with
the
publick
Extravagancies
of
the
Princess
〈◊〉
her
Daughter
,
who
was
sick
of
the
Love
of
her
Husband
Philip.
His
,
truly
was
a
Lawful
Love
,
and
had
received
the
Benediction
of
the
Church
:
Not
only
Bastard
Loves
are
those
which
appear
Monstrous
:
but
even
Lawfull
Ones
,
which
are
Enormous
and
Irregular
,
have
scarce
a
better
Aspect
:
And
the
Fires
which
the
Church
hath
blessed
,
if
they
be
not
entertained
with
Moderation
,
may
no
less
offend
the
head
and
dazle
with
their
smoak
then
the
other
.
The
Love
of
Ia●●
was
one
of
these
Lawful
disordered
Loves
:
It
was
one
of
these
honest
fires
which
heat
too
much
and
da●●
with
their
smoak
.
And
surely
she
must
needs
have
been
much
dazled
,
when
she
resolved
to
Imbark
her self
in
the
most
bitter
Season
of
the
year
,
and
to
expose
her
life
,
her
great
belly
,
and
the
hope
of
so
many
Kingdoms
,
to
the
Winter
and
the
Ocean
,
that
she
might
meet
with
her
Husband
,
who
was
〈◊〉
into
Hander●
.
But
Fons●●a
Bishop
of
Burgos
,
and
〈◊〉
of
〈◊〉
,
Governour
of
〈◊〉
,
having
hindred
her
Imbarking
,
neither
Intreaties
nor
Reasons
could
prevail
to
bring
her
back
to
her
Lodging
:
She
remained
whole
days
and
nights
without
Food
or
Sleep
,
exposed
to
the
Air
and
all
the
injuries
thereof
:
And
assuredly
she
would
have
died
on
the
ground
,
if
the
Qu●een
her
Mother
had
not
brought
her
in
all
haste
a
Licence
to
commit
her self
to
the
pen●
of
the
Sea
;
Nevertheless
she
escaped
the
Sea
and
Tempesluous
Season
:
But
Jealousie
escaped
with
her
,
and
followed
her
into
Hand●●s
,
where
she
renewed
her
Wounds
and
former
Maladies
of
Spain
,
adding
a
kinde
of
Tragical
Action
to
her
Extravagancy
.
To
say
no
more
,
there
was
a
touch
of
both
in
the
Treatment
used
towards
one
of
her
Women
,
of
whom
Philip
was
e●●moured
:
She
tore
her
Face
with
Scourges
,
as
if
she
meant
to
punish
the
eyes
of
Philip
upon
the
Face
he
loved
:
she
made
her
ear
to
be
cut
off
to
the
root
,
as
if
thereby
she
had
cut
asunder
the
tyes
which
held
the
Heart
of
Philip.
And
the
News
of
this
Extravagancy
,
being
carried
into
Spain
,
Isabella
needed
little
less
Courage
to
overcome
her
Affliction
them
to
vanquish
the
Moors
.
The
last
Victories
of
Isabella
were
peaceable
Conquests
,
and
without
Tumult
:
Yet
if
we
consider
them
with
eyes
cleared
from
the
dust
raised
by
the
Tumult
:
If
we
remember
that
the
same
Alexander
,
who
had
vanquished
so
many
Barbarous
Nations
,
was
defeated
by
the
death
of
his
Favourite
;
And
that
this
Augustus
who
had
resisted
the
Forces
of
the
East
,
was
ruined
by
the
bad
Reputation
of
his
Daughters
;
We
shall
finde
that
Isabella
alone
without
Arms
,
overcame
more
powerfully
then
Alexander
and
Augustus
have
done
with
all
their
Armies
.
Concerning
her
Death
,
it
was
Magnanimous
,
and
answerable
to
the
Courage
of
Heroes
.
It
came
to
her
by
a
secret
Ulcer
,
which
the
toys
and
agitation
of
Riding
had
caused
in
the
War
of
〈◊〉
.
Her
Courage
occasion'd
this
Disease
;
her
Modesty
entertains
it
;
and
having
resolved
never
to
expose
it
either
to
the
hands
or
eyes
of
Physitians
,
she
died
at
best
of
her
own
Vertue
and
Victory
.
VNE
Dame
de
Chipre
,
me●
le
seu
aux
Galeres
des
Turcs
chargées
du
butin
de
Nicosie
,
et
par
la
〈…〉
mort
〈◊〉
rue
Armée
〈◊〉
,
et
●enge
le
sac
et
la
seruitude
de
sa
Patrie
.
〈…〉
The
Victorious
Captive
.
BE
not
astonished
to
behold
ruines
flaming
upon
the
water
:
to
behold
a
shipwrack
suffered
in
the
very
Haven
,
and
without
a
Tempest
.
The
Accident
is
strange
,
and
not
to
be
paralleld
;
and
I
know
not
whether
the
Sea
,
which
is
the
Theatre
of
great
Adventures
,
which
is
the
Element
of
Monsters
and
Prodigies
,
hath
ever
brought
forth
a
greater
Wonder
.
This
Coast
is
the
Eastern
part
of
the
Isle
of
Cyprus
.
The
Turks
,
spectators
of
this
devouring
Fire
,
belong
to
the
Army
which
came
newly
from
the
Sacking
of
Nicosea
:
And
these
flaming
Gallies
were
appointed
by
Mustapha
to
bring
to
Selim
the
news
and
testimony
of
his
Victory
.
But
Fortune
deriding
his
vanity
,
suppressed
this
News
,
and
detained
his
Deputies
.
A
generous
Captive
,
more
worthy
of
a
Crown
then
a
Chain
,
not
being
able
to
submit
to
the
infamous
slavery
which
was
prepared
for
her
in
the
Seraglio
,
fired
the
Powder
in
one
of
the
Gallies
;
and
the
fire
dispersing
it self
from
this
Gally
to
all
the
rest
,
set
the
Captive
at
liberty
,
and
revenged
the
injury
done
her
Country
,
both
pillaged
and
made
a
slave
to
Infidels
.
This
Resolution
required
a
most
Heroick
Soul
,
and
of
the
first
Order
:
And
there
needed
a
daring
and
inventive
Courage
without
Arms
,
and
by
one
single
Act
to
defeat
a
whole
triumphant
Army
:
to
take
away
the
fruit
and
sense
of
Victory
,
even
in
the
fruition
of
Conquerours
,
and
not
to
leave
so
much
as
a
mark
,
or
news
of
their
triumph
unconsumed
.
It
is
wonderfull
that
so
high
a
design
,
and
which
might
have
satrated
the
Souls
of
four
Conquerours
,
could
enter
into
the
Heart
of
a
Captive
Maid
.
But
the
wonder
is
yet
greater
,
that
from
the
Soul
of
this
Captive
there
issued
forth
such
a
flame
,
as
made
the
Sea
appear
all
on
fire
,
which
burned
the
goods
and
inhabitants
of
a
taken
City
,
which
consumed
the
mourning
of
an
absolute
Conquered
People
,
and
the
joy
of
a
whole
Victorious
Nation
.
If
we
had
arrived
but
one
moment
sooner
,
we
should
have
beheld
the
first
light
of
this
flame
.
We
should
have
seen
it
sally
forth
all
pure
out
of
this
great
Soul
,
which
could
not
be
taken
with
N●●cosia
;
which
remained
victorious
even
amidst
ruined
Towers
,
and
forced
Walls
;
which
hath
preserved
liberty
amongst
so
many
Chains
and
Guards
.
But
if
this
flame
appear
no
more
,
we
see
at
least
its
effects
;
And
Posterity
will
see
them
also
after
us
.
We
behold
a
City
which
revengeth
the
violence
of
men
by
the
violence
of
fire
;
which
is
burnt
upon
the
Sea
after
it
had
been
pillaged
on
the
Land
.
We
behold
a
vindicative
and
officious
death
,
a
death
which
punisheth
Pirates
,
and
disinchaineth
Captives
.
These
flaming
Chests
were
filled
with
the
Treasures
of
many
Races
.
The
Parsimony
of
covetous
Men
,
and
the
Excess
of
the
Magnificent
were
laid
up
in
these
Packs
of
Merchandise
,
which
you
see
thus
smoaking
:
And
Captive
N●●cosia
in
these
Gallies
,
with
her
Daughters
,
was
to
be
unto
Scli●●
and
the
Sultanesses
a
precious
Ensign
of
Mustapha's
Victory
.
But
there
is
now
nothing
remaining
,
saving
the
Ashes
and
Smoak
of
this
sad
countenance
of
Rapine
:
And
Mustopha
looseth
with
it
the
marks
of
his
Victory
,
and
the
Ensigns
of
his
Triumph
.
The
Flame
devours
the
Presents
which
were
designed
for
Sclim
,
and
the
waves
swallow
up
what
was
provided
to
adorn
the
Sultanesses
.
You
would
say
that
these
two
Elements
,
otherwise
so
incompatible
,
agree
in
the
division
of
the
prey
which
is
fallen
to
them
.
The
Fire
hath
for
its
share
all
that
is
light
,
and
swims
above
water
;
and
all
that
is
heavy
and
slides
to
the
bottome
,
belongs
to
the
waves
.
Many
Loads
of
curious
and
rich
stuff
equally
perished
there
,
and
make
a
common
smoak
.
Those
pieces
of
Purple
,
and
Cloth
of
Gold
,
are
become
as
black
as
the
Cordages
and
Sayles
:
And
the
Ashes
of
those
excellent
pieces
of
Ebony
and
●vory
,
are
coloured
like
the
consumed
Masts
,
and
the
burnt
Oars
.
But
neither
the
burnt
Oars
,
nor
the
consumed
Masts
,
nor
the
bulks
of
five
Gallies
,
all
on
fire
,
afford
not
so
Tragick
a
spectacle
as
the
unhappy
People
,
who
suffer
two
deaths
at
once
,
and
are
drowned
at
the
very
instant
they
are
burnt
.
The
Fortune
of
the
Victorious
is
equall
to
the
Fortune
of
the
Vanquished
:
And
the
self-same
flame
melted
the
Chains
of
the
Captives
,
and
the
Weapons
of
their
Guards
.
Some
carryed
up
into
the
ayre
by
the
first
violence
of
the
Fire
,
had
not
a
taste
of
their
Liberty
,
nor
so
much
as
saw
the
Death
which
freed
them
.
Others
less
suddenly
assaulted
,
cast
themselves
into
the
Sea
,
and
extinguished
their
life
,
thinking
to
extinguish
the
Fire
,
which
had
as
yet
but
seised
on
their
Garments
.
Those
were
not
more
happy
who
trusted
to
severed
Planks
,
and
floating
Oars
.
People
are
not
thus
preserved
from
a
shipwrack
which
the
Winds
and
Rocks
have
not
caused
.
The
devouring
Fire
followed
them
;
and
what
ought
to
have
been
a
Plank
of
safety
,
proves
to
them
a
floating
Pile
;
and
brings
nothing
to
Land
but
their
Ashes
:
Certainly
it
is
a
lamentable
spectacle
to
behold
so
strange
and
new
asport
of
Fortune
;
to
behold
burning
Waves
and
foaming
Flames
:
To
behold
unhappy
wretches
who
are
drowned
in
Fire
,
and
burnt
in
Water
,
who
approach
to
Death
through
two
contrary
Elements
,
who
fall
at
once
into
two
opposite
extreams
.
I
perceive
that
you
are
troubled
about
the
Couragious
Captive
,
who
saved
her self
by
this
Fire
.
You
could
wish
that
it
were
in
your
power
to
finish
her
deliverance
,
and
to
pluck
her
out
of
the
hands
of
Death
,
as
she
forced
her
way
out
of
bondage
and
shame
.
In
vain
do
your
eyes
seek
her
in
this
confusion
of
variously
shaped
and
coloured
Deaths
.
The
fire
begins
its
effects
by
her
:
and
as
if
it
had
a
mind
to
fire
her
all
entire
,
it
left
nothing
but
her
Soul
and
Reputation
,
which
are
no
longer
in
a
condition
to
be
either
inflamed
,
or
stained
.
So
chaste
and
generous
a
Beauty
ought
not
to
be
disfigured
,
or
to
dye
by
parcels
:
and
it
was
not
only
necessary
to
preserve
the
Honour
and
Purity
of
her
Body
,
but
even
the
Comeliness
thereof
:
It
was
requisite
to
conserve
even
the
Grace
and
Dignity
of
her
Countenance
:
and
her
Death
ought
to
be
at
least
gracefull
and
glorious
.
Let
us
speak
more
justly
,
she
must
not
dye
:
she
must
only
disappear
,
like
those
Heroes
who
were
carryed
away
all
entire
:
And
nothing
ought
to
remain
of
her
but
a
name
of
good
odour
,
and
a
most
Illustrious
Memory
.
At
present
her
Soul
discharged
of
the
burthen
of
Matter
,
and
freed
from
the
Chains
of
Fortune
,
enjoys
in
repose
the
fruit
of
the
Tempest
which
she
newly
raised
,
and
offers
to
the
God
of
the
Christians
a
Sacrifice
of
four
Turkish
Gallies
,
and
of
more
then
four
hundred
Innocent
Souls
which
she
redeemed
from
Slavery
,
and
saved
from
Apostacy
.
All
these
beautifull
Souls
,
glorious
by
their
Liberty
and
Innocence
,
ascend
with
the
fire
and
smoak
of
this
great
Holocaust
.
Doubt
not
but
in
ascending
they
applaud
their
Deliveress
;
and
look
down
with
joy
upon
their
broken
Fetters
,
and
the
pieces
of
their
burnt
Prisons
which
float
upon
the
waves
with
the
bodies
of
their
Guards
.
Meanwhile
Mustapha
overcome
in
his
turn
,
beholds
from
the
shore
the
spoyl
of
his
Victory
and
Gallies
.
He
knew
not
as
yet
upon
whom
to
lay
the
blame
:
And
before
hand
,
out
of
despite
he
bites
his
lips
,
&
blasphemes
against
the
Alchoron
,
and
his
false
Prophet
.
The
confusion
appears
barbarous
,
and
stained
with
blood
in
his
eyes
:
And
the
disorder
of
his
mind
augments
the
fierceness
of
his
Action
,
and
the
cruelty
of
his
Looks
.
If
he
were
not
so
far
off
,
you
might
hear
the
reproaches
he
vents
forth
against
Heaven
,
for
permitting
the
fire
to
seize
upon
his
Fortune
;
and
suffering
the
Ensigns
of
his
Valour
,
and
the
subject
of
his
Triumph
to
be
burnt
.
The
Captains
and
Souldiers
which
accompany
him
,
are
in
no
less
disorder
,
nor
less
furious
then
himself
:
And
their
despair
is
no
less
,
to
see
the
treasure
of
their
Souls
,
and
the
recompence
of
their
blood
and
wounds
thus
perishing
.
The
People
of
the
neighbouring
Towns
,
and
the
Parents
of
the
Captive
Women
ordained
for
the
S●raglio
,
have
very
different
resentments
.
The
People
assembled
upon
the
Wall
,
look
with
astonishment
upon
the
Smoak
of
then
Spoyles
,
and
the
confusion
of
the
Barbarians
Avarice
:
and
they
that
clap
their
hands
,
seem
willing
to
adde
force
to
the
fire
which
is
come
to
punish
them
.
The
surprised
Fathers
,
and
astonished
Mothers
suffer
on
the
shore
all
that
their
Children
endure
in
the
fire
,
and
upon
the
waves
.
Tears
of
joy
distill
from
their
eyes
for
the
deliverance
of
their
Daughters
:
Tears
also
of
compassion
and
sorrow
flow
from
them
for
their
loss
:
And
the
one
mingled
with
the
other
,
make
upon
their
Cheeks
an
expression
answerable
to
their
Courage
and
Tenderness
.
These
Tears
nevertheless
have
not
extinguished
the
sense
of
Honour
.
Even
the
Mothers
render
Thanks
for
the
adventure
which
they
deplore
:
And
you
would
say
,
that
on
the
shore
they
expect
to
receive
,
with
the
Ashes
of
their
Daughters
,
their
unstained
Memory
,
and
their
most
pure
and
glorious
Souls
.
SONNET
.
Vpon
these
flaming
Piles
with
billows
tost
,
Nicosia
saves
her self
by
being
lost
:
A
brave
revenging
fire
,
which
in
the
Main
Blows
up
this
Fleet
,
consumes
her
Thraldom
's
Chai●
.
The
boyling
Fla●●s
,
and
the
inflamed
waves
,
Of
Slave
and
Lord
,
become
the
common
graves
:
A
world
of
various
treasures
,
and
of
fair
Rich
movables
,
are
turn'd
to
smoke
and
ayr
.
In
this
〈◊〉
heat
of
waves
and
fires
,
Eudoxia
flies
to
the
Celestial
Quires
;
And
in
repose
enjoys
,
with
just
renown
,
The
flame
that
melts
her
Chains
,
and
makes
her
Crown
.
By
nobler
Act
no
Hero
ever
flew
Above
the
Stars
;
●o
not
the
gallant
Iew
,
Who
with
an
Arm
,
whose
vigour
much
out-vy'd
A
Pillars
strength
,
slew
thousands
when
he
dy'd
.
Elogy
of
the
Victorious
Captive
.
THis
Picture
represents
a
generous
Captive
who
burnt
her
chain
which
she
could
not
break
;
and
took
revenge
for
the
pillaging
of
her
miserable
Country
,
by
firing
the
Booty
with
the
Pirats
which
were
carrying
it
away
.
Within
the
memory
of
our
Fathers
,
the
loss
of
Cyprus
began
by
the
taking
of
〈◊〉
:
And
God
permitted
it
to
advertise
Christian
Princes
that
they
ought
to
stand
upon
the●●
Guards
,
and
to
mistrust
any
Peace
made
with
the
Common
Enemy
.
It
is
a
wild
Beast
,
which
seems
sometimes
to
be
glutted
,
and
sometimes
to
be
●ul'd
asleep
,
but
is
never
tamed
in
good
earnest
.
His
very
Freindships
are
deceitfull
and
dangerous
:
And
even
his
Kindnesses
leave
behind
the
print
of
his
claws
:
And
when
all
other
Pretences
fail
him
,
his
Greediness
is
his
Common
Right
,
and
the
General
Wrong
of
his
Neighbours
.
This
City
which
was
so
rich
,
so
ancient
and
renowned
;
which
contained
more
then
Sixty
Thousand
Inhabitants
,
and
no
less
stately
by
an
immemorial
Magnificence
,
became
a
Prey
to
Mustap●●●
and
his
Army
.
And
that
Greatness
which
so
many
Ages
and
Generations
had
raised
,
being
ruined
and
cut
in
peices
in
one
Day
,
satiated
with
its
Spoyl
and
Blood
,
the
Avarice
and
Cruelty
which
shared
therein
.
After
that
the
fury
of
the
〈◊〉
was
extinguished
by
the
Ruines
it
had
made
,
the
Bas●●
caused
the
Booty
to
be
brought
before
him
still
moist
and
dropping
with
the
Blood
of
the
Dead
,
and
Tears
of
the
Living
which
were
more
to
be
pittyed
then
the
Dead
.
He
culled
out
of
these
sad
Remnants
all
that
was
precious
.
He
caused
all
the
rare
and
entire
Booties
either
taken
in
the
Town
or
in
the
desolate
Country
,
to
be
put
into
four
great
Vessels
,
and
sent
them
to
〈◊〉
as
the
most
glorious
and
certain
Dispatches
he
could
receive
of
his
Victory
.
These
unhappy
Innocents
did
imbarque
with
fears
,
and
were
with
tears
carryed
from
the
sight
of
their
Mothers
,
who
knew
not
what
Wishes
to
make
for
these
unfortunate
Creatures
,
who
ought
equally
to
fear
both
a
Calm
and
Tempest
,
who
could
not
arrive
but
to
an
infamous
servitude
by
a
prosperous
Wind
,
who
could
gain
nothing
but
a
deplorable
Death
by
Shipwrack
.
The
Signal
of
putting
to
Sea
was
given
,
and
the
Vessels
were
already
under
Sayl
;
when
the
fairest
and
most
couragious
of
this
miserable
●●oop
,
reflecting
on
her
Liberty
,
her
Honor
,
and
her
captive
and
●alf-burn●
Country
,
left
in
the
Reer
,
and
seeing
nothing
before
her
but
Bondage
,
Infamy
and
●dishonest
Prison
,
to
which
she
was
carryed
by
the
wind
;
after
a
thousand
Maledictions
breathed
forth
both
against
Fortune
who
had
unhappily
preserved
her
from
the
fire
and
ruines
of
her
House
:
and
against
her
Sex
which
had
rendred
her
unworthy
of
an
honorable
Death●
it
came
into
her
mind
,
that
the
Genius
of
her
Co●ntry
required
some
action
from
her
which
might
make
more
noyse
then
her
Fall
had
done
.
As
this
Mayd
was
wholy
taken
up
with
this
thought
,
she
perceived
a
Soldier
entring
into
the
Magazine
of
Powder
,
she
went
in
readily
after
him
:
and
having
found
fire
ready
at
hand
,
assisted
by
her
good
Angel
(
as
One
may
believe
)
and
inspired
by
God
,
jealous
of
the
honor
of
Virgins
,
she
took
hold
of
this
fire
,
and
cast
it
into
a
barrel
of
Powder
which
was
ready
to
receive
it
.
The
Effect
was
sudden
.
At
the
very
Instant
the
flame
disperseth
it self
with
an
incredible
noyse
through
the
whole
Gally
,
and
from
thence
spred
it self
amongst
the
other
three
which
drew
neer
to
assist
it
.
The
Couragious
Virgin
being
first
carryed
away
,
had
not
the
leisure
to
be
sensible
of
her
Liberty
and
Victory
.
But
doubtless
her
fa●●
soul
issuing
forth
of
her
body
,
stayd
at
least
some
time
to
have
the
〈◊〉
of
them
both
:
And
her
first
Joy
was
to
behold
these
devouting
and
statel●
flames
,
which
revenged
the
sacking
of
Nicofia
upon
the
Victorious
;
and
burnt
with
the
prison
and
bondage
of
her
Companions
the
S●rag●o
and
voluptuous
present
which
Mu●tap●a
had
embarked
for
Selum
.
MORAL
REFLECTION
.
WHat
I
have
said
in
Verse
,
is
true
;
and
I
can
say
it
also
in
Prose
.
The
strong
Hebrew
who
threw
down
a
Pallace
,
and
overwhelmed
a
whole
multitude
at
his
Death
,
did
no
more
then
this
Mayd
.
If
she
had
not
so
much
strength
in
her
Armes
,
she
had
peradventure
more
in
her
Heart
and
Mind
.
At
least
she
overcame
Love
and
Pleasure
,
which
vanquished
Sampson
.
And
the
Captives
death
which
was
no
less
then
hers
,
a
bloody
Victory
without
Combat
,
hath
manifested
in
these
latter
Times
,
that
Vertue
becomes
not
decrepid
with
Years
;
that
it
is
now
the
very
same
it
was
in
the
Time
of
Heroes
;
and
that
the
alteration
we
observe
therein
,
proceeds
from
its
Subjects
,
and
not
from
its
vigor
and
strength
.
But
this
chaste
and
victorious
Mayd
speaks
cheifly
to
those
that
pretend
to
Chastity
,
and
are
jealous
of
the
flower
and
glory
of
their
Sex
.
She
teacheth
them
,
that
perfect
Chastity
hath
her
Enthusiasmes
and
Raptures
,
that
she
cannot
endure
to
be
tyed
,
how
rich
soever
her
chains
may
be
:
that
Fortune
hath
no
Mountains
of
Gold
,
nor
Rivers
of
Silver
which
she
doth
not
pass
over
:
that
Ambition
cannot
build
her
so
elevated
a
Pallace
from
which
she
doth
not
precipitate
her self
:
that
Excess
and
Voluptuousness
cannot
tye
her
with
so
sweet
chains
which
she
doth
not
break
:
that
even
Death
it self
cannot
present
to
her
,
Obstacles
which
she
doth
not
overcome
.
It
would
be
a
great
Shame
to
a
Woman
who
should
profess
Chastity
,
to
be
fastned
to
a
Trifle
:
if
she
could
not
break
a
silken
thred
:
if
she
dare
not
oppose
her self
to
a
few
Thorns
.
And
I
know
not
how
she
would
dispose
of
her
Honor
,
if
to
conserve
It
,
she
were
necessitated
to
set
fire
on
her
house
,
to
leap
down
into
a
Precipice
,
to
expose
her self
to
Swords
&
Wheels
.
Tender
Women
and
such
as
Love
their
ease
,
will
make
answer
to
this
,
that
these
Raptures
belong
not
to
the
Vertue
of
their
Sex
;
And
that
Chastity
is
not
reduced
to
so
great
necessity
as
Despair
must
defend
it
.
The
subsequent
Question
will
shew
what
weight
this
Answer
carries
,
and
whether
Christian
Philosophy
be
on
her
side
.
MORAL
QVESTION
.
Whether
an
Heroick
Transport
be
necessary
to
the
Perfection
of
a
Womans
Chastity
.
THe
Question
doth
suppose
a
Transport
to
be
Essential
to
Heroick
Vertue
:
And
that
there
is
an
Enthusiasme
which
forms
Heroes
as
well
,
as
there
is
one
which
makes
Poets
:
This
Transport
to
define
it
distinctly
,
and
to
give
an
Express
,
and
pure
Notion
of
it
,
is
an
extraordinary
Effort
by
which
the
Soul
is
violently
carryed
to
Objects
,
which
transcends
the
common
reach
of
Men.
And
because
our
forces
be
not
proportionable
to
those
high
Objects
;
and
that
the
best
disposed
,
and
most
able
amongst
us
,
can
hardly
advance
much
further
without
being
born
up
;
it
hath
been
always
believed
,
that
there
necessarily
entred
into
these
extraordinary
Efforts
something
,
I
know
not
what
,
Divine
,
which
transported
Nature
;
and
of
this
I
know
not
what
,
whether
it
be
a
Spirit
or
Divine
Fire
,
the
word
Enthusiasme
is
composed
,
which
the
Grecians
have
expresly
formed
for
these
Transports
.
Here
nevertheless
we
must
call
to
minde
that
Enthusiasm●
and
Transports
are
divers
,
and
of
a
different
Species
according
to
the
different
Faculties
which
are
Transported
;
and
according
to
the
different
Objects
to
which
they
are
Transported
.
If
the
Rapture
comes
only
from
the
Intellectual
and
Imaginary
part
which
is
Subalte●
,
it
tends
to
luminous
and
elevated
Ideas
,
to
Noble
and
Specious
Fantomes
and
Imaginations
:
It
is
effected
by
glorious
Visions
,
and
by
bold
and
magnificent
Expressions
:
And
this
Enthusiasm●
is
properly
That
which
Ignorant
and
Prophane
Men
stile
the
folly
of
Poets
.
But
if
the
Rapture
be
from
the
whole
Person
;
if
the
Intellectual
part
carryes
away
the
Appetitive
,
if
the
Soul
Transports
the
Body
;
and
if
by
a
joynt
effort
they
all
tend
either
to
the
Divine
or
Soveraign
Good
,
or
to
that
eminent
Honour
which
is
in
this
life
the
last
point
of
consummated
Vertue
;
this
general
Transport
,
being
a
Transport
of
Action
,
is
the
same
Enthusiasme
which
they
attribute
to
Heroes
,
and
which
Philosophers
seek
in
Heroick
Vertue
.
And
surely
it
is
absolutely
necessary
to
it
,
whether
by
reason
of
the
〈◊〉
and
difficulty
of
its
Object
,
whereto
we
arrive
not
by
ridding
way
,
and
numbring
our
steps
,
or
by
reason
of
the
Thornes
and
Obstacles
wh●●h
Invi●on
it
▪
And
to
raise
ones
self
above
these
Thornes
,
to
surmo●●●●
these
Obstacles
,
it
were
almost
requisite
to
have
a
winged
Heart
:
One
ought
to
have
at
least
a
Soul
to
carry
it
as
swiftly
,
and
as
high
as
win●●
could
do
.
It
is
not
likewise
doubted
for
these
reasons
,
but
that
a
〈◊〉
sport
is
necessary
to
Heroick
Vertues
;
yet
there
is
much
ground
to
do●bt
whether
Chastity
be
one
of
these
Vertues
;
whether
it
be
called
to
the
Communication
of
this
Spirit
;
whether
it
may
not
advance
to
its
Good
but
with
violence
and
by
〈◊〉
.
And
●f
we
believe
at
first
sight
,
the
appearance
and
common
notions
thereof●
we
will
stand
for
the
Negative
.
First
,
the
Spirit
of
Modesty
,
being
〈…〉
Spirit
of
Chastity
,
is
an
Apprehensive
and
Fearful
Spirit
;
a
Spirit
which
●●dles
and
Restrains
;
which
Apprehends
much
noise
and
〈◊〉
which
shuns
the
Stage
and
Spectators
;
which
affects
Privacy
,
and
〈…〉
.
Now
there
is
nothing
more
opposite
to
this
timerous
and
〈…〉
Spirit
,
then
the
Spirit
of
Transport
,
which
is
Bold
and
Attempting●
Imp●●ient
and
Active
,
an
Enemy
to
Reservedness
and
Constraint
;
〈…〉
of
Bounds
,
and
yet
more
uncapable
of
Chains
.
Moreover
all
the
Masters
of
Morality
teach
us
,
that
Chastity
ought
not
to
fight
but
in
retiring
:
that
she
puts
her self
in
danger
when
she
takes
upon
her
to
be
Valiant
,
and
shews
her
Face
to
her
Enemies
:
that
she
cannot
attain
to
Victory
but
by
a
Retreat
,
even
by
Flight
,
and
a
very
quick
and
sudden
Hight
:
All
this
agrees
with
the
Spirit
of
Transport
,
which
〈◊〉
no
kinde
of
Enemie●
,
and
attaqu●s
them
all
without
knowing
them
:
which
measures
no
Dangers
not
Precipices
,
and
fully
casts
it self
upon
both
,
which
〈◊〉
not
to
any
thing
whatsoever
,
no
not
to
terrifying
Death
it
〈◊〉
,
in
which
all
other
things
submit
.
Thirdly
,
Chastity
is
not
one
of
these
Vertues
which
are
born
for
Action
〈…〉
,
and
are
only
serviceable
in
a
Tumult
and
Storm
:
she
is
one
of
the
Peac●ble
and
Sedentary
Vertues
:
she
is
a
Lover
of
Repose
and
〈◊〉
she
hath
the
Innocence
of
Lambs
,
and
the
meekness
of
Turtles
:
she
hath
a
Temper
contrary
to
Lions
and
Eagles
.
Of
what
use
would
then
this
Spirit
of
Transport
be
to
Sedentary
Vertue
?
Of
what
use
could
it
be
in
time
of
Repose
and
Retirement
?
What
would
that
Lamb
do
with
this
Heart
of
a
Lion
?
What
would
this
Turtle
do
with
the
Violence
of
〈…〉
:
All
these
Reasons
are
very
good
proofs
,
that
Chastity
is
a
Vertue
of
its
own
Nature
,
Reserved
,
and
a
Friend
to
Repose
:
But
they
do
not
prove
,
that
she
is
never
Armed
with
Boldness
;
that
she
never
takes
Courage
;
that
she
is
a
ways
concealed
,
and
still
possessed
with
Fear
:
There
are
some
Occasions
wherein
she
must
of
necessity
alter
her
Humour
and
Carriage
;
wherein
she
must
express
Resolution
and
Courage
;
wherein
she
must
Act
,
even
elevate
her self
,
and
elevate
her self
with
a
Transport
.
Doves
which
〈…〉
Sweet
and
Innocent
,
have
yet
their
Sallies
and
Angers
.
Patience
which
is
at
least
as
calm
as
Chastity
,
becomes
Furious
when
it
is
Wounded
And
that
Spotless
and
Silent
●amb
which
came
to
Teach
us
Chastity
and
Patience
,
ceaseth
yet
sometimes
to
be
a
Lamb
,
and
becomes
a
Lyon
when
he
is
provoked
.
Let
us
say
,
that
this
Heroick
Spirit
of
Rapture
is
not
necessary
to
Chastity
,
when
she
is
not
assaulted
,
and
proposeth
no
Enemies
to
overcome
,
not
Crowns
to
obtain
.
She
is
then
permitted
to
remove
far
off
from
the
Tumult
;
She
may
decently
affect
Repose
,
and
participate
without
blame
of
the
benefit
of
Peace
.
Her
condition
in
that
State
doth
not
differ
from
that
Valour
it self
,
which
is
not
continually
provoked
and
Furious
,
always
covered
over
with
Sweat
and
Blood
:
And
which
useth
not
every
day
her
Warlike
hands
and
countenance
,
her
Spirit
and
Garments
of
Battel
▪
But
when
this
Peaceable
Chastity
is
Assaulted
;
when
Dangers
and
Enemies
press
her
:
when
she
is
reduced
to
the
necessity
of
either
rend●ing
up
her self
,
or
of
vanquishing
by
some
Extraordinary
and
Supernatural
●ffort
;
where
will
she
finde
wherewith
to
carry
on
this
extraordinary
and
Supernatural
Violence
,
if
the
Hero●ck
〈◊〉
whereof
I
speak
,
do
not
inflame
her
;
if
the
Spirit
of
〈◊〉
do
not
possess
her
,
it
both
do
not
transport
her
,
to
what
place
would
not
her
Fears
and
Restraints
hurry
her
?
And
even
in
this
,
her
Condition
is
likewise
equal
to
that
of
true
Valour
,
which
hath
an
other
Countenance
,
and
an
other
Heart
upon
a
Breach
then
in
a
Closet
;
which
march●●n
with
an
other
kinde
of
Action
and
Look
to
a
day
of
Assault
,
then
to
a
day
of
Ceremony
.
Let
us
only
oppose
hereunto
,
that
the
Comparison
is
not
equal
between
Chastity
and
Valour
;
between
a
Peaceful
and
Sedentary
vertue
,
and
one
that
is
Warlike
and
Tumultuary
.
Chastity
hath
her
Wars
and
Combats
:
And
her
Wars
are
more
lasting
and
ob●●inate
;
her
Combats
are
more
dangerous
and
labonous
then
those
of
Valour
.
She
hath
likewise
more
need
of
Courage
and
Resolution
,
as
I
have
already
shewn
:
And
consequently
the
Spirit
of
Transport
which
is
the
Spirit
of
Courage
and
Resolution
,
is
more
necessary
to
her
,
then
to
this
Vertue
of
Fire
and
Sword
.
And
here
the
Bravo's
,
and
great
Pretenders
to
Valour
,
must
not
flatter
themselves
,
not
think
to
obtain
it
by
the
fierceness
of
their
Looks
,
and
the
greatness
of
Words
.
The
honour
of
Chaste
Women
is
not
in
a
place
of
easier
Access
,
nor
less
Elevated
then
theirs
.
Nature
cannot
〈◊〉
thither
by
her
own
Forces
:
The
Senses
know
not
the
way
to
it
;
and
on
what
side
soever
this
way
lieth
,
it
is
possessed
by
Enemies
who
use
violence
even
in
their
satisfactions
and
terrifie
by
their
Complacences
and
Ca●esses
.
On
all
sides
and
at
every
step
there
are
Gins
,
which
are
so
much
the
more
to
be
feared
,
as
their
B●●●s
are
more
rich
,
and
their
threds
wrought
with
more
silk
,
and
covered
over
with
more
Flowers
.
Besides
,
if
we
were
to
beware
of
nothing
there
but
Flowers
and
Silk
;
if
we
were
only
to
defend
our selves
against
Complacences
and
Caresses
:
Yet
there
are
sometimes
Daggers
hid
under
these
Flowers
;
and
these
Silken
Threds
become
strangling
Ropes
.
These
Enemies
are
not
always
Complacent
and
Courting
.
They
change
their
Art
and
Posture
according
to
the
Resistance
which
is
made
to
them
.
They
imploy
Iron
,
where
Gold
is
not
powerful
enough
:
and
where
Sweetness
is
weak
,
and
Presents
effect
nothing
,
they
practise
Cruelty
:
they
display
terror
and
punishments
.
I
mean
that
Chast
Women
have
not
only
pleasing
,
but
even
terrifying
and
bloody
Temptations
.
They
are
not
onely
to
defend
themselves
against
Ava●ice
and
Voluptuousness
,
but
they
are
to
overcome
both
Torture
and
Death
it self
;
I
say
Torture
,
which
is
the
invention
of
Tyrants
,
and
the
practise
of
Executioners
;
I
say
Death
armed
with
all
its
Fires
and
Engines
.
Is
it
credible
that
Chastity
,
without
using
any
extraordinary
violence
,
without
moving
or
changing
place
,
can
overcome
all
these
Enemies
whether
Complacent
or
Barbarous
?
That
she
is
able
to
loosen
her self
from
all
these
eyes
and
snates
,
whether
from
those
which
allure
,
or
those
which
strangle
?
That
she
is
able
to
master
all
these
temptations
whether
sweet
or
sparkling
,
in
which
Gold
and
Precious
Stones
are
imployed
;
whether
cruel
and
terrible
practised
with
chains
,
like
those
which
Ioseph
suffered
;
with
stones
,
like
those
shewn
to
Susanna
;
with
a
Scymitar
,
like
that
which
vanquished
the
Daughter
of
Paul
〈◊〉
,
Beheaded
by
Mah●●et
at
the
taking
of
〈◊〉
Again
,
is
it
credible
that
Chastity
can
be
victorious
over
so
many
Adversaries
,
and
in
so
many
Conflicts
if
she
be
not
filled
,
if
she
be
not
Penetrated
by
this
Divine
Fire
,
by
this
supernatural
Instinct
,
by
this
Spirit
which
begets
an
〈◊〉
,
and
the
Extasies
of
Heroick
Vertue
.
Nature
is
strong
and
Attractive
:
Chastity
must
resist
her
Forces
,
and
loosen
her self
from
her
Allurements
.
The
senses
stick
close
to
those
Interests
which
are
Commodious
to
them
;
and
the
Body
hath
a
strange
adherence
to
pleasure
,
where
flesh
and
blood
bears
a
part
.
Chastity
must
either
sever
the
sences
from
these
Interests
,
and
must
break
all
that
fastens
the
Body
to
these
pleasures
,
or
she
must
voluntarily
separate
her self
from
the
senses
,
and
break
violently
with
the
body
.
Death
hath
cruel
and
frightfull
Weapons
:
It
is
accompanied
with
terrible
and
furious
Attendants
.
Chastity
must
be
prepared
to
rush
through
all
these
Weapons
:
and
to
Essay
the
Teeth
and
Nails
of
these
Attendants
,
rather
then
suffer
the
least
stain
.
Whatever
may
be
said
,
the
Reputation
of
valour
is
not
so
precious
,
nor
invironed
with
so
many
Difficulties
.
Her
Crowns
,
even
those
which
are
made
by
the
site
of
Canons
and
Granadoes
,
cost
not
so
much
:
and
Heroes
are
formed
at
a
less
expence
amidst
Pikes
and
Breaches
.
I
forget
not
what
hath
been
said
of
Modesty
.
She
is
the
proper
spirit
of
Chastity
:
and
they
affirm
that
she
is
Timerous
and
Apprehensive
:
that
she
hath
Moderation
and
Reservedness
.
I
confess
that
for
the
most
part
she
is
not
Precipitous
:
and
that
she
is
never
Impudent
.
But
she
is
not
more
fearful
then
Fear
it self
:
and
Fear
hath
its
sallies
as
well
as
Anger
and
Boldness
have
theirs
.
Some
couragiously
endure
Pain
,
for
fear
of
another
Pain
.
Some
cast
themselves
into
the
Sea
,
for
fear
of
falling
into
it
:
And
to
avoid
one
Death
but
apprehended
,
they
precipitate
themselves
into
another
▪
Let
us
remember
that
the
Ermine
,
which
is
the
Symbole
of
Modesty
,
and
the
silent
Mistress
of
the
Chastity
which
Nature
hath
given
to
Women
.
Concerning
which
,
to
say
thus
much
by
the
way
,
she
hath
Treated
them
more
Honourably
then
men
,
to
whom
she
hath
onely
given
an
Ant
as
the
Emblem
of
Labour
and
Industry
.
The
Ermine
is
extreamly
fearfull
,
and
hath
neither
strength
nor
weapons
:
and
yet
this
unarmed
and
timerous
Creature
had
rather
dye
then
be
sullyed
.
And
when
she
is
pursued
,
rather
then
to
expose
her
whiteness
to
a
stain
,
and
save
her self
by
a
little
d●●t
,
transported
by
the
Instinct
she
hath
in
point
of
Purity
,
she
casts
her self
into
the
nets
of
Hunters
,
and
perishes
with
Courage
.
Behold
a
Transport
,
and
a
Transport
of
Modesty
;
behold
a
Sally
,
and
a
Sally
of
Purity
in
an
Innocent
and
Fearfull
Animal
▪
And
shall
We
deny
the
same
Transport
and
the
like
Raptures
to
chaste
Women
?
Without
doubt
they
are
capable
thereof
.
An
Heroick
spirit
and
possessed
with
Enthusiasm
,
mingles
it self
sometimes
with
their
Vertue
,
penetrates
their
hearts
,
and
in
them
inkindles
a
fire
,
breaks
all
the
fetters
of
their
souls
,
tears
them
from
their
bodies
,
and
carries
them
away
with
main
force
.
By
this
Spirit
was
that
Pelagia
of
Antioch
Transported
,
of
whom
S.
Ambrose
hath
left
us
so
fair
a
Picture
.
Perceiving
her self
besieged
by
Enemies
which
attempted
more
upon
her
Chastity
,
then
her
Faith
;
she
threw
her self
down
into
a
Precipice
,
with
all
the
Ornaments
and
Jewels
wherewith
she
had
Adorned
her self
,
to
render
Honour
to
her
Death
,
and
add
Grace
to
her
Courage
.
With
the
same
Spirit
her
Mother
and
Sisters
were
possessed
,
when
pursued
by
the
same
Enemies
,
they
cast
themselves
into
a
River
,
and
there
quenched
by
Death
the
wicked
Fires
of
their
Lascivious
Pursuers
.
A
Maid
of
Alexandria
possessed
with
the
same
Spirit
,
having
been
informed
of
the
mischief
which
her
Eyes
,
though
otherwise
reserved
and
modest
,
had
done
to
a
young
Man
,
she
tore
them
out
of
her
Head
,
and
sent
them
to
the
sick
Person
,
to
the
end
he
might
inflict
such
punishment
on
them
,
as
he
should
think
good
;
or
at
least
that
he
might
heal
with
their
blood
,
the
wound
they
had
given
him
.
Blanch
of
Ros●●
Transported
with
the
same
Spirit
,
wrested
her self
out
of
the
hands
of
the
Tyrant
Acciolin
,
and
cast
her self
headlong
from
a
Window
.
The
same
Spirit
blew
the
flaming
Fire-brand
which
Mary
Cornelia
,
the
Wife
of
Iohn
C●rda
,
thrust
down
into
her
body
to
quench
a
dangerous
Fire
,
which
Age
and
Occasions
began
there
to
inkindle
:
And
this
Example
of
Vertue
was
given
to
Spain
in
the
time
of
Peter
the
Cruel
,
and
Mary
Padilla
,
That
is
to
say
,
under
the
Raign
of
Adulteries
,
and
in
the
Age
of
Libertie
.
We
ought
to
believe
for
the
love
of
Vertue
,
and
in
Honour
of
these
Christian
Heroesses
,
that
there
was
some
Spark
of
Divine
fire
in
these
bold
Attemps
;
and
that
the
Spirit
which
transported
them
,
came
from
above
,
and
from
a
purer
Spring
then
that
which
forms
the
Raptures
which
we
may
follow
,
and
the
Examples
which
are
lawful
for
us
to
imitate
.
Those
are
not
for
every
day
;
nor
for
the
use
of
all
sorts
of
Persons
.
Besides
,
God
doth
not
send
Angels
to
all
sorts
of
Persons
;
nor
every
day
creates
new
Stars
:
And
unless
we
have
an
Angel
for
guid
,
and
a
new
Star
to
follow
,
it
would
be
a
rash
attempt
to
walk
upon
the
Sea
,
and
to
chuse
a
Precipice
for
our
way
.
The
ensuing
Example
is
not
of
these
Extraordinary
Ones
;
yet
is
it
of
the
great
and
Heroick
▪
And
if
there
be
any
thing
of
Transport
,
it
proceeds
from
an
even
Spirit
,
and
which
is
not
raised
but
regularly
,
and
by
usual
and
beaten
Tracks
.
EXAMPLE
.
The
Chaste
Venetian
Woman
.
IT
is
true
that
Vertue
finds
Adversaries
everywhere
:
and
even
in
those
places
where
she
is
in
este●m
and
habituated
,
her
Peace
is
full
of
trouble
and
agitation
;
and
her
Repose
unquiet
and
interrupted
.
Nevertheless
there
are
Countries
of
War
,
and
as
it
were
Frontier
Regions
,
where
she
is
exposed
to
the
Incursions
and
attempts
of
her
Enemies
.
And
in
these
Regions
she
ought
to
be
more
Resolute
and
Warlike
,
then
elsewhere
:
She
ought
to
be
expert
in
all
sorts
of
Combats
,
and
prepared
for
all
manner
of
Events
:
She
ought
to
be
almost
continually
upon
her
Guard
,
and
in
Arms.
Faith
and
Chastity
,
which
are
neighbouring
upon
Infidels
and
Barbarians
,
have
need
of
this
preparation
of
Courage
,
and
of
this
exposed
and
continuall
Discipline
.
It
is
likewise
from
those
Countries
these
Heroick
and
Victorious
Vertues
come
to
us
,
which
Triumph
every
year
in
the
Church
,
and
do
honour
to
our
Annals
▪
And
a
great
number
of
other
Vertues
,
besides
those
,
are
come
from
thence
,
which
have
not
fought
less
Couragiously
,
nor
overcome
with
less
Force
;
though
their
Combats
have
not
made
so
much
noise
,
no●
the
Church
hath
Celebrated
their
Victories
.
I
place
amongst
this
number
the
Victorious
Captive
,
which
hath
been
newly
represented
in
this
Picture
.
And
because
she
was
a
Subject
to
the
Republick
of
Veni●●
,
I
conceived
that
to
fit
her
with
a
known
Companion
sutable
to
her
,
it
was
necessary
to
joyn
with
this
Gallant
Woman
,
the
Daughter
of
Paul
〈◊〉
,
who
trumphed
over
Ma●omet
,
and
the
S●raglio
,
at
the
taking
of
〈◊〉
,
as
this
other
had
done
over
Mustapha
and
Porta
,
at
the
taking
of
〈◊〉
.
It
is
credible
that
Gods
indignation
was
great
when
he
abandoned
〈◊〉
to
the
Ottomans
.
And
Iniquity
must
needs
have
been
Enormous
and
Consummated
,
which
deserved
that
the
Mistress
of
Arts
and
Sciences
,
and
the
Mother
of
so
many
Saints
should
be
put
in
Chains
.
Yet
this
was
her
Lot
;
and
hitherto
no
man
hath
been
found
to
set
her
at
liberty
.
Moh●met
the
Second
slept
not
in
this
occasion
;
he
managed
all
the
moments
thereof
,
and
made
so
good
use
of
the
division
amongst
Christians
,
as
in
a
short
time
be
disarmed
all
his
Neighbours
,
and
made
himself
Master
of
those
places
which
might
restore
liberty
to
Greece
.
The
Island
of
N●grepont
which
belonged
to
the
Venetians
,
was
first
assaulted
.
Basha
Ma●●●●t
begirt
it
with
a
Fleet
of
three
hundred
Sail
:
and
Mahomet
followed
by
sixscore
thousand
men
,
entred
it
by
a
Bridge
which
he
commanded
to
be
made
over
the
●●rippa
,
and
Besieged
the
Metropolitan
City
by
Land
.
It
was
to
defend
it self
against
Treason
,
and
force
Intelligences
and
Assaults
.
And
doubtless
strength
would
have
overcome
as
well
as
Treason
,
and
the
Assaults
would
not
have
proved
more
successful
then
Intelligences
,
if
General
Ca●●●●●
,
who
commanded
the
Venetian
Fleet
,
had
but
let
Fortune
alone
,
and
made
use
of
the
Courage
and
Vessel
of
two
Ca●lea●
Gentlemen
,
who
offered
themselves
to
go
break
down
the
Bridge
which
was
erected
over
the
●●rippa
.
The
City
then
was
taken
in
the
sight
,
and
by
the
error
of
this
Faint-Hearted
and
Timerous
Wise
man
.
●he
dust
and
noise
of
the
Demolishe●d
Walls
,
the
Crys
and
Blood
of
the
Citizens
went
to
reproach
him
as
Far
as
his
ship
.
And
the
unhappy
Spectator
of
the
Peoples
Ruin
,
whom
with
a
little
Courage
he
might
have
saved
,
retired
,
turning
his
back
to
the
Reputation
he
abandoned
,
and
to
the
Smoak
of
the
Island
which
followed
him
afar
off
upon
the
sea
.
The
Booty
was
very
great
for
the
Conquerors
:
but
the
Cruelty
of
the
Victorious
was
far
greater
upon
the
Vanquished
.
Pyramides
were
made
of
their
Heads
at
the
Gate
of
the
Church
,
and
in
the
publick
places
:
and
their
Bodies
being
cast
into
the
Channel
,
spred
far
with
their
blood
a
doleful
and
pittifull
relation
of
their
Misfortune
.
Paul
〈◊〉
Governour
of
the
Island
,
had
done
and
undertaken
during
the
Siege
,
all
that
an
Expert
and
Disciplined
Valour
was
able
to
Effect
;
all
that
Courage
could
attempt
when
Religion
enflames
it
,
and
Despair
transports
it
:
He
held
out
longer
then
the
Towers
and
Bulwarks
:
and
stood
upright
after
their
Fall
.
He
fought
upon
the
Ruins
and
Ashes
of
a
Conquered
City
:
And
they
could
not
have
gained
it
but
by
Composition
and
promising
him
life
.
But
Mahomet
was
so
far
from
keeping
this
promise
,
that
he
had
the
Cruelty
to
command
his
body
to
be
saw●●
a
two
.
Besides
he
added
Rallery
to
his
Cruelty
,
as
Tyrants
cast
Salt
into
Fire
,
and
Vineger
into
Wounds
:
And
said
to
him
,
with
a
bitter
and
barbarous
Equivocation
,
that
leaving
him
his
head
,
for
which
he
stood
ingaged
,
he
might
dispose
of
the
rest
at
his
discretion
without
any
breach
of
Faith
.
This
so
strange
and
Tragical
Punishment
was
the
Triumph
of
Paul
●rici
,
and
afforded
him
more
solid
Glory
,
then
four
Towns
taken
,
and
as
many
Battels
won
could
have
done
.
It
may
be
well
believed
,
that
having
overcome
like
a
Martyr
,
he
received
also
the
Palm
of
Martyrdom
;
and
that
the
saw
of
the
Turkish
Tyrant
fashion'd
him
a
Crown
of
the
same
Form
like
those
which
heretofore
were
made
by
the
Racks
and
Wheels
of
Heathen
Tyrants
.
His
Glory
nevertheless
was
not
without
confusion
:
And
what
Faith
soever
Fortified
him
against
Death
,
he
dyed
not
without
great
Apprehension
.
The
honour
of
his
Daughter
,
whom
he
left
a
Prisoner
mix'd
confusion
with
his
Glory
:
And
he
more
feared
the
love
and
kindness
of
Mahomet
towards
her
,
then
his
Fury
and
Tortures
against
himself
.
This
excellent
Maid
had
not
then
her
Equal
in
any
kinde
of
Perfection
:
And
all
the
treasures
of
the
Republick
could
not
have
ransomed
her
at
the
●●ate
of
her
Worth
.
Nature
produceth
every
day
precious
Stones
and
Pearls
:
She
works
every
day
in
gold
and
silver
:
But
rarely
is
it
her
chance
to
●orm
accomplished
Persons
:
and
her
Work
merits
praise
,
when
she
makes
but
one
in
a
whole
Age.
Even
when
her
Designs
were
most
neat
and
regular
,
and
that
Matter
retained
still
its
first
purity
,
she
was
not
so
exact
,
nor
exprest
so
much
care
in
perfecting
her
Works
.
And
when
now
adays
she
finishes
some
rare
piece
,
Men
ought
to
come
in
crowds
to
see
it
,
as
they
do
to
see
Miracles
:
it
ought
to
be
in
History
a
mark
of
Honour
to
her
Age.
This
Noble
Venetain
Woman
was
one
of
these
extraordinary
Works
:
And
the
eyes
of
the
greatest
Criticks
in
the
World
could
observe
nothing
in
her
but
rare
and
accomplished
:
nothing
which
was
not
becomming
with
Dignity
,
and
Majestical
with
Grace
.
On
a
sudden
likewise
she
dazels
the
eyes
of
those
that
offered
to
sei●e
on
her
:
and
this
dark
mist
being
followed
with
a
kinde
of
veneration
,
was
like
to
have
made
them
adore
their
Prey
.
But
as
soon
as
this
amazement
was
over
,
they
approach
to
her
with
barbarous
respects
,
and
a
stupid
and
stammering
Civility
.
They
strive
to
make
her
understand
that
no
hurt
should
be
done
▪
that
they
would
conduct
her
to
a
place
where
she
should
be
free
and
honoured
;
And
as
they
advanced
to
lay
hands
on
her
:
Barbarians
,
saith
she
,
in
thrusting
them
back
,
whither
will
you
lead
me
,
and
for
what
new
adventure
do
you
reserve
me
?
I
should
die
here
more
nobly
and
better
contented
:
And
my
Blood
will
not
be
more
pleasing
and
gratefull
in
another
place
.
Be
not
more
merciless
concerning
me
,
then
you
have
been
in
massacring
so
many
Innocents
:
Commit
at
least
a
murther
handsomly
after
so
many
perpetrated
with
cruelty
:
And
permit
one
stain
of
Clemency
in
your
Victory
,
and
upon
your
Armes
.
They
will
receive
no
dishonour
by
it
,
nor
will
the
Spoil
become
less
precious
.
She
had
persisted
farther
,
but
two
Basha's
arrived
,
who
remonstrated
to
her
that
she
was
not
strong
enough
to
resist
Fortune
,
nor
to
alter
the
right
of
War
,
which
had
given
her
to
their
Prince
:
That
she
need
apprehend
nothing
in
his
Victory
:
That
it
was
not
against
those
of
her
Sex
and
Merit
he
was
armed
:
That
he
knew
how
to
punish
and
pardon
seasonably
,
and
to
place
Rigour
and
Clemency
in
their
just
postures
:
That
it
would
be
her
best
course
to
permit
them
to
bring
her
before
him
,
and
to
remit
the
rest
to
the
disposure
of
Fortune
.
These
words
did
not
perswade
her
▪
but
she
submitted
her self
to
the
present
necessity
,
which
she
could
not
inforce
;
and
suffered
her self
to
be
led
before
Mahomet
.
Not
being
ignorant
to
what
danger
they
exposed
her
,
and
what
assistances
she
needed
in
the
conflict
she
was
to
undergo
,
she
prayed
in
silence
and
with
tears
by
the
way
:
And
besought
of
God
the
Spirit
of
Fortitude
and
Councel
,
which
make
Martyrs
,
and
reserve
Virgins
.
The
voice
of
her
tears
was
heard
:
God
sent
her
the
Spirit
she
desired
:
And
fortified
by
this
succour
,
she
marched
with
a
confident
look
,
and
a
resolute
countenance
and
more
like
a
Conqueress
then
a
Captive
.
She
lost
nothing
of
this
confidence
before
Mahomet
;
and
there
was
no
more
alteration
in
the
resolution
of
her
Countenance
then
in
that
of
her
heart
.
On
the
contrary
,
she
appeared
with
a
more
then
usual
Majesty
.
And
the
presence
of
her
Enemy
made
a
certain
haughty
and
disdainful
blush
come
upon
Her
,
together
with
a
Fierceness
,
yet
Modest
,
and
becoming
,
which
contributed
Force
to
Sweetness
,
and
added
Dignity
to
Grace
.
This
Fierceness
wrought
not
the
same
effect
as
she
intended
.
Mahomet
,
whom
she
thought
to
Irritate
,
esteemed
her
the
more
;
and
took
this
alteration
for
a
Tincture
of
Noble
Blood
,
and
for
an
effusion
of
those
Spirits
which
beget
Courage
.
At
the
taking
of
Constantinople
there
was
found
a
young
Grecian
Woman
called
〈◊〉
,
who
had
triumph'd
over
the
Conquerour
,
and
rendred
him
Her
Slave
The
Basha's
disliked
this
Triumph
of
a
Captive
,
&
this
Servitude
Victorious
over
their
Master
;
and
complained
of
it
with
injurious
Terms
,
and
mixt
with
Rallery
.
Mahomet
to
procure
a
cessation
to
these
complaints
of
his
Basha's
,
and
to
evidence
to
them
that
he
knew
as
well
how
to
overcome
his
Passions
as
to
take
Towns
,
in
the
sight
of
the
whole
Army
,
at
one
blow
,
struck
off
the
Head
of
his
Innocent
and
Unhappy
Mistress
.
And
this
Tragical
Execution
,
followed
with
a
barbarous
sadness
,
induced
him
to
take
an
Oath
,
by
which
he
obliged
himself
to
●ex
a
guard
upon
his
Heart
for
the
future
,
and
to
preserve
it
from
a
second
Bondage
.
This
Tragedy
and
Oath
returned
into
his
minde
at
the
sight
of
this
Chaste
Vanetian
But
this
Object
was
more
powerful
then
the
fidelity
of
his
Oath
,
and
the
apprehension
of
a
second
Tragedy
.
He
valued
not
the
taking
of
Nygrep●●●
but
by
the
taking
of
the
Maid
:
And
though
he
were
passionatly
enamoured
of
Rh●●es
and
fair
Italy
;
yet
the
Conquest
of
them
both
,
could
not
have
given
him
more
satisfaction
.
To
the
end
he
might
make
a
breach
into
her
Heart
,
and
become
Master
of
her
Soul
,
as
he
conceived
himself
to
be
of
her
Body
:
he
●aid
to
her
in
Magnificent
terms
which
rellished
both
of
a
Conquerour
and
Pretender
:
That
it
being
her
lot
to
Fall
with
a
City
which
had
a
minde
to
be
destroyed
,
she
could
not
Fall
more
happily
then
into
his
hands
:
And
that
Fortune
knew
no
better
way
to
raise
her
,
then
by
this
Fall
:
that
he
desired
nothing
but
her
consent
,
to
render
her
the
most
happy
of
her
Sex
and
Age
;
and
to
exalt
her
to
a
Seat
,
where
she
should
have
all
the
Sergnory
of
Venice
and
all
Italy
under
her
Feet
.
That
Riches
and
Glory
were
at
her
disposure
:
that
he
was
the
Distributer
of
Scepters
and
Crowns
:
that
God
and
his
Prophet
had
sent
him
to
rule
the
Destinies
of
Kings
,
and
the
Fortune
of
Nations
:
that
she
must
bid
adieu
to
the
resentment
which
the
loss
of
her
Friends
had
caused
in
her
:
that
such
was
the
order
of
the
World
,
and
the
disposition
of
Affairs
,
as
little
losses
were
to
usher
along
great
Advantages
:
that
she
must
not
expect
that
Fortune
should
be
more
Indulgent
then
Nature
,
which
causeth
not
Harvest
to
arrive
till
after
the
Seed
.
The
Couragious
and
wise
Captive
forced
her
Patience
till
then
:
But
as
soon
as
he
came
to
boast
to
her
of
the
Magnificence
and
Pleasures
of
his
Seragl●●
;
of
the
Glory
and
Felicity
of
his
S●●tanesses
;
and
when
he
added
,
That
if
she
were
disposed
to
comply
with
his
Will
,
he
would
make
her
the
Mistress
of
his
S●●tanesses
,
and
the
Queen
of
his
Seraglio
.
I
am
a
Christian
,
replyed
she
very
pertly
,
and
a
Gentlewoman
,
I
know
no
hope
of
Rega●●●y
,
nor
fear
of
Punishments
which
can
perswade
me
to
do
any
thing
contrary
to
the
Promise
of
my
Baptism
,
or
against
the
Dignity
of
my
Vertue
.
To
this
Profession
of
Faith
,
and
of
Honour
,
delivered
in
so
Affirmative
terms
,
and
with
a
Tone
of
Protestation
and
Authority
,
Mahomet
replyed
▪
I
perceive
very
wel
the
cause
of
all
this
;
you
are
yet
astonish'd
with
your
Fall
:
and
the
Smoak
of
this
Unfortunate
City
,
which
you
still
retain
in
your
Eyes
,
hinders
you
from
seeing
the
Good
which
is
offered
you
;
But
I
hope
you
will
recover
this
Amazement
;
and
that
after
the
Dissipation
of
this
Smoak
,
you
will
look
more
cheerfully
upon
your
good
Fortune
.
Having
said
this
,
he
retired
,
and
left
her
to
his
Eunuchs
,
who
were
commanded
to
have
a
great
care
of
her
and
to
dispose
her
to
better
Councels
.
They
conducted
her
to
a
Pavilion
,
where
all
I●dia
seemed
to
be
with
all
her
Gold
and
Precious
Stones
:
having
about
them
so
Magnificent
proofs
of
their
Masters
Power
,
they
failed
not
to
use
far
more
Magnificent
Exaggerations
;
and
to
add
Immense
and
Unlimited
Promises
to
so
glorious
a
Spectacle
.
They
gave
her
in
little
,
a
Model
of
the
Seraglio
:
but
this
Model
in
little
,
was
greater
then
the
real
one
:
It
was
composed
of
sumptuous
Delusions
,
and
glorious
Dreams
:
and
it
cost
them
nothing
to
build
it
with
Carved
Gold
,
and
Fosset
Diamonds
.
The
most
Magnificent
Poesie
could
not
describe
so
much
as
these
Vain
people
had
set
forth
in
Hyperboles
and
Promises
.
And
according
to
their
words
,
if
she
would
consent
to
the
Will
of
Mahomet
,
she
should
tread
upon
Scepters
and
Crowns
;
she
should
be
possessed
with
all
the
Goods
of
Fortune
.
But
all
these
Painted
and
Boasted
Riches
coming
out
of
their
mouths
,
were
Dissipated
by
the
Winde
which
formed
them
,
and
reached
not
so
far
as
the
Ears
of
the
Victorious
Ca●●●ve
.
Her
minde
was
fixed
on
more
Transcendent
Promises
,
and
more
Solide
and
durable
Grandeurs
:
And
Faith
had
so
deeply
imprinted
in
her
imagination
the
Wedding
of
the
Lamb
,
the
Crowns
prepared
for
prudent
Virgines
,
and
the
Eternal
Rejection
of
the
Foolish
,
that
she
saw
neither
the
Pomps
of
the
Seraglio
which
were
shewn
her
,
nor
the
Delights
of
the
Sultanesses
wherewith
they
endeavoured
to
Enamour
her
.
These
troublesom
people
being
retired
to
leave
her
a
little
Repose
,
it
came
into
her
thoughts
,
that
perchance
the
moment
of
Liberty
was
procured
for
her
by
her
Good
Angel
,
to
the
end
by
an
advanced
and
Couragious
Death
,
she
might
break
her
Chain
:
she
might
Triumph
over
Mahomet
&
Fortune
,
and
rid
her self
in
an
instant
of
those
Fears
which
possessed
her
,
and
of
those
Vain
Hopes
which
they
laboured
to
infuse
into
her
.
The
Occasion
was
fair
,
and
the
Means
Specious
&
Magnificent
.
There
was
a
Table
in
the
Pavilion
Composed
of
Precious
Stones
,
and
certain
great
Vessels
Enameled
with
Gold
:
therewere
about
her
Red
some
Silken
strings
which
might
serve
for
this
Execution
,
and
offered
her
a
Death
as
Compleat
and
Noble
,
as
a
Dagger
,
Fire
,
P●ecipice
,
or
a
Cord
could
have
effected
.
She
useth
up
with
this
thought
,
and
viewing
those
stately
pieces
of
Barbarous
Excess
,
as
if
she
deliberated
upon
the
choice
of
that
which
was
to
set
her
at
liberty
▪
For
what
,
saith
she
,
dost
thou
Captive
and
Inchained
Virginity
reserve
thy self
?
Dost
thou
reserve
thy self
for
Martyrdom
?
and
dost
thou
think
thy self
strong
enough
to
overcome
Death
,
accompanied
with
all
its
Torments
,
and
armed
with
all
its
Engines
?
But
what
if
the
occasion
of
Martyrdom
be
taken
from
thee
?
What
if
thou
hast
no
Death
to
Contest
with
?
What
if
the
Tyrant
doth
only
attempt
upon
thy
Honour
?
What
if
he
attaqu●s
with
violences
,
which
stain
,
without
taking
away
thy
life
?
O
Captive
and
Inchaind
Virginity
!
With
what
Weapons
wilt
thou
defend
thy self
against
these
Violences
?
Why
wilt
thou
remit
thy
Liberty
to
an
uncertain
Death
,
which
perchance
will
not
arrive
till
thy
Honour
be
lost
,
having
so
assured
and
ready
,
so
Innocent
and
pure
a
Means
in
thy
power
?
This
vain
shew
of
Riches
,
is
a
Snare
laid
for
thee
:
go
no
farther
to
seek
thy
Freedom
:
it
expects
thee
there
.
Gold
is
as
hard
as
Iron
.
A
blow
from
these
Vessels
may
as
well
break
thy
Chain
in
pieces
,
as
the
stroke
of
a
Sword
:
and
if
thou
art
well
resolved
to
dye
,
there
are
Rocks
for
thee
;
there
is
a
Precipice
at
the
corner
of
this
Table
.
God
will
pardon
necessity
;
and
excuse
so
just
a
Violence
.
He
hath
heretofore
Inspired
&
Crowned
the
like
.
And
the
Church
Honours
those
Saints
which
drowned
themselves
to
purchase
Salvation
,
who
have
ascended
into
Heaven
by
a
Precipice
.
But
what
am
I
,
that
attribute
Inspirations
to
my self
,
and
rank
my self
amongst
the
Saints
?
From
whom
have
I
learned
to
discern
Spirits
a●d
their
Motions
?
Do
I
know
of
what
colour
that
Spirit
is
who
sollicites
me
?
And
if
he
be
a
Spirit
of
Imposture
and
indisguise
;
If
what
I
take
for
Zeal
,
be
Despair
;
Whither
will
this
Despair
carry
me
,
and
under
the
Conduct
of
this
Spirit
of
Imposture
,
but
to
the
Unhappy
end
of
the
Foolish
Virgines
?
Let
us
leave
Uncertainty
to
the
Providence
of
God
:
since
he
is
a
Jealous
God
,
he
will
take
into
his
care
the
Honour
of
his
Spouses
.
And
if
heretofore
he
deprived
Fire
of
Heat
,
and
suspended
the
hunger
of
Lyons
,
well
may
he
extinguish
,
if
he
please
,
the
Ardour
of
the
Tyrant
,
and
suspend
his
Concupiscence
.
This
Resolution
was
followed
with
a
Prayer
,
which
came
more
from
her
heart
then
her
lips
,
and
into
which
there
entred
more
Faith
then
Words
.
However
she
was
quickly
interrupted
by
the
Eu●a●chs
,
who
came
to
bring
her
to
Mahomet
,
whose
new
Passion
could
allow
him
no
Repose
.
The
contempt
of
his
Captive
had
incensed
him
:
it
troubled
him
that
amongst
the
Ruins
and
Ashes
of
a
Sack'd
Town
,
any
thing
should
be
found
more
powerful
then
his
Victory
;
greater
and
more
sublime
then
his
Fortune
.
And
he
would
not
have
it
said
,
that
a
Maid
,
nay
an
Unarm'd
and
Inchained
Maid
,
had
held
out
against
him
,
after
the
taking
of
so
many
places
,
after
the
Defeat
of
so
many
Fleets
and
Armies
.
Nevertheless
he
tempered
himself
in
her
Presence
,
and
renewed
to
her
the
same
Promises
,
augmented
with
boundless
and
unreserved
Additions
:
But
this
second
Battery
shook
her
as
little
as
the
former
:
and
as
the
Tyrant
prepared
himself
to
add
Violence
to
his
Promises
,
the
Couragious
Maid
put
him
back
with
a
fierceness
both
in
Countenance
and
Action
,
which
manifested
that
she
was
able
to
hold
out
against
his
Violence
,
as
against
his
Promises
;
and
that
he
could
neither
gain
her
by
Composition
nor
Force
.
It
is
very
true
,
that
Love
is
Impatient
and
Stately
upon
Crowned
Heads
:
that
it
is
soft
,
and
easily
wounded
in
hearts
accustomed
to
Overcome
.
The
Heart
of
Mahomet
being
mortally
wounded
by
this
Action
,
gave
way
to
Anger
,
which
is
never
more
Furious
or
Terrible
,
then
when
it
comes
in
the
Rear
of
a
Potent
Love
And
Mahomet
Transported
with
this
second
Passion
,
laid
his
hand
upon
his
Cymeter
,
and
with
one
blow
Crowned
the
Captive
,
broke
her
Chain
,
and
struck
off
her
Head
.
This
Victory
was
not
in
the
time
of
the
Primitive
Church
:
yet
it
is
no
less
Illustrious
then
those
of
that
Age.
Mahomet
the
Conquerour
was
as
Redoutable
as
Nero
the
Esseminate
:
and
his
Tent
was
a
Field
of
Battel
no
less
dangerous
then
an
Amphitheater
.
Ladies
ought
to
learn
from
hence
,
that
Heroick
Chastity
hath
her
Enthusiasms
and
Raptures
:
And
these
Enthusiasms
and
Raptures
ought
to
master
all
Fears
and
Hopes
:
These
Raptures
ought
to
surmount
all
that
is
both
Delightful
and
Terrifying
:
But
they
ought
never
to
Precipitate
her
,
if
the
Holy
Ghost
doth
not
transport
her
,
and
if
she
be
not
excited
by
a
Forreign
Violence
.
MARIE
Stuart
Reyne
d'Escosse
seussre
le
Martyre
pour
la
Foy
:
et
par
la
constance
〈…〉
temps
,
les
exemples
de
l'ancienne
E●hse
.
〈…〉
Mary
Stewart
.
YOu
will
scarce
believe
what
you
are
going
to
see
:
And
what
testimony
soever
your
eyes
render
to
the
truth
of
this
Tragical
Spectacle
,
you
will
give
them
more
then
once
the
lye
,
and
suspect
something
of
Illusion
or
Imposture
.
Truly
a
holy
Criminal
,
and
an
executed
Queen
,
is
a
strange
Fantome
:
And
it
is
a
more
prodigious
thing
then
all
the
Prodigies
in
Fables
,
to
see
three
Kingdoms
dishonoured
upon
a
Scaffold
:
To
see
a
Head
which
hath
born
two
Crowns
,
laid
under
the
Ax
of
an
Executioner
.
The
Tragedy
is
not
only
Inhumane
but
Monstrous
:
And
yet
England
applauds
this
horrid
Act
,
which
will
be
deplored
by
all
Europe
.
Mary
,
heretofore
Queen
of
France
,
and
at
present
Queen
of
Scotland
,
goes
to
die
upon
a
Scaffold
,
after
she
was
grown
old
in
Prison
.
Insolent
and
furious
Heresie
respects
in
this
fair
Head
,
neither
Regality
,
which
is
a
kinde
of
visible
and
commanding
Divinity
,
nor
Beauty
,
which
is
a
Soveraignty
by
naturall
Rights
,
and
a
Domination
without
violence
.
And
what
the
most
Barbarous
Antiquity
may
not
perchance
have
ever
seen
;
what
the
most
credulous
Posterity
will
peradventure
never
believe
;
all
the
Vertues
and
Graces
are
violated
in
her
Person
,
and
condemned
to
the
same
Punishment
.
She
goes
couragiously
to
it
,
and
with
a
Countenance
,
which
bears
still
the
mark
of
her
Dignity
,
and
the
Declaration
of
her
Innocence
.
She
preserved
them
both
after
the
loss
of
her
Kingdom
and
Liberty
;
and
Fortune
,
which
deprived
her
of
her
Subjects
,
and
is
going
to
deprive
her
of
Life
,
cannot
deprive
her
Heart
of
Soveraignty
,
nor
her
Looks
of
Authority
.
They
are
not
fastned
to
Her
,
they
are
born
with
Her
;
and
create
a
Majesty
independent
on
a
Crown
and
Purple
:
And
thereby
she
will
be
no
less
a
Queen
upon
a
Scaffold
,
then
she
hath
been
upon
a
Throne
.
You
do
not
behold
in
her
those
fair
Rayes
of
Beauty
and
Youth
,
which
were
heretofore
the
splendor
and
spectacle
of
the
Lo●vre
,
which
were
the
joy
and
serenity
of
all
France
.
But
at
least
you
see
her
not
dejected
by
her
mishap
,
nor
obscured
by
her
bad
Fortune
.
Her
greatness
appears
all
entire
,
now
that
the
steps
and
footstool
are
taken
from
her
:
And
if
her
lights
were
then
more
pleasing
and
lively
,
those
at
present
are
more
vigorous
,
and
less
apt
to
be
extinguished
:
Her
Adversities
have
not
only
fortified
,
but
rendred
her
far
greater
:
and
the
Admirers
of
her
Beauty
,
who
heretofore
called
her
the
Sun
of
the
North
,
and
the
Planet
of
the
Sea
,
did
not
foresee
that
her
Vertue
would
resemble
the
Sun
and
Planets
,
which
appear
greater
through
a
Mist
,
then
in
a
most
pure
serenity
,
and
without
a
Cloud
.
Her
white
Haires
which
you
see
,
are
not
occasioned
by
Age
,
they
proceed
from
Afflictions
and
Persecutions
.
They
are
caused
by
unkind
Kindred
,
and
bad
Subjects
.
They
come
from
Elizabeth
and
her
Ministers
:
And
if
this
be
very
unworthy
,
it
is
little
less
strange
,
that
so
beautifull
a
Head
should
grow
white
before
its
time
,
under
so
many
hands
imployed
to
darken
it
.
But
this
whiteness
is
no
dishonour
to
her
,
nor
lessens
any
thing
of
her
Grace
.
Innocence
and
Wisdom
are
of
this
colour
:
And
even
Majesty
it self
is
seen
sometimes
adorned
thereby
,
and
rendred
more
Venerable
and
August
.
Would
you
believe
that
those
persons
who
brought
her
to
this
violent
Death
by
a
precipitated
old
Age
,
do
not
he
bitter
upon
her
heart
,
nor
disturb
the
Calm
of
her
mind
?
So
clean
contrary
,
that
she
hath
laid
the
very
remembrance
of
their
Injuries
at
the
foot
of
the
Cross
:
She
hath
retired
her
thoughts
from
all
objects
which
might
exasperate
them
:
She
called
them
back
from
all
places
whence
any
succour
or
pitty
might
arrive
to
her
:
and
hath
deposited
them
all
with
her
Heart
and
Faith
,
in
the
wounds
of
the
Soveraign
Patient
,
who
assisted
her
during
her
imprisonment
,
and
at
present
assists
and
fortifies
her
against
Death
,
by
the
Image
and
Vertue
of
his
Passion
.
He
encourages
her
with
the
Voyce
of
his
Blood
,
&
speaks
to
her
by
as
many
Mouths
as
he
hath
wounds
.
He
arms
her
with
his
Thorns
and
Nails
:
He
covers
her
with
his
Cross
,
which
is
to
her
an
invincible
&
sacred
Shield
;
a
Shield
which
could
not
be
pierced
by
all
the
Darts
of
her
bad
Fortune
;
nor
shal
it
be
by
the
Ax
it self
of
the
Executioner
which
will
chop
off
her
Head
.
Vnder
the
protection
of
this
Shield
,
and
at
the
sight
of
this
Example
,
she
marcheth
couragiously
to
Death
:
And
though
a
Queen
,
and
Innocent
,
it
seems
not
harsh
to
her
to
pass
through
the
hands
of
an
Executioner
,
having
before
her
eyes
,
a
God
executed
,
and
Innocence
Crucified
.
Can
you
confide
so
much
in
your
eyes
,
as
to
expose
them
to
this
lamentable
spectacle
?
Mine
,
wounded
before
the
stroke
,
flie
back
,
not
to
behold
any
more
of
it
.
Yet
I
must
enforce
them
to
see
All.
The
last
Rayes
of
the
setting
Sun
are
the
fairest
:
And
the
last
drops
of
blood
great
Souls
pour
forth
,
are
more
sparkling
then
the
rest
;
and
have
something
,
I
know
not
what
,
of
more
Vigorous
and
Noble
.
Surely
this
Action
must
needs
be
extreamly
black
,
since
endeavours
were
used
to
hide
it
from
the
light
.
But
the
obscurities
to
which
they
exposed
it
,
will
not
give
it
a
better
gloss
;
and
doubtless
if
they
were
capable
of
sense
,
they
would
fear
to
be
stained
by
it
.
You
would
say
that
these
Torches
do
not
contribute
thereto
their
light
but
with
regret
:
You
would
say
that
in
despite
they
produce
nothing
but
shadow
and
smoke
.
The
Hall
is
full
of
Spectators
,
and
hung
with
black
Velvet
:
And
not
so
much
as
the
fatal
Scaffold
,
but
is
set
forth
with
the
stately
mourning
of
this
barbarous
.
Tragedy
to
which
it
served
.
The
cruel
Ministers
of
so
cruel
an
Action
,
thought
to
sweeten
Injustice
,
&
civilize
Cruelty
;
they
thought
to
appease
violated
Majesty
;
and
to
abuse
the
Patient
by
this
vain
and
sumptuous
Hypocrisie
.
They
ought
to
know
,
that
Pomp
and
Ostentation
do
not
justifie
Crimes
;
that
artificial
&
specious
Cruelty
is
no
other
Fury
then
naked
&
unpolished
Cruelty
:
And
that
the
voice
of
blood
causeth
it self
to
be
no
less
heard
upon
Velvet
Carpets
then
upon
the
bare
ground
.
I
need
not
shew
these
cruel
Ministers
unto
you
.
They
are
discernable
enough
by
the
greediness
of
their
eyes
thirsting
after
blood
,
and
by
the
impatience
and
fierceness
of
their
looks
.
To
see
the
attention
they
afford
this
spectacle
,
you
would
say
that
every
one
of
them
is
the
Executioner
:
That
every
one
is
ready
to
give
the
blow
with
his
eyes
:
and
that
this
blow
was
designed
against
the
Head
of
the
Catholique
Church
,
and
not
against
the
Queen
of
Scotland
.
All
the
other
Spectators
,
in
whose
hearts
there
remains
some
tincture
of
Humanity
,
detest
this
cruel
Example
.
And
as
many
Tears
as
they
shed
,
are
as
many
Voyces
and
Imprecations
against
those
that
both
advised
,
and
put
it
in
execution
.
But
the
voice
of
just
blood
unjustly
spilt
,
will
shortly
make
a
greater
noise
.
It
will
be
heard
by
all
People
and
Ages
;
it
will
be
the
eternall
malediction
of
that
person
who
so
unworthily
violates
Nature
in
a
Kinswoman
,
Majesty
in
a
Queen
,
Hospitality
towards
a
Refugiate
,
and
Adversity
it self
in
an
unfortunate
Creature
,
consecrated
by
more
then
twenty
years
of
misery
.
You
see
her
kneeling
before
the
Executioner
:
but
you
see
not
her
soul
already
elevated
in
the
presence
of
God
,
where
by
advance
it
takes
possession
of
the
●hrone
prepared
for
her
.
Her
despairing
Women
are
on
their
knees
with
her
,
as
if
her
condemnation
were
theirs
,
and
that
they
were
to
die
by
her
Death
.
The
fatal
Ax
hath
pierced
their
souls
,
and
the
blood
tricles
down
by
their
eyes
upon
the
ground
.
Their
sorrows
are
none
of
those
which
disturb
,
and
make
a
noise
:
It
deprived
them
of
motion
and
voice
,
even
of
the
sense
of
their
Sighs
and
Tears
:
And
in
the
condition
they
remain
,
I
see
nothing
which
resembles
them
,
but
those
●igures
of
Marble
,
which
seem
to
weep
no
less
then
Fountains
.
The
noble
and
couragious
Patient
,
with
a
serene
Countenance
beholds
this
sadness
in
her
Women
.
Her
Soul
elevated
above
the
inferiour
portion
,
is
no
longer
subject
unto
its
tempests
and
showers
,
to
its
sighs
and
tears
.
The
Clouds
of
Matter
begin
to
clear
up
about
her
,
and
she
already
casts
forth
certain
Rayes
of
advanced
glory
,
which
mingle
themselves
with
those
Angels
who
are
come
both
to
guide
her
,
and
give
a
beginning
to
her
Triumph
.
The
Crown
which
they
brought
her
,
is
not
of
the
same
matter
as
the
other
two
which
are
taken
from
her
:
No
Thorns
or
Reeds
enter
there
:
There
is
nothing
sharp
or
brittle
;
nothing
which
offends
or
burthens
:
And
it
is
not
an
Ornament
of
the
same
stuff
and
weaving
like
our
Diadems
,
which
serve
only
to
make
Slaves
glorious
,
and
proud
Mortals
miserable
.
It
is
a
Crown
of
solid
and
pure
Glory
:
It
is
independent
of
Fortune
,
and
stronger
then
Time
:
And
the
wise
Queen
,
who
understood
the
value
of
it
,
would
have
given
all
earthly
Crowns
to
possess
but
one
flower
of
it
.
Behold
with
what
stedfastness
of
mind
she
presents
her
Head
to
the
Executioner
,
to
receive
from
his
hand
this
glorious
Crown
.
But
stay
,
do
not
stain
your
eyes
with
the
murther
of
the
Innocent
.
God
will
have
an
account
of
the
least
drops
of
her
blood
:
And
wo
to
the
Hands
and
Hearts
;
wo
to
the
Mouths
and
Ears
;
wo
even
to
the
Eyes
,
in
which
any
stain
of
it
shall
be
found
.
SONNET
.
SHall
we
,
unmov'd
,
behold
the
Tragick
Sight
,
Where
Death
puts
out
this
fair
Scotch
Planet's
light
?
Shall
Honour
,
Justice
,
Law
,
see
Vertue
bleed
In
Mary's
Death
,
as
for
some
heynous
Deed
?
Her
Grief
's
Heroick
;
th'
Ax
no
Paleness
brings
Vpon
her
Blood
,
sprung
from
so
many
Kings
:
Her
Graces
speak
,
when
,
words
her
Tongue
denyes
,
Her
modest
Pride
endears
her
to
〈◊〉
Eyes
.
To
what
renown'd
Inchanter
do
we
ow
This
piece
of
wonder
?
From
this
Picture
grow
Joy
and
Regret
,
while
there
the
gazing
sight
Do's
from
a
torment
entertain
Delight
.
Art
,
by
a
gentle
force
,
surmounteth
clear
The
pitch
of
Nature
,
in
this
Pourtraict
;
where
A
Queen
that
's
Innocent
is
made
sustain
An
Endless
Death
,
without
affront
or
pain
.
Elogy
of
Mary
Stewart
.
I
Might
have
a
scruple
,
if
into
the
Elogy
I
am
going
to
make
of
Mary
Stewart
,
my
Pen
should
insert
her
Nobility
,
her
Beauty
,
her
Wit
,
her
Graces
and
Magnificence
.
Her
Picture
requires
far
better
Colours
and
more
Artificial
Touches
.
It
must
be
drawn
after
another
manner
then
that
of
〈◊〉
and
Cleopatra
:
Other
Incense
must
be
burnt
,
and
other
Crowns
placed
before
a
Martyr
,
then
upon
the
Altar
of
an
Idol
.
Besides
,
all
these
Titles
are
equivocal
Terms
;
and
properly
signifie
neither
Vertue
nor
Vice
.
Magnanimous
Persons
are
not
always
Nobly
born
:
And
a
great
Courage
is
not
ever
of
a
great
House
.
Cedars
and
Palms
grow
in
Vallies
:
Broom
and
Fern-Brakes
are
found
upon
Mountains
.
Beauty
is
rarely
Innocent
:
And
Graces
are
Flowers
which
may
have
an
ill
odour
and
grow
in
a
bad
Soyl.
Concerning
the
Elevation
and
Lights
of
the
Minde
,
they
are
common
both
to
Vertuous
and
Wicked
Persons
:
And
oftentimes
we
see
Comets
which
have
more
Fire
,
and
are
more
elevated
then
great
Planets
.
In
like
manner
Magnificence
is
a
Vertue
which
may
prove
unfaithful
and
Heretical
which
may
be
Imprudent
,
and
condemned
with
the
Foolish
Virgins
:
And
we
know
that
the
Piramides
of
Egypt
,
and
other
like
Wonders
have
been
erected
by
debauch●d
Women
.
Let
us
then
lay
aside
equivocal
Titles
and
ambiguous
Elogies
:
We
have
Proper
and
Formal
ones
.
Let
us
not
say
that
Mary
Stewart
was
descended
from
a
continued
Line
of
Kings
.
But
let
us
say
that
she
had
a
more
generous
Heart
,
a
more
Royal
Soul
,
and
Soveraign
Reason
,
then
all
the
Crowned
Kings
from
whom
she
derives
her
Extraction
.
Let
us
not
esteem
her
for
Beauty
,
which
is
common
to
the
Rose
and
the
Poppy
;
to
Chaste
,
and
Lascivious
Women
;
but
for
a
Vertuous
and
Disciplined
Beauty
of
good
Odour
and
Example
.
Let
us
neither
praise
her
Graces
nor
her
W●t
:
but
let
us
commend
the
Reservedness
and
Modesty
of
her
Graces
:
Let
us
praise
the
Discretion
,
Sweetness
,
and
Moderation
of
her
Minde
:
And
let
us
not
speak
of
her
Liberalities
,
or
say
that
they
were
judicious
and
well
Ordered
:
that
they
were
choice
,
and
disposed
with
Method
.
Let
us
say
,
that
she
understood
the
Art
and
Secret
of
a
Benefit
;
that
she
knew
how
to
give
with
Heart
and
Spirit
,
with
her
Countenance
and
Looks
.
And
that
after
Fortune
had
taken
all
from
her
,
she
continued
to
be
magnificent
in
Desire
and
Affection
;
and
to
make
great
Presents
with
slight
things
.
The
French
Muses
,
who
lived
in
her
time
,
failed
not
to
praise
this
part
of
her
Vertues
,
which
had
been
beneficial
to
them
,
and
done
honour
to
Learning
.
And
truly
they
would
have
shewed
themselves
very
ungratefull
if
they
had
not
praised
Her
.
It
was
no
fault
of
this
good
Princess
,
that
they
were
not
all
Rich
,
and
at
their
Ease
,
that
they
were
not
all
Apparelled
in
Cloth
of
Gold
,
and
lodged
in
the
Lourre
.
She
Treated
them
familiarly
and
as
her
Companions
:
she
recreated
her self
with
them
in
Prose
and
Verse
;
and
the
Sport
never
ended
without
some
Present
which
closed
up
the
Cadence
and
Periods
,
and
rendred
the
Stan●a's
harmonious
.
Concerning
Courage
which
was
her
Predominant
Vertue
,
and
gave
her
a
place
in
this
Gallery
,
it
appeared
in
France
,
Scotland
,
and
England
.
In
France
she
resisted
Prosperity
,
and
vanquished
Excess
and
Pleasures
,
which
some
have
conceived
much
harder
to
overcome
then
Grief
and
Afflictions
.
She
preserved
her self
from
the
Corruptions
of
the
Court
,
and
from
the
unwholsom
blasts
which
are
ingendred
by
ease
,
and
which
attend
a
plentifull
●ortune
.
She
conserved
her
Innocence
in
Greatness
:
And
what
is
little
less
then
new
Created
Planets
,
she
shewed
much
Modesty
under
a
great
Crown
,
and
upon
the
highest
Throne
of
the
World
a
most
eminent
Devotion
and
a
Consummated
Piety
.
But
because
Vertue
happy
and
at
ease
,
is
in
a
continual
Violence
;
and
that
violent
things
cannot
last
but
by
Miracle
:
God
who
made
choice
of
this
Princess
,
and
would
have
her
all
entit●
,
withdrew
her
out
of
Prosperity
,
which
in
length
of
time
might
have
corrupted
her
;
and
delivered
her
up
to
Adversity
,
which
Treated
her
as
a
Carver
Treats
Marble
:
And
depriving
her
sometimes
of
one
thing
,
and
sometimes
of
another
,
compleated
the
●igure
of
the
Heroick
Woman
,
which
was
yet
but
rough-drawn
in
her
.
Being
returned
into
Scotland
,
a
Widow
to
Francis
the
Second
,
and
to
his
Fortune
;
And
her
Youth
,
joyned
with
the
Supplications
of
her
People
,
and
Reason
of
State
,
having
obliged
her
once
more
to
Marry
;
that
which
ought
to
have
been
her
Support
,
proved
the
cause
of
her
Ruine
.
Heresie
imaged
at
the
Zeal
she
bore
to
the
Conservation
of
the
Catholique
Faith
,
cast
Fire
into
the
Royal
House
to
make
it
pass
more
easily
from
thence
into
the
Church
.
Calumny
,
Ambition
,
and
Jealousie
,
prepared
the
Fuel
for
this
Fire
,
and
inkindled
the
Matter
.
But
the
good
Queen
having
quenched
it
by
her
Prudence
and
Address
;
Heresie
which
sought
to
Reign
by
some
one
of
its
Faction
,
blew
up
the
King
her
Husband
by
a
Mine
.
Besides
some
endeavoured
to
blemish
her
with
being
the
Contriver
of
this
Fire
and
Mine
:
And
they
slandered
her
very
Mourning
;
and
made
her
guilty
of
her
second
Widowhood
.
This
Calumny
proved
a
harsh
Tryal
to
her
:
Yet
it
was
but
an
Essay
,
and
as
it
were
an
Advance
of
the
Disorders
and
Mischiefs
which
ensued
:
And
no
Tragedy
appears
so
Confused
,
as
the
life
of
this
good
Princess
.
All
her
days
were
marked
with
some
Revolt
and
Conspiracy
.
They
were
Celeb●●ous
by
some
Combat
or
Flight
.
There
was
nothing
wanting
to
her
but
a
Crown
of
Martyrdom
,
and
God
gave
it
her
in
England
,
after
a
Conflict
of
nineteen
years
,
rendred
in
several
Prisons
,
and
determined
at
last
upon
a
Sca●●old
,
which
was
more
Glorious
to
her
then
the
Thrones
she
had
lost
.
MORAL
REFLECTION
.
THis
Picture
moves
Compassion
,
and
is
of
great
Example
:
There
is
much
to
Deplore
,
yet
more
to
Imitate
:
And
for
the
Instruction
of
eminent
Fortunes
,
and
the
Consolation
of
mean
Ones
,
Greatness
is
there
Innocent
and
Unhappy
.
Mary
Stewart
conserved
her
Innocence
under
two
Crowns
:
And
in
the
Vastness
of
two
Kingdoms
,
which
she
lost
one
after
the
other
,
she
was
much
longer
a
Christian
,
and
with
more
Constancy
then
a
Queen
.
On
the
one
side
this
teacheth
elevated
Persons
,
that
there
is
no
Condition
estranged
from
God
,
nor
any
Fortune
rejected
by
him
,
provided
it
be
just
.
That
the
Unction
which
makes
Kings
and
Queens
,
doth
not
efface
that
which
Forms
Saints
and
Holy
Women
:
That
Palaces
and
stately
Mansions
are
not
out
of
the
Road
of
Heaven
.
That
though
Piety
,
Modesty
and
Patience
reside
not
usually
at
Court
,
yet
they
are
no
strangers
there
:
And
that
Vertue
is
more
Perswasive
and
Exemplar
upon
a
Throne
,
then
in
the
Tub
of
the
Cynick
.
Likewise
on
the
other
side
they
should
learn
,
from
the
Afflictions
of
this
great
Queen
,
to
make
less
Account
of
Diadems
which
are
torn
in
pieces
,
of
Scepters
which
are
broken
,
and
of
Thrones
which
tumble
down
,
if
never
so
little
touch'd
by
Fortune
,
then
of
the
Grace
of
God
,
which
was
a
Purple
Robe
that
remained
to
this
devested
Queen
,
an
Unction
which
is
not
obscured
in
her
Prison
,
nor
effaced
with
her
Blood
:
A
Crown
which
cannot
be
taken
off
with
the
Head
.
She
was
not
only
an
Innocent
and
Vertuous
,
but
an
Unhappy
and
Persecuted
Queen
:
And
thereby
she
teacheth
both
Great
&
Rich
Ladies
,
that
there
is
no
Quality
Priviledged
in
this
Life
.
The
Purple
of
Soveraigns
hath
its
Thornes
,
as
well
as
that
of
Roses
:
Great
Fortunes
and
great
Structures
have
their
Storms
:
Elevated
Heads
have
their
Tears
,
as
Mountains
have
their
Waters
:
And
whatever
Ambition
makes
us
believe
,
the
greatest
Sufferers
are
not
upon
Wheels
:
They
sit
upon
Thrones
invironed
with
Ballisters
.
In
fine
,
the
ill
Rumors
which
have
been
spred
of
Mary
Stewart
,
and
the
Insolence
of
Calumny
,
which
hath
disfigured
her
,
teach
those
of
her
Sex
and
Condition
,
that
no
Vertue
nor
Crown
is
free
from
detraction
.
Dogs
indeed
bark
against
the
Moon
which
is
so
pure
:
Frogs
croak
against
the
Sun
which
is
so
beneficial
and
resplendent
.
Monstrous
Figures
,
and
the
names
of
Beasts
have
been
imposed
on
the
Vertues
of
●eaven
:
And
there
is
no
Illustrious
Plane●
,
which
hath
not
been
accused
of
some
Crime
.
However
they
take
no
Revenge
:
And
what
stains
soever
are
laid
upon
them
:
What
Vapours
soever
arise
to
them
from
the
Earth
,
they
cease
not
to
do
good
to
the
Impostors
which
dishonour
them
:
they
forbear
not
to
inlighten
the
Earth
which
obscures
them
.
There
are
other
Considerations
to
be
made
here
upon
the
Providences
of
God
;
upon
the
Adversities
of
suffering
Vertues
and
a●●●isted
Innocence
;
upon
the
Blessings
and
Advantages
of
these
Adversities
.
But
these
Considerations
are
too
Important
,
and
too
useful
to
be
shut
up
in
so
narrow
a
compass
.
They
require
more
Leisure
and
Extent
:
And
if
whole
Volumes
should
be
imployed
therein
,
I
need
not
fear
that
the
subsequent
Question
would
be
cast
away
.
MORAL
QVESTION
.
Whether
Great
Ladies
in
Prosperity
,
be
not
in
a
better
Condition
then
Those
in
Affliction
.
IT
is
not
only
now
adays
that
men
finde
something
to
alledge
against
the
Works
of
God
,
and
that
his
Providence
hath
need
of
an
Apology
.
In
all
Times
there
have
been
Impious
Censurers
and
Blaspheming
Criticks
.
who
have
sought
out
Defects
in
the
Fairest
Pieces
of
the
World
;
and
Disorder
in
the
Conduct
and
Motions
thereof
.
The
greatest
and
most
●nsupportable
Disorder
in
the
opinion
of
these
conceited
Men
,
is
that
which
they
observe
in
the
distribution
of
the
Blessings
and
Misfortunes
of
this
Life
.
If
we
believe
them
in
this
Point
,
there
is
nothing
but
Trouble
and
●onfusion
;
nothing
but
unjust
and
irregular
Hazards
;
nothing
but
tumul●u●ry
and
misplaced
Fortunes
.
Hail
fall●s
equally
upon
the
Harvest
of
the
Good
and
Wicked
:
Thunder
beats
down
Churches
,
and
spares
Place●
of
Debauchery
Winds
are
not
more
propitious
,
nor
the
Sea
more
calm
and
favo●●ble
to
Pilgrims
of
the
Holy
Sepulchre
,
then
to
those
of
〈◊〉
.
And
it
often
happens
that
a
Turk
escapes
the
same
Rock
upon
which
a
Christian
suffers
Shipwrack
.
They
adde
hereunto
,
that
Violence
is
always
Rich
and
Honoured
,
and
Integrity
ever
Necessitous
and
Despised
.
They
discover
under
the
Feet
of
Proud
and
Prodigal
Rich
men
the
Blood
,
Substance
,
and
Livelihood
of
the
Poor
,
which
dye
of
Hunger
.
They
shew
the
Places
,
and
quote
the
Times
where
happy
and
Crowned
Injustice
made
advantage
of
its
Impiety
,
and
Reigned
with
the
contempt
of
God
and
Men
:
whilst
Innocence
,
loaden
with
Chains
,
and
Executed
,
exhibited
upon
a
Scaffold
a
Spectacle
of
its
own
Dishonour
and
Punishment
.
It
is
true
that
such
Tragedies
have
been
often
seen
:
And
lately
also
〈◊〉
produced
one
very
like
in
the
Person
of
Mary
Stewart
;
England
and
Scotland
〈◊〉
thereto
with
very
different
Passions
:
And
France
saw
it
〈◊〉
off
with
Sighs
and
Tears
.
The
Picture
of
this
History
with
which
this
Gallery
is
finished
,
gives
me
occasion
to
justifie
here
the
Divine
Providence
in
the
Conduct
of
this
Innocent
Princess
;
to
disclose
to
great
Ladies
under
Affliction
and
Sufferance
the
Riches
which
are
hidden
in
Tribulations
;
and
to
perswade
them
that
they
are
more
happy
,
and
in
a
better
condition
in
sufferance
,
then
if
they
remained
in
a
continued
prosperity
.
I
suppose
that
it
is
more
advantagious
to
Women
,
for
whom
I
write
,
to
be
apparelled
with
Vertue
then
Vice
:
to
be
of
the
chosen
number
:
Of
those
whom
God
particularly
cherishes
,
and
prepares
to
Glory
;
then
to
be
left
in
the
Crowd
,
without
mark
or
degree
,
without
right
or
pretence
to
the
future
:
And
I
believe
that
I
have
reason
to
suppose
it
because
I
write
not
under
the
Law
of
the
Al●●oran
,
nor
in
the
time
of
Fables
:
I
write
under
the
Law
of
the
Gospel
,
and
in
the
Age
of
Truth
:
And
what
I
write
will
be
read
by
Christian
Women
,
and
not
by
Sul●●●esses
:
It
will
be
read
by
〈◊〉
and
〈◊〉
,
by
〈◊〉
;
and
not
by
Strat●nic●●s
,
by
Cl●opatra's
,
by
Messa●●●s
.
Now
Adversity
is
the
proper
state
of
Vertue
,
and
Vertuous
persons
:
It
is
the
most
commodious
and
favourable
Treatment
which
God
can
use
towards
those
precious
Souls
which
he
cherishes
with
Paternal
Love
,
and
which
he
hath
withdrawn
out
of
the
Crowd
.
It
is
the
Legal
Ornament
and
preparation
of
that
Righteousness
which
he
requires
in
his
Spouses
.
And
these
their
Advantages
of
Adversity
deserve
at
least
that
we
should
not
cast
an
ill
look
upon
it
,
if
we
have
not
a
mind
to
cherish
it
:
They
will
deserve
that
we
should
receive
it
with
patience
,
if
we
have
not
the
Courage
to
meet
it
,
and
rejoyce
at
its
arrival
.
First
,
it
is
certain
that
bad
times
are
the
most
proper
for
Vertue
:
Her
good
seasons
are
produced
by
Hayl-storms
and
Wind
,
by
War
and
Tempests
:
And
if
Adversity
be
not
her
Mother
,
she
is
at
least
her
Nurse
and
Governess
.
You
may
see
some
smooth-faced
,
adjusted
,
and
simpering
Dame
set
out
with
holyed
Grains
and
Chaplets
;
disguised
with
a
constrained
Modesty
,
and
with
Tears
squeezed
out
by
force
:
And
this
dissembling
Creature
would
have
her self
taken
for
Vertue
.
But
you
must
not
be
mistaken
in
her
,
she
is
not
Vertue
:
She
is
a
counterfeit
which
would
fain
imitate
her
,
but
doth
it
unhandsomly
;
which
Apes
her
,
yet
hath
not
one
hair
of
her
Head
by
which
to
resemble
her
.
Vertue
,
as
some
imagine
,
is
not
an
idle
quality
,
and
addicted
to
case
:
A
habit
made
for
shew
,
composed
of
Countenances
.
It
is
a
laborious
and
active
quality
:
It
is
a
Warlike
and
Victorious
habit
:
And
wise
men
,
to
whom
heretofore
she
appeared
,
never
saw
her
unarmed
;
they
never
saw
her
but
amidst
Thorns
,
and
upon
Mountains
:
They
conceived
that
her
Pallace
was
built
with
shipwrackt
pieces
,
with
the
remnants
of
burnt
house
,
with
great
Oaks
blacked
and
beaten
down
by
storms
of
Thunder
.
She
must
be
furnished
then
with
Contrarieties
,
that
she
may
labour
;
She
must
find
resistance
which
may
exercise
her
,
and
give
force
to
the
vigour
of
her
action
:
And
if
she
had
no
Adversity
nor
Adversaries
;
if
all
her
hours
were
serene
,
and
all
her
dayes
,
dayes
of
Peace
,
against
whom
would
she
offer
Combat
?
In
what
season
would
she
gain
Victories
?
Upon
what
Title
would
she
demand
Crowns
?
This
concerns
the
generall
duty
of
all
sorts
of
Vertues
;
I
say
even
of
those
which
are
only
industrious
;
which
only
labour
exteriourly
,
and
in
a
Mechanick
way
;
which
are
limited
by
Time
and
Matter
.
The
Vertue
of
a
Pilot
hath
its
chief
action
amidst
the
tumult
of
turbulent
Waves
,
and
boysterous
Winds
;
amidst
the
confusion
of
the
melting
Heavens
,
and
the
townng
Seas
.
The
Vertue
of
a
Physitian
,
and
of
Drugs
,
express
their
force
upon
mutulated
members
,
and
wounds
,
through
which
the
blood
slides
away
with
life
.
By
the
same
reason
a
Wrastler
is
as
no
Wrastler
at
a
Table●●
and
a
Souldier
is
as
no
Souldier
at
a
Ball.
The
Vertue
of
them
both
must
be
assaulted
.
It
requires
Resistance
and
Adversaries
:
it
is
atchieved
by
Sweat
and
Dust
,
with
Blood
and
Wounds
.
It
is
the
same
with
Moral
Vertue
,
nay
with
Christian
Vertue
,
which
is
of
an
Order
transcending
all
the
rest
.
Her
condition
is
to
labour
and
fight
,
to
part
with
her
blood
,
and
to
receive
wounds
.
And
if
this
condition
seem
troublesome
to
her
,
she
must
remember
,
that
in
the
list
of
this
life
the
Prize
and
Acclamations
of
the
Combat
are
not
reserved
for
Spectators
;
for
those
lazie
persons
Crowned
with
Flowers
and
Perfumes
,
who
are
content
to
look
on
quietly
and
at
their
ease
.
They
are
for
those
that
fight
Couragiously
,
who
mingle
their
blood
and
sweat
with
the
dust
of
the
lists
,
who
shew
great
Hearts
and
great
Souls
by
great
Wounds
.
But
Vertue
is
Innocent
:
And
the
wounds
of
the
Innocent
are
more
painfull
then
those
of
the
Culpable
.
Such
persons
as
are
wounded
and
overcome
in
the
L●sts
,
such
as
endure
Rain
and
Wind
in
the
Trenches
,
such
as
leave
their
Arms
and
Legs
upon
a
Breach
,
or
in
a
pitcht
Battle
,
are
not
Criminals
drawn
out
of
a
Dungeon
or
a
Gally
.
And
after
all
,
if
Wounds
do
so
much
torment
this
innocent
Vertue
,
she
may
lay
down
her
Arms
,
and
depart
out
of
the
Lists
:
She
may
also
settle
her self
if
she
thinks
good
near
to
Voluptuousness
;
paint
and
adorn
her self
like
her
,
take
half
of
her
Nosegayes
and
Perfumes
;
borrow
her
Looking
glass
and
Fan.
But
this
once
done
,
she
must
no
longer
call
her self
Vertue
,
nor
pretend
to
Glory
,
and
her
Crowns
.
Besides
,
Vertue
never
yet
appeared
effeminate
,
and
voluptuous
,
nor
painted
or
perfumed
:
And
no
person
was
ever
seen
to
pretend
to
Glory
,
and
run
after
her
Crowns
with
a
head
covered
over
with
painting
,
and
loaden
with
Flowers
,
with
a
Fan
in
her
hand
,
and
a
Looking
glass
at
her
Girdle
.
Afflictions
and
Adversities
are
then
the
proper
state
of
Vertue
:
as
War
is
the
proper
season
of
a
Souldier
;
as
the
Lists
is
the
proper
place
for
him
who
pretends
to
the
Prize
.
And
therefore
let
us
no
longer
say
that
Innocent
and
Vertuous
Women
are
unjustly
afflicted
:
Let
us
no
longer
impute
to
hazzard
and
tumult
,
what
is
according
to
natural
order
,
and
placed
in
a
just
proportion
.
And
let
us
learn
once
for
all
,
that
if
Vertue
be
in
her
right
place
,
when
she
is
in
Adversity
:
if
she
doth
her
duty
when
she
suffers
;
Ladies
who
follow
her
freely
,
and
in
good
earnest
,
cannot
complain
of
their
ill
Treatment
,
when
God
obligeth
them
to
the
same
duty
,
and
ordains
them
to
remain
in
the
same
state
.
On
the
contrary
,
he
cannot
afford
them
a
more
important
tryall
of
his
Love
,
not
more
efficaciously
testifie
that
he
hath
the
thoughts
of
Salvation
,
and
the
heart
of
a
Father
for
them
.
Thereby
he
purifies
and
frees
them
from
vitious
superfluities
:
He
deprives
them
of
what
adulterates
and
corrupts
:
He
prepares
them
for
Crowns
,
and
the
Inheritance
of
a
Future
Life
.
It
is
certain
that
there
is
no
Vertue
so
pure
,
which
hath
not
some
stain
:
There
is
not
any
so
sound
,
which
hath
not
some
part
either
infected
or
indisposed
:
And
if
this
be
true
of
Vertue
,
which
saved
her self
in
the
Desert
;
which
put
off
her
shooes
,
and
forsook
with
them
the
dirt
and
High
ways
at
the
foot
of
the
Mountain
:
What
will
become
of
that
Vertue
which
resides
at
Court
and
amongst
the
great
Ones
;
which
hath
been
nourished
with
a
dangerous
and
corrupted
Fortune
;
which
hath
Domestiques
as
much
cryed
down
as
Riches
,
as
Scandalous
and
Debauch'd
as
Pleasures
?
Is
it
possible
that
she
should
be
so
sound
,
and
have
so
good
Preservatives
as
the
Ayr
of
the
Court
cannot
corrupt
her
?
that
she
should
suffer
nothing
from
the
Opinions
and
Customs
of
Men
?
that
she
should
not
be
infected
by
the
Contagion
of
Fortune
?
that
Riches
should
not
puff
up
her
Heart
and
Head
▪
that
Pleasures
should
not
beget
in
her
Infirmity
or
Corruption
?
And
if
there
be
no
Vertue
so
Vigorous
,
not
Reason
so
well
Fortified
,
which
is
able
to
resist
so
many
things
which
spoil
and
corrupt
;
I
ask
of
a
Lady
,
what
usage
might
be
best
for
her
in
that
state
,
and
what
choice
she
would
make
,
if
God
had
left
it
to
her self
?
I
hardly
believe
that
she
would
choose
to
be
given
over
by
the
Physitian
.
The
Election
would
not
be
much
better
,
then
if
she
should
make
choice
of
a
Precipice
:
the
Dispute
would
not
be
about
the
End
,
but
the
way
to
it
:
And
if
she
had
rather
perish
by
a
Precipice
,
she
cannot
do
it
more
certainly
then
by
sickness
.
It
remains
then
,
that
she
put
her self
into
the
hands
of
the
Physitian
,
and
relye
on
him
for
the
ordering
of
her
Maladies
and
Wounds
.
But
she
should
be
very
ignorant
,
if
she
expected
to
be
cured
by
him
with
divertisements
▪
with
leaving
her
to
her
ease
,
with
making
her
laugh
.
Do
the
Maladies
of
the
Body
become
obedient
to
such
Remedies
?
Do
they
heal
her
wounds
with
Leaves
of
Roses
,
and
the
Oyl
of
〈◊〉
?
Do
they
not
proceed
against
them
with
Bitterness
and
Pain
,
with
Irons
and
Fire
?
Nevertheless
these
Wounds
remain
only
in
the
Superficies
;
and
these
Maladies
are
often
caused
by
a
grain
of
Sand
which
pains
them
,
or
by
a
drop
of
Humour
slipt
out
of
its
place
.
And
shall
we
likewise
believe
that
Interiour
and
Spiritual
Maladies
;
that
voluntary
and
inveterate
Wounds
will
be
cured
with
Ragouts
and
Perfumes
,
that
they
will
pass
away
at
Play
or
at
Table
?
Shall
we
believe
that
the
Friendly
and
Domestick
Pa●sions
of
the
Soul
,
that
Vices
avowed
by
the
Will
,
and
habituated
in
the
Heart
will
flie
at
the
sound
of
Musick
;
will
be
chased
away
by
the
●n
oak
of
a
Persuming
Pan
?
They
will
need
bitter
Potions
and
painful
Incisions
:
They
will
require
Remedies
of
Iron
and
Fire
:
And
these
Remedies
of
Iron
and
Fire
are
the
Adversities
which
God
Ordains
them
;
and
which
are
profitably
and
successfully
applyed
to
them
by
Patience
.
It
is
much
better
then
,
for
Ladies
to
be
Purged
and
Cured
by
Adversity
,
how
distastful
soever
her
Medicines
may
be
,
then
if
by
an
unfortunate
Indulgence
they
were
abandoned
to
Contagious
Prosperity
,
which
would
compleat
their
Corruption
.
This
so
harsh
Treatment
,
and
painful
in
appearance
,
will
be
yet
found
more
wholsom
and
beneficial
;
if
we
adde
,
that
thereby
they
are
prepared
for
the
Wedding
of
the
Lamb
,
and
for
the
Crowns
of
the
other
Life
.
We
are
not
received
at
this
Feast
with
soul
Garments
,
and
hands
sullied
with
d●t
▪
And
the
fauest
Head
of
the
World
which
should
have
but
one
stain
will
never
be
Crownd
there
.
It
is
necessary
then
for
us
to
be
purified
before
we
present
our selves
to
this
Feast
:
And
those
Souls
doubtless
are
the
most
happy
which
arrive
there
perfectly
cleansed
.
Besides
that
,
they
are
not
made
to
wait
at
the
Gate
,
they
have
Purity
here
at
a
cheaper
rate
then
in
that
Country
.
The
fire
of
Adversity
,
what
hand
soever
inkindles
it
,
what
winde
soever
blows
it
,
is
not
by
much
so
ardent
as
the
Fire
of
Purgatory
:
And
we
are
better
Treated
by
Tribulation
,
nay
by
the
most
severe
and
harsh
can
be
imagined
,
then
by
these
purifying
Devils
,
which
,
as
a
Holy
Father
saith
,
Act
the
same
thing
upon
Souls
,
as
Fullers
do
upon
Stuffs
which
are
put
out
to
be
Dyed
.
This
so
entire
and
perfect
Purity
ought
to
be
accompanied
with
all
the
Features
of
an
exact
and
compleat
Beauty
:
And
this
Beauty
also
ought
to
be
Royallie
endowed
,
and
to
have
a
large
stock
of
Riches
.
Now
the
Beauty
of
a
Soul
,
which
is
beloved
of
God
,
and
his
Holy
Angels
,
is
not
formed
with
Paint
and
Plaister
,
with
Silk
and
Flowers
:
She
is
framed
by
Maladies
and
Wounds
:
and
her
most
delicate
Painting
ought
to
be
composed
both
of
Blood
,
Tears
,
and
Ashes
.
The
Beauty
of
St.
Te●la
was
formed
by
Fire
and
the
Claws
of
Lions
:
That
of
St.
Apollo●●●
by
Flines
,
with
which
her
teeth
were
broken
:
That
of
St.
Cicil●●
by
the
boiling
water
of
a
Furnace
:
That
of
St
Cath●rine
by
a
Sword
and
a
Wheel
.
And
generally
there
is
no
Beauty
in
Heaven
,
which
Adversity
hath
not
made
,
and
Patience
adorned
.
As
for
those
Riches
which
should
make
up
the
Dowry
of
this
Beauty
;
they
are
not
the
Fruit
of
a
sweet
Life
,
nor
the
Revenue
of
Pleasure
and
Pastime
.
The
very
Riches
of
the
Earth
;
even
those
gross
and
Material
Riches
which
belong
to
the
lowest
Story
of
the
World
,
are
Fruits
of
Adversity
,
and
arrive
to
us
from
the
Tribulations
and
Afflictions
of
Nature
.
Pearls
and
Coral
are
found
in
the
Element
of
Tempests
and
Bitterness
:
Precious
Stones
are
taken
out
of
Precipices
and
Rocks
:
Gold
and
Silver
are
born
Prisoners
and
in
Dungeons
:
And
if
they
be
drawn
out
of
their
dark
holes
,
it
is
to
make
them
pass
through
Iron
and
Fire
:
it
is
to
make
them
suffer
all
the
Punishments
of
Criminals
.
Certainly
,
if
Terrestrial
and
meer
Imaginary
Riches
are
the
Fruits
of
Labour
,
and
the
Daughters
of
Adversity
,
it
would
not
be
Just
,
that
the
Riches
of
the
Minde
,
which
form
the
Great
Saints
of
the
Kingdom
of
God
,
and
the
quiet
Possessors
of
Eternity
should
be
the
reward
of
Idleness
,
and
the
Heritage
of
Delights
.
These
Spiritual
Riches
then
are
the
Inheritance
and
Revenue
of
Adversity
:
And
consequently
this
harsh
and
Laborious
Adversity
is
more
Beneficial
to
great
Ladies
then
Prosperity
,
which
stain's
and
infect's
them
;
which
sometimes
even
impoyson's
,
and
strangles
them
.
Surely
they
would
be
very
nice
,
if
they
did
bear
their
good
Fortune
impatiently
and
with
complaints
:
if
they
were
wounded
by
their
Ornaments
:
if
they
groaned
under
the
Matter
of
their
Crowns
.
Since
Adversity
is
sent
them
by
the
Bridegroom
to
prepare
them
for
his
Wedding
;
It
is
very
just
that
at
least
so
good
an
Office
should
make
them
rellish
the
rudeness
of
its
Hands
,
and
the
severity
of
its
Countenance
.
Surely
they
would
weep
with
a
very
ill
Grace
,
if
they
lamented
that
pressure
which
adornes
them
;
Because
it
loads
them
with
Gold
and
Jewels
:
because
it
pricks
them
by
fastening
on
them
Garlands
and
Crowns
.
They
suffer
indeed
the
Fortune
on
their
Heads
,
and
the
Rack
on
their
Bodies
;
they
expose
themselves
to
Iron
and
Fire
to
appear
Beautiful
in
the
eyes
of
men
:
And
it
would
be
truly
a
great
shame
that
they
should
please
God
with
less
Trouble
,
and
more
at
their
Ease
.
But
here
is
enough
to
justifie
the
Providence
of
God
;
and
to
shew
to
Vertuous
and
Afflicted
Ladies
how
highly
they
ought
to
esteem
the
Grace
and
Riches
of
Tribulation
.
It
remains
to
confirm
them
by
a
second
Example
,
which
hath
the
same
Features
,
and
almost
the
same
Colours
as
the
first
;
and
I
hope
it
will
have
no
less
Force
,
nor
prove
less
perswasive
,
though
it
be
less
fresh
,
and
more
remote
from
our
sight
.
EXAMPLE
.
Margaret
of
Anjou
,
Queen
of
England
.
IT
is
true
,
that
Crowns
are
great
Ornaments
to
Beautiful
Heads
.
Nevertheless
they
are
Ornaments
which
Pain
more
then
they
Adorn.
And
I
very
much
doubt
that
no
Person
would
burthen
himself
with
them
,
if
their
Thorns
were
visible
.
However
their
Thorns
are
not
so
well
hid
,
but
that
some
of
their
Points
still
appear
:
And
besides
the
secret
Rack
,
and
Interiour
Crosses
which
great
Fortunes
endure
;
there
are
likewise
Exteriour
and
Publick
Ones
,
upon
which
by
a
particular
Order
of
Divine
Providence
they
are
Tormented
in
the
sight
of
the
World
for
the
Instruction
of
the
People
,
who
are
present
at
their
Sufferings
.
And
in
this
Point
the
People
ought
to
be
advertised
,
that
these
Punishments
of
Great
Persons
are
not
always
Ordained
for
great
Crimes
Riches
are
seen
without
Vice
,
as
Gold
without
Brass
.
There
are
Great
Persons
,
who
like
Great
Planets
have
much
Light
,
and
very
few
Blemishes
.
And
yet
very
often
the
Crosses
of
these
Grandees
are
more
harsh
and
heavy
then
those
of
Violent
and
Impious
Rich
Men
;
then
those
of
Bloody
and
Tyrannical
Great
Ones
.
God
Ordains
it
in
this
manner
,
as
I
said
before
,
to
prepare
them
for
Crowns
by
Patience
,
and
to
leave
unto
Great
Men
under
Persecution
,
and
to
Great
Ladies
under
Affliction
,
Examples
of
their
Rank
,
and
Models
of
their
Condition
:
And
because
there
is
an
unmoveable
Patience
which
suffers
quietly
and
without
Action
;
and
a
stirring
and
labor●ous
Patience
,
which
adds
Action
to
Sufferance
;
it
is
just
,
that
after
the
having
given
a
Queen
of
Scotland
for
a
President
of
the
first
,
I
should
give
a
Queen
of
England
for
the
second
.
Margaret
of
〈◊〉
▪
Daughter
to
Re●●
King
of
Sicily
,
was
one
of
the
most
Ra●e
and
Perfect
Princes●es
of
her
Age
:
And
her
Perfections
most
Rare
as
they
were
received
,
not
respected
from
adverse
Fortune
.
She
was
descended
from
the
most
eminent
Race
of
the
World
.
Reeds
are
not
beaten
down
by
Tempests
,
but
the
Branches
of
great
Trees
:
She
was
one
of
the
Fairest
and
most
Spiritual
.
But
the
Planets
which
are
so
Beautiful
and
Governed
by
pure
Spirits
have
their
Defections
and
Eclipses
:
they
are
persecuted
by
Mists
and
dark
Clouds
,
by
Imprecations
and
Calumnies
.
She
was
Liberal
and
Beneficent
.
Is
there
any
Bounty
more
lasting
then
that
of
Springs
?
more
delated
then
that
of
Rivers
?
Is
there
a
greater
Inclination
to
do
good
then
that
of
the
●arth
?
And
yet
we
see
that
stones
are
cast
into
publike
Spring●
;
and
that
all
sorts
of
Ordures
are
thrown
into
Rivers
:
We
see
that
the
●arth
is
beaten
with
Storms
,
trodden
upon
by
Animals
,
torn
up
by
men
,
impoverish'd
and
denuded
once
every
year
.
There
was
nothing
then
strange
and
against
the
course
of
the
World
in
the
Afflictions
of
●o
Noble
,
so
Beautiful
,
so
Able
,
and
Magnificent
a
Princess
:
and
Fortune
did
nothing
against
Her
,
whereof
she
had
not
Publike
Examples
in
Nature
.
She
was
Married
to
Henry
the
Sixt
King
of
England
:
and
by
this
Marriage
the
Truce
was
continued
between
two
Neighbors
,
the
greatest
Enemies
in
the
whole
World
,
the
most
jealous
of
each
other
.
The
poor
Princess
did
not
long
enjoy
the
Repose
she
give
to
the
Publike
:
and
it
hapned
to
her
as
to
Victims
,
which
bear
the
Sorrows
of
the
People
for
whom
they
are
Sacrificed
.
The
Nuptials
were
Celebrated
at
Nancy
with
great
Preparations
of
Car●ousels
and
Tournaments
,
according
to
the
Mode
of
the
〈◊〉
of
that
time
,
who
were
only
acquainted
with
Valiant
and
Manly
Delights
;
with
Pastimes
which
equalled
Battels
,
and
produced
〈◊〉
Victories
.
Wherein
surely
,
to
speak
this
by
the
way
,
they
were
more
Cavaliers
,
and
Men
at
Arms
then
those
of
our
days
,
who
know
no
other
〈◊〉
then
Racing
,
nor
other
Tournaments
then
Dancing
,
who
have
●ffeminated
Magnificence
,
and
taken
away
from
Sports
and
Diverti●ements
,
all
that
they
had
of
Noble
and
Military
.
Margaret
being
passed
into
England
,
found
not
there
the
same
Sweetness
and
Tranquility
she
had
left
in
France
.
Not
that
she
was
one
of
those
ill
lodg●d
Persons
,
who
have
always
either
Rain
or
Smoak
in
their
Houses
.
And
Her
Marriage
was
none
of
those
Tyrannical
Yoaks
and
Torturing
Chains
,
which
a
certain
Person
wished
to
his
Enemy
instead
of
a
Gibbet
and
●alter
.
She
enjoyed
at
Home
a
most
pure
Calm
,
and
without
Confusion
:
and
her
Marriage
felt
nothing
Heavy
or
Incommodious
.
The
King
her
Husband
had
all
the
Qualities
of
a
good
Man
,
and
a
good
Prince
:
But
being
born
under
a
very
Contagious
Constellation
,
and
of
a
very
Mal●volent
Influence
,
the
Queen
his
Wife
failed
not
to
he
involved
therein
,
and
to
have
her
share
of
the
Poison
and
bad
Fortune
.
She
patiently
received
all
that
fell
upon
her
.
Besides
,
she
joyned
Grace
with
Patience
:
And
being
indu●d
with
a
pleasing
Humour
and
a
Gallant
Spirit
,
she
made
Answer
to
such
as
lamented
her
Condition
,
That
having
taken
upon
her
Marriage
Day
the
Rose
of
England
,
she
ought
to
bear
it
intire
,
and
with
all
it
s
I
horns
.
Moreover
King
Henry
had
a
great
inclination
to
Repose
,
and
no
Aversion
to
Pleasure
.
The
Mildness
and
Indifferency
of
his
Spirit
did
not
Correspond
with
the
Functions
of
Regality
,
which
required
Courage
and
Resolution
Noise
and
Stirs
made
him
w●y
his
Head
;
and
when
things
were
in
his
own
choice
,
he
contented
himself
to
have
Ease
and
Repose
for
his
part
,
and
left
to
his
Favourites
and
Ministers
of
State
,
the
Authority
with
the
Trouble
,
and
Affairs
with
the
Tumult
.
This
Soft
and
Slothful
Life
afflicted
the
Queen
,
who
had
a
High
and
Active
Spirit
,
Noble
and
Manly
Thoughts
;
and
a
Head
as
Capable
to
fill
a
Crown
as
any
Prince
of
Her
Time
.
Not
that
she
did
not
affect
the
Repose
of
her
Husband
,
and
wished
him
his
Hearts
Content
.
But
her
Love
being
Magnanimous
,
and
of
the
Complection
of
her
Heart
,
she
would
have
rather
liked
in
him
a
Glorious
Activeness
,
and
accompanied
with
Dignity
,
then
this
stupid
Repose
,
and
these
mis-becoming
Eases
,
which
Dishonoured
him
.
Truly
this
Prince
,
though
otherwise
good
,
was
not
beloved
by
his
Subjects
:
And
his
Reputation
bore
the
brunt
of
all
the
Faults
of
his
Favourites
and
Ministers
of
State
.
The
Revolt
of
the
Grandees
,
the
Seditions
of
the
People
,
the
Mutin●es
of
the
Mayor
of
London
(
who
was
then
a
Popular
Soveraign
,
and
a
King
of
the
third
Estate
)
and
generally
all
the
Disorders
of
his
Kingdom
were
cloaked
with
this
Pretence
.
All
these
Commotions
grieved
the
Queen
:
But
they
did
not
affright
her
▪
She
hastned
still
with
the
first
to
the
most
wavering
Places
:
and
where
Power
and
Authority
might
stop
any
Disorder
.
Her
principal
Effort
was
upon
the
Kings
Spirit
:
She
continually
represented
to
him
,
and
with
Pressing
and
Efficacious
Terms
,
that
the
Repose
of
Kings
consisted
not
in
the
softness
of
their
Bed
,
but
in
the
stability
of
their
Thrones
.
That
the
Throne
could
not
be
secure
,
if
Esteem
and
Authority
do
not
Support
it
:
And
that
Esteem
which
ariseth
from
Action
and
Authority
,
which
grows
from
Courage
,
are
lost
by
Sloth
and
Softness
:
that
Affairs
are
truly
very
ponderous
;
but
that
this
Weight
procures
the
Stability
of
Affairs
:
And
that
there
could
be
nothing
more
Fickle
and
Tottering
then
a
King
,
who
discharges
himself
of
all
that
lies
heavy
upon
him
.
That
it
were
to
Act
a
very
bad
part
,
to
play
the
Titul●r
King
;
and
to
Reign
by
Agents
and
Deputies
:
That
Authority
Substituted
,
and
out
of
its
Place
,
is
weak
,
and
without
vigour
:
And
the
Scepter
which
hath
Force
,
and
begets
respect
in
the
Hand
of
a
Prince
,
is
easily
broken
in
the
hands
of
a
Subject
,
and
Resembles
a
Scepter
in
a
Play
.
These
and
other
like
Remonstrances
,
accompanied
with
the
Eloquence
of
Beauty
,
and
the
Perswasion
of
Love
,
Fortified
the
Kings
Spirit
,
and
made
him
take
a
firm
Resolution
to
Reign
for
the
Future
without
a
Substitute
,
and
to
Act
of
himself
.
He
Resumed
that
Authority
,
which
he
had
con●erred
on
his
Uncle
,
H●●p●●y
Duke
of
Glocester
:
And
he
called
back
all
Affairs
to
his
own
Conduct
:
And
thereby
it
appeared
how
Imployments
Protect
those
whom
they
burthen
:
And
how
Authority
Supports
and
Settles
those
whom
it
Loads
.
The
poor
Duke
of
Glocester
was
no
sooner
put
out
of
Office
and
Authority
,
but
his
Enemies
,
which
before
did
not
so
much
as
shake
him
,
did
now
overthrow
him
:
And
within
a
short
time
after
his
●all
,
he
was
strangled
in
Prison
by
a
Sudden
and
Illeg●l
●●●cution
.
The
Faction
of
the
White
Rose
,
which
could
not
endure
the
Odour
of
the
●lower
de
●u●e
,
and
beheld
with
regret
a
French
Woman
so
absolute
in
England
,
●ailed
not
to
charge
her
with
the
Contrivance
of
this
Death
.
And●while
after
,
the
Danger
of
Richard
Earl
of
Warwick
,
who
was
Assaulted
neer
London
by
the
Kings
Guards
,
and
thrust
into
the
T●ames
,
gave
Occasion
and
Authority
to
this
Calumny
.
The
●arl
of
Salisbury
,
his
Father
,
and
Richard
Duke
of
York
,
Head
of
the
White
Rose
,
made
thereupon
several
Manifests
by
Word
of
Mouth
,
and
Published
in
the
Country
and
Cities
,
that
this
piece
was
devised
by
the
Queen
,
who
had
undertaken
to
cut
off
the
Arms
of
England
,
and
to
deprive
it
,
with
its
best
●lood
,
both
of
Strength
and
Spirit
,
to
the
end
she
might
deliver
it
up
to
France
.
That
she
began
not
her
Work
amiss
.
And
that
if
the
end
of
the
Enterprise
should
Correspond
with
the
beginning
;
if
the
Great
Ones
did
not
look
better
to
themselves
,
then
the
Duke
of
Glocester
,
and
the
Earl
of
Warwick
had
done
,
in
a
short
time
not
one
drop
of
good
Blood
,
not
one
single
Noble
part
would
be
left
in
the
Body
of
the
State
.
The
good
Queen
was
very
far
from
entring
into
these
Tragical
Thoughts
:
And
though
she
truly
wished
Authority
and
Power
to
the
King
her
Husband
,
yet
she
did
not
wish
him
such
an
Authority
,
as
might
be
hated
and
lamented
,
not
s●ch
a
Power
as
might
cause
Desolation
and
Ruines
.
Besides
,
less
was
it
in
her
Thoughts
to
procure
the
Destruction
of
that
●ree
upon
which
she
her self
was
Grafted
.
And
if
she
bore
much
Affection
to
the
Stem
of
her
Race
which
was
in
France
,
she
had
much
more
for
its
Flower
and
Fruit
which
were
in
England
.
She
opposed
nothing
to
these
Rumors
,
but
the
voice
of
her
own
Conscience
,
which
spake
lowder
then
Calumny
,
and
justified
her
before
God
,
against
the
Impostures
of
Men.
Nevertheless
Calumny
found
so
much
Matter
prepared
to
take
Fire
;
and
blew
so
hotly
,
and
effectually
upon
this
Matter
,
as
it
grew
into
a
great
●lame
,
which
was
like
to
burn
all
England
,
if
France
had
known
how
to
entertain
it
,
and
make
Advantage
of
this
Occasion
and
Disorder
.
The
Accident
befallen
the
Earl
of
Warwick
,
and
the
new
Authority
of
the
Duke
of
Somerset
,
served
for
a
Pretence
to
Ambition
;
and
were
the
Specious
and
Superficial
Causes
of
the
War
.
The
Duke
of
York
,
accompanied
by
the
Earl
of
Salisbury
,
and
followed
by
all
the
Faction
of
the
White
Rose
,
raised
a
powerful
Army
;
and
ordered
it
to
march
directly
to
London
.
The
King
took
the
Field
on
his
part
,
with
the
Party
of
the
Red
Rose
,
and
with
all
the
Forces
he
could
draw
together
.
The
Battel
was
Fought
at
Northampton
:
And
God
who
is
not
pleased
that
just
Right
should
always
prevail
;
and
that
Fortune
should
follow
Vertue
every
where
,
permitted
the
Royal
Army
to
be
Defeated
,
and
the
King
himself
to
be
taken
Prisoner
by
the
Rebels
.
The
Duke
of
York
grown
insolent
by
his
Victory
,
brought
him
in
Triumph
to
London
,
and
caused
him
to
be
shut
up
in
the
Tower
▪
Seeing
himself
secured
on
that
side
,
he
put
off
his
Mask
of
colourable
Pretences
,
wherewith
he
began
the
War
:
And
Represented
to
the
Parliament
the
double
Right
his
House
and
Fortune
gave
him
to
the
Crown
.
Force
in
like
Occasions
is
a
powerful
Piece
,
and
Victory
an
Eloquent
Advocate
.
However
the
Parliament
yielded
not
wholly
to
Force
and
Victory
:
It
respected
the
Vanquished
Right
;
and
durst
not
Degrade
Majesty
,
though
devested
,
and
loaden
with
Chains
.
The
Resolution
of
the
Parliament
was
,
that
during
the
Life
of
Henry
,
the
Duke
should
rest
satisfied
with
the
Title
and
Functions
of
Lieutenant
General
of
the
Kingdom
;
and
that
the
Crown
should
pass
by
Succession
to
his
Son
▪
Edward
Earl
of
Ma●●●●
,
to
the
Exclusion
of
the
House
of
Lancaster
.
A
greater
Affliction
could
not
befall
the
Queen
;
she
saw
her
Enemies
upon
the
Throne
,
the
King
her
Husband
in
Prison
,
and
under
the
hands
of
an
Executioner
;
the
Prince
her
Son
publikely
Degraded
,
and
Excluded
from
the
Crown
by
a
Solemn
Decree
.
All
that
could
have
Supported
her
in
this
Revolution
,
was
either
fallen
or
tottering
:
And
except
her
Courage
and
Hopes
,
which
Fortune
was
not
able
to
cast
down
,
there
was
nothing
about
her
but
Shipwrack'd
pieces
of
a
ruined
Greatness
.
But
afflicted
Vertue
doth
not
waste
her self
in
outcryes
and
tearing
her
hair
:
She
knows
how
to
Discipline
Affliction
,
and
animate
Grief
:
she
knows
how
to
set
together
broken
pieces
,
and
contest
with
Ruins
.
The
Couragious
Queen
made
this
use
of
it
:
And
instead
of
exhausting
her self
by
vain
Complaints
,
and
Superfluous
Tears
:
Instead
of
Imputing
her
Mishap
to
the
Planets
,
or
accusing
Fortune
,
she
thought
to
overcome
in
Despite
of
the
Planets
and
Fortune
;
and
began
to
Levy
new
Troops
.
To
supply
the
Defect
of
Money
which
she
wanted
,
the
grace
of
her
Speech
and
Countenance
served
in
lieu
of
Pay
to
the
Souldiers
:
And
this
Honourable
Payment
left
a
sting
in
the
most
benummed
Souls
,
and
infused
Boldness
into
the
most
Fearful
.
Not
believing
that
she
might
handsomly
commit
to
Lieutenants
an
Affair
which
concerned
the
Freedom
of
the
King
her
Husband
,
and
the
Destiny
of
her
House
;
she
resolved
to
take
part
in
the
Danger
,
and
attempt
in
Person
against
Fortune
.
She
put
her self
then
in
the
Head
of
her
Army
,
and
marched
directly
to
York
,
where
the
Forces
of
the
Enemy
were
Encamped
.
England
never
saw
an
Army
which
had
a
more
Beautiful
Leader
:
No●
did
it
ever
see
any
one
Fight
with
more
Courage
.
The
Duke
of
York
,
who
Mustered
above
Ten
thousand
Men
,
perswading
himself
that
he
might
purchase
a
young
Queen
at
a
cheap
Rate
,
went
to
meet
her
against
the
advice
of
his
Commanders
,
and
presently
exposed
the
Business
to
a
general
Battel
.
It
cannot
be
express'd
what
the
Queen
effected
by
the
Greatness
and
Courage
of
her
Words
;
by
the
fire
of
her
Eyes
,
by
the
boldness
of
her
Looks
,
and
of
her
whole
Person
.
She
infused
Courage
,
Ardour
,
and
Impetuosity
into
her
People
:
She
seemed
to
give
even
Sense
,
Activity
and
Address
to
their
Weapons
.
If
Victory
her self
had
Marched
before
them
,
in
the
Equipage
and
Lightnings
which
our
Imagination
ascribe
to
her
,
she
could
not
have
done
more
.
The
Rebels
received
a
total
Overthrow
:
The
Duke
of
York
taken
with
his
Son
,
the
Earl
of
Rutland
,
and
the
Earl
of
〈◊〉
passed
through
the
hands
of
the
Executioner
.
Their
Heads
were
exposed
upon
the
Walls
of
York
on
the
point
of
three
Spears
;
To
the
end
the
Example
might
make
a
greater
shew
,
and
be
the
more
Famous
;
and
that
Rebellion
might
be
instructed
afar
off
,
and
with
the
more
Terrour
.
A
Crown
of
Paper
begitting
the
Dukes
Head
,
was
the
particular
Mark
and
Punishment
of
his
vain
Pretensions
.
This
first
Victory
raised
the
Queens
Heart
without
Impriding
it
:
And
the
new
Greatness
she
added
to
it
,
was
a
Solid
and
Modest
Greatness
;
a
Greatness
of
Designs
,
and
Hopes
,
and
no
puffed
up
and
vain-glorious
Greatness
.
Not
being
able
to
think
her self
Victorious
,
as
long
as
the
King
her
Husband
remained
a
Prisoner
,
she
resolved
to
pass
through
all
Dangers
to
break
open
his
Prison
,
or
expire
at
the
Gate
.
This
Resolution
taken
,
she
steers
her
course
towards
London
:
Meets
the
Earl
of
Warwick
,
who
led
a
gallant
Army
,
and
augmented
by
the
Defeat
of
the
Earl
of
〈◊〉
:
Couragiously
Attaqu●s
and
Routs
him
,
enters
London
,
Crowned
with
two
Victories
:
draws
her
Husband
out
of
the
Tower
;
and
replaceth
him
upon
the
Throne
with
the
general
Applause
of
the
People
.
Certainly
if
there
be
no
Victories
so
pleasing
,
as
those
which
are
blessed
by
the
Unhappy
;
and
whereat
Captives
rejoyce
even
in
their
Prisons
,
and
●●ons
▪
surely
it
was
with
a
sweet
and
pleasing
Transport
,
that
this
Victorious
Princess
broke
her
Husbands
Chains
,
drew
him
out
of
Prison
,
and
replaced
the
Crown
upon
his
Head
.
And
whatever
is
said
in
order
to
the
Glory
of
Ancient
Triumphants
,
though
they
entred
Rome
with
more
Pomp
and
Tumult
,
yet
certainly
they
did
not
enter
with
a
more
Pure
or
Lawful
Joy
,
then
that
of
Margaret
when
she
entred
the
Tower
of
London
.
But
the
Joy
of
this
World
hath
wings
as
well
as
Fortune
:
And
like
her
,
rides
much
way
,
and
lodges
in
few
Places
.
Scarce
was
Henry
well
acquainted
with
Liberty
and
his
new
Kingdom
;
scarce
was
he
replaced
upon
his
Throne
,
when
he
understood
that
all
the
Thorns
of
the
White
〈◊〉
were
not
pluckt
out
▪
And
that
Edward
Earl
of
March
,
Heir
to
the
Ambition
of
his
Father
the
Duke
of
York
,
and
Successor
to
his
Enterprises
,
advanced
with
a
Powerful
Army
to
finish
what
his
Father
had
but
rough-drawn
▪
He
was
not
advised
to
expect
him
,
not
to
confide
in
the
People
of
London
,
an
uncertain
&
Cap●icious
Monster
which
had
too
little
Courage
,
and
too
many
Heads
:
And
he
was
induced
to
hope
,
that
he
should
find
better
Terms
from
Fortune
,
then
from
so
Inconstant
and
Wilde
a
Beast
.
He
Marched
forth
accompanied
by
his
Wife
,
the
Duke
of
Somerset
,
and
all
the
Body
of
his
Party
.
And
doubtless
,
if
he
had
not
made
the
more
haste
to
get
out
,
the
least
that
could
happen
was
to
be
shut
up
in
the
Tower
of
London
,
and
to
behold
from
thence
the
Coronation
of
his
Rival
,
and
the
same
Applauses
which
were
before
given
him
by
all
the
People
.
Edward
himself
,
though
newly
Crowned
,
did
not
trust
to
the
new
Affection
of
this
People
;
and
did
not
believe
himself
sure
of
any
thing
,
if
he
had
not
Fortune
and
Victory
on
his
side
▪
He
followed
Henry
by
long
Marches
:
And
Henry
facing
about
,
the
Armies
gave
each
other
so
rude
and
forcible
a
Shock
,
as
Thirty
thousand
men
fell
on
the
Place
.
Henry
being
totally
Defeated
,
saved
himself
in
Scotland
with
the
Queen
:
And
the
Queen
whose
Heart
was
still
Armed
and
Couragious
,
passed
over
into
France
,
from
whence
a
while
after
,
she
returned
into
Scotland
with
two
thousand
Men
,
commanded
by
Brezel
Seneschal
of
Normandy
.
Henry
strengthened
by
this
Succour
,
and
that
wherewith
Scotland
,
his
new
Ally
,
furnished
him
,
returned
again
into
England
,
with
more
Right
and
Courage
,
then
good
Success
.
He
was
again
Defeated
by
the
Marquis
of
Montagne
,
who
Commanded
King
Edwards
Forces
:
And
his
Overthrow
was
so
great
,
that
the
Queen
was
enforced
to
save
her self
in
a
Wood
,
with
her
Son
the
Prince
of
Wales
.
The
Event
shewed
,
that
Fortune
expected
her
there
to
offer
her
an
Affront
;
Not
being
able
to
overcome
her
Honourably
,
and
deprive
her
of
Courage
by
a
fair
War
,
she
undertook
to
dispossess
her
of
it
by
the
hands
of
a
Murtherer
:
And
peradventure
she
had
been
there
Assassinated
,
if
Fortune
had
not
meant
to
sport
yet
longer
with
her
,
and
reserve
her
for
other
Outrages
.
It
was
no
novelty
with
her
to
Dispoil
a
poor
Queen
:
It
is
her
usual
Pastime
in
all
Countries
,
and
at
all
times
:
And
nothing
is
seen
every
where
but
Ransack't
Kings
;
nothing
but
denuded
Princes
,
nothing
but
Rich
Men
impoverished
,
who
complain
of
her
Robberies
.
But
it
hath
not
yet
hapned
that
a
King
,
much
less
a
Queen
,
should
be
so
unworthily
Treated
.
Certain
Villains
,
who
found
her
in
a
by-corner
,
drawn
by
the
Dignity
of
her
Countenance
,
and
the
sparkling
of
her
Jewels
and
Garments
,
Robbed
her
with
so
little
Compassion
,
and
used
such
Brutish
Violence
towards
her
,
that
if
any
thing
delivered
her
out
of
their
Hands
,
it
was
the
Quarrel
which
arose
amongst
them
about
the
division
of
the
Spoil
.
Whilst
they
were
fighting
,
the
Queen
whom
all
these
frightful
Faces
,
and
so
many
naked
Swords
could
neither
Terrifie
nor
Amaze
,
took
up
the
Prince
her
Son
in
her
arms
,
and
cast
her self
with
him
into
the
thickest
part
of
the
Forrest
.
Another
was
found
there
,
whom
evidently
Fortune
had
placed
in
Ambush
to
do
her
more
Injury
,
then
all
that
she
had
already
suffered
.
But
the
Grace
:
and
Majesty
,
nay
the
Afflicted
Graces
,
and
half
naked
Majesty
,
were
for
this
once
more
Powerful
then
Fortune
.
The
Queen
seeing
him
approach
,
advanced
with
a
stedfast
pace
,
and
a
Countenance
of
Authority
;
And
presenting
to
him
her
Son
,
whom
she
carried
,
said
to
him
in
Soveraign
Words
,
and
with
a
Commanding
●one
:
Friend
,
receive
from
my
hand
the
Son
of
thy
King
,
and
the
Heir
of
the
Kingdom
;
I
give
thee
the
whole
State
to
be
carryed
with
him
:
save
them
both
from
Rebellion
and
Fortune
,
which
pursue
them
.
She
said
no
more
;
the
Graces
and
Majesty
spake
the
rest
:
And
what
is
wonderfull
,
the
Graces
without
Ornament
,
and
Majesty
without
a
Crown
and
Precious
stones
,
humbled
this
Barbarous
Fellow
,
and
perswaded
him
that
it
was
a
Queen
who
spake
to
him
.
He
took
the
little
Prince
into
his
Armes
,
and
going
before
the
Queen
guided
her
so
happily
through
by-ways
,
as
he
presently
brought
her
to
the
Sea
side
.
Truly
this
was
a
strange
Game
of
Fortune
,
or
to
speak
more
Christianly
,
it
was
a
pleasing
Spectacle
to
Providence
,
to
behold
a
Great
Queen
,
Grand
childe
to
so
many
Kings
a
Fugitive
,
half
naked
,
and
straying
in
a
Forrest
like
a
Vagabond
;
following
on
foot
a
Thief
,
who
alone
served
for
her
Querries
and
Guards
,
who
was
all
her
Train
and
Court
;
and
in
this
deplorable
Condition
,
which
begot
pitty
even
in
Barbarity
it self
,
to
conserve
her
Hopes
and
Resignation
,
and
still
bless
Providence
in
whose
●ight
she
had
been
Despoiled
.
As
soon
as
she
came
to
the
Sea
shore
,
she
put
her self
with
her
Son
into
a
Fishermans
Boat
,
which
carried
her
to
Sl●ce
;
from
thence
she
passed
into
France
and
Lo●●●●e
And
through
all
places
where
she
passed
,
she
was
shewn
to
the
People
as
a
Celebrious
May-game
of
Fortune
,
as
a
Rich
piece
of
Shipwrack
,
as
a
great
Head
fallen
off
from
a
great
Collossus
.
But
though
this
great
Head
were
fallen
;
yet
it
remained
Entire
.
The
Wind
which
threw
it
down
,
had
only
displaced
it
:
And
likewise
after
her
Fall
she
kept
the
Dignity
of
her
former
Features
,
and
the
Majesty
of
her
Countenance
.
Edward
also
feared
her
more
thus
Fugitive
and
Devested
,
as
she
was
,
then
he
did
all
the
House
of
Lancaster
,
Supported
by
all
Scotland
,
and
by
an
entire
Mo●e●e
of
England
.
She
raised
all
the
money
she
could
in
France
;
and
repass'd
the
Sea
under
the
Conduct
of
the
Earl
of
Warwick
,
who
Irritated
by
the
Attempt
Edward
had
made
upon
the
Chastity
of
his
Daughter
,
released
Henry
out
of
that
Prison
into
which
he
had
cast
himself
,
out
of
the
Impatience
he
had
to
return
into
his
Kingdom
before
his
time
,
and
in
a
disguised
Habit.
This
second
Voyage
of
the
poor
Queen
,
was
not
more
Fortunate
then
the
first
she
Arrived
not
in
England
but
to
be
present
at
the
Defeat
of
her
Son
▪
and
at
the
punishment
of
her
Husband
.
Her
Son
was
overthrown
in
his
first
Advance
,
and
perished
in
the
Battel
of
Te●xbury
.
Her
Husband
was
strangled
in
the
Tower
of
London
,
and
had
the
Duke
of
Glacester
for
his
Executioner
.
As
for
the
Queen
,
Edward
Confined
her
to
a
Prison
,
where
her
Courage
and
Constancy
Acted
their
last
Part
,
which
was
no
less
painfull
then
the
former
,
though
done
with
less
Noise
,
and
in
Repose
:
And
it
lasted
till
her
Father
King
〈◊〉
sent
fifty
thousand
Crowns
for
her
Ransom
which
set
her
at
Liberty
.
For
my
own
part
,
I
could
not
close
this
Gallery
with
the
Picture
of
a
more
Gallant
and
Couragious
,
more
Active
and
Patient
,
more
Resplendent
or
Exemplar
Vertue
.
You
may
finde
Instruction
there
,
both
for
Low
and
High
Conditions
,
for
Prosperous
and
Afflicted
Fortunes
,
for
Men
as
well
as
Women
.
Such
as
are
upon
the
Earth
,
and
in
the
Low
Story
of
the
World
,
will
learn
from
hence
to
Content
themselves
with
the
Repose
and
Security
of
a
mean
Fortune
,
which
is
not
subject
to
Agitations
and
Falls
;
and
not
to
Affect
Tumult
and
Storms
which
pass
over
their
Heads
.
Such
as
remain
in
the
high
Region
,
will
learn
,
not
to
make
so
great
Account
of
an
Embroide●ed
and
Tottering
Greatness
,
exposed
to
Tempests
and
Precipices
,
Famous
by
its
Shipwracks
and
Ruins
.
And
when
they
shall
perceive
,
that
only
Glittering
things
are
subject
to
be
broken
,
that
elevated
Ones
are
liable
to
Falls
,
and
such
as
are
swoln
up
,
do
only
burst
asunder
;
they
will
be
affrighted
with
that
which
is
the
matter
of
their
Vanity
,
and
will
apprehend
their
Splendor
,
Elevation
,
and
Pride
.
Moreover
Prosperous
Fortunes
are
advertised
hereby
of
their
own
Inconstancy
and
Frailty
;
and
the
Unhappy
,
of
the
Patience
they
ought
to
have
,
and
of
the
Merits
they
may
Acquire
.
In
fine
,
Men
and
Women
of
what
Gold
or
Earth
soever
their
Fortunes
are
Composed
,
and
in
what
Story
soever
of
the
World
they
are
lodged
,
ought
to
be
instructed
by
this
Example
,
that
no
Condition
or
lazy
Vertue
can
be
Priviledged
in
this
Life
:
That
the
Carreer
of
Adversities
is
open
to
all
sort
of
Persons
:
That
Providence
Assigns
to
every
one
the
Rank
and
Function
which
is
proper
to
him
:
That
there
is
no
Victory
which
is
not
preceded
by
some
Combat
;
and
that
it
is
a
very
great
shame
,
that
Christians
should
endure
so
many
Afflictions
,
and
expose
themselves
to
so
many
Dangers
for
a
handfull
of
Flowers
which
last
but
a
day
;
for
a
Perfume
which
is
dispersed
by
the
first
blast
of
Wind
;
for
a
Crown
of
Glass
which
may
break
every
moment
:
And
that
for
Insatiable
and
endless
Delights
,
and
for
a
Solid
and
Eternal
Glory
,
they
should
fear
to
endure
but
the
pricking
of
a
Thorne
.
THE
END
.